Zampanó
Luckily I'm only ignoring a 4-5 page assignment, and I've got 5 hours between classes tomorrow to do it.But the point remains, i'm a [b]lazy f
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Originally posted by ZampanóSleep deprivation. Duh.
It's also ridiculous how fragile the human circadian rhythm is.For example, I'm reading a thread about why Orson Scott Card is an asshat who wrote an apologia for Hitler in an attempt to smuggle moral absolutism back into science fiction instead of sleeping. What is wrong with me?
Spielberg Throws Lucas Under the Bus for Indy 4:
Good friends are good wingmen. If someone want to flirt with a girl in a bar, it's his best friend's role to chat up the girl's friend; even if it means taking a chubby, a good friend will suck it up. Now, in this case, the friends are Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and the chubby is the script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Spielberg admitted in an interview with Empire magazine:
"I'm very happy with the movie. I always have been ... I sympathise with people who didn't like the MacGuffin because I never liked the MacGuffin. George and I had big arguments about the MacGuffin. I didn't want these things to be either aliens or inter-dimensional beings. But I am loyal to my best friend. When he writes a story he believes in--even if I don't believe in it--I'm going to shoot the movie the way George envisaged it. I'll add my own touches, I'll bring my own cast in, I'll shoot the way I want to shoot it, but I will always defer to George as the storyteller of the Indy series. I will never fight him on that."
While it's kind of admirable that he's standing so firmly by Lucas, it's also kind of shitty. Not because he's assigning Lucas the blame (although that, too) -- I thought the whole point of waiting 20 years after Last Crusade is because Spielberg, Lucas and Harrison Ford couldn't agree on a good script. So suddenly Spielberg decided to make a piece of crap just because his BFF wrote it? ****, I'd have gladly waited another 5-10 years if it meant no Shia the Beef, King of the Monkeys. Or if Spielberg was so content to make a piece of shit Indy flick, why did he wait until 2010? Why not do it in '95 and get it out of the away so other, better Indiana Jones movies might be made afterwards? Oh well. At least Spielberg's honest about his contribution to Crystal Skull's shittiness:
"What people really jumped at was Indy climbing into a refrigerator and getting blown into the sky by an atom-bomb blast. Blame me. Don't blame George. That was my silly idea. People stopped saying 'jump the shark.' They now say, 'nuked the fridge.' I'm proud of that. I'm glad I was able to bring that into popular culture."
Ha ha! It's funny because he wrote one of the dumbest scenes in entertainment history which was so wretched it entered the popular lexicon as a metaphor for something being totally irrevocably ruined by pure stupidity! He's right to be proud.
From Topless Robot. Which still doesn't letr me link to them so wtevr.
Was never gna work. Harrison was just too old, so the entire idea of this movie was stupid.. Once the whole concept is stupid, adding dumb scenes just follows..
They should have done Indy 5 back in the 90's. Its not like Lucas was doing anything before the Prequels.. And the young Indy show was a waste of time.
Maybe they'll dub in a NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO when Maul gets bisected.
In what way was it better than The Prestige?
Inception had a great premise, where it followed up on the execution of the premise it was highly compelling, and the backstory regarding Cobb and Mal truly detailed a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions. The problem is that the genuinely good aspects of Inception were completely overshadowed by the bad, which is that Inception was ultimately a very action heavy film that was almost entirely devoid of heart, charm, and emotional depth. Aside from Cobb and Mal the characters received little development and were largely unlikable, the cinematography and the action scenes were entirely unremarkable, and aspects of the setting and the mechanisms of the setting were poorly/inadequately explained and left overly ambiguous, and while I'm not currently perfectly familiar with the details of the logic the film operated under I believe that a number of insightful reviews and analyses happen to explain how elements of the setting fail to coherently fit into a complex whole, and that there are numerous inconsistencies and contradictions in its design.
The Prestige was by far the more complex and original film, had genuine emotional depth, and the pacing of the film placed an emphasis on the very subject matter that made the film so very compelling and unique, by taking the audience on a thrilling journey that was used entirely to uncover the mysteries behind the plot and understand the characters. Inception doesn't even come close.
Originally posted by Eminence
Last night I wrote the first draft of a four thousand word research paper on evolutionary immunology in under five hours, and I am boss.Spoiler:
It speaks poorly of me that I waited until last night to start writing because I've had had four weeks to do it, and this motivational demon needs to be quashed. Nai, Janus or other individuals who may have suffered and subsequently conquered dangerous procrastinative tendencies: what did you do?
The hardest part is just starting over and keeping at it.
Sometimes allotting a specific time to write per day or every two days gets your body into it. Also, exercise prior to creative writing really helps.
If that fails, drink.