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sleeping_gorilla wrote:His hat sucked. :)
I liked the Kevin Coster version as well. He survived several shootouts and was never injured, and the movie depicts that very well.
Saw 1944 a Estonian film about the end of WW2 in Estonia. It starts with one of the Estonian foreign unit of the Waffen SS trying to defend their home. They are against the advancing Red forces including the Estonian red division raised by the Soviet Union. The one soldier is writing a letter to his sister. The SS man is killed by an Estonian soldier who decides to deliver the letter to the sister. He comes to the attention of his units commissar and the story shifts to him and his relationship with the sister. There's also a worldly wise NCO sniper who knows to keep out of politics. Overall it's very good with an honest portrayal of both sides in the war.
Also saw Fortress of War about the defense of the Brest fortress in the first weeks of the German invasion of Soviet Union in 1941. It's one of those tragic stories of a hopeless fight but told through the eyes of a young boy who is a musician in the army band.
And then there's watching old episodes of The Avengers and Hogan's Heroes Sorry MCU, there will always be only John Steed and his companion as the Avengers for me, now and forever.
His hat sucked. :)
sleeping_gorilla wrote:LOL!
YOUR hat sucks.
SIDE EFFECTS - Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum, Vinessa Shaw. From 2013, very very confusing to say the least. I'm still baffled even after reading other reviews. Rooney is very depressed and Dr. Law prescribes drug and does she take it??? Maybe, maybe not?? She kills her husband Channing while sleepwalking and goes back to bed? She's dumped in an institute for nut-bars and Dr. Jude loses job…I kept hoping to understand but by end more confused than ever. A 1 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
TED
I watched Seth MacFarlane's "Ted". I think more people should take notes from MacFarlane's work. I am not calling him a genius, but he knows the craft. I have become frustrated over the last few years with the unrealistic and harmful depiction of relationships over the last few years, but this was very believable. And it featured a talking Teddy Bear.
For a change, the woman was completely in the right. She loved her man-child boyfriend and even praised him after they break up. She never asks him to give up Ted or any of the things he loves, she even makes a genuine effort to participate. All she asks is that the boyfriend has her back like she has his. Nobody is really the bad guy hear, they are just holding each other accountable for their own actions.
INFLUENCER
Also watched a new movie "Influencer". I was expecting a silly B movie that I could turn off when I was ready for bed. Instead, it was about a serial killer operating around Influencer culture.
It was simple and well-written, somewhat like a Hitchcock film. Once the villain shows their true feathers, we step into their shoes and watch them try to get away with the crime. The killer is technically savvy, using deep fakes, voice mimicking, and social manipulation to take over their accounts and continue benefitting from their sponsorships.
Then we change to another point of view as a suspicious person starts questioning the killer's story. But we know what the killer is capable of…
Highly recommend this one.
Soft and Quiet
This is a Blumhouse movie that quickly takes a dark turn. It was filmed in one take each day with the actors performing it an hour before sunset to match the script's needs. Major props to the cast and crew, but I had a hard time with the violence and racism. Which of course was the point.
Looking for something to watch while I ate lunch, I clicked on Midway on Amazon Prime. A familiar tale given that TV channels here show the Charlton Heston version from 1976 regularly, but this newer take did its best, plenty of outstanding performances as the drama unfolds and the implacable enemy throws everything it has at the outnumbered American underdogs. Lunch took 2 hours and 18 minutes! Includes historical acknowledgements before the closing credits.
Edit: And through sheer power of will I finished watching The Suicide Squad, I'd quit at 45 minutes in, sometime last month, unable to handle this balderdash. Somehow I found the strength to continue watching from where I left off, all the way to the end. I'm feeling pretty traumatized.
dpat57 wrote:
Looking for something to watch while I ate lunch, I clicked on Midway on Amazon Prime. A familiar tale given that TV channels here show the Charlton Heston version from 1976 regularly, but this newer take did its best, plenty of outstanding performances as the drama unfolds and the implacable enemy throws everything it has at the outnumbered American underdogs. Lunch took 2 hours and 18 minutes! Includes historical acknowledgements before the closing credits.
sleeping_gorilla wrote:I liked Ted too, mainly because of the Flash Gordon stuff. Loved that. It's a decent film. Ted's personality is pretty awful and I can't stand it when that sort of drug taking is shown in such a positive light, but apart from that it was fun and touching.
TED
dpat57 wrote:??? They paint the Americans as underdogs? Against the Japanese? Oh dear.
American underdogs
There's a low budget film called Dauntless that goes over the dive bomber attacks at Midway and is practically a documentary on the real miracle of Midway. In some ways it's actually better than the big budget block buster but those CGI planes just pull so many impossible maneuvers. And there are Wildcats. Past twenty years has seen a lot of new material come forward about Midway so much of the common knowledge just isn't so. Hard to imagine that in early 1942 the US was losing the war and really were underdogs. The huge US War making capacity was still almost a year away. It was hanging on a shoestring. The Japanese appeared unstoppable. Again watching Storm in the Pacific is good here because it is totally their point of view.
There's been a great new three volumd history on the Pacific War as well as some new research on Midway so much of the mystery has been stripped away but still an incredible story. Now where's the movie about the Thatch weave and how pilots in little tubby Wildcats tamed the Zero?
Ozoneocean wrote:The Japanese had more carriers, it could easily have gone the other way! For a couple of years anyway. Until, as Bravo says, the USA ramped up its war manufacturing capacity and re-engaged and took the Pacific back.
??? They paint the Americans as underdogs? Against the Japanese? Oh dear.
Which Suicide Squad? I liked the first one. I didn't finish the second one unfortunately. -not because I didn't like it, there were other factors.The newer one from 2021 with "The" in front of "Suicide Squad" because let's get the two movies easily mixed up! Good solid planning there, guys.
There is a bit of a modern misconception about carriers though based on post-war views of them. At the time battleships were still the premier capital ship and the heart of any battlefleet.
They were incredibly hard to sink and only vulnerable to other battleships, multiple torpedoes, sea mines, and the very largest bombs (which couldn't attack them while they were moving).
The USA had a LOT of them.
Another misunderstanding is that aeroplanes were a battleship's worst enemy. It was only the torpedo that was dangerous. A plane was merely a delivery mechanism. To attack a battleship successfully they first needed to get past powerful defensive screen of fighters and antiaircraft fire, and then came the very hard task of trying to sink those ships.
Even if they weren't defended, like the HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Whales, it still wasn't easy. While aircraft carriers went down like boats made of balsa wood and filled with nitroglycerine.
The US relied on and used carriers so effectively in the Pacific not because they were the wonder-weapon of the day but rather because after the Pearl harbour sneak attack that was all they had to be the backbone of their Pacific fleet.
…I used to be in far too many battleship groups on Facebook and got deep into this.
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I've been watching The Consultant on Amazon Prime.
Bloody hell! Why are there SO many dark psychological thriller/horror series on streaming services? Its basically all they make. One or two crappy comedies and unlimited dark thriller/horror series and movies.
It's tired. It's lame. It's not clever.
The Consultant hits all the predictable beats and plot points you expect from the genre.
Ozoneocean wrote:Typical wrong headed thinking you see in battleship groups. The US in June of 1942 did not have a SINGLE battleship to send to Midway. They were either laid up in Pearl or busy elsewhere. There were only five available. Really need to read the new scholarship on the carrier war, Japanese design and strategy and the newish trilogy on the Pacific war. Your information is out if date and full of misconceptions found all over social media.
There is a bit of a modern misconception about carriers though based on post-war views of them. At the time battleships were still the premier capital ship and the heart of any battlefleet.
The USA had a LOT of them.
…I used to be in far too many battleship groups on Facebook and got deep into this.
bravo1102 wrote:I think you miss-read what I wrote XD
Typical wrong headed thinking you see in battleship groups. The US in June of 1942 did not have a SINGLE battleship to send to Midway.
Across the Spider-verse was a true delight. Where otherwise you'd celebrate an anticipated team up of 3 alter-egos from 7 movies in an 8th film, this one gives you dozens in one film (even if we don't count the 1st Spider-verse movie, this would feel pretty wholesome) and does it with ease. In regards of diversity it'd be an alt-right nightmare, yet none of it feels forced, because having a wide variety of the same character is the most natural thing, it's not about which version should get more spotlight, you're too busy getting captivated by imagination taking shape and the countless possibilities it takes shape in.
On the average superhero film, you expect some battle to be the highlight and you accept that the visuals will mostly serve as means of support to the otherwise predictable plot. Here the visuals are part of the world and storytelling, they pulsate with it so there's no need for so many fast cuts to make it look interesting and no need for epic battles to feel like you've got a 140 minutes well-spent. Also, it touches on interesting, comlpex questions, like the role of the individual in a society, what could responsibility look like and rising above an established system that everyone seem to accept. So far the main antagonist is a concept rather than a character. Based on these alone, it's very promising in regards of depth and that's a lot from a genre that's getting identified as shallow and money-oriented, so the 3rd installment is definitely something to look forward to.
In comparison, I was able to watch about half an hour from the Super Mario movie and it felt outright painful at times, so I did myself a favor and turned it off. I have absolutely no idea what people see in this aside from the most basic gaming references to this one franchise, but otherwise it felt like the unfunny, unoriginal low-budget summertime animated films you watch for the kid, but even the kid forgets about in a few weeks. Of course I can't talk about the whole movie and if anyone enjoyed it (it seems to be very popular) fine, I just don't think I'd want to subject myself to this any further.
I might have to watch that Spider verse thing.
The Flash looks interesting too despite the lead being a tool.
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.I found all the Seasons on Portlandia on ABC iview, which is the Aussie government TV streaming platform.
So now I'm rewatching it 😚😁
Unfortunately I don't love it like I did when I first saw it I LOVED it when I saw it originally…
I think it's because it was very "then" and society and tech has moved on since. Also I really super identified with it at the time because I had known all those types of people all through the 90s and into the 2000s, and been one of them in a way, but now there's some distance.
Anyway, I still find it funny but I find a lot of it silly and annoying while back in the day I thought it was all pure 100% genious.
It really holds up I'd say. Despise what people say about Tarantino he really does know what he's doing.
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Up to season 3 of Portlandia now and it's better than the first 2. I haven't seen the later seasons so this should be novel.
I'm watching some episodes of season 20 of Grand Designs too. Kevin McCloud, the host, sounds so posh, but he has such a SHIT haircut… Ugh. I can't get over how Hoad it looks on him… Super short wispy grey on his balding head. Looks like a nutsack.
I sort of like the show but I watch it with trepidation because the period of that season involves Covid lockdowns so you're just waiting till the 2020 part of the builds where they have to be shut down for a while and how that affects them.
I wish Kevin would let his hair grow a bit and get a better haircut and also dress better.
mickey mouse went to Vietnam really good
Watched Nimona. It was pretty awesome. Not Spider-verse awesome and it lacked some serious details / explanations for key events, but it was way better in regards of animation than the average stuff made for streaming platforms or by nonames studios. The message was good and universal, the LGBT characters and themes fit right in with a story about fearmongering, issues with self-worth, prejudices and stuff. Unless you're one of those who gets instantly triggered by such diversities, you'll have a good time. And I found out it's based on a webcomic / graphic novel. One that doesn't even look any more "professional" than the average ongoing comic here, so it kinda makes you feel motivated and glad that a fellow creator can make it this big!
I watched Silicon Valley. This is the show Big Bang Theory was trying to be. A group of engineers develops a game-changing technology and struggle to find an application for it that will give them a payday and not hand over control of the world to the Evil Empire.
Fans of the Office and Parks and Rec will like this. I laughed a few times. I don't find many shows or movies funny, so take that for what is worth. After a few seasons, I got tired of the technobabble. The later years of TNG relied too heavily on that.
I am a hardware guy, so I did not understand most of what Richard or Danesh said, and almost everything Gilfoyle said.
The funny thing is that the show ended a few years ago, and they wound up building ChatGPT 4.
sleeping_gorilla wrote:That show is SOOOOO good! Love all the actors in it.
I watched Silicon Valley.
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