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View Poll Results: Do you attend the indy/intl theatre? | |||
I attend often. | 1 | 14.29% | |
I get there a few times a year. | 2 | 28.57% | |
I’ve only gone a time or two. | 0 | 0% | |
I went once. The guy in all black with a beret freaked me out. I’m positive he smoked cloves. | 0 | 0% | |
No. I never think of it. | 2 | 28.57% | |
No. I like my porn without subtitles, thank you. | 1 | 14.29% | |
Are you kidding? Lesbians took over my indy theater in 1986! | 0 | 0% | |
Absolutely not. Too many Blue Staters engaging in lascivious lasciviousness. | 0 | 0% | |
Hell no. Next you’ll be asking me what color of scarf goes with Sabre Dance! | 1 | 14.29% | |
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10-13-2006, 05:53 PM | #11 | |
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However, a word to the wise, after visiting many a foreign beach we would not be better off if most of the world's citizens were clotheless. Many a time, my eyes and soul were damaged by the sight of an eighty year old woman dangling her ta-tas around her knees. Please only pretty nakeds, good sir.
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10-13-2006, 06:16 PM | #12 | |
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Some indy theatres have a marial arts week. They're not screening Chuck Norris' Invasion USA or Steven Sagal flicks, but they do show films that actively try to avoid compromising the "art" aspect of martial arts. In my book, simply watching certain kinds of films doesn't make one artsy. Being artistic in this context has more to do with how you engage a film, and this in turn has something to do with what the film makes available for you to engage with. To be much too brief, if your mindset is one of actively seeking education and/or discovering beauty in the human experience, it is artistic. Some films do more to encourage and reward such a mindset than do others, and so people who are looking for that experience in film develop a preference. Still, there is something to be said for the postmodern quest to find meaning amidst even the most banal and consumer-oriented fare.
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10-13-2006, 06:21 PM | #13 |
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"Fearless" is a Zhang Yi Lou film about a Chinese character's development through martial arts around the turn of the Twentieth Century.
It reflects lightly upon certain acts of right and wrong, with beautiful cinematography, as is his standard, well-choreographed fight scenes and an interesting Chinese type ending. It is not the profoundest of movies, nor does it explore deep provisions of Chinese thought, but I enjoyed it. Despite some predictability, it was moving. I actually never saw Danny the Dog, even though both movies share the same lead actor. My wife hates those types of films.
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I'd distinguish between agape, eros, and pornea. The human body can appear and/or be represented in any of these three modes, and in my view only one of them degrades it. Quote:
I agree completely. The Anthony Comstocks of the world actually seem to deeply loathe their own bodies.
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10-13-2006, 06:38 PM | #15 |
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I couldn't agree more. Once when I was in college, I was with Betty Trover, parked near Ensign Peak. I started to unbutton her blouse and she recoiled. I explained that I didn't want to see her naked, that I just wanted to see her nude. I explained how nudity and nakedness were two different things. Unfortunately, Betty Trover did not share my appreciation for the nuances of art.
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Well some bodies are loathsome, are they not?
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http://www.comstock.com Rodins' work is lovely, and I cannot fathom how any person could deem any of his work obscene. |
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I prefer the words nude and naked ... using words such as agape, eros or pornea results in eyes rolled and, twitching, the bends and an intellectual coma.
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