The One Tree by Stephen R Donaldson

The Matrix lost it’s way once the Wachowski Brothers decided the machines were the good guys and humans didn’t matter.  Once the Programs took the lead, the story was doomed. In The One Tree, Stephen R Donaldson starts down the same dark path that the Wachowski Brothers took-he begins to make mere humans irrelevant.  The fruit of his love affair with demi-gods will not ripen until the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, but the seeds are planted here. I still loved The One Tree, for all it’s nonsense about Elohim and The Worm of The World’s End and The Guardian…

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War Horse

Produced by George Martin; overproduced by Phil Spector.  -George Martin on The Beatles album Let It Be War Horse is an epic that wants to make sure you know that it is an Epic. Steven Spielberg goes over the top with camera angles, strange lighting, and a closing scene filmed in silhouette like the Burning of Atlanta sequence from Gone With The Wind.  There were several times when hard lighting threw shadows on buildings-from multiple directions, on cloudy days.  These seemed to be a nod of the head to other Broadway plays that have been turned into movies, it’s impossible…

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