Letters to the Editor
Nick44
Published Letters: 163 Editor's Choice: 6
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"Bourne" is okay, if you like comic book movies
[Read the article: "The Bourne Ultimatum"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The problem with the Jason Bourne character is that he is ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with movies about superheroes, but I would take the Bourne movies more seriously if they showed us a backstory where he was exposed to gamma radiation or bitten by a genetically enhanced dragonfly.
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Mayor's Income: a little quick cutting goes a long way.
[Read the article: "The Bourne Ultimatum"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I too can barely tolerate the new, for want of a better phrase, MTV-style of filmmaking. It's akin to someone who talks to fast, like those disclaimers at the end of pharmaceutical ads ("May cause blindness, diarrhea, gout, demonic possession..."). Tell, or in films' case, show me something in a human scale of understanding.
You wrote, "I love the constant whining against this so-called "MTV school of filmmaking." It seems its detractors are offended by a style, not by the many incompetent directors practicing the style. Let's remember the shower scene in Psycho. The shots are extremely short and the cuts are numerous yet it is still hailed as a masterpiece of film."
Well yes, but the famous shower scene was one scene, not an entire movie. It was shockingly effective, and then the movie reverted to a less frenzied pace.
Remember the end of Brian's Song, when the two football players run in slow motion towards the camera? That scene could make even a stone cry, but imagine if the entire movie had been filmed in slow motion. It's the same thing, IMHO, with all those quick cuts.
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It's about adults acting like spoiled brats
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The stupidest thing about all this is that the groups which, for example, alert you to the fact that movie theater popcorn is loaded with heart-damaging trans fats, are not telling you that you CANNOT eat it, but simply giving you the information which lets you make that decision for yourself, but the little whining adults would rather scream "food police" or "food nannies" than hear something that upsets them.
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Bitters? In a martini?
[Read the article: It's always cocktail hour somewhere]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Quick, hide the children before they view such blasphemy!
Nay, never bitters in a martini! Gin, vermouth, olives, a splash of olive juice. There's your martini, you heathen!
On the other hand, a rye Manhattan does sound most intriguing.
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Yet another media manufactured trend
[Read the article: Meatheads]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This story is the flipside of the vegansexuals story, i.e., a nonstory about a non-trend. I can't imagine that a few months from now, anyone will admit to ordering food for this reason.
On the other hand, there are obviously a few women who strategize in this way. Sadly, if it impresses their dates and leads to relationships and children, this will be yet another answer to the question: where do all the stupid people come from?
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Awroth
[Read the article: She raped herself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know you, but I'm glad you weren't murdered. You are still alive, and so you can still heal from this terrible crime.
I wish you peace and happiness.
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Babykillers11
[Read the article: That's Missus Sen. Clinton to you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What are you trying to accomplish with your letters here? Are you trying to change peoples' minds so that they view abortion the same way you do, or are you insulting people just to insult them? If you're trying to change minds, you're going about it in the wrong way. If you're here only to insult people, why do you even bother?
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It's funny.
[Read the article: Wife abuse vs. dog abuse]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's funny how the subject of dogfighting brings out the women haters, like the two guys below.
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Response to Anonymous @ 7:27 a.m.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You wrote, Barbaric? Yes. But, these animals would have never lived without Mike Vick in the first place. Go back over your notes from Ethics in college. What would John Stuart Mills say?
Wow. Where to begin? Are you saying that if a mother tortures and beats her baby to death, the fact that the baby would not have lived except for that mother somehow mitigates the crime? What about back in America's slavery days? Were it not for the slaveowners forcing their slaves to breed, those newly born slaves would never have existed. Is that crime mitigated too, according to your college ethics notes?
I think that John Stuart Mills would say, "Please, don't invoke my name to try to justify in any way Vick's disgusting crimes."
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For Karlos and the anonymous philosophy student: Jeremy Bentham's wisdom.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Karlos, thank you for the quick lesson about John Stuart Mill. Intrigued, I did a little research on him and learned that his mentor was Jeremy Bentham. I believe this quote from Bentham is applicable to the Vick dogfighting scandal:
"It may one day come to be recognized that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes…"
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Wesley, dogfighters do not deserve to be commended for anything but turning themselves over to the police.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You seem to think that pit bulls are nothing but unfeeling killing machines, and so it's not so bad if only they are mistreated to the point of being vicious and then turned loose against each other.
I've worked with these dogs in shelters. They are as intelligent and sensitive as any other dog, and I can assure you that they feel pain and terror and sadness, just like any other dog. They do not deserve to suffer, at all, at the hands of monstrous men like Vick.
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Fine
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Commend them for not being absolutely evil monsters. Then slap the cuffs on them and send them to prison.