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Forum: General Movie Discussion 19 hours ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Tonight is the night for a volcano....Dante's Peak. A pretty western town, favored by hotel goers is threatened by a volcano. Of course, authorities don't do enough, but just what CAN you do when...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 20 hours ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
The other thing that explorers brought to the...

The other thing that explorers brought to the Native Americans, somewhat unknowingly, was European viruses that the natives had no resistance to. The result was horrifying.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yep. Just in case you're in OBX - ...

Yep. Just in case you're in OBX -

https://www.thelostcolony.org
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
Having vacationed in OBX a number of times, the...

Having vacationed in OBX a number of times, the saga of the Roanoke colony is part of the story there. It's important to keep that disappearance a mystery otherwise they'd have to re-write the stage...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
It was partly profit, but religion was always...

It was partly profit, but religion was always part of the package.
Replies: 59
i guess it's impossible to buy a non-smart tv today?
Posted By skizzerflake
No, but I have spent a big part of my...

No, but I have spent a big part of my professional life embedded in this digital jungle.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
I guess he was religious in a very Catholic way,...

I guess he was religious in a very Catholic way, but what happened subsequently due to all of that religion imposed on native populations was the awful part. Ironically, I suppose that Chris himself...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yeah....another one with a high cringe factor.

Yeah....another one with a high cringe factor.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
It would be even harder to make one without...

It would be even harder to make one without centuries of spin. Our current vision of Columbus and the Americas is only one of many. I can still recall the one I saw in elementary school with...
Replies: 59
i guess it's impossible to buy a non-smart tv today?
Posted By skizzerflake
That's pretty much true for any connected digital...

That's pretty much true for any connected digital device. I have some job experience with the whole ones-and-zeros thing about digital devices and security, and, long ago, when the web was first...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 6
Climbing Mt. Impossible: Das Boot and the Sympathetic German Soldier
Posted By skizzerflake
Yep. And they rarely get there by being nice...

Yep. And they rarely get there by being nice guys.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 62
Poll: Which of these is the greatest sci-fi film?
Posted By skizzerflake
I figured that, especially accompanied by the...

I figured that, especially accompanied by the famous opening notes from Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra, but it all seemed so pompous especially having spent the previous couple hours watching...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
Wow. A movie rarely evokes such comments as,...

Wow. A movie rarely evokes such comments as, ""flaccid, feeble comeback effort" and a "wretched and pathetic attempt which is singularly unfunny".

I guessing it does not pass the history...
Replies: 59
i guess it's impossible to buy a non-smart tv today?
Posted By skizzerflake
So, what IS the point? Yeah, you can go to an...

So, what IS the point? Yeah, you can go to an antique shop and buy a TV, but why would you? Who cares?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Historical figures who deserve a biopic?

Even though I'm a history geek and know something about this, I'd never think of doing anything less than a long franchise about Columbus and the European arrival in the Americas. I understand all...
Replies: 59
i guess it's impossible to buy a non-smart tv today?
Posted By skizzerflake
The point is to not worry about all this digital...

The point is to not worry about all this digital spying and just assume that it happens. The next time you have to discuss a "job" with a mafia confidant, do it in the woods, communicating with...
Replies: 59
i guess it's impossible to buy a non-smart tv today?
Posted By skizzerflake
Everything you do that comes from a network is...

Everything you do that comes from a network is subject to spying. All of it. Without program, it's just a blank screen. If you get it from a network of any kind, that network needs to know your...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Historical figures who deserve a biopic?

I'm thinking Nikola Tesla. This eccentric Serbian immigrant invented a lot of the electrical devices we use every day, including AC motors, essential parts of radio transmission, wireless lighting,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 62
Poll: Which of these is the greatest sci-fi film?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yeah, that's what I thought, each obligatory time...

Yeah, that's what I thought, each obligatory time I saw it. The whole outer-space-baby thing looked like Kubrick took himself too seriously.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 days ago
Replies: 62
Poll: Which of these is the greatest sci-fi film?
Posted By skizzerflake
Nyehhh....In philosophy and religion the "no...

Nyehhh....In philosophy and religion the "no right answer" thing is OK, but movies need to have a resolution, so, after some dinner, a movie and then a beer afterward, I can tell the folks in the bar...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 days ago
Replies: 62
Poll: Which of these is the greatest sci-fi film?
Posted By skizzerflake
A bit of spoon feeding might have helped to make...

A bit of spoon feeding might have helped to make the movie into less of the kind of puzzle where nobody will tell you when you got it right.....not much payoff in that. Everything in the psychedelic...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 62
Poll: Which of these is the greatest sci-fi film?
Posted By skizzerflake
It was lost on me because of all that lengthy,...

It was lost on me because of all that lengthy, dry astronaut, procedural stuff that just didn't do much for the plot. Too much science, not enough fiction. I saw it on the big screen several times,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
Yeah, I've heard of that one, never saw it. From...

Yeah, I've heard of that one, never saw it. From what I know of Edwin, he was a unionist and horrified about what his brother had done. His career tanked for a while after his brother's act, but it...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 62
Poll: Which of these is the greatest sci-fi film?
Posted By skizzerflake
I have to admit that I understood the philosophy,...

I have to admit that I understood the philosophy, some post-Nietzschean fantasy, but it was lost on me and moved way too slow.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 88
Historical figures who deserve a biopic?
Posted By skizzerflake
It would be a pretty good biopic IF you did the...

It would be a pretty good biopic IF you did the entire family. The Booths were semi-local characters who are well known around Baltimore (he's buried near me), a theatrical family. His father was...

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