Hercules got 63% at Rotten; Lucy got 59%.Hercules got bad reviews from what I saw. I think Bishop is right - GoG might be the only blockbuster out right now worth shelling a ticket for.
~~ Paul
Hercules got 63% at Rotten; Lucy got 59%.Hercules got bad reviews from what I saw. I think Bishop is right - GoG might be the only blockbuster out right now worth shelling a ticket for.
I'm going to risk embarrassing myself here and admit that I saw Hercules. And enjoyed it. :)Hercules got 63% at Rotten; Lucy got 59%.
~~ Paul
This out in the states yet? Warning: Kiwi film ;)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/what_we_do_in_the_shadows/
FotC are the best. Jermaine Clement is in this movie.Flight of the Conchords was one of the greatest shows ever produced in the US and the last program I ever cared to watch, if that says anything about Kiwi entertainment...
I haven't seen a movie in 5 years. Can anybody top this feat?
Well... that may be right, but ther's a number of "superpowers" that are very uncommon or that can only be found in people with brain damage, like the "Savant syndrome"The myth persists, however. The newly released movie “Lucy,” about a woman who acquires superhuman abilities by tapping the full potential of her brain, is only the latest and most prominent expression of this idea.
Hmmm... I am very skepticalFrom the cited article... said:Today the neuroscience community uniformly rejects the notion, as it has for decades, that our brain’s potential is largely untapped.
While I briefly majored in piano performance, I dated a girl who'd just graduated with the same degree. You could take both of your arms and hit as many piano keys as you could and she'd name them in ascending or descending order perfectly.Well... that may be right, but ther's a number of "superpowers" that are very uncommon or that can only be found in people with brain damage, like the "Savant syndrome"
What about absolute pitch, eidetic memory hyperthymesia?
Take a look at this... http://www.cracked.com/article_19661_6-real-people-with-mind-blowing-mutant-superpowers.html
Hmmm... I am very skeptical
Yes, pretty impressive :)While I briefly majored in piano performance, I dated a girl who'd just graduated with the same degree. You could take both of your arms and hit as many piano keys as you could and she'd name them in ascending or descending order perfectly.
Pretty incredible.
For a while I would hum an A note before sitting down with an instrument and got to where I'd normally be right. Haven't tried it in years . . . Still a long cry from her ability.
Personally I don't have anything like perfect pitch, mostly I'm pretty vague on the matter. But I do find certain musical performances painful to listen to, when the pitch wanders away from where I feel it should be. I think this is a somewhat subjective phenomenon where to some, the discrepancy is inaudible, to others, it adds just the right amount of creative or artistic interpretation, and to still others it's a cause of distress.Yes, pretty impressive :)
I have played with two keyboard / piano players who both have perfect pitch and they were quite stunning. Singers typically would hate them because they were too critical about those slightly out of tune notes ... :D
Strangely they perceived the notes in very different ways. One of them said that notes had very distinctive colors, the other pianist instead said he could hear the name of notes themselves, as they were playing. Curious.
It also seems that many piano tuners acquire perfect pitch after years spent listening very closely to those vibrations, over and over again. So it's not just "genetic".
Me too, and I don't have perfect pitch. Natural scale instruments like violin can be really painful even in the hands of pros when the intonation is wandering.Personally I don't have anything like perfect pitch, mostly I'm pretty vague on the matter. But I do find certain musical performances painful to listen to, when the pitch wanders away from where I feel it should be. I think this is a somewhat subjective phenomenon where to some, the discrepancy is inaudible, to others, it adds just the right amount of creative or artistic interpretation, and to still others it's a cause of distress.
Though such instruments can also have advantages over say fretted instruments. It enables a good performer to hit an accurate note, as opposed to one of the 12 fixed semitones which often represent some degree of compromise.Natural scale instruments like violin can be really painful even in the hands of pros when the intonation is wandering.