Jules and Thor review Frozen 2

[jimnance]

Sheldon Cooper?

Keep that on the DL! Can't reveal my true identity since I'm also a superhero.
Would be bad for business.

 

[TB_Helmet]

I'm a champion!
Listing ones credentials is pointless on a
message board, unless you're gonna reveal your true identity and document said credentials.
Otherwise, it's just more bloviating on your part, something you are quite accomplished at.
But since you asked, I'll give my credentials:
Undergrad degree from yes Harvard, which I accomplished in 2 years. I was 16 when I graduated.
2 advanced degrees from Oxford.

Haha, I didn’t watch the show so didn’t get this at first. Good work.

 

[TN patriot fan]

I'm a champion!
Listing ones credentials is pointless on a
message board, unless you're gonna reveal your true identity and document said credentials.
Otherwise, it's just more bloviating on your part, something you are quite accomplished at.
But since you asked, I'll give my credentials:
Undergrad degree from yes Harvard, which I accomplished in 2 years. I was 16 when I graduated.
2 advanced degrees from Oxford.

A. Your claims seem dubious at best, considering you can't even correctly punctuate, "one's," or place commas around the interjection, "yes."
B. Even if you do possess degrees from said institutions, they seemingly are not in English or literature, or else you would have mentioned as much. Having a degree in, for example, computer science from Harvard does not make you an expert on literature any more than my having attended a school that has a football program makes me a football player.

I'll give you one more tidbit to mock to your heart's content, and then I'm done with you. When someone who has excelled at a very high level at something makes an assessment of someone else in that same field, it carries more weight than when someone not accomplished makes the assessment: it means a little more when Steve Young proclaims Tom Brady the greatest quarterback in history, because Steve Young is himself a HOF quarterback, than when Rob Parker, who never played football, asserts that Brady is not the greatest.
A few different writers through the years, who are not famous to the average Joe but certainly are famous among people who read, and who furthermore have won major awards for their writing, have told me I might be one of the greats (in all of history). Usually it was in the context of trying to console me for the lack of notoriety my work has garnered to this point, i.e., "some of the greatest never had success in their lifetimes, keep your chin up, etc." Unlike my degrees and where they're from, which is objective, this is purely subjective, and easily mockable, so have at it. But remember that Christ is still Christ, and Matthew 12:36 still applies.

 

[TB_Helmet]

A. Your claims seem dubious at best, considering you can't even correctly punctuate, "one's," or place commas around the interjection, "yes."

Edit: not getting drawn back into this.

Tom 6:199

 

[jimnance]

A. Your claims seem dubious at best, considering you can't even correctly punctuate, "one's," or place commas around the interjection, "yes."
B. Even if you do possess degrees from said institutions, they seemingly are not in English or literature, or else you would have mentioned as much. Having a degree in, for example, computer science from Harvard does not make you an expert on literature any more than my having attended a school that has a football program makes me a football player.

I'll give you one more tidbit to mock to your heart's content, and then I'm done with you. When someone who has excelled at a very high level at something makes an assessment of someone else in that same field, it carries more weight than when someone not accomplished makes the assessment: it means a little more when Steve Young proclaims Tom Brady the greatest quarterback in history, because Steve Young is himself a HOF quarterback, than when Rob Parker, who never played football, asserts that Brady is not the greatest.
A few different writers through the years, who are not famous to the average Joe but certainly are famous among people who read, and who furthermore have won major awards for their writing, have told me I might be one of the greats (in all of history). Usually it was in the context of trying to console me for the lack of notoriety my work has garnered to this point, i.e., "some of the greatest never had success in their lifetimes, keep your chin up, etc." Unlike my degrees and where they're from, which is objective, this is purely subjective, and easily mockable, so have at it. But remember that Christ is still Christ, and Matthew 12:36 still applies.

Thank you. I now am truly enlightened.
Though I feel I am not worthy of your teachings.
Maybe if I continue fighting villains as a superhero, I might earn that worthiness.
BTW, if I do run across you while doing my job and you are actually a brilliant arch-villian in the mold of Dr. Moriarty,
don't take it personally if I kill you.
Just doin my job.

 

[Tony2046]

A. Your claims seem dubious at best, considering you can't even correctly punctuate, "one's," or place commas around the interjection, "yes."
B. Even if you do possess degrees from said institutions, they seemingly are not in English or literature, or else you would have mentioned as much. Having a degree in, for example, computer science from Harvard does not make you an expert on literature any more than my having attended a school that has a football program makes me a football player.

I'll give you one more tidbit to mock to your heart's content, and then I'm done with you. When someone who has excelled at a very high level at something makes an assessment of someone else in that same field, it carries more weight than when someone not accomplished makes the assessment: it means a little more when Steve Young proclaims Tom Brady the greatest quarterback in history, because Steve Young is himself a HOF quarterback, than when Rob Parker, who never played football, asserts that Brady is not the greatest.
A few different writers through the years, who are not famous to the average Joe but certainly are famous among people who read, and who furthermore have won major awards for their writing, have told me I might be one of the greats (in all of history). Usually it was in the context of trying to console me for the lack of notoriety my work has garnered to this point, i.e., "some of the greatest never had success in their lifetimes, keep your chin up, etc." Unlike my degrees and where they're from, which is objective, this is purely subjective, and easily mockable, so have at it. But remember that Christ is still Christ, and Matthew 12:36 still applies.

Man. You might be one of the greatest anonymous people I've never known.

 

[Clonamery]

I hope so because the otherwise is concerning.

Remember, Christ is still Christ.

 

[Clonamery]

Mosslost...or no

Yes, no.

 

[patfanken]

And Hemingway's overrated. Very good writer.
Not in the same class as Melville,Twain or Steinbeck.
Oh shiit, I better call Twain Clemens or The World's Greatest All-time Literary Genius will attempt to wound my pride with his biting wit.
Literally. His wit bites.

Sorry J, but even though I'm doomed to an eternity of hell by being a non-Christian, I have to go with TN here, Hemingway is the BOMB and my personal literary here.

But you probably knew this already from my very tightly constructed, terse and minimal posts I produce every Sunday. That's a true sign of a REAL fan. Love it.....can't do it.

 

[Clonamery]

Sorry J, but even though I'm doomed to an eternity of hell by being a non-Christian, I have to go with TN here, Hemingway is the BOMB and my personal literary here.

But you probably knew this already from my very tightly constructed, terse and minimal posts I produce every Sunday. That's a true sign of a REAL fan. Love it.....can't do it.

If anything your posts are closer to Faulkner's stream of consciousness.

 

[jimnance]

Sorry J, but even though I'm doomed to an eternity of hell by being a non-Christian, I have to go with TN here, Hemingway is the BOMB and my personal literary here.

But you probably knew this already from my very tightly constructed, terse and minimal posts I produce every Sunday. That's a true sign of a REAL fan. Love it.....can't do it.

Pfk, I am a big fan of Hemingway. I've read pretty much everything he wrote.
There was a time he was my favorite author.
But I don't see him quite on the same level as those other 3.
He's a bit overrated. What TN posted is just absurd. He's probably yanking our chains. If not,he's an idiot.
Whereas Twain is grossly underrated.
Most even very well-read folks have only seen a small sample of his work.
He wrote a lot of very obscure stuff than most people have never heard of; a lot of essays and newspaper editorials. Even among his novels and short stories, the best were not well-known. He was far more prolific than Hemingway.
But my personal Hemingway favorite was The Boxer, a truly great short story.

 

[Clonamery]

Pfk, I am a big fan of Hemingway. I've read pretty much everything he wrote.
There was a time he was my favorite author.
But I don't see him quite on the same level as those other 3.
He's a bit overrated. What TN posted is just absurd. He's probably yanking our chains. If not,he's an idiot.
Whereas Twain is grossly underrated.
Most even very well-read folks have only seen a small sample of his work.
He wrote a lot of very obscure stuff than most people have never heard of; a lot of essays and newspaper editorials. Even among his novels and short stories, the best were not well-known. He was far more prolific than Hemingway.
But my personal Hemingway favorite was The Boxer, a truly great short story.

I agree in general on Hemingway and Twain. I enjoyed his Nick Adams stories, focusing on PTSD, like Big Two-Hearted River.

 

[patfanken]

Pfk, I am a big fan of Hemingway. I've read pretty much everything he wrote.
There was a time he was my favorite author.
But I don't see him quite on the same level as those other 3.
He's a bit overrated. What TN posted is just absurd. He's probably yanking our chains. If not,he's an idiot.
Whereas Twain is grossly underrated.
Most even very well-read folks have only seen a small sample of his work.
He wrote a lot of very obscure stuff than most people have never heard of; a lot of essays and newspaper editorials. Even among his novels and short stories, the best were not well-known. He was far more prolific than Hemingway.
But my personal Hemingway favorite was The Boxer, a truly great short story.

I don;t disagree with what you say because opinions come in all colors. You might not believe me, but I've heard, and this is only a rumor, that there are actually Jet fans. So sh!t.

As for Twain/Clemens, he's was a great observer and humorist much like Will Rogers was during the depression, though Rogers was never the writer Twain was, he saw through the hypocrisy and injustice of his day, and his stories often laid truth to what really matters in life. So I can see why you would be so protective of Twain.

Hemingway made in name in literature more by HOW he wrote his stories than by the stories themselves. TN's point about how Hemingway "created" subtext, was perhaps the most astute remark he made. I also loved how much imagery Hemingway could make from so few words, its a skill I have strive for in my writing, but fail miserably most of the time in attaining that goal.

But that's just me. I only have 2 degrees, and the results of leading with my head on EVERY play I was involved in over 11 years playing football in HS, College, and beyond. So if CTE is a real thing, EVERYTHING I say should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

[jimnance]

I don;t disagree with what you say because opinions come in all colors. You might not believe me, but I've heard, and this is only a rumor, that there are actually Jet fans. So sh!t.

As for Twain/Clemens, he's was a great observer and humorist much like Will Rogers was during the depression, though Rogers was never the writer Twain was, he saw through the hypocrisy and injustice of his day, and his stories often laid truth to what really matters in life. So I can see why you would be so protective of Twain.

Hemingway made in name in literature more by HOW he wrote his stories than by the stories themselves. TN's point about how Hemingway "created" subtext, was perhaps the most astute remark he made. I also loved how much imagery Hemingway could make from so few words, its a skill I have strive for in my writing, but fail miserably most of the time in attaining that goal.

But that's just me. I only have 2 degrees, and the results of leading with my head on EVERY play I was involved in over 11 years playing football in HS, College, and beyond. So if CTE is a real thing, EVERYTHING I say should be taken with a grain of salt.

I can't deny Hemingway's innovation.
No one had ever really written like him before. But that's why I think he's a little overrated. People went overboard in singing his praises because of his innovation. Look, he's a great writer.
But TN called him the most influential writer in the world since the Bard.
That would make Hemingway #2 all-time.
Not #2 American. #2 period. That's beyond ridiculous.
In no particular order, Joyce,****ens, Dostoyevsky,Chekov,Nabokov,James,Tolstoy,Kafka,Melville,Twain,Faulner all have something to say about that. All the great writers have their own particular strengths. I don't take any joy in knocking Hemingway down a peg, because he's one of my favorite writers and certainly belongs on that list. Just trying to give some perspective.