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Dave W

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Re: Summer Movies
« Reply #30 on: September 02, 2009, 08:09:06 AM »
Everything I've ever read about Quentin Tarantino and his movies makes me want to stay as far away as possible.
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« Reply #31 on: September 02, 2009, 08:11:49 AM »
 I got to see District 9 over the weekend, I really enjoyed it. Filmed in South Africa, rather dark and taking it's inspiration from aparthide and internment............Not a mindless Hollywood action flick.
I highly reccomend it.  
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« Reply #32 on: September 02, 2009, 09:03:57 AM »
Is District 9 rated R, if so how bad was it?
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« Reply #33 on: September 02, 2009, 10:21:27 AM »

 I'd say it's mostly for language, the F bomb is used quite a lot, tho it's in what I'd call context, not gratuitously. Also there is a fair amount of violence and gore, somewhat disturbing but again not out of place. I dislike most Hollywood action movies so this was a refreshing change, no big name actors and a very gritty feel to a lot of the movie.
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« Reply #34 on: September 03, 2009, 02:31:18 AM »
Saw the movie Taking Woodstock tonight. Thot it would be a good way to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock.
It had some good moments but way too many bad ones. Alas

Good to be reminded how great Richie Havens is:




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« Reply #35 on: September 04, 2009, 08:14:32 AM »
Considering that it's a documentary shot in the middle of relative chaos, I found the movie Woodstock to be an impressive achievement.  I haven't seen it in years, so i'm about due.  The multiple-screen printing was highly innovative, and I thought they did a marvelous job of capturing the performances and announcements.
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« Reply #36 on: September 04, 2009, 08:23:15 AM »
True. I think the sheer physical energy, abandon and, yes, technical craftsmanship of rock has never been captured better than on those ten minutes:

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« Reply #37 on: September 04, 2009, 08:41:02 AM »
The essence of Woodstock is a bunch of dirty hippies getting up out of the mud long enough to shake their fists in a rage at the sky for daring to rain.
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« Reply #38 on: September 04, 2009, 08:59:33 AM »
Dave gives new meaning to the term revisionist, sigh!  :rolleyes:

Hey, we were on the cover!




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« Reply #39 on: September 04, 2009, 09:20:18 AM »
Quote from: uwe on September 04, 2009, 08:59:33 AM
Dave gives new meaning to the term revisionist, sigh!  :rolleyes:


Yeah. Reporting what actually happened is revisionist.  :P :P :P

Not that I mind. Hippies needed a place to go to express their nonconformity and individualism, while dressing and acting the same as every other hippie.  ;D

What bothers me is the idea that everybody in my generation was this way, that we were some kind of monolith. Trust me on this, that's total bullcrap. There were enough hippies to affect the course of events, but they were still a small minority of my generation. I knew hippies. I knew people who despised hippies and were gung ho about Vietnam. And everybody in between.
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« Reply #40 on: September 04, 2009, 10:42:37 AM »
You don't believe that everybody at Woodstock was a hippie, whatever that ambiguous term means now and meant back then?  :rolleyes:

And more than a couple of hippies died in Vietnam. And as we all know more than a couple of ardent non-hippies chose to stick with the National Guard.

Woodstock and being hippie was not so much a political as a cultural phenomenon. And of course, "hippienism"  had conformist streaks. Whenever a counter-culture group decides to non-conform, they put up their own conformist rules in their little world. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis, the ole Hegel/Marx thing. But you knew all that already.

Can we now speak of Angela Davis?  :mrgreen:




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« Reply #41 on: September 04, 2009, 11:43:52 AM »
Yes, it was more about culture than politics. It was a big counterculture event. Emphasis on counter. As in, it wasn't the mainstream then. What I object to are the "journalists" who apparently have convinced themselves that it was.

No, not everybody at Woodstock was a hippie. Probably no more than 99%.  :P

I can't think of Joanie Phony without thinking of Tom Lehrer's "Folk Song Army."

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« Reply #42 on: September 25, 2009, 10:37:04 PM »
Surrogates is in theaters today!
Next Friday: ZOMBIELAND!!!

These are gonna ROCK!!
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« Reply #43 on: September 26, 2009, 08:14:34 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on September 04, 2009, 08:41:02 AM
The essence of Woodstock is a bunch of dirty hippies getting up out of the mud long enough to shake their fists in a rage at the sky for daring to rain.

Hey, at least they got a bath that year!
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« Reply #44 on: September 26, 2009, 09:16:41 AM »
Quote from: OldManC on September 26, 2009, 08:14:34 AM
Hey, at least they got a bath that year!

 :mrgreen:

Maybe part of the 40th anniversary celebration will be to take another. You can't rush these things.
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