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This is definitely one of the best examples of film noir I've seen in a while. You've got the "hero" who gets beat up a lot, the supporting cast of colorful characters and the gorgeous dames who come to no good. Plus they manage to capture the unique dialog of the genre damn near perfectly. All the more amazing given that the movie is set in a modern high-school...
Oct. 26th, 2006
The Proposition
Oct. 26th, 2006 04:24 pmSo you've got this Captain Lawman dude. And he's captured outlaw Guy Pearce and Guy's little brother Mickey. But he really wants their killin', rapin', stealin' outlaw older brother. So he tells Guy that he'll hang Mickey on Christmas. Unless Guy goes and gacks Big Bro. Then he sends off Guy with a horse and a gun...
Then he goes back to town to his purty wife and his salty men who think that they should have just hung both brothers on the spot and some angry townsfolk and a hoity-toity dude and some restless natives...
Oh yeah and its all set in Australia's "wild west" period...
Good movie. Pretty bloody as is normal for most modern Westerns. There's a very brutal flogging at one point. Also very much of the moral shades of grey kind of thing...
Then he goes back to town to his purty wife and his salty men who think that they should have just hung both brothers on the spot and some angry townsfolk and a hoity-toity dude and some restless natives...
Oh yeah and its all set in Australia's "wild west" period...
Good movie. Pretty bloody as is normal for most modern Westerns. There's a very brutal flogging at one point. Also very much of the moral shades of grey kind of thing...
Darwin's Watch
Oct. 26th, 2006 05:02 pmI'm only on the 2nd chapter (the first science one) and I've already got:
"Ah, yes, but science discourages questions too, say the cults and religions. You don't take our views seriously, you don't allow that sort of question. You try to stop us putting our ideas into school science lessons as alternatives to your world view.
To some extant, thats true - especially that bit about science lessons. But they are science lessons, so they should be teaching science. Whereas the claims of the cults and the creationists, and the closet theists who espouse intelligent design, are not science. Creationism is simply a theistic belief system and offers no credible scientific evidence whatsover for its beliefs."
Plus bonus, this footnote:
* According to Isaac Asimov, the most pratical and dramatic victory for science over religion occured in the seventeenth century, when churches began to put up lightning conductors.
Pure fucking brilliance...
"Ah, yes, but science discourages questions too, say the cults and religions. You don't take our views seriously, you don't allow that sort of question. You try to stop us putting our ideas into school science lessons as alternatives to your world view.
To some extant, thats true - especially that bit about science lessons. But they are science lessons, so they should be teaching science. Whereas the claims of the cults and the creationists, and the closet theists who espouse intelligent design, are not science. Creationism is simply a theistic belief system and offers no credible scientific evidence whatsover for its beliefs."
Plus bonus, this footnote:
* According to Isaac Asimov, the most pratical and dramatic victory for science over religion occured in the seventeenth century, when churches began to put up lightning conductors.
Pure fucking brilliance...