I just like figuring things out. Also, I was a bit wrong, it's not the CD2 processor that is wonky, it is a 64bit chip on a 32bit data bus. On the weekend after I installed WIndows successfully, I installed Commodore OS Vision, a fork of Linux Mint for the line of PCs from Commodore USA. It was interesting, very 80s, but ultimately a dead end. Commodore USA's owner passed away shortly after they started producing the revamped Commodore 64, which was really an Intel Atom based PC in a very close approximation of a Commodore 64 shell. Sadly, without the owner guy, Commodore had no more forward momentum.
I now have Linux Mint 16 in a dual boot with Windows 7, co-existing very well thanks, and the Thinkpad is very happy.
I am going mainly out of a sense of obligation. I feel I have to support Star Trek in any form because the only thing that they see are dollar signs. If ST films don't make a ton at the box office, they won't make more and I want them to make more. I know how ...Into Darkness goes and it's really an issue of faith now. Orci and Kurtzman said that whatever came before Nero's entry into the past was not going to be affected. That was, apparently, a lie. This is now a reboot. These are their characters now and they will do with them what they will. It's just now we're going where we've already been before.
Emerson is, like Ebert and Kenney, becoming one of my favorite critics. I think our sensibilities are the same and we are together on things a lot more than I thought. Of course, he's correct, criticism is more about the critic, maybe, than the movie being critiqued. So what will we learn about me... ?
I think that's the key here. Movie lists are meaningless because they can only tell you about the person(s) making the list. I think that's the only value you can take away from the Academy Awards too. It gives you suggestions about what to watch. I am trying to watch Antonioni's Zabriski Point and I'm having trouble because it's not that good. It was piloried in its day, and rightly so, but now it's become something of a cult classic because it is shot so magnificently. That isn't enough however. There will be a review of that here.
I have some more reviews that I've started but not finished. Since we are around the time of the top 50 from Sight & Sound magazine, I'll be more apt to get them posted faster.
Our good friend Atasha was having trouble posting her comment, so I'm posting it here for her and I thank her fit the kind words.
Whew, Steve, that was a long synopsis. You need a shot of pages on the calendar blowing away! I feel like I saw most of it through your description. This is a very thorough work. 1,200 page novel? That would take awhile (strap on those hip boots), but would probably explain a lot. I am impressed with all the shots from the movie and the embeded clips; looks like the beginning of a Master's thesis. Your breakdown of characters is well-thought out. Now I have to see the movie or read the book or both.
I have found my Flip cam. Yay?
I was hoping to post a vid to YouTube if I could find my Flip cam. I seem to have lost it.
Hi Mike. Sorry it took me so long to reply and I hope you are following responses from email. I am not the guy to weigh in on these matters. As I said in the post, I tried to stay above the whole thing and when he found Jim Terry's comments here I think he thought, "Ah ha, another place I can post my screed to." He brought me in at that point, on my own turf. He can't keep an online persona for too long because he gets shouted down or TOS'd so he came here. Big mistake. In any event, I will be glad to search out and find any of the things I have amassed on this since he posted. Then I will get it to you.
It is pretty interesting. You will have to see it if you can. I find it to be wildly entertaining in a way I didn't think was possible.