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It’s not my first choice in either film or music genres. I never feel an irresistible compulsion to see Hollywood’s latest love letter to it’s self. I went in with a bargain ticket and some extra time out of very passing curiosity…

I was kinda impressed by it. It was an odd mix of golden age and contemporary, drama and spectacle.

Color and costume and location… everything bringing past and present together. Performances, screenplay, direction… all making it true to it’s self.

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Obligatory infuriated ranting…

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I was sorta pleased I saw it, which is the highest it could have achieved.

PASSENGERS

Wow…Wow.

Loved the world building. Performances were spot-on for the plot. Well directed.

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By sheer co-inky-dink, this production is P-R-E-C-I-S-E-L-Y what one would expect in a psy-op directed at those with critically needed technical skills and their “rewards” for good behavior. It touches all the bases. Their specialists need to become PURE EVIL. Everybody has the biometrics and lists of crimes of the elites and their tools. The guilty will be exposed after the culling. Satan’s is a kingdom divided. They can’t have their vitally necessary personnel joining forces or forming Master-Blaster arrangements with the outside survivors to avenge their families and friends and neighbors. The necessaries also need to believe, with Orwellian Doublethink, that this can all work out well in the end for them. Minorities need to imagine that they could take the deal, so long as they get in healthy. The sex slaves need to learn to take the zombie enslavement “medication” and just accept the deal. The less than critical tools must believe that they might get golden tickets and never realize that the Platinum and Diamond tickets will be for criticals, elites, and the prettiest of little TEA party children. Gold ticket holders and their families will be “processed” by the UN peacekeeper Jihadies guarding the outer perimeter. Above all, ‘White Heterosexual Protestant Male’ must be seen as responsible for everything.

Silly question, would they ever, in a million years, have portrayed an obviously secular Jewish male, or a bisexual Catholic doing anything remotely as despicable? I was wondering, apart from the money, why Pratt would participate in such an intense demonization of white protestant heterosexuals… then a saw a montage of his movie promotions.

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The passage by the red star was spectacular. Wow…Just wow…

Since the POLITICS thread is down, I’ll retire my sigs here…

“Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” - TESS

“A “liberal”/“progressive” is a totalitarian without the intelligence, or the courage, or the decency to admit it.” - Someone at least partially awake

I pledge allegiance, to the banner, of the progressively totalitarian depravity of Americastan, and to the World Order, for which it is, just one not-so-special administrative district, under Alinsky, with welfare cheese or government make-work for a few.

_______ is every bit as real as Obama’s birth certificate, Building Number Seven, and The Westboro Baptist Church.

2+2=4, Black-clad OBrien=Jesuit, ENSOC Oceania+ Marxist Eurasia+ Self Death East Asia+ Staged Judeo-Christian apocalypse= Jesuit New World Order

And the soon to be retired- “It is quite simple to turn an aquarium into fish stew. You boil it. Reversing the process is a bit more difficult.” A Russian Official

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darth_ender said:

Wait, does this mean he doesn’t believe the Westboro Baptist Church is real?

I was musing about whether questions of ‘Real’ and ‘Unreal’ truly belong under the same rubric as political and social commentary.

The foreign market and kids have provided a net for producers. It’s seems to be creating a new sort of laxity. Non-Anglophones are accustomed to everything not making perfect sense to them and some things lost in translation. Children will eat Chocolatey Coated Sugar Bombs. The industry is too concerned with producing things these groups are willing to swallow.

They are allowing pandering and signaling to a miniscule fraction determine the nature of the characters and how they are presented. I can guarantee that FAR more are turned off by that. Homosexuals are more than represented in the independent art house circuit.

DuracellEnergizer said:

It’d be even better if he followed the new rules and removed that asinine political/religious garbage from his signature like he’s supposed to.

Testing new sig

Hope it works out for the best.

Ben wasn’t introduced until well in, Han and Chewie well later than that.

The existence of three groups that Hollywood must ENTIRELY forget: Foreigners, children, and homosexuals.

Non-Anglophones have their own entertainment industries catering to their own cultures. Hollywood is supposed to be for Anglophones. I’m curious about some films like the Chinese MERMAIDS, but I don’t believe it should be tailored to suit my Western sensibilities. Part of the appeal is that it is alien to me. I think it’s wonderful that foreigners can enjoy American produce, but that is why they should enjoy it. FORGET THE NON-ANGLOPHONES(exceptions noted)

“Ooohh, the kids will like this!” Wwwwuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh! Forget children exist! So far as screenwriters, directors, and producers are concerned, EVERYONE is between the age of 14 and 27. The exceptions would be for PG/PG-13 rating, low budget niche, and films like SCULLY with big names for the more mature set. Children will love whatever the big kids love. There’s NO POINT in worrying about them. This is especially true for “Family Films”. I loved TOY STORY. I had the sense that they made it for me and for themselves. ET was about meeting a new friend/pet and having him move away. EVERYONE could connect strongly with it. ET was NOT a film FOR children, it was a movie ABOUT children. Remember the difference!

About 2% of the population behaves as homosexual over an extended period of time. “Bi-sexuals” are basically hetero with an unhealthy obsession with certain body parts. There is NO SUCH THING as a “homosexual” in the sense of being “born that way”, just as there is no such thing as born carnival geeks. Most all of these people were pulled into that in horribly disturbing ways. AT LEAST 98% of the population DESPERATELY wants to find the way to normal, natural, healthy human relationships. An ENORMOUS segment of the population, directly or indirectly, has suffered DEVESTASTION at the hands of aggressive unconcerned homosexuals. In the face of all this, Hollywood has decided that top priority is to RAM militant homosexuality HARD down the throats of everyone. Anyone who DARES to have the slightest question about it must be DESTROYED!

At least 98% really don’t want to see any of that. Some of them pretend that they do because they get sick jollies out of having a PC cudgel to viciously BASH people who recognize Truth instead of their INSANE and CATASTROPHIC incremental totalitarian ideology.

I can’t look at the X-MEN franchise without seeing some kind of sick homo-pedo cult compound headed by an Applegate bald weirdo. “Oooohhh, but they’re good-guys who defend regular people!” No, they promote a demonizing victimhood and VICIOUS HATRED against anyone who DARES to worry for the natural sexuality and sense of self of their children, grand children, nieces and nephews…

Overall, homosexuality is profoundly nihilistic. It generates a mindset of unconcern and degradation and domination and violation of all while projecting these evils onto their countless victims. It has been essential to the worst human political horrors, with the binding in conspiracies of silence and abuse and totalitarianism. Hollywood is now determined to be the Ministry of Truth for all of that as Western civilization rushes headlong towards the tipping point that will carry all of us to a centuries-long agony. If I was a Hollywood homosexual with at least three functioning brain cells, I would be in terror of this.

I’m not saying they should never ever portray the existence of it. I thought it enhanced the Story of SKYFALL to have Bond play ambiguous. 3PO is a great quirky character. But it should only be introduced in a very limited way where it is meant to enrich the story, NEVER EVER to “mainstream” or “normalize”.

HEY HOLLYWOOD, YOU VICIOUS TWISTED ASSHOLES, HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR THE DEEPEST YEARNINGS AND DEVESTATIONS OF 98+% OF YOUR AUDIENCE AND STOP DRIVING ALL HUMAN DECENCY TO DESTRUCTION!!!

Challenge accepted! }8:D

Is all this some kind of a red flag in front of the bull thing? }8:]

ROGUE ONE

EDIT: Moved to STAR WARS discussion review with spoilers thread per request.

DOCTER STRANGE: Reconsidered

The film got a pass for the great visuals. Limited in other areas.

A very quick open with Baddie trying to steal the Eye of Agi-Magi, kills some goodies, thwarted and steals magic page on way out. Ancient One shows up later like Yoda.

It’s too bad they didn’t have the CapAm:WS experience going into the development. I thought it could have used a dose of Avengers and a sidekick. Black Iron Man (BIM) was well positioned after Civil War. He could show up at the ER and Doc Chick gets consultation for him with maybe Stark insisting on the best specialists. Maybe Scarlet Witch could escape and go searching for power from the baddies. BIM and Strange learn about ability to heal in the East and set off together as an odd couple.

The over-arching problem seemed to be a tentativeness or lack of commitment. It had a romance, but not much. It had humor, but not much. It had some buddy relationship, but not much… BC seems to have the chops for romance and humor but the material didn’t develop it fully. Being kind of an asshole can be good for developing relationships if played all the way. Magic dudes in capes is silly, commit to humor of it.

Chick and Strange haven’t kissed. He had invited her to a couple of conferences trying to get her to switch specialties and tells her that this next conference will be their third date. She says nooop and is concerned about Strange leaving NYC to go home to London hospital. She tries to help him but he pushes her away and then looks longingly after her as she leaves.

They get to the East and hit their bottom in the gutter rejected. Ancient One was great as Ginger. She was very ambiguous. Even more of that. Strange is invited in but BIM must be left out. Told the purpose of bodies that break down is for spirit to overcome and grow. Strange is urged on by BIM and almost goes in without him, stops and returns, struggles with broken hands to put BIM on back and carries BIM in, stops and defiantly says the purpose of broken bodies is to be healed, AO watches them pass with slight little smile.

Eye of AgiMagi generates a time bubble where time passes more quickly than regular world. Strange learns about Eye and meets Cape right at first. Strange wants the Eye as his one allowed talisman but Cape follows him like a puppy. Strange says it seems like a very charming item of outerwear but a surgeon cannot tell his patients “I’ll make a three inch incision, insert the endoscope, and oh, do you like my cape.” BIM is nice to Cape. They train, Strange gets some grey and a goatee, and BIM finds enough spirit to overcome and regain some ability.

Even more far-out visuals, S Witch might be bad now, BIM and Cape help Strange survive, meet-up with Chick who thinks he’s only been gone a few days and is really bothered by floating capes “Sooooo, you wear a cape now.” Big battle, Witch doesn’t get what she wants and helps Strange at a crucial point and they destroy baddie but Strange is sucked into another dimension.

Chick and Strange meet on chilly rooftop, it’s all too strange, cape wraps itself around her and gently nudges her back to Strange, he confesses true feelings and they kiss.

Curious to see what these new 8K Reds can do.

I’ll do a quick ARRIVAL reconsideration here.

Save time for philosophy and reflection on means of communication and perception of time.
Add 30 minutes of runtime.

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Keep the flash forwards very brief, College office, pick her up at home, approach to site.
Have more of a collegial team arrangement with task leaders and first assistants from communications, military, CIA, physics, biology… Group discussion and debate with love interest dude just one of group and no reason to think they’ll be together at first.

I thought the reasons to fear the arrivals could have been more developed. More ambiguous creatures that might want a new food source or out to use humanity for own purposes. Protagonist chick shares some of those concerns, not just standard out-of-control militarists.

Physics guy discovers no linear time perception in language. Language chick having very brief flash-forwards and things shift to the nature of time and causality with ‘The Omega Point’ angle.

‘TOP’ is supposed to be an entity that can perceive and effect past, present, and future at once. Many alternate universes are supposed to be dependent upon evolution of intelligent life to create computers that will consume the entire individual universe and evolve into ‘TOP’, the all powerful ultimate computer that can transcend time (and causality) to influence the primitive intelligent creatures (us) in the past to create the tech to create ‘TOP’. This is exactly the sort of “science” one would expect from the Jesuits who gave us The Piltdown Man.

We’ll leave aside uncontrolled input from higher multiverses, causality, quantum uncertainty, The Butterfly effect, and the inability to distinguish a ‘TOP’ critical universe from a simulated game-experiment, together with many more unanswered questions and wild inconsistencies, to return to our story.

I thought the original pace was nice but ultimately got in the way of itself. Everything moves more quickly with slowly building tensions and concerns.

It becomes clear to Physics Dude that the don’t-you-DARE-call-them-Jesuitical, seven-poded hydra-beasts NEED humans to act in certain ways now for the hydras to achieve ultimate time-bending power in the far-future. The great dilemma for the protagonist is whether she should act in those ways, even though it means humans including her own future child will suffer, or attempt to cast-off into an uncertain future. All the while the Chinese coalition is developing some damn good reasons to fear that the hydra-beasts might not be good for humanity.

Of course, we already know the answer for our own universe. We all know that all the incalculable CRUELTIES and AGONIES inflicted by the Satanic Jesuits and their totalitarian minions, together with their deliberately setting up all humanity for The Great Culling caused by The Big Glitch kicked off by a natural disaster or artificial trigger, and every beyond Orwellion agony they will lustily inflict thereafter, is all AAAAAA-OOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! It doesn’t matter that they could have very easily, and secretly if they wished, spent decades stockpiling necessities for the entire population. We all know its all TOTALLY worth it if the Jesuits can morph themselves into a universal borg-blob to have godlike power. We all know that they will “take care of us” on the back-end because that’s totally what COMPLETELY PSYCHOTIC and PURELY DEPRAVED SATANISTS do. They LOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEE us SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!

Anyhoo, chick and dude have good reasons for suspecting it could possibly be best to trust the hydra-beasts. They stop the Chinese and TOGETHER make the COSMICALLY IMMENSE decision to act-out chick’s future glimpses.

I grew up with The Bunch. RIP and Resurrect To Glory, Florence Henderson.

Cool ideas.

Speaking of quick and dirty hacks, does anyone know if someone has taken a loop of blank, clear 35mm film frames and projected a digital image through them onto a recording array? It might produce that classic warm, fuzzy analog effect of film with grain and weave and shutter.

Maybe run it in and out of anamorphic lenses as well.

DOCTOR STRANGE

Liked it. Great psychedelics. Best and most immersive 3D I’ve seen (I saw it on a standard screen, not IMAX.)

Could have used a little more development in some other respects.

I thought it was worthwhile.

HACKSAW RIDGE

It wasn’t PURE EVIL!!?! I had braced myself for Gibson pandering and groveling before his masters with the standard “You idiots have to lay your heads on the chopping block after handing your children over to whatever we want before their throats are cut if you want to be real Christians” type BS. How does this prepare us for their Great Culling?

Everything was outstanding. I think it’s the best war movie I’ve seen.

ARRIVAL

Very good pure scifi. Fine performances. I liked the easy pace, except that it took time from further developing the philosophy and examinations of language and how it effects perceptions. I wouldn’t have minded an additional 20-30 minutes of runtime on top of the 115 minutes.

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The absence of some exposition about the causality loop creating inevitability, or a need to act out future events to ensure a good outcome, left the decisions of the protagonist seeming, possibly, horribly selfish and irresponsible. Maybe we shouldn’t feel bad about children bred for slaughter because it helps to make everything good thousands of years in the future.

And this does help advance ‘The Great Culling’!!! A good dose of predictive programming with seven limbed Hydra beasts, multi-dimensional graphic time independent codes, and the need to do horrible things in the near-term to help the time independent Hydra beasts achieve greatness in the far future. Jives wonderfully with the hoax bible codes and hoax Omega Point theory coming from the same jesuitical folks who gave us the hoax ‘Piltdown Man’ “proof” of atheistic evolution.

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ANH and ESB remain my favorites. I’m sure they always will be.

The new JACK REACHER.

Occupies a space somewhere between okay cinema and very good made-for-TV movie. Some outstanding flaws brought it down a little.

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The biggest problem was it left me feeling smarter than our protagonists. They capture and threaten torture of the leader chasing them to gain one piece of the puzzle. Why didn’t they force him to confess everything on cameraphone and leave it and him for the authorities? It might be because I have better understanding than most of the regions in question, but I figured out the big twist at the first mention of “The numbers don’t add up.” I spent the last half of the movie wondering why these two experienced military police investigators were incapable of working it out. Other little flaws like unnecessary co-inky-dinks in timing and gender politics in a crisis.

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The important thing is that all the military officers need their periodic reminders of the ways they have been implicated in the COSMICALLY HUGE crimes of the cabal and the ease with which they could be set-up if they dare to interfere with ops.

INFERNO

Evil morons try to stop ‘THE GREAT CULLING’, an inferno that will include the release of engineered pathogens. Everyone learns that it’s motivated by “necessity” and “justified” concern on the part of well meaning idealists who are, of course, WASPy Protestanty blonde rich dudes and reasonable Islamics. Anyone who DARES to suggest that Jesuitical catholics and cryptos and Zionists have anything to do with it deserves to SUFFER AND DDDIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!

PASSENGERS was another good one.

Thousands of people laying low during the passage by a red star, heat and electrical chaos, a dude with critical maintenance skills is given his own hawt nubile young blonde chick…

THE ACCUONTANT

I liked it.