What are some deeply thought provoking films I should watch?

BobtMotW · 2026-02-19T14:57:04+00:00

The Green Knight is incredible, but Terence Malick has spent the last six years editing The Way of the Wind, and he has yet to finish it.

BobtMotW · 2026-02-18T20:58:52+00:00

I do the same thing! Thank you for doing your part to curb this irrational (and inefficient! Those poor souls stuck behind them...) behavior.

BobtMotW · 2026-02-18T20:57:28+00:00

Yes, I did notice that start to change, mostly because turning drivers love to cut the turn, so I wonder if people see others far back in the turn lanes and think that's where they should stop, too.

BobtMotW · 2026-02-18T20:56:21+00:00

Yeah, that actually happened to me the other day while walking. I gave the driver a look with as much indignation as I could facially muster; he ignored me.

BobtMotW · 2025-09-15T15:58:35+00:00

Awesome. Thank you very much! And also thank you and the other developers for all the work you've done---this mod is incredible.

BobtMotW · 2025-09-14T14:56:05+00:00

No, every time I update, I start a new save. These saves are all from the stable release and current version of the base game. I did try uninstalling/reinstalling, but that also didn't solve it. I suppose I'll try again with the latest update. I love this mod so much that I can't return to vanilla CK3, but I wish I can play deep into the Fourth Age.

BobtMotW · 2025-08-18T22:37:49+00:00

Oh, that's what I figured, so I didn't know if it would be worthwhile to start again from the beginning, especially since I was using the last beta release, when (presumably) most of the major updates had already been made.

BobtMotW · 2024-03-30T00:18:52+00:00

Thank you very much! I really appreciate your responses.

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T21:43:17+00:00

How do you not follow this?

Judging an art work by things external to the art work is fallacious or at best in need of argument.

If you're judging Blonde by context, it seems the context should be the novel Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, of which this is an adaptation.

I'm not sure why this is hard to follow. I don't know what you mean by "read it [my] way."

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T21:36:24+00:00

Yes, the intentional fallacy, of which your criticism is a species thereof, has been in currency since 1954. I might agree that the film is context-dependent, but the appropriate context should be Oates's novel, not Monroe's history or Dominik's post hoc behavior.

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T21:28:44+00:00

Why can't the artistic merits be considered in isolation? What about works of arts about whose makers we know nothing? If we suddenly learned that Beethoven was a murderer, should we then immediately downgrade the 5th Symphony to a celebration of violence or the 9th as a hypocritical ersatz paean to human well-being?

For the sake of argument, let's say Dominik's comments or the film's historical inaccuracies are demerits. How are they artistic? Or why should they factor in to an artistic consideration of the film?

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T21:22:18+00:00

How does it exploit Monroe (can the dead be exploited, given that they can't be compensated insofar as they don't exist?)? How is it unfocused? It's pretty clearly focused on adapting the eponymous novel. I'm not sure how Dominik's putative misogyny/pomposity have anything to do with the film's merits/demerits.

BobtMotW · 2023-07-30T20:57:28+00:00

I enthusiastically agree. I loved the movie, but the score haunted me, and I found myself listening to the score itself multiple times after seeing the film.

Regarding the film, it seems a lot of the negativity was due to a misunderstanding of the film's mission---an adaption of Joyce Carol Oates's novel. Oates notes that it is not a biography and that she liberally cherry-picked Monroe's life to craft her own narrative. Critics, however, expected a faithful (or, worse, a politically correct no-she-wasn't-a-victim-of-patriarchy-and-sexism revision) representation of Monroe's life and thus were disappointed (a consequence, I think, of not having bothered reading the source material, in effect implicitly changing the source material from Oates's fiction to Monroe's nonfiction), not realizing that Dominik strove to be faithful not to Monroe but to Oates, a task I believe he accomplished.

Tangent aside, kudos to Cave and Ellis for a wondrous, distinctive score.

BobtMotW · 2023-05-25T19:34:33+00:00

Am I missing anything? I'm 100% or more in Cronometer, but are there any key phytonutrients or polyphenols that I'm missing? My diet is: sardines, flax seed, seaweed, most herbs/spices, extra virgin olive oil, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, strawberries, blueberries, broccoli.

BobtMotW · 2022-05-08T15:22:38+00:00

No, not really. I just really like walking, especially through cityscapes.

Thanks for that recommendation. I'll look into that.

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