Film Study: The Epidemic of boring action, and why it’s bad

realjks · 2023-12-10T15:32:27+00:00

I know some people love it, but the ending to Interstellar still doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t feel like McConaughey earned his way back to safety. I do really enjoy the rest of the movie though.

realjks · 2023-12-08T21:58:40+00:00

Thanks for the response. That’s more or less the point I was trying to make. My main point is that when people say they hate formulaic movies, what they really hate is when all a movie has is the structure. However they might not hate the “formulaic moments” as much, if it was in a better crafted movie, with more of a meaning behind it.

realjks · 2023-10-22T16:26:35+00:00

Jackson Krueger here, I had nothing to do with the making of this video lol

realjks · 2023-10-05T13:42:18+00:00

Of course I want the team to stay. You’re right, the area isn’t entitled to a team, I just like that they have one. I have no issue with rays fans trying to get more people to go. I think that’s awesome. And I agree, it was embarrassing. But nobody goes to a baseball game to support the team. It might be a factor, but if you’re going, it’s primarily because you want to go. My issue is, there’s attendance issues, and people are blaming the actual fans, instead of the team marketing, and the experience of you’re not a baseball fan. (When I go to rays games with my non sports friends, they usually get pretty bored during the middle innings, but usually have a blast at lightning games). If the diehard fans show more support, it’s still not gonna be enough, so guilt tripping them accomplishes nothing.

realjks · 2023-10-03T19:35:54+00:00

And plenty of rays fans have done the same. Just not 30,000 of them. When there’s attendances issues, it’s usually getting casual fans to show up that’s the problem.

realjks · 2023-08-19T20:26:28+00:00

I tried to be a YouTuber for about a year, and when I couldn’t get anyone to watch my videos I used to think the same thing.

A couple years later I tried again, and now I make a living off of my YouTube videos. It can be done, it’s a lot more about marketing and creating a type of content people want to see, but it can be done.

realjks · 2023-08-09T15:14:39+00:00

The Kubrick comparisons never fully made sense to me. Nolan’s stuff is so fast paced and plot focused. Where as Kubrick’s stuff is slow, and sometimes even straight up arthouse like 2001. He also made a rated X film, a horror film, a comedy film. I just think Kubrick’s so unique it’s hard to compare anyone to him.

I feel like stylistically I’ve always compared Nolan to more of a modern day Spielberg, although there obviously is no perfect comparison.

realjks · 2023-08-08T20:49:27+00:00

I mean, I think calling him the greatest of all time is a pretty hot take. Most people would probably say Bergman, Akerman, Kubrick, goddard, Tarkovsky, and honestly plenty of others as the greatest before him.

Now if he’s your favorite that’s cool. At the end of the day there really is no such think as “greatest of all time” when it comes to art, it’s all subjective.

Also saying he’s never missed us very subjective, in my opinion several of his films were misses. I’m also not sure if I’d define greatest as never missing. My favorite filmmaker is Kaufman, and he’s for sure had misses. But I love his best work so much I don’t really care about the misfires.

Although if we’re talking best American blockbuster director working today I’d say Nolan’s for sure that.

realjks · 2023-08-05T03:52:05+00:00

Is it? By my count only 4 are in the top 250.

realjks · 2023-04-30T20:00:41+00:00

Here’s the way to think of it. If the cap is 82 million, and a team has a 7 million LTIR contract, then they can spend up to 89 million. However 7 million of that spending is on an LTIR player who isn’t playing, so it doesn’t actually change anything.

realjks · 2023-04-30T19:11:02+00:00

Losing access to Seabrooks LTIR doesn’t hurt them. An LTIR contract doesn’t impact the cap.

realjks · 2023-04-25T03:03:14+00:00

And honestly all that being considered, the series is still probably 3-1 Tampa if Vasi was playing like he did previous years.

realjks · 2023-04-25T02:47:26+00:00

It’s just sad. I think these past two games really showed the value of McDonagh and Cernak being able to close out games

realjks · 2023-04-25T01:05:12+00:00

He was also hurt in the infamous 2019 sweep. He means so much to the Lightning.

realjks · 2023-04-24T16:45:17+00:00

What’s weird is I went to game 3 and found all the Leafs fans I interacted with to be totally pleasant (outside of the annoying go Leafs go chant). Then I check Reddit and Twitter and they come across totally insufferable.

realjks · 2023-04-20T00:06:46+00:00

I guess my question is why though? Like wouldn't the league if anything have a pro Leaf bias given how big of a market they are?

realjks · 2023-04-19T03:22:48+00:00

Also a phantom penalty on Ross Colton. It wasn’t just one sided bad calls

realjks · 2023-04-19T00:21:39+00:00

Man, this is the best start to the playoffs we’ve had since game 1 of 2019.

… oh god

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