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"When We Rise" is the best I've seen in a long time. I saw it in a theater but ABC TV will broadcast it starting Monday at 9pm.

Also by Dustin Lance Black, I would recommend 8: The Mormon Proposition.

Patrick says

Gravity

Bad bad movie... If you took unknown actors that movie would be a half star.

Patrick says

The Accountant

I enjoyed this one much more. I love self starter stories
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3404140/

Loved this guy in the Host as well.

Tenpoundbass says

Patrick says

Gravity

Bad bad movie... If you took unknown actors that movie would be a half star.

True, it was not a great movie, but I enjoyed it anyway. Wasn't looking for anything profound in it.

rando says

True, it was not a great movie, but I enjoyed it anyway.

Clooney and Bollacks chemistry pulled the movie off. That's why I said what I said about no name actors.

The Lives of Others is good if you can deal with subtitles.

a says

The Lives of Others is good if you can deal with subtitles.

Yes, I enjoyed it. And I can speak German fairly well, so that was a fun part about it too.

I watched Hacksaw Ridge last weekend, very moving and powerful, also lots of gore. The overarching story about a man who refused to abandon his convictions in the face of peer pressure, authority pressure, and even the direct threat of being attacked by the enemy made a powerful point. The fact that it's also a true story was also thought provoking.

Revenge of the Nerds.

I saw The Handmaiden last night, and cannot say it was very good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaiden

It kept my interest with some cool plot twists, but ultimately didn't feel like a great use of time.

I 2nd Hacksaw Ridge and the accountant.

I liked Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Just watched Captain Phillips about the Somalian Pirate hi-jacking of an American ship off the coast of Somalia.

I would recommend it. The Seals are unbelievable!

Booger says

Revenge of the Nerds.

Patrick on the left! A handsome young man. (Pls Patrick, don't post anything that looks like me)

The Barkley Marathons.

Patrick says

Movie recommendations?

Clear and Pleasant Stranger
Few Hard Men
Long Ranger
Midsummer’s Night Cream
Pecker Runs Through It
Tale of Two Titties
Against All Bods
American Hair Pie

Patrick says

What was a good movie you liked?

On a serious note...

Office Space
Casablanca
12 Angry Men
The Princess Bride
The Time Traveler's Wife
Pump Up the Volume
Ellen Enchanted
Star Wars Trilogy
Aliens, Predator, and AVP series
Terminator series
A.I.
Dark Star
My Best Friend's Wedding
American Pie series
Oscar
Every Kevin Smith movie
Meet Joe Black
The Crow
Underworld series

Saw "Hidden Figures" and while this is a terrible movie title combined with terrible promotion, the movie itself was very very good. I never knew about the issues early NASA had to deal with in putting a man into orbit and then bringing him back. Lots of science and math made my inner nerd rejoice, and there was drama enough for my wife to enjoy it thoroughly as well. Bit of a harsh depiction of 1960s segregation and perhaps well deserved. However, this made for a startling contrast between racism then and whatever they're calling racism today. We don't got no freaking racism now if that's what it actually was.
Kevin Costner put in a great performance and so did Octavia Spencer and the rest of the cast. Good movie and very uplifting! Made me proud to be an American.

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Interstellar
Saving private Ryan
Cinderella man

Thanks Qigley, I'll check it out, sounds real good.

Quigley says

Saw "Hidden Figures" and while this is a terrible movie title combined with terrible promotion, the movie itself was very very good. I never knew about the issues early NASA had to deal with in putting a man into orbit and then bringing him back. Lots of science and math made my inner nerd rejoice, and there was drama enough for my wife to enjoy it thoroughly as well. Bit of a harsh depiction of 1960s segregation and perhaps well deserved. However, this made for a startling contrast between racism then and whatever they're calling racism today. We don't got no freaking racism now if that's what it actually was.

Kevin Costner put in a great performance and so did Octavia Spencer and the rest of the cast. Good movie and very uplifting! Made me proud to be an American.

Day Watch and Night Watch a Russian two part movie about Good and Evil "The Others" and their millennia long truce.
The Day Watchers, police the Night Watchers.

After Shock - a movie about the aftermath of an Earth Quake in China in the 70's that separated a family for 3 decades.

Any movie where the Hero lives in the end, and not everybody dies. Any move where Good triumphs in the end.
Any movie that get through 120 minutes without showing the audience a dick going in someone's butt or the narrative that it will.
Any movie that makes me feel good about humanity, and is pro Traditional values.

Any movie that is not well grounded in Liberal filth.

It's getting harder and harder to meet that criteria though. My TV has been ripped off the wall and thrown in the shit can. I haven't been to a theater in over 10 years.
The only TV I watch is when I'm in bed and want to catch a little TV before I go to sleep. More often than not, I fall a sleep flipping though Netflix menu.
They are really fucking pissed that Trump won. They are shoving every movie ever made by every deviant liberal fuck they can find. Filth and garbage marathon viewing is all you'll find on Netflix these days. So it's getting harder and harder to find good movies.
I'm giving it only about 2 or 3 more months, then I'm terminating Netflix for good, and giving up on TV for good.

Have there been any conservative movies since the Fountainhead in the 40s?

indigenous says

Have there been any conservative movies since the Fountainhead in the 40s?

Sicko is a Conservative movie documenting tge Conservative wet dream

"Lion" was pretty good, about Indian boy who gets lost at age 5, adopted by Australians, and manages to find his home village and biological family at age 30 or so via Google maps. Kind of an ad for the Google in some ways. The complete absence of laptop product placement by Apple makes me think Google probably had a hand in funding the movie.

Nekkid tits, R rating with a red screen, exploding orange fireballs and it's a good flick.

I studied image compression for a while, and learned that movies with lots of exploding orange fireballs are harder to compress, because there is simply more visual detail in the movie.

Back to the Future
Gladiator
Stripes
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Just saw Lone Survivor, was a stark reminder of the realities of our "modern" war.

For recent ones, Silence wasn't bad at all. The book is a fantastic read.

I had rather watch movies.
Books have too many of those words.

Tenpoundbass says

My TV has been ripped off the wall and thrown in the shit can.

I totally agree with you here. Have not owned a TV or had cable service for at least 10 years and been very happy without it. It's kind of bizarre when I see commercials now. Maybe in an airport or a bar. I really don't miss them at all.

How do you watch movies without a TV? Are you using a projector?

How do you watch VICELAND?

We have three laptops. We watch movies on those, generally in bed. Works fine.

Sweet Bean had a huge dollop of sentimentality, but I rather like that kind of slow paced Japanese film. Beautifully filmed as well.

Quigley says

Bit of a harsh depiction of 1960s segregation and perhaps well deserved.

The movie is yet another anti-white polemic which fictionalizes situations to make racism seem worse than it was. If all white people are supposed to feel bad about some racists, are all black people supposed to feel bad about some extremely violent black people? If it's wrong to judge all blacks based on the actions of some, why is it right to judge all whites based on the actions of some?

Many blacks were opposed to the space program:

http://www.vdare.com/articles/hidden-figures-myth-dissolves-it-wasnt-blacks-who-got-america-to-the-moon-they-actually-wanted-to-stop-it
http://www.vdare.com/articles/why-not-a-movie-about-jack-crenshaw-the-white-man-who-actually-did-what-hidden-figures-credits-to-black-women

rando says

If all white people are supposed to feel bad about some racists, are all black people supposed to feel bad about some extremely violent black people?

Well sure, if that's what the deal is. However I surely don't feel bad about white racists from 65 years ago. That was three generations back, and at least two removed from my own (for the adults then). I literally have had nothing to do with racism and feel that I am blameless in that regard. For Leftists to ask me to feel guilty about (someone else's) great grandparents keeping blacks segregated is just bizarre. I might as well feel guilty that my great great uncle killed his brother in a duel over a woman (actually happened!) It's just meaningless to me, and I think to most people.
This is just one reason why Leftists always lose.

Quigley says

For Leftists to ask me to feel guilty about (someone else's) great grandparents keeping blacks segregated is just bizarre.

Yes, exactly!

I have a TV in my bedroom, there's one in the living room my wife mostly watches Novelas on. My kids have a TV in their rooms but they are hardly never home anymore.
I ditched the TV that was in my study/office/jamroom/mancave where I spend a good 80% of my waking time at home.
We ditched cable in all of the house, we have Netflix and Hulu, though I've gotten the green light from everyone in the house that nobody watches Netflix anymore and they only have one star propaganda crap. I still haven't brought myself to cut the service, I keep hopping Hastigs will see how SJW Executivism can kill a company. And go back to releasing quality Asain movies to supplement their own titles. These Propaganda movies and shoving Jihad John down our throats with the message it aint them it's Us, got old 3 years ago when they started pulling this shit. It's even older now.

I'll probably cut them this month. They do bring it up more often now, "When are you cutting Netflix?"

rando says

I studied image compression for a while, and learned that movies with lots of exploding orange fireballs are harder to compress, because there is simply more visual detail in the movie.

Of course, it's not the color that matters. What matters is that the scene changes so much. Video compression is mostly motion vectors and an explosion doesn't just move, it changes colors and brightness while moving. That makes repeating pixels from one frame to another less of an option.

bookmarked this thread just to find those movie recommendations.

#movies

Manchester by the Sea
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Jason Bourne (2016)

rando says

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.