Movie/TV thread once again!

[BeBMan]

never cared for zombies in horror movies, slow stumbling and brainless might win an election but it doesn't strike fear in my heart

Zombies have basic brain function, otherwise they couldn't move around and react to stuff. Also, if they were brainless headshots wouldn't work. But they should do Botox to look better

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the infection controls them thru the brain's neural network

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Ancient Aliens is one of the best series ever

its spin off Skinwalker Ranch is terrible, never seen a show about nothing like that since Seinfeld

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I was never a fan of the movie Gone With the Wind, dont know if I ever watched start to finish. I suppose the critics liked it, my mom did. But my god, the musical soundtrack is non stop. Two people having a quiet conversation on the screen and they're competing with the string section of an orchestra. The cinematography was great though considering how old it is. The Wizard of Oz introduced children to drugs, the poppy field put Dorothy to sleep and the good witch sent snow to revive her.

[BeBMan]

Guardian guy found out doing a full Barbenheimer in one day is a bad idea:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/22/barbie-oppenheimer-double-feature

Srsly - why did something like 5hrs of movie watching in one day appear like a fun experience, esp. when starting with the heavy Oppenthingie

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a movie celebrating mass murder

[BeBMan]

I had no idea that Barbie was worse than Putin

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putin is the devil

[BeBMan]

Meduza revealed that Putin armed the Nazis.

[Bereta_Eder]

he was a german jew

which makde me think of this

what kind of man can say i have become a destroyer of wirlds


he liked hindu more than greeks. thought they were deeper


people that don't like the greeks are sick and develop weapons that destroy men

what a sick antheleene fck

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dont the greeks and hindu come from indo-european?

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Watching Seinfeld reruns, "The Subway" (S3,E13) is hilarious. Elaine freaks out from overcrowding, Jerry talks baseball with a naked guy, and Kramer wins big at the track and is mugged while George gets handcuffed to a bed by a woman ripping him off.

Best sitcoms?

Cheers, Mash, & Seinfeld

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just watched a restored version of spartacus on tcm and noticed something about the famous scene when the defeated slaves stand up shouting 'I'm Spartacus' when the roman general told them they would be spared if spartacus was identified

brought a tear to spartacus' eye

and then he let thousands of slaves be crucified to keep his identity hidden

[Bereta_Eder]

crucifiction was reserved foir the very enemies of rome (that little fcks we kicked in the ass in 2 milenia)


so jesus was crucified

he was a vast enemy of rome. a militant subverter


romans didn't crucify people because some funny tribe told them he had vexed them

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Trumbo, biography of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo blacklisted during the red scare. Bryan Cranston plays him. I saw a movie years ago called Fear on Trial with William Devane playing another guy smeared as a traitor. I didn't realize how bad it was, Edward G Robinson was friends with a few of the people targeted by Huac (House on unamerican activities) and while he stood his ground initially he named names under oath rather than risk contempt and prison. Trumbo did time for contempt, he asked his accusers to show him the evidence and they threw him in jail instead. The head of the committee ended up in the same jail with Trumbo a short time later for tax violations.

There's a scene when John Wayne (head of some actors assoc) confronts Trumbo as a traitor, Wayne towered over him menacingly and Trumbo started citing the military service of the people Wayne was smearing including his own, then he asked the Duke what he did in wwii. Ouch. John Wayne was a dick, seriously effed up. No wonder he griped at Clint Eastwood for making westerns with anti-heroes.

During the 20s and 30s with the rise of fascism in Europe many Americans joined communist parties/organizations to counter the threat. Trumbo defines communism to his little girl who doesn't understand why her father is hated, he asks her what she does in school if she sees another child without lunch. She shares her food. Otoh some of Trumbo's friends were truer believers and pointed to his nice property north of LA.

So we allied with the USSR and more Americans joined the communist party. But politics is fickle, we armed the commies in wwii and then started purging the country of these people who thought they were allies. One day the USSR is worthy of our weapons, the next its the enemy and Americans who supported them are traitors.

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the guy playing Wayne was Elaine's pro-life boyfriend from Seinfeld

[BeBMan]

Watched the Mandalorian S3 and S1 of Ahsoka.

Rosario Dawson is perfect as the title-Jedi. The show overall is ok-ish, and has potential to grow, but one episode (5, IIRC) was a total insult for me. Semi spoilers, it was spending too much time on Ahsoka having visions or somesuch between life and death, felt like a bad holodeck episode in Star Trek

Mando S3 was good, albeit IMO the large action finale was overdone, Mando feels better when he does it small-scale, western style, but maybe that's just me

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