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islander

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Posted: Jan 15, 2022 - 11:34am

 R_P wrote:

Dystopia à la française




The French even have a better dystopia than we do. 
Steely_D

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Posted: Jan 15, 2022 - 10:08am

We watched "Mass" last night, and it was very difficult but well done. Since it mostly revolves around two couple and their conflict, it felt very much like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." But it was smartly written, that is, not pandering to one obvious viewpoint. I think it was good, but it's definitely not a feel-good movie. But, you get some superb acting. They all take their characters and knock them out of the park.

SPOILER: the trailer tells you the theme. You might want to go into it cold like we did.




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Posted: Jan 14, 2022 - 9:34pm

 R_P wrote:

Dystopia à la française



Well that looks interesting.
Subtitles...  
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Posted: Jan 14, 2022 - 12:28pm

Dystopia à la française

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Posted: Dec 31, 2021 - 5:33am

 westslope wrote:

I hear that the VP wears lead ankle-bracelets so she does not start randomly floating around. 

Actually, heavy army boots might give her the gravitas that she is so lacking.


And yet, she's this close to being President of the United States.


Jiggz



Posted: Dec 29, 2021 - 4:23am

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
Seems like it could apply to Boob Biden too.
Or his excellent V.P.

Oh hell... politics in general.






Yeh, zigackly....*shrug*
Jiggz



Posted: Dec 29, 2021 - 4:19am

 Ohmsen wrote:
(Don't Look Up!)
The most tasteless peace of sh... called a movie, I have ever, ever seen in my life! It portraits the globally well known American Ignorance on all sides (left and right), riding the wave of the corporate media-machine that aims at dividing us as people, even on international scale. While making fun of the MAGA movement as an invented DON'T LOOK UP movement, I fail to get, why folks here at RP indulge on this feces, as if it could ever become a worthy discussion of being one of two choices left for a voter to choose, while the media keep teaching us it is, apparently very successfully.  - All sheeples here!?

*OMG*




Yeh, I can't say  it was a brilliant movie, but it passed the time amiably enough, but I don't get the hype at all.

I didn't get that it was a full dig at the MAGA crowd more than I thought it was a commentary on the US political system overall, sheeple governed by people who have a completely different agenda propped up by the media and a politicisation of the security and intelligence branches.
I thought the coked up Chief of Staff was a mash of Hunter Biden and Trump Jr; I thought the Prez persona was more reminiscent of Hillary or a Democrat Prez than of Trump, though the rally scenes were obviously based on MAGA rallies....because 6 people sitting in little circles as a cover for Biden being unable to draw anyone into coming to hear him speak would just be weak, and I thought that that was obvious.
I didn't get the comet as an analogy for whatever it is meant to be, but that's because the Doomsday Climate event everyone is shitting themselves over is way, way out of my daily consciousness, and that's a different discussion.

I think its just satire and somewhat clever at times, overall it is just being critical of the general dysfunctionality that characterises the relationship between media, the Government and the people.
I completely don't get that it is about one side over another, and completely didn't grock the Doomsday Climate story.

I probably would have preferred watching the new Sandra Bullock movie for a second time.
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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 11:12pm

 westslope wrote:
 kurtster wrote:

What, a joke ?  Looks like another Wag The Dog to me or an attempt, based on the link,

kurtster,  You should watch the film.  For entertainment purposes and to prove to yourself and the rest of us that you are not some mindless partisan warrior.

My favourite novelist is a Marxist.  (Technically Neo-Marxist.)   I probably disagree with this (now dead) author on all kinds of policy issues.   Still did not prevent me from enjoying his novels and short stories.  

 
Yeah, like that will ever happen.  When pigs fly, maybe.

Regarding the politics of artists, if I only listened to music made by artists that I agreed with politically, it would be rather quiet in my world.

And actually watch a movie ?  I already know how this one ends thanks to reading the link.  Same as they always do.  The survivors get eaten.  Makes me think of something I once saw about a cookbook.  The title of the cookbook was To Serve Man IIRC ...

And then use two and a half man hours to watch people make people like me, the butt of their joke.  I really don't think so.  I'll get my laughs somewhere else.  My time is best focused on other things.

If you like and enjoy the movie, fine with me.  I'm just writing it off as propaganda and moving on.
westslope

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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 9:24pm

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
.....
Or his excellent V.P.

Oh hell... politics in general.

I hear that the VP wears lead ankle-bracelets so she does not start randomly floating around. 

Actually, heavy army boots might give her the gravitas that she is so lacking.


KurtfromLaQuinta

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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 9:12pm

 rgio wrote:
So I was wondering while watching...would the MAGA crowd get the joke? 

Seems like it could apply to Boob Biden too.
Or his excellent V.P.

Oh hell... politics in general.


Steely_D

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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 4:03pm

 Ohmsen wrote:

You don't seem to get it: Two nos!!


Sorry, only one nose per person, except Volde…He Who Must Not Be Named.
Red_Dragon

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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 3:53pm

Critics of “Don’t Look Up” Are Missing the Entire Point
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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 3:03pm

Oooh, another conspiracy...
rgio

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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 2:59pm

 Ohmsen wrote:
(Don't Look Up!)
The most tasteless peace of sh... called a movie, I have ever, ever seen in my life! It portraits the globally well known American Ignorance on all sides, riding the wave of the corporate media-machine that aims at dividing us as people, even on international scale. While making fun of the MAGA movement as an invented DON'T LOOK UP movement, I fail to get, why folks here at RP indulge on this feces, as if it could ever be a worthy discussion, while the media keep teaching them it is.  - All sheeples here!?

*OMG*


 haresfur wrote:

Could easily post under Trump.

So I was wondering while watching...would the MAGA crowd get the joke?

H: So there's one no.


haresfur

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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 1:53pm



rgio wrote:

westslope wrote:

Could easily post under Trump.

So I was wondering while watching...would the MAGA crowd get the joke?
kurtster wrote:

What, a joke ?
  Looks like another Wag The Dog to me or an attempt, based on the link,


westslope

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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 - 1:27pm

 kurtster wrote:

What, a joke ?  Looks like another Wag The Dog to me or an attempt, based on the link,

kurtster,  You should watch the film.  For entertainment purposes and to prove to yourself and the rest of us that you are not some mindless partisan warrior.

My favourite novelist is a Marxist.  (Technically Neo-Marxist.)   I probably disagree with this (now dead) author on all kinds of policy issues.   Still did not prevent me from enjoying his novels and short stories.  

westslope

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Posted: Dec 27, 2021 - 12:26pm

 Steely_D wrote:


Not the greatest movie ever, but a good way to spend a rainy evening.
......

Agreed.  I enjoyed it as contemporary political satire.   Not a great movie but more than entertaining enough. 

Felt the urge the rewrite parts of the film.....  never a good feeling. Not pretending any particular competence here; just take the 'feeling' at face value.  
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Posted: Dec 27, 2021 - 11:50am

 Red_Dragon wrote:
It's a Chinese hoax...

Steely_D

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Posted: Dec 27, 2021 - 11:10am

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Not the greatest movie ever, but a good way to spend a rainy evening.
And the "my freedom is more important than your facts" crowd is well represented, even to the end of the movie.

Don't watch the trailer. More fun to watch things unfold without expecting them.
kurtster

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Posted: Dec 27, 2021 - 10:08am

 rgio wrote:
 westslope wrote:
Could easily post under Trump.
So I was wondering while watching...would the MAGA crowd get the joke? 
 
What, a joke ?  Looks like another Wag The Dog to me or an attempt, based on the link,
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