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Cognitive surplus is made up of two things.
That's the second half of cognitive surplus.
And using cognitive surplus, we're starting to see truly incredible experiments in scientific, literary, artistic, political efforts.
It is one of the curiosities of our historical era that even as cognitive surplus is becoming a resource we can design around, social sciences are also starting to explain how important our intrinsic motivations are to us, how much we do things because we like to do them rather than because our boss told us to do them, or because we're being paid to do them.
Both of these rely on cognitive surplus.
But we can also celebrate and support and reward the people trying to use cognitive surplus to create civic value.
The second achieves some poignancy, but only via the outrage-inducing surplus of humiliation visited on its central character.
Written, directed, shot, scored and edited with an appalling lack of flair and finesse by the singularly talentless Rick Sloane (who later disgraced celluloid some more with the absolutely atrocious "Hobgoblins"), this horrendously ham-fisted attempt at a slasher spoof strikes out something rotten in every conceivable way: the excruciatingly lethargic pacing, the painfully static, grainy cinematography (there's a stinky surplus of drab master shots featured throughout), an annoyingly droning and redundant hum'n'shiver synthesizer score, the flat (non)direction, a tediously talky and uneventful script, the groan-inducing sophomoric sense of lowbrow humor, the bloodless murder set pieces, a pitifully unscary killer (he's just some wrinkled-up old guy in pasty make-up), the uniformly obnoxious and unappealing characters, a dissatisfyingly abrupt ending, and lifeless performances from a noticeably uninspired cast all ensure that watching this schlocky swill is about as fun and rewarding as eating rancid raw eels drenched with sour vinegar.
The "Marine" uniform looked like it was fresh off a surplus store shelf and was a pattern not used since the first Iraq war.
I think there was surplus of cheap looking and bloodless fight scenes as well especially given the generally minimal grue.
The film even had great cameos like the maker of city limits Michelle schocked in the liquor store or Ben Stein in his first role in the sunny's surplus store.
Best of all, there's a winning surplus of pure heart to go along with said humor (the warm relationship between Tripper and Rudy in particular is genuinely touching).
Director Mario Penzauti and screenwriter Tecla Romanelli cram this fetid filth with a teeming surplus of sizzling sleaze: we've got nasty rape, interracial copulation (one white lady makes wild love to a muscular black stud while he's tied to a cross), copious female nudity, brutal whippings, vile degradation, lots of lurid soft-core sex, and a severely twisted tragic surprise ending that mixes elements of incest, murder and miscegenation in a questionable attempt at making a statement about the horrid inhumanity of slavery.
I really do fail to see the actual surplus value of this movie.
The special effects are pretty cheap, the lunar rovers are obviously World War II surplus jeeps with painted plywood over them, and the like.
A couple of low-rent Abbott and Costello wannabees(Frankie Ray and Robert Ball) are in a platoon of soldiers(half a dozen guys in Army Surplus remainders) who are sent on field maneuvers to look into some strange radiation, and wind up encountering extraterrestrials.
Director Tom Laughlin (yep, the same dude who portrayed Billy Jack!) and screenwriter James McLarty cram the splendidly seamy story with a winning and highly entertaining surplus of delicious female nudity, sizzling soft-core sex, and raw violence.
The film is amazingly bad, for the most part the costumes appear to have come from really bad 1980's army surplus and charity shops, the acting is wooden and totally unconvincing.
While the premise certainly has promise, alas said promise is severely undermined by writer/director Brett Piper's lackluster execution: the sluggish pace crawls along for the first two thirds of the picture, there's no spooky atmosphere to speak of, the special effects are strictly so-so, and the drab and uneventful script gets bogged down in a dull surplus of insipid talk.
Skip all the surplus reviews; you'll be deceived.
The budget for the movie couldn't have been more than $150 (and the producers more than likely took the cast out for dinner with the surplus).
I loved it, some of the film quality was a bit dubious, looked like someone had been let loose with a videocamera and a couple of army surplus uniforms but the acting was adequate and the story okay.
Here, even the most inept of film-schoolers could find a surplus of shortfalls, for which to offer their trite insight.
Even the usual nudity doens't give it a surplus value.
I have to say that I had HUGE expectations for Conan in his Tonight Show debut, and he's surpassed them with an enormous surplus.
If I were to venture a guess, TBS spent most of its budget on My Boys and when the numbers came in lower than expected, they spent the surplus money on this cheap The Office knockoff.
With the Congressional Budget Office projecting that federal budget deficits will average 4.2% of GDP from now until 2023, domestic saving will come under further pressure, fueling increased demand for surplus saving from abroad and even bigger trade deficits in order to fill the void.
If an internal EU imbalance is to be corrected, deficit countries must accept real output losses, while surplus countries can maintain or even boost their growth rates.
Thus, deficit countries have to control price and wage growth to improve competitiveness, while surplus countries may have to accept some inflation.
And, of course, the political sensitivity of Europe’s imbalances consists precisely in telling deficit countries that they must accept enduring hard times while surplus countries are required merely to save a little less.
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