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He's arguing to my understanding that intelligent thought is independent of any form and that form limits thought. In a way it is not that dissimilar to Socrates/Plato's "Allegory of the Cave". Mind you that's what I'm receiving. What he's actually sending may be completely different. Due to the inadequacies of words to convey the truest thought, natch.

Words are a medium, they are as restricted a medium as a strip of film or a marble stone or a canvas or a touch between two people or a motion before the eyes. There are things that can be done to express what you can via the medium and things you cannot. The medium will always bring its limitations, as will the artist as will the spectator, listener, viewer, feeler. This shouldn't be seen, in my opinion, as a devaluing of any medium, though, only an expression that all mediums are limited both in what they can accomplish and in the requirement of shared understanding of meaning.

And then there's the confluence with the election cycle. And the 17 year cicada cycle. And the washing machine's spin cycle. And the Bi cycle.

His record for not lifting a hand and navigating to the Obsidian board, one presumes. Now back on day one, alas.

Yup, Katarina Johnson-Thompson. She didn't enter the field for the single event and doesn't consider her high jump her strongest field event. That said, as I mentioned Vlašić, Lowe and Betia have all bettered 2.00 and probably each should have had a better run. But at the end of the day they didn't have their best day, any of them, I think.

1.97 was a shocking height (Vlašić, Lowe and Betia have all done better; I think Demireva matched a personal best) but I'd still have taken that over any time spent on Lochte explaining how he "over exaggerated".

When Rio started, I pondered to myself - "Why can't I remember the London Games?" After watching NBC's coverage of Rio I have my answer - NBC doesn't actually show any competitions, they only show what the USA did and *maybe* one or two other competitors. Because they're all about telling the "athlete's story" and not actually showing athletic competition, apparently. ~40 minutes dedicated to Lochte on Saturday saying he "over exaggerated" instead of lied and less than 5 minutes of the Women's high jump (and not even the gold medel winning jump, at that, much less the silver or bronze). Maybe its just me but I'd rather have had a sport - any sport, even water polo - given that time than spending one iota of time on anything Lochte had to say.

The biggest problem with Leto's performance as the Joker is that parts of it are on the cutting room floor. But I say that as someone who liked Suicide Squad despite its flaws. But from all accounts large sections of his performance didn't make it to the film - things like the Joker/Harley Club scene was edited down and the aftermath of that and the planned aftermath of the Harley/Joker reunion on the helicopter were cut entirely which I think hampered the character a good bit.

When ABC lost the Olympics ages ago, NBC was considered dumb for picking it up. Conventional wisdom was that people didn't want to watch a bunch of no-name athletes compete in sports no one had heard of (except every 4 years). So NBC, over the years, has increasingly made a point to cover who the people are - to tell a story - to make people interested in the competition. To the point now that instead of showing the full competition they usually only show you the bits with people they've told you their stories. While I consider 'social media' to be generally one of the worst forms of communication enabling created by mankind, and I think the news coverage of what happens on social media to be misguided (at best), I really see the stories of the "online bullies" as more of NBC's attempt to sell the people, not the sports. Because as proven with ABC all those years ago, people in the US just don't really care about the sport.

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He didn't want to forget to tell us he forgot.

New Jean Lafitte City...

They could subvert expectations and go for "Old New Orleans". Or "Nouveau Orleans". Or "Orleans Where the Mutate Crabs Eat You".

A lot of the early press was that it felt like a war film. Perhaps its just me but if Star Wars is going to be a bigger filmic brand, they probably can't make all of their films be "Star Wars" space fantasy adventures. Like Marvel has been introducing elements of other genres (like the very 70s spy-film vibe of WINTER SOLDIER), they'll probably need to embrace other film genres into the SW universe.

Maybe Not really knowing anything about the business I was surprised to hear that a movie making 60% abroad was a big deal. Given the entirety of the world I just assumed that would be normal Boy was I wrong Iirc, the usual split is 60/40 in favor of domestic. Some movies do well, but a lot don't. Some movies don't get fully released abroad (like Ghostbusters not making it to China). Othertimes movies are produced by one entity and distributed domestically by them but by a different company overseas meaning only the domestic gross goes to cover the expense.

There are some films that do so well outside of the US that the US film-makers make sequels regardless of stateside performance. Conan, for example, has a sequel because of how well it did in Europe which doubled the films profitability. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief mad 60% of its $230 million internationally, thus the sequel. I think though the international box-office is becoming more important - particularly with Chinese funding companies investing in some of these big-budget spectacle films (Alibaba Picture Group put money towards Star Trek Beyond and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, for example) As I recall have one "****" and a bunch of other cursewords or two "****s" is an automatic PG-13. Its the reason why an otherwise innocuous film will have a character bust a couple of "****s" out. The reason why PG-13 is the sought after rating is because post-Temple of Doom the PG rating was seen as a secondary "kiddie" rating with G (in fact most animated films are PG instead of G now). Gone from PG was intense scary sequences (like in Temple of Doom), violence and brief non-sexual nudity. Despite years of proof otherwise (pretty much all of the drive-in fare and cheap slasher films of the 70s and 80s), the general thought is that R rated films are considered "limited in audience" (partially because of various lawsuit that led to cracking down on underage and unescorted youngsters buying tickets). Until recently (Deadpool for example) an R rating was considered a box-office deathknell. Even horror films, long the purveyor of cheap R-rated thrills of the grindhouse era have mostly moved into PG-13 scares (a point often derrided by horror & gore fans).

The first one had a relatively modest big budget ($60 million) and did ~$230 million worldwide. Over 60% of that was in foreign territories, but it was worth it for the producers involved to make a second one.

Actually, the film is being called sexist by some reviewers. Both Harley Quinn and the Enchantress are oversexualized, don't you know? It's also been called sexist because of something Slipknot does, and racist because El Diablo is the only Hispanic male and he runs a gang. And racist due to the use if BET.

There was aleady an animated movie and an animated TV show in tge works before the new film came out. It seems a stretch to me to tie the existence if the animated films as any sort of comment pro or con in relation to the live action film.

Weather is probably a bit part of it - might even be why Pennsylvania was dumped after the pilot. I'd imagine that Harlan being a smaller town (so less places to stay) and not necessarily as accessible as a location in California might also be a factor. Most of Harlan County was made up of small mining camps and a lot of unoccupied mountain space for many, many years and last time I was there (some years back, admittedly) a lot of the roads were small and winded up and around the mountains with lots of curves and dips and raises.

Having looked it up earlier, my understanding is that the rule on searching vehicles comes from prohibition and the idea that if the police officer stops a vehicle it believes to be carrying contraband. Because vehicles can be moved from the jurisdiction during the time used in getting a warrent it was deemed permissible to search for contraband. There were then a bunch of refinements and mobile homes deemed to be more vehicles than home.

Pics a fake; the guy who created the fan art is apparently upset his art was used in this gag.

Was never a fan of Ben & Jerry's myself, to be honest.

My only concern with WWs setting is Steve Trevor crashed his plane on Themyscera, WW1 wasn't exactly known for its long range fighter planes was it? Depends on the planes involve, I think. Doing some poking around it seems that many of the planes in 1917 were ranging somewhere between 600 km to 800-900 km. In 1918, though, some of the sea boats (like the Curtis NC) could do ~2,000 km. That'd be a little more than that of a P-51 Mustang (~1300 km), a very common US fighter plane in WWII. Of course using the Curtis would move Trevor from the Army Air-Corps to the Navy... Anyhow Themyscira never had a definitive location in the DCU (although it was in the Pacific in the Golden Age and IIRC somewhere between Greece and Turkey post-crisis before being granted the ability to move after its sacking and retreat from Man's World) so they could probably make it work somehow.

In the Backer update they just mention there will be more physical options, but don't go into detail so I imagine its just something they're not ready to show.