[scifinoir2] Re: Knowing
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "tdemorsella" wrote: > > Hey James: > Welcome to the list. Aren't all Cage Scifi Movies Disaster's lately. I'm so > disappointed. The wig doers not help his cause either. > > Sorry... I'm just being catty. > Thanks, glad to be here. Yeah, Nick's been letting me down a lot as of late, but I guess like Will Smith said after "Wild, Wild, West" They drove a dump truck full of money to his house. > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "James Nelson Smith" wrote: > > > > Just watchec a sneak preview of the new Nicholas Cage film, "Knowing". It > > is a SF disaster movie for all intents and purposes, but somewhere along > > the 3/4 mark, I started to get a very strange sense of deja vu about where > > the filmmakers where going with it. To go any further before the movie > > officially opens would have to include spoilers, but I encourage everyone > > to catch a matinee, and then discuss how this movie went so wrong (at least > > from my perspective). > > >
[scifinoir2] Knowing
Just watchec a sneak preview of the new Nicholas Cage film, "Knowing". It is a SF disaster movie for all intents and purposes, but somewhere along the 3/4 mark, I started to get a very strange sense of deja vu about where the filmmakers where going with it. To go any further before the movie officially opens would have to include spoilers, but I encourage everyone to catch a matinee, and then discuss how this movie went so wrong (at least from my perspective).
[scifinoir2] Re: Every Movie Ever Made On The 'Net?
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Baxter" wrote: > > Only about a third of it, I'm afraid. The meds kicked in about then and > kicked me right off the cliff into Nod. > > If memory serves, TCM's had it submitted for cleanup and remastering, because > that's one of only a dozen prints left of the movie. > > > > > -[ Received Mail Content ]-- > Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Every Movie Ever Made On The 'Net? > Date : Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:54:21 + (UTC) > From : Keith Johnson > To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > > Didja by chance catch "Nosferatu" late Sunday night on TCM? I'm not sure if that was a remastered copy, though I seem to remember it was. It still looked old too, though I wonder, how easy is it to remove all the video "scratches" and noise from a film, even with advanced digital processing? > > Still a great film, and makes me wish all the more that Hollywood gets back > to the old concept of the vampyr as a frightening, repulsive beast, and give > this romantic, angst-filled hunk angle a rest for a while. Hollywood might not, but if you search other countries still put out the ocassional very good vampire film. I recently saw the foreign film, "Let the Right One In" It doesn't have the high budget of most Hollywood films, but it handles vampires right. None of that "Twilight" pablum that got all the media buzz. This film slipped through the cracks, but it is a superior vampire movie in every way. Should be out on DVD as I write this. > > > > > > People may lie, but the evidence rarely does. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds >
[scifinoir2] Jack Bauer, and the series 24
I'm been intending for some time to take this blog thing seriously, but I didn't really want to just throw anything out there for public consumption. I'm of the Harlan Ellison mind that "everyone is not entitled to their opinion, they are entitled to their informed opinion." I especially think this is true when it comes to people of color. We truly do need to do more critical thinking. So I'm studying the essay form (something I hated in school, and destested just as much in college) and I'm trying to come up with interesting essay ideas, many about media and culture from a black perspective, and because my major as an undergraduate was film production. While walking around outside it occurred to me that the character of Jack Bauer is really the kind of ideal "white guy" that white men in particular want to be. Even though the show was progressive enough to portray a black man as president of the U.S. the underlining message was "Sure, you made president, but if it weren't for Jack Bauer your administration would fall, and the country would collapse. It's really a more sophisticated version of the Black story told from white viewpoint protagonist's perspective that we generally get from Hollywood aka "Last King of Scotland", "Amistad", "Glory", ad infinitum. I also wonder would Jack Bauer or 24 even been as popular as it is if the character of Jack Bauer had been Black? Just curious if I'm on to something, or if the topic is really worth exploring.
