I always think of The Abyss as the "high concept" version with a bigger budget. But its bones are built on the same foundation of schlocky goodness.
I really really miss the underwater horror genre: Sphere, Leviathan, DS6, The Abyss, etc... Someone needs to bring back "The Thing...but underwater..." elevator pitch.
Armageddon is big stupid fun.
I enjoyed Michael Bay movies (before he went CGI everything) I think Armageddon was his taste of that nightmare and it fired him up.
"You mean I can do ANYTHING?!...fuck it, I'm making twelve robots smash into buildings during a fight scene!"
Before that, movies like Bad Boys, The Rock, etc... were hella-fun and I'll defend them forever.
Post Armageddon Michael Bay however; Mr. "Look at what I can do with unlimited computer power" is mostly a dud for me with the exception of The Island (which I think I'm one of the only people who actually enjoyed it)
spreading it, maybe. But getting that butter onto the correct (convex) side of the spoon in the first place is way more difficult and basically fucks whatever advantage the spreading might provide.
Convex surfaces (ie. the back of a spoon) don't scoop. It just slides across the top of the butter. In order to load up the butter on the spoon, you need to scoop it with the other side and then what...use a finger to move it to the back so it can be spread?
Ridiculous.
A GOP "firebrand" is just another term for classless white trash.
Was not aware that it had been fixed. Thanks for the clarification.
five if he's practicing safe gun handling and keeping the hammer on an empty cylinder.
But considering the fact that he has it stuffed in his ass crack, who are we kidding. Yeah...it's six.
Basically, it boils down to the fact that in exchange for public funds, the CBC has a mandate to provide access to ALL Canadians.
So back in 2011, they decide they are going to shut down all of their analog broadcast towers for over-the-air signal since, they said it would cost "x" amount (I don't remember the exact amount that long ago) to maintain them until 2035 or so.
So this left only the digital towers, which only covered the bigger cities. If you were too far out of a major city you were shit out of luck for over the air service.
Their argument, when people like me piped up, was that we could still access it through a cable subscription, which (in my opinion) is a blatant breach of their contract.
Why are my taxes going to fund something that I THEN have to pay another service for in order to access?
To me, and others back then, a mandate to provide access to ALL Canadians is exactly that...full stop; no extra subscriptions needed. No cable package, no internet, nothing.
If you are taking public money to provide a service, you provide that service no....matter....what. Otherwise, let me choose to not have a cut of my taxes given to you.
Two months after that decision, CBC bid for, and paid, that exact same amount of money to get the broadcast rights to the next Olympics, which no broadcaster has EVER turned a profit on.
So me, and others, felt (I feel) rightfully fucked over.
As I said, I'm about as left as they come, and I WAS a supporter of the CBC up until that point. But yeah....after that, fuck 'em.
The fact that "Dash to Dock" isn't built in because Gnome is going all in on the ridiculous minimalist tablet like interface is seriously one of the things that makes me uninstall it after five minutes every time I've tried to give it a shot.
I'm running a desktop with two 32 inch monitors, not a frickin' tablet. The reason traditional desktop interfaces have survived for so long is because they work, dammit. I shouldn't have to click into an app drawer every time I want to run an often used app just because some developer thinks they should look like a tablet.
/end rant
The difference being that CBC is funded in large part by our tax dollars, so we have a much more vested interest in how it's spent than other private companies.
I get the feeling that most people criticizing NatPo are under the impression that they have no real stake in this news just because they "don't watch CBC". But believe me, we all do.
The CBC is shit and I don't want my taxes going towards them (that's a long bitter story). But I don't have a choice and no one else does either. So we can at least pay attention when the money is going to the brass instead of the workers.
Edited to add: I'm as left as they come. Don't mistake this for me thinking that the NatPo is anything less than a right-wing sack of shit publication. But even the worst person you know can make a decent point every now and again.
No I didn't. lol. But it's worth mentioning again since it's by far his best film, and probably nic cages best film