The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP

[Stromboli1]

18 hours ago, CandleVixen said:

@Stromboli1 what do you think?

 

I thought the movie was really good and really did a good job fleshing out the character arcs better besides setting up future movies.

[Stromboli1]

I love this show.

 

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I can really appreciate depiction of Flash being "beyond" space and time in Justice league.  There is "bullet time" in so many films but this one brings it up to whole other level.  

 

More akin to what is known through use of certain drugs, neuroscience, near death experiences, brain scans, and Buddhism.

 

[Stromboli1]

Cord cutting is not a financial saver anymore as more companies are switching to streaming they're taking their own content with them. Now if you want to watch certain shows you need to subscribe to multiple streaming services which end up being as much or more than cable TV.

 

Prediction is the dust settles on the Streaming Wars there will be advertisements on all streaming platforms as there is too much money that could be lost by going advertisement free.

 

In 5 years Streaming platforms will exactly like cable TV was of yesteryear.

 

Funny how it progressed so much to only devolve back into the same system with updated technology.

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On 3/11/2021 at 6:14 PM, Enrico_sw said:

That's what the US movie industry does. The US "elites"  could remember what happened in Liberia. Reproducing a bad scheme is always a bad idea. Breaking the scheme is a better idea. Star Trek in the 1960s-90s understood that, that's why they made great shows on many issues (but now, modern Star Trek is like all the other shows, obsessed with identity and politics)

 

I bookmarked your response but I forgot to respond to it..

 

I am largely in agreement that racial prejudice is an issue.  My main issue with New York news/advertising/media/entertainment is that it has a too great of an obsession with race and gender politics.  It's gone too far and has become intrusive.   But like all trends, this one will pass but not anytime soon.  I don't watch films/TV to get a political education/engage in political indoctrination; I watch them to be entertained and to vicariously experience something new & meaningful.   

 

There is too much money invested in entertainment in superheroes and remakes instead of innovating the form.

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@Enrico_sw  @frenchkiki

 

According to the comments this is Pamela before the surgeries.  Wow! :

 

 

[Stromboli1]

16 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

@Enrico_sw  @frenchkiki

 

According to the comments this is Pamela before the surgeries.  Wow! :

 

The more telling picture is when she was a Labatt Blue Girl.

 

[Stromboli1]

Bill Gates is planning to block out the sun this summer with chalk dust in Kiruna, Sweden, what could go wrong.

 

 

[Stromboli1]

Shall be almost 2 years and nothing has come of the Epstein case that implicates numerous elites and mostly everyone has forgotten about him.

 

What happened in Florida years prior was bullshit too.

[elfstone]

1 hour ago, Stromboli1 said:

Shall be almost 2 years and nothing has come of the Epstein case that implicates numerous elites and mostly everyone has forgotten about him.

 

What else did you expect? With a sitting President at the time who, by all accounts was an abettor and an AG whose father recruited Epstein in the first place.

The whole episode was a classic limited hangout.

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On 3/25/2021 at 6:32 PM, Stromboli1 said:

 

The more telling picture is when she was a Labatt Blue Girl.

 

 

she looked cute.  I had no idea that she looked like that at some point.

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[elfstone]

On 3/20/2021 at 3:51 AM, Matt! said:

 

Got one 3 months ago, and it's been literally perfect in every way. Highly recommended. 

I checked it out too when a friend got it. Display is awesome, much better than what my old ipad is rocking.  Apple have really jacked the prices on their offerings which seems to me to be very hard to justify. I still remember when I got my first ipad for about $500 back in 2013. It had rock solid specs and a design way ahead of its time, despite that price point.

[elfstone]

On 3/20/2021 at 2:21 AM, Enrico_sw said:

 

Yes! You can give Android a shot! It's more flexible, more freedom in the apps and more performance.

 

(Bonus: you don't give money to Tim Cook )

This caught my eye and I'm seriously considering it. Decent price and it also happens to have the minimal bezel design like the new ipads which is the main reason why I want a new tablet in the first place.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/android-tablets/lenovo-tab-series/Lenovo-TB-J706/p/ZZITZTATB0J

[Stromboli1]

On 3/26/2021 at 7:32 AM, elfstone said:

What else did you expect? With a sitting President at the time who, by all accounts was an abettor and an AG whose father recruited Epstein in the first place.

The whole episode was a classic limited hangout.

 

Elites protecting elites.

[elfstone]

12 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:

 

Elites protecting elites.

There was no way the case against him was going to be prosecuted any further without needing to put both the  Clintons on the stand. Inevitable, yet practically impossible.

[Stromboli1]

7 minutes ago, elfstone said:

There was no way the case against him was going to be prosecuted any further without needing to put both the  Clintons on the stand. Inevitable, yet practically impossible.

 

So many elites, entertainment industry people, musicians, royals, politicians, etc are implicated.

 

Wonder what will happen to Maxwell.

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On 3/11/2021 at 6:14 PM, Enrico_sw said:

 

The French elites' relation to war has changed in 1918. We won WW1 and we spent many resources/lives in this war (much more than the US, who came at the very end). People who came back from the war were so mutilated (les gueules cassées) that people became disgusted by it. It was the same in Germany, except that they wanted a revenge (which changed everything). Anyway, that's what led to pacifism (and the defeat in 1940). And pacifism was also in the movie industry. It hasn't changed since.

 

WW2 movies in France were mostly dramatic comedies, or movies focusing on the resistance.  There haven't been many WW2 movies in the past 30 years. Now, French cinema is mostly "cinéma d'auteurs" (very weird stuff with a couple of great exceptions).

 

German culture (and the Holy Roman Empire in general) was great until Kant. After Kant, they have many great individuals (Planck, Nietzsche, Einstein, Arendt, etc.), but the central political culture is too focused on high morality, which is a poison. That's what you have in the US: high morality in the leading class. That can really be a lethal poison.

 

The whole European medieval culture is great (German, France, Italy, Spain - I would even include England ).

 

With French military history regarding WW2 what comes to mind is the Battle of Caen and the French 1st Army 44-45, attached to the US 6th Army Group that fought in Southern France.   The French 1st Army fought with a lot of dash in many nasty battles.   These are extremely fascinating areas of interest that many epic films could come from. 

 

The most hardcore military history enthusiasts are particularly interested with Caen. The battle of Caen- involving thousands of aircraft and tanks in the extremely constricted bocage territory-   is the most epic  , high tech ground battle fought by the Allies if not in their own military history.   

 

The Germanophile French Helion publisher has done a great job in producing very detailed tactical literature regarding the Normandy Campaign.

 

What is crazy to me is that WW2 films in Europe/US have never made a Caen movie-  OPERATIONS EPSOM- JUPITER- CHARNWOOD- GOODWOOD- TOTALIZE- TRACTABLE etc.   These were high tech battles.  My best guess is that it's 1. politically incorrect/problematic 2. too expensive- a Caen movie or miniseries would require lots of tanks.  It's politically incorrect because it runs the risk of glorifying the third reich- The SS come across as heroic in combat history- SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer comes across a King Leonidas and his Spartans while Montgomery comes across as the Persians who rely on brute force and ten times superiority in numbers.

 

what's wrong with Kant?  I don't see what you're saying.

[Stromboli1]

 

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There are a few things American filmmakers ripped off from the fighting in France:

 

This scene from "Fury" is most  likely influenced by the famous skirmish in France (OPERATION GOODWOOD July 19 or 20? 1944 ) where a British Sherman tank commander's gun jammed and instead he rushed into the Tiger II of 3rd Company Heavy Tank Battalion 503, ramming it and getting it stuck.  Both tanks were destroyed.

 

 

Canadian Historian Marc Milner accused Spielburg of ripping off the village fights of Bretteville, Norrey, etc. June 7-12 1944 involving Canadian 3rd Division and 12th SS division and making them Americanized (in his history book "stopping the Panzers".)