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#761 Re: The Garden » Happy New Year 2022 GNRevolution » 227 weeks ago
What happened to Efish?
#762 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 227 weeks ago
70s to 90s. Those guys kept making good movies for a while. Golden Age for directors though, check out this list:
1920s, five names.
Alfred Hitchcok
John Ford
William Wyler
Ozu
Renoir
1930s, two names.
Luis Bunuel
Roberto Rosselini
1940s, seven names.
Akiro Kurosawa
Orson Welles
Ingmar Bergman
Billy Wilder
David Lean
Elia Kazan
John Huston
1950s, four names.
Stanley Kubrick
Federico Fellini
Sidney Lumet
Michaelangelo Antonioni
1960s, twelve names.
Sergio Leone
Tarkovsky
Milos Forman
Jean Luc Godard
Robert Altman
Roman Polanski (molesting bastard)
William Friedkin
Sam Peckinpah
Cassavetes
Sidney Pollack
Mike Nichols
John Frankenheimer
1970s, eighteen names.
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Francis Ford Coppola
David Lynch
Clint Eastwood
John Carpenter
Ridley Scott
Brian De Palma
Werner Herzog
George Lucas
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Demme
Terrence Malick
David Cronenberg
Woody Allen (suspected molesting bastard)
Peter Weir
Paul Verhoeven
Wolfgang Petersen
1980s, eleven names.
Coen Brothers
Robert Zemeckis
James Cameron
Peter Jackson
Tim Burton
Oliver Stone
Michael Mann
Luc Besson
Lars Von Trier
Jim Jarmusch
John McTiernan
1990s, thirteen names.
Quentin Tarantino
David Fincher
PT Anderson
Guillermo Del Toro
Darren Aronofsky
Mel Gibson
Danny Boyle
Sam Mendes
Frank Darabont
Cameron Crowe
M Night Shyamalan
Jean Pierre Jeunet
Alexander Payne
2000s, four names.
Christopher Nolan
Dennis Villenneuve
Wes Anderson
Inarritu
2010s, I think there were a few names but none worth mentioning.
#763 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 227 weeks ago
Been watching lots of crap. So called classic movies.
Maltese Falcon. Saw this years ago and thought it was pretty good for a stone age movie. Now I realize it is actually crap. Some good performances from Bogie and the fat man but the plot is ridiculous and the ending just bad. Golden age of Hollywood my ass.
Dial M For Murder. This one's still pretty good.
Frenzy. Good contrast. Nothing really wrong with the movie, plot is good quality Hitchcock. It just looks bad in that 70s style. Realism doesn't work for Hitchcock.
MASH. Does have some moments, a great cast, but Palme d'Or?
Nashville. Another one. Some people call this movie the greatest of all time and quite frankly I find such a notion absurd. It does have one very good scene with "the song" but other than that it is crap.
Fanny & Alexander. Saw it maybe ten years ago and got nothing out of it. Now with more age I have started to appreciate it a little bit. Mostly the talent of the director which is far superior to anything ever made in my country. Cultural primitives. It's still crap though. Bergman should have written books instead.
#764 Re: The Garden » Happy New Year 2022 GNRevolution » 227 weeks ago
Happy New year! It still feels like 2020.
Well said. When I think about things that happened in 2020 and 2021 I sometimes get confused because the years feel uniquely similar.
#765 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 228 weeks ago
The madness ends when people say NO. It will not end before that happens. Unfortunately we are about to enter the flu season, and given the mildness of last season that could mean a spike this year and then they will have all the justification they need to keep it going another year. And another and another. In any case they will not stop until the people forces them to stop.
They need vaccine passports for their economic shift. That's the end goal of everything. That's what all the people tired of lockdowns are being primed for. If they can get a critical mass of people on that it will be the end of freedom. You can not work, shop, trade or even have access to money without your government passport. Don't take your shot or otherwise being a naughty boy and your pass goes red. Your residential license will be revoked, transportation will be denied, marriage, school, health care, the dentist. Anything they want.
#766 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 228 weeks ago
I compiled a list of actors appearing in top ten box office movies for the year since 1930. Costner's run in the late 80s and early 90s was high on the list. Definitely in the top 3 for hottest run of all time. Dude was on fire appearing in one or more top movies every year. Then after Waterworld he just vanished, never to appear in a top movie as a leading man ever again.
In a sense Dances With Wolves is what set him up for the kill. He had the benefit of working with a great script at the right time and it made him think he was also a great director. Waterworld and the Postman sunk him. Huge budgets squandered on risky ideas. He was done in the business, working at that level, after that. Then he got old and there was no coming back.
A shame really. He was perhaps the last great, classical style movie star. Today the only movie star is Dwayne Johnson. Imagine him leading a JFK or A Perfect World.
#767 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 228 weeks ago
None of that matters. All that matters is HAVE YOU GOT YOUR BOOSTER YET?
Brain waves have shut down in the vast majority of the population. They are only able to do routine tasks and follow simple orders.
#768 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 229 weeks ago
Australia has around 2378 available intensive care beds.
Covid has a hospitalisation rate of around 4%.
We had 5729 new cases today. Thats 300 people that are going to wind up in the hospital at least for a time.
These numbers are small now, but with vaccine coverage waining (in age) and reduced effectiveness against the new variants the growth will be exponential.
It's not going to take a lot of super spread events to fill those left over beds up.
Then you'll see the death rates you're looking for.
2300 beds in a country of 25 million. A rich, first world country. That is pathetic and solely at the hands of the government administration. It is even more pathetic to try and pawn the responsibility over on the population who have been super compliant and good little bees on their part and the government has done nothing but impose restrictions without any empirical data to support them.
Oh we might see a death rate if this charade keeps up, but it certainly won't be due to healthy young people. That's the kind of world they are taking you to.
#769 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 229 weeks ago
Who’s filling the hospital beds and ventilators? Crisis actors?
Are they filled? I've been to the hospital a couple of times the last 2 years when it was supposed to be swamped and there was nothing going on. Never seen it so empty. If there is a problem now it surely has to do with the downscaling of the health services in the West over the last 30 years (economizing them, thanks America), but there is also the issue of firing health workers for not submitting to mandates and people quitting due to overwork. In any case there is no noticeable change in people dying. A little less this year than the last in most countries. It has got nothing to do with lockdowns or vaccines because there are plenty of countries with little or no lockdowns and vaccines.
#770 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Matrix Resurections » 229 weeks ago
Confirms my suspicions unfortunately. At first I was excited to hear about a new Matrix movie, then it really started to grind me that Laurence Fishburne was not asked to participate. Instead they pulled some random, boring looking dude to basically play his character. What? Other new additions were a blue haired girl and some bland agents. This didn't feel like a Matrix production anymore.
