Really making believe actual life is more than actually living with genetics eternally separated in their one time ancestral position alive now.Cannonpointer » 04 Dec 2023, 8:32 pm » wrote: ↑ Or making believe that make believe is real. Our grand- and great grand-parents could be taken in by reefer madness. It would make today's audience lol.
One of my aphorisms that currently isn't making the cut in my siggy is: The problem with non-fiction is that there isn't enough truth in it.
Yeah, Che would have been enraged by their cartoonish silliness.Cannonpointer » 04 Dec 2023, 8:18 pm » wrote: ↑ I read the book - never knew there was a movie made. That, or forgot there was a movie made.
It's funny to know that virtually every person who ever wore a Che t-shirt would have been shot on sight by Che Guevara.
That is definitely a seminal film. It literally changed the agreement between directors and audiences on the matter of chronology. Films could not be shown in a manner that chopped up time before that - have you ever taken cognizance of that fact?
The film was closely followed by the movie Memento - which played with time even more liberally. The relative unknown who starred in that film, Guy Pearce, went on to play a major roll in L.A. Confidential. The effect Pulp Fiction had on how movies are made was staggering. As I say - it literally changed the conversation between the director and the audience. What it did was elevate the sophistication of audiences.
Have you seen Look Who's Back?Sumela » 04 Dec 2023, 1:02 pm » wrote: ↑ The ending scene of The Lives of Others is truly GLORIOUS.
A movie about the spies and the spied on in East Germany in the 1980s.
My #3 fav movie all time. Drama category.
https://youtu.be/YsShZNHmpGE
No suh.Nostradamus'omh » 04 Dec 2023, 8:38 pm » wrote: ↑ Really making believe actual life is more than actually living with genetics eternally separated in their one time ancestral position alive now.
Called denial.
I have seen neither of the last two - gotta get 'em on the to watch list.Sumela » 04 Dec 2023, 8:39 pm » wrote: ↑ Yeah, Che would have been enraged by their cartoonish silliness.
Gael Garcia Bernal, one of my fav actors, plays young Che right
after he and his friend graduate medical school and embark on a
glorious motorcycle adventure. I watch it once every year.
It plays out like one of my college professors uses to spotlight
..."if you live in a poor country governed by savage fascism
accompanied by West neoliberalism....communism sounds pretty good"
Re: Pulp Fiction, you nailed it. Memento was both fascinating
and frustrating. Took me a few viewings. I would add
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind as well as a Korean
film, Peppermint Candy and the GLORIOUS....RUN LOLA RUN!
No sir, but gonna now. Just wrote it down.Cannonpointer » 04 Dec 2023, 8:55 pm » wrote: ↑ Have you seen Look Who's Back?
If not, ya gotta watch it on youtube. They re-do the hitler meme in brilliant fashion toward the end - I laughed until I was tired.
It's Hitler. And it's fantastic. Very subversive.
Friend, you had me at.....subversive. I cant wait.Cannonpointer » 04 Dec 2023, 9:02 pm » wrote: ↑ It's Hitler. And it's fantastic. Very subversive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40zcGhvekhs
Ever watch the satire in the series Preacher that originated on AMC network? Damn that was funny.Cannonpointer » 04 Dec 2023, 8:55 pm » wrote: ↑ Have you seen Look Who's Back?
If not, ya gotta watch it on youtube. They re-do the hitler meme in brilliant fashion toward the end - I laughed until I was tired.
That’s pretty much how I always saw those third world “communist” countries.Sumela » 04 Dec 2023, 8:39 pm » wrote: ↑ It plays out like one of my college professors uses to spotlight
..."if you live in a poor country governed by savage fascism
accompanied by West neoliberalism....communism sounds pretty good"
Bet you never imagined that 3rd world communists were instinctive brains not complying to your mob mentality defending wishful thinking now isn't eternity.LowIQTrash » 05 Dec 2023, 4:02 am » wrote: ↑ That’s pretty much how I always saw those third world “communist” countries.
Being ruled by a military junta and then being exploited for super cheap labor and commodities and then some IMF goons force your country into austerity coz your corrupt government took out loans…what passes as “communism” is obviously going to seem like an improvement even if it’s far from ideal.
Oh, another of my favorite movies of all time "My name is nobody" the fable of the little bird and the moral in the final part of the movie.Nostradamus' omh » 05 Dec 2023, 4:07 am » wrote: ↑ Bet you never imagined that 3rd world communists were instinctive brains not complying to your mob mentality defending wishful thinking now isn't eternity.
LowIQTrash » 05 Dec 2023, 4:02 am » wrote: ↑ That’s pretty much how I always saw those third world “communist” countries.
Being ruled by a military junta and then being exploited for super cheap labor and commodities and then some IMF goons force your country into austerity coz your corrupt government took out loans…what passes as “communism” is obviously going to seem like an improvement even if it’s far from ideal.

I will check it out - thanks.Nostradamus'omh » 05 Dec 2023, 3:56 am » wrote: ↑ Ever watch the satire in the series Preacher that originated on AMC network? Damn that was funny.

LincolnNebraska » 05 Dec 2023, 1:51 pm » wrote: ↑ Man, those nipples! @Buck Naked would you hit that?