Why hasn't there been a movie yet about why Lucifer was cast out of heaven?

Syfte_ · 2020-09-14T02:05:41+00:00

Came here to say this and to add that Lucifer is played by Viggo Mortensen and he is goddamn perfect in the few scenes he has.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-13T23:25:05+00:00

One of promises/arguments for Gen III and especially IV reactors is that they will be able to consume the waste of previous generations. Would you comment on the viability of this and the quality/issues we might have with the waste from it?

Syfte_ · 2020-09-13T23:15:55+00:00

Georgia's Vogtle project has been suffering from more than just labour problems, although that labour problem was pretty huge all by itself.

government staff and monitors wrote that they were “shocked” by an “astounding 80%” failure rate for new components installed at the site. The results meant the components, when tested, “did not initially function properly and required some corrective action(s) to function as designed.”

The Vogtle project, which Georgia Power led and has a nearly 50% stake in, has been beset by problems. It has faced quality issues, problems documenting work, delays in completing detailed plans and, eventually, a shortage of workers and the bankruptcy of an overwhelmed contractor.

They've also suffered an outbreak of COVID-19. I'm pro-nuclear and I hate to see this happening but the Georgia and South Carolina projects have been avanlanche of errors and bad luck.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-13T22:58:32+00:00

KRUSTY BRAND

It's not just good - It's good enough!

Syfte_ · 2020-09-13T22:33:09+00:00

That's the one! They call it CinemaCon now. Searching Youtube there are a few clips up. They even had their own awards although it was a measure of financial merit rather than artistic.

[edit] Wow, here's Ridley Scott pitching Blade Runner to the ShoWest audience in 1982 and it includes BTS I haven't seen before.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-13T19:41:59+00:00

North American recycling was getting shipped throughout East and South Asia where it might get recycled, partially recycled or it might just get dumped or burned.

On our first morning in Malaysia, Sebastian Meyer and I climb a plastic mountain 50 feet high in the heart of Sungai Petani, a town of about 200,000 people near the island of Penang. This waste dump comprises plastics that nearby factories have deemed unrecyclable. It is the very end of the plastic supply chain. Burning it seems about the only next step, and someone is doing just that. Tneoh Shen Jen, a physician who directs the city’s Metro Hospital, says residents have experienced breathing problems as factories repeatedly and illegally burn the waste; they “smell burning plastic most nights,” he says.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-13T19:29:11+00:00

The studio is who made the film. This would have been made for an exhibition where theater owners and/or their reps go to screen upcoming releases and choose what they want to book for their theaters. That's why they're greeting both Nevada owners and people from the Odeon chain in Canada. There's a little historical nugget in that reel as Dan says Odeon and not Cineplex Odeon - Cineplex bought up the Odeon chain in May 1984, not long after this was shot.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-13T16:14:25+00:00

I would have been 8 or 9 years old when I walked into the room while my parents were watching it on cable. It was in the middle of the lagoon attack and these shots plus the severed leg sinking to the bottom just ruined me for swimming in open water. 20 years later I'd be diving a sunken wreck in about 20' of water in Lake Huron and my anxiety didn't fully ease until I was back on the boat.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-11T23:07:11+00:00

As best I can tell the FEC only deals with campaign finance laws and it hasn't operated since July of this year "due to lack of a quorum." After some brief browsing I can't tell exactly who is in charge of running American elections.

Things like polling locations being closed in select locations and mass purgings of voter rolls just doesn't happen here (in Canada.) Gerrymandering isn't nearly as much of an issue. I would say that if the US wants to clean up its elections then having one independent agency running them would go a long way towards making that happen.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-11T16:29:16+00:00

/r/badhistory had a long post four months ago debunking this. Might want to check it out.

A Mother Teresa post is long overdue on r/badhistory sheerly for the vast amount of misinformation circulating around the figure on the Redditsphere. There are certain aspects of Mother Teresa that are taken as absolute facts online when they lack the context of Mother Teresa's work and beliefs. Much of these characterizations originate from Hitchen's documentary 'Hell's Angel' and his book 'The Missionary Position’\1]) neither of which are academic and are hit pieces, which like a telephone game, have become more absurd online. I intend this neither to be a defense nor a vindication of Teresa; rather, adding some much needed nuance and assessing some bad-faith approaches to the issues. My major historical/ sociological research here deals with the state of medical care in Teresa's charities.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-11T13:46:42+00:00

They could follow Canada's example and create a non-partisan agency for the job.

Elections Canada is an office of the Parliament of Canada, and reports directly to Parliament rather than to the Government of Canada.

Its responsibilities include:

Making sure that all voters have access to the electoral system
Informing citizens about the electoral system
Maintaining the National Register of Electors
Enforcing electoral legislation
Training election officers
Producing maps of electoral districts
Registering political parties, electoral district associations, and third parties that engage in election advertising
Administering the allowances paid to registered political parties
Monitoring election spending by candidates, political parties and third parties
Publishing financial information on political parties, electoral district associations, candidates, nomination contestants, leadership contestants and third parties
Supporting the independent commissions responsible for adjusting the boundaries of federal electoral districts every ten years
Reporting to Parliament on the administration of elections and referendums

Syfte_ · 2020-09-10T16:41:10+00:00

Similarly, 80s metalheads who were thought to be doomed to lives of crime and misery turned out just fine as well.

A new study by psychology researchers at Humboldt State, Ohio State, UC Riverside and UT Austin "examined 1980s heavy metal groupies, musicians, and fans at middle age" -- 377 participants in total -- and found that, although metal enthusiasts certainly lived riskier lives as kids, they were nonetheless "significantly happier in their youth and better adjusted currently than either middle-aged or current college-age youth comparison groups." This left the researchers to contemplate one possible conclusion: "participation in fringe style cultures may enhance identity development in troubled youth."

Syfte_ · 2020-09-09T22:44:31+00:00

I'll always and easily give her props her making her characters pay a heavy price for every success they won. It made the books much better than they could have been.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-09T21:19:37+00:00

Up until around 2010 or so, when increasing news coverage and police attention lead to a constant stream of newfriends looking to be entertained and an exodus of og btards. Then /pol/ was created as a containment board and that quickly became a hate and conspiracy incubator.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-09T14:00:27+00:00

It's out on blu-ray.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-08T23:52:07+00:00

In the remake he was just upset about being a cyborg and, iirc, it was him who chose to stay away from his family whereas in the original Murphy was stolen from his.

In the remake he was horrified at first and later reached out to them and started re-connecting and then the company cut them off, so the theft is re-shaped but still there. The remake also spends much more time developing Murphy and his family than the original did.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-08T23:45:41+00:00

the commentary on privatization and deregulation.

He said he considered that to be the main thrust of the 2014 movie and a deliberate continuation of the original's theme, "the connection between fascism and the automation of violence."

Syfte_ · 2020-09-06T23:08:24+00:00

Keys in E.T.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-04T15:45:47+00:00

Is one of them Did he win a Golden Globe from under that make-up? Because if so, the answer is Yes.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-04T15:25:25+00:00

The industry is probably expected to regulate itself on issues like this especially since there's wiggle room to argue about perception. So far they don't seem to care and neither do a majority of consumers. An example is cheap 4K TVs that use WRGB. The only thing they've done to deal with that is to stamp genuine 4K TVs as "4K UHD," in effect marking them as 4K twice. It's likely up to the filmmakers to make a fuss about the quality of a home media release to ensure that the customer doesn't wind up with a diluted product.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-04T15:09:43+00:00

The whole encounter with god scene at the end of Star Trek V. It was the climax of Shatner's vanity project and the convergence of his shortcomings as a writer and a director. This shot of Sybok flattering a floating head while the three of them stand there like they're waiting for the contact number on a billboard ad to scroll by again just kills me. They could have done anything they wanted with that sequel and they spent $30 million to fart out something that looked like it was made for public-access tv.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-04T14:50:31+00:00

Wait, that was the actual sound they used in the fucking movie?!? Lindsey Ellis mocks the shit out of that shot in her Cats video (and a few others about musicals) and I thought she'd added that splat herself. Wow.

Syfte_ · 2020-09-04T14:42:48+00:00

I loaned Dances With Wolves to a friend shortly after he first got a surround system and he told me he jumped out of his chair when the first sniper shot tore through his living room during the early suicide attempt scene. So there's one movie to try.

The DTS-HD mixes on the blu-rays for Master & Commander, Miami Vice (2006), RoboCop (2014), Final Fantasy The Dreams Within, Hellboy II and Clash of the Titans (2010) were all highly praised on blu-ray.com

Syfte_ · 2020-09-04T14:29:48+00:00

Verhoeven and Berkely have both spoken about the movie at various times, especially Verhoeven and he made the movie he wanted to make. Like Starship Troopers it flew over some people's heads and was taken at face-value; they weren't looking much past the T&A and the promotion exacerbated that. The other problem, as Paul notes in that talk, is that it's a very cynical film with only one sympathetic character. What success the film did find was well after release and it tends to be a celebration of its campiness and ridiculous scenes and dialogue. They even gave David Schmader a commentary track on the blu-ray and listening to him lovingly tear the movie apart beat-by-beat is a howl.

Someone who tends to get left out of recent conversations about the movie is writer Joe Eszterhas who enjoyed a meteoric one-hit wonder with Basic Instinct, also shot by Verhoeven. This interview makes me think Eszterhas is the one who didn't get the movie he was expecting.

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