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[stardustpilgrim]

Probably a couple of months ago now I saw Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It is very good, very different. Won't try to explain, the trailer will give a good idea. I think anybody here would like. There was a few minutes of...certain body-stuff I didn't wholly appreciate, but I got past. (IOW, don't go on a first date). It's way out there.

[stardustpilgrim]

OK, this is what I really came for. I happened to catch this film on cable a few years ago, just caught part of. I would definitely put it in the existential category. After seeing the film I chanced on a book by an Apache. He knew a guy who was the Apache advisor for the film. So it is very authentic Apache, I'd say very rare for a 1960's film. Paul Newman plays John Russell, white man taken by Apache as a boy, raised as an Apache. He came to be in a very real sense Apache. But as an adult he came to know of his biological father. He starts out as Apache, long hair. He learns that his father left him his boarding house, so John Russell gets his hair cut and goes into town to see about what to do. That's the beginning. A bunch of bad guys find out a certain guy on a stagecoach has some money worth robbing him for. John Russell happens to be on the stagecoach, with several men and several women, one who was the caretaker of the boarding house, who John Russell put out of a job. They end up basically in the middle of nowhere desert.

So, basically, the film is what would an Apache do in this situation? Oh, one more aspect, the guy who had the money was a thief also, it was ill-gotten gains. But since seeing it first I've seen it 5-6 more times. I'm not sure you could even find it streaming, I first rented it on DVD, then have seen on TV. But I find it very compelling, Paul Newman is a better actor than he probably got credit for, stoic, here, mostly. My childhood hero Paladin, Richard Boone, plays the head of the gang bad guy. He makes a very good bad guy. Paul Newman is Hombre.



www.google.com/search?q=trailer+Hombre+with+Paul+newman&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS894US894&oq=trailer&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i59j46i67i131i433j0i67i131i433i457j0i402l2j69i61.4882j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_kHTHYrWqOvOeqtsP0t2vwAw13

[someNOTHING!]

Jul 7, 2022 18:40:29 GMT -5 stardustpilgrim said:

Probably a couple of months ago now I saw Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It is very good, very different. Won't try to explain, the trailer will give a good idea. I think anybody here would like. There was a few minutes of...certain body-stuff I didn't wholly appreciate, but I got past. (IOW, don't go on a first date). It's way out there.

I'll have to check it out. I've enjoyed such types of lighter movies to watch the bouncing ball in it in the light of ND.

[zendancer]

Watched "Mully" on Netflix last night. It's an amazing true story, and I can highly recommend it.

[someNOTHING!]

Jul 28, 2022 10:24:53 GMT -5 zendancer said:

Watched "Mully" on Netflix last night. It's an amazing true story, and I can highly recommend it.

I agree. Very impressive characters and story. It expresses the power of transcending the bounds of commonly perceived possibilities and which can be born of faith and surrender.

My only justifiable critique would be that none of it would likely have come to fruition without his amazing wife. Though her own transformation within the story was evident, she was part of the engine and one of the tires hitting the road. Perhaps, it would have added too much complexity to the story in fleshing it out... dunno.

[zendancer]

Jul 28, 2022 10:31:11 GMT -5 someNOTHING! said:

Jul 28, 2022 10:24:53 GMT -5 zendancer said:

Watched "Mully" on Netflix last night. It's an amazing true story, and I can highly recommend it.

I agree. Very impressive characters and story. It expresses the power of transcending the bounds of commonly perceived possibilities and which can be born of faith and surrender.

My only justifiable critique would be that none of it would likely have come to fruition without his amazing wife. Though her own transformation within the story was evident, she was part of the engine and one of the tires hitting the road. Perhaps, it would have added too much complexity to the story in fleshing it out... dunno.

Quite right! It was surprising how the entire family eventually joined the enterprise, but the wife's acceptance of what her husband was doing was indeed remarkable.

[someNOTHING!]

WARNING SPOILER ALERT------------- D u n e

If you like an in-depth book/movie that looks at all things mind, language, deception, treachery, good vs evil -and the many shades of gray-, religion, awareness, transcendence, cross-cultural references, cosmology, ontology, culture, and all the rest, I think it is hard to find one that matches DUNE.

If you've neither read the book, nor seen the movie, DO NOT WATCH the following video. The guy does a great job at breaking down what was left out and/or what was altered, whilst giving some very key detail to the story's woven themes. While watching, you might be amazed at the amount of detail and insights distilled and made available by Frank Herbert. Pretty impressive, imo.

[zendancer]

My wife and I have recently been watching a Korean movie series on Amazon Prime titled "The Extraordinary Attorney Woo" about a lady with both autism and Asperger's. It is a sweet and delightfully-upbeat series, and I can highly recommend it.

[stardustpilgrim]

This is what we need today. I saw The Story of Will Rogers on TV many years ago. Will Rogers Jr. plays his Dad. It is just a fun movie to watch. Will Rogers did rope tricks in Vaudeville. One night something unusual happened, I think maybe something happened to his horse, couldn't come on stage, I don't recall. But they pushed Will out anyway. So he just whirled his rope, and just started talking, off the cuff. He was an immediate hit, had everyone laughing about politics. And so then, his horse was out of a job. And later he had a syndicated column, newspapers all across the country. He did over 50 silent films. A wonderful movie if you ever catch it on TNT or TMC. I couldn't find a film clip, these quotes are excellent. Many you have heard before, you just didn't know where they came from.

[stardustpilgrim]

I saw film yesterday, rented, Tesla. Ethan Hawke is a most excellent Nikola Tesla. We are on the edge of romance, two in fact, I've never known this about Tesla before, the possibility. Anne Morgan, a daughter of JP (Pierpont) Morgan, is central to the film. She is also an 'objective' narrator, from the future looking back. So it's not a straightforward film, from A to B. Tesla died alone, poor, his main occupation of his end years was feeding pigeons in the park. The film explores in a way what could have been. There are surprises, more than once I found myself saying, that didn't happen. And then the narrator says, that didn't happen. Tesla was a genius of immeasurable proportions. Look around, Tesla is responsible for the world you live in more than any other single person. Radio (he told Marconi, dude, you have to ground the system, and Marconi used 17 of Tesla's patents. In the '40's, after Tesla had died, the courts rules that Tesla invented radio, not Marconi. Do you read that in history books? No). The AC motor, which has given us our AC electrical grid transmission system, X-Rays, florescent lights, your TV remote control which eventually turned into your cell phone. All explored in the film, except X-Rays. I knew long ago why Tesla died poor. Westinghouse went to Tesla, told him, if I pay you what we have agreed on in our contract, my attorneys say it will bankrupt me, and there will be no Niagara Falls (no AC generating power plant). So to save his dream of AC electrical power generation and transmission, Tesla tore up the contract on the spot.

But this is the trailer:

[zendancer]

Another good Korean romcom: "Crash Landing On You." After two episodes it's hard to stop watching it. Great love story and deeply emotional. Hollywood could take some lessons from these film makers.

[lolly]

I'm watching a Korean one - Alchemy of Souls. Not a recommendation, but not bad at all.

[lolly]

I just started watching another Korean one on Netflix called 'Hellbound', and I'm loving it. Worth a look.

[lolly]

Sept 20, 2022 3:57:34 GMT -5 lolly said:

I just started watching another Korean one on Netflix called 'Hellbound', and I'm loving it. Worth a look.

Right. It's worth watching to the end... the twisty bit is perfect anticipation for season 2. Hooked.

[Reefs]

This is a really good movie and should be watched in a movie theater. I actually watched it twice (my wife almost dragged me there a third time, hehe). 

To me, the appeal of the movie wasn't the story (which is fairly okay) but the realism (which is amazing). I've seen a lot of reviews coming from actual fighter pilots and even some with top gun rank and they all agreed that this movie is very realistic when it comes to giving the audience a taste of what it is like to fly a fighter jet. 

Very much like the first movie, the cockiness of the pilots is off the charts. But unlike the first movie, the second movie makes it clear to the audience why that is actually so. This is a very demanding job, not just mentally and psychologically, because you never know if you come back alive, but especially physically, the pilots have to work their muscles really hard to just stay conscious, to not pass out during some of these high-g maneuvers. There is actually a g-loc scene in the movie which is pretty scary. The mission they have to fly and what they are training for, which takes up the major part of the movie, involves some maneuvers with extreme g-forces that go beyond what their jets (F-18) are officially built for (+10g). Here's a short clip from the movie which shows a test run of the mission:



Notice how hard Maverick is working his special breathing technique. For context, here's a video that shows a real high-g training session:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsSG07jGKjQ

Respect!