From: ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com
On 2026-01-04, CrudeSausage wrote:
> On 2026-01-03 20:43, RonB wrote:
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>>>> If that's the one, I saw
>>>> it. If it is the one I'm thinking about, it was depressing as hell.
>>>
>>> It was meant to be. It provides what is probably the most realistic
>>> depiction of what a post-apocalyptic world would be like.
>>> Unsurprisingly, the woman is so brilliant that she chooses to escape the
>>> relative security of her home to disappear outside. I'm sure she did
>>> quite fine among the cannibals.
>>
>> I see too much crap in the world in the news, I guess. When I watch a movie
>> I want to get away from reality for a while.
>
> I stopped caring about most of it because the fate of this world does
> not interest me as much as it used to. Here in Canada, we've had a
> decade of evidence showing that the Liberal party is incompetent through
> the revelation that housing is unaffordable and that Justin Trudeau
> doubled our debt, but still Canadians voted for his party. They've also
> had a decade of evidence in Europe showing that leftist politics are
> insurmountably destructive and only now are they starting to think that
> maybe the right isn't so bad. Ten years of seeing their wives and
> daughters raped or sex trafficked, the random murders and the inability
> to go out and celebrate New Year's didn't clue them in. At some point,
> you just realize that no matter what you do or say, you'll still be
> surrounded by clowns who refuse to see what's in front of them and that
> you're better off focusing on God and your relationship with Him.
Yeah, but I don't need to be reminded about this when I watch a movie. Like
I say, I'm trying to get away the bleak reality for a while.
>>>> On the list the ones I've seen and liked, The Martrix (only the
original), V
>>>> for Vendetta, Blade Runner (the original), District 9, Guardians of the
>>>> Galaxy (first one), Minority Report, and Iron Man (original one only),
>>>
>>> The second Matrix was still pretty good, but the dialogue ruined it. On
>>> the one hand, it explains what is going on in detail; on the other, it
>>> is incredibly hard to follow without repeated viewings. The storyline in
>>> general is quite smart, it just sucks that they couldn't simplify
>>> certain aspects of it for the next two films.
>>
>> I'm not a big fan of sequels, especially when the main problem has been
>> resolved in the original movie. To get a second movie they almost always
>> have to revert back to a problem that's already been solved. It's like
>> having a rug pulled out from under your feet.
>
> Like Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad. As I was telling my brother on
> Thursday, both movies have the exact same storyline yet the first one
> was trash and the second one was kind of fun.
I didn't watch either of those. Most comic book movies got old pretty
quickly for me.
>> One of favorite science fiction movies is Deja Vu. And I like I Robot, even
>> though I wasn't crazy about Isaac Asimov's original story. And even though
>> I'm no big fan of Ben Affleck, I liked Paycheck. And there was a movie by
>> the same person who created District 9, Elysium, which I liked. (Even though
>> it suspended disbelief to the limits).
>>
>> If you want a really dark (and weird) movie, you might want to watch Brazil.
>> For some reason I liked that. Probably the Monty Python connection and dark,
>> overwrought humor.
>
> I think my brother mentioned Brazil to me once. The guy's got like every
> movie ever made in his DVD collection, so I'll have to borrow it from
> him at some point.
I don't know why I liked it, probably for the absurd, dark humor. I don't
think my brother liked it much.
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