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[Nabubrush]

I haven't seen it yet because it's still being made but I just gave some Kickstarter money to a documentary on designer board games. It looks to be the tits.

Please keep us (me) apprised of this. I'm curious about it.

[CortJstr]

Please keep us (me) apprised of this. I'm curious about it.

Will do. You can watch the "trailer" here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/LorienGreen/going-cardboard-a-board-game-documentary-0

[Nabubrush]

Thank you, sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[wombat]

We are in the middle of Inception. I am too annoyed to go back and see if this has been discussed, I just need to rant.

So I read the description when the movie arrived: the main premise is that it's possible to manipulate a person's dreams.

There are, oh, ten thousand things you could do with that concept. And my thought upon reading the description was "oh god, it is not possible that Hollywood is going to do something good with this." Out of the ten thousand possibilities, I had no doubt that they were not going to choose a good one,

And yeah: basically the only thing Hollywood knows how to do is explosions, car crashes, and shooting, so that is the only way they can think of to execute this concept.

Also, there are only two women in the whole movie and is it just me or are they both terrible actresses?

[greenkoolayd]

when christopher nolan and a huge amount of money love each other very much, sometimes there are tons of explosions.

[wombat]

OMG and here is this totally insane line from the review in the Washington Post:

Nolan, who reportedly used as few computer effects as possible while shooting "Inception,"

[wombat]

Also there is basically nothing in this movie that is dreamlike. Unless other people's dreams have a hell of a lot more special effects and car chases and explosions than mine do, they have completely failed to evoke anything reminiscent of actual dreams.

[side_show]

Here's the Inception threadwombat

[wombat]

Thanks. I think.

OK one more thing before I read that thread: When you write something - such as a movie script - and it is hard to understand and/or follow, that does not make you smart. This seems to be a commonly held misconception. But what it actually makes you is a bad writer.

[pmcd9]

Fuck Wombat, it's a Batman movie, you should know better.

[wombat]

I'm not sure I ever saw a Batman movie. But it was a movie picked out by the Tech Staff which maybe should have been a warning in itself.

[CortJstr]

Thanks. I think.

OK one more thing before I read that thread: When you write something - such as a movie script - and it is hard to understand and/or follow, that does not make you smart. This seems to be a commonly held misconception. But what it actually makes you is a bad writer.

This is why I still can't decide if I actually like David Foster Wallace. He tends to veer into "I don't understand this at all so it must be brilliant" territory

[Nabubrush]

This is why I still can't decide if I actually like David Foster Wallace. He tends to veer into "I don't understand this at all so it must be brilliant" territory

Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding. Sorry, I know as a lit-hipster I am supposed to be down with him, but I can't hang.

[side_show]

I just saw"the Illusionist" which was wonderful.  It's made by the same folks who made The Triplets of Belleville, (which is one of the most enchanting animated films ever made if you haven't yet seen it).  Both these film are the epitome of French enchanted melancholy I adore.

[greenkoolayd]

I just saw"the Illusionist" which was wonderful.  It's made by the same folks who made The Triplets of Belleville, (which is one of the most enchanting animated films ever made if you haven't yet seen it).  Both these film are the epitome of French enchanted melancholy I adore.

that is a preview for the movie "source code".....