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Jan 17, 2024 4:46:59 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Jan 17, 2024 4:46:59 GMT -5
There is nothing wrong with diversity when it's done with story telling in mind, for instance the original Star Trek series, but it's gone into all sorts of crazy places these days, more like some new religion than anything else, full of ideology and fanaticism of the left. Hollywood is infested with them, and I personally think they would rather crash the whole industry than stop trying to force their beliefs onto everyone else. After all these years, and a string of failures, this is definitely intentional. It may need to go to it's logical conclusion.
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Jan 21, 2024 5:53:54 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Jan 21, 2024 5:53:54 GMT -5
Went to the Astor Theatre a few days ago, watched the original Solaris from 1972. I am a fan of the 2002 version starring George Clooney, but enjoyed Andrei Tarkovsky 's Soviet made sci fi. Highly recommend. It was subtitled in English.
I am not against the cartooney Marvel movies, the better ones are fun when done right, but there are times I just want to keep my brain with me and watch sci fi made for adults.
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Jan 21, 2024 6:10:45 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Jan 21, 2024 6:10:45 GMT -5
Watched this one a few weeks ago at home, Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' from 1958, starring Max Von Sydow as a medieval knight during the Black Death plague who encounters death and ends up playing a game of chess for his life. I found it to be very existential and allegorical, life and death representations. At the moment I feel myself drawn towards classics that I missed years ago.
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Jan 21, 2024 7:18:49 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Jan 21, 2024 7:18:49 GMT -5
Watched this one a few weeks ago at home, Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' from 1958, starring Max Von Sydow as a medieval knight during the Black Death plague who encounters death and ends up playing a game of chess for his life. I found it to be very existential and allegorical, life and death representations. At the moment I feel myself drawn towards classics that I missed years ago. TCM used to have a dedicated time to show foreign classics, now they just work them in with everything else. Good that they show them but it was nice to know at a certain time you could see Seventh Seal, Grand Illusion or Rashomon.
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Jan 23, 2024 11:17:21 GMT -5
Post by irondavith on Jan 23, 2024 11:17:21 GMT -5
Did you end up renting Sisu, Jason? If so, how was it? No, but I want to. Next rainy weekend day. Finally got round to watching SISU last night! And I have to admit, I quite enjoyed it. It was brutal, silly and over the top, but definitely entertaining. Made me think of how a Finnish Tarantino would make Mad Max.
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Jan 25, 2024 4:06:14 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Jan 25, 2024 4:06:14 GMT -5
The concept of alternate universe/history and time travel is a good one when handled correctly, but seems done to death these days in the superhero flicks. The funny thing is that I always used to associate the alternate universe thing with DC, not Marvel, read all the comics before the infinite crisis, the ol JSA of Earth 2 and JLA of Earth 1, although I later came to understand that DC was trying to bring some sort of continuity and order between the golden age era of heroes and the later decades.
Never thought that was important, the fans should be smart enough not to bring up things like their heroes being into something from earlier decades. for instance, Batman started out in the 1930's, but they can't get him in that era of course.
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Jan 25, 2024 16:37:40 GMT -5
Post by Von K on Jan 25, 2024 16:37:40 GMT -5
The concept of alternate universe/history and time travel is a good one when handled correctly, but seems done to death these days in the superhero flicks. The funny thing is that I always used to associate the alternate universe thing with DC, not Marvel, read all the comics before the infinite crisis, the ol JSA of Earth 2 and JLA of Earth 1, although I later came to understand that DC was trying to bring some sort of continuity and order between the golden age era of heroes and the later decades. Never thought that was important, the fans should be smart enough not to bring up things like their heroes being into something from earlier decades. for instance, Batman started out in the 1930's, but they can't get him in that era of course. Good overview of the shallow way that many modern franchises are using the multiverse concept there, plus a few good examples of some better ways it has been used.
I do wish Drinker had done a bit more research into the history of the multiverse in fiction though. Psychologist William James is credited with having first used the term but Michael Moorcock was the first to use a multiverse in a literary context - and his use of it is still one of the best, iconic and most sophisticated imho. It was very influential throughout the seventies and eighties. Mike had an enthusiasm for incorporating metaphysical concepts into his earlier speculative fiction. Youtuber Razorfist would have known this!
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Jan 27, 2024 8:13:49 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Jan 27, 2024 8:13:49 GMT -5
Good overview of the shallow way that many modern franchises are using the multiverse concept there, plus a few good examples of some better ways it has been used.
I do wish Drinker had done a bit more research into the history of the multiverse in fiction though. Psychologist William James is credited with having first used the term but Michael Moorcock was the first to use a multiverse in a literary context - and his use of it is still one of the best, iconic and most sophisticated imho. It was very influential throughout the seventies and eighties. Mike had an enthusiasm for incorporating metaphysical concepts into his earlier speculative fiction. Youtuber Razorfist would have known this!
The eternal champion treatment worked well, good use of the multiverse narrative, minus all the crazy ass entanglements you get these days where the multiverse is treated as some sort of fair ground ride full of twists and turns, going everywhere and nowhere.
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Jan 28, 2024 16:48:39 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Jan 28, 2024 16:48:39 GMT -5
Saw MI7 Dead Reckoning (Part 1) yesterday since it’s on Paramount+. A decent enough action flick, pretty much what you’d expect from an MI film. I think it was just a case of bad timing (like when Attack of the Clones opened just two weeks after Spider Man when it should’ve opened a week later. MI got swamped by Barbenheimer and couldn’t recover. My wife was upset the story wasn’t over and is worried part 2 won’t come out. I told her it’ll definitely come out, they just have to refigure how to present it. Supposedly they’re not calling it part 2 anymore. But they can’t afford to kill one of their two major franchises.
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Feb 26, 2024 18:34:12 GMT -5
Post by mindboggled on Feb 26, 2024 18:34:12 GMT -5
Werner Herzog's thoughts on "Barbie".
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Feb 27, 2024 9:15:04 GMT -5
Post by bonesaw on Feb 27, 2024 9:15:04 GMT -5
One of my kids brought Spiderman: Homecoming DVD over from a friends house for the boys and I to watch, proclaiming he loved it. Aside from Keaton's acting, I hated it. I see propaganda literally everywhere these days to the point where its become mind-numbingly predictable. This move actually prompted me to have my first real talk with the boys about this kind of thing.
Forget about them changing the two love interests to black girls. The black-washing of fictional characters is expected at this point. I don't like it and it jives with the general antiwhitism that's out there, but in the context of this move, there is much bigger fish to fry.
I see this movie as casting a wide net in who the target audience is and within that, little kids for sure. I checked the rating- PG-13. That prompted me to check the actual reason for the PG-13 rating (sci-fi action violence/mild language)- about what I expected. No mention of anything sexual related which is completely inaccurate.
In the movie the bully kid calls Peter Parker "Penis" Parker over and over again. The high-school girls doing the "Fuck, Marry, Kill" game even though the girl said, "F, marry, kill." High school girls talking about who they would "F" hey? And also who they would kill? High school girls. And they made sure it was a white girl saying the line too. Worst of all was when the teacher caught the chubby Asian kid in the computer lab and asked what he was doing. "I was looking up..." and I saw it coming a mile away. "Porn."
None of my kids know what every word in every movie they watch means- and this is no different. And when that kid said, "porn" I could see the slight confusion on their expressions. So there you go. Goal achieved, Hollywood demons. They planted a seed in my kid's brain that might prompt them to try to find out what this "porn" thing is that the lovable sidekick character was looking up. When Dad's busy, a few mouse clicks later, a whole ocean- a swirling flesh-vortex of degeneracy will flood into their brains. And make no mistake- it's no coincidence that the same driving force of people directing and producing in Hollywood are the same people who own 95% of the porn industry.
This movie was seen by tens of millions of kids, mostly boys, likely many multiple viewings. This shit is obviously intentional. These people could have made this movie without any of that garbage and it would have been received with just as much success...but they had to make sure they inserted their agenda and filth and nation-breaking demoralization strategy into the movie anyway. Yet, people like me in the demographic that measurably puts more into the system than they take out are "the problem," while they in their ultra-elite demographic of wildly disproportionate wealth per capita are the victims of "anti...ism." Yeah... I do not recommend Spiderman Homecoming and it reaffirms my estrangement to anything modern.
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Feb 27, 2024 11:31:58 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Feb 27, 2024 11:31:58 GMT -5
I thought it was ok but yeah, the bending over backward to change characters around got beyond silly.
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Feb 28, 2024 3:11:12 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Feb 28, 2024 3:11:12 GMT -5
For family viewing there is always the need to do some research/screening before letting them see it, especially for the kids. Seems too much of it of late, shoving left ideology/morality by way of established franchises, like some Trojan Horse so to speak.
Having said that, I still liked Spiderman Homecoming, but I get you.
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Feb 28, 2024 23:45:27 GMT -5
Post by kemp on Feb 28, 2024 23:45:27 GMT -5
Looks interesting. The fight choreography does not look too bad.
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Mar 21, 2024 18:38:42 GMT -5
Post by Von K on Mar 21, 2024 18:38:42 GMT -5
Alien: Romulus | Teaser Trailer
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