Nothing here feels particularly new, except for the compelling way the Duffers have put it all together — and even that can't fix some plot holes and deliberate obfuscation that
make Stranger Things a clumsier ride than it needs to be.
It's odd that Netflix would choose to make this a retail - exclusive release, but give them credit for at least
making Stranger Things available on Blu - ray Disc at all.
From a pop culture perspective, the new take on IT looks like it is picking up and running with the same ball that
made Stranger Things such a big hit last year, and it's just impressive how wonderfully balanced the movie looks.
I guess I was just so used to
making strange things.
For more on the latest Indie Obscura news, be sure to read our coverage of the fan -
made Stranger Things point - and - click adventure game, Don't Starve Together's imminent PS4 release and the Don't Starve Mega Pack, and the free demo of Twin Peaks-esque mystery title Virginia.
A Preamble to
Making Strange Things.
Ross: There was no such moment — except that I generally remember liking to work with my hands, and
make strange things — in all kinds of ways.
Not exact matches
And the same books that
made you feel less alone, that you connected with so fully, are likewise the
things that a complete
stranger might have felt and been glad for during the same precarious time.
Founded in 1994 by Jim Hale and Tim Nett (both have since left the company), the Hollywood - based studio
makes promos for movies and TV shows such as Netflix's
Stranger Things 2, Power Rangers and the international trailer for Patriots Day.
Desperation can
make you do
strange things and ruin your confidence in the process.
When Rasputin's daughter Maria viewed the body, she identified «the
strangest thing»: the position of his right arm and hand indicated that Rasputin had succeeded in untying the bonds holding his arms and had died
making the sign of the cross!
If I were lying in a bed dying, my family would be the
thing I want to talk about, to
make sure that I can
make a
stranger understand my love for them and hopefully keep them alive in one more person.
Last August, Netflix's
Stranger Things made the entire country pine for the «80s, even those Generation Z kids who never actually experienced them.
A
strange thing happens, however, when we
make this separation, when we seize the commandment and
make it into our own law, so that the living word is only past scripture.
The true state of the case is
made plain when we trace the
strange and fascinating change of meaning that took place in the word «holy» as in successive ages it was applied to
things divine.
In the same essay, Davison puts forward the case for continuing to use theological language, even when it might be
strange, because «it is the task of apologetics to
make things clear and on other occasions it is the task of apologetics to cut through the vapid familiarity of our time and present something unfamiliar, glorious and true».
Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera
makes exotic
things near, intimate; and familiar
things small, abstract,
strange, much further away.
In his suit, Kessler said, «After the massive success of
Stranger Things that is based on Plaintiff's concepts that Plaintiffs discussed with Defendants, Defendants have
made huge sums of money by producing the series based on Plaintiff's concepts without compensating or crediting Plaintiff for his Concepts.»
The
strange thing is that it doesn't seem to
make much difference.
It is a
strange thing, this business of the locked door, the fence, the prayer in secret, the retreats which we
make from one another.
Best Drama had a lot of fresh faces this year, with Handmaid's Tale,
Stranger Things, This Is Us and Westworld all
making an appearance in their first season.
One can therefore divert oneself by reflecting how
strange it is that precisely in our age when everyone is able to accomplish the highest
things doubt about the immortality of the soul could be so widespread, for the man who has really
made even so much as the movement of infinity is hardly a doubter.
The movements are frequently confounded, for it is said that one needs faith to renounce the claim to everything, yea, a
stranger thing than this may be heard, when a man laments the loss of his faith, and when one looks at the scale to see where he is, one sees, strangely enough, that he has only reached the point where he should
make the infinite movement of resignation.
Strange thoughts, fantasies, dreams, slips of the tongue, the jokes we think are funny, the place we sit in church, the way we feel when someone is angry, the
things we remember, the people we like or don't like — all
make sense when we understand their hidden meaning.
Where a person «feels
strange,» as almost anyone is likely to in a new locality, the sensible
thing to do is to
make friends as fast as possible.
People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to
strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion
thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man -
made, and all controlled for selfish gain.
Would you walk up to a
stranger and
make statements like the
things you see posted here?
However, pain is a
strange thing — hard to compare when you are experiencing it (none of us really wants to trade our pain for someone else's but neither does that go far in
making our pain less, well less painful.)
It seems not a little
strange that the faith which is most insistent upon the principle of Ahimsa and will not take the life of the most humble living
thing,
makes a definite place for putting an end to one own life.
Anything that
makes people actually think for themselves, while listening to the
strange things spoken in sermons, can't be bad.
There is a show that is supposed to be funny... about home videos where people have «accidents» or
strange things happen to them and often I believe someone must have gotten hurt when they fall or slam into something... and people just roar and think it is so funny, but stuff like that does not
make me laugh as I think about how that must have hurt... so I guess humor is in one's funny bone, and that is about all I can say about comedy!
It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new
thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «
strange ones» for whom the ordinary
things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be
made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»
One senses that many of these other philosophers have not known what to
make of this
strange character who asked all the questions they held to be irrelevant or meaningless and believed many
things they thought absurd.
Social media creates a world of constant comparisons, we're no longer just comparing ourselves with our friends and the people around us but we're now comparing ourselves with hundreds or even thousands of total
strangers — some of whom
make a career out of the
things we can be jealous of, whether that's a dream job, a super models abs or a yoga teachers handstands.
However, the
strange thing is that after I had ditched the store - bought baking powder and
made Coconut Mama's baking powder to recreate what I was doing before, resulting in successful flatbreads, I still had to scrape my flatbreads off the trays in bits again.
After all, last year she
made that
strange endive / orange / almond salad
thing — another combination of flavors I normally hate — and I ate like three...
Sounds like a
strange place to find such a
thing but your post
made me think of this recipe (where the pork slow fries for hours in olive oil) and now i must
make a pork butt dish soon!
Also, if you guys haven't watched the show «
Stranger Things» yet (SO FREAKIN» GOOD), this weekend is the PERFECT time to
make a fat stack of these pancakes and binge watch the show!
Many countries do
strange things on New Years to
make sure their following year is a good and prosperous one.
Milk and citrus is always a weird
thing at first, but using coconut milk — as opposed to dairy —
makes it a bit less
strange and ultimately delicious.
-- I'm a bit fascinated by these and courgette seems such a
strange thing to be
making cakes with.
But never a «mold» with suspended
things and
strange added flavors like California Onion Dressing, which the 1961 Betty Crocker New Picture Cook Book tells me is
made by combining two cups of sour cream with an envelope of dry onion soup mix.
Maybe it's because there's a five - year - old at my hip who declared it «the dressing that
makes me into a lover of salad
things» or perhaps it is because that five - year - old's babysitter asked to be paid in jars of dressing rather than real money, but there is something about this dressing that has given me the
strange inertia to
make it over and over and over again.
I am having some kind of resolution -
making moment, which feels
strange since I'm not one to resolve to do
things — especially when probed by events like the turning of a calendar year — because I'd rather just do the
things.
While it was a very
strange food to
make and I learned quite a few
things from it (that I may or may not have learned through error), I will certainly
make Homemade Marshmallows again.
The
strange thing is that the previous game
made this seem like a bad result, usually a strong defensive display away at the champions bringing home a point is said to be good stuff from the boys.
They are the most likely of any of the Top - 4 seeds to
make it through, but
stranger things have happened, as they say...
The
strange thing is that Arsenal don't
make so many unforced errors when they are playing at the Emirates where we have only lost once this season.
We can complain all we want but if the people at the club (Wenger / Kroenke) have different objectives than us, ie we want trophies and competitive teams, they want profit and a solid business, we will always seem to
make strange decisions or want
strange things from each other.
The
strangest thing of all is that it's been his basketball I.Q. and effort level — once considered his biggest weaknesses — that have
made it all possible.