Oh, Resnais! That's that dink who came up with Last Year at Marienbad!
My review from criticker:
"When you google "BS," this should be the first link to come up."
The Seventh Seal
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And heck, at least I am amusing. You're never in much danger of laughter running with that crowd... 
Aunt Bea vs. Mrs. Howell (Lovey).
Class may discuss.
Ooh, I think that'll be the next topic for my "Six Degrees" thread!
May 5, 2013
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The Last Year at Marienbad, I believe, is a film which requires thought and a few viewings. I can't believe you would want to trash films that require thought, especially when there is no thought used for television shows. Are you anti-thinking, AndyClifton?
Oh please...that's what they always tell me whenever I loathe the latest lugubrious labyrinthine brainchild of the intellectuals. I guess I just ain't thinkin' hard enough! I wasted a year and a half of my life reading Proust for just such dubious reasons...but I ain't a-marchin' anymore.
This so reminds me of the Stratos City Dwellers and the uncouth Troglytes.
Au contraire, I am pro-thinking. Clear thinking. I am very much against muddled murky morasses of ambiguity attempting to pass themselves off as profundity to anybody willing to invest in the CliffNotes version of that brand of reality. That sort of decoder-ring crap went out (or should have) with T S Eliot and his dubious ilk, and buried it hopefully will remain.
Oh yeah, and one more thing: I don't have any idea what the hell goldendog just said.
Okay, now I do! (never mind).
May 5, 2013
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#34
AndyClifton wrote:
Oh yeah, and one more thing: I don't have any idea what the hell goldendog just said.
I've just been reading about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_Minders
Wow, this is the one I saw (God, these geeks are everywhere!)...
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Stratos_city-dweller
May 5, 2013
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#37
AndyClifton wrote:
Dismissing opinions by pat declarations is obvious.
It works for me. After all I've dismissed orange sock puppets with pat declarations several times in the past, and some uncouth individuals tend to be dismissive of 3rd-world dictators.
Speaking of the past, since The Seventh Seal takes place after a crusade that dates the movie to no later than the very late 1200's (according to Wikipedia the last crusade was 1291) and back then what we now call "chess" didn't exist: pawns couldn't move 2 squares to begin with and the Queen moved like the King, Bishops only moved 2 sqs but Rooks moved like they do now.
The beginning of modern chess rules dates back to the late 1400's so there's no way Death and Max von Sydowwere playing anything remotely close to what we're familiar with.
Below: Death and Max von Sydow enjoying the game of Kings while everyone else is dropping dead from bubonic plague
May 5, 2013
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#38
Maybe they should do an updated version of The Seventh Seal, with Houdini playing Death during a Stuxnet plague?
May 5, 2013
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#39
goldendog wrote:
This so reminds me of the Stratos City Dwellers and the uncouth Troglytes.
I remember that episode.
I can't actually perceive that, unless I forgot what "perceive" means, but it is endlessly amusing to me that Resnais, Bergman, and Philosophy doesn't compare to Gilligan's Island for you