The Last Movie You Watched

[Fake Messiah]

New documentary about Oliver Sacks. He really had parents who believed in him and groomed him to be a doctor, like his mom, who was a gynecologist, would bring home stillborn-deformed fetuses for him to dissect when he was 10 years old.

[johnnyy]

I rewatched The Ruins (2008) a few weeks back and he was one of the leads.

[johnnyy]

Cheers, I'll check 'em out. I may have seen Mother! - though the others most likely not.

[Rev. Rye]

Cheers, I'll check 'em out. I may have seen Mother! - though the others most likely not.

If you’ve seen Mother, I highly doubt you’d have forgotten it so easily. Or maybe you’ve seen a lot of movies built around blatant Biblical allegories and infant cannibalism.

[Brian37]

Last night I watched "The Last Picture Show"

[Rev. Rye]

This week in the Deep Hurting Project: Atlas Shrugged, Part II. So, the first film was basically just the trade negotiations from The Phantom Menace with all the comic relief replaced by sociopaths we're supposed to root for because Objectivism, with the occasional side order of preposterous proposed laws, and very rarely, something actually happening. So, what changes when they halve the budget and replace the entire cast? Only one way to find out...

• Railroads have become the only reliable means of transport. You know, you'd think you'd have brought that up earlier in the film. And you immediately start the movie with a dogfight. I'm not sure if this is worthy of a Richie Cusack, since the one person we see is obscenely rich.
  
• That said, I reckon it's nice to actually see something happen at the start and not just some doctored news footage.
  
• Static electricity from the air? I had to check this up, and it turns out there actually is some research into doing exactly that.
  
• Somehow, the production values look better with half the budget in this film than the first.
  
• Jason Beghe? What the fuck was he doing here? Did not being under the watchful eye of David Miscaviage and the Lord Xenu reduce him to this shit?
  
• "You're my hero!" Said no Quick-Stop Girl to any Industrialist in recorded history.
  
• Goddammit, that piano concert is making me miss Ravinia.
  
• The State Science Institute is like a State Institute minus the Science?
  
• Is John Galt a man? I mean, dragon man? Or maybe he's just a dragon? At least he'd still be TROGDOOOOORRRRRR!
  
• Taking money from those who produce is a bad thing? I would never have expected Ayn Rand to come up with something so socialistic. 
  
• A mine collapse happened tomorrow?
  
• Well, this scene about the minefield that is marriage was boring as Hell. Maybe if it's accompanied by shots of an actual mining disaster. Also, I just read Gyo and it's reminding me of one of the bonus stories included in the VIZ hardback edition, the one with the human-shaped holes that compel people to crawl inside them and never come out.
  
• It's remarkably refreshing to hear that they used the first quarter of the Westminster Chimes as their doorbell. Nobody ever uses it. Except maybe the composer of the Yes Minister theme song.
  
• And now we get to the meat of why the original book was pretty fucked up: industrialists who come up with something important or popular and destroy it before they let the government get any of it. Even if this means they hurt the market and the rest of the world as a whole. Gee, I wonder if this will become a major running theme for the rest of the series? 
  
• Someone explain to Hank Rearden what Eminent Domain Law is!
  
• And somehow, Hank Rearden refusing to acknowledge the authority of the court and openly acknowledging his view of his job is that of an unrepentant ENRON CEO counts as giving the people a voice,
  
• Not even allowed to quit? No new inventions? You have to spend the same amount of money every year? What the shit kind of law is that? And nobody thinks that shit like this might not actually work?
  
• And that William H. Macy's scrawling a tombstone for his country looks like it'd be in a shitty horror film. 
  
• Gift certificates? How terrifying!
  
• Nationalising trains is the only way to make them run on time?
  
• Goddammit, John Galt sounds like a fucking libertarian snowflake.
  
• You know, what's the point of keeping John Galt in shadow for his final scene when you're just going to recast him in Part III anyway?
  

Overall, this would have benefited greatly from the use of Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe. This might seem random, but there's this blog that redoes scenes from the second half or so of the original novel and adds Cobra Commander as the voice of reason, trying to comprehend how thoroughly blue and orange Ayn Rand's moral systems (as showcased in the novel's characters) really are.

[Angrboda]

[Foxaèr]

A Week Away, because it's a musical.

Nowhere left to go, Will Hawkins finds himself at camp for the first time. His instinct is to run, but he finds a friend, a father figure, and even a girl who awakens his heart. Most of all, he finally finds a home.

Nope, never mind, turned it off after the first song. It's a Christian musical, bleh.

[Reforged]

[vulcanlogician]

The Block Island Sound

It was fun.