tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8705559932949771155..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "No Country for Old Men"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54581376173412447372007-11-18T13:52:00.000-08:002007-11-18T13:52:00.000-08:00I relly want to read "No Country" and I wanna see ...I relly want to read "No Country" and I wanna see the movie. I just wished someone other than the Coen brothers had done it. I dont like them. I saw Cormac MacCarthy on Oprah,and he came across as a boring old grump. There was something loathsome about him. I guess you dont have to like the artist to enjoy his work,but please,a story like this is so good,why not let some(Better duck when the rocks start flying towrad my cranium)REALLY GOOD FILMAKER DO IT??? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54807471941217811592007-11-18T13:45:00.000-08:002007-11-18T13:45:00.000-08:00Was I the only person who was dissatisfied with th...Was I the only person who was dissatisfied with the ending? There was no closure. The directors had no problem showing us every gory detail of the death of every minor character, but when it comes to the three main characters, you're left guessing as to the outcome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50977688032968866622007-11-18T04:53:00.000-08:002007-11-18T04:53:00.000-08:00"Is it possible for a game to be a bona fide work ..."Is it possible for a game to be a bona fide work of art?"<BR/><BR/>Perhaps. However, it won't be <A HREF="http://www.costik.com/gamnstry.html" REL="nofollow">because of the storyline</A>. If games are -potentially, at least- art, they are a form of art more akin to music than to literature or storytelling. As with music, they can have a plot (like opera does) but it isn't strictly necessary. The real merit of a game lies in that nebulous term, <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameplay" REL="nofollow">"gameplay"</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17379271902962390492007-11-17T22:22:00.000-08:002007-11-17T22:22:00.000-08:00Alberta (Canada) company BioWare is coming out wit...Alberta (Canada) company BioWare is coming out with Mass Effect, which is supposed to feature the most satisfying story line of any videogame so far. Is it possible for a game to be a bona fide work of art? We'll see.Thursdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13002311410445623799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17348577130764050502007-11-17T21:30:00.000-08:002007-11-17T21:30:00.000-08:00Anon -- you can hardly blame the game developers. ...Anon -- you can hardly blame the game developers. It's where the money is.<BR/><BR/>Let's review: Hollywood is a closed shop where you have to have personal connections to enter as a writer, director, actor, etc. Most technical development is being outsourced to India or China in pursuit of cheap labor or H1-B Visa'd to death. Game development is the one area where American can-do people can still shine (for now).<BR/><BR/>Exception: Nintendo pretty much keeps it's system and games in-house. Unlike Sony and Microsoft.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71600515686092001192007-11-17T20:42:00.000-08:002007-11-17T20:42:00.000-08:00Mr. Sailer said:"Developing video games is consumi...Mr. Sailer said:<BR/>"Developing video games is consuming more and more of today's creative talent"<BR/><BR/>Funny you wrote that. I read in article in Time or Newsweek about how hard working and obsessive the nerds who create the Halo series games are. I was telling a friend a couple weeks ago that the US would be light years ahead of everyone in manufacturing, science, space etc. if the people who worked on video games moved on to other things.<BR/>What a waste of talent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84214801296913415632007-11-17T19:42:00.000-08:002007-11-17T19:42:00.000-08:00Every time after I watch Goodfellas I'm always par...Every time after I watch Goodfellas I'm always paranoid for a couple weeks that I'm going to run into someone like Tommy out in the street.<BR/><BR/>BTW McCarthy's best book is Blood Meridian. Its one of the few books from the last 50 years that qualifies as a major work of art. Given your interest in Mexico and Mexican history, you should check it out. It is however pretty, well, bloody, so be forewarned.Thursdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13002311410445623799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69559701680395946202007-11-17T15:30:00.000-08:002007-11-17T15:30:00.000-08:00Right, the sheriff is an unsatisfying inversion of...Right, the sheriff is an unsatisfying inversion of the wonderful sheriff in Fargo. While 8 months pregnant Frances McDormand didn't look like a sheriff, she got the job done, while Tommie Lee Jones looks 110% like a sheriff, but turns out to be loquaciously ineffectual. So, the new film is a lot less satisfying as a cohesive dramatic work than Fargo. Instead, it's more like one try at video game, which ends unsatisfyingly, but then you try it again to see if your protagonist can survive longer.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34292754249822135702007-11-17T12:32:00.000-08:002007-11-17T12:32:00.000-08:00Wow, I read that book when flying from Europe.Didn...Wow, I read that book when flying from Europe.<BR/><BR/>Didn't think much of it at the time, but I didn't put it down until I finished it either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61816340639654828522007-11-17T07:40:00.000-08:002007-11-17T07:40:00.000-08:00i read The Road by Cormac McCarthy not too long ag...i read The Road by Cormac McCarthy not too long ago, and thought that it would make a fantastic video game.<BR/><BR/>it's an incredible book, especially for it's refreshing portrait of a competent, strong, caring father who is neither a compassionless, inept, brute nor an emasculated 'woman-with-a-penis' (the two flavors of men usually presented by our culture).KlaosOldanburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03914067914798489194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49043898172372665702007-11-17T07:12:00.000-08:002007-11-17T07:12:00.000-08:00Videogames might be a vice, but nowadays they are ...Videogames might be a vice, but nowadays they are hardly a "solitary" one. For example, you can play Halo 3 online and get repeatedly pwoned by a menagerie of obnoxious adolescents who constantly throw racial/sexual slurs at you. Not to mention life-destroying <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMORPG" REL="nofollow">MMORPGs</A> like World of Warcraft.<BR/><BR/>Hell, even the hi-score tables of prehistoric (that is, from the eighties) games were a tool social interaction -however indirect- since they fostered competition among players.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22083216705439603762007-11-17T06:42:00.000-08:002007-11-17T06:42:00.000-08:00I had a problem with this film: there seemed to be...I had a problem with this film: there seemed to be an attenuated good moral message (or a message that basically said 'humanity is doomed'). In other words, the film was too bleak for my tastes, especially when we are asked as viewers to enjoy the spectacle of brutal killings. Unlike the other Coen brothers masterpiece, "Fargo", this film's central good guy (Tommy Lee Jones) seems too weary and resigned to the evil he encounters to do much good. I'll take Frances McDormand's character over Tommy's sherrif any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com