Yeah, that's right.
On March 30, 2022, Willis's family announced that he was retiring because he had been diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder typically caused by damage to the area of the brain that controls language expression and comprehension.[66][67] The Golden Raspberry Awards retracted its Willis category, deeming it inappropriate to give a Razzie to someone whose performance was affected by a medical condition.[68] At the time of his retirement, Willis had completed 11 films awaiting release.[66][69][70]
On February 16, 2023, Willis's family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.[71] According to Gregg Day, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, the symptoms include difficulties with language and comprehension, and misinterpretation of instructions.[72] In a statement, the family said that Willis's condition had progressed and that "challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease".[73] They expressed hope that media attention on Willis would raise awareness about the disease.[74]
Cyberspace CGI scenes from Lawnmower Man (1992)
Keep in mind this was over 30 years ago. The very first Doom was was still a year away, there were no cell phones, and the internet was still something that only geeks knew anything about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film)
Looks like it's available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqluXcZ9RyU but you've got to enable DRM (which I think forces you to watch ads? I never watch those, personally.)
I think this movie wasn't very popular because it came across as pro-gun, and this was a year into the first Trump administration. If you think of it in the same terms as the Die Hard movies, though, it's actually pretty good, and it was possibly Bruce Willis' last good role before he became incapacitated due to old age. This is a reboot of a 1974 Bronson film with this title, and it does a pretty good job of keeping the same theme, but updating it. The always-entertaining Vincent D'Onofrio plays a supporting role.
Death Wish (2018 1080p) - Bruce Willis, MAY BE REMOVED SOON
Was uploaded yesterday, aspect ratio is a little weird, might be removed in a day or two.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHzdY9EAB6Y
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Wish_(2018_film)
Relevant Key & Peele: That One Friend Who Makes Everything Awkward.
Watched this last night. Didn't realize it was based on a novel by Robert Harris, I'm a big fan of his Ancient Rome novels.
A couple related movies on youtube:
- Inside the Third Reich: Rutger Hauer as a nazi again, this time as the architect Speer, based on Speer's autobiography (which was arguably pretty self-serving) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWMzzzoBtzs
- Speer and Hitler: the German version of Inside the Third Reich, I think, haven't seen it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cReqkNG-r0U
- Die Wanseekonferenz: a re-enactment of the "final solution" conference mentioned in this movie. Horrifying, though they're just sitting around a table most the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSNN5mnI2g
I don't really like posting Nazi movies but apparently it's something we need to start thinking about again.
So Maggie Smith (RIP) was best known these days as one of those Harry Potter wizard teachers and as that old lady in Downton Abby and a bunch of roles like that. But she played many roles and won several awards before that. For this movie, she won an Oscar for Best Actress.
But I think this is one of those movies that tells you a lot about that period of time. It gets complicated bc it's supposed to take place during the 1930s and it was filmed in the late 60s. Also, the movie is based on a play which was based on a book and apparently the movie takes more after the play than the book, which are all different from each other... And there seems to be some kind of British irony thing going on here that I have a hard time tracking.
Like, there's this old lady who says she's in her prime. And she acts like a free spirit but she's literally a fascist who admires Mussolini and Franco. And her best pal is an artist who grooms and molests the middle- and high-school aged girls under her care. See, the thing about irony is that it relies on the communicating parties having a common ground of understanding that can be relied on to differentiate from the ironic statement. So I'm constantly trying to decide: they're saying it's a BAD thing to be a fascist or a child abuser... right? Or are they playing a straight "teacher who changed my life" story, like Dead Poets Society later did, or Goodbye Mr Chips did back in the day? Both of the morally questionable characters kind of have a comeuppance... but not really?
Anyway, if you're a highschooler or an undergrad looking for a movie to write a term paper on, this is a great candidate.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969 360p) - Maggie Smith early role
> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her own stage play, which was in turn based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Muriel Spark. The film stars Maggie Smith in the title role as an unrestrained teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(film)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfuDRmC5qA
I think this might have region-blocking, but I'm not sure of the regions.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spain-friars-killed-injured-monastery/
https://elpais.com/espana/2024-11-10/detenido-el-autor-del-ataque-que-dejo-a-siete-monjes-heridos-en-el-monasterio-de-gilet.html - El País is considered a newspaper of record, the automated translation isn't too bad.
Obviously a gold border Test Print Blastoise.
We will be using Amazon dollars by then. Prices never go up... in Amazon dollars!
Couldna said it better myself.
Luckily I got a chance to watch it a couple days ago before they all disappeared. I'd forgotten how formulaic Elvis movies are, the last time I saw one was like 20 years ago. It was a lot of fun though. When he sang "Only Fools Rush In" to his girlfriend in the presence of her grandma, it was kind of touching. There were definitely parts that were a product of their era, though.
Alas! A lot of full movies on dailymotion have been deleted... Including this one...
THIS IS KUNG FU (1983 Documentary)
Old documentary about kung fu, displaying the various types of wushu forms. Doesn't have a plot, is only 480p, and I think it was meant to be some kind of national propaganda film. But it is fascinating to see the different styles by expert practitioners in natural settings. A young Jet Li shows up at 19:10.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4mc4H0xIQ
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201255/
They didn’t lose the election for Harris.
Right... I don't think there are enough Arab- and Muslim-Americans in PA to swing it, and she needed that to win the election, even if she had won MI. I suspect it was her failed messaging on the economy that made the difference. But we don't have final numbers yet so it's hard to tell.
The article is a lot more nuanced than the headline. Arab- and Muslim-Americans knew that neither candidate cared about them, and the article explains various ways that affected their thinking.
Just watched this movie; it's solid. Willie Nelson and Jim Belushi co-star! Not familiar with Tangerine Dream, but their soundtrack is far out, gives the movie a Blade Runner feel. (though Blade Runner came afterwards...)
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Unpopular opinion: Kamala was a solid candidate.
Biden was headed to a humiliating defeat. Another couple debates, and maybe he loses NY and CA and we have a Dukakis- or Mondale-level annhilation. Kamala stepped in and ran a solid campaign on very short notice. Trump didn't even have time to come up with a good nickname for her! She kicked his ass in their only debate, and he was literally too scared to do it again.
In the end, she lost by a couple hundred thousand votes in 3 states. She was wrong about Gaza and the economy, but PA, MI, and WI are credibly winnable in future elections. Kamala was not a garbage candidate.
banned me from the store “for life”
Awesome! I hope you refused to honor it unless he put a poster on the front door with a picture of you and a ghostbusters-style "no" sign around it.
Hmmm... "A Passage to India" takes place during the Raj (which is when the Crown took over from the East India Company) but a lot of the attitudes and issues are the same
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087892/
- the novel on Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221
Similarly, "Conduct Unbecoming" takes place right after the Crown takeover. But hey, it's free on youtube:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gzE8HkRrz0
- description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduct_Unbecoming_(1975_film)
Finally, you could look here:
It's like calling tech support and having them say "works for me! try reading up on the problem" and hanging up.
The Football Factory (2004 720p) - London hooliganism
> Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer) is a member of a violent Chelsea hooligan firm. His friends and fellow hooligans include Tommy's best friend Rod King (Neil Maskell), the hot-tempered Billy Bright (Frank Harper), and impulsive younger members Zeberdee (Roland Manookian) and Raf (Calum MacNab). Tommy spends his days drinking, using drugs, womanising and fighting, much to the disappointment of his grandfather Bill Farrell (Dudley Sutton), a pensioner and veteran who plans to move to Australia with his best friend Albert (John Junkin).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Football_Factory_(film)
> There's nothing different about me. I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job, who lives for the weekend. Casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily cut drugs. And occasionally kicking fuck out of someone. > > What else are you gonna do on a Saturday? Are you gonna sit in some poxy office with a cunt for a boss telling you what to do as you count your pennies trying to make ends meet in a country that's sinking into strikes and wars and at the end of the day you go home to your cosy little flat in 'nowheresville' and pull your IKEA curtains shut to hide from the big bad world and pretend it's not happening? Sit in your fuckin' armchair wankin' off to Pop Idols? Then try and avoid your wife's gaze as you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage? Then go and spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines and brasses? Or are you gonna stand up and be counted, make a difference and feel the rush? > > Just for once say "fuck it". I'm coiled up like a spring and I'm ready to burst and wanking ain't doing it anymore. I need violence to make me feel I'm still alive. Fuck all that for a laugh! I know what I'd rather do. Tottenham away, love it!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcwUdxInJ1E - the link from above (optional Turkish subtitles)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_tocRHxjZo - another link (optional Turkish subtitles)
L'Ange du foyer ou Le Triomphe du surréalisme (1937) - Max Ernst
Variously translated as "The Angel of Hearth and Home" or "The Fireside Angel", subtitled: "The Triumph of Surrealism."
> Ernst painted The Triumph of Surrealism shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. In this conflict, Spanish fascist leaders were supported by Germany and Italy in their victory. Ernst's goal was to depict the chaos that he saw spreading over Europe and the ruin that fascism brings to countries. > > ... > > retitled by Ernst in 1938 as The Triumph of Surrealism, "a despairing reference to the fact that the surrealists with their Communist ideas had been unable to do anything to resist fascism."
https://www.max-ernst.com/the-triumph-of-surrealism.jsp
The Last Judgment - detail of a damned man (1541) - Michaelangelo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo)
Kill or Be Killed (1976 2160p) - karate b-movie
This is a pretty horrible movie in terms of acting, plot, realism, special effects, etc. The one redeeming value is the following. Apparently it was made with the support of the local chapter of the Japan Karate Association, a "traditional" shotokan karate organization known for the rigor and quality-control of its training. So every once in a while you'll see people doing karate moves that clearly demonstrate they've spent years of practice on them.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14991177 >> A famous martial artist, Steve Hunt, travels to the desert for what he thinks is an Olympic-style competition. The competition turns out to be a trap set by Baron von Rudloff, an ex-Nazi general who is still bitter over the humiliating defeat of his martial arts team > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_or_Be_Killed_(1976_film) > > It has a sequel, you know.... > - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHFcQlOiM0 - this film, "Kill or Be Killed" > - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hwo2Cu6Sg - the sequel, "Kill and Kill Again" >
Kill or Be Killed (1976 2160p) - karate b-movie
> A famous martial artist, Steve Hunt, travels to the desert for what he thinks is an Olympic-style competition. The competition turns out to be a trap set by Baron von Rudloff, an ex-Nazi general who is still bitter over the humiliating defeat of his martial arts team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_or_Be_Killed_(1976_film)
It has a sequel, you know....
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHFcQlOiM0 - this film, "Kill or Be Killed"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hwo2Cu6Sg - the sequel, "Kill and Kill Again"
The Course of Empire: Destruction (1836) - Thomas Cole
See higher-res versions on Wikipedia.
> No. 4.– The picture represents the Vicious State, or State of Destruction. Ages may have passed since the scene of glory – though the decline of nations is generally more rapid than their rise. Luxury has weakened and debased. A savage enemy has entered the city. A fierce tempest is raging. Walls and colonnades have been thrown down. Temples and palaces are burning. An arch of the bridge, over which the triumphal procession was passing in the former scene, has been battered down, and the broken pillars, and ruins of war engines, and the temporary bridge that has been thrown over, indicate that this has been the scene of fierce contention. Now there is a mingled multitude battling on the narrow bridge, whose insecurity makes the conflict doubly fearful. Horses and men are precipitated into the foaming waters beneath; war galleys are contending: one vessel is in flames, and another is sinking beneath the prow of a superior foe. In the more distant part of the harbor, the contending vessels are dashed by the furious waves, and some are burning. Along the battlements, among the ruined Caryatides, the contention is fierce; and the combatants fight amid the smoke and flame of prostrate edifices. In the fore-ground are several dead and dying; some bodies have fallen in the basin of a fountain, tinging the waters with their blood. A female is seen sitting in mute despair over the dead body of her son, and a young woman is escaping from the ruffian grasp of a soldier, by leaping over the battlement; another soldier drags a woman by the hair down the steps that form part of the pedestal of a mutilated colossal statue, whose shattered head lies on the pavement below. A barbarous and destroying enemy conquers and sacks the city. Description of this picture is perhaps needless; carnage and destruction are its elements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)
The Whole Wide World (1996 2160p) - Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, about the Conan the Barbarian author
> The Whole Wide World is a 1996 American independent biographical film produced and directed by Dan Ireland in his directorial debut. It depicts the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio) and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis (Renée Zellweger).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Wide_World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIQr7pLDEM
IN TIME (2011)
Not a GREAT movie, but I think it's fun, and the idea is solid.
"the truth is, there's more than enough. no-one has to die before their time."
cross-posted from [email protected]
> In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol. > > Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star as inhabitants of a society that uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency, with each individual possessing a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live. Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki, and Alex Pettyfer also star. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time > > !the poster >
Tequila Sunrise (1988 720p) - Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell
This is a totally 80s movie. It's got cocaine, beaches, cops dressed in suits with their hair slicked back, and sex in the hot tub with a sax solo playing. I thought it was all too cheesy, but the youtube comments are full of people talking like it's the best movie ever. Anyway, it's got three of the biggest stars of the period, as well as a very entertaining Raul Julia in a supporting role, so if you're in the mood for something 80s, go for it.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjRKdaiTrQo
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_Sunrise_(film)
Memory (2024 720p) Liam Neeson
> Memory is a 2022 American action thriller film starring Liam Neeson as a hitman with early dementia who must go on the run after declining a contract on a young girl. ... Memory was theatrically released in the United States on April 29, 2022 by Open Road Films, and received mostly negative reviews from critics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_(2022_film)
Yeah it's not that great of a movie, but if you're a Liam Neeson fan you might want to watch it.
It was only uploaded yesterday, so it might be taken down pretty soon! EDIT: Looks like it was removed already...
MACHINE SAKUGA - clips of intricate machines
About half of these are cyberpunk, most of the rest are kinda steampunk I guess. The music is sorta weak so just listen to some synthwave instead lel.
> When, at an important moment in the story of an anime, the quality of the animation improves drastically to make more impact or to be more dramatic or memorable, you can say that this moment is sakuga or has sakuga.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sakuga
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009 1080p) - Nicholas Cage, Werner Herzog
There've been a couple major sequels and re-makes that have bombed recently, namely Joker and The Crow, and so this leads to the question: how do you successfully follow up a movie that seems like it could have no sequel?
Here's the answer. The original 1992 Bad Lieutenant would seem like it could have no follow-up, but I argue this film succeeds for a couple reasons.
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Good actors. I'm not a huge Nicholas Cage fan, but he does the job here, with his typical somewhat-unhinged burnout persona. Solid backups by people like Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, and even a memorable scene with Fairuza Balk.
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Great director: Werner Herzog. Wikipedia sez: > French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive".
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Low expectations. "Port of Call New Orleans" had relatively modest production budget of 25 mil so the fact that it only made 10 mil domestically was bad, but not a disaster. (I mean it only ran in 24-96 venues total so they weren't expecting much!)
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A story that could stand alone. Apparently Herzog didn't even want to use the "Bad Lieutenant" prefix, and Abel Ferrara was mad about it, and there are no returning characters, so... Thematically there's a parallel though, and I think the movie's richer for that being made explicit in the title.
Anyway, it's not an amazing movie or anything, it gets a bit campy at times, but I'm pretty sure Herzog's doing that on purpose and it's worth watching at least once.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yDkoKoZdXY
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Lieutenant:_Port_of_Call_New_Orleans
RoboCop 1994 TV series episode: The Future of Law Enforcement
The link goes to Episode 1 of the 1994 live action TV series. See this playlist for all 22 episodes of Season 1. There was no Season 2; apparently ratings weren't that good. But it's not that bad, given the limitations of its TV budget.
> RoboCop is a 1994 cyberpunk television series based on the RoboCop franchise. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence of the original film RoboCop and its sequel RoboCop 2 and is more in line with the tone of RoboCop 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(live_action_TV_series)
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015 480p) - Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons
> The film stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy, portrayed by Jeremy Irons. > > ... > > After the film's world premiere, Allan Hunter in Screen Daily found the film to be "a well-heeled, sincere production following the memories of Ramanujan's English mentor and friend ... The film tells such a good story that it is hard to resist. The old-fashioned virtues of a well-told tale and a particularly fine performance from Jeremy Irons should endear the film to that supposedly under-served older demographic who like to turn out for a weekday matinee ... Mathematics plays a key role in the story, but in a way that is entirely accessible, allowing the viewer to comprehend the advances that Ramanujan made and why his legacy remains so important almost a century after his death."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity