Yeah, granted the article is quoting the plaintiffs’ suit, so we’re getting a pretty skewed interpretation, but both films ending with a scene in which the leads select the same Spice Girls album to listen to really does point towards plagiarism. With that being said, I don’t know how anyone could think they’d get away with that blatant.
Blood Vessel (2019).
An improbably diverse group of U-Boat attack survivors find their way aboard a seemingly abandoned Nazi vessel, discovering, in time, what happened to the previous occupants.
The movie has 3 things going for it:
Is it good? Not really. Does it make good on its premise? Also, no. Is it better than it could have been? Absolutely.
Worth a watch for fans of foam latex.
Nice to see Newton and I have one thing in common, and, let me tell ya, I don’t know shit about astronomy.
Does anyone recall what wound up becoming of the RTX tech demo which applied Ray traced lighting to Morrowind? The old axiom holds true, any mention of Morrowind results in at least one person reinstalling it, and it appears im the guy this time.
At first I didn’t realize this was a link to your blog, and I thought the entirety of your review was the incipit. I was going to give you points for brevity, if not clarity haha.
Why do I feel like the music cue after that statement is this.
And if they’re very, very lucky, you’ll do it in that order.
Well-meaning idiots, in Wayne’s parlance, and I doubt very much that Eastwood’s philosophy differs that much. Unsurprisingly, the ideological bent of the film was a topic of some controversy, even during its release. The term “fascist” was thrown around with the frequency of a Lemmy politics thread, and not without good reason. For their part, the director claimed that he was a left leaning liberal who viewed Callahan as “as evil, in his own way, as [Scorpio]”, and Eastwood, while denying the movie was right wing, stated it was about “frustration with the judicial system”.
Suffice to say, the politics of these movies are complicated (at best), if you choose to engage with them on that level.
In addition to the above, which explains the actor’s thought process, I think it’s an intentional choice by the filmmakers to juxtapose the “peace and love” iconography of the hippy movement / era against the depravity of Scorpio.
Obviously, Dirty Harry was directly inspired by the Zodiac Killer, whose confirmed kills occurred in 68-69. Significantly, the Zodiac’s first and second letters were sent to newspapers on July 31st and August 4th, 1969. I say that this is significant because, not even a week later, on August 9th, the Tate-LaBianca murders occurred. Moreso even than the Zodiac murders, the Manson Family belies the viewpoint of Dirty Harry, i.e. that, for all the flower power aesthetic and grandiose ideas, the hippie movement was populated by anti-social, perverse, and dangerous criminals.
These people, if not representative of the hippies as a whole, were at least taking advantage the well-meaning idiots who would naively take their side. See this quote from John Wayne about the counter-culture: “I’d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. I’d like to know why they make excuses for cowards who spit in the faces of the police and then run behind the judicial sob sisters. I can’t understand these people who carry placards to save the life of some criminal, yet have no thought for the innocent victim.”
I believe this sentiment is, in essence, Dirty Harry’s thesis. Consider the scene in which Harry is reprimanded for obtaining evidence against Scorpio illegally, making it inadmissable and leading to his release from custody. Furthermore, in the final seconds of the film, after beating Scorpio in the quick draw contest, Harry spends a little bit of time ruefully gazing at his police badge before hurling it into the lake, presumably because of the number of obstacles that bleeding hearts put in between him and getting the bad guy.
Surveillance of the crew isn’t Worf’s typical MO, but the captain is worried about Lieutenant Yar. In her romantic life, it seems like she’s lost control.
Please no. Adding to my collection is pricey enough as-is :(
Idle speculation: I wonder if the fact that this poll was conducted by PBS/NPR has anything to do with the results. Someone who is cheering MAGA on probably won’t speak with those organizations for fear of catching the lib.
Nothing to be done for it.
I have not yet seen the sequel, but I might if I can find a good matinee deal or something. This makes me feel ancient, but I remember when a ticket was like $5 if the showtime was before 5 pm. Sadly, that seems to have gone the way of the $5 footling.
Beekeeper is one of the best surprises I’ve had in a long time. I was looking for something new, but sorta familiar, to watch and gave it a shot on streaming, pretty much sight unseen. I thought it was just Statham.trying to cut in on that John Wick money. Which, it sorta was, but man, that script just kept out doing itself with every expansion in scope / stakes. By the time they “reveal” who the kid’s mom is, I was so on board their ride.
I wish Statham had brought something to the role other than stoic badass. Maybe it would have been too much at that point, but I kinda wanted an actor who could match the script in brazen buffoonery. Maybe then they could have cut the FBI agents’ scenes and focused more on him. I practically snoozed through that whole B plot.
It’s a mixed bag tbh. I think the first one is overlong and less clever than it thinks it is. The action is competent, but not substantively better than a good direct to video shoot em up, and there’s just so much dead space between these sequences it’s almost not worth it.
That being said, i’d rank it above Jason Statham’s A Working Man, but below Jason Statham’s The Beekeeper. Idk if that helps you at all, but I think it’s indicative of the mode this movie is trying to operate in.
Journalism is not history, and vice versa. They are different disciplines, with different goals and methodologies. Don’t confuse the work journalists do with the work of historians, and vice versa. John Reed’s account of the Russian Revolution is an invaluable source for historians, of course, but it is only one such source, and any history which overly relies upon it risks giving a biased account. Not to say that that doesn’t happen, but it’s explicitly antithetical to the notional goal of practicing history. No such compunction affects journalism, where the creation of a biased account is not only tolerated, sometimes it’s encouraged, or the entire purpose of a work (as it was when Reed was giving his account of Ten Days That Shook the World).
Reed even calls out his own bias in the preface of his book. He was a devoted Socialist, and his sympathies were with the reds. That affected his account. Furthermore, while he could comment on the Revolution from his vantage point (embedded with Bolsheviks as he was), he’s not necessarily the most reliable (or informed) narrator of what was happening on the Tsarist side of the conflict, simply by virtue of not having access to that perspective in the moment. That doesn’t change the value of his journalism, but it does impinge it’s value as a comprehensive history.
Well, that seems blatantly inaccurate. There’s an absolute tidal wave of popular history content available for layperson consumption. Forget the books that are published which are aimed at general audiences (of which there are dozens, if not hundreds, every single year), you’ve also got YouTube videos, hobby blog posts, more podcasts than stars in the sky, and so on. These are of varying quality, but so is the academic stuff. Plenty of really great, insightful research is published. And plenty of useless dreck emblematic of academia’s tendency towards chasing one’s own tail is published too. With that being said though, if you’re reading a journal article, i.e. published by academics for academics, you shouldn’t be surprised if the language leans on jargon, even if it isn’t “good writing” necessarily.
Post your shit, don’t be excessive. If it gets deleted for self promo in one community, there’s several alternatives. If it gets deleted in every community, reassess your messaging lol.
This platform requires OC to survive, or else we’re just a mirror for other sites. Deleting OC because it comes from the Creator seems short-sighted, but I’m also not a mod. So, ymmv.
Pep and shrooms is such a good combo; I bet it was awesome!