Damn. Suzzer hates a lot of stuff.
I have gotten pretty grumpy about anything scripted in my old age. I generally want to watch documentaries, or reality-based stuff like Mythbusters, Bourdain or River Monsters.
Same with reading. I have no interest in fiction whatsoever. It might have come from my time doing standup. Iām usually inside the writerās head, rather than lost in the story.
That said I can still get into a good movie - especially sci-fi. Those are just damn hard to come by these day. All the talent and production money seems to be in cranking out a new superhero movie every month.
I hate how World War I is called the āFirst World Warā when it so totally wasnāt
Plus Copolla (including One From The Heart) and Altman.
But otherwise agree that everyone else is patchy.
All zoos should be done away with
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Scorceseās lone Oscar to date was for what was easily his worst film. (Not even lukewarm)
Kubrick may be my all time favorite. But he was notoriously difficult to work with/for.
Back on 22 when werewolf was still a thing on POG i designed a mishmash based on Kubrickās films but I never got to run it. Iāll link the google docs tonight if I can find them. It was better than anything I ever did in college at least.
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That was pretty much a de facto Lifetime Achievement Award though. Looks like it beat out The Queen, Little Miss Sunshine, Letters from Iwo Jima and Babel, so Iām not too bent out of shape like it stole a BP Oscar from an all-time classic or anything.
And anyway (as I should have said) many of Scorseseās films are far from classic, by intention: he made commercial films to finance his own films, often alternately.
Correct. It was revenge for Billy Batts. Andā¦a lot of other things.
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I guess I could give it a rewatch (I probably wonāt), but I think Last Temptation of Christ is Scorseseās worst film that Iāve seen.
I go back and forth on this. Most zoos nowadays, at least in the US - are rescued animals that couldnāt be released into the wild, or bred in captivity as potential stock to keep species from going extinct. From an animalās POV I doubt a well-run US zoo is much different than an animal sanctuary - and possibly better because itās less boring and they can at least bond with their trainers.
Although if a species like an elephant or tiger goes extinct in the wild, Iām not sure how you could ever re-introduce it - as they need to learn how to be an elephant/tiger in the wild from their mothers.
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Thatās hot.
I love the show The Zoo on Animal Planet right now - a behind the scenes look at life at the Bronx Zoo. I usually ask myself - if I were a tiger and had the wherewithal to know what I was getting into - would I choose a zoo over the wild?
You never have to worry about where your next meal is coming from, you donāt have to worry about getting killed by another tiger, and if you get sick or injured you get immediate top-notch care better than most humans in the world get.
But on the other hand youāre most exciting event of the day is a big red ball to play with, and you get to roam around in an area you can cover in about 15 seconds of dead run. Is that really being a tiger?
And then of course I ask myself - have I chosen the zoo lifestyle? Am I coasting along with a good job in a nice place to live - with the human equivalent a big red ball or cardboard box to enrich my life every now and then? Is this what it means to be human? Am I really living or just sleepwalking through life?
Then I take it to the other extreme - would I rather be storming the beach at Normandy right now? You probably never feel more alive than jumping off a Higgins boat with bullets whizzing by. But I think Iāll pass on that.
Pro tip: If you havenāt been paying attention at all in the meeting, but want to look like youāre contributing, just wait for a dead spot near the end of the meeting to say: āAt the end of the day, itās all about finding that balance.ā It applies to everything.
I gotta quit smoking weed at work.
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lmao. I think their next āseasonā or whatever is going to be about San Diego (the zoo and the safari park), so iāll definitely be tuning in for that.
my personal hot take: the NBA sucks. itās fixed and it drags on too long.(inspired by a post in the sports thread)
:( Whoās your team?
donāt have one. I grew up in a city that didnāt have one, so never got attached. MLB and NFL for me.
I follow players, so I have lots of teams I like. When one of the players I like goes somewhere, I like that team. Thatās basically my main rooting interest. Iāve never been a āhome teamā type person. By the time the playoffs roll around, I definitely have rooting interest in each series for a team, but sometimes itās tough.
I grew up in Fort Worth and liked the Roided Rangers (lol), the Mavericks (lol), and haaaated the Cowboys (still do). I once got to see Nolan Ryan pitch live, and he cussed after every pitch.
