[SilverEars]

Don Lee. He's so popular in Korea. His action movies sells tickets

 

[Whazzzup]

57 seconds 2023




super B feel, not like anything’s new. 20 mg gummies no effect. 3 puffs out of 5. Shame on Morgan…

 

[jsk ksj]

There is a reason that this story has been called unfilmable.

Napoleon's life story is so crammed, there is no way to squeeze it into a 3 hour movie. Maybe a 30 hour mini-series would be the way to go?

As it stands, this is shambolic & disjointed. 30 mins after Napoleon & Josephine meet, he turns to her to reveal that they have been married for 15 years.

March & retreat from Moscow ? 10 minutes should cover that, apparently.

I think I know less about Napoleon now than before I watched this.

2/10

 

[DLeeWebb]

I think I know less about Napoleon now than before I watched this.
2/10

Thanks for the advice. I was wondering how this would translate to film. I was planning to see this after just having read the book below (which is a great book...) I think that I'll wait until I can see it for free on TV.

 

[jsk ksj]

Thanks for the advice. I was wondering how this would translate to film. I was planning to see this after just having read the book below (which is a great book...) I think that I'll wait until I can see it for free on TV.

I have the audiobook queued up, thanks

 

[tdockweiler]

Society of the Snow - 8/10

This is about a group of people trying to survive in the middle of winter in the Andes mountains after their plane crashed.
It lost both it's wings and was basically split in half. A lot of the passengers were crushed by the seats upon impact.
Other than no food they also had to deal with avalanches and exposure. Some of them froze to death on the first night.
They had almost no cold weather clothing and it got down to -22F at night.
They had almost no food and the search was called off after just 8 days.
Anyone remember the 90s movie "Alive"? That's based on the same story, but a different book.
Both movies are good. This movie is much more realistic though.

BTW there is a documentary about the story too. That's pretty good too if I remember right.

 

[tdockweiler]

The Flintstones - 5/10

Yes, I actually watched this. Set designs and the visuals were pretty good. They were able to re-create the cartoon pretty well.
Pretty cool how accurately they were able to recreate live versions of scenes from the cartoon!
What ruins this is the stupid story. The scenes with Halle Berry and Kyle MacLachlan are are also just plain cringe-worthy.
I actually laughed a lot during the first half hour and then it just stops being funny.
John Goodman and Rick Moranis were good picks to play Fred and Barney IMO.

I was also surprised at how similar Fred Flintstone and Barney are to "The Honeymooners" characters. It almost felt like a complete rip off.
Apparently Fred was based on Ralph Kramden (played by Jackie Gleason). Jackie was going to sue the producers but his friends convinced him not to!
He didn't want to be known as the guy who killed Fred Flintstone

When I was a kid the cartoon was always on TV. I think along with The Smurfs and things like The Jetsons.
I also remember they had The Snorks, Gi-Joe and The Transformers.
All my friends also watched "Captain Planet". Would be funny if they made a live action super hero movie of that.
Also...I bet most of you can't imagine this, but "Saved By the Bell" was probably the #1 watched show by kids after school back in the 90s.
I can probably even remember the words to it's theme along. I even still know the theme song to MacGuyver!

 

[jsk ksj]

Thanks for the advice. I was wondering how this would translate to film. I was planning to see this after just having read the book below (which is a great book...) I think that I'll wait until I can see it for free on TV.

Thanks again for recommending this. 8 hours into the audiobook and it's fabulous

 

[hermesani]

Back in my days as an undergrad at Waterloo in the early 2000s, I witnessed the very height of Blackberry's success and how it took over our campus, which was an earshot away from their headquarters. Everyone wanted a Blackberry, everyone wanted to work for Blackberry (known back then as Research in Motion or RIM for short). This was going to our Silicon Valley and boy was it fun while it lasted.

 

[tdockweiler]

Back in my days as an undergrad at Waterloo in the early 2000s, I witnessed the very height of Blackberry's success and how it took over our campus, which was an earshot away from their headquarters. Everyone wanted a Blackberry, everyone wanted to work for Blackberry (known back then as Research in Motion or RIM for short). This was going to our Silicon Valley and boy was it fun while it lasted.

Sooo.....did you watch it and give it a score?
For those that don't know, there is two versions of the movie. The movie itself and then an extended version made into a TV series.
The TV series I really loved, but never saw the actual movie.

For those that like movies about early computer technology check into "Halt and Catch Fire".
The first two seasons are great, but I never made it past the final season. It was pretty terrible.

PS Anyone remember Palm Pilots? I believe those came out around the same time as the Blackberry devices, but not sure.
If I remember right, this was even before many even had Wifi.
I still remember my first "Netbook" before tablets were a thing.
I'm really surprised Chromebooks are still available.
Would love to buy one of those if it's easy to install Linux on them, but probably not.

 

[hermesani]

Sooo.....did you watch it and give it a score?
For those that don't know, there is two versions of the movie. The movie itself and then an extended version made into a TV series.
The TV series I really loved, but never saw the actual movie.

Movie: 9/10
Haven't seen the TV series.

 

[tdockweiler]

American Nightmare - 10/10

New Netflix documentary. Pretty nerve raking from start to finish. I watched all 3 episodes in a row until 6:30am! Also pretty disturbing and sad too.
It makes me angry and how poor of a job the police did in investigating this case.
The police immediately focused on the husband as the suspect and didn't bother to check much else.
Then they told the husband he failed the polygraph, which was supposedly just a lie in order to break him down.
Someone in the police actually told their PR guy to "burn that bi*ch down" when talking to the media about the female victim in the case.
Saying that they wasted their time and resources on their case.
PS nothing gory is shown or anything like that. Also, one of the detectives in another city turned out to be the real hero of the story.

Also, just finished Breaking Bad Seasons 1 to 5! My favorites are by far the final few episodes of Season 4.
Don't like Season 5 that much despite the great acting. The "phone call" and blackmail tape were such a great idea from the writers though.
Walt sure was truly evil during Season 5.

 

[Trihexagonal]

The Matrix 4 - Resurrections
or
Beating a dead horse expecting a unicorn pony ride in rainbow sky​

It was weak in every respect, the longer it went the weaker it got and made themselves weak to the point I wanted to kick their ass myself just to put them out of their misery.

Pimps Don't Commit Suicide!

Neo did not get pumped full of lead dead in The Matrix in that hallway, Trinity tell him to get up and kick his ass and then to a swan dive off a building to kill themselves instead of fighting to the death in this one. And then Trinity stop the fall by floating like a bloated balloon before she takes off as The One. You stupid bastards! Bunch of snowflakes.

Trinity popping a wheelie on what looked like a Honda 185 cc going over a bump in the road with Neo riding behind her not busting ass against traffic on a Ducati like a Devil with a death wish. Joey Greenwood, God rest his soul, made a better jump trying to throw me off the back of the bike when I was 17 and we both looked better doing it. And you look like a Wolverine wannabe in that shaggy beard and flasher trench coat. Leather and lather too expensive for the Budget.

The Merovingian bitching them out with a string of cussing that made me proud of him the best thing I saw in the time I wasted watching it when I could have been uploading porn to my deviantart account

Swarm bot nobodies instead of Agents a budget cut blunder that was indicative of what it lacked that made it so bad. Purpose. Smith had promise, but he was not to be.

The Architect as the Creator and The Analysis what you came up with using a line like We don't use the word crazy here. Why didn't you just hire me? I will fry your eggs with a blue streak, have experience in that ring and my infamy knows no bounds.

I would have loved to love this movie, but there is no place for a poster of a poster child of a pitiful plop flop like that in my matrix pad,

​

 

[Trihexagonal]

PS Anyone remember Palm Pilots? I believe those came out around the same time as the Blackberry devices, but not sure.
If I remember right, this was even before many even had Wifi.
I still remember my first "Netbook" before tablets were a thing.
I'm really surprised Chromebooks are still available.
Would love to buy one of those if it's easy to install Linux on them, but probably not.

I have a Palm Pilot, the stylus and cables it came with to connect to a PC. I got it for $5 and works great

Two Lenovo Chromebooks running Kali Linux and one Lenovo still running Chrome. You can buy them for as little as $30 on ebay or preinstalled with Linux for around $50. I have screenshots posted here.

 

[tdockweiler]

1984 (1956) - 9/10

I actually never was even aware of this version! I found it at random on youtube as a colored version with really horrible sound.
This version is much better for those that haven't read the book. It's really one of the most scary movies i've seen in years.
This version has a torture scene that is very toned down and is the biggest negative of the movie.
You know what would be amazing? A completely uncensored film version directed by Denis Villeneuve.
I bet it couldn't get made if it followed the book very closely.
A TV series would be pretty great too.

PS apparently there is a 1954 TV version made for the BBC. It was so popular they made it into a movie.

1984 (1984) - 6.5/10

Wow, I didn't realize this version was made in 1984! If you haven't read the book you might have no idea what the heck is going on.
There is very little dialogue. So much from the book seems to be left out. I love the tone of the movie, it's visual style and it's soundtrack.
The acting is perfect too. As you'd expect, it's not fun or entertaining. More depressing than anything.
It almost makes me wonder if they left out things that might have offended certain governments/countries.
So much more was said in the 1954 version. In this version though, everyone seems like they are under complete mind control every second of their daily lives.
Not quite the case with the older version.

There is one thing that sort of bothers me.
When I saw the 1984 version back in the day it had some dialogue that really felt out of place and disturbing.
It involved Winston thinking about violence against Julia in his head ("thought crime"). It was in the book.
I swear that it doesn't exist in any streaming version now if it was even there before.
Would be amusing if Amazon self-censored a film that talks about extreme censorship.
I wonder if there is still a VHS or Laserdisc version out there?
Does anyone know if this unimportant dialogue was cut? Maybe It never was in the movie.

1956 Version. Wish there was a version with better video quality: