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Movies are not for intellectuals
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Pat Mustard
Previous username: GUBU God! Theresa, I forgot me fecking trousers!  Religious Views: the Disc's first ligthning proof atheist (December 15, 2022 at 3:01 am)Interaktive Wrote: Movies are not for intellectuals I don't know. For example, I found Cliffhanger's treatise on the Foucaultian discourse of social control quite intruiging.
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Some people are trying to put an intellectual spin on watching movies.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Have read that the new Avatar is fantastic, a must see!
Of course, Avatar uses an ecological message to make billions of dollars which is genius because usually, ecology is poison for the box office since people hate being beaten over their heads how everything is polluted, but Cameron has found the way.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
RE: Movies are not for intellectuals
December 19, 2022 at 7:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2022 at 7:14 pm by Jehanne.)
(December 19, 2022 at 5:44 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Of course, Avatar uses an ecological message to make billions of dollars which is genius because usually, ecology is poison for the box office since people hate being beaten over their heads how everything is polluted, but Cameron has found the way. The Director's cut had an extended sex scene and did quite well (have not seen it) in sales, and so, Cameron played that card well, also.  (December 19, 2022 at 5:44 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Of course, Avatar uses an ecological message to make billions of dollars which is genius because usually, ecology is poison for the box office since people hate being beaten over their heads how everything is polluted, but Cameron has found the way. avatar’s is not a genuine ecological message, it is crass exploitation of echo-mysticism, and eco-mysticism undermines the underlying rationale for ecological stewardship. RE: Movies are not for intellectuals
December 20, 2022 at 3:15 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2022 at 3:17 am by Anomalocaris.)
(December 17, 2022 at 2:13 pm)Macoleco Wrote: I have never understood this kind of elitism. Reason I stay away from such groups. never snobbish posing by putting down others with elitism. elitism is merely not giving credit where credit is not genuinely deserved.  (December 15, 2022 at 3:01 am)Interaktive Wrote: Movies are not for intellectuals (December 15, 2022 at 4:03 am)Interaktive Wrote: only the book is high culture Visual art predates literature so far back into our species' past that we probably continued to develop it from our previous hominid ancestors. Simply put, we've been creating in the visual medium far longer than the written or, perhaps, even the spoken form of explresion.  Not at work.  (December 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: The Mandolorians' moral code is a bit confusing, but Star Wars as a whole is crap. They made it clear in the new movies that it is impossible for the "good" to triumph, because The Force needs balance. If the Good gets too powerful, the frick'n Force itself cultivates The Dark Side to balance it. ![[Image: screenshot-from-2022-12-25-05-48-08.png]](https://badinage1.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/screenshot-from-2022-12-25-05-48-08.png)
Just a fyi, the new Avatar is 48 frames per second (48 fps). It's well over 3 hours. The director, James Cameron, is on the record as saying that you are free to go to the bathroom at any time during the movie, and that you can see the missed scenes when you watch the movie a second time.
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