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They explained this in Season 1 and 2. There was a wardrobe truck that fell into the sink hole. So lots of new clothes for everyone.
In Season 3, they just keep jumping back to present day to get new clothes.
<blockquote>their sexual degeneracy is precisely why they do not have families and children, or why they cannot keep a man to do so.</blockquote>
You keep saying this while simultaneously linking to articles that point to other reasons for decline in population growth.
Again, there is a long history of prosperous nations and societies experiencing lower population growth and impoverished nations experiencing sky rocketing population growth.
If you want to argue that's good or bad, have that argument with yourself, but for some reason you want to point to evidence that backs <i>that</i> up while blaming "sexual degeneracy" with absolutely nothing to point to.
TIL: 45 percent of women in the US being single and childless by 2030 = extinction.
BTW: The source for the very link you posted attributes this not to "Sexual degeneracy" or being a "sick society", but rather:
“These shifting lifestyle norms are enabling more women, with or without children, to work full time, which should continue to raise the labor force participation rate among single females [...] Rising labor-force participation rates should put upward pressure on women’s wages and help increase overall consumer spending. As it stands, women already control a large share of the U.S. consumer wallet. They contribute an estimated $7 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product per year, [...] and are the principal shoppers in 72% of households.
Meanwhile, women are earning bachelor’s degrees at a higher rate than men, and they are the primary breadwinner for nearly 30% of married households and nearly 40% of total U.S. households."
In other words, prosperity. Do you want to compare population trends to other countries out to 2030 and see which have better/worse economic outlooks? How about comparing the economy/population growth here with our supposed degenerate sick society to the strict theocracies around the world?
<blockquote>There is plenty of space everywhere. As the Dutch proved that even infertile land in places like South Africa could be cultivated into fertile farmland:</blockquote>
Points to an article that doesn't mention the wars this caused, the concentration camps, famines or slavery at all.
The premise of this whole thread is flawed. Prosperous societies have had historically lower birth rates.
I thoroughly agree with you. It's a bit derivative (see Boy in Striped Pajamas), but more so it's repetitive and absolutely would've been better as a short. The sound design is worth making sure you're watching this with a good system, but the cinematography is a real mixed bag.
This movie had some flaws, but there were also moments of brilliance and overall I enjoyed it.
<blockquote>That quote at the beginning sucked.</blockquote>
Do you know who they're quoting? Your definition of art may be different, and that's ok, but this was literally Bernstein's exact definition and becomes a part of the whole movie.
<blockquote>This whole "le older movie filter" is getting annoying fast.</blockquote>
I agree. Even worse this year was Saltburn (also with Carrey Mulligan). Maestro used both aspect ratio and black & white to convey different eras, but at least there was proper composition with Maestro, wherein with Saltburn, while the director wanted to "convey a sense of peeking in", most shots were just making you feel like they would've been much better with a proper wide aspect ratio.
<blockquote>The music wasn't that good</blockquote>
I'd highly recommend not seeing a movie about a person when you don't like the music from that person.
<blockquote>Literally what's the point of this movie? Nothing happened. No one knows who he is</blockquote>
The narrative in this film is choppy at best and definitely one of its biggest flaws. It felt like this move was originally 1.5 hours longer and they cut out the wrong parts to shorten it.
It also feels like they didn't know what this movie was supposed to be... was it a love story that happened to be about Bernstein and his wife, or was it a biopic about Bernstein?
The latter should be complete in of itself and someone not knowing the character at all should be well informed after. That was not only not the case with this movie, but most scenes left us trying to guess where/when/what instead of having things clearly story told to us.
The technical editing was great, but the narrative editing sucked.
Still there was enough to like in this film that I'd give it an 8 out of 10.
Not only in the teaser, but in the end credits she gets first billing as well. It's not alphabetical. This happens both in the single title screen cast credits and in the scrolling list of credits.
Personally, I always would list her first because she's Carey F*cking Mulligan, but I think in this case, it's to emphasize her character's role (even though second to Cooper's). Additionally, it helps lessen the impact of the bombardment of Bradley Cooper's name on the credits.
There may be some thinking on Cooper's part that he doesn't need it and by giving it to Mulligan, it's a way of appearing humble or recognizing/promoting her when it comes to awards (Oscar, etc...).
While absolutely not product placement, it's more than just depicting a habit of his, it's
<spoiler>foreshadowing his wife's fate. We know someone is going to die from cancer in this film as it progresses and even as she's dying they can't help but continue to smoke due to their obsession (which itself is a reflection of character)</spoiler>
I don't think it was too short as opposed to thinking that they could've shifted focus and kept the same energy and pacing with other aspects of the story. Instead it gets a bit bogged down and repetitive with what they focused on.
I totally agree, but people should keep in mind that "Streaming" isn't really the right term here. There's subscription service, online rental and online sales, all of which could be downloaded or streamed. The key difference here is that it's not like The Irishman on Netflix where it's only providing value to Netflix on one of those three (subscription) and that only counts on impact of acquiring or retaining users.
Apple will get the subscription value, but for now is getting the online rental and sales revenue. This is direct on their own service and shared on others.
If this ends up getting Oscar nominations, which seems a certainty, that subscription value is going to be well worth it for Apple considering the position its in with Apple TV+
Watch the sequence again. The bomb goes off at 5:30am which is 30 minutes before sunrise, and thus dark (up until 1:58:31). You see them emerge from the bunker Oppenheimer is in at twilight (Oppenheimer gets a hug from the guy saying he owes him $10) and the celebrating at the end is when the whole team has arrived together at dawn (1:58:50). This is absolutely *perfect* timing to historical accuracy in terms of sun time (screen time is obviously condensed).
At no point in the sequence was it "broad daylight" or "sun up in the sky". Take a look at the long shadows in the cheering shots. It's clearly dawn.
You're incorrect about this.
The bomb went off at 5:30am (both in movie and real life). Sunrise on that day was 6:01am
They show the bomb at night. They show them coming out of the bunker at twilight. They then show everyone meeting up and cheering together at dawn/early morning. This was all very accurate.
That's pretty cool to come back 2 years later and admit this.
As with most Nolan (and Cameron) films, when it comes to where you watch, choose wisely.
The sound from the bomb made extensive use of LFE and frequencies just north of 120Hz. If the system isn't set up well for this, yeah, it's going to be weak. I watched this in a custom set up with LFE transducers in the theater seats, a substantial LFE speaker and mains that could handle lower frequencies. It very much blew us away. Testing this just now on a weaker system and the bomb was just a "poof".
The delay in sound was very much artistic. I'm not going to bother looking up the numbers and doing the math. Nolan *clearly* intentionally introduced silence and score before the bomb for dramatic effect and the extent to which the delay may have been lengthened from reality misses the same artistic use of cutting between the various positions sharing the same experience.
Likewise, the film doesn't show a continuous take on the explosion, leaving some sequences out (and to the imagination) and bringing the viewer far further into it than any archival footage ever could've shown. Realistic? Well, it's missing segments, but that's not really the point, it's artistic expression meant to play upon what was previously shown in the film in terms of power/sun.
Every movie gets the inevitable troll, perhaps saying something racist or whatever, and so their net vote score may fall below zero. At that point, when viewing posts/comments, those with negative scores can be hidden from direct view. They may still be viewable but without clicking, they're collapsed and hidden. Likewise, you'd be able to sort posts/comments by score. See Reddit.
Community moderation goes a long way on improving things because sometimes it's not "report worthy", but users can downvote a comment that doesn't add value or upvote something that does.
This site would be a lot better if they:
1) Had up/down vote buttons (like Reddit)
2) Allowed filtering of low votes/points
3) Banned the word "woke". It's just boring at this point.
That entire scene was dark comedy gold, especially the way they showed the wounds and foreshadowed this with the scene where Barry is shown gunshot victim wounds.
Alan Ruck is 18 years younger in real life than the character of his father. It's entirely plausible. Don't forget, the siblings are half-siblings of Alan Ruck's character Conner.
I'm a former pilot...
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Yeah, take-off is <i>much</I> easier than landing and if you can land, you definitely can take off, but that's really just something someone with experience would know, and I can forgive that artistic license... or attribute it to the character not wanting to take that role of responsibility and not being honest.
As far as the altitude... the captain makes that decision to suffocate the guy in the wheel bay, and it worked. The window blew out, but as correctly demonstrated, that's not a significant concern... not nearly as compared to losing hydraulics and not being able to lower the landing gear.
As far as convincing the captain to take off... I'm not sure every pilot would say no in that situation.
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It's a good show. Just don't try to nitpick every little detail and assume the worst of errors.
Yes, clearly at the end, they were willing to die. You see them not only not trying anything (like ordering a cheeseburger to go), but also paying for their bills, saying thank you, and even "we love you chef".
It's a little jarring because seemingly nothing really significant transpired between when they thought they were being rescued and when they became willing to die. Margot leaving with the cheeseburger wasn't something the rest of them really engaged in, and while they may have lost hope after the Coast Guard guy turned out to be a cook, you'd think at least some of them would've attacked, panicked, or at least not thank and say they loved the chef.
But this is explained early on, that they wouldn't understand until they had been served all of the courses. So be it brain-washing or a meal experience convincing them that the world would be better off without them, or whatever, they became willing to die when the S'mores were being served.