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Manchester by the Sea
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Jason Bourne (2016)
The movie is yet another anti-white polemic which fictionalizes situations to make racism seem worse than it was.
Sorry @patrick you are flat out wrong. Your ideological dogma is blinding you to real history. Where in the movie does it say all whites? It documents a specific time and place. If anything the movie underplayed the racism. Blacks were really considered sub human by many people of the era in the south, especially virginia. I was a military kid and lived in the hampton area during early 60's. I actually went to the langley elementary school (all white) and rode past the wind tunnel in the move every day. The racism was pervasive and very real. Enough that even a grade school kids knew all about it. Byrd and Harrison were openly racist and fought integration at every turn. After brown vs board of education virginia turned most of it's schools to "private" segregation academies paid for by the state. Prince edward county actually closed all it's schools rather than integrate from 1959 to 1964 when they lost in the supreme court. By 1964 which is 10 years after the brown decision 1.4% of black students in virginia were integrated into white schools.
The book, which I read last fall when it came out, was excellent. The movie takes some liberties especially with times. The black women did the same work as whites. They were paid less, segregated to the west section of the Langley campus, had to use separate dining and bathroom facilities. Despite having the same education, they had to retake college courses they had already passed and were almost never considered for promotions or other jobs within NACA.
The movie made racism seem worse? Worse than what?
There is also another good book called the Rise of The Rocket Girls about women, not about black women just women in general, coming up the same way in the jet propulsion laboratory in pasedena. Really interesting look at the early days of the JPL.
Trivia note, I've always wondered why it was the "jet" propulsion lab and planes use JATO "jet" assisted take off when the JPL only did rocket research and rockets are used for assisted takeoffs. Reason being in the 50's anyone working in rockets was considered a nut case so the name selected was jet instead of rocket so the lab could get funding and be taken seriously. The name carried to JATO.
No one mentioned ghostbusters 2. No redeeming attributes of any kind, just entertainment.
bookmarked this thread just to find those movie recommendations.
What would make it easier to find things you like?
I made it so you can follow #movies and will get an email of new posts with #movies in them. But maybe that's not enough somehow. People have to also remember to add #movies. Maybe if you are browsing "in" the movies sub-patrick or whatever, it should automatically add #movies to your post?
But what does being "in" a topic even mean on this site? Posts are not necessarily in categories at all. Still need to clarify the navigation.
Interstellar
Saving private Ryan
Cinderella man
Cinderella Man was a great movie..Reminded me of the short story by JACK LONDON titled "A PIECE OF STEAK".
A Boy and His Dog
A beautiful movie with a happy ending that makes you cry.
If you like sad dog movies heres a good one: Hachi: A Dog's Tale with Richard Gere
If you like sad dog movies heres a good one: Hachi: A Dog's Tale with Richard Gere
I was being facetious about A Boy and His Dog. It's not that kind of movie.
However, Reservoir Dogs is a good sad dog movie. Very touching.
OK, serious this time, for real. The Plague Dogs is sad and compelling.
In case anyone hasn't mentioned Western's yet:
Unforgiven
No Country for Old Men(hybrid Western)
High Noon
True Grit
And the greatest movie ever made The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
If you like sad dog movies heres a good one: Hachi: A Dog's Tale with Richard Gere
Indeed.
Europa Report
The Expanse series
The Road
Blade Runner
+1 Boy and his Dog
Apocalypse Now
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men
NuttBoxer says12 Angry Men
Already recommended it.
Dan8267 says12 Angry Men
All citizens should watch that movie.
It
Japanese
Ran
Rashoman
The Bullet Train
Seven Samurais
Appleseed ( Animated)
Movies are real & for critical thinkers.
Nobody's recommended "The Human Centipede?" Haven't watched it, but some coworkers said it was the sickest shit on Netflix!
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What was a good movie you liked? Something that's not in the theaters anymore.
Some movies I've enjoyed recently:
Arrival
Clerks II
Gravity
The Accountant
The Girl on the Train
The Martian
Trainwreck
#movies