the best parts are often left to the silence in between because nothing can be as vivid as personnal imagination, a trick often used in the better psychological horror (eg the direct opposite of simple gore like freddy krueger which is more like comedy, right?) ... i feel hollywood is in a slump lately relying on CGI way more than an actual plot, trying hard to lure folk to theatres while actually that might work better if they gave it some thought and most of all affordable prices lol
i mean like viggo mortenssen or de niro stuff , but i suppose a lot of people go simply for the woaw factor anyway ... and i dont see too many bigtime producers living out of a styrofoam cup under a bridge yet so there must be some money coming in from somewhere despite all the complaining and wasting millions on lawsuit that don't actually increase profit (its one of the worst paradoxes in contemp business if you ask me : harassment suits and trolling, because as far as i understood the first rule of business is : make money, not "measure dick size" or testosterone contests but i guess these competitive psychopaths and their need to win cant help themselves ... they couldnt for 20 years in vietnam despite all evidence to the contrary lol, so that was a total loss, and it seems they still cant
i assume you saw valerian and the cube series and stuff, i keep a list here but its by no means complete or updated although i really dont watch a lot of movies anymore, i guess netflix is a bigger killer than piracy haha
if you like the cyberpunk (and for some reason i think you might) and you havent seen it , this one is really worth your time imo :p
see you around
Altered Carbon does look good! I'll have to watch that tonight...
And agreed with everything you said... I have suspected for a long time that we will get a 2nd hollywood that goes back to the old school 80s type filming with minimal CGI only when needed. You know, when they use to not show the explosion and only showed the reaction faces leaving the rest to imagination, etc.... It can be good! I still like CGI, but it is definitely OVER USED!!! It ruins something by using it all the time. I still love 80s movies and shit way more than the new stuff, sometimes anyways :) haha
My new prediction is that this 2nd Hollywood I talk about will happen, but it will happen in VR! :P How Ironic would that be! What if AI becomes sentient and starts a virtual Hollywood that makes old school movies without CGI :P haha Wouldn't that be a trip... ;)
Just started watching the first episode btw... GOOD CALL already :) props lol...
And the intro! The dragon snake eating the snake infinity symbol thing.... Totally my cup of tea. I talk about time and reality being nothing more than a metaphor for that situation all the frikken time....
oh well, the matrix ... ive been trying to get an answer from a particle physicist here on my opinion that time doesn't even exist as a physical entity or a force for that matter, it's a construct, like numbers
number don't exist in reality, they're conceived by the human mind to be able to speak mathematics, while time in itself, has never been proven to exist but as a constant or variable in mathematical formulas
it's the perceived observation from forces like gravity and magnetism and whatever causes entropy and the pullback to equilibrium , which sets things in motion but that still doesnt mean time exist ... now the man is ofcourse clinical zakharov faction so he doesnt want to answer because there's no data on it and its all metafysics but its how i see things there, i completely understand what you mean :p
if you're not the type to discard movies for being old i think you would like videodrome a lot too btw
it's sometimes hard to believe in oneself in the middle of a world full of people who were taught how it was but i like to say einstein never let facts get in the way of being right even before he could prove it :p (and then i get a lot of people claiming that means i'm saying i'm like the god of light lol)
see you around (and enjoy)
I am completely with you on the time thing. I have said that many times myself. That is somewhat the premise of my quantum story... There is only Now... There is no then...
But I will raise you a mental thought experiment... What if both time and gravity were extra-dimensional. Basically, not really a part of the universe at all, but just a bleed through from somewhere else... ie. What if the esoteric world, the spirit world, heaven, etc, was the only place where "time" actually existed... and we only perceive time through our soul's connection to that place that actually has time... ie, that would add cred to the whole consciousness creates reality thing because it would mean that we are literally bringing time with us from the other side by viewing the cause and effect timeless world...