tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post2557699557251478041..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Movie trailers constantly fading in and out, and fading to blackagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-26011902270025660632013-03-09T18:19:36.787-05:002013-03-09T18:19:36.787-05:00The fading effect is kind of interesting. I tend t...The fading effect is kind of interesting. I tend to perceive the standard modern Hollywood signature trailer as proceeding from fades to sharp cuts with a rapidly increasing rate of cuts across the trailer. Kind of a managed buildup rather than the action-action-action. <br /><br /><i>nor is appropriate anymore to ask for a promotion(whatever happened to that as a cultural trope, anyway?)</i><br /><br />Positions are advertised, people apply for them. Company internal roles are fairly flexible in any case. Contracts are renegotiable. Asking a boss for a promotion, as such, is not really a thing.<br /><br />...<br /><br /><i>Dance music today doesn't get your body moving, slang words don't pack any punch, and nobody makes bonfires during the summer celebrations anymore.</i><br /><br />A lot of the traditional Eysenckian theories of -version run with the idea that extraverts are people who receive less stimulation from equal activity, and so are motivated to seek more stimulation.<br /><br />Maybe this links into the epicycles of version you describe - people become sensitised during rising crime cycles by the extremely stimulating environment, making society overwhelming and causing some social retreat, while during low crime cycles desensitisation takes place, subsequently causing an increase in extraversion, once a phase transition takes place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-38347358345654200532013-03-07T23:26:28.631-05:002013-03-07T23:26:28.631-05:00I didn't realize sitcoms had "fallen"...I didn't realize sitcoms had "fallen". Chuck Lorre or whatever has super-successful shows (wasn't at least one of them the most-watched show on the air at some point?) that epitomize everything I hate about sitcoms. And if you prefer the opposite kind of sitcom, there's the F/X channel.<br /><br />Someone else <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/03/chillax_wikipedia_and_bridezilla_are_not_puns_against_adjoinages.html" rel="nofollow">complaining</a> about all the portmanteau neologisms. I also find them annoying, but regard puns as the lowest form of humor (even lower than most of Chuck Lorre's jokes, I suppose). On the other hand, Akam makes a good point that many words have become so accepted we don't even notice they originated as combinations (acronyms are similar, and we can date what stage they are at to some extent by whether people use capitalization/periods).TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-79000086548077300882013-03-07T19:01:49.291-05:002013-03-07T19:01:49.291-05:00I think this ties in with the fall of sitcoms. Pe...<br /><br />I think this ties in with the fall of sitcoms. People don't want to watch sitcoms anymore because their lives are boring and aren't worth reflecting on screen.<br /><br />Likewise, if you're in a passive situation, then you don't want to get emotionally worked up. When teenage guys saw Rambo take on a whole army, it motivated them to take on the assholes giving them a hard time in school. Or go after the promotion, or whatever. <br /><br />But things have changed. Guys don't beat each other up anymore, nor is appropriate anymore to ask for a promotion(whatever happened to that as a cultural trope, anyway?) Opportunities or reasons for assertive action evaporate when everybody is reclusive. Why get worked up, when you can't do anything about it? It'll just give you a bad feeling, like coming down from drugs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com