“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Was watching A Most Wanted Men, since the algorithm has fed all of phillip seymour movies.

Then rachel mcadams showed up. Go back to about time.  

I can't take her seriously, after notebook and time travelers wife and about time. 

GG

[Nintex]

A Most Wanted Men is very underrated. I think people just wanted some more action(?) but I love it.

Ides of March is another good performance of his that you don't hear about much anymore these days and of course Charlie Wilson's War but that still pops up from time to time in Tom Hanks movie lists.

I also never understood the hate for Mission Impossible II. I guess folks thought he was just a bit too grim and intense for a villain and didn't like to see Tom Cruise groveling at his feet?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

fine ill finish it

[Polident]

Red One

Watched about 15 minutes and fell asleep. Would recommend for those purposes.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I cant watch this movie, wtf

[benji]

[Polident]

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[Potato]

English people will happily pilfer Greek archeological artifacts and refuse to return them, but have no idea about The Odyssey...

[Besticus Maximus]

English people will happily pilfer Greek archeological artifacts and refuse to return them, but have no idea about The Odyssey...

Only private school kids get classics 

[Polident]

The community note lol. A common theme on Twitter is people saying “why didn’t they teach us this in school??” They did! But even if they didn’t, they never had the curiosity to explore for themselves. Now they’re treating it like a superhero comic adaptation because they can’t engage beyond that.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

wheres my recap?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Where do I watch this? 

These are like my two favorite people.

[Nintex]

To be fair, Greek history is not something that is taught in general in Europe.

It's usually the Roman Empire, Colonies, World Wars or the French Revolution or things like that, very little mythical things.
Odyssey is not very well known here.

[Potato]

Not being taught The Odyssey or ancient Greek history in school is no excuse for not knowing about it.

[Besticus Maximus]

Gladiator 2 4/10

Gladiator fucking RULES. I have been maximus decimus meridius twice for Halloween, and I know the speech off by heart, and I am a huge nerd for rome.

HOWEVER

This was rubbish. 

Paul mescal? Totally miscast, I do not see why everyone raves about him, completely unconvincing.

Denzel? What the fuck was going on here? Is he on meth or something? Did he get a new set of teeth that make him twitch and tweak? Terrible performance but you can see that he thinks it's a genius turn.

Plot was particularly bad. None of it made any sense. Rubbish.

Somehow the gladiator bits kept the film trucking along and it did look nice (aside from the CGI baboons at the start).

[NekoFever]

Not being taught The Odyssey or ancient Greek history in school is no excuse for not knowing about it.

Unfortunately school curricula were designed on the assumption that people would be curious about the world and learn about things on their own time.

Besides the point that it is taught in British schools. It’s on the English curriculum for 11-13 year olds.

[Nintex]

Gladiator 2 4/10

Gladiator fucking RULES. I have been maximus decimus meridius twice for Halloween, and I know the speech off by heart, and I am a huge nerd for rome and I love ridley scott and he's from my hometown.

HOWEVER

This was rubbish. 

Paul mescal? Totally miscast, I do not see why everyone raves about him, completely unconvincing.

Denzel? What the fuck was going on here? Is he on meth or something? Did he get a new set of teeth that make him twitch and tweak? Terrible performance but you can see that he thinks it's a genius turn.

Plot was particularly bad. None of it made any sense. Rubbish.

Somehow the gladiator bits kept the film trucking along and it did look nice (aside from the CGI baboons at the start).

I really enjoyed Denzels performance actually. One of the highlights of the film. 

The plot was hit and miss for me. 

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I would've enjoyed it more if the connection to the first film was really just a delusion of the queen to cope with her grief. Which resulted in a string of bad decisions by the rebels for Macrinus to exploit. Would've made it more interesting than him being the son of Maximus after all.

[Nintex]

Not being taught The Odyssey or ancient Greek history in school is no excuse for not knowing about it.

Unfortunately school curricula were designed on the assumption that people would be curious about the world and learn about things on their own time.

Besides the point that it is taught in British schools. It’s on the English curriculum for 11-13 year olds.

If you want to know about History in Europe you really need to study it in your spare time. I think they even wanted to drop it from the general set of subjects. The mostly left wing education system doesn't see history as something to look at with pride or something to learn from in general. They see it as something that should be forgotten and erased from memory or something that offends (colonialism, nationalism, racism, fascism etc.). Even things that you would assume they would want to give attention to like Joanne D'arc are ignored for some reason or another. It's also why everyone is so utterly shocked when an empire like Russia tries to spread its wings because those are things from the past, it can't happen in the present. 

Our new government actually mandates that the Holocaust will be taught in schools again because they dropped it.

There is also a somewhat renewed interest thanks to events like the reconstruction of the Notre Dame, shows like Chernobyl and movies like Oppenheimer but it remains to be seen if it can have a significant impact. On TV whenever the subject comes up, for example in relation to the Ukraine/Russia conflict the hosts usually shut it down quickly: "Oh sorry, we're not here for a history seminar" . And some of those scholars, journalists and novelists had been warning for years to deaf ears that we could ignore history but not escape it.

And finally it creates a very easy opening for Russian agents and other bad people to insert false narratives about history so those that do start looking mostly find bullshit.

[Eric Cartman]

English people will happily pilfer Greek archeological artifacts and refuse to return them, but have no idea about The Odyssey...

I'm not sure what you think the venn diagram of "Literally cannot name a book that wasn't assigned reading at school" and "appreciates the inherent value of museums in preserving cultural artefacts" looks like, but I'm not sure I would agree

[Eric Cartman]

Oh, you mean the sequel to The Iliad?

[Polident]

Red One

Watched about 15 minutes and fell asleep. Would recommend for those purposes.

Update:

This worked two more times, with a diluted effect. Unfortunately, I ended up finishing it last night. The entire movie is one repeated gag. Chris Evans quipping “Santa’s brother? What the what??” and The Rock responding “Krampus. He’s a code black anti-jolly terrorist.” It’s very boring. Think the pitch was Men in Black with holiday gimmicks.

[HardcoreRetro]

The odyssey talk reminded me of this.



Should start rewatching the Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies.


Watched La Haine a while back. Pretty good reprensentation of what growing up in the slums is like. It follows three kids the day after riots in Paris. The three main characters basically feel like people I knew growing up. I feel the people that can't identify with the main characters are people that didn't grow up in the slums.

You had the money to do fun things, we had a brick and a window that could be broken.

I like the people on imdb that dislike the film because it doesn't provide the answers. It doesn't provide answers because the question is still ongoing. I can go to the low income parts of my city and it feels like being home. Nothing has changed.

[Nintex]

The odyssey talk reminded me of this.



Should start rewatching the Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies.


Watched La Haine a while back. Pretty good reprensentation of what growing up in the slums is like. It follows three kids the day after riots in Paris. The three main characters basically feel like people I knew growing up. I feel the people that can't identify with the main characters are people that didn't grow up in the slums.

You had the money to do fun things, we had a brick and a window that could be broken.

I like the people on imdb that dislike the film because it doesn't provide the answers. It doesn't provide answers because the question is still ongoing. I can go to the low income parts of my city and it feels like being home. Nothing has changed.

If you like La Haine, you should also watch City of God / Cidade de Deus about the Brazilian favelas if you haven't seen it.

[Potato]

I second City of God.

[Polident]

Didn’t watch City of God until playing Max Payne 3 and read it and Elite Squad were influential. There’s certainly a lot of leeway for the definition of “influential” when it comes to video games.

[Besticus Maximus]

The return 9/10

About as good as a grounded version of the odyssey could be tbh

Fiennes is incredible as always and the ending was something like what I'd feel if all the evildoers at resetera got banned one afternoon

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Sonic 3 is so much better than the last two years of marvel. 

Like holy shit.

[Potato]

Alien Romulus is on Disney+.

It was a perfectly serviceable Alien movie, which is better than everything since Alien 3, but I was pretty annoyed with the liberties taken with the in-universe logic etc. 

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In particular: 

• It takes no time at all for the Alien to develop in the first victim from embryo to chestburster.
  
• It grows to a full size Alien within minutes. Where did the matter come from for it to grow?

I've seen worse movies and seen much worse Alien movies, but I was a little disappointed overall.

[Besticus Maximus]

Terrifier 3 3/10

Absolute shite