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

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Amulet (2019) is far worse as it is openly satanic and has a demon goddess who inflicts supernatural torment on men who are domestic abusers and rapists. It is Beyond the Pale. It is so vile that it is all one can do to finish it.

What is the punishment? The punished men give birth to demons.

New Mutants is a wretched mess that maligns heterosexuality, strong male characters are neutered and murderers, lesbianism is promoted in underaged teens, males are rapists, Christianity is attacked, women have empowering animal spirits in them,etc.

It is such garbage, I could not finish it, but kept fast forewarding it. It is a trainwreck of wokeness. Imagine sucking dry, everything mythic from a superhero film, and eliminating any likeable characters, and 2 hours of propaganda.

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On the other hand, the Vast of Night (2019) is a fascinating homage to Twilight Zones episodes. It has two young typical Fifties/Sixties style rural older teens who obviously have chemistry, but have not acted on it...yet. UFOs are appearing in their region and they go to investigate. It includes some real life people from UFO history but I won't spoil that.

It is a small budget charming scifi mystery with no definitive conclusion. It wise does not jump to hackneyed answers and explanation but leaves it enigmatic as is perfectly correct about the UFO phenomena.
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Siera McCormick is somebody worth watching. That was quite a performance.

I was dumb and watched this movie last night. It was horrible.

2 wasted hours of my life that I'll never get back.

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The Vast of Night clip

These are very likeable curious innocent characters trying to solve a mystery. They are not just people acting, but are so immersed in the part, that it feels genuine. It is not like a canned seen it all before Hollywood production.

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Thelma (2017) is about a young woman who realizes she has feelings for other women. It is a Norwegian supernatural drama, and doesn't feel woke. As her intense feelings emerge, her psychic powers manifest. In a way, I guess it like their version of Stephen King's Carrie.

It is not a bad film, but an impressive film, and shows a way to film such a tale without it being propaganda.

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Thelma (2017) trailer with English subtitles.

The entire point of Art is to provoke a visceral reaction of such intensity that the artist's vision induces a need to communicate what the viewer felt and so responds themselves creatively. That can be very negative to very positive along that spectrum. Art can be rotten and corrupt or it can be inspiring and sublime. It does not have to be any certain way.

Artists typically feel they are incompetent and detached if no one wants to talk about their creations. This is why artists roll their eyes in an interview when a clueless person wants to know what it means. It does not ultimately matter what it meant to the artists. It matters that it has a personal meaning for the viewers.

If everyone loathes it and can explain why, then the artist utterly failed.

Everything on tv now is Black man and white woman.

If there is a cameo for a white man its like fast food cashier or garbage man.

They really are trying to eliminate whites

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What waste of time

What Hollyweird is historically known for, when at their WORST, is making sterotypical characters. There is a long list of those since Birth of a Nation.

So they feel guilt or pretend that is the case, and now make woke propaganda which are spectacles of reverse discrimination when clueless emotionally stunted white men are penalized so a new Black Adam and White Eve can begin elsewhere.

It was garbage when they made Birth of a Nation (1915)which demonized all black men as rapists of white women, and it is garbage now when the reverse is true in 2020.

Which is why I love Hollywood Doomtaculars like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and even Twister and Armaggedon,-- likeable heteros, men and women, who rise to heroism under pressure. Some love, some humor, and no dogs die.

And they have no pretensions to Great Art.

Did you see Deep Impact? That was not only watchable, but rewatchable.
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I like the scene in Armageddon where one of his drilling crew says, "Come and get Papa Bear!" as he rides off in his motorcycle.
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I would rather watch Primer which costs $7,000 than a Hollywood blockbuster. It does not impress me to spend $100 million minimum to get that spectacle. I'm impressed with something like Time Crimes.
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Timecrimes (2007)
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A guy is in a time loop and keep trying to make everything turn out right.
Budget $2.6 million.

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Time Lapse (2015) has a bunch of friends who find ut a machine rints out photos of the future and tries to use that information, and it screws them up.
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Coherence (2014) has very close friend at a dinner party the night of some meteors and somehow a split of reality occurs as many parallel world are side by side. So they go for a walk, and get all mixed about which reality is theirs. And then some decide to switch realities as they don't like the one they are in. The problem is those versions like that reality so this results in murder.
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Budget 50,000
The actors and crew worked for scale wages.

Primer is that way as well. Two guys unwittingly discover time travel. Then they are sorely tempted to keep going back, but each time they do, they cate carbon copies and those copies interfere with their life.

Then each guy seperately starts experimenting. It is possible the most complicated film ever made.
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People actually made charts trying to track every time the two guys went back and meddled with time.
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Triangle (2009) is a wonderful low budget Melissa George scifi horror film about time travel. She goes on a date on a sailboat. They enter a time loop and get stuck. And each time they discover the same things, and hercharacter keeps trying to solve the puzzle so she can get home.

Very few people saw that film.
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Watching it right now.

I don't think I have ever seen 1 successful space walk
in one single sci-fi movie yet.



OK movie, sorta like it...maybe a tad slow at times.
Nice design on things.
Overall vibe kind of tired, I guess, so far.

Gets 2/5 unless the last few scenes
are very, very good. Seen too much scifi - my plobrem,
not the movie's.

What is it though, with big time movie makers, winter
and getting wet out in the great outdoors?
not a chance in hell.
Not even the Inuits, but OK, I'll buy it for the yarn.

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30 Days of Night is factually incorrect, but is a story about a small town sheriff and his estranged wife Stella. They argued about having kids, so she left, but bth love each other too much to actually get divorced.

So every leaves as a period of darkness is coming in to their tiny Alaskan village. So a handful of people stay behind, most misfits.

Then vampires arrive on a ship and systematically attack everyone. They won't turn anyone and won't leave witnesses, then plan to start a fire to cover up the massacre.

Except Evan and Stella refuse to quit and try save everyone.

ironic since the new earth is reseeded by something that burns coal

cronocrimenes is far superior but that was fairly good and she is actually in hell for murdering her child.

also check out "coherence"

OK...see what you mean now, about the standard political
landscaping etc.

Still a fairly entertaining scifi/horror film.

...and thanks for the other movie tips, posters

Hollyweird used to make descriptive type films. In those, the scriptwriter does a treatment from another's literary work so it translates to the screen, or the writer creates something fresh from scratch. Then the writer collaborates with the actors and directors to flesh out character's inner world, backstory, and bring them to life on the silver screen.

Most often this take the form of the hero's journey,and the hero can be a conquering hero who achieves some herculean task with setbacks and conflict, and ultimately succeeds, or the character is a suffering hero ie they are picked on peers,but realy have potential, and ultimately save the day...which shocks everyone.

Hollywood has always been about propaganda, but earlier demonized minorities and mocked women and this was profitable, so they didn't care. Money is money and brings power, and there were an endless number of actors who wanted fame, so they could exploit those folks.And if people got harmed, raped, became alcoholics or drug addicts, it didn't matter as someone would take their places.

Then Hollywood made prescriptive films as extreme leftist writers were tired of just making money and wanted to describe a leftist paradise that had no semblance of reality, but was wish fulfillment and self-indugent. And they could go on pretending these were descriptive, when everyone knew they were lies.

The main issue with prescriptive films is viewers know what is reality, and so it is jarring and breaks the illusion that is required so viewers engage in the film to suspend disbelief. Then simultaneously the viewers have no resonance with the characters and thus the viewers shrug their shoulders at the conflicts the characters encounter. When that is supposed to elict sympathy and empathy.

This is compounded by the fact that actors went on the interview circuit to market their films, thus needed to be personable, relate life events so viewers would like them and give them a fanbase, and so they would be popular.

And they didn't care anymore, but insulted their fanbase, presuming that adoring fans no longer had brains, and would accept any opinion or actions regardless that the actors' actual beliefs and morals were diametrically opposed to those fan.

The woke philosophy then squashed any buzz for films and a desire by fans to open their wallets and give money to some pretty disgusting actors who actually loathed those fans.

excellently thought out, thank you

Hollyweird could make a film of five indigenous physicians from Tennessee, but it would be totally implausible as less than 1% of medical students solely identify as indigenous.

But woke Hollywood will do weird things just to make prescriptive propaganda.

This is why it breaks the suspension of disbelief.

7% of NASA employees are African American, but mainly 4 astronauts are African American out of 560. This is why it is extremely unlikely that an African American or just an African would lead a mission to a Jupiter moon.

You can make up a script and a good writer can create ways the audience will identify/resonnate/like that character. But it a remote possibility.

Whoo that is so cutting edge. You never see that. Imagine a balck man and a white women being the feature couple for a script!

It probbly will "progress" (see what I did there), to a white woman and a black woman as the last two on Earth and they will repopulate the...oh, I see a problem with this.

In the last year and a half, the BBC has screwed around and inserted ethnic.people in period dramas. It is absurd and woke.

I notced it first with Les Miserables done in the 2019 season with David Oyelowo as the French Inspector Javert. It is jarring.