Topic: Latest Movie You Watched

[6pairsofshoes]

You've pinpointed a basic problem of politics here:  people who really want a theocracy.

We saw The Reader last night.  It was well acted and a poignant story.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051/

[goldshirt*9]

The fundamental underlying problems of democracy are:

a) voters are predominantly stupid, and
b) anti-democrats have the same voting capability as democrats.

Combine this with the fact that religion and democracy are fundamentally diametrical opposites. Religion is faith-based, and voting is reason-based (or at least that is by definition how they should be). Faith and reason are incompatible.

As we can see in many parts of the world.

[goldshirt*9]

The Greatest Lie Ever Sold.
Didnt like her ripping the crap out of G,Floyd and having "so called experts" criticise the whole court proceedings (ignoring evidence ??), but he was no saint.
Did find  "where has the money gone" interesting though.

Looked  Candace Owens up post this Documentary, wasnt impressed.

[goldshirt*9]

Binged watched Yellowstone up to the enf of season4.
I am never going to Montana 

[6pairsofshoes]

I've never been to Montana.  I hear it's pretty.  Those states tend to house whackos who are survivalists, stockpiling food and weapons.  They treat women like livestock and limit their rights to reproductive health care.  So it's not really on my list of cool places in America I have yet to see.

Apparently, they have a thriving industry of dental floss ranches.

[goldshirt*9]

Apparently, they have a thriving industry of dental floss ranches.

  what ? as the teeth cleaning business

[6pairsofshoes]

Frank Zappa has a song about Montana.  With vocals by Tina Turner and the Ikettes.  That's Zappa on the guitar solo (and on vocals).

[8ullfrog]

Goldshirt already posted it, but Bullet Train was a hell of a movie.

[goldshirt*9]

Top Gun: Maverick. Not as ground breaking and innovative as Top Gun, obviously: and could be considered a little derivative (they stole half the plot from Star Wars, Dambusters, 633 squadron and half of the dialogue from the original), but it was an entertaining use of a couple of hours.

love the flight scenes and of course it has Jennifer Connelly in it.

[6pairsofshoes]

Bill Maher had a very funny review of the movie.

[goldshirt*9]

 

[6pairsofshoes]

I've never seen any of the Top Gun films, but I don't go to the theatre much.  Nor do we generally watch full length movies, so that's one reason.  I don't generally go out of my way to see movies like Top Gun, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy it.  I can't name a single movie with Tom Cruise that I didn't like, but his Scientology kind of puts me off.

And if memory serves, the original casts of Shakespeare plays were all male, including those playing female characters, so anything goes as far as I'm concerned.

We have been watching the Swedish production of The Bridge (the tv series) and based on the participation of Kim Bodnia in the first 2 seasons, we watched his 1996 movie, Pusher.  There are some brilliant buddy scenes near the beginning of the film, and we are sort of left hanging at the end, but it was engaging.  I don't know that I'd need to see a sequel, though.  There are 2 of them.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117407/

[8ullfrog]

When I was in film studies, we watched Top Gun as a "lazy day treat". I didn't care for it. Maverick starts WWIII.

[goldshirt*9]

The bit that caught my eye was about woke reviewing. I tend to watch a movie on its merits, rather than considering all of the things it doesn't do, so I miss most of the "issues", but one that particularly bothers me is the concept of "blackface" (in all its myriad forms).

I see no earthly reason why an actor or actress (I have no truck with calling ladies "actors", either) can't act as something they are not, regardless of what that is. That is why it is called "acting". Young people should be able to play old people, and vice versa. People of any sexual persuasion should be able to play people of the same or different sexual persuasions. Abled can play disabled, and vice versa: actors/ actresses of a given race can (within bounds of credibility) play outside their birth race. This appears to be another of those things brought on by the politics of jealousy: gay folk are happy to play straight (and they expect to be allowed so to do, as that is evidently the majority of roles), but they have a visceral hatred of straight people playing gay. When I was younger there was a flood of women playing male roles, and blacks playing white roles, presumably in the interest of "diversity", but woe betide a white man taking on (e.g.) Othello. This philosophy seems to have taken ludicrous hold over the industry, to the extent that it is deemed inarguable.

I also have an issue with historical revisionism: history happened, get used to it. People's attitudes were formed by their environment and society: almost no folk in (e.g.) the 1700's had the same attitudes as today's people - but it is almost impossible to make a movie set in that period where the vast majority of the cast haven't got 21st century views (the exceptions being the bad guys, of course, who will be universally cleansed before the end of the movie). People are no longer allowed to view Fawlty Towers unreacted, for goodness sake.

Effigies of yourself would be burnt at movie's alter for some of those comments, However agreeable and true they are.
My Fav at the time on ex social media platform i frequented.
Ben Kinsley  should not have played Gandhi   
Gal Gadot isnt black so cannot play Cleopatra .
made me laugh,  I gave up and left it.
Madness they call it Madness, by Madness

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/famous-actors-racist-castings

[6pairsofshoes]

What is possibly a little sad is that starting WWIII was only the McGuffin to hang a buddy movie on. But I thoroughly enjoyed all the set pieces, and the flying so I can happily ignore the warmongering.

... as an aside, I was mightily amused by Team America: World Police. This pokes fun at the tendency of American heroes to destroy pretty much everything - and kill pretty much everyone - in non-American countries as a by-product of the "policing" that the main characters feel empowered (required?) to do whilst being buddies (Like Godzilla does in the orient). It is difficult to see action movies (qv. Tom Cruise, James Bond) in the same light after that.

I'm pretty sure I have never seen Team America: World Police, but this clip looks about right.  Knock over the Tour Eiffel and blow up the Louvre, but don't worry, we got the terrorists. 

It's like Maher suggested.  "F*** yeah!" Let's all glory in our pornography of superior technical weaponry and orgies of violence.  With this mentality, as a democracy we are doomed.