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That’s very cool. Nice to see one coming back up instead of another going down. I won’t question the business side of it, and just hope it all works out.This makes me happy
Bare Beams and Steel: A Look Inside the Planned Renovation of the UWS’s Former Metro Theater
A hard hat tour on Saturday of the former Metro theater. Photos by Noëlle de Leeuw By Noëlle de Leeuw
This is the best film of the year so far, and a thoroughly remarkable accomplishment, in delivering a complex story with two superb performances. It's that exceedingly rare example of an actual science fiction film--meaning to me, hard science fiction that gets the foundational science right as it explores speculative ideas. It works entirely on its own merit, but as one who loved the superb novel, it also realizes the best elements of the source, and all indications are it succeeds with general audiences who would never read hard science fiction.
This is the one about alien single celled organisms that live in space, leech energy out of the sun and breed with CO2 from Venus? Then they use this alien thing as rocket fuel, to travel many light years at relativistic speeds to get to a system where there are rival microorganisms that prey on the first alien organisms? Along the way, they encounter some sort of alien beings that can somehow achieve space travel and indeed galactic survival without understanding relativity; they also encounter an alien supermaterial that they use to interact with the microbes?
Wholeheartedly agree with your non-vampire assessment. It was hyper-stylized to the point where the dramatic tension to me felt like a retread of Uncut Gems but way less compelling. Maybe because it was, or maybe I just didn’t have the tolerance for it due to my Chalamet aversion among other things. Well done movie, but the style and essence just totally missed me.
That's a remarkably worthless "edgy" post, with a tart twist of pop Ludditism. The whole and all parts of the sentence are unintentionally funny, but especially "competency porn."
Yes! I've had those, and it was sometimes a dream mashup with a giant, empty factory. I'll visit that thread later when I have more time.I started a thread about what is called mall world dreams a week or so ago. I read about that after researching the backstory for this movie.
Are You Dreaming of a ‘Mall World’? You’re Not Alone.
Thousands of people online have recounted visiting a similar mall-like setting while they sleep. Theories vary wildly.www.nytimes.com
Maybe I didn't start a thread about it because I can't find it now. But I did start one a while back about weird dreams. Guess I can post the article in that thread.
Project Hail Mary is most certainly a novel that presumes the incontrovertible value of expertise. It imagines a world where governments rationally respond to an imminent crisis by subordinating political authority to professional authority. That's what's so comforting about it--it's a throwback to 1950s SF by authors like Asimov and Heinlein (in his non-racist mode). That's also what makes it a novel that panders to filthy college-educated liberals such as myself.
Barry Lyndon is basically my "co-equal" favorite film (with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and also equal in just as much being a trip into another time and space, into a world, like no other period film. Kubrick always intended his films to only be seen in a theater, so you get right in that way (Vivian Kubrick told me many years ago he hated VHS and the new laser discs, as it grossly distorted the way he wanted film to be experienced). There is no film as visually beautiful, which contrasts with the tragedy of the narrative.I haven’t seen PHM but I do enjoy when anomaly gets snippy over someone taking a swipe at a movie he likes
By the way anomaly, headed to see Full Metal Jacket in 35mm later, and Barry Lyndon next week. Plus I’ve never seen Barry, kinda been waiting for a big screen opportunity and now I’ve got one.
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