Have you watched any good movies lately?

[redpoint5]

I was going to say something similar to nature preferring youthful ignorance as the best time to reproduce, and I think there's a lot to that. We see in developed countries where people "think a lot", the age of marriage is late, and the number of children is fewer.

The only reason young people might regret having children young is because the grass is always greener. Heck, my original plan was to have children at the age of 50. Having them now places tremendous obligations on me that get in the way of my other interests. Wouldn't change it though. Raising children is among the most important things a person can accomplish.

[All Darc]

On Brazil, if you could see... People without where to fall dead, and having a lot of kids...
Why share misery and ignorance? SUch people should left this for who is up to. The over birth rate among poor it's of of the biggest difficult to help the poor, since there is a lot of more trouble perpetuating and criminality and family problems to deals with a state that it's not up to.

Rasing kids itself it's not a great accomplish. The quality of raising kids can be a accomplish if very well done.
Kids raise by horrible and ignorant people are a disservie.

The best thing horrible people can do for humanity it's avoid to reproduce.

One interesting thing. The poorer and more ignorant countries is where people more have prejudice against who don't want to have kids.
And religious people are full of such prejudice. If you don't want kids neither marriage, they dislike even more. Even more if you are also a atheist, and even more if also have long hair.

About your kids. I want to see your opinion when they get into the teens. WIth you teen history hey can inherity genes for trouble.

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I was going to say something similar to nature preferring youthful ignorance as the best time to reproduce, and I think there's a lot to that. We see in developed countries where people "think a lot", the age of marriage is late, and the number of children is fewer.

The only reason young people might regret having children young is because the grass is always greener. Heck, my original plan was to have children at the age of 50. Having them now places tremendous obligations on me that get in the way of my other interests. Wouldn't change it though. Raising children is among the most important things a person can accomplish.

[redpoint5]

I am making a distinction between raising kids, and bearing children. Raising kids implies an active and intentional process to nurture goodness, whereas bearing children doesn't. Raising kids is the responsibility of bearing children.

[All Darc]

You responded before I had finishing editing. look the finishes version.

Raising kids, tell the right and show the example of right, when a entire society it's f...d up making wrong.... It's difficult get better than overal, if you have short time with them and a wife that it's not very good.
Even when both parents are good, it's difficult, since kids grow immerse in a stupid culture that it's our civilization.

[redpoint5]

Yep, lots of variables outside of our control. We bring children into the world with tons of risks, and certain death. There's plenty of reason not to bother.

BTW- I just thought of the thing most annoying to my sensibilities about Alita; in the movie nobody had guns because it was illegal. Even the worst, most corrupt people in the movie didn't have a gun. It seemed to suggest that merely making something illegal would prevent its use. On the other hand, guns were legal on robots controlled by the government, and the government was purely evil and corrupt in this film, so perhaps the implication is that the result of an impotent citizenry is a thoroughly evil and corrupt government.

[All Darc]

How can a modern society of people have power like in the days of King Arthur, when weapons could be made in a backward ?

Technology will turn comunity rebelion impossible, since technology will became so complex that just government or huge companies would manage to use.

I didn't saw the movie, as I said I quit 99% digital video reproduction systems. (TVs and video compression system) for entertainment of movies.
Digital videos systems & digital displays are a s...t to me.

[freebeard]

So, we're back to Idiocracy?

The movie was miles ahead of Captain Marvel....

Alita is worth watching, and High Noon is worth rewatching.

High Noon was worth reprising in Galaxina:

https://youtu.be/FEcEqjCZMTQ?list=PL...aG7i_JHo&t=106

The Alita sequel depends on Blue Ray sales. I guess All Darc won't be much help.

[redpoint5]

Alita certainly needs a sequel. It ended a bit like Star Wars V - Empire Strikes Back.

[freebeard]

It's number 1 on iTunes right now, third behind two movies still in theaters in another poll.

I don't know how a sequel can't devolve into another average blockbuster. For me it's the ultimate coming-of-age story. Born broken, and having to break the chibi body and adolescent body to become an adult.




Have you seen The Sisters Brothers?

[redpoint5]

There's potential for the sequel to be very good. Lots of themes at play in the movie; probably many I'm aware of, though I wish this was a series and not held to the constraint of 120 minutes. What ever happened to epic movies anyhow? Ben Hur had like 7 minutes of music before the film even began, and then a long intermission 2/3 of the way through. It feels like the right length to develop characters and story... I still can't believe they crammed Enders Game into 120 minutes. Maybe we're seeing the beginning of the end of traditional cinema?

Haven't seen The Sisters Brothers.