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FraterLibre
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N0t Being Able to Read
I saw it and liked it, but I don't go in critical to movies, accepting them for their true nature beforehand and thus not expecting them to be Shakespeare's wet dream.
Given your hypercriticality, I hesitated to admit I saw this film at all, let alone enjoyed it. Then I thought, no, perhaps I can encourage you to suspend your critical faculties until AFTER you've seen something. Unless something is so bad as to intrude its flaws and inadequacies upon me as I watch or read, I'll usually just go with the flow until afterwards.
By doing this, I've enjoyed many books and films I might, in a more critical mood, have stopped bothering with early on due to some gaffe or howler.
Having said this, I'll also state emphatically that when something fails me, I'm on to the next thing. Life's too short. Just stopped reader Stephen Baxter's Manifold Origin on page 295, (out of 440 or so), because it just became too devoid of purposeful deveopment. He was re-arranging his chess pieces randomly either to keep himself busy or to add pages to his book. So I bailed.
I once bailed on a book that had only 20 or so pages to go. And I'm doing this more often as I age toward Not Being Able to Read Anymore, y'know?
Fiction delivery systems such as books are rapidly becoming artifacts from a bygone age, while movies and AV computer entertainments such as CD-ROM games seem the wave of the post-literate future. Ah, well. Maybe I really did live in the right time after all.
Has anyone seen it?
I saw it and liked it, but I don't go in critical to movies, accepting them for their true nature beforehand and thus not expecting them to be Shakespeare's wet dream.
Given your hypercriticality, I hesitated to admit I saw this film at all, let alone enjoyed it. Then I thought, no, perhaps I can encourage you to suspend your critical faculties until AFTER you've seen something. Unless something is so bad as to intrude its flaws and inadequacies upon me as I watch or read, I'll usually just go with the flow until afterwards.
By doing this, I've enjoyed many books and films I might, in a more critical mood, have stopped bothering with early on due to some gaffe or howler.
Having said this, I'll also state emphatically that when something fails me, I'm on to the next thing. Life's too short. Just stopped reader Stephen Baxter's Manifold Origin on page 295, (out of 440 or so), because it just became too devoid of purposeful deveopment. He was re-arranging his chess pieces randomly either to keep himself busy or to add pages to his book. So I bailed.
I once bailed on a book that had only 20 or so pages to go. And I'm doing this more often as I age toward Not Being Able to Read Anymore, y'know?
Fiction delivery systems such as books are rapidly becoming artifacts from a bygone age, while movies and AV computer entertainments such as CD-ROM games seem the wave of the post-literate future. Ah, well. Maybe I really did live in the right time after all.