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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 19, 2025 at 8:06 am
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Tulip Fever (2017)
Ha Ha Ha! What a silly movie. It's silly on two fronts: one is the script that looks like a child wrote it and not the "best living playwright in the UK," Tom Stoppard, and the other front is all the serious actors and crew who thought they were making an Oscar contender. So the movie has great production values, and you can see it cost a lot of money, but the plot and the writing are ridiculous. Like Judi Dench's cliché character of a wise and badass nun (the best movie about nuns ever is "Benedetta"). Or Cara Delevingne's character, which is the most glorified cameo in cinema—it's as if someone on the set suddenly noticed Delevingne among the background actors, so they quickly gave her some noticeable spots in a few scenes and even a few lines that no one pays any attention to.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 19, 2025 at 2:15 pm
Cobweb
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An eight-year-old boy tries to investigate the mysterious knocking sounds that are coming from inside the walls of his house, unveiling a dark secret that his sinister parents have kept hidden from him.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 pm
Red White & Royal Blue
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When the feud between the son of the American President and Britain's prince threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations, the two are forced into a staged truce that sparks something deeper.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 pm
Please Baby Please
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Newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual and gender identities.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 19, 2025 at 6:35 pm
(September 19, 2025 at 8:06 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Tulip Fever (2017)
Ha Ha Ha! What a silly movie. It's silly on two fronts: one is the script that looks like a child wrote it and not the "best living playwright in the UK," Tom Stoppard, and the other front is all the serious actors and crew who thought they were making an Oscar contender. So the movie has great production values, and you can see it cost a lot of money, but the plot and the writing are ridiculous. Like Judi Dench's cliché character of a wise and badass nun (the best movie about nuns ever is "Benedetta"). Or Cara Delevingne's character, which is the most glorified cameo in cinema—it's as if someone on the set suddenly noticed Delevingne among the background actors, so they quickly gave her some noticeable spots in a few scenes and even a few lines that no one pays any attention to.
I can only assume this is a sign Cara wasn’t pliable enough for Harvey Weinstein. And no, this isn’t a dark joke on my part; that glorified cameo was her “big reward” for getting sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Anything's Possible
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A delightfully modern Gen Z coming-of-age story that follows Kelsa, a confident high school girl who is trans, as she navigates through senior year.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 pm
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
Another silly movie, but this time about gays and lesbians. The only reason I watched it was because Dean Cain is in it, and I wanted to see how this conservative Christian plays a gay man. And I must say he looks very believable as a gay man. He really got into the role that you get the feeling he would kiss every guy his eyes land on.
But I didn't watch much of the movie because it's pretty stupid. I don't think that even gay people like this movie.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 20, 2025 at 2:58 pm
The newest Superman. Pretty standard superhero fare - not bad, but there are better Superman movies.
Two bright spots: Krypto the superdog, and Nicholas Hoult’s portrayal of Lex Luthor.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 20, 2025 at 6:07 pm
I watched 1980's The Big Red One last night. Pretty crappy schlock, don't understand why it gets good online reviews.
The Omaha Beach landing scene made me think of Spinal Tap's Stonehenge moment, with beach obstacles only 25% of actual size and men towering over them. Cringe-worthy.
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RE: The Last Movie You Watched
September 20, 2025 at 7:14 pm
(September 20, 2025 at 6:07 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I watched 1980's The Big Red One last night. Pretty crappy schlock, don't understand why it gets good online reviews.
The Omaha Beach landing scene made me think of Spinal Tap's Stonehenge moment, with beach obstacles only 25% of actual size and men towering over them. Cringe-worthy.
I’ve never been one to insist on 100% historical accuracy in films, but yeah - there’s a limit. I recall someone bitching about the casting of Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, because Lincoln was 6’4”, but Day-Lewis is only 6’2”.
If the producers had cast an albino Chinese dwarf in the role THAT would be a valid complaint. Otherwise, stfu.
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