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I realize your post is 7 years old, and you will most likely not read my response.
Hopefully someone reads it.
I think the ending is really beautiful and hopeful.
I think they are both insecure people who became unhappy as they grew frustrated with each other, and that frustration led to feeling like weren't accepted by the other person, which led to their insecurities increasing and unhappiness increasing in a vicious cycle.
Clementine says there's no point in getting back together because they will just repeat what they did before which led to their breakup. She says what the undesirable conditions will be: she'll be frustrated with Joel because, he's boring, and he'll be frustrated with her because she's too impulsive.
But instead of saying, "you're right, these are reasons we shouldn't be together. I find you unacceptable if you're too impulsive, and expect you'll leave me if you find me boring- this relationship is doomed" he says this "ok". Which in my mind is saying, "we'll be unhappy with each other sometimes, and I accept this. I love you, I accept you as you are, I know that you'll drive me crazy sometimes, but I accept all of that and still want to be with you. And I trust you feel the same way about me. I accept you and am willing to be accepted by you, even when we both know each other's faults."
And that to me is true love. No one is perfect. No one is a perfect spouse. If you love someone and can commit to them, then your marriage can survive anything.
As they restart their relationship, it will soon go the way they predicted. She's impulsive, he's boring. But as long as they accept each other, they will survive.
Source: married for 21 years, saw the movie in year 3 of marriage and changed my views on acceptance and commitment.
He lived in Utah and was a a Boy Scout.
Just sayin...
I thought this post would be about Indy's gunshot that he shrugged off for 30 minutes of runtime before they said it would kill him if he didn't get "medicine".
Peter never had a Walkman in the comics. I'm sure he got one after the movie came out, but that was something invented for the movie.
I guess it's just agree to disagree.
I've liked them all less than the previous one.
I loved 1. Liked but didn't love 2. And I left 3 feeling let down.
But I seem to be in the minority. You'll probably love it.
Floating is different.
Floating is a question of weight of a thing (roughly a 3D measurement) and the weight of the displaced water (definitely 3D). If the displaced water weighs more than the thing, it floats. 3D vs 3D- so it scales.
But pressure is different. As I explained above- pressure is force/area. And where force is a product of mass or weight, then it's 3D/2D. At a small size, like the one inch cube, the force is 1 "mass x gravity" / 1 square inch. Which equals a pressure of 1 mxg/in2. If we double the length of the cube, then it's 8 mxg / 4 square inches, or 2 mxg/in2- double the pressure. If we 10x the length, we 10x the pressure. That might sound like it scales, but it doesn't. Pressure is already a ratio, so if it scaled it would stay at 1x. Not only are the square inches getting 10x'd, but the pressure for each square inch is 10x'd.
All of this is admittedly silly on the Dune message board.
Complaining about the physics of the sandworms is similar to complaining about sound or explosions in space, or the way X-Wings fly. If you're going to do that, then movies are probably just not for you.
I wondered this too.
They moved to CA in 1964.
A generation of post war kids at high school, and he immediately ran into violent antisemites.
I grew up in the 80s (my grandpa fought in the war) and it was clear to me that the Nazis were both the bad guys and terrible antisemites. Antisemitism and Nazism were equivalent. Seems like that should have been even more clear to the kids of WW2 soldiers, but I certainly don't know.
There was no antisemitism in Phoenix but there was in CA? Why? Everyone was tall and golden in CA... cuz it was closer to the beach? And all of those Adonises made 5 foot nothing Fableman stick out more? I don't know.
Maybe...
The movie shows two raging antisemites and maybe it's not trying to say that was CA vs AZ... But I thought that was what it was trying to say.
Maybe it was actually just a more affluent area- people too rich and too tall and broad of shoulder to be nice?
I don't doubt that Spielberg experienced something like this in CA. I'm just trying to understand if he's saying it was a cultural difference between AZ and CA or not. Or just a few bad eggs that he had the misfortune to fall in with, and that happened to be in CA.
I was very uncomfortable.
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I hope you get some answers.
Amen.
Several people "warned me" about it and it took me a little while to getting around to seeing it.
I kind of had a negative bias going into it, but I actually really loved it.
Even if the family story was just as sad as I had been told.
Glad it wasn't just me. I thought it was gorgeous and about a 10x over the other houses shown in the movie...
But they sounded just like a young Luke who couldn't appreciate a stunning piece of art- "what a hunk of junk!"
You lost me at buzz droids.
The opening shots promise you're about to see some Original Trilogy quality dogfighting.
But just as it heats up- buzz droids. With Mickey ears.
Replying to myself here...
I guess I could have just posted a link to this other thread:
https://moviechat.org/tt2488496/Star-Wars-Episode-VII-The-Force-Awakens/629b90e3ffeb066f51dc0a92/Sequels-ruined-this-movie
Basically the same ideas.
I thought I would come to this.
I hated the prequels, but that was exhausting. So when Force Awakens came out, I tried very hard to like it.
And there were things I still didn't like, but I decided to be positive and I "liked the movie" when it came out. I thought it was "adequate" which for me was a damnation of faint praise, but it's a mark a far cry above what I gave the prequels.
I thought The Force Awakens had a lot of promise, but I had a mix of hope/fear of what would come next.
I said, "we won't know wether Force Awakens is actually good until the trilogy is complete" since so many things went unexplained in the movie. If they were able to successfully close all of the open items in later films, then we could look at the first movie and say it was truly good.
But if the later movies were terrible, then it would make The Force Awakens a fine bridge to craptown. Depending on your thoughts on Lost Season 6- it might be something like that.
I, for one, did not like Episodes 8 or 9, and I thought this would really retroactively tank my perception of 7 being "adequate". But upon rewatching it, I actually found I still enjoyed The Force Awakens, and I think that's based on the optimism the movie itself presents, and the pure love it exudes for "good Star Wars" even if it's not quite there itself.
I still like it. I still don't like 8 or 9. Weird.
And now, from memory, a list of things 7 left open, but were never revisited. (Probably in new EU books or comics, but I gave up on those):
How did Maz get Luke's lightsaber?
A story for another time?
Why is Poe 20x better than any other pilot in galactic history? Is it the force?
Does Finn have the force? A little, even?
Why can Rey learn all of the force powers with no teacher? Just bad writing? Or something clever?
What does "the force awakens" even mean?
Snoke?
In the novel, Snoke says he saw the rise and fall of the empire?
How did the New Order appear out of nowhere and already so militarized?
I'll give it a shot.
Things scale weird.
A spider has no problem walking on walls and ceilings, or a web. If you scaled that spider up to be the size of a cat, it couldn't do any of those things.
Here's why.
Let's look at length (1D), area (2D), and volume (3D).
If you have a 1 inch cube, and you scale it up to be a 2 inch cube, the length increases 2x, the area increases 4x (from 1 square inch to 4 square inches) and the volume increases 8x (1 cubic inch to 8 cubic inches).
Something's mass is determined by its volume. As you scale, mass increases 4x the rate of length. But the surface area of its foot increases half as fast - 2x the rate of length.
You may recall that pressure is force/area. Bullets work because the have a lot of force and a small area where they make contact. Similarly, spiders can attach to walls and ceilings because the have an acceptable weight (volume) to foot surface area (area) ratio. But once you scale it up, they scale at different factors and the ratio quickly gets unacceptable.
Physics scales weird.
Please see insect wings, model airplanes, architecture, etc.
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I agree. I often watch funny things and my reaction is an internal thought that goes like "yes, this is funny" but I often won't laugh out loud. Sometimes my wife will smile at me while we watch funny things, and I smile back to show her that I agree- this is funny.
But this show- especially the first episode (The Lodge) (not Not the Pilot) had me laughing so hard, I was afraid I might have to be hospitalized.
Oof- I have to rewind a couple years here...
Wasn't it just that the kid was so convinced he was living in the Matrix that he thought it was either good or indifferent that he killed his family? Now I can't remember if the documentary was saying "look, this is dangerous" or "see how much people believe this" or what...but it was a very saddening story.
He's right. All of the legal stuff is resolved at the beginning because it's dropped when ghosts come back. Up to that point, people have started to think all the events of the 1984 movie were a sham- a big light show or something.
Also, Ray says in Afterlife that something similar happened after the 2nd movie.