(August 28, 2014 at 7:57 am)Losty Wrote: So what will we watch?Let's start with something mild, like The Exorcist.
True Story: I didn't watch the full, uncut film until a couple of years ago. I can remember seeing parts of it on commercial TV as a teenager and being scared witless. But I have to admit that seeing it so many years later was something of a downer. It was a landmark film for its time, and still considered one of the scariest movies ever, but I don't think it has aged very well. Or maybe I have.
I was impressed at how they managed to make it with what seems to have been a pretty tight effects budget (most of which I assume went towards the make-up).And at least it doesn't have any of those (now seriously over-used) scenes where a character is dragged off by an invisible force. (this is my attempt to stay on-topic)
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
