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To me it felt more like Trek because it was at least occasionally philosophical and moralistic. Not just a stop-the-terrorist action movie.
It was fast from a perfect film though, don’t get me wrong. Plot holes and idiot plots. I’d still choose to watch a lot of other stuff before it. But it’s middle of the pack for Trek overall, IMO. Still beats ST: 3, Insurrection, Nemesis, etc
The only one that felt like Trek was the one written by an actual Trek fan and generally talented storyteller, Simon Pegg.
And agree with other comments that the cast was really good. Just had horrible stories and mediocre (at best) direction.
You can tell that knowing the source material on franchise movies matters: I couldn’t stand JJ’s Trek but I really liked Ep7. (Ep 9 was decent, but things were so off the rails after ep 8 there wasn’t much to recover)
To the layman: sleet=tiny ice. Hail=big ice.
Ethiopian Coptics are some of the oldest Christian groups in the world. You could (and I think they do) argue they predate Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.
Ray Charles beat them all (kinda, sometimes)
MadTV did a good skit about this years ago
He’s been amazing in more dramatic roles many times. Watch “The Foreigner (2017),” “Shinjuku Incident (2009),” and “New Police Story (2004).”
That said, he’s had issues - cozied up to the Xi regime, issues with alcohol and drunk driving, a son in frequent trouble with the law where Daddy bailed him out… So you have to hold his nose a bit to watch movies. And he’s clearly got a bit of the Nic Cage in him where he can do some great stuff, but also doesn’t seem to say no to anything, so he does a lot of trash movies.
For free.
How many other games give you as much free “DLC” at Minecraft, year after year? And the game was lower cost to begin with.
If this was any other game, every one of these updates would be $10 and/or the whole platform would have gone to an annual subscription a long time ago
Funny that the article doesn’t talk about Pacific Rim, which was definitely a departure from his normal dark, gothic, practical effects-driven horror/drama.
How Simon broke River out is pretty significantly different, that’s the biggest one. A few other small things.
And I refuse to consider “Serenity” canon for other obvious reasons.
Between the Joss factor and the fact that the heroes are obviously based on “lost cause” confederates, who today are all racists hicks, it’s hard to watch now. But it’s soooo well made.
How can it be canon to both the show and the movie? The movie wasn’t in the same canon as the show.
All gripping dramas based on historical events, all excellent:
42 (2013)
1917 (2019)
Argo
All The President’s Men
Apollo 13
Bridge of Spies
Dunkirk
The Imitation Game
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Honorable mention sleeper movies you might not have heard of that are gripping dramas but not historically based:
The Foreigner (2017)
JCVD (2008)
Notorious (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
When I first started out, I assumed this was more how it worked. I definitely thought that game difficulty affected resource generation. Easier settings meant more ores scattered around (and at higher levels) while harder made them super-rare, etc.
Go MTSU Blue Raiders!
I think the more direct inspiration was Gus March-Phillips. The recent movie “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is a fictionalized telling of the work that the team Ian Fleming was on, based of some of the recently declassified missions.
Either way, if you’re interested in the topic it’s a really fun movie.
Correlation is not causation. They never addressed speed or distance, which are clearly the biggest factors in the chances of fatality and the chances of having a wreck at all (respectively)
The main issue is distance (and speed), not time. Your far less likely to be in a fatal car crash (or crash out any kind) in slow-moving city traffic jams vs driving from your rural house to your job in the next small town doing 85 mph on a 2-lane highway, which is the scenario a lot of folks in rural areas have every day
You realize that like 0.1% if the population even knows what that means, much less would bother to do it? We’re talking about the best selling video game of all time.
I thought free software was when you were the product and non-free software actually supported developers.
Or do you mean non-OSS?
Hot take: The nether woods. They seem crazy, but the colors work in a remarkable number of situations.
But I love working with wool. Some don’t like the texture, but I think it works really well.