Whole Lotta Bitches Jumpin' Ship

[lame_stamp]

I have my first final tomorrow, Medieval Philsophy, Which is the definition of a mindfuck. If I have to read any more about perfection and degrees of belief and the difference between essence and existence and dialectic versus rhetorical learningand intelligent design and a million other abstract theories that have no other application except to

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[mikasaur2000]

People think I'm crazy for taking so many math/science classes. But if you ask me I think I'd rather drive a nail through my hand before I took some bullshit useless class called Medeival Philosophy.

I saw two of the movies you talked about.

You should add Ultra Violet to the worst movies of the year. I know it just came out this year, but the suckiness was so immense that I'm sure a little bit of it leaked out into last year.

<3

M Martin

[lame_stamp]

even for an asian conissuer like yourself

[rufustfirefly]

There's no reason for universities to exist outside of the math/science world because there aren't really any developments made in such areas. All of the humanities are engaged in this "me too" type thing and the result is boring, useless, bullshit classes.

Case and point: I'm loving the hell out of my Calculus class right now and hating the on-line music appreciation class I'm taking.

Anyway, congrats on waiting 3 1/2 months and making a list that's identical to every other 2005 list I read, Joel.

[lame_stamp]

Okay. Then why does he have visions of the original munich assassinations?

Rather than having the atrocities HE commited fill his thoughts, he has visions of the original violence that he was hired to enact vengence on. Not only is this completely unrealistic (he wasn't there, how can he have such an accurate account of the events drilled into his mind?) but it makes no sense: if anything, seeing the horrors of the original munich killings would help assuage him, convince him that what he did was justified. It wouldn't drive him even crazier.

You could say something about the universality of violence, how no one is innocent in anything. I think it was Spielberg getting lazy while searching for a way to callback to the beginning of the movie.

[lame_stamp]

I'm not gonna argue about your Match Point response because even though I don't agree I think it's really interesting

Semi Spoilers ahead

[lame_stamp]

That scene never made me think the movie's going to have a moral. I can't imagine anyone taking the scene to mean that. If we put aside how awkward the scene was to watch, what it seemed to indicate to me was how disillusioned he had become, how he was still trying to retain a moral high ground when he fallen pray to so many sins all at once. The slow motion ring landing on the wrong side was PLENTY enough to convince the audience that the movie would have a different ending than it did. That part, I thought, was brilliant.

If the ghost whispering scene had the point you say it had, then I sure as hell didn't see it. In that case, I don't think my belief that the scene was poorly written has been disproved.

I agree with you that the movie tricked the audience brilliantly. Like I said, the plot was superb. I still think there were a lot of times where the dialogue and acting seemed stilted, awkward. Where it was just too obvious. These awkward scenes seem to be a calling card of Woody's movies as of late.

[anonymous]

Munich was the best film of the year.

-Scott

[lame_stamp]

I'll give it to you, I enjoyed watching Munich more than I enjoyed many other things this past year, such as watching Lord of the Rings, or listening to that shitty new U2 album.