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Post by rfan8312 on May 2, 2024 17:14:31 GMT
Thanks Martin, will do. I'll come up with some material for one.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 2, 2024 16:56:50 GMT
Thanks. I wish we had a Weyland Yutani thread. There's a LOT to this world.
Also, let's not forget. In sci-films these days the camera cuts 15 times during a simple conversation (like in Event Horizon), it's not immersive. It looks/feels like flashy Hollywood stuff.
In Alien, when Dallas is explaining to the crew that they've picked up a signal...the camera barely cuts once. It's handheld but moving only very slightly. It's immersive it feels like we are sitting at the able with them.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 2, 2024 16:15:05 GMT
Lol yes. I thought Bill Skarsgaard can't lose. I'd read reviews that touted this film as Kill Bill meets Ninja Assassin (give or take an ass).
It sucks...but in like new and interesting ways.
On my way to see Alien. Never got to see it in a theater before.
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Post by rfan8312 on May 2, 2024 15:55:00 GMT
Boy Kills World
Wow. They fucked it up. A few cool moments but I walked out. Too bad because its Bill Skarsgaard in the lead role and Sharlto Copley has a good role.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 28, 2024 1:48:27 GMT
Boiling Point A one uninterrupted take 90 minute film starring Stephen Graham about a night at a restaurant he is running. I found it difficult to look away the entire time. I've worked in 5 restaurants. It's a terrible situation for everybody involved most of all for the owner because he is at the mercy of his revolving door of employees. I saw a million things and constant patterns while working at restaurants but what speaks to me the most is that not one restaurant I worked at is in business 10 years later, ages before covid, and nobody that I know is still working in that profession. This movie is coming to Netflix on the 29th. It's not a life-changer but it is difficult to look away at any point in this 'one take' 92 minute film. My favorite actors these days are Sam Neill, Stephen Graham, Tobias Menzies, Adam Nagaitis, Bill Skarsgaard, Vanessa Kirby, Tilda Swinton to name a few. Stephen Graham here isn't even close to giving his finest performance but he's believable as always.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 26, 2024 16:38:45 GMT
Oh my lord. She played Satanica in a show about From Dusk Till Dawn. Now my mission in life is to see that somewhwre.
I loved from Dusk Till Dawn the movie but it was also my first exposure to Salma Hayek who ever since then is literally the most beautiful women I've ever seen.
Here's the original Satanica in an interview with Conan O'Brien. Tbh Conan was in rare form that night and did a good job of trying to throw his hat in the ring for Salma. I'd like to think I'd have been that smooth but I know would not have.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 26, 2024 5:16:43 GMT
It's baffling the amount of completely unrelated topics I've found myself reading about on those nights when sleeping is difficult. Here's one about a dangerous part that is found on a Canadian military vehicle which has a spring loaded arm (so the arm is normally under tension) which holds the spare tire. I've gone down a rabbit hole and others confirm this as well.
"There is a vehicle in the Canadian Army that is notoriously awful in every aspect. It's been around for decades now, and no one knows why they will never replace it.
On top of it being slow, cumbersome, unconformable and just a rolling green box of shit; it carries within its flank a deadly weapon. The engine sounds like a bag of gophers being sodomized by goats.
Spare tires are kind of a pain in the ass for an army. They weigh a ton because they are either large (like LSVW) or weigh so fucking much (Bison, LAV, TAPV, Etc), so the fight for space is always a gamble and game of where and how dangerous.
The LSVW has in its side, that sits between the cab and the rear, a spring-loaded spare tire carrying arm. It is a high tension spring mechanism attached to a really hard metal arm that carried a tire that weighed nearly a hundred pounds.
[In this picture, danger peaks from behind the passenger. ](https://images.app.goo.gl/1TRJWjGHMxugZns46)
I've seen on so many occasions things go wrong with this spring.
The first time was driver training. We were ring-dingdingding-dinging through the trail of CFB Borden, Ontario when the vehicle in front of me had the entire spare tire assembly spring down while going through the woods. The spare tire and arm caught a tree at forty km/hrs, and proceeded to take this vehicle and swing spin it into the forest and plant it balls deep in a snowy, wet muddy ditch.
Another was the first time instructing at a communications school. My colleague was showing a student something about the spare tire assembly when he fucked up and the entire fucking thing sprang down and caught him in the face. He lost three teeth and they had to reattached his nose in the hospital.
I saw a student of mine in a separate incident have a narrow miss as it came crashing down while he was climbing on the roof of the vehicle to install antennae. He had stepped on it while passing overhead and it crashed down, just a few feet from his partner who was putting a grounding rod in. Close call.
Another time she bit back at me, but lo I was quick. Whoever checked the air pressure last had brought the arm down and then put it back up. Something, not sure what, about me hustling the diesel cans stored in the side had set it off. I stepped to the side just out of some strange sixth sense, and when that jerry can slid off the rack, the entire assembly sprang down and narrowly missed me. It had hit the diesel can in my hand and gave me a partial subluxation something something in my shoulder. Not a full dislocation, but the doctor said magic word things and explained my ows.
A menace in true form. If this vehicle had a motto, it would fight with our Cook staff for the very apt phrase of 'Death From Within'
I always told people that if I were to ever die inside that vehicle, please bury the fucking thing with me in it. Just so I can have the satisfaction of knowing that I got to take one of the fucking things with me to the grave.
I hate this truck.".
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 26, 2024 4:48:13 GMT
Ye. I first saw her in an ambulance film with Jake Gyllennhaal called 'Ambulance'. We name a lot of our films based on what they are about: Plane, Cars, Run, Hike, Phone Call etc.
She was a doll in that one but in 3 body I think they downplayed her looks.
She's next level hot in Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, though.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 25, 2024 21:54:22 GMT
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare
This thing is cool. I went in, stupidly, expecting Inglourious Basterds 0.2.
Inglourious Basterds is just the seasoning here. This is a fun movie with good music and Eiza Gonzales who I struggled to find foxy in 3 Body is painfully gorgeous in this one and fits her character very well. Fun time at the cinema.
The main character from Reacher may be the one who stole the show here.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 24, 2024 20:35:56 GMT
Either way if Moby is on the soundtrack how bad can it be?
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 24, 2024 11:37:12 GMT
Any car chases in there?
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 23, 2024 2:36:39 GMT
I'd never see anything like this regarding a recording that feels like being at a concert until a friend invited me over for beers and to watch this. Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds. 'Ehee' at 1:10:21 is truly magical and sounds like being there. www.youtube.com/live/GNmJoLyivIc?si=U5zSGQSj9Fr8NTik
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 22, 2024 12:23:05 GMT
Ok fine guys let's just meet halfway on Ragnarok. 7/10.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 21, 2024 21:56:17 GMT
...Tim, would you mind stating at what point in Thor: Ragnarok did you walk out?
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 21, 2024 20:29:05 GMT
Sorry Martin, I'm afraid that your claim is false. I believe that you believe you would dislike it. Absolutely.
But knowing it... now that's where it gets tricky.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 21, 2024 19:28:34 GMT
Not sure if it's ever been discussed but as a major Weyland Yutani universe fan I often see comments on social media whenever a new film is released about how terrible it will be/was. Same with Godzilla films.
The take I've finally nestled into comfortably is that I'd much rather be around now when these projects are still being attempted then in the days when there are no more Predator or Alien or Godzilla films and they are just a thing of the past.
I recently saw the newest Kong x Godzilla film. It is magical. So different than previous efforts. Truly. Just wonderful. It is the Thor: Ragnarok of the Kong/Godzilla universe.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 21, 2024 18:26:54 GMT
Guys, I'll let you know whether or not to see Romulus? Thanks.
Kind of surprised you didn't like Spaeny, Tim. There was a moment where she was speaking to somebody and it was real, seemingly. It made me think that actors are not generating facial expressions. They are generating a feeling within them which then auto automatically triggers the facial expression.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 21, 2024 1:24:16 GMT
In my hands is a book from the year 1916, first published in 1915. It's called 'A Hilltop On The Marne' by Mildred Aldrich. It's written while the war is still ongoing, probably while Verdun was being fought unless it was written in January or December.
Small book 7 inches tall 4 inches wide. The pages are visibly extremely old. I've realized I have other books with pqges that look like this but I've never held one from the wartime period of 1914-1918. The earliest I've seen aside from this was from the 1920's.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 20, 2024 15:58:13 GMT
The Swedes have been doing this for years it's about time the rest of the world catches up.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 20, 2024 15:53:39 GMT
Schiit Happened If you ever want to read a hilarious retelling of how a startup company became a major player in the headphone amp game with products like Ragnarok, Bifrost, Magni/Modi, Magni/Heretic, Mjolnir, Jotunheim, Midgard, etc. (All products I've been reading about for years on Head-fi) then this book is tough to put down. Narrated by comedians apparently but ones who know a ton about what people really need in an amp. Here's the book for free btw on Head-fi pasted right into a thread. www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up.701900/Would have loved a book cover photo in this comment but doing it from phone is tough.
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