Answering Nitratevile General Jackassery
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 1:35 pm
http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25337
So Elliot Hearst decided to invoke my name as the main arbiter of meanness over at Nitwitvile (well, so much as he can't even get my middle initial right, what more can we expect?), as if I have uttered any words positive or negative over there in a long, long, time. Been gone from that nerdnest going on near five years now folks, and the nastiness, stupidity, and uncivil whining has continued unabated if perhaps even gotten worse. So gee, don't think I can be blamed for it at all these days.
But Elliot, since you wondered, yeah, it is a stupid question, so much so that no one has complained about that shot in a hundred years, I guess that since most digital transfers of THE IMMIGRANT have been slowed to such a comedy-killing crawl these days one's OCD-brain has all the time in the world to ponder such pointlessness.
And come to think of it, you're making an assumption as to the direction Chaplin's ship is going in the first place, what if they came down from Canada? In any event, definitely a stupid question in which the only sane and rational answer can be "who cares?", at least I've confirmed your suspicions.
While we're taking a holiday bash at Nitwitburg, I see someone over there also pondering the life-fulfilling question as to whether Brian Aherne was ever more than "okay", one of those typical nerd judgement calls on someone whose success in life was way beyond anything the judger most ever likely saw in their own lives but they feel it their place to be able to look down upon the poor performer. Considering he had a happy and successful career that spanned over forty years, made him pots of money, married him to Joan Fontaine in her prime, and gave him a long and prosperous life, "okay" was apparently way more than enough on Aherne's terms, try it some time Dean Thompson, before you knock it.
Ahhh, this has put me all in the Holiday mood, Nitnuts roasting on an open fire and all that, time for a Christmas movie........
RICHARD M ROBERTS
So Elliot Hearst decided to invoke my name as the main arbiter of meanness over at Nitwitvile (well, so much as he can't even get my middle initial right, what more can we expect?), as if I have uttered any words positive or negative over there in a long, long, time. Been gone from that nerdnest going on near five years now folks, and the nastiness, stupidity, and uncivil whining has continued unabated if perhaps even gotten worse. So gee, don't think I can be blamed for it at all these days.
But Elliot, since you wondered, yeah, it is a stupid question, so much so that no one has complained about that shot in a hundred years, I guess that since most digital transfers of THE IMMIGRANT have been slowed to such a comedy-killing crawl these days one's OCD-brain has all the time in the world to ponder such pointlessness.
And come to think of it, you're making an assumption as to the direction Chaplin's ship is going in the first place, what if they came down from Canada? In any event, definitely a stupid question in which the only sane and rational answer can be "who cares?", at least I've confirmed your suspicions.
While we're taking a holiday bash at Nitwitburg, I see someone over there also pondering the life-fulfilling question as to whether Brian Aherne was ever more than "okay", one of those typical nerd judgement calls on someone whose success in life was way beyond anything the judger most ever likely saw in their own lives but they feel it their place to be able to look down upon the poor performer. Considering he had a happy and successful career that spanned over forty years, made him pots of money, married him to Joan Fontaine in her prime, and gave him a long and prosperous life, "okay" was apparently way more than enough on Aherne's terms, try it some time Dean Thompson, before you knock it.
Ahhh, this has put me all in the Holiday mood, Nitnuts roasting on an open fire and all that, time for a Christmas movie........
RICHARD M ROBERTS