Originally posted by Khazra Reborn
Watched Rosemary's Baby the other day for Halloween, it was still as good as ever. 👆
I need to watch that again... it's been a very long time. Plus it's another classic that I can show my wife.
Right now we're watching Twin Peaks on Netflix. It's even more entertaining than I remember. Should be interesting to see what they do with the revival of it.
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
I need to watch that again... it's been a very long time. Plus it's another classic that I can show my wife.Right now we're watching Twin Peaks on Netflix. It's even more entertaining than I remember. Should be interesting to see what they do with the revival of it.
Nice, I need to watch Twin Peaks again, David Lynch is one of my favorite film makers. I'm looking forward to the revival too, I doubt they'll be able to top the original, but at least they've got most of the original cast.
Sunshine (2007)
Some great effects for a 30 million dollar budget, and a great cast from Chris Evans and Travis Manawa. Some notable examples being the room where Manawa's character can see the Sun through various gradients, and the final scene where they finally reach the sun. The film was heavily influenced by the psychedelic elements from 2001, and the first half of the film takes a more psychological theme in examining the effects of traveling vast distances in space and the relationships between the crew. From there the film goes a little downhill, with pacing highly reminiscent of Alien/Event Horizon. I,e characters propose plans, exit the scenes in deaths, until ultimately they dwindle down to one or two. The scene where they rendezvous with the 1st ship that was supposed to send the bomb was rushed, and then out of nowhere the captain of the 1ST ship turns out to be some weird slasher villain. His introduction brings down the plot, and he was needlessly shoehorned for some reason to make it a horror film? Other than the stupid needless villain and for a modest budget, the film has a good cast of characters (Chris Evan's character mainly), and their sacrifices to save humanity from a dying sun is a great lesser known Scifi film
7/10
Originally posted by Khazra Reborn
Nice, I need to watch Twin Peaks again, David Lynch is one of my favorite film makers. I'm looking forward to the revival too, I doubt they'll be able to top the original, but at least they've got most of the original cast.
Originally posted by carthage
Sunshine (2007)Some great effects for a 30 million dollar budget, and a great cast from Chris Evans and Travis Manawa. Some notable examples being the room where Manawa's character can see the Sun through various gradients, and the final scene where they finally reach the sun. The film was heavily influenced by the psychedelic elements from 2001, and the first half of the film takes a more psychological theme in examining the effects of traveling vast distances in space and the relationships between the crew. From there the film goes a little downhill, with pacing highly reminiscent of Alien/Event Horizon. I,e characters propose plans, exit the scenes in deaths, until ultimately they dwindle down to one or two. The scene where they rendezvous with the 1st ship that was supposed to send the bomb was rushed, and then out of nowhere the captain of the 1ST ship turns out to be some weird slasher villain. His introduction brings down the plot, and he was needlessly shoehorned for some reason to make it a horror film? Other than the stupid needless villain and for a modest budget, the film has a good cast of characters (Chris Evan's character mainly), and their sacrifices to save humanity from a dying sun is a great lesser known Scifi film
7/10
I have mixed feelings about Sunshine. I do enjoy many aspects of it, but the music didn't fit very well to me. I didn't actually mind the sort of slasher direction it went into at the end, but the way it was filmed and edited was distracting. But it's a good sci-fi flick and something good to watch again from time to time. Danny Boyle is a pretty good filmmaker.
Originally posted by carthage
Cop Land
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Fed Up (2014)Documentary on Netflix about the f*cked-up American food industry. Something you fat fu#ks wouldn't know anything about. 😂
Very good documentary, though. Should be seen by all.
Yeah the U.S food industry is messed up, Lots of focus on fried food and big portions.
Originally posted by Kazenji
Yeah the U.S food industry is messed up, Lots of focus on fried food and big portions.
Well those things don't help, but the biggest issue is so much sugar in everything and shameless exploitation of children, advertising targeted towards kids and the Big Food industry preventing any changes. And so kids are obese and getting diabetes at younger and younger ages, even getting mutilating surgeries to curb the problem. Yet we still can't address the real issue. It's a major political failure in this country.
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Well those things don't help, but the biggest issue is so much sugar in everything and shameless exploitation of children, advertising targeted towards kids and the Big Food industry preventing any changes. And so kids are obese and getting diabetes at younger and younger ages, even getting mutilating surgeries to curb the problem. Yet we still can't address the real issue. It's a major political failure in this country.
I watched a similar documentary, Food Matters, around 3 years ago. While it eventually goes into the usage of massive dosages of Vitamin C given to treat and cure cancer (I won't condone or condemn that - I don't know enough about it), it does mention the similar usage of processed sugar/chemicals in our foods. Specifically, how the FDA I believe put the hammer down on fat, so companies chose to start using processed sugar to make food tasty without fat. They of course stated (paraphrasing here) that it's a bad deal when you ingest an unnatural substance in place of a naturally-occurring macronutrient.
Sounds like Fed Up is one I should catch as well.
Originally posted by John Murdoch
...it does mention the similar usage of processed sugar/chemicals in our foods. Specifically, how the FDA I believe put the hammer down on fat, so companies chose to start using processed sugar to make food tasty without fat...Sounds like Fed Up is one I should catch as well.
Yeah, exactly, it mentions that. Check it out, it's a very good documentary.
The irony is that politicians always refer to the "children," "Think of the children!" Well, they are exactly the ones under attack by the food industry, yet even the ones legitimately trying to do something about it (Bill Clinton, Barrack and Michelle Obama) can't cut through the greed and corruption of the Media and Big Food industry.
Split Second. On Youtube.