Post by drystyx on Jun 20, 2021 20:06:29 GMT
Not many people were ever sold on the fortune teller, Nostradamus, because anyone who was literate could see how vague the quatrains were.
Meaning that over an entire globe over the course of centuries, if you say something poetic enough, it is vague enough that somewhere, some time, it HAS TO COME TRUE by sheer coincidence. If it didn't come true some how, it would be like rolling dice a trillion times and never getting "boxcars".
Even narrator Orson Welles put an initial kibosh on the Nostradamus fad by claiming it wasn't his idea in the beginning of his narration.
So, it was meant to be a fun ride, and it was.
The visuals were spectacular and matched the narration admirably. Before the days of high tech ballyhooed CGI, this bit of fluff stands tall in visuals against any of the modern stuff that is put out today, because of good directing. Today, there would be some hack director making it look like an arcade or a Vegas slot machine hall.
Welles is much of the reason this is so spectacular. And that means the director and the editing staff were also spectacular.
If anything is "amazing" about the predictions of Nostradamus, it's that 100% of those vague quatrains weren't totally filled a hundred times over the centuries. His prognostication was as poor as a Louisville meteorologist (for those who don't know, you can't get any worse than a Louisville TV weather forecaster at predicting the weather. Can't be done).
But it's a fun ride. 8/10
Meaning that over an entire globe over the course of centuries, if you say something poetic enough, it is vague enough that somewhere, some time, it HAS TO COME TRUE by sheer coincidence. If it didn't come true some how, it would be like rolling dice a trillion times and never getting "boxcars".
Even narrator Orson Welles put an initial kibosh on the Nostradamus fad by claiming it wasn't his idea in the beginning of his narration.
So, it was meant to be a fun ride, and it was.
The visuals were spectacular and matched the narration admirably. Before the days of high tech ballyhooed CGI, this bit of fluff stands tall in visuals against any of the modern stuff that is put out today, because of good directing. Today, there would be some hack director making it look like an arcade or a Vegas slot machine hall.
Welles is much of the reason this is so spectacular. And that means the director and the editing staff were also spectacular.
If anything is "amazing" about the predictions of Nostradamus, it's that 100% of those vague quatrains weren't totally filled a hundred times over the centuries. His prognostication was as poor as a Louisville meteorologist (for those who don't know, you can't get any worse than a Louisville TV weather forecaster at predicting the weather. Can't be done).
But it's a fun ride. 8/10