The Last Movie You Watched

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After being inspired by a water droplet on the leaf of my dwarf water lettuce:

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See the resemblance?

What's a dwarf water lettuce?

[Clueless Morgan]

It's really zoomed in but yes.

[Silver]

It's really zoomed in but yes.

But what is it?  xD

[Clueless Morgan]

Oooh, oops, read "what" as "that" :p

It's a floating plant in my aquarium



^^-- Not my pic

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The Endless

As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.

[Rev. Rye]

Watching Tower, a documentary about the infamous Charles Whitman shooting. It's a fascinating look into those 96 minutes in Austin on 1 August 1966, especially with the decision to have it be part-animated (for re-enactmants of the day itself, because, well, do you think the University of Texas would allow re-enactments of Charles Whitman shooting people? In a country where mass shootings have been on the rise? For a low-budget documentary that needed Kickstarter funding?)

The one area I thought was lacking was the fact that the killer's state of mind was largely absent from the proceedings, which is a shame because, for the first time in a long time, looking into Whitman himself, I really feel for him. He was getting more violent in the months prior, he knew there was something seriously wrong with his mental state, it disturbed him greatly and, perhaps because of the mental health taboo and maybe because the state of neurology in 1966 was really bad enough that the doctors couldn't diagnose the pecan-size tumor pressing on his amygdala and the necrotic brain tissue surrounding it while he was alive, he seriously thought that the best option was to go up to a belltower, shoot a bunch of people, and demand that the world confront the mania he was succumbing to and find an answer (through the autopsy he specifically asked for at the end.) If he didn't do such a catastrophic thing, I'd break out the old Brecht quote about "unhappy is the land that needs a hero," but clearly the word "hero" doesn't apply to someone who snipes random teenagers. Naturally, my sympathy evaporates the second he fires the first shot, but it's kind of hard for my Will Graham instincts to not kick in when I read about him, especially when my childhood was shitty enough that I seriously wondered whether or not I was headed down the same road for years.

And Claire Wilson, the student who was critically injured and her eight-months-gestated fetus killed in the womb, and was the first person shot from the belltower itself, actually agrees with me about this instance of crying for the devil.

Through the years he remained largely kind of wooden in my mind. But the longer I've lived and the more I've seen, these precious little children who grow up and do sometimes horrible things, the more I have come to think of him as a very confused, very damaged young man. He died at about 25. There's a picture of him standing at three years old, holding a rifle on either side on the beach. I just think of him when he-he was that three-year-old who would have been sitting in my lap, you know. I'm a teacher. And I love that age --so much promise and so much hope. How can I hate somebody like that? I can't hate him, in spite of the incredible damage that he's done. I can't hate him. I just can't do that... I forgive him, yes. How can I not forgive? I've been forgiven so much.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Texas Tower shooting made it clear to LEOs that armor should be available. The cops had to borrow Brinks' trucks to rescue people shot and bleeding to death under the hot Texas sun.

[Rev. Rye]

Another facet of the Texas Tower shooting that Tower failed to include. Maybe the cops were among the many interviewees who were cut to make the film 82 minutes long.

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Hold The Dark

After the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the parents of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate their son in the Alaskan wilderness.

[The Valkyrie]

Just bought Solo on bluray.

That will be the next movie I watch.