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too have heard good things about the Elmore Leonard book upon which JB is based...but again, it's Leonard's style, his dialogue, his use of time, place and character that make him good. "Plot" is little more than a coat-rack upon which excellence (or its lack) rests.
I'm a hardcore moviegoer, and coincidentally a big Leonard fan. The best part of his books is the dialogue, he has a great ear for how everyday people speak. He has had had limited luck in movie adaptations of his many. many books. The better ones are Jackie Brown(based on Rum Punch), Get Shorty and Out of Sight. 3:10 to Yuma is a good flick based on a short story. The TV series Jusitified is based on a few of his books. I liked it to begin with, but have lost interest. I reckon Tim Oliphant can't carry the role adequately, and the snappy dialogue of the books is lost in the TV series.
Speaking of the Golden Age of film, I think it is right now.
There are countless decent movies, and plenty of excellent movies, made without CGI or resort to visual trickery. Nearly all older movies from years ago were made by tightly wound Hollywood studios with stables of actors and directors on short leashes. If they weren't made within those constraints- there was almost no way to a movie get produced or distributed.
It's very different now. There are tons of producers and directors working outside or with less interference from studios, and that means what is produced is far more differentiated than what happened in previous generations.
There are far, far more independent and often wonderful movies produced than ever before. Hits and misses, for sure, but there is a lot of quality. We also see far more foreign movies than ever before, movies that simply would never be seen outside their country of origin anytime before p[erhaps the 90s.
It's all good!
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A modern Waterworld, Ben Stiller will never direct again.
Is there any way we could double down and make sure he never acts again too?
He had a very brief time when he appeared in a couple of good flicks: Zoolander and Royal Tannenbaums. The rest.... blech.
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Gosling did really good keeping the no emotion face for most of the movie, much of his emotions are muted, or we see a facial expression or a verbal one, but barely together. Made his character very engaging.
I reckon he is a terrfic actor(and Canadian of course), and was good in Drive doing a young Harrison Ford imitation
His best stuff has been in Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl and in the fluffier comedy Crazy Stupid Love.
And I have now seen Wolf of Wall Street and don't know if I'm better for it. I left the theater with a 'yeah, so what?' attitude.
It is mostly an interesting rehash of horrific excess, a cautionary tale of where too much money takes people. It has its funny moments and De Caprio is pretty good here, as is Jonah Hill as his demented sidekick.
But.. it is at least an hour too long, Scorcese failed to hire an editor with any cojones. And although I am not bothered with swearing, this movie sets a Hollywood record for F bombs. It's a bit distracting. It will be interesting to see if this movie ever gets onto a regular cable channel, like AMC. With commercials, it would be about 5 hours long and about 60% of total dialogue would be bleeped out.
I'd give this one a miss at the theaters unless you really like Scorcese or the actors involved.
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There are of course federal corprate taxes from the businesses and individual income taxes that directly or indirectly earn their money in the oil sands. And of course if the East West line goes then we'll see the oil sands creating even more jobs in the East. But that doesn't count right?
Or how about this little ditty from the study that your buddy waldo just posted from the STIC.
Let's not forget the $10 biliion per year every year that goes in equalization payments from Alberta to other provinces, mostly Quebec. When the energy related jobs drop, so does that indirect money related from equalization as employment dies in Alberta. The only reason Albertans pay that money is because their incomes are on average higher than 'have not' provinces. When that equation changes, when the jobs die in AB, everybody in Canada will be affected and not in a positive way.
Many jobs related directly to the energy sector are found outside Alberta too.
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Those images would be more impactful if it was a lush forrest before. From what I gather not a lot of Alberta is forrest.
?? Most of Alberta is forest, but the area around FM was never a lush forest. I would describe 'lush forest' in Canada as something that supports lots of wildlife or has a viable logging industry. There are patches of trees in river valleys that are bigger, but the lack of moisture and thin acidic soil. People tried to homestead the Clearwater Valley in the 1930s but that venture was a flop.
The farmland ends far south of FM. Farms end more or less around Lac La Biche and the forest all the way north to where the Canadian Shield starts and it gets even thinner there.
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This is the US.
Her family will get millions because the defence will see her accidental death as part of a grand conspiracy against the poor woman.
She was actually run over twice by fire fighting equipment, the second time when she was covered in foam.
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I like it better as a Neil Young ranting-as-usual thread. He's been doing it for years, like this....complete with American cloaking device when it suits his purpose:
Neil Young’s “Let’s Impeach the President”:
Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s cracking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God
Whats the problem?
Did he say something not factual about Bush?
He took a lot of heavy shit and abuse when he did the Waging Heavy Peace tour and album.
Didn't stop him nor should it, or does he not enjoy the right of free speech in Amerikkka?
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Why would you say people are delusional? A lot of people I know, including myself, no longer subscribe to cable and only watch shows on Netflix and other internet streams. I don't need cable and don't even miss it. That makes me delusional?
No, it makes you unusual. It is simply not true that 'lots of people' have cancelled cable subscriptions, as noted previously.
There are however a whack of people who steal all that they watch, but they haven't cancelled servies they never had.
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Imagine the penalty if he'd gone through security with something really dangerous, like a bottle of water.
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Electric motor is way more efficient in using energy than an internal combustion.
Young drives an old Lincoln that weighs around 3 tons.
It is not an electric car, it's a hybrid that is powered by a biodiesel.
You could have one too if you had about one million dollars, which is reputed to be the cost of designing/building the vehicle.
If it was an actual electric car, it would have a range of about 300 meters(hyberbole font engaged) with that much weight.
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350,000 bbls/day to 890,000 bbls/day
approximately 250% increase in total barrels for Kinder Morgan
accordingly increase tanker traffic from the existing ~60/year to ~410/year.
the number of tankers will increase about sevenfold
The proposal also states an intent not to increase ship size beyond the present "Aframax class tanker (120,000 dwt)".
no increase in maximum ship size
an 80% of capacity load limit imposed on tanker traffic within the Burrard Inlet reducing that to between ~400,000 to ~640,000 barrels.
not even close to accounting for the discrepancy between increase in volume of oil and number of tankers.
Unless there is a plan not yet revealed to ship more oil via pipeline from Burnaby to Washington Sate refineries?
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And you missed the point...he has been selling less stuff for many years.
Not really. He is still recording and selling well, and touring whenever he gets the urge. Concerts can be softer stuff, bluegrassy, or hard rocking with Crazy Horse.
Poltics aside, Young is one of very very few musicians who:
1) has never overtly bowed to commercial pressure: his tours aren't sponsored by beer or condom or clothing sponsors.
2) he has always recorded what he wanted when he wanted to- which has pissed off many fans and confounded many music critics. He does what he feels like doing on record and on stage. if people don't like it. oh well.....
i cannot think of anybody really who has done what he does, perhaps Bob Dylan would be similar.
I've seen him twice live. The first time was not too long after a recorded collaboration with Pearl Jam. About half the crowd was expecting a folk concert. What we got was an earsplitting, hardcore psychedelic wall of sound played by a great band. To add to the perversity, in the middle he stopped and played three solo acoustic songs. It was a great, great concert, one of the best I've ever seen.
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Love Neil Youngs music.
I don't think he was aware that when he plugged in his electric powered Lincoln to recharge in Alberta the electricity came from either natural gas or coal.
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I have a little giggle when I hear environmentalists tales of the glorious, paradisical, pristine boreal forest.I live in Alberta and I have yet to visit the oil sands. I have however visited numerous drilling rigs and have been apart of the environmental reclamiation and remediation process and I can tell you that the lands in those situations are almost always restored to the same if not better conditions. I can't see why the oil sands would be any different as it garners a world audience.
I grew up in northern AB and live there now, spent lots of time working and playing in the bush.
Here is what was around Fort McMurray prior to development: thin stunted trees with virtually no commercial logging, poor big game hunting because there was no food for the animals, pretty good fishing though no commercial fishing except for a barely viable lake trout fishery in Lake Athabasca(200 kms north of FM), a bit of prospecting, a lot of mosquitos and black flies, very few people.
Here is what is around Ft McMurray now:thin stunted trees with virtually no commercial logging, very few people,poor big game hunting because there was no food for the animals, pretty good fishing though no commecial fishing except for a barely viable lake trout fishery in Lake Athabasca(200 kms north of FM), a bit of prospecting, a lot of mosquitos and black flies, more holes in the ground, more traffic on the highways and a lot more people.
Edyted to correct above: the trout fishery in Lake Athabasca failed long ago due to the cost of processing and shippng the fish. They're still there, some really big lake trout up to maybe 60 pounds.
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"per the formal Kinder Morgan proposed expansion, intent is to go from shipping 350,000 bbls/day to 890,000 bbls/day; a 2.5 times increase and, accordingly increase tanker traffic from the existing ~60/year to ~410/year. The proposal also states an intent not to increase ship size beyond the present "Aframax class tanker (120,000 dwt)".
something does not add up here....a 250% increase in volume shipped, use the same class of ships, and there will be a 700% increase in the number of ships in Vancouver Harbour?
"I didn't find anything definitive to outline any 'passage transfer' type monies to BC realized through TAPS (Trans Alaska Pipeline System) shipping traffic... "
Why hasn't there been an uproar over this injustice? Or are the Alaskan tankers - some 25,000 of them so far by your count,steaming past the same BC coast(north to south for 1,000 kms of costs as compared to heading west to deep water from Kitimat). Are they not a constant threat to our environment? Why isn't Alaska being asked to meet BCs 5 conditions?
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I have no problem if those people and any signs are 100 feet from him, in front of him.Yeah I hear those paper signs were razor sharp! Maybe we could use them in the guillotine?
But there is no fucking way that anybody should be anywhere near that close to any PM of any political stripe at any time.
Epic fail by the security detail.
Epic fail by Harpers staff if they don't change whatever caused that failure.
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LOL X 2I don't think Canadians care much about the party the senator is from,on this topic. IF he did something wrong than he's as wrong as Duffy and the others. The reason for the Tory senators are singled out is all about Harper's "open and accountability" that only is in play, when he has the advantage. I don't know how long its going to take the Conservative supporters to wake up and smell something rotten in this party but hopeful they will be as smart as the Liberals supporters, and vote them out in the next election.
"Canadians don't care what political stripe the offender comes under when he or she rips us off."
I agree that the majority of Canadians don't care about the political stripe.
The problem here, which the OP has pointed out, is that the minority who apparently do care about the political stripe are members of the media who pick and choose pretty carefully based on their hate for Harper. Their ongoing eagerness to abandon even a faint pretence of objectivity is not surprising to some of us, and apparently of no concern whatsoever to others.
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A parallel career to Scorcese is actor Robert de Niro, a pair that have crossed paths to great mutual benefit a few times. De Niro is generally thought of as one of the very best actors of his generation, and certainly has been excellent in some epic movies. But lately..... the guy seems to be low on money, appearing in some really weak stuff. Compared to what he's done, it's more 'going through the motions' than 'working'. I can understand it when actors feel they have to take anything to make a living/ stay visible in a very competetitive business. But surely de Niro can do anything he wants in the movie business, he must get offered good parts. Beats me why he is making the crap he has lately.I think that is the case for most art. Only 10% of what anyone makes can be considered great. And that is not even talking to the projects that failed or never got a start. I've been doing house music for about a decade now, and most of my stuff is .. mediocre. But as you point out, it is the volume of material that people like Scorcese can dish out. He just loves what he does and will keep doing it no matter if it's good or not. Drive and determination.
I am following this guy James Rolfe who is an independent filmmaker. His advice is, just keep going, for you will learn things each time of what works and what fails.
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True, we are content to get a free ride by sucking constantly at the breast of the US taxpayer.And we also don't have the military industrial complex sucking constantly at the breast of the Canadian taxpayer.
At our current defence expenditure level, our country would be basically undefended and indefensible without Big Daddy lurking on all our military horizons. Our smugness would evaporate overnight if we had to carry ourselves at our own expense.
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God was an essential human invention, intended to provide some convenient answers for hard questions, but more inportantly to provide hope in lives that were often harsh, brutal and short- and hopeless.
Organized religion also provides another tribal connection, which is something we all instinctively seek while pretending to be above it all.
I have no problem with organized religion as applied to the grieving, it provides comfort and solace to wounded hearts when they most need it. Whatever works.....as long as it is optional.
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"Not so, the tankers used from Vancouver are much smaller than the supertankers proposed for Northern Gateway, "
Not for long.
When Kinder-Morgan expands, the choice will be either lots more small tankers or fewer big tankers in the Port of Vancouver. Kinder Morgan will be larger than Gateway in volume, and the new oil won't be going to Cherry Point via pipeline, it will go to Asia by tanker. That will be an interesting battle, since there has been crude oil and other products shipped through the port of Vancouver(up to 120,000 ton tankers)for the last 60 years.
I'm wondering how much money BC gets now from the constant stream of Alaskan supertankers running down their coast for the last 3 decades? Anybody know?
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Shannon was also in Mud, though he had a smaller role and is a bit hard to recognize despite being a large homely man. It's a very good movie- another fine performance by the surprising Matthew McConaughey. Mud reminds me of the oldie but goodie Stand By Me.I saw Take Shelter, and thought it was terrific. And Michael Shannon was incredibly good.
Shannon has become a favorite actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the meh Revolutionary Road and of course is great in Boardwalk Empire.
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well, no.Well, under the (dubious) premise that this is a serious question, you get the same answer you'd get if any other celebrity figure were the subject; if enough people tune out of Enright's show, he will be replaced.
Nobody watches CBC TV programming and they continue to pound massive subsidies into it. It is clearly not a matter of supply and demand.
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Oh , and if you follow directors, check out the work of a newish American named Jeff Nichols.
In recent years he has written/directed a couple of terrific movies: Take Shelter and Mud.
I'll invest two hours and $12 in this guy until he makes me stop!
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1. send ambassadors: members can go to the many other political boards out there and link to this place as much as possible. Many of the small boards won't mind, it is not uncommon to see signature links that will drive traffic and bump membership. If you wish to send actual physical ambassadors I think overthere would be the ideal Consul to The Bahamas.
2. Have a place on the main screen to quickly go to your own posts, so it is easy to quickly check in on threads you've been on recently