"The Midnight SKY" (boo) and good movies recommended by GLPers

Just watched it. Love sci-fi. Tries to be smart but isn't. 3 out of 10

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
There are 5 World Made By Hand books, all great though the second one has weird parts in it. These are all in the cozy catastrophe genre. Peak oil end up happening and the whole world dissolves into small confederacies. The USAis that way as well.

The novel discusses several locals trying to manage by using old time skills that might have been used in 1860. The last book has some totally crazy California leftists trying a scam to cheat the citizens. I probably have read all of them ten times.

i read the first two, didn;t know there were more.

Many books that are post-apocalyptic are not realistic as the hero fights against overwhelming odds and defeats huge forces. That is silly.

I liked those books. The Going Home books were entertaining, but with the heroes implausibly winning. One Year After and The Final Day, the 2nd and 3rd parts of the Forschen novels were a bunch of foolishness. I still enjoyed reading them.

I didn't like when they ate their dog. Just finished Survivors both seasons---5 stars!

If you still watch Netflix you are part of the problem.

Socialist, pedos

Their agenda bugs me but I like to know what they're up to. And I am not part of the problem

I fell asleep about 35 minutes into it. woke up at the end.

so, basically humanity is down to one black male one white female and one unborn halfie. and they are floating around space looking for a home ?

pretty much, until you add the interesting bits---oh wait--weren't any

You binged watched it! They got robbed as the cast was promised a 3rd season so got screwed as they probably turned down other offers.

The guy who played Tom has appeared in a few American productions.

Zoe Tapper was the one whoplayed Anya. That was a complicated role.

If you like BBC production you might try the Northern Ireland strangler tv series The Fall. That ran 3 seasons and had Gillian Anderson in it. It has very high ratings.

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]

The Living and The Dead is a great UK supernatural series
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Dark is very very complex German time travel series that ran 3 seasons.
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Requiem is a six part BBC supernatural series.
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
For the ladies who like old school romance, Encounter is a fine South Korean drama teary romance about a woman 5-7 older who has never known love as she was in a political marriage, and then meets a younger guy who adores her. That is a fun watch with your spouse recalling how you met and courtship.

I'll second The Living and the Dead - unexpected and different.

Just watched "Sweet Home", Korean post-apocalyptic 10-ep series with no zombies. English dub is hidden in the subtitles menu. Good one.

I liked The Barrier and Black Spot, also both on Netflex.

I watched it. Poor script.

The Flu (2013) is about illegal aliens who sneak into South Korea and the fku kills all but one. He ends up infecting the entire nation and it is catastrophic. It is a very well done contagion film.
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
[link to m.youtube.com (secure)]

NEVER FORGET DO NOT EVER FORGET

[link to www.cbsnews.com (secure)]

Pretty much everything on Netflix is missing something. I cancelled over the pedo movies and docs. Never going back.

didnt finish Solaris (2002)

I'm surprised you assumed that. Clooney has developed quite a reputation for being in almost nothing but stinkers of movies.

He hangs on, however, because of his leftwing politics and inside show-biz connections in general.

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
Special Bulletin (1983) is a tv movie made to appear like a news broadcast where a nuclear bomb is in the hands of terrorists in Charleston, South Carolina. It was very well done.

Similarly, there was a tv film where meteors were in coming and made like a news broadcast. There is a big twist so don't read anything about it. It's called Without Warning (1994).
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
I included the link as some people just have to know. But either one is better not knowing anything.

Virtue-signalling leftism isn't as big - so far - in East Asia as it is in the West, so entertainment there may be spared some of the bullshit messaging of movies/TV shows emanating from the US and Europe.

I read that even some of the increasing sleaziness of US movies has to be toned down for the marketplace of hard-left PCC China.

When the ultra-liberals of Beijing think the liberals of Hollywood have gone too far, that's when you know "progressivism" in the West has gone full retard.

Didn't the idiots of the Academy Awards say that movies in order to be nominated must now contain X percentage of non-white actors, non-mainstream people, GLBTers, etc?

Fully woke, fully retard, fully libtard.

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
Strayed (2003) is a fine WW2 film in which you get to witness how devastating it was when the French were fleeing as the Germans advanced and got straffed and massacred. It really shows how a a few people survive in a deserted region as everything has been abandoned. Everything is peaceful for a short time.

One Hundred Mornings (2009)is a grim Irish film in which two naive couples think since they have supplies, that this will last, and despute having no firearms, they think they will manage. WRONG.
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]

If you have a resistent spouse who does not think you need to prepare, this is the film which will have the VOLUNTEER to get supplies. It freaks wives out.

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
Time of the Wolf (2003) has a very foolish French family who retreat to a cabin as there is a massive water pollution issue in the cities and it is spreading elsewhere and their hasty plans immediately go awry.Highly recommended. You seldom see a post-apocalyptic film where kids are involved and they don't comprehend how serious the danger is and they make horrible mistakes and so the mom is desperately trying to keep them alive.

There's a bunch of very good films, so why support this Hollywood nonsense?

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
Apparitions is a 6 part miniseries made in the UK about dealing with demons. It has some genuinely frightening scenes.

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
Millennium ran in the US from 1996-1999 and in 67 episodes. It features the end of the world told in 45 minute stories that were comprehensively linked. Some really supernatural/demonic characters show up like Lucy Butler. It is a lot f episodes, but it is worth binge watching.

yes and yes

AC ..792--i really appreciate your insights and recommendations. If you would like to create an unpaid account, I would upgrade it so we could pm. If you would rather stay anonymous, I respect that.

I tried some of your suggestions, which didn't work for me, as I think I am a bit more lowbrow. But boy did I love Survivors. The Living and the Dead was too dark for my taste. And I ordered the last two books in World Made By Hand, which I had missed, to my chagrin.

Was forced to take "film" in h.s and college and frankly loathed all the icons--Antonioni, Metropolis etc. Satyricon sent me into a deep depression, and then when friends raved about it, I felt really isolated. Guilty confession--I didn't even like Ingmar Bergman.

Usually loathe subtitles. Love Scottish flicks and most of BBC. Have watched the entire X-Files series four times. Miss Downton Abbey a lot. Prefer the Magnificent Seven to the Seventh Samurai. Like I said, a bit lowbrow.

My favorites are Doomtainment in which there are bright spots and the dog always survives.

And my favorite movie of all time is Hitchcock's Notorious.

Last Edited by humbird on 12/27/2020 01:53 PM

No, you just like American films. Anyone who likes Hitchcock's Notorious in not lowbrow.

I hope you like Stake Land. That isn't for rocket scientists.

There is zero benefit to have an account or even to always be the same AC as in Opera facilitates web browsing anonymously for 360 million, the AC#s change all the time.

Youmght like Here Alone. That is an independent zombie film where a lady is stuck by herself and slowly the story reveals she began as a wife and mom. She helps a father and his daughter try to survive. Few people have seen it. Lucy Walters plays the protagonist and does a fine job.
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Lunapolis (2010) is a great time travel film, but contains doom as government operatives keep changing the timeline. It was filmed as a student project.
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]
Fortitude is a mysterious BBC horror/mystery series about strange events taking place in Svalbard. It was very well done with a curious ending.

Spoiler alert.

Clooneys character has no impact on the movie.

If he wasn't there, the message would have still been received by the crew about the evacuation of Earth. They would have still taken one of the crafts, and Iris and the Captain would have still turned around.

I've seen worse on Netflix.