Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2025-01-11, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:15:55 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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I didn't like the one Bourne movie I partially watched. That
"shaky-camera"
crap gets on my nerves. (I think it was a Bourne movie with the
"shaky-camera" disease — if not, my apologies.)

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I've been watching the new Netflix series 'American Primeval'. I won't
comment on its value but it's filmed (digital I suppose) in that faux
black and white mode. Colors sometimes come through but not often.
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I assume it's some sort of digital post-processing to try to create and
atmosphere of 1853.
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The Mormons may not be too happy with it. They'd rather forget the
Mountain Meadows Massacre.  There is a monument at the site when it hasn't
been vandalized but it's not included in the tourist brochures.

I'll have to look up the Mountain Meadows Massacre. If I've heard of it I've
managed to forget what I heard.

I've been watching the Jesse Stone movies. More my speed these days.

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Selleck makes anything better and Parker's stories were good to start
with. I haven't read any of the Stone books written by other author's
after his death but I believe the movies stay close to the originals.

I've watched six of the nine now. The weakest, so far, was the sixth one (it
was the first one not based on one of Parker's books) but it wasn't
terrible. Selleck and the director (Harmon?) wrote this one. They kept the
mood pretty close but I'm hoping number 7 doesn't drop another notch.

Two things Parker required in the films. Jesse Stone could never "get over"
his ex-wife and he could never quit drinking.

I haven't read any of Parker's Jesse Stone books, but I probably will now
that I've watched movies based on them. And I agree that Selleck makes it
better. Now that Blue Bloods has ended (I've never watched that show... yet,
but it went fourteen years) there's talk of more Jesse Stone movies.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien