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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” ― Anne Lamott
The only quote from Grey's Anatomy worth remembering ...
""... At some point you start to realize your life is happening now ...
right now.
This is it.
It’s here.
Blink and you’ll miss it.
Did you say it? "I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life."
Did you say it?
Make a plan.
Set a goal.
Work toward it, but every now and then, look around.
Drink it in 'cause this is it.
It might all be gone tomorrow.""
— Meredith Grey
There comes a time when you realize that the engine you built with your blood and your sweat and your tears is being used for something so foul, so... perverted, that it makes you sick in your heart. And it's then that you must throw your body on the gears, and on the levers, and on the machine itself, and make it stop! And you have to show the people who run it, the people who control it, that unless we're free, that machine will be prevented from working at all!
Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference ??
one of my fav songs ...
Roads to Moscow - Al Stewart
Favourite Battlestar Galactica quotes:
"It's what you said at the ceremony before the attack, when Galactica was being decommissioned. You gave a speech, it sounded like it wasn't the one you prepared. You said that humanity was a flawed creation, and that people still kill one another for petty jealousy and greed. You said that humanity never asked itself why it deserved to survive... Maybe you don't." --Sharon Valerii
President Laura Roslin: No. Not now. Not ever. Do you hear me? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eyeteeth to end you. I swear it! I'm coming for all of you!
Commander William Adama: There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
Brother Cavil: I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!
Lt. Kara Thrace: You know, I never really liked this place, anyway.
Air conditioning doesn't work in the summer.
Heater doesn't work in the winter.
The rent's a crime.
After the attack, I never never pined over any of my old crap.
Never missed it.
The stupid view of the parking lot, broken toilet in the bathroom.
You know, everyone I know is fighting to get back what they had.
I'm fighting 'cause I don't know how to do anything else.
Lt. Kara Thrace: I only knew Admiral Cain for a short time, so what I have to say about her will be short.
She faced things.
She looked them right in the eye and she didn't flinch.
That's something that we do a lot around here.
We second-guess.
We worry.
When I think about what she went through after the attack all alone, one ship, no help, no hope She didn't give up.
She didn't worry.
She didn't second-guess.
She acted.
She did what she thought needed to be done, and the Pegasus survived.
Might be hard to admit, or hard to hear, but I think that we were safer with her than we are without.
Oscar Wilde, The ballad of Reading Gaol
I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
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In Country (1989)
Distracting musical score by the composer.
I was watching the film when suddenly I heard what sounded like a version of Watermark, by Enya, wafting through my speakers. I looked up the composer, James Horner, after discovering that Enya did not write this particular composition, Three Generations (piano solo) by James Horner, in the film, In Country.
Further investigation took me to another site for which I learned that James Horner has been roundly criticized for incorporating others' musical talents by borrowing from them and reworking them just enough into his own leaving him mostly inauthentic and unoriginal.
Other tracks in the film score by James Horner for "In Country" sound familiar with other works elsewhere in the music world. Just enough to be a major distraction for film buffs and music lovers everywhere.
All-in-all the film is a rather excellent work but the distraction of the film score sounding so much like other films and musical artists works leaves me baffled as to why Hollywood let him get away with it.
Because of this I can at best only award this very fine film a so-so average of 5 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Lifted (2010)
Great Story ... Bad Deliverance
I was totally disappointed towards the ending sequences. The big reveal left me wondering just who did the research on Military and their families.
Anyways, moving right along ... The delivery fails so dramatically I find it hard to give this fluke a better rating til I see it a second time to see if I missed something. The story hits all the right notes. Faith. Loss of faith. Failure. Redemption. Faith regained and the ending with all the soldiers standing watch and giving assistance boosts this story back up ... we are never alone.
But it isn't enough of a boost after the wooden performances turned in by all the actors. For that I blame a lack of inspired direction and giving this excellent story i high rating after a failure of performance would reward a director wrongly.