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Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Sun December 18, 2016 11:17 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Kaius wrote:
doone wrote:British people say reckon all the time. Surprised me as I too thought it was a southern thang.
I can't even get my brain to say it in a British accent.
When I try to say it with a British accent it just sounds Australian

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Mon December 19, 2016 3:57 pm
by epilogue

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Mon December 19, 2016 4:06 pm
by Jorge
Kaius wrote:
theplatypus wrote:That's not even a thought. That's just a photo you found. I reckon the best thread for that image was either the Random Picture Thread or the Christmas Movies thread.
I always read "reckon" with a twang, because I reckon only cowboys and hillbillies actually say that word, so it was pretty funny to read this post and imagine you saying it.
I did live in Texas for six months

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Mon December 19, 2016 4:16 pm
by bune
doone wrote:British people say reckon all the time. Surprised me as I too thought it was a southern thang.
Well, I've seen some articles from linguists who think that southern twang is a pretty direct relation to how English people spoke back when they first came to the States.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Mon December 19, 2016 4:26 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Mon December 19, 2016 4:28 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
:bammer: x 100
Yep.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 1:10 am
by LoathedVermin72

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 1:12 am
by Dev
lol true.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 1:19 am
by wease
bune wrote:
doone wrote:British people say reckon all the time. Surprised me as I too thought it was a southern thang.
Well, I've seen some articles from linguists who think that southern twang is a pretty direct relation to how English people spoke back when they first came to the States.
Yep. I had to borrow my dad's lorry to take stuff to the dump a couple months back.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 1:45 am
by dimejinky99
'I reckon' is a really common start or end to a sentence in the U.K. Ireland and Australia.

Same way 'I feel like' starts a lot of sentences in the US/Canada

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 1:47 am
by Kaius
You will undoubtedly find this move to be blasphemous, leaning on the tired crutch of “artistic freedom” to label BAFTA as intrusive. You can live and die by that sword if you'd like, but you'll only be proving that you're not quite as creative or imaginative as you claim to be.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 1:52 am
by BurtReynolds
Kaius wrote:
You will undoubtedly find this move to be blasphemous, leaning on the tired crutch of “artistic freedom” to label BAFTA as intrusive. You can live and die by that sword if you'd like, but you'll only be proving that you're not quite as creative or imaginative as you claim to be.
At first I thought you had gone retarded, but then I realized that was a quote from the article.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 1:56 am
by Kaius
BurtReynolds wrote:
Kaius wrote:
You will undoubtedly find this move to be blasphemous, leaning on the tired crutch of “artistic freedom” to label BAFTA as intrusive. You can live and die by that sword if you'd like, but you'll only be proving that you're not quite as creative or imaginative as you claim to be.
At first I thought you had gone retarded, but then I realized that was a quote from the article.
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Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 2:01 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 2:07 am
by Kaius
tragabigzanda wrote:
Kaius wrote:
You will undoubtedly find this move to be blasphemous, leaning on the tired crutch of “artistic freedom” to label BAFTA as intrusive. You can live and die by that sword if you'd like, but you'll only be proving that you're not quite as creative or imaginative as you claim to be.
Scoff. It's well-intention but misguided. AMPAS's move makes way more practical sense. Let's pretend I wanted to produce a small movie in MT, and had a very tight budget: Under BAFTA'a rules, now I would have to fly in minorities from other states to work on the production? That is nonsense, and it has nothing to do with being creative or imaginative, and everything to do with the practicality of making a film in a region that is overwhelmingly white.
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Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 7:57 am
by BurtReynolds

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 6:46 pm
by The Argonaut
Awards are dumb and have nothing to do with art, anyways

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 6:48 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 8:43 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
Awards are dumb and have nothing to do with art, anyways
But people who win awards are more apt to get funding and top-tier talent for future projects.
Also things that have don't necessarily equal art.

Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

Posted: Wed December 21, 2016 8:44 pm
by epilogue
I agree with Argo. The move has nothing to do with the health of art. Also, I'm not against this move. I think it's a great move, actually. But that's separate from my feelings on how the move relates to what art is or isn't or should be or whatever.