What can I say? I re-watched this movie for the third time last night and suddenly picked up on so many things I missed on the first and second viewings.
First of all, the direction and acting are superb and of course, Roger Deakins is just a marvel. Even Roger Ebert said- "The cinematography of Roger Deakins reminds us of the glory that was, and can still be, the Western."
The writing is what really stood out to me. The Coen brothers rarely (if ever) miss. Their vernacular is incredibly unique and funny. Each and every character has a beautiful arc and there's so many things that are mentioned in the beginning that come back to play.
- LaBoeuf remarks about how he was close to killing Tom Chaney from 300 yards away. He could've killed him using his Snipes carbine, but didn't. Cogburn says that there was no chance he could've killed a man from that far. Later on, LaBoeuf saves Cogburn by shooting Ned Pepper from 400 yards away.
- Cogburn tells Mattie how he once charged and killed seven men on horse back with the reigns in his teeth and wielding two pistols. She doesn't believe it (or it could've been LaBoeuf, I can't be too sure). At the climax, Cogburn kills four men while doing the exact same thing.
- Cogburn doesn't put the rope around Mattie when camping because she is too "boney" and "doesn't have enough meat" on her bones for snakes to take a liking to her. Sure enough, Mattie falls into a pit where a rattlesnake bites her, ultimately putting her life in jeopardy. I'd also like to point out how many times the characters mention the deep pit while we as an audience never see it until she falls in.
- Mattie shows Cogburn the pistol she has taken from her father. He basically says it will put her on her ass when she shoots it. When Mattie sees Tom Chaney in the river, she fires a shot and falls into the water. When she gets back up, the gun misfires because the powder is wet. The same thing happens when she kills Chaney and the shotgun kick knocks her into the pit.
- Cogburn tells Mattie "that's some horse you got." Little Blackie is a wild horse that saves Mattie's life by racing endlessly until it essentially is burned out and dies.
Also, the character design is so cool. Before we even see some of the characters, Cogburn and others describe distinct physical features they have. Ex. Tom Chaney having a black powder mark on his cheek and Ned Pepper having a messed up lip.
Anyways, I loved this movie. Just thought it goes under the rada
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Played several games over the last 2 days as huntress with Benjo build, for anyone who isn't sure it usually has: Mad Grit, Agitation, Iron Grasp and Bloodwarden. The amount of games people have been calling me a hacker brings to light a serious problem right now. The whole community is in hysteria over hackers. If you see a killer carrying a survivor and they can swing repeatedly it is Mad Grit. I crawled out of a game as surv with tenacity and get reported because it's "impossible to make it that far". If you play a game of DBD and something happens that you don't quite understand, do yourself a favour and inspect the end game screen before you start typing and make yourself look foolish. There's enough paranoia in the game as it is without adding illiteracy as an additional hurdle.
In essence: if you don't know/understand something that happened stop assuming, and if you are still not sure what happened ASK the killer/survivors if they can clarify. There's currently 100x more hackers in people's heads than have ever touched DBD
We just checked in to a Seattle property. Property was located down an semi- unploughed road (post ice/snow storm) and it was 25 unshovelled steps down stairs from road to door. We made it (just) to the property and cleared the steps to the door (manually, no shovel provided, no salt/grit). Host will not provide salt/grit or shovel as she does not have a 4wd car. (We don’t either! And she totally failed to mention this would be an issue prior to check in). What’s our recourse?
Help! I crave shrimp and grits.
Not going to King Soopers ‘cause of the strike. Can’t find it at Whole Foods. Safeway only has that instant garbage.
Thank you.
As you can infer from my profile and post history, I’m a language learner trying to master 3 languages. I’m not in this for fun or just to prepare for some 3-day trip, I actually want to be really f****** good at all 3 languages. I’ve decided to dedicate my life to this labour (sounds cult-like, I know, but I really feel a strong sense of passion for what I’m doing) (that is, I don’t aspire to be the idiots who claim to speak 20 languages but can only utter a few simple words and phrases). And after that, maybe I’ll learn a couple more- French or Russian perhaps?
It’s not that I’m terrible at them: for Spanish, I’ve reached a pretty good level- for those who know the CEFR scale, it’s around the C1 level, while for Italian and Portuguese, I do have an intermediate level when it comes to writing and listening and reading comprehension, but I struggle with speaking at times.
However, the problem is that every time I make a mistake or forget a word/phrase, be it in the essays that I write to practise or while talking to native speakers, no matter how big or small the mistake/lapse is, I feel like I’ve committed some sort of crime (I don’t know if this sounds childish, but please bear with me).
I feel humiliated, devastated and the feeling gets worse if it turns out that some of the errors that I make are basic, and I could have prevented them had I used what I learnt correctly at that precise moment.
Background (so you understand why I feel this way): I go all-out to study and try my very best at all 3 languages. I read multiple newspapers from 4-5 different countries EVERYDAY, listen to podcasts in each language, write at least a 200-word essay EVERY SINGLE DAY (rotating between Italian and Portuguese, the weaker languages), and try to squeeze in a couple of hours of speaking practise, if time and energy level permits. I’ve essentially transformed my routine into one reminiscent of a military base/camp, no frills with a lot of drills- at least for now.
How do I get these negative thoughts out of my head? I think I need some pep-talk or motivational speech at this point… :(
I’m so tired of being thrown around like a rag doll while being a “tank”. For whatever reason, str users get grit dashing by spamming left click meanwhile my full tank build gets pushed around everywhere I go.
Please just change the 300 con node to give grit on block.
Pros: -tanks get to stay in a healers healing while tanking
-the +cc duration node gets removed so you don’t need to worry about perma cc for future weapon releases or buffs (VG comes dangerously close to having perma root against AI while at range. There might already be a build with perfect gear that can pull it off)
-tanks get the feeling of actually tanking
-stuns still goes through grit so you can’t just rely on block
-max 200 points in damage attributes (more realistically 150 unless you are able to use max food 24/7) so you are actually sacrificing damage for this.
-promotes more skill expression for those not just holding down block the entire time
Cons:
-str users will probably complain about it
Edit: oops, formatting
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