Not So Angelic

I watched Charlie’s Angels. It was ok. Not bad, not great. Too many tonal shifts — it shifts more than an F1 driver at the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans. It had no consistency at all in approach or feel. It was like it was directed by two very different people. This is often a sign of studio interference, but who knows what was the case here.

The best line, though, was by Kristen Stewart as Sabina.

Sabina: There was a gunfight at my wedding.

Jane: Wait, you’re married?

Sabina: No. I was the better shot.

The movie is some weird mix of the Nathan Lane and Robin Williams version of La Cage Aux Folles and 1960s James Bond. I think that could work, but in this case it just did not. That said, there were a few really great and funny scenes in the movie.

The most unrealistic part of the film was how the MIT grad who had never experienced real violence is mostly unaffected by it. People who’ve not been exposed to that side of life don’t just adapt so readily.

Don’t recommend it, unless someone makes a highlight reel of the 15 good minutes for you.

CanDoBetter

Agreed. Just inertia from the past. We haven’t explored a hundredth of the better paradigms that are out there. Thinking we magically hit on just the right answers in the first 10 years of computing is asinine. It’s like Oga with her round bashing rock in 3.3 million BCE thinking that she’d found the only tool she’d ever need, and we never advanced from there (which is…shockingly accurate, considering how very long the Paleolithic actually lasted).

I think we can and should do better.

Bernfoot

Ah, another sighting of the ever-present but somehow never-to-be-found BernieBros, extant always in the imaginations of Alice and many others, but as with Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster there is a complete absence of verified sightings or any real evidence.

Delusions are a comfort, I understand. Hard to blame people for that in these times.

Jorbs

A lot of the left seems preoccupied with going through every utterance anyone has ever made to find something “bad,” inevitably taking it out of context or misunderstanding it completely, and then demonstrating how that “proves” the person is terrible and irredeemable.

When you understand that it is all about competition for the declining number of good jobs, it starts to make a lot more sense.