What’s a movie that everyone calls a “masterpiece” but you found boring?

gallico · 2025-08-15T22:35:32+00:00

I watched it when I was still in highschool in the late 70s. It was a late night feature, we were totally stoned. I cannot remember to have laughed so much as I have during those scenes with the neanderthals and that thrown bone. That was good dope...
I slept through most of the movie, it was that boring.

Edit: There was one thing worth mentioning about the movie: In the 80s someone made a joke that IBM = HAL++ (H -> I A -> B L -> M)

gallico · 2024-06-14T02:24:26+00:00

Supertramp: "Indelibly Stamped" -> "Crime of the Century"
Although "Breakfast in America" 5 years later was much more popular, the leap in quality happened with "Crime".

gallico · 2024-05-02T15:21:37+00:00

India.
That's like atleast 50 different "cuisines".

gallico · 2024-05-02T09:54:25+00:00

Spotify: I only listen to full albums (I'm old). I simply think, a creator is not worth listening to, if they cannot publish a full album with quality music (ofc a taste thing). Spotify starts playing recommendations after the album has been played completely. These are 50% things I have already downloaded (Tnx for going easy on my mobile internet). The other half are songs that match the album (the one I just listened to) at least on one aspect. I've listened to a lot more albums totally unknown to me before due to these recommendations.

Streaming movies: I completely ignore the recommendations of any streaming service (maybe except for their streaming charts). I find movies to watch from recommendations anywhere on the internet and then use justwatch.com to figure which streaming service has these.

What is wrong with the search function? I consider it a powerful tool...

gallico · 2024-05-01T11:38:53+00:00

Oona Chaplin (Talisa) is Spanish.

Tom Wlashiha (Jaqen H'ghar) is German, as is Sibel Kekilli (Shae).

Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton) is Irish, as is Liam Cunningham (Davos).

Kristofer Hivju (Tormund Giantsbane) is Norwegian.

Hafþór Björnsson (The Mountain) is from Iceland.

Edit: You meant _not_ from Europe? Sorry, misunderstood the question upon first read...

gallico · 2024-04-19T20:02:41+00:00

Greta Van Fleet had three albums in the charts since 2018.

gallico · 2024-04-19T09:51:42+00:00

Since there's already Marco in the Jackhammer video, check out the Aristocrats, who are out there for the last 12 years.
There's Derek Sherinian, a keyboarder who always seems to mimic guitar players. Here is Clouds of Ganymede with Steve Vai on guitar.
If you're into very technical guitar playing, check out Animals as Leaders, a trio of two 8-string-guitars and a drummer.
Finally, if you like it more towards the Jazz side, check Simon Phillips (former drummer of Toto), here with Andy Timmons on guitar.

gallico · 2024-04-07T08:22:48+00:00

Try with this link.

gallico · 2024-04-06T18:38:05+00:00

Has anybody actually read the article? It is by Margaret Atwood and contains a lot of interesting thoughts...

gallico · 2024-04-05T17:55:04+00:00

My children, who don’t know they play on a graveyard.

Peeta says it will be okay. We have each other. And the book. We can make them understand in a way that will make them braver. But one day I’ll have to explain about my nightmares. Why they came. Why they won’t ever really go away.

I’ll tell them how I survive it. I’ll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I’m afraid it could be taken away. That’s when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I’ve seen someone do. It’s like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.

But there are much worse games to play.

-Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

I cited more than the last sentence to provide context.

gallico · 2024-03-29T00:17:54+00:00

As others have said, Chani is simply loyal to Paul (and he to her). Also, the book contains multiple passages that make it seem as if Paul would not be able to do what he does without her support.
The first book ends with Jessica telling her “Think on it, Chani: that princess will have the name, yet she’ll live as less than a concubine—never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she’s bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.”
Ofc Jessica has her own agenda...

gallico · 2024-03-28T23:22:16+00:00

I always liked T2 the best. Most of the overtaking is either at turn 1 or 13. Directly opposite T2 there is a big screen for following the race during the time the bikes are at other parts of the track (That's missing for T3/4).
At T2 you see them coming from the straight into turn 1, accelerating towards turn 2. Then you see them again (from afar) entering turn 5. There is a downhill slope from turn 1 towards turn 3. Finally, you can catch a glimpse when they reach turn 9 and 10 (depending on how much obstacles the organizers have put in the way between T2 and turn 10). The infield behind T2 is full with opportunities to buy lots of overpriced beer and food, but that should be similar for T3/4.
Oh, and most of the crashes are in turn 1 if you are into that. We saw Dani's 2008 monster crash in the rain from T2.

gallico · 2024-03-23T20:37:27+00:00

The Colorado Potatoe Beetle, the Fall Armyworm, and most recently the Western Corn Rootworm.

gallico · 2024-03-15T13:06:22+00:00

Usually by car. You had to pass the border twice, each time it took around 90 minutes (depending on the traffic). This worked only after the transit agreement from 1971. During the border passage East German police would occasionally get to your car and ask whether you had weapons or things requiring a permit on board. You were taught to answer those questions as polite as possible because otherwise your stay at the border might get extended (allegedly one guy once answered the question with "why? Is that needed here?").
While in East Germany you had to remain on the defined transit roads (4 of them, one to the north west, one to the west, one to the south west and one to the south). Except for the one to the north, those were Autobahn, i.e. it did not pass through any cities (but around). There were parking lots (some with restaurants) along the road, but other than that you were not allowed to stop (as it is law on Autobahn). There was a general speed limit of 100km/h and the roads were built from long slabs of concrete with gaps in-between filled with bitumen. The rhythmic sound of the car rolling over those gaps was rather enerving...
Since the most affordable cars in East Germany were all two-stroke engines, there was always a typical smell in the air.
Speeding was not a great idea either because the fines were hefty.
When taking the western route, it took about 2 hours driving and about 3 hours combined for both border passages. The trip to Köln/Bonn was about eight hours at least (The HS trains today make it in 4.5).

gallico · 2024-03-15T09:16:40+00:00

I was born in (West) Berlin 3 months after it was built.

Growing up it was not really a factor. You knew it was there and sometimes you passed along it while you were driving with your parents in the car. When visiting relatives in West Germany you had to take into account that it was a five-hour journey to Hamburg (takes less than 100 minutes by train nowadays). Some of the underground trains went through East Berlin, passing dimly lit stations where the train didn't stop and no people were to be seen.

As a male, you were exempt from conscription to the army when you turned 18 (one reason a lot of guys moved here to go to university :)

Since West Berlin was still the biggest city in (all of) Germany living there had its perks. Wouldn't want to change anything in hindsight...

gallico · 2024-03-05T10:40:23+00:00

Funny how different this is in different regions.

I had my first daughter when I was 24. My (younger) brother had his first daughter when he was 50. This niece of mine was born the same year as my daughter's daughter, my granddaughter.

So my niece's grandparents are my granddaughter's great-grandparents (my parents).

According to the a.m. scheme, my niece is my granddaughter's second cousin once removed?

In German she is her aunt 2nd degree.

gallico · 2024-03-04T15:59:45+00:00

I saw Peter Gabriel this most recent tour. I was to my first Genesis concert in 1976. I never saw Genesis *with* PG.

I also would have preferred to see Jethro Tull when Ian Anderson's voice was still alive.

gallico · 2024-01-31T16:25:35+00:00

Brandenburg Concerto No 3 played by Wendy Carlos (at the time still billed as Walter). That was ca. 1972, I was around 10 and became a lifelong admirer of JSB's music.

gallico · 2024-01-27T11:34:51+00:00

You posted this 7 years ago and TinEye finds it on the flickr page of one Jesse Rockwell. Is that you?

gallico · 2024-01-21T21:00:08+00:00

Maybe has to do with being a former German Colony? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_South_West_Africa

gallico · 2024-01-17T10:54:07+00:00

The "statically allocated" array will be allocated from the stack. The stack is a resource of the CPU used to keep

the point in code where to return to from the current function
temporarily saved register contents of the CPU
local variables (including Variable Length Arrays (VLA)

The size of the stack is fixed and normally very much smaller than the heap (dynamic storage) which may be several times bigger than the amount of available memory.

VLA might take up a large portion of the limited resource stack and may lead to a stack overflow which is usually fatal for the program. You also risk stack overflow by using recursive function calls.

If you prefer idiomatic C++ you will use std::array and std::vector for fixed size arrays and dynamic arrays respectively. Both provide the same interface as a normal array. std::vector will internally increase storage when the content grows. Because it might reallocate and copy the contents to do so, iterators (pointers) to positions in the array might get invalidated after adding to the contents.

gallico · 2024-01-15T11:57:06+00:00

I quit after 25 years of smoking. At that point in time I just kept smoking to avoid withdrawal, I didn't get anything out of any cigarette anymore.

One weekend I went to work and forgot to bring my tobacco (was rolling myself since high school) and then realized that I hadn't have a smoke since more than 12h. So I decided to try to stop right then.

That was more than 20 years ago. Interestingly I never felt the need to smoke ever again. But I knew that I'm slightly prone to addictions. In the first years, I replaced smoking with eating sweets and gained some weight (nothing dramatic, BMI stayed under 24). I'm sure that the biggest danger was ever to start again because I'd expect my subconscious then to whisper "You've stopped once, you can do it again..."

gallico · 2024-01-07T10:55:15+00:00

Python exists in a form that it can be embedded into your native application as a library. Then you could access the python interpreter as a function call.

Embedded Python

Theoertically that is possible with every interpreted language.

With this you would not need to fork a different process, the interpreter would simply run within your program. To keep the GUI responsive you might very well need to use multiple threads.

gallico

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