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Buried Treasure - Ringing Bell

Charred Knight wrote:

He didn't say that human and nature shouldn't belong, he stated that nature was not beautiful. It makes me think of Justin as having a screw loose and thinking the squirrels are out to get him.

While I'll freely admit to having a screw loose, you're REALLY jacking my words around here. Nature is not beautiful, but I'd venture to say man is even worse.

StudioToledo wrote:

I wanted to correct Justin on that and let him know it was a goat, not a lamb in that film too.

Touché. They do, however, both taste fantastic.

Seeing as how you are ready to poop your pants over watching "Planet Earth" on BluRay, I don't quite see where this sentiment is coming from all the sudden.

I feel obliged to chime in and say that Planet Earth could be the only BluRay disk ever released and it still would justify the existence of the format--it's THAT good!

There's a wolf in the first episode that's almost entirely macroblocks. And it's 1080i! WTF!

What did those macroblocks ever do to you??!

Charred Knight wrote:

He didn't say that human and nature shouldn't belong, he stated that nature was not beautiful. It makes me think of Justin as having a screw loose and thinking the squirrels are out to get him.

While I'll freely admit to having a screw loose, you're REALLY jacking my words around here. Nature is not beautiful, but I'd venture to say man is even worse.

StudioToledo wrote:

I wanted to correct Justin on that and let him know it was a goat, not a lamb in that film too.

Touché. They do, however, both taste fantastic.

i would give a lot for a DVD release of both The Mouse & His Child and Ringing Bell. The Mouse and His Child, especially, as that is one of my favorite children's books. (And I love childrens books, so that is no easy task.) Looks like I will have to you-tube these.......or otherwise internet them down.

I am lucky enough to have this title on dvd (complete with subs and both audio tracks....I don't think of it as a bootleg, but more along the lines of a "fan restoration" ala Thief and the Cobbler Recobbled Cut) and I honestly enjoyed it. It brought back memories of when I first saw this as a youngin' and it is just as good now as it was when I was younger (I forget how old I was when I saw this back in the 80s).

I'll bet you do, you sly dog.

But it's true, it's stuff like this and Thief that make me remember watching/reading about stuff as a kid and just smiling when I see it again in my adult years.

Craeyst Raygal wrote:

Umm, Charred Knight, ever think that he's talking about the popularized "Innocent Natural Harmony" bullcrap that we put in our kids' faces with movies where lions nobly explain that the only reason they eat antelope is because it's part of an Elton John song? No one's saying kill wolves. What he's saying is let's look at the real nature where wolves do eat livestock because they're hungry and livestock are easy prey provided Farmer Frank doesn't have his twice-barreled shootgun on hand.

He didn't say that human and nature shouldn't belong, he stated that nature was not beautiful. It makes me think of Justin as having a screw loose and thinking the squirrels are out to get him.

It came off to me like Justin was promoting the destruction of the ugly nature to make it more safe for humans.

It shows me that Justin is incredibly short sighted believing that humanity and nature can not live together when that is a must.

Should you go around trying to keep lions as pets? No, but that doesn't mean you get in a jeep and start gunning them down so you can stuff them and hang them in the den.