Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
I’d like to buy about 5 of these and put them somewhere remote.
The Canon EOS Digital Rebel (300D) Firmware Hack
I’ll never need this.
P R I M E R M O V I E
must see?
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so. steven and i watched primer last night.
i understand it was this filmmaker’s first movie. and for a first, it is very good. you can tell that he wanted to use a bunch of sweet shots in certain places, i guess that can be good or bad… i got a tad lost in a couple of parts, steven commented in the beginning “so do i have to be an engineer to understand this?” but that passes quickly… it was a good plot building to a climax sort of movie, with an interesting ending.
not the best movie ever. but a good one to see. and it’s short (i think about an hour 15?)
i’m still interested. have you figured it out yet? i get the impression that it’s a mind-bender. makes memento look like a child’s story, i think is what i heard.
i think i got about half of it understood, partially due to content and partially to audio mixing; the voices sometimes get lost in the music and they all talk crazy fast, sometimes four of them at the same time.
overall great story and acting, definitely a perfect example of how sci-fi can be great without ANY special effects (that i can recall).
my biggest complaint is the ridiculous editing, i felt like i was watching the coldplay live dvd; one scene of two guys talking while pumping gas for some reason required roughly SIX different camera angles. and we’re talkin’ about a 20 second scene here. it’s cool in places, but really distracting if there’s important dialogue (something he would have learned in film school, hopefully); the kind of visual you would need if trying to conceal a weak plot, which certainly isn’t an issue here.
but yeah, killer first film, definitely worth a rent.
last night kate and i were discussing the worth of seemingly frivolous items taking up mind-space. as in is it really worth watching a hard to figure out movie if you’re just going to spend the next few days trying to understand it when in reality you have more important things to focus on.
i eventually came to the conclusion that stories and problems such as these do serve a purpose: digesting a complex story that has a definitive solution could serve to sharpen the mind in ways that complex realities that may not have an absolute solution cannot.
i wonder if the choppy editing may have been an attempt at style?
i don’t think i have seen memento… have i, steven?
yes. i don’t choose to remember movies i have seen anymore, i let steven do that for me. he seems to enjoy it. or at least does a better job of it than i
yeah, the acting was quite decent i thought as well.
still haven’t completely figured out the ending though. i think i just need to watch the last 20 minutes or so again.
not only have you seen memento more than once, we own it.
it’s a shame, i have not seen it. er… maybe not a shame. it had carrie anne moss in it, no? ok, yeah, it did. so forget the shame thing, it’s more of a blessing.
you aren’t a fan of carrie anne moss? or i guess i never knew you didn’t like her at all, i don’t expect you to have a wallpaper of her or anything, but… hhmmmm….
two words: Red Planet… and also she was in those horrid matrix movies. Horrid? you ask. The first one, eh, it was ok. The other two? I know, I probably shouldn’t judge an actor/actress by the quality of the movies they’re in. But if you’re consistently in bad movies, what does that say about you or your agent?
It could be argued that every movie she’s been in hasn’t been all that bad. So I guess it’s just the four I’ve seen. Here’s the plot of “Mini’s First Time,” a movie she’s in that’s coming soon: A rebellious girl (Reed) hooks up with an escort agency where her father (Alec Baldwin) is a client. Laff a minute. And it’s got a Baldwin. That’s like fifteen strikes. Nearly two innings. Wasted.
yeah. true that. you say some good things.
COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC
thanks for the xampp
i’ll never separately compile or install ever again.
thank you mark. you bugger you.
i watched napoleon dynamite last night.
Napoleon Dynamite, yet another awesome low-budget movie. In a different vein than Primer, of course, but still relevant.
you bugger you… funny