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I get where you're coming from. If this were the flu, which again most people survive, I would say - 100%. Here's the problem though, from my personal perspective. Apparently, up to a third of all...

Is the telegraphing intentional? In most cases, not. But of course, there are many cases where some telegraphing is intentional insofar as the director wants to prep the audience for a development,...

"anticipatory" writing/editing

No, no, no, no, no.

Yes, yes, there is definitely such a thing as "anticipatory" quote: where you KNOW something is going to happen, and simply have to wait for...

FWIW, I personally do re-watch movies. There have been threads here about re-watching movies and if they hold up or not etc., so that's nothing new. I re-watch them and I'd say about 99% of the time...

Yes, yes, the chickens have come home to roost. There was a loud case a few years ago, where Amazon actually went in and removed an e-book people already bought. Ironically, it was Orwell's "1984",...

Amazing design! I started a thread on Babylon Berlin a little more than a year ago:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?363687-Babylon-Berlin

Whoa, Barry, hope you're recovering well - do your phys therapy religiously... after my motorcycle accident - over 20 years ago now - the only thing that allowed me a full recovery of the use of my...

immunity to others' opinions.

combatentropy, I suppose the biggest factor in my reaction is the fact that I tend to see arguments and opinions more purely on an intellectual plane. But if someone...

As folks have already made the distinction - intellectual disagreement vs quarrel. When it comes to arguments as intellectual disagreements, I absolutely LOVE them. If you have a different opinion...

Thank you, Batutta, I understand where you’re coming from. My response is that we live in an ecosystem. Not everyone has the same function and not everything needs to be done according the same...

What I was advocating was not to aim “just insults” against the targets of our opinions i.e. in this case DV (which is what I wrote, see above). So, say, if I call DV “talentless”, which can be seen...

We all express our points of view here. Opinions will differ. It's OK if you see things differently from me or someone else. You having a different opinion from me is no grounds for me to attack you....

I don't see whatever OldCorpse sees, calling Villeneuvre a hack and his camerawork mediocre.

Well, no sense in repeating myself - I broke down, in exhaustive and comprehensive detail, why I think...

Hmm. Are we watching the same trailer? It looks like sh|t to me. Absolute garbage. Now, I'm not a fan of the director, and I've predicted utter failure for BR2049 when it was first announced, and...

The stupidest part of this is that the Chinese market is tightly controlled - they have a set number - a very low number - of films from the West they'll allow, and then they re-negotiated that in...

“He who is without sin” etc.

Always got receipts.

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

“From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black...

The opposite - not relative moral standards, but absolute moral standards, the same for everyone - apply the same measure to yourself as you do to others. And when you find you are just as guilty,...

Folks, this is straying dangerously close into politics - talking about the government of China doing this that and the third and the Communist Party. We should stop this direction of talk, and stick...

Or alternatively, it is being reformed and amended - exactly as I predicted from day one, when "the sky is falling and California is sliding into the sea" posts started appearing. It's a process....

I don't want to break any "no politics" rules, so I'm gonna drop that aspect of it. However I agree with this:

That is one of the largest problems with Hollywood, because no one has the stones to...

And this is new how? Those who don't remember their history are doomed to repeat it. You know where there is a nasty precendent of Hollywood bending to the mores of a vicious totalitarian regime?...

An oldie but goody.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/189...mans-fallacies

There's some politics involved but it mostly addresses Krugman's "broken windows" nonsense.
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I'm not going to go at any great length, because this can easily slip from economics into "politics", but those who claim that Krugman has never been right about anything have no idea what they're...

Although I don’t approve of spewing contentless insults, I also am not happy with the cancel culture. If the guy wrote whatever stupid thing he did on his own time without implying any buy-in from...