Last movie you watched......

Three point one four one five nine two six five three five eight nine seven nine.

And no, I did not Google or look in a book.

 

http://www.piday.org/million.php

And now, I DID look it up, and a interesting little fun fact:

Of the 10 base-10 digits 0 through 9, in the first million digits of pi, each digit DOES appear six consecutive times (i.e., 111111), but never seven (1111111).

Except zero, which never makes it to 6 consecutive digits anytime in the first million digits.

However, 13 consecutive 8's appear beginning at digit 2,164,164,669,332.


http://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/pidigits.html

 

One quibble, though certainly not about Leigh:

Ashley Wilkes, in the book, is a gentleman unmoored by his lust for Scarlett and the loss of the world he knew how to move in.

Leslie Howard is a wet noodle.

 

Agreed. There's NO WAY Scarlett would love that guy. What a pussy. He and his mealy-mouthed cousin deserve each other.

 

"Seeking a Friend for the End of the World."

High concept with some great little existential details and deft handling of a Big Question: How would you fill your time were the world about to end? Hint: It is, for all of us. Because, really, like "Never Let Me Go" before it, this is a movie about mortality. The sci-fi is just the vehicle.

Think "Melancholia" meets "Garden State." Ultimately, however, the fi doesn't succeed because I don't buy into the central relationship. No chemistry. Shallowly written.

 

Agreed on all counts, though I always thought the point was that he simply wasn't right for her.

See, this is why I come here, for the deeper analysis. I usually just spend the whole movie giggling that a guy named "Ashley" is played by a guy named "Leslie."

 

This is almost verbatim what I was going to post about it. Watched it yesterday. It wasn't really any different from the other ones, but it was still entertaining. I'm waffling on the Dunst v. Stone question though.

 

Right, and I get that. And early, simpering Scarlett might have loved him. But war-hardened Scarlett wouldn't have continued chasing him.

 

Saw "Skyfall" at a matinee, with my eighth-grade son. The "old" jokes in the movie were appropriate ... the two of us were the youngest ones in the theater, by at least 20 years.

Still, we both liked it. Good action movie, with lots of fun little nuggets for those of us who've seen a lot of Bond movies.

Of the three Daniel Craig movies, I'd rate "Skyfall" slightly behind "Casino Royale" and ahead of "Quantum of Solace." All three are good, though.

 

Red Dawn - I heart propaganda films for some reason. This doesn't have the heart of the first one, so it's less effective from an emotional standpoint. Even though the North Koreans were the enemy this time, it was more like a "THIS IS WHAT LIBERALISM LEADS TO" message. Hell there was even a speech by a DPRK official about how the era of corruption and greed in America and on Wall Street was over. All the non-white Wolverines die or are abandoned. The black mayor is made to look like a spineless buffoon.

 

Someone told me the film is set in and around Spokane, Wash., for some reason ...

If so, I better become a "Wolverines" fan real quick! :

 

It's set in Spokane. Better learn Korean.