"more than one punch to the jaw without falling down and crying like a baby"
you have never been in a fight if you believe that
From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russell Brand Blasts Syrian War
Disinformation
I love movies but pretty much any movie that has more than about two bullets
flying during the hour and a half it's playing loses credibility with me. If
I'm going to watch something at the theater it will usually involves great
cinematography that just doesn't cut it on the home TV, no matter how large the
flat screen.
Action films which always involve over-stimulated men careening about just
don't draw or hold my attention - no matter how cut they are. People simply
don't survive hails of mortar and bullets, falls of anything over 5 ft from
buildings, more than one punch to the jaw without falling down and crying like
a baby. So, unless it's a cartoon or The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter I
prefer my entertainment to hold some resemblance to my world or the world I
actually want to find out more about. Interestingly, my husband also hates
"action" movies.
--- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Everyone who loved the Bourne movies will of course love to see Matt D runnin'
and fightin' and shootin' - he always respects their fine level of feeling
before his blasts them into oblivion, and I bet he admires their pearly white
teeth after they are dead.
From: Steve Sundur
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russell Brand Blasts Syrian War Disinformation
Do not, I repeat, do not, see this silly film (Elysium) which has a few minutes
of an interesting plot at the start but then descends into about an hour and a
half of the usual shoot 'em crap. It was a chore to stay through the whole
thing. If I knew my wife was as bored as I was, I certainly would have
suggested we leave.
Tonight we saw "In a World", which I would recommend. (comedy) Also, recently,
"A Hijacking", another big recommend. (suspense)
From: "s3raphita@..."
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:32 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Russell Brand Blasts Syrian War Disinformation
Re "Jones' rants get funny though.": I'm in favour of funny.
Re "Elysium was a racist film": I haven't seen it yet, Basic plot appeals
though.
Re "Another is that Brave New World was an instruction manual. He actually
plays a clip of Huxley and fails to realize Huxley was warning of the dangers
of a technocracy not endorsing the idea.": One of my all-time favourite books.
Be aware though that initially Huxley set out to write a satire of the dangers
of technology but as he became engrossed in his creation he was also attracted
by the appeal of the 24/7 hedonistic lifestyle he portrayed. That ambiguity is
a major part of what make the book so tantalising. What a true work of prophecy
that novel turned out to be. I've never been able to decide if the society
portrayed in Brave New World is a paradise that I would have been truly happy
in, or, on the contrary, would have been a soul-destroying nightmare. Whichever
side you come down on you must admit that in the western world we are moving
ever closer to Huxley's vision.
--- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
Jones rants get funny though. There are definitely some things I don't agree
with him on. One of them is that "Elysium" was a racist film. Another is that
"Brave New World" was an instruction manual. He actually plays a clip of
Huxley and fails to realize Huxley was warning of the dangers of a technocracy
not endorsing the idea. Huxley made it clear in "Brave New World Revisited".
I pop in on his forum and make some corrections but I'm certainly not the only
one there doing that. Now that they've switched to Disqus (which I call
Disgust) I sometimes comment on their stories. You do get why I posted Brand's
interview here don't you? The old format wasn't very easy to navigate on an
mobile device. It's easier to write a mobile interface and extend it to a
desktop usually through the use style sheets. There are some kinks in the Neo
design however. On 08/31/2013 06:14 PM, s3raphita@... wrote:
>Having quite pronounced libertarian tendencies myself, I'm sure I'd sympathise
>with a lot of what Alex Jones says. And I have a soft spot for far-out views -
>even if they are wrong they are usually entertaining and can give food for
>thought. The problem for me i
