Wednesday, August 5, 2009

The Twenty-third Amendment

Everybody who lives in Washington, DC is always like "Waa waa, I pay taxes but I don't get any particular person to represent my anger about those taxes to a governing body of some sort." Well, I guess in 1960 they either felt sorry for those people or wanted to shut them up for like two seconds because this amendment at least gives people in the District of Columbia the right to select electors for presidential elections. The one state to be a big dick and try to reject this amendment? You guessed it.

RATING: 61%

20 comments:

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

firts

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

glad i got on the ground floor of what promises to be a huge multi-100 post review

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

hey yall just got done watching "the descent" it was a p. cool movie about a buncbh of female cave explorers using ice picks to fend off animal-men (symbolism)

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

here are some of the goofs according to imdb:

* Continuity: When the girls are crossing the first chasm. The first two have crossed and they are hooking up the third one, you can clearly see four people behind the third.

* Revealing mistakes: Several times throughout the movie, as characters brush up against stalactites you can see the stalactites move. Stalactites are rigid formations and do not sway or bend with contact.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: When one of the girls is looking for climbing equipment, but doesn't have any with her, she says, "Oh, fuck," but her mouth doesn't move.

* Revealing mistakes: When one of the girls falls and tries to get up to a tunnel, she grabs a large rock to help herself up. You can see the rock bend and wiggle under her weight.

* Factual errors: The cave drawings featured a woolly rhinoceros which lived in Eurasia. None have been found in North America. They lived during the Pleistocene epoch (1,808,000 to 11,550 years before present) and are known mainly through cave drawings. Recent carbon dating has shown that populations may have survived as recently as 8000 B.C. in Western Siberia. A nearly complete specimen was also found in a tar pit in Starunia, Poland. The oldest known cave paintings are approximately 40,000 years old.

* Continuity: When Sarah falls into the pool of blood, the torch falls behind the big rock to her left. In the next shots, the torch is on the top of the rock.

* Continuity: Near the start, as the girls are heading to the cave in the 4X4's, the spare wheel switches sides on the rear of the older vehicle.

* Factual errors: Cars in North Carolina are not required to have front license plates. Also, the license tag is made up of four digits followed by three letters; on North Carolina plates, letters precede numbers.

* Factual errors: Ice climbing axes, as carried by the characters, are used exclusively for climbing frozen waterfalls and would have no use inside a cave where the temperature remains constant, and well above freezing, due to being underground.

* Revealing mistakes: In the first tunnel, when the camera follows one of the girls climbing in it, you can clearly see the wheel marks of the camera on the ground.

* Continuity: When Juno and Sarah are talking during their meal break, Juno has nothing in her hands. But when the angle changes she is suddenly holding an apple.

* Revealing mistakes: The green light almost never matches the green glowsticks supposedly casting them. Several times the actors' shadows fall in the direction of the glowstick, rather than away from it.

* Factual errors: While the rock climbing scenes in this movie are technically an order of magnitude better than most Hollywood attempts, when Juno follows across the first chasm, she wouldn't have bothered to re-rack the cams she was collecting to the gear loops on her harness. Completely unclipping them from the rope is both unnecessarily energy expending and dangerous, since she could easily drop a free cam into the abyss below. Most climbers faced with following a leader on a roof like that would simply disengage the cam from the rock and let it slide safely down the rope where it would collect by the climber's harness for later racking.

* Revealing mistakes: When the girls pull out the camera, someone suggests to turn on the infrared, however, when we can see what they're looking at, the camera is clearly using the night vision setting, not infrared.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

the rest are spoilers:

>>> WARNING: Here Be Spoilers <<<

Goofs below here contain information that may give away important plot points. You may not want to read any further if you've not already seen this title.

* Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: When Holly drops and breaks her leg, about 45 minutes into the movie, the slip-wire is visible, reflecting in the light from the flashlights.

* Continuity: SPOILER: In the end, when Sarah has parked her car at the side of the road, the entire car is on the grass. When the trailer almost hit her, the car is back on the road. This should only be considered a goof in the US theatrical release. In the Director's Cut, Sarah is hallucinating the entire escape sequence, and any goofs can be considered part of the hallucination.

* Continuity: SPOILER: Towards the end when Sarah is driving along the road, the road markings change from US to UK. This should only be considered a goof in the US theatrical release. In the Director's Cut, Sarah is hallucinating the entire escape sequence, and any goofs can be considered part of the hallucination.

* Errors in geography: SPOILER: In the end, a logging truck is depicted speeding by on the North Carolina highway. The tail markings, reflectors, and technical gearing on it represent UK transit requirements instead of standard USA (OTR) specs. This should only be considered a goof in the US theatrical release. In the Director's Cut, Sarah is hallucinating the entire escape sequence, and any goofs can be considered part of the hallucination.

* Continuity: SPOILER: When the girls reach the cave, the blue truck parks and the BMW parks on its left side. When the last girl reaches the surface, she gets in the blue truck. When she goes to the truck, the beamer isn't there, but when she pulls out it's on the left again. This should only be considered a goof in the US theatrical release. In the Director's Cut, Sarah is hallucinating the entire escape sequence, and any goofs can be considered part of the hallucination.

* Continuity: SPOILER: When Juno falls into the pool towards the end (just before finding Sarah), when she resurfaces from underwater, her ice pick is bent. However, she then uses a straightened ice pick to help her climb the wall.

Internet John said...

I liked The Descent. It was fairly character-driven for a horror movie. It's such a shame it and others like it are nonetheless complicit in the culture-wide silencing of middle aged black transexuals.

Fucking juventoheterophallocrats.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

ill add that to the errors:

Factual Errors: Appalachian caves are full of middle-aged black transexuals.

laurie said...

FYI, I fucking LOVE The Descent.

I.J. said...

If they're not, then they should be.

Chris said...

Your mom loves the descent.

Bam. Roasted!

I.J. said...

I liked the part where the guy got killed by those metal poles off the back of the truck.

What's this post about again?

laurie said...

Chris: I wish I could get mad at you for that your mom comment, but that was actually pretty funny.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

in the scene where the dude was killed by the poles (symbolism) i forgot they were in england and i thought the chick was killed b/c i forgot where the driver seat was

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

i cld clean that last coment up but i dont give a shit

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

fun fact

LoCo said...

I wanted to see The Descent! I am a fan of lesbian cinema.

LoCo said...
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laurie said...

It's really good.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

who deleeted they comment im not mad im just hurt

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

you know, i guess its a good thinkg yall are done w/ r3 cause its p. much impossible to top twenty-thrid amenment post