2015.01.31 01:00 - Art and Fun

The Guardian for this meeting was Wol.

Qt Core: Good morning Wol!
Wol Euler: good morning, Qt!
Qt Core: (your rezzing hair often remind me the head of Predator ;-) )
Wol Euler: hmmmmm
Wol Euler: I don't get the reference, sorry
Qt Core: the movie with Arnond Swartz where he fight an alien monster in the jungle
Wol Euler: oh yes, right
Wol Euler: but that guy was more of a rasta-hair, wasn't he?
Wol Euler: I remember big thick rasta dreadlocks
Qt Core: yes, but it is most on the front, maybe just as when rezzing they are very "geometrical and remind me his crab/insect like mandible

--BELL--

Wol Euler: okay :)
Qt Core: (yes, better not to dwell on my sick random connections)
Wol Euler laughs.
Wol Euler: just call it an indication of your love for and strong memories of films :)
Qt Core: :-) and yes, i like arnold schwarzenegger (obvious cut&paste( movies, especially the last ones where he was able to laugh at himself a little)
Wol Euler nods.
Qt Core: (the rarely times i go to see a movie i go to have fun, not to see art... well, beside far east ones with their stunning photography)
Wol Euler: I do both, but I would not go to a movie expecting only art and no fun at all
Qt Core: then there is the definition of fun, a very personal definition, usually ;-)
Wol Euler: always :)
Wol Euler: in both ways, positive and negative: I could never see the fun in the Three Stooges
Qt Core: like many female friends akmost having a beautiful movie scale, measured as the number of handkerchief full of tears produced while watching it
Wol Euler: heheheh
Qt Core: we males measure it in a deaths/explosion scale
Wol Euler: although for some guys that scale is like a bell curve, when there are too many they aren't interesting any more
Qt Core: (and yes, there is a too much of a good thing
Wol Euler nods.

--BELL--

Qt Core: remembering the one movie that reeally made me hurt for too much laughing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286112/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Wol Euler: I think I judge by the story more than anything else. If a film seems likely to have a good story I don't care about the rest of the "points"
Wol Euler looks
Wol Euler chuckles.
Wol Euler: I have to admit, that looks like one that I would only watch in an airplane
Qt Core: (in italy it had, as a bonus the dubbing made by real soccer players also stressing their dialectal accents)
Wol Euler: mmmkay, I can see the humour of that
Qt Core: i went to see it with a friend and we were older than most of the people present... a lot
Wol Euler smiles.
Qt Core: and we were the most laughing people as we remember the soccer based animes from the late eighties onward
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: watching kids' films as adults is full of little surprises like that
Wol Euler: at least, the good ones are
Wol Euler: the Pixar films of the 90s and 00s were great, fun for the whole family
Wol Euler: The Incredibles, Monsters Inc.
Qt Core: and then i saw that modern cartoon movies has themes/jokes that only adults or at least late teens would get
Qt Core: ;-)
Wol Euler: that too
Wol Euler: you know, I can't remember the last time I saw a film in a cinema
Wol Euler: several years ago now
Qt Core: for me it was the Star Trek reboot ;-) (but not the second as i felt it was going too dark for my taste of the trek universe)

--BELL--

Wol Euler: poof!
Qt Core: ?
Wol Euler: hehehe
Wol Euler: welcome back
Qt Core: and why the chat/ca/map always disappear after a crash ?
Qt Core: *cam
Wol Euler: defective preferences, I guess
Wol Euler: (it happens in Firestorm too)
Qt Core: or just a minimalist start to see if those were the crash reason
Wol Euler: perhaps
Qt Core: to say i don't see only silly movie one of my (if not the) favourite movie is Guess who's coming to dinner ;-)
Wol Euler: I go with the "error" explanation though :)
Wol Euler: oh I remember that
Wol Euler: back in the days when movies had scripts that were more htan five pages long :/
Wol Euler: Sidney Poitier?
Qt Core: easy as it comes stright from theatre i think
Wol Euler nods.
Qt Core: yes and Hand spencer tracy and Katharine Hepburn
Wol Euler nods.
Qt Core: one of the ones i can't stop myself seeing if i stumble on them on tv
Wol Euler: "Nobody's Fool" is the film that I have to watch every time it's on
Wol Euler: an unknown film starring Paul Newman and Bruce Willis, imagine that :)
Wol Euler: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110684/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Qt Core: never heard of it...
Wol Euler: see?!?!?
Wol Euler: it's lovely, but there are no car chases or explosions :)
Wol Euler: it's a film about small-town life, I suppose you might say that it's the story of a man who at the age of sixty is surprised to discover that he has friends and attachments after all
Wol Euler: a kind of late coming-of-age story
Wol Euler: I know I'm not selling it well to you :)
Wol Euler: but it is a great film IMO
Wol Euler: you know, I'm going to check in the Saturn store today, see if htey have a copy of htat for a reasonable price
Wol Euler smiles.
Qt Core: :-)

--BELL--

Wol Euler: because I haven't seen it in years either
Qt Core: i own almost no movie, the idea of picking a specific movie and see it at home feels strange
Wol Euler: agreed
Qt Core: last week i could not say away from Starship Troopers (even with its militarists undertones and having seen it multiple times) this times i wondered if thinking about it as a spartan philosophy would be better than a thinking about a fascist one
Qt Core: the difference about being a civilian and a citizen
Wol Euler: interesting idea.
Wol Euler: (anohter film that I don't think I've seen)
Qt Core: it is obvuiously a oversemplification of the book ;-)
Qt Core: but then there are million of deaths (on both sides) and hundreds of explosions
Wol Euler: a male film, then? :)
Qt Core: yes, but also the book
Qt Core: ok, now i need to go somewhere, have fun
Wol Euler: you too, Qt. Enjoy the day