Back in the saddle again.
I saw the movie "Sin City" tonight. Let me preface the following comments by saying that this is not a movie I am recommending to everyone. Did you hate Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs? A Clockwork Orange? Starship Troopers? Don't see this movie. Mom, if this movie was actually a meal you were sitting down to it would be a bloody slab of steak next to a pile of bacon with a pitcher of beer to wash it all down. Not your bag of chips. That said...
Sin City is one of the coolest movies you will ever see. Is it violent? See the above movies, and put them all together. Is it gory? Remember the stomach-turning brain-sucking bug from Starship Troopers? Yeah, it's that bad (good). Are most of the female leads scantily clad throughout? Like it was 1973. Even the mom from Spy Kids shows up in the buff. Is there some sort of moral or message? Hell no. As far as I can tell, the only message is "Be glad you don't live in our town."
Remember in Pulp Fiction when every character you meet is just plain cool...so cool that you know this is a movie because there aren't that many cool people in the world? You meet Travolta and Sam Jackson, and they're spouting old testament fire and brimstone as they blow away their victims. You think, whoa, those guys are cool. Then you meet Bruce Willis, and damn, he's cool too. And then you meet Harvey Keitel, and he's so cool he makes everybody else look like an umbrella-in-your-pink-lemonade-loving nancy. This movie takes that to the next level. Every character is a warrior, with maybe one notable exception. They all chew asphalt for breakfast. They're just plain cool but you wouldn't want to hang out with a single one of them.
But this movie is about the visuals. And they are perfect, brilliant, and indescribable. This is what digital filmmaking is all about. What a movie. Highly recommended.
I'll be going to the Braves game on Sunday...as far as I can tell, it will be John Smoltz's first start in Atlanta in years, assuming the rotation holds up for the first week. Opening day for the Braves tomorrow in Florida...4 p.m. on TBS.
posted by Bob Howard @ 2:25 AM
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Another recommended movie: Hero, produced by the director of all those cool guys in Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarentino. Best cinematography and swordplay I've ever seen, exceptional acting and a wonderful plot. No flies on this one.
Okay, so what possible good can come of watching such violence and evil? How is that entertainment anyway? Sorry, but I just don't get it.
And, my darling son, in my heyday (yup, I actually had a heyday), that pitcher of beer would have gone down just fine. :)
love,
mom
10-16-7-2-3-9-1-1 was getting really old, Bob. :o)
I agree with your Mum, too--since I'm on this page--about the movies. And the beer. As for the heyday--I think I'm in it now. <><
...and I wanted to test links.
H2O Artist Agency
...it works!!
What you do is this:
[left arrow] (but really type a left arrow, of course)
a HREF = "http://www.websitelinkblah.com"
[right arrow]
actual words that appear underlined
[left arrow]
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Divine Timelessness and Necessary Existence
Brian Leftow argues that if God is temporal, He is essentially temporal; and that since He is a necessary being, time therefore exists necessarily, but that since time is in fact contingent, God is therefore atemporal. Leftow's arguments for time's contingency are, however, ineffective against the Newtonian, who holds that time and space are emanative effects of God's being. An untenable reductionism vitiates Leftow's claim that God cannot be temporal, yet non-spatial. Leftow's argument that God cannot be contingently temporal is undermined by the coherence of suggested scenarios illustrating such a state of affairs.
If this makes sense to you, go to
Philosophy Guy, Dr William Lane Craig
I think you'll enjoy it!
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I'm not one for gory movies and such... but Sin City did rock. I saw it with Gary and Bethany, and we all agreed the violence was over the top, but awesomely made.
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