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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.

No one mentioned ghostbusters 2. No redeeming attributes of any kind, just entertainment.

A Boy and His Dog
Repo Man

FortWayne says

bookmarked this thread just to find those movie recommendations.

#movies

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.

Blurtman says

A Boy and His Dog

A beautiful movie with a happy ending that makes you cry.

FortWayne says

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".

Dan8267 says

Blurtman says

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

komputodo says

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

komputodo says

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

The Big Short on Netflix.

Hell or High Water

Baby Driver

12 Angry Men

NuttBoxer says

12 Angry Men

Already recommended it.

Dan8267 says

12 Angry Men

All citizens should watch that movie.

Dan8267 says

NuttBoxer says

12 Angry Men

Already recommended it.

Dan8267 says

12 Angry Men

All citizens should watch that movie.

One of my favorites as well.

I really liked Happy Accidents, a time-traveling romantic comedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Accidents_(film)

It
Passengers
No One Lives
Out of the Furnace
Pet
Berlin Syndrome

Movies are real & for critical thinkers.

Lifeforce

Desiccated space alien life energy vampires construct the "perfect woman" out of an astronaut's subconscious and she goes around nude sucking the life energy out of horny men (and women!). Sounds like art imitating life.

What more could you ask for in a movie?

Nobody's recommended "The Human Centipede?" Haven't watched it, but some coworkers said it was the sickest shit on Netflix!

anonymous says

It

Second! I know King was constrained by the original being on TV, but I think they did a really good job with the story in this "remake".

"The Lives of Others" is in German, but a great story about the Stasi during the Cold War.
"Clue" is funny and the dialogue gets more clever each time you watch it.

"The Wave" Norwegian Disaster flick on Netflix with subtitles, but very well done, tragic, but with an interesting sidenotes of collapsing cliffs in the fjords being monitored for sudden landslides and tsunamis.

"Ghost in the Shell".

Scarlett Johansson plays an anime, RealDoll assassin, whose brain was harvested by evil forces and placed in a thinking robot. Babealicious and MassKillicous in the Asian style. Excellent paranoid fantasy as her erased memories return of her murder and her stolen brain.

Fake nekkid plastic scenes while she goes about her brutal tasks, but OK for what they are. Great cigi, scenery, and cinematography, with lots of robot-fu.

Anybody mention "Ex Machina"?

Also a lot of nekkid female robot fu in a thriller with several twists. Flagrant bush scenes, but they are on robots, so it is OK!

"The Harvest". Good cast. A little girl whose parents have died in a tragic auto accident moves in with her grandparents and finds a boy in a neighboring home who is housebound and sick. She crawls into the window and aggressively befriends him to the chagrin of his seemingly doting parents.

As usual, nothing is as it seems. Nice thriller.

Worth it for some of the best raging, psychotic bitch fu since Kathy Bates in "Misery" and Peter Fonda, who has had his umpteenth shiny facelift and wears his sagging face flesh tied back in a Japanese war knot on the back of his head.

"Doctor Strange" again? Franchise fu. Good popcorn flick. However, Benedict Cumberbatch's next role needs to be a re-make of Forrest Gump, as he is getting a bit tiresome playing prodigies and geniuses.

Tim Aurora says

Japanese

Ran

Rashoman

The Bullet Train

Seven Samurais

Appleseed ( Animated)

Rashomon
Seven Samurai

HEY YOU says

Movies are real & for critical thinkers.

Indeedy, they provoke more critical thought than pseudo self righteous political none-sense.

Treat yourself to Sicario (2015)

I was a movie theater usher part time in high school in the 60's if you can believe....after awhile...I knew all the lines is the script. So it became harder to be impressed with new movies as I would know whats coming next I guess. Today the movies seem to skip a lot of the original scripts to save time and money I guess...but that destroys the movie for me cause I KNOW they skipped stuff. I get annoyed by the missing stuff...sometimes re-watch it figure out what the hell they skipped. Plus...the EXCESSIVE special effects really suck after awhile...been there...done that. Good luck!

Quigley says

Nobody's recommended "The Human Centipede?" Haven't watched it, but some coworkers said it was the sickest shit on Netflix!

Yeah, you've got to watch it. That and Centipede-2.

Recent release: In the Heart of the Sea
Older, lighthearted: Elling

I'm not much for movies these days... internet is more entertaining.