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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

Tried to watch M Night's Glass last night.

While I liked the Ellie Staple character (I've worked with people just like her), I couldn't enjoy the rest of it.
 
We watched what I have to assume was a more recent Matrix movie. Neo is now seeing a therapist to get over his nightmares about a world he doesn't remember. For reasons aplenty it was fucking awful.
 
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It’s a Guy Ritchie movie where he gives the Guy Ritchie treatment to a real-life plot the British ran during WWII just prior to the US joining the war. Honestly, I think the over-the-top style played really well given the sheer audacity such a mission would’ve required.

Star Trek: Strange New World’s Dr M’Benga plays a sizable role in it, and he does it well.
 
Watched Threads yesterday. A British film about nuclear war, focusing on Sheffield. Somewhat of a companion film to The Day After, but the consensus seems to be that not only is Threads darker than that, it’s the most depressing nuclear war film ever made. Definitely one that makes you sit and think for a long time after it’s finished.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Watched Threads yesterday. A British film about nuclear war, focusing on Sheffield. Somewhat of a companion film to The Day After, but the consensus seems to be that not only is Threads darker than that, it’s the most depressing nuclear war film ever made. Definitely one that makes you sit and think for a long time after it’s finished.
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I’ve read about it for years. Every time someone asks what movies are the most depressing horror films this is in the top 5
 
I just learned the name of the song Sam is playing and singing when we meet him in Casablanca. It's "Shine," written in 1910 by Cecil Mack, Lew Brown, and Ford Dabney.

The second verse is a concise FU to racists then and now:

A rose, they say, by any other name would smell as sweet,

So if that’s right, why should a nickname take me off my feet?

Why, ev’rything that’s precious from a gold piece to a dime

And diamonds, pearls, and rubies ain’t no good unless they shine.

So when these clever people call me “shine” or “coon” or “smoke,”

I simply smile, and smile some more, and vote them all a joke.

I’m thinking just the same,

What is there in a name?
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Watched Threads yesterday. A British film about nuclear war, focusing on Sheffield. Somewhat of a companion film to The Day After, but the consensus seems to be that not only is Threads darker than that, it’s the most depressing nuclear war film ever made. Definitely one that makes you sit and think for a long time after it’s finished.
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Watched on……??
 
mookie1995 said:
Watched on……??
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An app named Filmzie. There were four or five free apps that came up on Roku, I just picked that at random. It was also on prime and a couple others, but was around 3.99 to watch. There was a 90 second ad about a half hour in but other than that it was commercial free.
 
mookie did watch Beverly Hills cop 4.
was alright
wish it would have ended like mookie wanted top gun 2 to end.:rolleyes:
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Watched Threads yesterday. A British film about nuclear war, focusing on Sheffield. Somewhat of a companion film to The Day After, but the consensus seems to be that not only is Threads darker than that, it’s the most depressing nuclear war film ever made. Definitely one that makes you sit and think for a long time after it’s finished.
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I have never watched the entire movie. I've watched up until the bomb drops and then turn it off.

As one reviewer said, "If you haven't seen it yet, but everyone tells you how horrific the second half is why would you still want to watch it?" I know what that part is like and I don't need those images in my head.

My mother was the Civil Preparedness Director for our county when I was a kid. She didn't sugarcoat things for my sister and me. I was grateful we had three high value targets nearby so I would be incinerated at the beginning, not suffer a horrible death in the irradiated nuclear winter.

I highly recommend the "Four Minutes of Threads" series on the Atomic Hobo podcast by Julia McDowell. She just finished the series after years of production. She edited it into a single *12 hour* episode for her patrons but you can still access each single episode on the podcast. She not only reviews the film minute by minute, she has interviewed director Mick Jackson and several members of the cast, and has toured the areas in Sheffield where the movie was filmed. She also discusses other aspects of the Cold War, mainly focusing on the UK. It's really fascinating stuff.
 
ticapnews said:
I have never watched the entire movie. I've watched up until the bomb drops and then turn it off.

As one reviewer said, "If you haven't seen it yet, but everyone tells you how horrific the second half is why would you still want to watch it?" I know what that part is like and I don't need those images in my head.

My mother was the Civil Preparedness Director for our county when I was a kid. She didn't sugarcoat things for my sister and me. I was grateful we had three high value targets nearby so I would be incinerated at the beginning, not suffer a horrible death in the irradiated nuclear winter.

I highly recommend the "Four Minutes of Threads" series on the Atomic Hobo podcast by Julia McDowell. She just finished the series after years of production. She edited it into a single *12 hour* episode for her patrons but you can still access each single episode on the podcast. She not only reviews the film minute by minute, she has interviewed director Mick Jackson and several members of the cast, and has toured the areas in Sheffield where the movie was filmed. She also discusses other aspects of the Cold War, mainly focusing on the UK. It's really fascinating stuff.
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The Protect and Survive films are honestly chilling enough.

If you don’t know, those films were designed to be played on TV constantly if there was an imminent threat of nuclear war.
 
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