#19, Rear Window - #20, Spirited Away
Okay, I'm really behind, and I doubt many people still read this blog. In order to keep myself satisfied, however, I am determined not to retire this little project. However, I am fully confident that I will not be able to keep up with my regular reviews. Since many of them have been poor quality, anyway, I have decided, for at least a while, to eliminate the full reviews. Instead, I will make a few comments on the film, and give it a rating, unless I see it as worthy of more. Since many of my reviews have been glowing and redundant besides, this shouldn't be a problem.
I will, however, still write a full article for my Hysterically Good picks (which I need a better name for).
So, without further ado, here are the next few films:
#19 - Rear Window - I actually started a longer review for this one, and almost wish I had continued with it. A fantastic film. One of my favorite Hitchock's. Very ambitious in that it maintains a very static narrative perspective throughout the entire movie, with all but a few shots originating from within Stewart's character's apartment. Wonderfully suspensful and engaging.
Highlights: Fantastic script and cinematography. An engaging story made all the better by its build-up. Keeps you guessing until the very end. Hitchock truly is a master story-teller. Wonderful vignettes and characters that create a slightly disturbing portrait of the nature man's fascinating with voyuerism.
Downers: The usual narrow-minded portrayal of the leading lady that Hitchock gleefully perpetuates throughout his career. The entire film is filmed on what is very obviously a set piece, but that isn't as distracting as it could have been.
Rating: 9
#20 - Spirited Away - I'm usually ambivalent towards Anime, but I hear many good things about this film, so I got a copy. This one is hard to gauge since it was filled with wonderfully imaginative images and characters, but I was really distracted by the English dubbing. It wasn't bad, per se, but I could tell something was just slightly off. And while the images and characters and even the story were really wonderful, beautiful at times, I kind of felt a bit unsatisfied with the pay-off.
Highlights: A touching and engaging story filled with fascinating images. Flowed really nicely, and just had a finely tuned aesthetic that appealed very well to the viewer's emotions and sense of wonder.
Downers: Hard to follow at times. It felt like moments had decided lack of motivation, and sometimes the plot was just forced along. I wanted to know more about the world in the movie. The dubbing really threw me off. Some of the characters, while interesting throughout, simply confused me.
7.5/10
I will, however, still write a full article for my Hysterically Good picks (which I need a better name for).
So, without further ado, here are the next few films:
#19 - Rear Window - I actually started a longer review for this one, and almost wish I had continued with it. A fantastic film. One of my favorite Hitchock's. Very ambitious in that it maintains a very static narrative perspective throughout the entire movie, with all but a few shots originating from within Stewart's character's apartment. Wonderfully suspensful and engaging.
Highlights: Fantastic script and cinematography. An engaging story made all the better by its build-up. Keeps you guessing until the very end. Hitchock truly is a master story-teller. Wonderful vignettes and characters that create a slightly disturbing portrait of the nature man's fascinating with voyuerism.
Downers: The usual narrow-minded portrayal of the leading lady that Hitchock gleefully perpetuates throughout his career. The entire film is filmed on what is very obviously a set piece, but that isn't as distracting as it could have been.
Rating: 9
#20 - Spirited Away - I'm usually ambivalent towards Anime, but I hear many good things about this film, so I got a copy. This one is hard to gauge since it was filled with wonderfully imaginative images and characters, but I was really distracted by the English dubbing. It wasn't bad, per se, but I could tell something was just slightly off. And while the images and characters and even the story were really wonderful, beautiful at times, I kind of felt a bit unsatisfied with the pay-off.
Highlights: A touching and engaging story filled with fascinating images. Flowed really nicely, and just had a finely tuned aesthetic that appealed very well to the viewer's emotions and sense of wonder.
Downers: Hard to follow at times. It felt like moments had decided lack of motivation, and sometimes the plot was just forced along. I wanted to know more about the world in the movie. The dubbing really threw me off. Some of the characters, while interesting throughout, simply confused me.
7.5/10
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Dr. Schlambaugh, a senior lecturer at the Chemical Engineering Department,University of Oklahoma, is known for posing questions on final exams like: "Why do airplanes fly?"
In May a few years ago, the "Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer " exam paper contained the question:
"Is Hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with proof."
Most students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or similar. One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we must postulate that if souls exist, they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls also must have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it does not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for souls entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some religions say that if you
are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than
one of these religions, and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to
Hell. With the birth and death rates what they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change in the volume of Hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of the souls and volume needs to stay constant.
[Answer 1] So, if Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature in Hell willincrease until all Hell breaks loose.
[Answer 2] Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase in souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure
will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it? If we accept the postulate (given to me by Teresa Banyan during freshman year) that "it'll be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and taking into account that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then [Answer 2] cannot be correct;
...... thus, Hell is exothermic.
The student got the only A.
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