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- Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:07 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: The last movie you saw Thread
- Replies: 1897
- Views: 759218
Re: The last movie you saw Thread
I agree with yov. The first question is whether a work of fiction designed for entertainment can draw on real history? I think most people would agree the answer is “yes”. The second is, are there aspects of history which are so terrible that they should not be used in entertainment? Here, I think ...
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 3:16 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: The last movie you saw Thread
- Replies: 1897
- Views: 759218
Re: The last movie you saw Thread
While I understand this line of thinking, I disagree with him at a very, very fundamental level. It reminds me of people who roll their eyes at people who think that LOTR can explore meaningful, important ideas. Plenty of people dismiss it as "just" fantasy, much like he is dismissing the...
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:58 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: The last movie you saw Thread
- Replies: 1897
- Views: 759218
Re: The last movie you saw Thread
Interestingly, I actually thought the way X-Men films handled the Holocaust was an example of the right way to incorporate a real tragedy into a superhero story. Magneto is caught up in the Holocaust as a teenager and is powerless to do anything about it, and so in my view it doesn’t come across as...
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:38 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: The last movie you saw Thread
- Replies: 1897
- Views: 759218
Re: The last movie you saw Thread
Wait, what? The stupidity of this genre is truly dumbfounding. That said, in my book nothing beats the crass exploitation of the Shoa in the X-Men films.Túrin Turambar wrote:(...) against the truly absurd sub-plot of Erich Ludendorff turning into a supervillain.
- Tue May 09, 2017 1:28 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2017 French Presidential Election
- Replies: 29
- Views: 26863
Re: 2017 French Presidential Election
Except the polls underestimated Macron's support by more than 10 points. It was a worse miss than Brexit or Trump, they just happened to get the winner right. That is wrong. Most early May polls predicted that Macron would earn slightly above 60 per cent of the vote. So yes, most polls underestimat...
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:38 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15695
Re: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter
In many ways, the best historical analogy to ISIS would probably be the crusaders, who also sought to impose a religious tyranny on the entire known world. Sent from my VS985 4G using Tapatalk I realize that this is a rather popular analogy but it has some issues. From a historical perspective, mos...
- Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:04 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15695
Re: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter
This might be a rather ancillary and digressive post but this thread reminded me of a university exam I took last year on Irish history where I had to focus on two time periods in my studies and chose the early Irish church (1) and the Irish War of Independence (2). During my studies, I frantically ...
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: The last movie you saw Thread
- Replies: 1897
- Views: 759218
Re: The last movie you saw Thread
Sports broadcasts are an altogether different medium and experience that often require a modicum of active emotional investment. When I go to a bar to watch a football game, I go there partly for the collective experience (same goes for watching a game live in a stadium). When I buy a movie ticket, ...
- Fri Nov 25, 2016 4:10 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Prayer Thread
- Replies: 1385
- Views: 577824
Re: Prayer Thread
Lali: I hope your best friend's brother can make a full physical recovery and that his psychological scars will not be too great. A quick google search seems to reveal some positive news for T.: http://fox2now.com/2016/11/23/officer-shot-last-sunday-helps-open-30th-annual-guns-n-hoses/ Lali, if you ...
- Sun Nov 20, 2016 9:55 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Leonard Cohen is gone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 36804
Re: Leonard Cohen is gone
Thank you for the link, Sunsilver. Several of my family members have been in deep mourning over Leonard Cohen’s death. For my father, my aunt (his sister), and my eldest cousin (her daughter) the music of Cohen was an integral part of their own lives. My dad’s favorite song is “Famous Blue Raincoat”...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:34 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 651145
Re: 2016 United States Election
If you are interested, a Facebook study on the US presidential election:
http://blog.storyclash.com/analysis-of- ... tion-2016/
PS: It should be pointed out that I know one the authors.
http://blog.storyclash.com/analysis-of- ... tion-2016/
PS: It should be pointed out that I know one the authors.
- Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:16 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 651145
Re: 2016 United States Election
Very OT: You guys realize that the MBTI is not proper psychological science, right? ^^
https://www.theguardian.com/science/bra ... scientific
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-28315137
http://indiana.edu/~jobtalk/Articles/develop/mbti.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/science/bra ... scientific
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-28315137
http://indiana.edu/~jobtalk/Articles/develop/mbti.pdf
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 7:34 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: IMDB Top 250 films
- Replies: 224
- Views: 135026
Re: IMDB Top 250 films
But - I did fall in love with The Simpsons pretty much from minute one. It landed when I was seven or eight years old and I watched it religiously until it got crappy 10 or so years later so I pretty much grew up with it. I have never been a fan of The Simpsons but the difference in quality between...
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 4:39 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 651145
Re: 2016 United States Election
Is is my understanding that Túrin did not say in his post that the First Industrial Revolution caused a net reduction of jobs but that particular technological innovations lead to a reduction in the demand for certain jobs, which was for example undoubtedly true for certain sectors in the Industrial...
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 9:45 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 2016 United States Election
- Replies: 2864
- Views: 651145
Re: 2016 United States Election
And there I was, thinking it was шаденфроеде. ^^Frelga wrote:Злорадствоyovargas wrote:What's Russian for schadenfreude?
- Tue Jul 19, 2016 9:17 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: The Fellowship of the Ring in Concert
- Replies: 19
- Views: 40299
Re: The Fellowship of the Ring in Concert
Dear Halofirians, Thank you all for your sound advice. My brother and I shall get the tickets on Thursday; hopefully they still have some of the premium seats right in front of the stage. @Alatar: Sadly, there will only be one showing - so my finances will not deteriorate. @Jude: That sounds wonderf...
- Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:13 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: The Fellowship of the Ring in Concert
- Replies: 19
- Views: 40299
The Fellowship of the Ring in Concert
Hope this fits in here: So there is going to be a showing/concert of The Fellowship of the Ring in my home city next April (http://lordoftheringsinconcert.com/). I was wondering if anyone here has already been to such a show and could share his/her impressions with me. The tickets are a tad expensiv...
- Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:22 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Experts to assess character of Gollum for Turkish judge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8870
Re: Experts to assess character of Gollum for Turkish judge
Peter Jackson weighs in: Erdoğan's 'Gollum insult' a mistake, says Lord of the Rings director Tolkien film-maker Peter Jackson says images, which led to trial of Bilgin Çiftçi, depict only benign character Sméagol http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/lord-of-rings-director-insult-to-erdogan-...
- Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:38 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Experts to assess character of Gollum for Turkish judge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8870
Experts to assess character of Gollum for Turkish judge
I guess this fits in here :scratch: : A Turkish court wants an expert examination of Gollum’s character for a bizarre case involving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/12028461/Lord-of-the-Rings-experts-to-assess-character-of-Gollum-for-Turkish-ju...
- Sun Oct 25, 2015 1:52 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Reaction to seeing 5 ARMIES EE
- Replies: 20
- Views: 41270
Re: Reaction to seeing 5 ARMIES EE
I am really looking forward to getting the "The Hobbit Trilogy - Extended Edition" set: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobbit-Trilogy-Extended-Blu-ray-Region/dp/B00ZX1Y7O6/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1445733524&sr=1-1&keywords=the+hobbit+extended+edition+trilogy My brother and I ...