The Briefing Room
General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: corbe on January 01, 2024, 05:28:50 pm
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Continued from https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,490933.0.html (https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,490933.0.html)
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In memory of David Soul...
World War III ( TV Movie 1982)
https://archive.org/details/WorldWarIIITVMovie1982
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This weekend:
"Question 7", a 1961 West German anti-communist film...
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I just got done with Earth: Final Conflict. Looking for something else.
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:bkmk:
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Reacher season 2. No woke, no ________ given.
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Just started on Reacher 2, myself.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-rRhQcnlI)
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Babylon 5 - original from early 90s on ROKU channel streaming
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Babylon 5 - original from early 90s on ROKU channel streaming
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Favorite sci-fi series ever.
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Favorite sci-fi series ever.
I like the 2k version better.
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Favorite sci-fi series ever.
The series basically ends at season 4 episode 6 with the defeat of Za'ha'dum. The rest of 4 and season 5 seems like they are forcing it, trying to find a direction. Then they transition to a B5 vs. President Clark and Earth show. Good show though, but not the same as the earlier seasons.
Was surprise to see a very young Bryan Cranston (Walter White) in one of the episodes.
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Cranford on Roku (don't know how many times now I have watched this series). Never fails to impress.
Finished Reacher series... It was ok, but the lines just seem so rushed at times.... Punchlines that would of hit harder with just a slight pause before delivery.
Reacher season one was the superior offering.
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I like the 2k version better.
Refresh me. Either I've never heard of it or have forgotten about it. I'd love to watch more of that series.
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This past weekend watched "The Silent Revolution" (2018), a German film about a high school class in East Berlin that "rebels" against the communists by observing a minute of silence in support of the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Based on a true story.
Pretty good, although the particular set of subtitles that came with it were poor. There may be alternative subtitle files "out there".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_Revolution_(2018_film)
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Refresh me. Either I've never heard of it or have forgotten about it. I'd love to watch more of that series.
Woops! my bad... I was thinking of Battlestar Galactica. I like the remake better than the original, outside of that they made Starbuck a chick... Though she plays it well.
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Woops! my bad... I was thinking of Battlestar Galactica. I like the remake better than the original, outside of that they made Starbuck a chick... Though she plays it well.
Excellent series too. Love Katie Sackhoff in that, loved her in Longmire. Not your typical actress.
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Excellent series too. Love Katie Sackhoff in that, loved her in Longmire. Not your typical actress.
Yeah... REALLY loved her in Longmire, which was a stretch for her, I thought... Sci-fi was kinda her bag all the way along.
Getting pretty close to my annual Longmire binge... you may have started something... happy77
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Watching 'Northern Exposure' on Amz Prime. I enjoy the shows but, it has to be the most pretentious TV series I have ever seen. Tons of preachy sermons about life the universe and everything. Tons of references to classical literature, Greek mythology, poets, philosophers, and classical music.
Every show is some kind of deep philosophical lesson. Every character is a quirky free thinking hippy, all with some unique hidden talent and untapped profound knowledge of something or other. The show is obsessed with Native American culture and religion, all portrayed as ethereal, magical, and enlightened.
All those weird "dream" fake outs are driving me crazy. Oh, it was just a dream ... again ... and again ...
The show frequently goes 'over the top' with esoteric references to food, wine, philosophy, and literature.
For example, they focus on some roughneck living in a shack in the woods. What is he having for dinner? Try, "rôti de bœuf et pommes de terre au paprika doux espagnol et asperges blanches". With Chateau Latour for wine. I'm just rolling eyes. Come on man, give it a break already.
Distant hallow woodwind music automatically means some mystical magical Native American epiphany is being presented. And they do it ALL THE TIME. If I hear that crap one more time, I am going to puke.
Ok, that's it.
The doctor character Joel Fleishman the star of the show, is a bully and punk. Thoroughly unlikeable person.
The Minnifield character (Mr. Burns) is a millionaire bully and punk.
The Ed character is a thoroughly unreliable special needs character who betrays every trust and bombs every job he is given.
The Chris character is a sleazy hippy I would never get involved with.
Weird show.
The show essentially ends Season 5 episode 24 when Joel the doctor leaves. From that point to the end of Season 6, it is mostly just fantasies, dreams, hallucinations, and what they call "visions".
It is an entertaining show, once you dismiss all the smug lessons and subtexts. I saw a few of the episodes when it aired in the early 90s, but I was way too busy at the time to watch TV.
Now, I have all the time in the world. Why not waste some of it to catch up on a memory.
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Stumbled across this interesting alternative history series, the premise of which is that the Soviets won the race to the moon and the Cold War continued there.
For All Mankind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)
https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7
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History... American Heritage 10 disk ....
Friend loaned it to me and I made copies (MKV are huge files, so will have to burn to a few DVDs)...
Can watch on the Tube... @sneakypete might want to skip it, it talks about real history (breakup from Britain was only slightly due to "taxation without representation".) That was only reason 27 out of 30 something mentioned (and way far down the list).
Can be found on Youtube, but for some reason it will not let me embed the video here, almost like YouTube doesn't want it seen but can't seem to ban the video without looking bad.
Use these keywords on YouTube search: American Heritage Episode 1
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Dune II - Preview. Can't wait to see it. Almost $200 million spent on this.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM3PGU3dnao)
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With our government finally admitting to aliens from another planet here, I broke down and decided to watch the TV show Roswell. Interesting story.
I have long believed there has to be other life forms in the universe. As advanced as humans are beyond an ameba, is it not possible there is a life form that many times more advanced than the human being? I say yes.
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Last weekend, watched the Australian re-make of "On The Beach".
I thought it departed too much from the novel (which I had only read a few weeks' back), and the American captain of the sub did not behave as one would expect an actual captain to do).
The original from from 1959 with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire was better.
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Watched "Joker" last night. Good flick.
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Watched "Oppenheimer" yesterday. Extremely unimpressed for a number of reasons.
OMGGGGGGG SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
The director decided to have an obnoxious score blasting through almost the entire length of the extremely long movie.
The movie was not linear but jumped from the past to the present to the future and back again. The movie seemed to dwell more on Oppenheimer's supposed persecution for his communist associations.
There was very little about the actual development of the a-bomb. The only part of the movie that really gripped me were the scenes depicting the explosion of the first a-bomb in New Mexico.
Other than that, I had to fight off boredom.
I don't get the great reviews. But then I'm a curmudgeon and don't much like anything out of Hollyweird.
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This past weekend watched "Downfall", the 2004 German film about the last days of Hitler and the Germans around him in the Berlin bunker (actually, the more prominent character is his young secretary).
This is the film from which the "Hitler parody" videos is taken. Surprisingly, this segment is actually in the first third of so of the film, not at the end.
I didn't know what to expect, but it was very good. I'd recommend it to forum members, but this is a movie to which you have to pay attention, as it has English subtitles.
Don't let that scare you off. I would have thought that for being set mostly "in a bunker" it would be claustrophobic and boring, but it wasn't. It IS two hours and 35 minutes, so you might want to watch it over two viewings (do "the split" at 1'15").
This one gets saved into my film archives...
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This past weekend watched "Downfall", the 2004 German film about the last days of Hitler and the Germans around him in the Berlin bunker (actually, the more prominent character is his young secretary).
This is the film from which the "Hitler parody" videos is taken. Surprisingly, this segment is actually in the first third of so of the film, not at the end.
I didn't know what to expect, but it was very good. I'd recommend it to forum members, but this is a movie to which you have to pay attention, as it has English subtitles.
Don't let that scare you off. I would have thought that for being set mostly "in a bunker" it would be claustrophobic and boring, but it wasn't. It IS two hours and 35 minutes, so you might want to watch it over two viewings (do "the split" at 1'15").
This one gets saved into my film archives...
Agreed! Bruno Ganz (RIP) was literally channeling Hitler...even down to his heavy Austrian accent.
Q&A Special: Actor Bruno Ganz on playing Hitler
https://theartsdesk.com/film/qa-special-actor-bruno-ganz-playing-hitler
“So Many Actors Have Failed”: Historian Lauds Controversial Take On Hitler In 19-Year-Old WW2 Movie
https://screenrant.com/downfall-movie-ww2-hitler-accuracy-historian-expert-response/
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Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance-abuse counselor with a bad attitude. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a mess, getting clean is the easy part.
Loudermilk on NetFlix is an extremely zany/satirical anti-woke show about the struggle of alcohol/drug addiction and the insanity of a 'woke-world'.
I liked it but not everyone will. It is niche.
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Agreed! Bruno Ganz (RIP) was literally channeling Hitler...even down to his heavy Austrian accent.
Q&A Special: Actor Bruno Ganz on playing Hitler
https://theartsdesk.com/film/qa-special-actor-bruno-ganz-playing-hitler
“So Many Actors Have Failed”: Historian Lauds Controversial Take On Hitler In 19-Year-Old WW2 Movie
https://screenrant.com/downfall-movie-ww2-hitler-accuracy-historian-expert-response/
I haven't seen that particular film about Hitler. Of course, I've laughed at all the parodies.
I've seen numerous documentaries about Hitler. One doc I saw on YT was very interesting for the fact that it showed all the close calls Hitler had in life. It's a nothing short of an evil miracle that he survived as long as he did considering the many times he barely escaped death.
The most intriguing was the time when as a soldier during WWI he was wandering around after a terrible battle completely unarmed. He was walking aimlessly when he heard the sound of a rifle bolt being clicked. He turned to see a British soldier aiming his rifle at him from less than ten yards or so. The British soldier was perfectly in his rights to shoot Hitler even though he was unarmed, but seeing Hitler unarmed, he put his rifle down and let him go.
The British soldier in question might have been Henry Tandy the most decorated British soldier of the war, but historians dispute that saying his regiment and Hitler's were too far apart for it to have happened.
When asked about the incident shortly after WW2 started Tandy said he vaguely recalled letting some soldier go, but he couldn't be sure it was Hitler.
But he said had he known it was Hitler considering the harm he was doing, he would have pulled the trigger.
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Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance-abuse counselor with a bad attitude. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a mess, getting clean is the easy part.
Loudermilk on NetFlix is an extremely zany/satirical anti-woke show about the struggle of alcohol/drug addiction and the insanity of a 'woke-world'.
I liked it but not everyone will. It is niche.
What's the name of the show?
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What's the name of the show?
Loudermilk
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HALO - PARAMOUNT STREAMING.
Currently watching HALO on Paramount streaming video. Seasons one and two. I really must say that I am smitten.
Science fiction space stuff mixed with superheroes and war/politics. I do not know what attracts me to this story, but I know I like it. I like it a lot.
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This past weekend, watched "The Day After Tomorrow", which I'd never seen before.
If you can get by the baked-in political propaganda, it was ok...
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Watching a documentary on NETFLIX called "The Program". It is a documentary about reform schools in the 80s and 90s.
It is a very brutal real-life depiction of the abuses of these programs and the scams they were running on the parents.
It is hard to watch but extremely interesting.
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This past weekend watched "Downfall", the 2004 German film about the last days of Hitler and the Germans around him in the Berlin bunker (actually, the more prominent character is his young secretary).
This is the film from which the "Hitler parody" videos is taken. Surprisingly, this segment is actually in the first third of so of the film, not at the end.
I didn't know what to expect, but it was very good. I'd recommend it to forum members, but this is a movie to which you have to pay attention, as it has English subtitles.
Don't let that scare you off. I would have thought that for being set mostly "in a bunker" it would be claustrophobic and boring, but it wasn't. It IS two hours and 35 minutes, so you might want to watch it over two viewings (do "the split" at 1'15").
This one gets saved into my film archives...
I also share your assessment of that film. It starts out with a commentary from the real Traudl Junge, who was Hitler’s secretary, before she passed away
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Just ordered this for $6 on EBAY, I Love Micheal Keaton and Melanie Griffith.
I know @Texas Robin will also.
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HALO - PARAMOUNT STREAMING.
Currently watching HALO on Paramount streaming video. Seasons one and two. I really must say that I am smitten.
Science fiction space stuff mixed with superheroes and war/politics. I do not know what attracts me to this story, but I know I like it. I like it a lot.
You are not alone! :laugh:
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Loudermilk
Thanks, I will check it out.
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Just finished viewing a 5 episode Netflix Docuseries on New York City Detectives solving crimes such as the Carnegie Deli murders above the iconic restaurant, adjacent to David Letterman's late night show.
Good stuff to get away from the LBGTQ crap they stick in every possible program.
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FYI...
Recently watched "INTO THE DARK" on Netflix...about a passenger plane that must circle the globe to remain in darkness because the sun's polar axis 'flipped', causing acute solar storm which reaches Earth, where it kills every living organism...essentially 'microwaving' /cooking them from the inside out.
Now, I'm in the middle of YAKUZMA-245, about a Turkish submarine on maneuvers which tracked a commercial experimental diving sub exploring a deep Mediterranean trench.
Lucky for all of them, because the sun's polar axis 'flipped', causing an acute solar storm which destroys anybody caught in daylight...cooking them from the inside out.
WTF is going on here? :shrug: (Both on Netflix)
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This weekend:
"The Gospel of Matthew".
Next weekend:
"The Gospel of John".
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This past weekend, watched "The Day After Tomorrow", which I'd never seen before.
If you can get by the baked-in political propaganda, it was ok...
Is that the one about the Nuclear Bomb? If you want a really good film on the nuclear bomb, watch "Threads" I saw it on You Tube and the ending gave me nightmares for a week.
https://youtu.be/p5IAXoOfFf0?si=TrMb7M7PiR1ISuOj
@Fishrrman
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Another season of "Call The Midwife"
and two other shows on PBS- "Nolly" and "Alice and Jack"
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Dune II - Preview. Can't wait to see it. Almost $200 million spent on this.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM3PGU3dnao)
We watched it this past weekend. I thought it was good, and my spouse & kids liked it better than the first one.
Side note - I tried out the in-theater closed captioning device for the first time ever, and was VERY impressed with it.
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I watched "Oppenheimer" at home Saturday night (bought the blu-ray). Strangely, I came away from it sympathizing with Strauss and thinking that Oppenheimer and his commie friends should have been treated much worse than they were. I don't think that's the reaction I was supposed to have though. :shrug:
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I watched "Oppenheimer" at home Saturday night (bought the blu-ray). Strangely, I came away from it sympathizing with Strauss and thinking that Oppenheimer and his commie friends should have been treated much worse than they were. I don't think that's the reaction I was supposed to have though. :shrug:
Agreed. The fact of the matter is that the Soviets, through Chevalier, approached him for secret info, and not only did Oppenheimer fail to immediately report it, he lied to the Army six months later when he eventually did. And then, the stakes were considerably higher after 1949, when the Soviets tested their own A-Bomb. So yeah, Strauss had very good reason to be suspicious of Oppenheimer, and he wasn't the only one.
The true story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_security_clearance_hearing
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Dang! Ya'll are so deep.
Right now, I'm just watching reruns of Gunsmoke, lol.
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Gefn wrote:
"If you want a really good film on the nuclear bomb, watch "Threads" I saw it on You Tube and the ending gave me nightmares for a week."
Yes, I've seen that one. Very good.
For the past year (maybe closer to two), I've made a "project" for myself to collect and watch nearly the entire genre of disaster/apocalypse films, as many as I could find (most "zombie" films not included).
Here's the list of those I collected so far.
An * indicates that it was "better".
An - indicates... not so much.
The Road
Threads
No Blade of Grass
Deluge (1933)
I am Legend (2007 version with alternate ending)
World Without End (1956)
The Stand (1994)
Miracle Mile (1988)
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
Outbreak (1995)
A Boy And His Dog (1974)
The Omega Man (1971)
Doomsday (2008)
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Children of Men (2006)*
Equilibrium (2002)
The Postman (1997)
Reign of Fire (2002)*
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Carriers (2009)
City of Ember (2008)*
Knowing (2009)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Diverge (2016)
Mad Max (1979)
The Road Warrior (1981)
Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The Book of Eli (2010)
The Last Survivors (2014)
Goodbye, World (2013)
Into the Forest (2015)
Songbird (2020)
Testament (1983)
Oblivion (2013)
The Maze Runner (2014)
Maze Runner II & III
Greenland (2020)*
Perfect Sense (2011)*
The Rover (2014)
Z for Zacharia (2015)
The Survivalist (2015)
Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
Bokeh (2017)
Logan's Run (1976)
Blindness (2008)*
Silent Running (1972)
Snowpiercer (2013)
What Still Remains (2018)
Right At Your Door (2006)
It Comes At Night (2017)
12 Monkeys
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
The Matrix (1999)
Waterworld (1995)
Five (1951)
This Is Not A Test (1962)
Terminator: Salvation (2009)*
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Take Shelter (2011)
These Final Hours (Australian, 2013)
How I Live Now (2013)
The Last Boy (2019)***
Legion (2010)
Seeking a Friend For The End of The World (2012)
Parts Per Billion (2014) -
The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)*
Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
Finch (2021)
Colossus The Forbin Project (1970)
Deep Impact (1998)
Damnation Alley (1977) --
Def-Con 4 (1985)
Gravity (2013)
Phase IV (1974)
Elysium (2013) *
The Rapture (1991)
2012 (2009)
Armageddon (1998)
The Impossible (2012)***
Glen and Randa (1971)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
One that I would HIGHLY recommend is "The Last Boy".
VERY interesting film.
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(https://releasedatetv.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/loudermilk-att-directv.jpg)
Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance-abuse counselor with a bad attitude. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a mess, getting clean is the easy part.
Loudermilk on NetFlix is an extremely zany/satirical anti-woke show about the struggle of alcohol/drug addiction and the insanity of a 'woke-world'.
I liked it but not everyone will. It is niche.
That was good!
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HOLY CRAP!! HOLY CRAP!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!!
Realize it's been around for awhile and that they're planning on making a sequel this year, but
THE ACCOUNTANT (Netflix) with Ben Affleck (stupendous performance) is probably the best movie I've seen in years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KQX2sIhQJY
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For the past year (maybe closer to two), I've made a "project" for myself to collect and watch nearly the entire genre of disaster/apocalypse films, as many as I could find (most "zombie" films not included).
Here's the list of those I collected so far.
An * indicates that it was "better".
An - indicates... not so much.
The Road
Threads
No Blade of Grass
Deluge (1933)
I am Legend (2007 version with alternate ending)
World Without End (1956)
The Stand (1994)
Miracle Mile (1988)
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
Outbreak (1995)
A Boy And His Dog (1974)
The Omega Man (1971)
Doomsday (2008)
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Children of Men (2006)*
Equilibrium (2002)
The Postman (1997)
Reign of Fire (2002)*
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Carriers (2009)
City of Ember (2008)*
Knowing (2009)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Diverge (2016)
Mad Max (1979)
The Road Warrior (1981)
Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The Book of Eli (2010)
The Last Survivors (2014)
Goodbye, World (2013)
Into the Forest (2015)
Songbird (2020)
Testament (1983)
Oblivion (2013)
The Maze Runner (2014)
Maze Runner II & III
Greenland (2020)*
Perfect Sense (2011)*
The Rover (2014)
Z for Zacharia (2015)
The Survivalist (2015)
Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
Bokeh (2017)
Logan's Run (1976)
Blindness (2008)*
Silent Running (1972)
Snowpiercer (2013)
What Still Remains (2018)
Right At Your Door (2006)
It Comes At Night (2017)
12 Monkeys
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
The Matrix (1999)
Waterworld (1995)
Five (1951)
This Is Not A Test (1962)
Terminator: Salvation (2009)*
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Take Shelter (2011)
These Final Hours (Australian, 2013)
How I Live Now (2013)
The Last Boy (2019)***
Legion (2010)
Seeking a Friend For The End of The World (2012)
Parts Per Billion (2014) -
The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)*
Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
Finch (2021)
Colossus The Forbin Project (1970)
Deep Impact (1998)
Damnation Alley (1977) --
Def-Con 4 (1985)
Gravity (2013)
Phase IV (1974)
Elysium (2013) *
The Rapture (1991)
2012 (2009)
Armageddon (1998)
The Impossible (2012)***
Glen and Randa (1971)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
One that I would HIGHLY recommend is "The Last Boy".
VERY interesting film.
Thank you for the list... I will give "The Last Boy" an viewing later on.
Any others grab ya by the short hairs? @Fishrrman
EDIT: I need to read better... you did mark the better movies with an *.... so sorry for missing that... wasted ping but my pride prevents me from unpinging ya... giving ya the oppertunity to say, "It is right there dummy".
EDIT 2: I have seen The Last Child, it is pretty good. I will give "Children of Men" a try. Thanks again.
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The family and me watched a Christian lite movie tonight that was a tear jerker (I just had something in my eye time and time again)...
Sweet movie about how a family went through some tough times... Lost of wife, child with failing liver. Movie called "Ordinary Angels"
It starred one of my favorite new actors, this time playing a real person... Alan Ritchson who also starred in the series "Reacher" that most of us loved. He still plays a tough guy, but one facing a world where he can't fight a winning fight by himself without help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNv-HpcGe0I
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Watched "Poor Things", even though I had to trudge through it. You need to know THIS IS A PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIE. I'm not talking about brief shots of tits and ass. I talking about full blown pornography with full frontal nudity and sex with full penetration. And the theme of the pornography is basically 'child porn'. I could only watch 20 minutes at a time over the course of a week. It made me gag.
The story is about a Frankenstein style mad scientist who finds a pregnant 20 something woman who has committed suicide. He takes the brain of the unborn child and transplants it into the mother. Although the mother is conscious, she is essentially retarded. She has to grow-up with a second childhood in the body of a full grown woman. Eventually she gets to the mental age of a teenager, and everybody wants to have sex with this mentally disabled childlike woman. This is the core nugget of the entire movie.
Other than sex with the retarded woman, the rest of the movie is filler. The movie does not tell a story and has no point. Just like most porno movies.
I know it got tons of press and several awards (which is the only reason I watched it), but it is a totally worthless waste of time. Unless you like watching a mentally disabled woman have sex with every guy she meets (because she doesn't know any better).
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@Fishrrman
The TV series based on "Snow Piercer" was very good as well.
Right now it's not streaming anywhere I can find it but either Netflix or Hulu just bought it and will be making a new series after it was cancelled.
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Top Chef just started a new season.
Alas, no Padma.
@Polly Ticks
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Top Chef just started a new season.
Alas, no Padma.
@Polly Ticks
Thanks, @Gefn
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Watching COLD CASES (27 episodes) on NETFLIX.
Fascinating...the advances in DNA forensics since the early 90's.
They're catching killers 25 to 40 years after murders, using DNA profiling and phenotyping, etc..
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Sad movie, well made, great watch. Reality and toil of Swedish immigrants to Norway.... Father son relationship and farm life.
Pelle The Conqueror 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIoZ5OYc9RE
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We watched it this past weekend. I thought it was good, and my spouse & kids liked it better than the first one.
Side note - I tried out the in-theater closed captioning device for the first time ever, and was VERY impressed with it.
I have enjoyed the new Dune too... this last one moved fast in that I think it sorta makes me wonder how they will have enough material for the next one, or that the old version left a lot out. Don't know, didn't read the book.
@Polly Ticks
Tell me how these new "closed caption" things work... glasses, a screen display, a mirror. (and pretty please ping me if you have time to answer)....
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This weekend:
The Apostle Paul.
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Anybody here seen '3 Body Problem'? I watched the first two episodes, but now I can't get access. It reminded me of Ender's Game.
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Manon of the Spring (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xtrr9Nt8Fg
Rating 9/10
I think this is a continuation of a previous movie .... About how her father (the hunchback) was robbed... memory serves me in that it was a great movie too.
Edit: Here is the first movie.... it was also great....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gTqgd5GQoQ
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I am usually not a fan of remakes. And I am a John Wayne fan and True Grit purist. But since I really like Jeff Bridges, I made an exception and watched the True Grit remake. I must admit I was pleased and impressed. It actually superseded the original. I hope I don't lose my We John Wayne credentials over this transgression. happy77
And for an encore, I started watching Lonesome Dove. Haven't seen it in years . So very well done! Episodes 3 and 4 tonight. I'm looking forward to it. Although I've read the book and seen the series before, I remember the premise but have forgotten so many details. I may have to reread the book as well.
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I am usually not a fan of remakes. And I am a John Wayne fan and True Grit purist. But since I really like Jeff Bridges, I made an exception and watched the True Grit remake. I must admit I was pleased and impressed. It actually superseded the original. I hope I don't lose my We John Wayne credentials over this transgression. happy77
I will agree. At least a well done remake, honoring the original...
And for an encore, I started watching Lonesome Dove. Haven't seen it in years . So very well done! Episodes 3 and 4 tonight. I'm looking forward to it. Although I've read the book and seen the series before, I remember the premise but have forgotten so many details. I may have to reread the book as well.
Funny you should say that... I dang near clicked on it the other night... Guess I will next time I'm looking. It's been a long time, but it is one of my favorites. :beer:
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Manon of the Spring (1986)
Rating 9/10
I think this is a continuation of a previous movie .... About how her father (the hunchback) was robbed... memory serves me in that it was a great movie too.
Edit: Here is the first movie.... it was also great....
I watched Jean de Flourette at the theater when it first came out. Didn't know there was a sequel. Thanks for posting, @Sighlass
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Watched this Quirky little Film with @Texas Robin this weekend, we enjoyed it.
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Manon of the Spring (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xtrr9Nt8Fg
Rating 9/10
I think this is a continuation of a previous movie .... About how her father (the hunchback) was robbed... memory serves me in that it was a great movie too.
Edit: Here is the first movie.... it was also great....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gTqgd5GQoQ
Both are incredibly good.
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@Polly Ticks
Two new shows on the Food Network you might like=
Wildcard Kitchen
24 in 24- last chef standing
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Watching "The Confession Killer" on Netflix...a 5 episode series on the supposed serial killer Henry Lucas.
Amazing how the Texas Rangers played loose and lazy in getting Lucas' admission to committing murders that were physically impossible without a Star-Trek "Beam Me Up Scotty" machine of sorts.
And lo and behold, the FBI's Deputy Chief was behind a lawfare effort against a DA, ultimately successful in winning a $58M award against Channel 8 who was a co-conspirator in claiming the DA took bribes from county lawyers for reduced charges.
Definitely worth a watch considering what's happening in the country 50 years' henceforth.
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Freud's Last Session...Netflix. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode 2023
Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter Anna, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20420628/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20420628/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJM9lEMyV4
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Binge watching "Goliath" with Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton plays an attorney who is fond of the bottle and seems headed for an eventual lung cancer diagnosis given the amount of cigarettes he chain smokes. Of course, everybody uses the f word.
But the plots are sort of intriguing.
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Just love me some Billy Bob Thorton......Just ordered Season 2 on ebay.
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Just started watching Fallout. @Fishrrman may want to add it to his post-apocalyptic list.
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Just completed 6 episode Netflix documentary on WWII- From The Front Lines.
Excellent...gripping. Hope civilization learns from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz1rTZE9xgE
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This weekend:
The Visual Bible Series: The Gospel of John (2003):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377992/
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In order to escape the Obama scheme of injecting homosexuality into every Netflix movie script, have become somewhat addicted to their DOCUMENTARY category.
Watched a six episode yesterday...the title is unimportant here...where the police knew in the first 20 minutes who the murderer/rapist/drug dealer was, yet continued to build evidence to have in a courtroom trial.
It could have ended in sixty minutes if a detective simply took the son-of-a-bitch to "The Train Station", aka a hole in the desert.
Some people just need killing.
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Unfrosted - Netflix
Written, directed and produced by Jerry Seinfeld. Drops Friday May 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lqRPUhPfho