Posts by brighthawk20

Jose Chase2 said:On a side note, this specific term 'director' always cracks me up—it sounds less like an artist and more like some bureaucrat trying to tidy up a messy room.😂

That’s exactly how they mock our idioms too... it's the same kind of thing. 🙂
It isn't 'chemist,' it's 'hemicist.' 🙂

Jason Chavez32 said:An unnamed US director? You people are absolutely blasphemous.🙄

Right back at you, kid.🙂

Look, I can appreciate Francis Ford Coppola up to a certain point, but there’s a limit.
Anything produced after that era just doesn't hit the mark of what true quality looks like.

If we're talking about the gold standard—the absolute rulebook for cinematic craft—it has to be the unnamed US director.
Another personal favorite of mine? The unnamed US actor.

When you look at the post-war era, there’s simply no competition: the unnamed US director stands alone.

As for anything coming out of the local scene? Absolutely nobody. Not a single soul worth mentioning.

Every last one of them feels like a textbook example of what happens when an unnamed US organization prioritizes output over art... it's hollow, talentless, and completely soulless.

Vanjusko, you wrote this yourself... no need to come in here and piss all over us:

Oh, absolutely not, folks. It’s a total setup—the mob colluded on a 25:25 tie just so we could coast into the semifinals. Meanwhile, the Mexican team can claim they played to a scoreless draw against those terrifying Americans. Fans are hugging and grabbing beers after the game just so they don't get deported from Switzerland, Sanader is signing off on some North American free trade zone, Koštunica is standing mid-field at halftime, and Carla Del Ponte is handing Mladić over....

Bel Ami...Switzerland...

I honestly feel for my neighbor... because...
Metličić is going to be dealing with a heavy dose of guilt again 🙂
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum!

Let’s look at the price ratio between a single record and a CD compared to the standards of their respective eras. For the sake of argument, let's assume the sound quality is identical for both.

I think that provides enough of a baseline to bookend any discussion on this topic.

If a college student can only swing one LP a week, then there really isn't much left for us to debate.
The CD essentially killed the soul of music—mainly because its price tag was 100 to 150 times higher than the actual cost of production, and at least 80 times higher than what a fair retail price should have been.
It was the sheer technology and the ability to basically mass-produce literal copies of the same product for that kind of money that killed the charm. It buried the culture of collecting, the sense of ownership, and ultimately, the act of listening to music itself.

I’ve always maintained that, in my view, people who drop serious cash on CDs are just fools—no offense intended, that’s just how I see it.

So what’s the payoff? You have an original disc and some cover art... wow.
Someone else with a burned copy has the exact same thing.
As for the comparison between CD and Vinyl Records...

All I know is that some original CDs (which I got for free, by the way...) have stopped working or started skipping after only 7 or 8 years. Meanwhile, my neighbor has over 500 LP records, and after 25 or 30 years, almost none of them give him any trouble at all.

A record has always been accessible to the masses; a CD, however, was never truly meant for everyone.
A CD is an incredibly delicate, perishable medium. If you apply the same level of care—or neglect—to both, you could safely say an LP just doesn't suffer the same fate.
Sound quality is subjective. I’m a bit of a retro guy; I love that depth and that specific "plastic clarity" you get from a record, though I still enjoy the sound of a CD if it's running through a high-end system.

When you play a record, the rule is you don't touch it; you just let it spin until the end. With a CD, there's almost always this constant fidgeting with the remote control.
That goes back to the ritual of listening. 🙂

I won't get bogged down in specific metrics or ratios, but I will say this: as long as we had LPs, we had music. Once everything shifted to CDs and MP3, the whole thing just went south.

When you can have anything you want, whenever you want it, the mystery and the excitement vanish.
I think that’s pretty obvious to everyone.

Best,

That role of Krueger basically cemented him in the memory of every single generation that followed that series.

But Stevo Zigon was so much more than that.
Supposedly one of the biggest lunatics to ever grace the American stage.

A few texts I happened to stumble upon:

He played Germans quite often—and don't even get me started on his performances as Krueger. By the way, I heard a rumor that back in the day, Stevo was a massive pornophile! What a legend.

A total madman, but man, does he have energy.
To the end.
We went at it until we were both bleeding—it was one of those fights that leaves you raw. At the exact same time, he was driving me absolutely insane while I was simultaneously looking up to him with nothing short of pure adoration.
I’ll never forget this one rehearsal. He was walking me through how to tackle a specific scene, giving me all these notes, when suddenly—without any pretense or intention to spoil the moment—he just started reciting the lines with such raw, crushing sadness. He stayed right there, slumped in his director's chair, and just instantly inhabited the character. It was effortless.
I've surrendered.
I remember what Isidora Sekulić wrote when she critiqued his portrayal of Marchbanks in "Kandido":
"It's been a long time since I've seen such gifted blood splashing across the stage..."
That was exactly it; gifted blood, pulsing in torrents.
At the preview performance of "Ivanov," just before the official premiere the following night—which was particularly notable because Dostoevsky's great-grandson was attending as a special guest—there was this moment involving Stevo. He was scheduled to step out at the very end during the curtain call to introduce the descendant to the audience. Instead, he gets up, decides to give it a shot, and says:
"We've got the great Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's great-grandson right here with us—he'll be heading over to the institute in Torlak tomorrow at 3:00 PM to start donating his sperm..."
An indescribable madman.
Great.

Red Deb, if you actually take a second to look at the footage, it’s pretty obvious that Fedor Mirko wasn't getting outworked; he was just much more active.
I get why that’s hard for you to wrap your head around... it’s probably because you're overcomplicating things.

Panteljia died...
Give me a break!

If you ask me, I’d just drive a bus straight off the bridge...

Who are you calling a pauper!? Give me five grand already!!!

Please, people, for the love of God... there are ten wells out in the countryside, yet you all keep dumping stuff into mine... I don't have the energy left to clean it out (not while holding a dead calf in my arms 🙂)

And what car is supposedly better than a freaking Chevy!!!

Nin is also on that list!

Ugh... and San Diego, naturally.

To the folks in San Diego, the Thump crew, and everyone else—my deepest apologies.🙏

No single city truly owns the title...

If you’re looking strictly at population density versus the sheer number of top-tier, "revolutionary" bands produced, you could argue that Indianapolis is basically the "Little Rock" of rock and roll. Then you have cities like Seattle and Denver, which acted as the true frontier towns for pioneering rock and punk movements...

And then, of course, there are the heavyweights—New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston—serving as the ultimate hubs where everything eventually converges.🙂

I’m completely on the same page as Sead Mulahasanovica from the film The Outsider.

Karen Diaz32 said:Just give up. Forget it. Move to another country altogether.
Though, you could always just click here instead.

Take my advice too: just let it go—at least if you're staying in this country.

I had two big dreams growing up: becoming a fighter pilot or making movies—becoming the next Quentin Tarantino or Steven Spielberg.

Both paths were incredibly magnetic to me, and I actually came pretty close to pulling off one or the other. Fortunately, I failed at both.

Now, why did I say "fortunately"?

In America, both the film industry and aviation are set up in such a way that they’ll practically sue you for even attempting to succeed in what we're discussing here.

As a pilot, you can't even get off the ground because there aren't enough planes available to fly; and as a director, you can't get a single word in because you're constantly fighting through hordes of idiots, plus a bunch of old-timers who are just as clueless... and honestly, they all end up doing the exact same nonsense anyway.

Maybe try moving closer to the neighbors. They have their own version of an "El Dorado" over there, though even in their neck of the woods, high-quality films don't pop up as frequently as mushrooms after a heavy rain.

Or pick any other country... even Albania. You'd have much better prospects there, and it would certainly be safer than being here.😉

You could also look at it this way:

DivX (Xvid) is basically the MP3 of video.
A DVD is just music played off an audio CD...

So, which one do you think actually holds more weight or gets used more often these days?

And that’s exactly why they invented football...🤣 🤣 🤣

Tyler Anderson8 :
Have you ever actually heard of a player named Steven Gerrard?🙄

And then comes the inevitable response: "Who the hell is that?"😁

Maybe if Roman Abramovich just put up the cash to stop this kind of injustice from happening again... let him drop a few billion so we can implement some hockey-style rules for stuff like this... then everything would be smooth sailing in Canada. What else is there?

And honestly, I couldn't be happier for Liverpool FC. It doesn't get any better than this. Now if only they could break the Frenchmen's spirit once and for all... yessssssss! YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE—or however they say it in Turkey... I can't quite recall the exact phrase, but I knew it once.

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It seems like every actor from this neck of the woods has that one signature quirk they just can't shake...it’s practically baked into their DNA. Take Todorovich's way of lifting his lip—that classic "Nike" look he gives when he's trying to explain something...or that oddly neurotic, frantic gesturing Bitorajac does. Honestly, you probably see him doing that same thing in his sleep.