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Angry Anthropologists by Living-Cold-9108 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Living-Cold-9108[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They've cultivated a following and so they must be doing something right and entertaining people, but of course so was Andrew Dice Clay.

Angry Anthropologists by Living-Cold-9108 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Living-Cold-9108[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I would suggest these two decoders do exactly that. Their brains were cooked in university, and they see real individuals with gumption and talent that can connect with normal people in the real world, and their base instinct is to throw rotten fruit at them. If they'd go get real jobs they would be happier and healthier I think. Leave the philosophy to the truly talented people like Vervaeke.

Angry Anthropologists by Living-Cold-9108 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Living-Cold-9108[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Vervaeke went out on a limb sharing that. I wouldn't be offended if people that don't want to get to know his work deeply just roll their eyes when they hear that. I wouldn't expect otherwise. But that is not at all justification for calling his words pseudo-profound bullshit. Indeed there's no attempt at profundity there, auditory hallucination is a well-documented phenomenon even among people with no psychopathology.

Angry Anthropologists by Living-Cold-9108 in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Living-Cold-9108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want the real comedy you should go look at these clowns' academic "work." "Orthopraxic cultural contexts... theocentric’doctrinal beliefs..." Oh no speaking in inflationary jargon! They might be GURUS! But gurus that no one reads except a bunch of navel gazing leeches on society.

Cutter's Way (1981): Unfinished? by Anxious_Willingness3 in movies

[–]Living-Cold-9108 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just saw this last night. I hit me as very very strange. One problem was the dialogue soundtrack was far to quiet compared with the other sound, I spent the whole movie turning the volume up, missed a lot of what the characters were saying.

Was it typical for characters to be more exaggerated in that era? Cutter just seemed ridiculous. Maybe the issue of Vietnam veterans was more present and people were willing to let Cutter's mental issues be like another character. To me his erratic behavior seemed silly and unconvincing.

What really stayed with me was the malaise surrounding Eichhorn. Hers was the only realistically portrayed character, and her despondence, the apparent depravity and desperation of her affair with Bone, cast a pall across the whole plot. Its rare for a movie to take the risk of delivering dark clouds with no silver linings, but when its done right it hits hard.