The Last Movie You Watched

[WinterHold]

Which is...?

Boru

I haven’t seen a good one yet.

What about Pulp Fiction!

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Which is...?

Boru

I haven’t seen a good one yet.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I just watched the Hitcher with poor old Rutger Hauer.
I was in grade 10 when I first saw it and it blew me away.
Still a good movie.

Watched Ladyhawke  late yesterday.  Hauer's best, I think.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

I just watched the Hitcher with poor old Rutger Hauer.
I was in grade 10 when I first saw it and it blew me away.
Still a good movie.

Watched Ladyhawke  late yesterday.  Hauer's best, I think.

Boru

Love Ladyhawke.  

[The Valkyrie]

I just watched the Hitcher with poor old Rutger Hauer.
I was in grade 10 when I first saw it and it blew me away.
Still a good movie.

Watched Ladyhawke  late yesterday.  Hauer's best, I think.

Boru

One of, certainly.

He excelled in Escape from Sobibor as well.

Was also great in Blind Fury.

[Rev. Rye]

This week in the Deep Hurting Project: The Undefeated, the last fake documentary to make it into the Project. It's basically a documentary about Sarah Palin. Yes, they named a documentary about someone whose biggest claim to fame is being the vice-presidential also-ran in 2008 "The Undefeated." 





And full disclosure: this has to be the least coherent documentary I've ever seen.

• The first few minutes are devoted to the hostile media reception towards Sarah Palin with the presumed assumption that it's all unfair. While ten years on, you start to see the misogynistic tropes in quite a bit of it, A) since she's part of a party that's devoted the past 50 years or so to trying to prop up the old-fashioned values that reinforce those misogynistic attitudes, it's kind of hypocritical, and B) Well, Republicans have been so virulent towards Barack Obama that they managed to give open white supremacists unprecedented levels of popularity SOLELY BECAUSE HE WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, complaining about people comparing about Sarah Palin is profoundly hypocritical (to be fair, that rise in white supremacy happened after this film premiered in 2011.)
  
• "By Your Fruits Shall Ye Know Them." (My #3 favourite film, Night of the Hunter starts with Lillian Gish using this quote from The Sermon on the Mount to use as a jumping-off point to start off the plot. And this movie does the same.)
  
• And also, the opening titles, well, it's just a montage with a poor-quality audio track of what appears to be a rough home-recorded demo of a hymn.
  
• And then when the movie proper starts, it's just a long story about Sarah Palin (apparently from the audiobook of Going Rogue) talking about how the Exxon Valdez crash prompted her to get into politics. And the major question in my mind: why isn't Sarah Palin actually being interviewed here? It's not like this is one of those documentaries where they go into detail about the problematic nature of the person in question. It's a borderline hagiography, so there's no reason she shouldn't be involved. And it's not like she's too busy; she resigned as governor in 2009, and she was also working a bit on Sarah Palin's Alaska. Could she really not find the time to work on her own fucking hagiography?
  
• And then, it spends several minutes as an informercial for Alaska, with  bunch of people talking about how they came there and how much they've grown to love it. And of course, it gets back to Sarah Palin's story about her early years.
  
• Well, it's not like it's Vaxxed or Hilary's America or Death of a Nation where I'm actually familiar with the subject at hand and can readily debunk the bullshit, I'm not particularly well-versed on Alaskan politics, and am thus not able to burst the narrative Steve Bannon is trying to showcase. I suspect they're fucking up the truth, but I can't be certain. 
  
• Don't worry, Sarah, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington isn't that corny. It's actually a bit more cynical than one tends to give Frank Capra credit for. Bear in mind, the one thing that kept the big filibuster from being a total failure is the fact that Claude Rains has a sudden attack of conscience and decides to confirm it all just after attempting suicide in the Capitol. If not for that, as much as the people want to rally around him, the Taylor Machine ended up being big enough that they could easily squelch all opposition and it's only because of a deus ex machina that there's even a happy ending and Jimmy Stewart's big filibuster even accomplished anything other than wasting 28 hours of the Senate's time, blowing out his vocal cords, and getting expelled from the senate.
  

[paulpablo]

I went to go watch the lion king. It's basically the same film but it is crazy how realistic the animation has got.

[Rev. Rye]

SThis week in The Deep Hurting Project is The Omega Code. Honestly, as far as movies about the Antichrist that are clearly following the Left Behind narrative, it's actually... fine. The Apocalypse tetralogy is objectively worse made, and the popularity of the Left Behind series may make them more harmful, but overall, it looks like a spy movie or a thriller that was made for basic cable in the late Nineties. And despite its using The Bible Code as a major plot point, it's actually NOT preachy about its message. That said, it's actually remarkably nondescript. The Head of the EU becoming world dictator plot was done better, and even a scene where Casper Van Dien's being chased by a fucking demonic truck was done better in C Me Dance, although, I have to admit, that was funny. I actually remembered watching it before, back in the days when the library still had VHS tapes, but the one scene I rememebered was a scene where Casper Van Dien's character is being introduced on a talk show and there's so much crazy shit in it that I just have to lay it out:

• He's apparently a self-help guru who claims to use the Bible Code to help people's lives, although, even from what I've read, that's not even close to what The Bible Code is supposed to be about. It's claims that the Bible had messages that pointed to future events hidden in the text that can be gleamed when the text is arranged in a totally arbitrary way specifically to claim the Bible foretold it, even though the same process could also be done with Moby-Dick
  
  
  
• Look, you can either be Tony Robbins or Bart D. Ehrman. You can't be both.
  
• How the fuck is the Bible is a holographic computer program? 
  
• No, Isaac Newton did not work on the Bible Code for the last ten years of his life. Indeed, his religious work is more focused on a literal interpretation of scripture.
  
• Of course he lost his faith in God because his mother died. Of course.
  
• Using the Bible Code to help turn people into God? What the fuck is that even supposed to mean?
  

Sadly, the rest of the movie isn't anywhere near this fascinatingly fucked up. That said, there is one big redeeming quality: Michael York's performance as the Antichrist. In his subtler moments, he sounds like he's channeling James Mason, and in his broader moments, he's so hammy you don't give a shit that the rest of the film is kinda dull. And, in other series, when the diplomat-turned-Antichrist comes out as being some kind of God, people just seem to accept it, more or less because the author's interpretation of the Book of Revelation demands it. Here, though, when he claims to be God, the reaction is a lot more tepid. Not quite the level of rejection that many of them would expect, especially in Jerusalem, but still far more than a lot of other series. Thank Jah for small mercies.

Surprisingly, despite this making the So Bad It's Horrible list, this film, the worst take on this basic plot I've ever seen, did not make it (probably since, because it's only 54 minutes and seems to be mostly made of stock footage of Apocalypse combined with new footage that makes it even stupider, it may not count as a movie.):

[veoli]

Interstellar 7/10

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Interstellar 7/10

I had to watch that one with the subtitles on. Still didn't make any sense.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Re-watched the entire Dark Knight Trilogy.  These are so good that someone should adapt them to comic book form.

Boru