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Started by GalacticBusDriver, February 16, 2013, 12:37:09 AM

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Mike Cl

Quote from: SGOS on January 09, 2021, 09:41:03 AM
What I remember about that film were the tank battles in the evening with images of tracer fire that I will never forget.
I ended up thinking Fury was a very good war movie--the scene you mentioned reminded me of my time on a LAW (anti-tank missle--hand held) and machine gun firing range.  Just after dusk 6/7 .50 cal machine guns lit up the sky with a huge barrage of tracer fire.  I'd never seen anything like it!  You could not only hear those things firing, you could also feel it!
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

Gawdzilla Sama

I swung twin 50s in a power gun tub back in the early '70s. When we had to meet a team I'd fire off a string to tracers. Very pretty and very easy to vector in on. If the team heard heavy fighting they aim for a spot a klick north or south, as previously agreed on. Pinnipeds did like to play in the woods. My mantra was "Never get off the boat."
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Cassia

I did notice how tracer bullets would give away your position and was wondering if they had a choice to use regular rounds. The Sherman tankers were adjusting their shells with a wrench or something, not sure what that was about.

Shiranu

Almost forgot...

Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President

So it's been a good 4 years or more since I last payed to watch a movie, but I did have to pay $4.99 on Amazon to watch this one... and honestly, I don't regret it. Amazingly good documentary, really highlights that not only was Carter probably the best human being to ever be president of the United States... his presidency was actually much more successful than anyone gives him credit for as well.

I never knew Reagan literally had nothing to do with the Iranian hostage crisis, something I have always heard him given credit for, and if anything it was Carter's administration that got them out. It was also Republicans who pushed for the Shah to be evacuated to America rather than face consequences for his crimes in Iran which lead to the situation getting out of control in the first place (with Republicans calling for us to bomb Iran which certainly would have meant to the hostages would be killed)... so in typical Republican fashion, create a problem, blame Democrats for it, and if the Dems fix it take credit for it yourself. Some things never change.

Not really talked about in the movie, but from the documentaries and history videos I've been watching lately... most of the negatives of the Carter administration were situations that had been decades in the making or utterly outside his control; the crashing economy, the oil crisis, the overthrow of the Shah, etc. were all problems that stemmed from years of bad foreign policy or just bad luck... and yet he responded to all of them as best he could and, more importantly, without dropping a bomb to fix it.
Anyways, I really enjoyed it. It mostly focuses on how good of person he was and how musicians of the time adored him, and that was pretty cool to see.
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Cassia on January 09, 2021, 04:59:53 PM
I did notice how tracer bullets would give away your position and was wondering if they had a choice to use regular rounds. The Sherman tankers were adjusting their shells with a wrench or something, not sure what that was about.
"RULE ONE" at most gunnery schools, "Tracers work both ways." Gunny taught me that you shoot when you have a good target and could expect a kill or when the sergeant told me to shoot. The "come hither" move was for desperate situations. It was fun when our socialist brothers in the black pajamas came in hot expecting one boat and found five. Fifteen .50s, plus light arms, 80mm mortars and tube weapons greeted them.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

SGOS

#6035
Limitless

This is not the latest movie I've seen.  I haven't even watched it in a year, but it's one I pull out of my archive from time to time and haven't gotten tired of it.  I just got to thinking about it and am going to watch it tonight.  The movie's appeal seems cut off at the knees because it's a recycled plot built on Flowers from Algernon where a person is made super intelligent, and it doesn't even have some futuristic neuroscience that makes it possible.  A guy just keeps swallowing smart pills, which makes him capable of almost anything.

But take a recycled and basic plot without even spicing it up to more than just taking a pill, and you can still  create a fascinating story.  That's what happens here.  My first reaction was, "This is like Flowers for Algernon," but it's not.  The details beyond the plot are much more complicated, although not in a way that you can't easily follow.  It stars Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro, who plays a smaller but absolutely vital part of the story.  And those two don't take cheesy parts in Hollywood.

aitm

Quote from: the_antithesis on January 01, 2021, 01:54:29 AM
It wasn't just reviewers. It was hated. It was that year's Rise of Skywalker.

I find it interesting that you'd enjoyed it.
What? I enjoyed it. It’s a movie..you know...make believe crap. I thought it was fun. But the again that is why I watch movies, Sheryl for the escapism....sides everyone knows ain’t no Jedi’s.....🤫
A humans desire to live is exceeded only by their willingness to die for another. Even god cannot equal this magnificent sacrifice. No god has the right to judge them.-first tenant of the Panotheust

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: aitm on January 14, 2021, 03:24:33 PM
What? I enjoyed it. It’s a movie..you know...make believe crap. I thought it was fun. But the again that is why I watch movies, Sheryl for the escapism....sides everyone knows ain’t no Jedi’s.....🤫
"Everybody I know agrees with me that it was shit. Therefore it was undoubtedly shit."

I liked it. Especially Kylo's "Hey, it's me" shrug when he picks up a light saber from literally nowhere.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers


aitm

A humans desire to live is exceeded only by their willingness to die for another. Even god cannot equal this magnificent sacrifice. No god has the right to judge them.-first tenant of the Panotheust

Shiranu

Just made it through "The Irishman"... I had to watch it in bursts, but man what a fucking movie.

It depresses me how Pacino, de Niro, Pesci are getting though :(.
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

drunkenshoe

#6041
Quote from: Shiranu on January 25, 2021, 02:46:14 AM
Just made it through "The Irishman"... I had to watch it in bursts, but man what a fucking movie. ...


Yeah, I loved the movie too. I'm a sucker for that genre. Also a last chance to see them all together.

I have seen movies like JFK and Hoffa on big screen when they came out. It was a huge deal then. After JFK, they even opened the files again, I have started to read about it, I even had a JFK file where I collected stuff. (I was 15, lol) Hoffa...the whole saloon, none of us was able to move when the movie ended...etc.

Well, they are movies... but while they promise good research, good sources, they have only been feeding us with "mafia did it, because it was how everything done then" and nothing more actually. No real connection to anything else. Federa state is absent. We also have the real case mafia movies and lives...Like Good Fellas, Donnie Brasco. It makes sense on how mafia works but that's how all kinds of mafia work. Not just Italian. And there has been this weird emphasis on that if wise guys culture is unique to Italian mafia. And all mafia at some point deal with the state. I don't mean bribes and isolated stuff. I mean as in deals.

However, it seems like there is no connection of the sort between two worlds in this speicfic line of American history. The state and mafia. It just fits naturally in our heads. Power. 'Let me do my thing and you do your own thing. If you crack me down I'll fuck you up.' And it feels like any possible state affair is removed like a surgeon's...er what lol accuracy? and healed so good. Because is it possible otherwise?

I always wonder why we never get a huge, 4 hours biographical movie of Frank Sinatra with every kind of detail. Don't you?

And then there are real life stories like Blow. Have you seen Blow? Couple of hippie white boys getting filthy rich on weed-mostly coke and then getting involved with Mexican drug cartels, even coups in little countries...they look like the more legit side of connection with the whole mafia politics thing.

I dunno. It kind of got old, I guess. And as the time passes it looks less realistic and more traditional, nostalgic to me as far as the whole idea goes. Which is a category of its own now, beyond a culture.
"science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. ıt is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." - tp

drunkenshoe

#6042
Guys, has anyone seen The Torture Report? It's said to be graphic and I respond to that badly. How bad it is?

E: Stopped at 25th min. I don't think it is for me.   
"science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. ıt is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." - tp

SGOS

There will always be things to like (and dislike) about movie theaters.  For me, it was getting out of my environment and focusing my attention in a venue with a sound system no home can compete with on a huge screen that sucks you in. Even the hour long drive to the theater was part of the escape and the ritual. 

At home, especially with friends, it's too easy for others to get up and look in the refrigerator, take a shit, or just scratch their ass (right in front of you too).  I had a friend that was really good at these distractions, and I hated watching television at his house.  Oh, "You are not watching television," you say.  "You are watching an uninterrupted film." 

Indeed you can watch a well done film, but still get all the trappings of home television at the same time, minus commercials of course.  But put the two venues together, and it doesn't work as well.


New York Times
QuoteI miss movie theaters.

Like a lot of people, I’ve gone almost a whole year without going to one â€" definitely some kind of record. What am I actually missing, though? We live in the Streaming Age, with undreamed-of amounts of great stuff to watch, not to mention giant flat-screen TVs that are cheaper than ever.

Were theaters even all that great? Or am I just feeling nostalgic for any pre-pandemic ritual that involved crowds and snacks and, you know, a blithe disregard for airborne pathogens?

I think it’s the movies themselves that I miss. If I’ve learned anything from 11 months of watching Netflix and HBO Max, it’s that I’m just no good at watching movies at home. It’s not that I think modern attention spans are that bad â€" if anything, it’s almost heroic how we make sense of our torrential digital feeds every day. But there’s a restlessness that comes with it. I find myself unwilling â€" unable, even â€" to sit down and completely tune in to a good movie. Again and again, I skip over a queue brimming with really good things, in favor of something that won’t suffer if I keep an eye on my phone. (This is how I’ve become someone who’s watched “The Da Vinci Code” three times.)

A movie theater, on the other hand, is a beautifully simple machine for enhancing your attention. Between the dark environment, the impossibility of pausing the action while you go for a snack and the understanding that even a quick Twitter check will be met with murderous glares from your neighbors, theaters grant you the superpower of deep, unwavering focus. And that makes movies so much better.

drunkenshoe

#6044
There have been some occasional movies that felt like, I was the one who gave the commission for them to be made in some other dimension Dreamland, and it turned out exactly what I wanted.

Sleepy Hollow is one of them. I think this is my fifth round, or something like that. Not sure. I have no idea why we don't kidnapp a billionaire and force him to build the town and live in it in somewhere suitable deep in some woods. Canada sounds good. Also could mean we'll get away with it. And why on earth we don't have a jacko lantern emoji?!
"science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. ıt is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." - tp