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| grace |
 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:34 pm |
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Befade, While I can't speak to Snow Cake, I have read and watched Temple Grandin, an animal behaviorist famous for being autistic. She maintains that her autism helped her become "the" authority on slaughtering animals with as little discomfort as possible, because she notices billions of things that don't register with non-autistic people. A film on her, starring Clare Danes, is in the pipeline to come out sometime soon.
Anyway -- Temple Grandin responds to everything you ask of her. In fact, she over-responds frequently; I watched a three-hour call-in show on CSPAN featuring her as the guest, and I could only make it through two hours, she was so intense. She's brilliant, but extremely intense and thorough in making her thoughts and opinions known in no uncertain terms.
A friend of mine has an autistic son, who stopped by work a while back. While he was in my work area, he constantly asked "Hey grace, can I touch this? Hey grace, what's this do? Hey grace, can I try this?" and so on.
So what I'm taking the long way around of saying is, autism definitely manifests itself differently in different people.
And while I'm here, I just have to say that the horse named The Pie in National Velvet is not a pie at all. A pie is a horse with black and white patches - we'd call one a Pinto or paint. The movie horse was a chestnut with socks and a blaze. Just had to get that off my chest. Otherwise, a great movie. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:08 pm |
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Temple Grandin sounds like she has a form of autism very similar to Weaver's character.
The full term for the horse you describe is piebald, but I'm sure you know that. Just for the others on here. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:52 pm |
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Quote: That makes three recommendations, Betsy.
Marj......are you saying you saw it, too and didn't like it?
Gary.......I don't feel bad because alot of movies I've liked you've panned (no, I can remember which ones........)
Grace........Thanks for your input. I still think the essence of autism is difficulty with social interactions.......but more clarification would be helpful. Or more discussion with people who know more than I do.
(Still hated the movie.....) |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:28 pm |
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I will be watching this, there is autism in the S-Man's family, but
doesn't it look like they should have cast Ann B. Davis from The Brady Bunch:
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:09 am |
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Marj wrote: I don't know if the Jamie Foxx character on The Soloist, had autism or not - I haven't seen the movie. But I just got two recommendations for the film. I may end up disagreeing but I'm going to give it a try.
Consider this the third recommend. I loved The Soloist and thought both Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx was very well cast. I think as you watch the film, you'll see how Jamie Foxx's character becomes the way he does. It's a great transformation that is not only powerful, but also touching. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:12 pm |
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Syd wrote: marantzo wrote: Didn't Fred Willard start as a straight quiz master or MC on some tv show years ago? I remember seeing him playing a comic character for the first time on tv (maybe WKRP or SCTV) and being surprised that he was a comic.
I confused Fred Willard and Frank Bonner (Herb Tarlek on WKRP) for a long time. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:59 am |
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| A fantastic and easily overlooked independent film is Big Fan, which I saw tonight streaming on Netflix. It's a dark comedy about a sports fan with no life, but there's much more there than meets the eye. It's grounded by a great lead performance by stand-up comedan Patton Oswalt, and the writing and direction by Robert Siegel (who wrote The Wrestler) is marvelous. This is a must-see. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:42 am |
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Yes, Big Fan needs more applause.
Hopefully doesn't get overly lost in the '09 shuffle.
I noticed that Patton Oswalt has a brief cameo in The Informant!, as an extra FBI agent towards the end. I assume they liked his odd stunted looks, since that film seemed to portray the FBI and Justice Dept as a bunch of creeps or buffoons. I didn't know that Oswalt was a comedian.
I would try to check out some of his act, if Youtube wasn't blocked and I wasn't too lazy to circumvent that.
Netflix streaming? Does that mean you watch it on your PC? or can you send it to your TV?
Btw, Netflix stock has nearly quadrupled in value from last year, after 4th Q earnings were way above expectations, kicking it up another 20%. Their move into streaming means that they keep customers happy/viewing, while saving on mailing costs, while keeping new and fresh.
And the juggernaut continues.
Netflix has cut into Dvd purchases so much (along with downloading and a glutted dvd market market), that one big studio (Warners, I think), just cut a deal that Nflx won't rent their titles for 28 days after dvd release, in exchange for opening their library up to a lot more streaming. Other studios likely to follow. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:50 am |
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Until recently I streamed Netflix only on to my computer, which meant less streaming. For Christmas my wife and I gave ourselves the Roku player, which allows us to stream it on to the television. Result: much more streaming, including two of my favorite films of late, Big Fan and Sleeping Dogs Lie. And, yes, it means fewer mailings.
One of the recent mailings was Moon, which I have to be negative about despite Sam Rockwell's interesting multiple performance. It's overly complicated and ultimately almost incoherent. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:44 am |
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I thought Moon had a pretty simple concept which unfolded slowly.
I liked the look of it, and thought it mostly pulled off what it wanted to do, while having some fun referencing other sci-fi films.
You might want to stream two of my favorite films of 2009: Mary & Max and Facing Ali.
Cold Souls and the animated 9 are also getting little attention but are worth seeing. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:32 pm |
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| Billy, I am thinking of getting a Roku player. Any problems? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:41 pm |
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Marc wrote: Billy, I am thinking of getting a Roku player. Any problems?
The only "problem" (which I remedied easily) was that I couldn't figure out how to watch Roku and use the computer at the same time. Finally decided I didn't need to. I switch the plug from the computer to the Roku player and then back when the movie is over. I can even switch it during the movie if I want to check something. There are attachments that obviate this problem, so if you want to spend extra you can split the cable easily enough. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:59 pm |
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| i stream my netflix availables through PS3 -- most are in Hi-Def |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:21 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Marc wrote: Billy, I am thinking of getting a Roku player. Any problems?
The only "problem" (which I remedied easily) was that I couldn't figure out how to watch Roku and use the computer at the same time. Finally decided I didn't need to. I switch the plug from the computer to the Roku player and then back when the movie is over. I can even switch it during the movie if I want to check something. There are attachments that obviate this problem, so if you want to spend extra you can split the cable easily enough.
Do you not have a separate router like a Linksys or D-Link? These take your internet connection and create your own home network where multiple devices can be plugged in at the same time, sending internet access to more than just one connection at a time. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:12 pm |
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| Finally caught up with Romance and Cigarettes. Love it. Review to be forthcoming. But fuckin' Blockbuster has lost my business for good. It's not the lousy stock of movies, it's that even good movies are unbelievably scratched up and defective. What's the point? |
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