I can't think of a really scary film, although I've seen plenty of horror. Not really believing in any of that crap takes a lot of the fun out of it. The Ring was pretty good, though.
What is the worst musical comedy you have ever seen?
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I can't think of a really scary film, although I've seen plenty of horror. Not really believing in any of that crap takes a lot of the fun out of it. The Ring was pretty good, though.
What is the worst musical comedy you have ever seen?
The Exorcist
Funniest movie?
Excuse me, Pike, I know you can't read this, but The Exorcist is the funniest (and least scary) movie ever made. ;-)
Worst musical comedy movie?
I will sometimes read your posts that follow mine, Pompey. After your sophomoric troll response to my Lost post, I thought that would be a good idea. So, please share what exactly you consider to be the aesthetic requirements of a scary movie and how The Exorcist fails to meet those standards.
I truly hope you're not just trumping the experiences of millions who were terrified by The Exorcist with your own personal aesthetic experience. That would be both solipsistic and poor criticism. So, please go ahead with your actual analysis of the film...as opposed to your unfounded musings. I'm looking forward to your actually doing so.
Spice World would be the worst musical (althought I have not seen it).
Best movie of the last two years?
Top Ten:
1. Her
2. Whiplash
3. Nightcrawler
4. Under the Skin
5. Edge of Tomorrow
6. The Lego Movie
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. The Imitation Game
9. Upstream Color
10. John Wick
Same question
Midnight in Paris (although it's 3 years), also Stories we Tell (Documentary).
Best Director of the all time?
Top Ten:
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. John Ford
3. Charlie Chaplin
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Steven Spielberg
6. Ingmar Bergman
7. Akira Kurosawa
8. Jean-Luc Godard
9. Frederico Fellini
10. Quentin Tarantino
Same question:
Martin Scorsese.
Which member of your family do you resemble most, in terms of personality and interests?
My Dad.
Will David Cameron still be Prime Minister after the coming election?
It's possible.
What country would you live other than where you currently reside?
Paris, France...no contest
What are the three greatest television shows of the last 25 years?
Fawlty Towers
Cheers
The Office (American version, but British close 2nd)
What are the last countries you visited?
France and Italy
Who is or was the last great Rock band?
Led Zeppelin
Who is the author who you think should have done better commercially, but has not or did not? (Granted they gained/gain critical acclaim).
Wow, you don't think much of Rock in the last 40 years...;)
There are a few:
Philip K. Dick
Paul Auster
Cynthia Ozick
John Banville
W.G. Sebald
All of them are or were excellent novelists who never sold as much as they should have. Dick, of course, had a lot of his works made into films after his death, but he never saw the French and American academy recognize his works as brilliant Borgesian literature. Auster is esteemed even higher in France than in America and his Postmodernist aspect scares away readers. The same with Ozick who also doesn't sell because she's a woman who doesn't write about woman's issues per se. Banville is simply too difficult for readers, except for his Benjamin Black mysteries, and Sebald is too difficult for many as well.
What were the last three masterpieces of American film?
I will choose post-war films:
Deer Hunter
Godfather II
Annie Hall
Dr. Strangelove
What make is the computer/smart phone you are now using?
Apple...always
Who are the 3 greatest actresses working today?
I will name actresses working fairly actively now: Streep, Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore is certainly talented and versatile. I think Jennifer Lawrence a bit too young to say she's great, but has talent and charisma.
Would you be an effective person working the telephones at a suicide prevention centre?
For awhile, if trained well, sure. After too long, though, I couldn't bear listening to all that pain.
Would you change your relationship with your best same-sex friend if he or she revealed he or she were gay?
No.
Does your primary friend or primary circle of friends have the same or similiar depths of literary, musical etc tastes as yourself?
Not even close. Most of my closest friends are my surfer/stoner friends from high school or fraternity brothers from college.
Would you defend a friend's unjustified rudeness against someone you didn't like or would you rightly criticize it?
I tend to be less forgiving with people I don't like due to the lessons I've learned in life about niceness - and where it does and does not get you.
Would like to remain working or in the future work in academia?
But my question wasn't about forgiveness, my question was about criticizing rudeness. Do you always let rudeness slide, or do you just never criticize anybody over anything? You can both criticize and forgive.
So, that question and my last one: "Would you defend a friend's unjustified rudeness against someone you didn't like or would you rightly criticize it?"
Answer to yours" I've enjoyed working in academia for over 15 years, and plan to do so for at least 20 more.
I would defend a friend if he was exercised unjustified rudenes to someone i didn't like - strictly for machiavellian reasons. This is a newer characteristic of my personality.
Do you set up a christmas tree?
Always.
Would you teach such unethical Machiavellian behavior to your children, or would you teach them to do the right thing?
I would teach them the right thing.
Would you live in a highrise?
Once my daughter grows up.
Why would you teach them to do something you yourself don't believe in? If you think Machiavellian, unethical behavior is ok, why not teach them that or do the right thing, yourself? I'm sincerely curious
Because there are many instances where doing the right thing is good for all. I cannot teach Machiavellian strategies as, in my view, such things are a bit like sex - you figure them out yourself. (the context I speak is unduly flavoured by work(corporate world) at this moment, and this is environment is absolutely machiavellian, after a certain level)
how old were you when you stopped believing in santa claus?
But if you think defending a friend's unjustified rudeness against someone you don't like is the wrong thing, and you'd teach your kid to do the right thing and not do so because the right thing is good for all, then you shouldn't defend your friend's unjustified rudeness. You have to see that contradiction. If the right thing is good for all, then it has to be good for you as well.
So, teaching your kid to do what you consider the right thing for all, then not doing that right thing yourself, is both hypocrisy and hypocritical parenting. I say that as a parent of two who has had to walk that line myself. Being Macchavellian in no way negates the unethical nature of one's unethical behavior, particularly when one is a parent.
As to your question, what do you mean stopped believing?
What are the movies that have truly scared you?
I navigate an unethical world, particularly at the corporate level - doing the right thing doesn't mean jack diddly. We could go on and on, but being ethically right has never benefitted me. Again, I refer mostly to work. And I am having a bad day which makes me a little crazy.
Rosemary's baby.
What movie had the best cinematography?
I get it, but when you excuse yourself from being ethical, you can't blame others for being unethical. And if you think being ethical isn't beneficial, you shouldn't teach your kids to do the right thing and have a less beneficial life.
Lawrence of Arabia
Who are the three best looking women and three best looking men in movie history?
I get it, but when you excuse yourself from being ethical, you can't blame others for being unethical. And if you think being ethical isn't beneficial, you shouldn't teach your kids to do the right thing and have a less beneficial life.
Lawrence of Arabia
Who are the three best looking women and three best looking men in movie history?
I've got time for one each:
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan of India
Paul Newman
What is your most prized peace of art or perhaps a rare edition?
I'm not much of a collector. I have a signed re-print of William Gibson's Neuromancer and an original edition of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. I'm not anticipating a house invasion for them.
What is the most significant problem in the world today and what needs to be done about it.
The most significant problem in the world today is attitude. Always remember those you push down may get back up and kick your fanny. Learn to live and let live
What makes people think everyone except them needs to change?
Narcissism and arrogance, which usually go hand to hand and are present within most people in the world.
Why are people so un-accepting of those different than they and automatically assume they are the ones who are right?
People have set values they cling to. This doesn't mean that they are always right. They can learn from mistakes. The trouble is, people don't want to allow compromise. They want complete agreement or they will hassle you. Tolerance is a two way street. If you expect it, give it.
Why is it that people get a mad on about other people and no matter what that person does, it is never good enough to stop disliking them or what they believe?
Global warming.
Do you have floaters?
People don't always get mad; they forgive. They just hold out hope the people they like will relinquish the beliefs they don't.Quote:
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Why does every generation bemoan the music of their children's generation once they, themselves, start to get old?