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10-29-2021, 06:17 PM | #23831 (permalink) | |
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Tbf educating yourself on sharks makes them even more ****ing awesome but it doesn't exactly make swimming in the ocean feel any safer.
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10-30-2021, 11:53 AM | #23832 (permalink) |
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It doesnt, true, but it makes you aware that you're far more likely to get hit by lightning than eaten by a shark, and that even if you do get bitten they're not going to swallow you or chew you up, as we don't taste good to them. If this has been known at the time of Jaws' release, I guess it might not have made the movie so scary but it would also have saved too many hotheads from going off half-cocked on shark hunts, thinking they were Richard Dreyfuss.
Of course sharks are dangerous, but only a) if upset by swimmers or b) they mistake you for a seal or something or c) there's blood in the water. I'm not saying you can just jump in among a shoal (school? Shoal?) of Great Whites or Tiger Sharks and say "how's it goin' shark dudes?" but you also would not need to beat a hasty retreat in terror, leaving a brown stain in the water behind you, the moment you saw a triangular fin. It was made too much of that "sharks are killers" and also the sizes were greatly exaggerated. But worst of all, the scene when Quint gets eaten - that would never, ever happen. That's more your T-Rex really. If they swum. And still existed. Mind you, sharks will never get me. I'll drown first, as I can't swim. Hah! In your FACES, sharks!
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10-30-2021, 10:54 PM | #23833 (permalink) |
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Capricorn One (1978) Enjoyable hokum. Haven't seen this since I was a kid, and it doesn't really stand up that well, though it is watchable. Terrible, terrible dialogue throughout, and whoever had the crazy idea that O.J. Simpson could act needs to be shot. Luckily he has fewer lines than a woman in a fifties movie, but still. Painful. The premise is fun - NASA faking a trip to Mars and then the return flight burns up in the atmosphere, leaving the three unlucky astronauts on the run from the government for the heinous crime of being alive when they are officially dead - and Telly Savalas steals the show as a hard-bitten, racist, misogynist (probably) and sexist crop-duster pilot, but it's very of its time. Huge, HUGE plot holes, but if you can unplug the rational side of your brain for an hour or so, it can be a fun movie. I wouldn't say recommended, but I wouldn't turn the telly off if it was on either. Brings back some memories for me, so there is that.
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10-31-2021, 04:15 AM | #23834 (permalink) |
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Dune
Pretty much everything you'd expect it to be, a by the numbers sci-fi spectacle. Extremely faithful to the book, which reads like a screenplay anyway.
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11-08-2021, 01:55 PM | #23835 (permalink) |
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Score, a documentary about film music and composers
Fine if you ask me, though they should’ve focused more on the music and less on just repeating over and over how complex and amazing it is |
11-09-2021, 02:53 PM | #23837 (permalink) |
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The Player - Horse nostrils.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Called the twist but I'm still confused, looking forward to a rewatch.
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11-14-2021, 07:31 AM | #23838 (permalink) |
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Free guy Disappointing. I thought it would be more fun/funny.
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11-19-2021, 12:41 AM | #23840 (permalink) | |
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