The Last Movie You Watched

[*Deidre*]

Attempted to watch ''What Lies Beneath,'' but it was pretty horrible...boring...blah. It's about an alien (human looking) who is dating a single mother, but looks like he's also trying to seduce her daughter? Really weird, and cringey. And stupid. I didn't care to watch further to learn ''what lies beneath.''

[kollyn]

Great Getsby, Harry Potter and etc

[Jackalope]

Back to the Future

[kollyn]

I have interest in Netflix tv shows.  I bought  subscription for it but can not watch Netflix stream online. Thats why I found and read this guide which helped me to unblock access to it. Now I can continue my favourite tv shows.

[Rev. Rye]

This week in the Deep Hurting Project: Atlas Shrugged, Part One. So, I could talk about a lot of things, about how I had my brief Ayn Rand phase in high school and grew out of it when I found out that laissez-faire capitalism doesn't work, or I could talk about how it seems like a planned resucitation of a dying ideology, or how Roger Ebert walked into the first part of the trilogy hoping to tear it a new asshole, but ended up too bored to do so, but what I want to talk about is this little special:



Late one night in 2010, this little special aired on Turner Classic Movies. Why does it exist? Because Warren Beatty owned the rights to Dick Tracy and has long wanted to make a sequel to his 1990 movie. This technically qualified as the bare minimum required to extend his rights to the property. This trilogy was basically the same thing, and it was made by, of all people, a gym equipment magnate who managed to buy the rights for the film, tried and fail to make a proper film adaptation for about twenty years, and made this trilogy to extend the rights. And as bad as this one is, remember, each film got cheaper (each sequel has halved the budget of the previous film), made even less money, and got even worse reviews to the point where I honestly expected Rotten Tomatoes to give the film a negative score. And eventually, he had to resort to Kickstarter to fund the last one (something that went against the philosophy of Ayn Rand).

• Wars in the Middle East have led to oil imports getting cut off? Gee, whose fault is that, right-wingers? You're still gonna go with blaming the left? The same people who've been protesting it for close to twenty years?
  
• Americans aren't taking care of their country? I'm gonna have to say "yes" to that.
  
• Profitable companies can't fire any employees? Not even for reasons like a particular employee is embezzling funds or dipping his pen in the company ink without the consent of said ink?
  
• "What happened to you?" "Who's John Galt?" That makes so much sense.
  
• "I've never felt anything at all. And you can tell by my flat performance that'd no doubt have me replaced even if they didn't decide to change the whole fucking cast every movie." And, just for the record, the same woman played Piper on Orange is the New Black.
  
• They were so cheap they couldn't even afford to get the sun.
  
• Hank Rearden doesn't care about helping the underprivileged. When people accuse him of only wanting to make money, he flat out says that's true. And he's not even supposed to be a bad guy. Not even one who has to learn a lesson about helping other people being important.
  
• Any businessman can only own one business? I think you're going to have to be more specific if you want that law to pass. How are we differentiating businesses from subsidiaries? What's to stop something like, say, Disney, who owns a stupefying market share of our entertainment, from claiming that Fox and Marvel aren't businesses of their own, but subsidiaries of Disney? And how are we defining owning a business? Also, you'd think that there'd be a saner way of breaking up monopolies.
  
• So, the first attempt to adapt Atlas Shrugged to the screen was by producer Albert S. Ruddy (co-creator of Hogan's Heroes and one producer of The Godfather), who said he wanted to focus on the love story. She replied, "That's all it ever was." And, meanwhile, well, you know how The Phantom Menace was one of the most hated Star Wars film because it spent a depressing amount of time on trade negotiations? This movie's only 30 minutes in and it's pretty much all that. Not even the release of a kid racing in a pod or a crypo-Jamaican stereotype llama alien.
  
• Happiness is an illusion from people with superficial emotions? Yeah, I can see that.
  
• You know, there's a shitton of movies that focus on the running of businesses that are actually good, movies like Margin Call, The Wolf of Wall Street, or The Big Short, but what separates them from this piece of shit? Besides the middle one being insane as shit, I mean? Well, it turns out that they let the audience know what the stakes are of what they're doing. We have a confusing opening montage that gave me sensory overload AND stupid shit that would have made me turn off the movie if I didn't commit myself to watching the whole trilogy, and a couple references to some extremely preposterous laws being made. And no reason why these plans for a railroad into Mexico are important, and for all the brouhaha about Rearden Metal and its strength, we have no idea why it's special, or why people want to stop it. Why should we care? Because they were made by the main characters?
  
• Yep, that's exactly why we should care about Rearden Metal and these railroads. Because they belong to the main characters. They explicitly state that this is the reason.
  
• The last center of science on Earth? Fucking Hell, we really went downhill. And somehow, the oil crisis didn't lead to a shitton of focus being put on scientists to try and find some other form of power. But instead, there's only one science center on the entire planet. Well, this looks like we're going to be living in a Threads situation pretty soon.
  
• Also, you'd think someone with a name like Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia would be a lot more handsome and dashing and not what Peter Dinklage would look like if he was made up to look like he had normal height.
  
• Why is the run of this train the pod race of this movie? You say it's breaking speed records, but it doesn't look any faster than any other train ride. You know it's bad when the autistic guy doesn't give a shit about the trains.
  
• Wow. A fire breaking out in an oil field in Colorado. Man, there has to be a better movie in that scene.
  
• So, a moratorium on railroad lines, and steel being distributed to the needs of the people, and a tax on the state of Colorado? What are those even supposed to mean?
  
• And, fun fact, when I tried to rewind to make sense of that speech, the first thing I saw was something from the IMDb page for the film. Specifically the goofs page somehow.
  

And despite Amazon's autoplay redirecting me to Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella for whatever reason, next week, I'll be back and taking on Part Two of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy.

[Angrboda]

No Country For Old Men.

[Brian37]

"On The Basis Of Sex" about the "Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg".

[Goosebump]

The thought it was a shit show but turned out to be exaclty what you'd expect: Thunder Force on Netflix.

[Silver]

The thought it was a shit show but turned out to be exaclty what you'd expect: Thunder Force on Netflix.

IMDB ratings. Usually, anything below a 6.0 is not worth watching.

[Goosebump]

Critic websites are FOS. Look at Rotten Tomatoes. The "Babadook" scores higher than many beloved tails. The "Legend of the Mountain" is the "BEST" according to RottenTs. I'd never see a move based on what they say.

Some are full of shit and paid off. That much is clear in the online, take your pick, form any rating to the next, find it nonsense. But some actually care, they work, they do the work, the put in the time to be real and human about how they saw the movie... do you even have the time to put in the time to see a movie like that?

I don't, got bill to pay. So see it how you want but shit ain't the same between classes and some of this sites classes are clearly "happy" with their income stream and some of use are begging to have one.

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Should start a channel about economics.

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Sorry to have bothered your channel with being poor.