“Occupy the Bat Cave”

“Despite having this amount of coin, the rumor is that Mr. Nolan plans to use the Occupy Wall Street protestors as free background material for certain scenes in the film.”

Well, better get used to it. In 2010 approximately 15% of films made had computer generated backgrounds eliminating the need on the production side for big sets with lots equipment movement and employment for unionized workers. The days of big set movies with wide expansive shooting á la John Ford are over.

We own the libraries!

I gave up on mainstream movies a long time ago along with mainstream media.

Mostly now i borrow dvd's from the library. Libraries have a great selection of "film festival", foreign and classic movies.
Best of all they're "free"- paid for by our tax dollars.
If they do not have what you are looking for-you can put in a request for purchase.
Also libraries are run by unionized staff who actually make a living wage.
And you can "occupy" them any day of the week!

awesome

Right when I read the headline my first thought was "I bet that new lame ass movie Tower Heist is mentioned". Negatively thank you!

I find Hollywood to be absolute shyte 90% of the time. Actors mean more to the masses than anything stimulating like story and plot, so Hollywood just serves them up again and again. I will not watch a remake, such recycling of 'art' makes me sick.

I'm currently watching DaVinci's Inquest Sea. 3 and just loving it

If the revieweer's thought this was an attempt to "humanize" the

bastards I sure didn't feel any sympathy for them I thought it showed how shallow and vulgar they were. And with few exceptions, unexceptional except for their wealth. It also showed that these are real conscious human beings perpetuating these crimes and that they should suffer for them. I think the actors did a good job at portraying these protagonists. Mind you they are caught up in socially developed structures such as the political economy of global capitalism and I think Matt Tabbi has it right about the American people and their fealty towards capitalism-although there are actually existing Marxists, Anarchists Radical Femininists and what not in America but most of them are in academia or sectarian Trotsyist groups looking to re-forge the 4th International and I have to say the analysis of one particular group in New York seems pretty accurate to me-I think they call themselves the New Internationalists. I am sympathetic towards them myself-even though I have nothing to do with them. How many times will people in OCCUPY have to get hit in the head or tear gassed before they properly theorize the state which is an armed gang as Lenin put it acting on behalf of the 1% And parliamentary talk shops....managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie isn't that all pretty well accurate? And the idea of a transitional program and the consensus councils isn't that organically all power to the Soviets ( or am I getting confused with Chavez?)And the importance of slogans and building that mental link like "we are the 99%) that is a beauty. Anyway things are moving in the right direction I would say. I spent about a decade after graduating with Honour's in Political Sociology setting up debates between groups Anarchism and Marxism-this group vs that group and study groups everything from Black History and the Class Struggle to Canadian Nationalism and the Quebec Question. Well it is no question to me that Quebec has always been more politically conscious than English speaking Canada. I hope that they can radicalize the NDP and pull it back from being such a whoozzy "middle" class party, which is more of an ideological construct than an actual relational position vis a vis the mode of production. Anyway I also watched Shock Doctrine by N. Klein the other day. Excellent piece of work. That one ought to be shown around in the high schools as our children will soon be asked to go down to South America to get the bad guys out of there under UN sactions of R2P. If you haven't seen it yet you should it will explain why socialist democracies haven't survived as of yet anywhere in the world.

We all pay for homeowner mortgage defaults an article out of no

where appears in the Moneyville section of the Torstar Corp newspaper the Star. Getting us ready for the big downturn in the economy that is heading our way. Of course the back door bailout through the CHMC means the banks won't feel a thing as we are obligated to pay for these insured mortgages-although I have some question about the manner of the transfer of these mortgages and under what criteria they were insured. 5% and 40 years I don't think met the standard set up by the CHMC to insure a mortgage. We could tell the banks it is ODIOUS DEBT and not pay it since the Harper government had no business messing with a crown corporation to begin with let alone set it's criteria for insuring mortgages. On another front, it is going to be hard to argue against the pipeline with economic conditions in the ditch. I am not against developing the tarsands but that was under a National Energy Program that would actually serve as a window on the industry. I am also not against nuclear in government hands where all safety criteria can be met ( depending on the quality of the gov't. I have to add these days) As it stands the National Energy Board is nothing but a cover for the Multinational Energy Companies today-they write their won rules now that Harper's conservative committee re-examined them in light of the Gulf spill in the Middle of Summer when Parliament was out of session. We are collectively screwed when the big one happens up here, I can tell you that much. Maximum liability of the companies is like 20 million or something. it is a rediculously low cap on damages the government can collect-but that doesn't stop individuals from pursuing civil suits said the conservative politician-really that is what they said. Anyway Im just rambling here this am...audios.
RR

Right On!

"t seems like an enormous waste of time, resources, and yes, it must be said, money" says it all.

I would add the word "criminal" to the above statement.

Hollywood is just catering to the market

That is why most movies made today are schlock. There hasn't been a movie in the theatres in Nanaimo worth paying for for years. On the other hand, I have hundreds of movies that I downloaded using BitComet and IsoHunt.

On the other hand, yesterday evening, we watched James Mason and Ava Gardner in "Pandora and The Flying Dutchman". It is an unlikely plot, and the movie is not for all tastes, but I found it rather captivating and totally outstanding for a 1951 offering.

The movie studios are competing with their own historical inventory, and they cannot win the battle, much less the war. That is why they are resorting to the New Thing: 3D.

If the movies are bad, television in much worse. We see re-runs played over and over and over again as if they were new material. The CBC is the worst offender and Stalin would have shot someone for it long ago.

One of the very few programs that can withstand the withering fire of the rerun circuit is the Murdoch Mysteries, with Yannick Bisson and Helene Joy. Even now I can watch as the outrageously proper Murdoch steers a course through the slime of Toronto to solve the crime. He reminds me of the past Auditor General of Canada, Sheila Fraser.

Don't blame the Hollywood studios. They are just potato farmers ploughing the field and they are running out of seed crop. Like the biological world, they need gentic diversity to prosper. They also need bums in the seats and they have to get the bums into the theatres by any means possible.

Wider Than A CFL Field

What the above article made me think about is the wideness of the field those sympathetic to the general message of Occupy have to play on if they so choose. The 1% may have bigger players, better suited to playing within the hash marks. For now, perhaps, Occupy may have to rely on its smaller, speedier, but more numerous special teams to take the ball outside, cutting back across the field of play, and by its slower moving opposition to score its touchdowns. Dorothy's idea is a very good example of how the good people who have gripped the Occupy banner have got people thinking. A touchdown followed by a two point conversion if you ask me. (Has to be late October for me to write crap like that!)

My Brilliant Career

I am currently transitioning out of a 10 year stint as a costumer in the film industry. Prior to that I spent a few years working in the customer service trenches of one the big bank's mortgage division.

It has always amazed me that the house of cards built by both industries have managed to not simply collapse. Especially, when as an employee working the front lines, you realize the people at the top are at best, morons and at the worst, need to be heavily medicated in a high security mental institution. It's not the Board of Directors and CEOs that keep the banks operating, the banks keep operating in spite of Directors and CEOs who spend their days making decisions that are really just the complete opposite of the decisions they made six months ago and that have turned out to be a really bad idea. Some executive with a corner view office on Bay Street has a few drinks over lunch and comes up with: We need to have a mortgage specialist in every single branch across the country so customers can get questions answered right then and there, no wait, we'll set up a mortgage call center in say Winnipeg so customers can call one easy to remember number like 1-800-PAY-THE-BANK and get all their questions answered in one easy phone call. Questions like: I'm calling from Sparwood where the entire town is on strike but our strike pay can't cover our bills and our mortgage payments. Can you help us? Short answer "No".

The reason the house of cards haven't collapsed so far is the huge amounts of cash continuously being fed into the furnaces of the Financial and Entertainment industries. The hope is that for every bomb in the fashion of Tron2 will be bailed out by . . . um . . . (has anyone done a remake of "I Dream Of Jeanie?" No but get this, it's so HOT! This time the astronaut will be played by like Hilary Swank who finds the bottle and out comes Anton Kuchner! Brilliant!! Gotta fly I'm meeting my banker for lunch

Humanize investment bankers? Hah, that's just funny

Bring it, Hollywood. I have long since stopped paying outrageous ticket prices to sit in some gargantuan soulless cineplex, only to be forced to sit through a half hour of coke and car commercials before the what usually turns out to be a mediocre main course. As have millions of other people.