Dusk wrote:Judas Maccabeus wrote:Ummm... I haven't grown tired of it either. Does that make me The Two?
No, that makes you Tim.
Holy crap, this made me laugh!
Ponder wrote:Excuse me while I whip this out.
Dusk wrote:Judas Maccabeus wrote:Ummm... I haven't grown tired of it either. Does that make me The Two?
No, that makes you Tim.
Ponder wrote:Excuse me while I whip this out.
Skimba wrote:Holy crap, this made me laugh!
EvilJekyll wrote:To summarise, people will always people.
ntw3001 wrote:you can't get raped if you always say yes
Dusk wrote:I really need to watch Blazing Saddles again. I used to love the bit where Gene Wilder asks the other guy if he wants to have sex... that has never really worked out as a quote for me, though. Hang on.. was that even in the movie?
PonderThis wrote:Back in olden times people found solace in Jesus. Nowadays it's Sonic The Hedgehog.
quetzalcoatlus wrote:Not a "movie" so much as an hour long TV special, but Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas is on netflix now, so I watched it. If you remember it from when you were a kid or love muppet related things in general, it is adorable, although the River Bottom Nightmare Band is still the best thing about it. Also, if you don't love all things muppet related you are unamerican and/or work for fox news.
PonderThis wrote:Dusk wrote:I really need to watch Blazing Saddles again. I used to love the bit where Gene Wilder asks the other guy if he wants to have sex... that has never really worked out as a quote for me, though. Hang on.. was that even in the movie?
Sorta.
EvilJekyll wrote:To summarise, people will always people.
ntw3001 wrote:you can't get raped if you always say yes
EvilJekyll wrote:To summarise, people will always people.
Dusk wrote:I then had to watch Grizzly Man which I found much more sobering. I'm not too sure what to say about it, really. It certainly depressed me.. I like how Herzog presents his subject as: here's some stuff that happened.. and then later he tries to apply decidedly unpleasant philosophy to it, which you kind of dismiss, but at least it gets you thinking without having an opinion rammed down your throat.
My favourite line from Grizzly Man was Werner saying something along the lines of: "I don't see a secret world of bears.. this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food."
ntw3001 wrote:you can't get raped if you always say yes
Dusk wrote:Yay I finally got to see Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
It was very interesting. Werner's musings are hilarious and the nutjobs he talks to at the end are incredible.
I then had to watch Grizzly Man which I found much more sobering. I'm not too sure what to say about it, really. It certainly depressed me.. I like how Herzog presents his subject as: here's some stuff that happened.. and then later he tries to apply decidedly unpleasant philosophy to it, which you kind of dismiss, but at least it gets you thinking without having an opinion rammed down your throat.
My favourite line from Grizzly Man was Werner saying something along the lines of: "I don't see a secret world of bears.. this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food."
James wrote:Grizzly Man is, to me, a great subversion of this idea some people have of how wonderfully in tune with nature they are. I think that the closest you can be to nature is probably to know that it's dangerous and know how different it is than you. That's not to say that people can't be more or less nature-attuned, or that it's not a good thing to be towards the "more" end of that scale, but I think it's paradoxically quite an arrogant and human-chauvinistic idea that we can somehow live in the world of any other animal we choose, and understand them and know them. Their whole experiential world is different, and we can never have access to that. We can never know what it's like to be a bat. And even if we could, their lack of human morality and values would probably make involving ourselves that heavily with them quite an unpalatable proposition. But people like to romanticize nature, you know. Nature is beautiful and wonderful, but it's also brutal and ugly. And it will definitely eat you if it feels the need.
ntw3001 wrote:you can't get raped if you always say yes
jvcc wrote:The creepiest thing was that after the bear dragged him off into the woods his girlfriend started making a call that a wounded infant deer makes if its mother has been killed so that the bear will come back and eat it too. It did not help me sleep.
Android Replica wrote:If you want to see something really funny from Herzog, find "Incident at Loch Ness." A very funny film in the "mockumentary" genre. And after watching it, listen to the commentary, it's equally hilarious but the whole thing really makes Zak Penn look like the most pathetic and terrible person on the world.
James wrote:Did you see Cave of Forgotten Dreams in three dimensions? It was worth it. The interviews were standard 3D fare, which was a bit weird for interviews, but it was amazing to see how the paintings play across the cave walls.
James wrote:I was really surprised by how expressive I found the paintings. I kind of assumed that really early art was very crude and mainly interesting on an intellectual level, but this is the oldest art we've yet found, and the next-oldest we know of was made at a time as close to the present day as it was to when the oldest Chauvet paintings were done, so those are extremely rickin'-frackin' old. And yet, while it was simple in medium and construction, I found its form very expressive and at times actually a little moving. It really was a very exciting film to watch.
James wrote:We can never know what it's like to be a bat.
James wrote:I haven't seen Encounters at the End of the World, but apparently in that Herzog becomes fascinated with the idea of penguins going insane.
jvcc wrote:In the article I read it explained that the guy, whatever his name was, attempted to behave like the bears as much as possible in order to be accepted as one of them. Unfortunately, during times of food shortage grizzly bears will result to cannibalism. So his problem was being too in tune with nature, in a way.
EvilJekyll wrote:To summarise, people will always people.
jvcc wrote:In the article I read it explained that the guy, whatever his name was, attempted to behave like the bears as much as possible in order to be accepted as one of them. Unfortunately, during times of food shortage grizzly bears will result to cannibalism. So his problem was being too in tune with nature, in a way.
James wrote:I'd have to see the film again to properly present my case, but I think it's extremely unlikely that the bears saw him as another bear. I'm sure they saw him as more familiar than other people, and perhaps as some part of their lives or even their community, but they weren't attached to him in anything like the way that he was attached to them.
ntw3001 wrote:you can't get raped if you always say yes
ntw3001 wrote:you can't get raped if you always say yes
ntw3001 wrote:you can't get raped if you always say yes
PonderThis wrote:Back in olden times people found solace in Jesus. Nowadays it's Sonic The Hedgehog.
ntw3001 wrote:you can't get raped if you always say yes
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