Quote: (04-11-2019 09:35 PM)Kurgan Wrote:  

Quote: (04-09-2019 08:49 AM)Manbeline Wrote:  

I went to see Shazam, too. It was also filled with checkboxed points of political correctness. Minority racial actors. Check. Female in park actually stopping her mugger and getting on Shazam for trying to save her? Check. And others, but I don't want to spoil the film. It's a shame. I can't really go through these movies anymore without noticing blatant virtue signaling. It feels like a kid art project or one of those indie films at film festivals where they try to be so obvious with their message that you're just turned off in general.

You know what's ironic? The film was being slammed for being fatphobic and not SJW enough.

Disappointing. I was thinking of going back to the cinema again to watch this one after seeing Aaron Clarey's review;

https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2...hazam.html

He seems to think it's old-fashioned entertainment the way we used to see, devoid of lecturing, politics etc. I might still go as it's my son's birthday and I always take him to see a movie and there's not much else to see.

Just watched American Gangster a few days ago. I probably would’ve like this movie when it came out, but I couldn’t help but see it as more bullshit Hollywood propaganda glorifying a drug dealer and murderer while trying to make a cop look as bad as possible because...he’s a womanizer! So murderer drug dealer ok but guy who bangs chicks...
Afterwards I did a few minutes of reading on the real Frank Lucas and the cop who nailed him. The real guy was no debonair gentleman like Denzel’s character. And the cop, for whom the story makes a big deal out of his divorce and child rearing issues...the fucking guy wasn’t even married.

Also watched Polka King with Jack Black. This one didn’t take itself too seriously and was actually pretty enjoyable. Polka and ponzie scheming, decent comedic acting.

Quote: (04-15-2019 11:55 AM)Chetthebaker Wrote:  

Also watched Polka King with Jack Black. This one didn’t take itself too seriously and was actually pretty enjoyable. Polka and ponzie scheming, decent comedic acting.

I loathe most comedies, but "School of Rock" with Jack Black is quite good.

Quote: (04-11-2019 09:38 PM)Kurgan Wrote:  

I watched William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet from 1996, it's the one directed by Bahz Luhrman and starred Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes. It's essentially set in 1996 in Verona Beach and the families were switched to mafia empires. It felt I was watching a music video with some degeneracy and it's weird to see modern day people speak in Shakespearan English. It worked for Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet but not in modern day, it just sounds weird.

My high school teacher showed us that movie off of our Romeo and Juliet reading. We all knew the different characters, acts, and parts, so it was interesting seeing it be done in a modern day switcheroo.

One of my favorite scenes cause of how silly it is. From the sword name on the side of the gun to Benvolio. Ben was just as much of a clown in the real poem as in this movie, so I was laughing even back then.

I like b-movies sometimes. This is one of the worst and strangest movies of all time: Disco Godfather (a Dolemite movie.)

Here's (most of) the highlights

Do we need a separate thread to discuss Avengers or will this do? Didn't want to spoil.

Avengers was surprisingly good. It had too many girl power moments and obvious leftist propaganda but I tried to look past it. Much better than Infinity War.

Yeah the SJW agenda was strong in this movie. I tried to look past it but it was just too much on the nose. Especially during the final battle.

Had the NFL Draft on the last couple nights, seen a number of trailers for a movie about Brian Bates. Bates was a prominent high school football player who was falsely accused of rape prior to his senior year and took a plea deal to avoid decades in prison, costing him a shot at playing in division 1 (he had scholarship offers from some of the best programs in the country) and even the NFL. Eventually the accuser admitted a decade or so later that she had fabricated the story, but not before Banks had served something like 5-6 years in jail and had his dreams of a football career derailed (although he did later get some tryouts in the NFL, but was in his 30s at this point).

I'm legit shocked that this movie is being made, and I'm sure they'll portray it as a race thing (although I believe the false accuser is also black, but they'll blame the racist justice system). Glad to see it though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ba..._football)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Banks_(film)

Quote: (04-27-2019 12:25 PM)Dr Mantis Toboggan Wrote:  

Had the NFL Draft on the last couple nights, seen a number of trailers for a movie about Brian Bates. Bates was a prominent high school football player who was falsely accused of rape prior to his senior year and took a plea deal to avoid decades in prison, costing him a shot at playing in division 1 (he had scholarship offers from some of the best programs in the country) and even the NFL. Eventually the accuser admitted a decade or so later that she had fabricated the story, but not before Banks had served something like 5-6 years in jail and had his dreams of a football career derailed (although he did later get some tryouts in the NFL, but was in his 30s at this point).

I'm legit shocked that this movie is being made, and I'm sure they'll portray it as a race thing (although I believe the false accuser is also black, but they'll blame the racist justice system). Glad to see it though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ba..._football)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Banks_(film)

It wouldn't be made if he were not black. Are they going to do a movie about the Mike Tyson case as well - about his fake rape allegation? About the little horny but religiously raised black girl who previously had one fake rape allegation under her belt - her ex being a White boy before she accused Mike Tyson?

They will certainly make it all about racism and that is why the movie was greenlit.

I wonder what the difficulty is with rape recently? When it simply cannot be proven and there are questionable details of the accuser, then the man is not guilty - period. Even if he did it and managed to pull off a perfect rape, then that's that. It's word against word and divine justice will have to take care of it.

I really wonder whether this infatuation with rape isn't just some subconscious desire for rape by the collective female consciousness desiring male domination. Of course it is - plus it's this internal anger concentrated against the mythical patriarchy where women are told from cradle to grave that everything is the fault of men collectively. If only men hadn't held the bitches down, then they would be all inventors, scientists, generals, super-soldierettes and super-artists. They would run the world to the space age.

Nah bitch - we would be living in caves and likely wouldn't even have invented a bloody fire, because the bitches would get triggered by it. Men died protecting women and most men punish rapists severely - in some countries far better than in others. Most men would protect you from rape - except maybe in some African or Muslim countries where it's your fault for running around with too little protection, but they have a perverted system and I never see feminists protesting any of those places.

Quote: (04-27-2019 12:44 PM)Simeon_Strangelight Wrote:  

They will certainly make it all about racism and that is why the movie was greenlit.

I began to watch "If Beale Street Could Talk" yesterday. I could not finish watching the film. I can understand making a movie about a fictional incident stemming from racism, but castigating the entire white race is another matter altogether: "And they dogs, man. I really found out, in the slammer, what Malcolm and them cats was talking about. The white man's got to be the devil. He sure ain't a man."

Then narration by a black woman who works at a perfume counter:

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“A white man will take your hand, he will carry your flesh to his nostrils... and he will hold it there. He will hold it there for a lifetime.”

https://www.scriptslug.com/script/if-bea...-talk-2018

I turned the film off at that point. I got the message: "Whitey sucks." The problem is that the film's racism (castigating the entire white race for the sins of the few) is just as pernicious.

I watched "Arctic" with mads mikkelson, I enjoyed it.
It's about a guy crashed in an arctic wasteland, I don't know where, he is surviving but has to get to civilization when he has to take care of a wounded chick later on. I'm not sure if I should ruin the plot, because there's not much, I enjoyed how simple and down to earth it was just showing a man against the elements having to do what he can to get through it.

Watched this movie last night when I found out about this unit.

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The 442nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army and is the only infantry formation in the Army Reserve. The regiment is best known for its history as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei) who fought in World War II. Beginning in 1944, the regiment fought primarily in the European Theatre,[3] in particular Italy, southern France, and Germany. Many of the soldiers had families in internment camps while they fought abroad.[4] The unit's motto was "Go for Broke".

The 442nd Regiment is the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.[5] Created as the 442nd Regimental Combat Team when it was activated February 1, 1943, the unit quickly grew to its fighting complement of 4,000 men by April 1943, and an eventual total of about 14,000 men served overall. The unit earned more than 18,000 awards in less than two years, including 9,486 Purple Hearts and 4,000 Bronze Star Medals. The unit was awarded eight Presidential Unit Citations (five earned in one month). Twenty-one of its members were awarded Medals of Honor.[3] In 2010, the Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and associated units who served during World War II,[7] and in 2012, all surviving members were made chevaliers of the French Légion d'Honneur for their actions contributing to the liberation of France and their heroic rescue of the Lost Battalion.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infa...ed_States)

Quote: (04-26-2019 02:22 AM)[email protected] Wrote:  

Avengers was surprisingly good. It had too many girl power moments and obvious leftist propaganda but I tried to look past it. Much better than Infinity War.

Just watched Endgame. Gotta agree the girl power moment really made me cringe. I was really worried they were gonna make Captain Marvel the big hero and go all in on girl power. They gave her her moments, but luckily she didn't take over the whole movie. Just that girl power battle moment was so politically oriented, it had no place in the movie. Besides Captain Marvel, they're all side characters from different worlds. Why else would they all be together?

The movie overall though is very solid and probably a top tier super hero flick. The above paragraph is really only one scene in a three hour movie, so I'm not gonna lose sleep that they threw the SJW part of the audience a bone. Honestly, they were really reaching with that scene anyway to try and get PC points. I already see some people saw through that. The other heroes do a good job keeping Captain Marvel in check too at times.

In the MCU, I actually think Guardians does the best job handling female characters. The SJW audience gets their female warriors in Gamora and Nebula but they really don't shove it in your face. They're just kind of there along with the rest of the group, deferring to Thanos and whatever other villains they have to face.

Infinity War may be the best MCU movie for the forum. There's so much more alpha male energy in that compared to other movies. Captain America says maybe five words in it but owns every scene he's in (not to mention has a groupie), Thor finally goes full alpha on the Guardians and leveling up his hammer, Doctor Strange never really defers to anyone, and of course Iron Man is the key ingredient. And obviously Thanos going full savage.

Quote: (04-28-2019 11:41 AM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:  

Watched this movie last night when I found out about this unit.

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The 442nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army and is the only infantry formation in the Army Reserve. The regiment is best known for its history as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei) who fought in World War II. Beginning in 1944, the regiment fought primarily in the European Theatre,[3] in particular Italy, southern France, and Germany. Many of the soldiers had families in internment camps while they fought abroad.[4] The unit's motto was "Go for Broke".

The 442nd Regiment is the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.[5] Created as the 442nd Regimental Combat Team when it was activated February 1, 1943, the unit quickly grew to its fighting complement of 4,000 men by April 1943, and an eventual total of about 14,000 men served overall. The unit earned more than 18,000 awards in less than two years, including 9,486 Purple Hearts and 4,000 Bronze Star Medals. The unit was awarded eight Presidential Unit Citations (five earned in one month). Twenty-one of its members were awarded Medals of Honor.[3] In 2010, the Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and associated units who served during World War II,[7] and in 2012, all surviving members were made chevaliers of the French Légion d'Honneur for their actions contributing to the liberation of France and their heroic rescue of the Lost Battalion.[8]

That's the one Mr. Miyagi (Karate Kid, Cobra Kai) served with!
Also received the Medal of Honor.

No wonder he's such a badass.

Not necessarily a movie, but I watched a documentary about music legend Robert Johnson on Netflix called Devil at the Crossroads. Robert Johnson was a blues singer who had a story about him selling his soul to the devil to make great music at a crossroads in Mississippi. It talked about his life and how much he contributed to music without living to see it. There is another idea of how he did well in music without selling his soul and it had him practicing with a friend in a graveyard.

Quite interesting, I know there was a character based off of Robert Johnson in O'Brother Where Art Thou?

Quote: (04-28-2019 07:07 PM)Kurgan Wrote:  

Not necessarily a movie, but I watched a documentary about music legend Robert Johnson on Netflix called Devil at the Crossroads. Robert Johnson was a blues singer who had a story about him selling his soul to the devil to make great music at a crossroads in Mississippi. It talked about his life and how much he contributed to music without living to see it. There is another idea of how he did well in music without selling his soul and it had him practicing with a friend in a graveyard.

Quite interesting, I know there was a character based off of Robert Johnson in O'Brother Where Art Thou?

There is a great deal of Robert Johnson lore. Eric Clapton did a reprise of Robert Johnson's sole album. I own a copy. The film "Crossroads" with Ralph Macchio and Joe Seneca is based on this legend. A very underrated movie with a great guitar duel at the end, involving Steven Vai.

Ctain America could have boned any bitch he wanted. But I guess anyman born back then would jump ship in this era. I find inspiration in Thanos. He has a purpose and a mission. He will no be denied.

Quote: (04-30-2019 02:21 AM)BlackFriar Wrote:  

Ctain America could have boned any bitch he wanted. But I guess anyman born back then would jump ship in this era. I find inspiration in Thanos. He has a purpose and a mission. He will no be denied.

Except for having a retarded plan. Cutting population by half would teleport you back to the 1970s - hardly a time of empty cities like depicted in the movie. How killing half the life-forms should solve everything eternally is Malthus-level of retarded, but hey - the globalists love killing so it's fine.

And yes - most sane men would prefer to live from the 1940s onward before the bullshit started with gender-classes, homo-pushing and destruction of the West.

I watched the 2014 Godzilla movie just recently to start my week off. I learned it's part of the MonsterVerse that involves Godzilla, Mothra and King Kong. It seemed to be free of SJW crap.

It has a great soundtrack, action scenes and good FX. It made me wonder why I didn't see this when it came out, then I realized I was more blue pilled back then. It would've looked better in the theater than on a TV. I will watch Kong: Skull Island later to prepare for the upcoming Godzilla movie. It's a hell of a lot better than the one that came out in the 90's.

Suburra

Great Italian gangster movie with with a lot of great notes and space in between.

I don't get the hype for John Wick. I watched #2 (not having seen the first one) and it was hot garbage. I respect Keanu for doing all of that arms training he did for the role but he still can't act. Same expression on his face and a weird, slow delivery of his lines. I think he's a good guy in real life and I hate to "hate" on him but there is just no talent there. He's one lucky fucker that somebody found hiim and decided to cast him for the Matrix films.

Quote: (05-07-2019 04:57 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote:  

I don't get the hype for John Wick. I watched #2 (not having seen the first one) and it was hot garbage. I respect Keanu for doing all of that arms training he did for the role but he still can't act. Same expression on his face and a weird, slow delivery of his lines. I think he's a good guy in real life and I hate to "hate" on him but there is just no talent there. He's one lucky fucker that somebody found hiim and decided to cast him for the Matrix films.

tiger you're literally the forum's high iq asian...

it's quite bad, to begin with, that you've rejected your heritage.

Be the good asian, and don't put down your korean buddy....

Quote: (05-07-2019 04:57 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote:  

I don't get the hype for John Wick. I watched #2 (not having seen the first one) and it was hot garbage. I respect Keanu for doing all of that arms training he did for the role but he still can't act. Same expression on his face and a weird, slow delivery of his lines. I think he's a good guy in real life and I hate to "hate" on him but there is just no talent there. He's one lucky fucker that somebody found hiim and decided to cast him for the Matrix films.

I know what you mean. The first one was a one-off and much, much better than the second. It was also very tongue-in-cheek and one-joke (thieves kill dog of man who turns out to be elite assassin). It worked perfectly as a throwaway movie classic. But they shouldn't have done any more (same as the 'Taken' series). Greedy bastards.

There shouldn't have been any hype for #2, the fact that there was is a big red flag straightaway. Good films don't need hype, the first one took everyone by surprise at how good it was. The fighting was all Judo and having done some, I can attest that KR did a great job with the choreography.

They should have named it John Wick 2: Overkill

Watched Platoon over the weekend. Lots of red pill going on. Also The Ruthless on Netflix was good