Bayesian

Humans and the planet we're on are incredibly fragile in the grand scheme of things.
 
 
I dunno, I could almost buy he figured out how that works, but....
 
 
Yep, can't deny any of that. I know its all budget related, but it's just true.  Free roaming monkeys in episode 6 might be about all they have budget for apart from... well, one particular animal-based scene.
 
Speaking of that scene, @Koray Savas and any other game-players, did you notice that in the bedroom Joel and Ellie have their big scene in,
 
 
 
 
Very true, it's not a fault of TLOU alone. 
 
 
 
Yup, agreed.  in the end, these minor nitpicks don't matter.

But I find the better a show is, the more tiny nitpicks get brought up, because there isn't major issues to talk about instead like some other disappointing shows....

I'm caught up to Ep. 5 now. Until I started hearing about this series last fall, I'd never even realized there was a video game by this name, so I'm watching this show with zero preconceptions.
 
First, this is prestige TV at its near-finest. Terrific character development, amazing production values, and some truly gripping human story to keep your attention. I very much enjoyed watching the man-on-the-ground POV of the world starting to fall apart in Austin because I'm endlessly fascinated by how screen/teleplay writers choose to portray the end of the world. It's done very believably in TLoU. (It's also terrifying to think how quickly everything will go to shit in a shock-event situation like this. I kinda get the prepper mindset.)
 
However, precisely because the producers go to such lengths to portray the decay of civilization as we know it as accurately as possible, I can't help but notice the way some elements stretch credulity. I agree with Jay the total unlikelihood that Bill & Frank's town would have gone undisturbed for 20 years, save one raider attempt. Bill somehow getting the regional gas utility infrastructure up and running so he could get his gas stove going was a little farfetched, to say the least. And the town itself, after 20 years, needed to show a lot more woody vegetation, roaming wildlife, rotting wood structures, eroding pavement, etc. Flags would have turned to bleached gray shreds. And gasoline would simply no longer exist in a usable form (Joel siphoning gas out of a car in that one episode was LOL-ridiculous). But I tend to notice this problem in all movies and TV: when something is supposed to look like it was undisturbed for a decade, the set decorators make it look instead like it was undisturbed for a year or two at best.
 
But here I am nitpicking. The truth is that these things are completely forgivable in the face of such good storytelling. The way the writers play with our sympathies against the KC resistance and then for the resistance was really well done. And no matter how implausible it would have been in real life, Bill & Frank's storyline -- and the semblance of the old way of life they built under such bleak circumstances -- was beautiful.

Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival, The Fabelmans director said, “With the co-operation of Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan, we’re mounting a large production for HBO on based on Stanley’s original script Napoloeon. We are working on Napoleon as a seven-part limited series,” he said.
 
https://deadline.com/2023/02/steven-spielberg-stanley-kubricks-napoleon-7-part-series-hbo-1235266372/

I'm caught up to Ep. 5 now. Until I started hearing about this series last fall, I'd never even realized there was a video game by this name, so I'm watching this show with zero preconceptions.
 
First, this is prestige TV at its near-finest. Terrific character development, amazing production values, and some truly gripping human story to keep your attention. I very much enjoyed watching the man-on-the-ground POV of the world starting to fall apart in Austin because I'm endlessly fascinated by how screen/teleplay writers choose to portray the end of the world. It's done very believably in TLoU. (It's also terrifying to think how quickly everything will go to shit in a shock-event situation like this. I kinda get the prepper mindset.)
 
However, precisely because the producers go to such lengths to portray the decay of civilization as we know it as accurately as possible, I can't help but notice the way some elements stretch credulity. I agree with Jay the total unlikelihood that Bill & Frank's town would have gone undisturbed for 20 years, save one raider attempt. Bill somehow getting the regional gas utility infrastructure up and running so he could get his gas stove going was a little farfetched, to say the least. And the town itself, after 20 years, needed to show a lot more woody vegetation, roaming wildlife, rotting wood structures, eroding pavement, etc. Flags would have turned to bleached gray shreds. And gasoline would simply no longer exist in a usable form (Joel siphoning gas out of a car in that one episode was LOL-ridiculous). But I tend to notice this problem in all movies and TV: when something is supposed to look like it was undisturbed for a decade, the set decorators make it look instead like it was undisturbed for a year or two at best.
 
But here I am nitpicking. The truth is that these things are completely forgivable in the face of such good storytelling. The way the writers play with our sympathies against the KC resistance and then for the resistance was really well done. And no matter how implausible it would have been in real life, Bill & Frank's storyline -- and the semblance of the old way of life they built under such bleak circumstances -- was beautiful.

I'm caught up to Ep. 5 now. Until I started hearing about this series last fall, I'd never even realized there was a video game by this name, so I'm watching this show with zero preconceptions.
 
First, this is prestige TV at its near-finest. Terrific character development, amazing production values, and some truly gripping human story to keep your attention. I very much enjoyed watching the man-on-the-ground POV of the world starting to fall apart in Austin because I'm endlessly fascinated by how screen/teleplay writers choose to portray the end of the world. It's done very believably in TLoU. (It's also terrifying to think how quickly everything will go to shit in a shock-event situation like this. I kinda get the prepper mindset.)
 
However, precisely because the producers go to such lengths to portray the decay of civilization as we know it as accurately as possible, I can't help but notice the way some elements stretch credulity. I agree with Jay the total unlikelihood that Bill & Frank's town would have gone undisturbed for 20 years, save one raider attempt. Bill somehow getting the regional gas utility infrastructure up and running so he could get his gas stove going was a little farfetched, to say the least. And the town itself, after 20 years, needed to show a lot more woody vegetation, roaming wildlife, rotting wood structures, eroding pavement, etc. Flags would have turned to bleached gray shreds. And gasoline would simply no longer exist in a usable form (Joel siphoning gas out of a car in that one episode was LOL-ridiculous). But I tend to notice this problem in all movies and TV: when something is supposed to look like it was undisturbed for a decade, the set decorators make it look instead like it was undisturbed for a year or two at best.
 
But here I am nitpicking. The truth is that these things are completely forgivable in the face of such good storytelling. The way the writers play with our sympathies against the KC resistance and then for the resistance was really well done. And no matter how implausible it would have been in real life, Bill & Frank's storyline -- and the semblance of the old way of life they built under such bleak circumstances -- was beautiful.

I'm caught up to Ep. 5 now. Until I started hearing about this series last fall, I'd never even realized there was a video game by this name, so I'm watching this show with zero preconceptions.
 
First, this is prestige TV at its near-finest. Terrific character development, amazing production values, and some truly gripping human story to keep your attention. I very much enjoyed watching the man-on-the-ground POV of the world starting to fall apart in Austin because I'm endlessly fascinated by how screen/teleplay writers choose to portray the end of the world. It's done very believably in TLoU. (It's also terrifying to think how quickly everything will go to shit in a shock-event situation like this. I kinda get the prepper mindset.)
 
However, precisely because the producers go to such lengths to portray the decay of civilization as we know it as accurately as possible, I can't help but notice the way some elements stretch credulity. I agree with Jay the total unlikelihood that Bill & Frank's town would have gone undisturbed for 20 years, save one raider attempt. Bill somehow getting the regional gas utility infrastructure up and running so he could get his gas stove going was a little farfetched, to say the least. And the town itself, after 20 years, needed to show a lot more woody vegetation, roaming wildlife, rotting wood structures, eroding pavement, etc. Flags would have turned to bleached gray shreds. And gasoline would simply no longer exist in a usable form (Joel siphoning gas out of a car in that one episode was LOL-ridiculous). But I tend to notice this problem in all movies and TV: when something is supposed to look like it was undisturbed for a decade, the set decorators make it look instead like it was undisturbed for a year or two at best.
 
But here I am nitpicking. The truth is that these things are completely forgivable in the face of such good storytelling. The way the writers play with our sympathies against the KC resistance and then for the resistance was really well done. And no matter how implausible it would have been in real life, Bill & Frank's storyline -- and the semblance of the old way of life they built under such bleak circumstances -- was beautiful.

Part 3 out now!
 
We continue our highly ambitious journey through John Williams‘ television music jungle. In this episode, we cover medical dramas Ben Casey, The Eleventh Hour and Breaking Point, as well as an episode-by-episode walkthrough of Williams’ work for the cornerstone series Kraft Suspense Theatre.
 
http://celluloidtunes.no/celluloid-tunes-78-the-complete-john-williams-television-music-walkthrough-part-3-27th-international-edition/
 
 

It must have been a bit surreal for him to be doing session work, so to speak, at this stage in his career—a fun little time warp. I’m looking forward to this album!

I don't really care how long the trailers are. I love these films. They're so over the top and cheesy but I always have such great experiences in the cinema with them. They're just 2.5 hours of dumb fun and sometimes that's all I need. Love it!!

This weekend, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, enhanced by the Hamlisch-Page Student Choir, will offer three performances of "The Music of John Williams".
 
https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/77360/the-music-of-john-williams
 
The program includes the Liberty Fanfare, "Call of the Champions", excerpts from Empire of the Sun ("Cadillac of the Skies"), J.F.K., Lincoln, The Witches of Eastwick as well as from the Harry Potter, the Indiana Jones and the Star Wars movies.

@Naïve Old Fart
 

Considering Cameron said that he moved a plot thread from the first act of The Way of Water, to the 1st act of the 4th film, I believe we could be getting a flashback to the larger arrival of the RDA, and the 1 year time jump he did. Perhaps an exploration of the comic book canon that Cameron wrote a treatment for, where the RDA offer the humans amnesty that chose to stay on Pandora, in exchange for them turning in Sully and his group. Also Jake blew up the Mines and refinery for the Unobtanium when the RDA refused to leave. Could be a cool flashback and more info on the missing year that Cameron jumped past.

I’ve never had any issues with them although I think ordering from Music Box works out best if you’re in Europe in terms of postage cost and delivery time.
 
To be fair LLL might make the odd mistake but the Varese International store got at least one thing wrong in my order each of the four/five times I ordered from them. Indeed they said they would send the right disc but ended up sending a second copy of the wrong disc. Face. Meet palm.

Poor KOTCS. So much vitriol, invective and vituperation aimed at a movie that made for better viewing than 90% of what the studios have been shoveling into theaters every summer for the past 15 years. (The remaining 10% being mostly M:I movies, if memory serves.)
 
Leave… KOTCS… alone!!

Poor KOTCS. So much vitriol, invective and vituperation aimed at a movie that made for better viewing than 90% of what the studios have been shoveling into theaters every summer for the past 15 years. (The remaining 10% being mostly M:I movies, if memory serves.)
 
Leave… KOTCS… alone!!

My goodness, they're desperate.

How have we come to 2023, with advancements made in CGI, and any studio thinks 'You know what, this looks acceptable to release'. It looks awful. 
 
All of the intrigue and power of Burton's gothic Batman is stripped bare by lazy CG. It honestly doesn't evoke any sense of nostalgia and instead makes me feel sad that THIS is how Keaton chooses to return...

Maybe he did this time around

Certainly not saying his recent performances are bad! Just that Indiana Jones is a physically demanding role and Ford gives the character a unique physicality with his performance (albeit slightly stilted in KOCS).
 
He was great in TFA, appropriately playing an older, somewhat burdened interpretation of Han Solo.
 
But clearly he's having a blast playing Indy again. They could easily have gone the grumpy curmudgeon route but he's coming across as more of a protective elder, similar to Han's relationship with Rey in TFA.

Well, I don't think it is a spolier, but Indy does say that he didn't kill his wife.  And the villian tells him that he doesn't care.  

Just saw the headline on the JWFan front page—congrats on your hard work officially becoming part of the premier destination on the web for all
things JW!