Tag: review
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The 2024 Research Recap
I read a lot in 2024. You can see the list here, but yesterday I did a live stream where I review all the 66 books I read. It’s 4.5 hours so it’ll only take up a little more than half your day! Call For Help – Thumbnail and Publishing Templates If anyone is willing…
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There Is No Bridge to Human Language
The standard model roughly goes along these lines: chimpanzees have hoots and grunts for conveying information, and so our shared, last common ancestor (LCA) evolved cognitively due to some external stimuli, allowing them to communicate more detailed information, producing human language’s words and symbols. Edward Gibson recently said on Lex Fridman that we invent words…
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Prodigal Son (1981) – Beat Sheet & Review
Prodigal Son (1981) 敗家仔 Starring Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Lam Ching Ying, Frankie Chan, Peter Chan Lung, Dick Wei, Chung Faat, James Tien Directed by Sammo Hung Produced by Raymond Chow Action by Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Lam Ching-Ying, and Billy Chan Wui-Ngai Beat Sheet Opening Image 0:00 Leung Jan (Yuen Biao) earns respect through…
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GoPro Hero3 Impressions from an Action Filmmaker’s Perspective
I bought my GoPro Hero3 Black Edition from Best Buy along with chest and head straps for the sole purpose of doing first-person action scenes. The FPS movie (“found footage”) genre is one of my favorites, and I think it’s criminally underused, especially in the action cross-genre, so my hopes have been to create solid action…
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Actionist Mini-review – Pet Sematary
While Pet Sematary‘s presentation might feel a tad Lifetime-y now, it still serves up a great tale on the human inability to accept the end of life, hitting all the right beats with regular thrills, superb gore moments, and eerie atmospherics that make for an exemplary horror film. As a bonus, it would be utterly…
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Actionist Mini-review – Strange Days
No major conflict appears in Strange Days until almost an hour in. Until then it’s snazzy virtual reality and an inept love story. 2 and a half hours of not caring much about the victims, let alone the hero, and there’s no wonder why this flopped. Some say it was too early with its police…
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Death Grip Reviews Start Rolling In – Get your DVD and Write One Too!
Death Grip is now on sale at The Stunt People Store, and four very favorable reviews are already up. Check out what people are saying: Alex-in-Wonderland says: This latest offering from Eric Jacobus and The Stunt People is nothing short of amazing, and the groundwork laid by their previous films is finally bearing fruit. Eric…
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Viewers, YOU ROCK!
I was just over at IMDB and noticed that in the past month Contour‘s rating has jumped 3 stars. Not only that, but IMDB has removed many of the low scores it received (14 or so 1’s and 2’s), making me think that the low scores may have been from the same person or website.…