What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.

[tp4tissue]

Harry is a total twat, I hate the whole universe...

It comes out of a very ignorant and horrific person of an author. Nuff' said.

[fohat.digs]

I hate the whole universe...

I disagree entirely. I read the entire series to my kids - it was our "bedtime stories" reading for over a year, we had finished all but the last book just a couple of weeks before the last one came out - and they were just at the right age, in the early stages of elementary school, to be quivering with excitement for it. And although the first movie or 2 had come out, I insisted that we finish the books before they started watching the movies.

Although JK Rowling seems to have turned into a nasty person, she crafted the HP books extremely well for her audience - the first book was short and simple, and by the end they were much longer and darker with an interesting crew of secondary characters. And as the father of 2 kids who were at just the right age to be her target audience, I appreciate her contribution to their love of literature.

That said, the movies were no better than most movie adaptations of books, but they did kinda sorta tell the stories ,,,, 

"Young Adult" fiction (aka YA) is a mixed bag with a lot of junk, and I read a good bit of it along with them. But some of it is quite good, and Scott Westerfeld also comes quickly to mind (but the movie made of "Uglies" was awful).

[tp4tissue]

"Young Adult" fiction (aka YA) is a mixed bag with a lot of junk, and I read a good bit of it along with them.

Developed nations export all the hardwork in the form of slavery to other nations.

Statistically speaking, experts in the field of Slavery contend that in reality there are MORE SLAVES today than 150years ago when slavery was abolished in the US.

Slavery is the result of excess consumption in the upper social class and wealthy nations.


HARRY is claiming victimhood,  only in the sense that he's got slightly less than his peers in material.  But relative to the GLOBAL perspective,  he's still a very lucky person, not working a field barely scraping enough food to eat in a day,  which represents the current VAST MAJORITY of HUMANITY.


The PLOT of Harry Potter, obscures that fact. It's the woah is me western tragedy, why must I eat pork chops while the neighbor eats lobster.  This is at the heart of everything that's wrong with the world.


The proper contrast is CITY OF JOY,  Rickshaw puller in India, Saving for his daughter's dowry, On hard times, having to sell blood.

[fohat.digs]

HARRY is claiming victimhood

Well, he has had the most powerful and ruthless magician in the world obsessed with killing him.

PS - my name is also Harry and I have been profoundly grateful for the life I have since I was a small child

[tp4tissue]

HARRY is claiming victimhood

Well, he has had the most powerful and ruthless magician in the world obsessed with killing him.

PS - my name is also Harry and I have been profoundly grateful for the life I have since I was a small child

This is not a criticism of You, the Fohat.dig'n's   

We just have to innoculate people on where humanity is headed.    We're all going to be living in Indian Slums in 20-30 years.

Just be mentally prepared to pull Rickshaws and maybe having to sell blood more often than not.

[phinix]

Porzadny Czlowiek / A Decent man

Polish mini series made for HBO so you can watch it in english too.
One of the better ones I've seen recently, really enjoyed it. Dont know if in english its going to be as good as original, but I highly recommend it.

 

[noisyturtle]

One Piece comes back after a 6 month hiatus

...then immediately goes back on hiatus after only 6 new episodes

It's like a joke at this point

[tp4tissue]

Wheel of time canceled.

They should've stopped after season 1, but prolly already signed the actors for 3.

[tp4tissue]

Lilo + Stitch live action.

It's. Alright.  Questioning why it needs to exist at all, sure, but I mean, it's still well done, perfectly watchable, especially for its intended audience..


One would suspect the hate is mostly coming from 40yr old millennials.

[phinix]

In the Mood for Love

Really good melodramatic movie. It was so nice to watch it and let myself be moved and even disturbed by such a tense atmosphere between main two characters.
I also liked the cinematography - I don't know any other movies of that director, but the way they filmed it, those scenes, where camera was not showing their faces, those slow motion bits, exaggerating the tension and love between them.
Main female character - that actress, Maggie Cheung - wow - she is so feminine, moving with such a grace and finesse.
Fantastic, highly recommended.

[tp4tissue]

If you like HK-females of (that era),  Cecilia Cheung,  King of Comedy (1999), absolute Peak.

Tony Leung, mm... best acting, some might point to Lust, Caution (2007), but it's got too much noodity for Tp4.

"Maggie" Cheung, her best was in TV, but those are not watchable if you're not Asian because alot of cultural stuff don't translate.

[phinix]

If you like HK-females of (that era),  Cecilia Cheung,  King of Comedy (1999), absolute Peak.

Tony Leung, mm... best acting, some might point to Lust, Caution (2007), but it's got too much noodity for Tp4.

"Maggie" Cheung, her best was in TV, but those are not watchable if you're not Asian because alot of cultural stuff don't translate.

I dot think I ever watched HK style movie like that before, just this one came up somewhere and I noticed they translated it to Polish, so watched it with my missus.
I liked how subtle it was, no nudity, but transferred all the feelings and tension.

They lived in a strange arangement - renting rooms in one huge flat or something, it was a bit hard to understand what was going on there. They kinda had their own entrance, but inside a flat already or something like that, sharing one kitchen I think. With tight corridors and camera lens used (I think it was something like 50mm or narrower) logistics were hard to understand

[tp4tissue]

It's a boarding house. Back in the day, it would've been hard to pipe utility to each individual apartment.

Tp4 still remembers when he first got piped gas on the 6th floor. Before then we had to drag these giant metal cans upstairs.

[phinix]

It's a boarding house. Back in the day, it would've been hard to pipe utility to each individual apartment.

Tp4 still remembers when he first got piped gas on the 6th floor. Before then we had to drag these giant metal cans upstairs.

I see. Boarding houses, like boarding schools.
Does it mean that whoever owned the whole building, was also cooking for all tenants, or offered food for them for extra cost?
In that movie, old lady was cooking food and most of those peeps were eating there.

[Findecanor]

In the Mood for Love

I have still not seen it, but have wanted to.

Once, I confused "Lust: Caution" for this movie, and bought its DVD instead. 

[iri]

In the Mood for Love

Really good melodramatic movie. It was so nice to watch it and let myself be moved and even disturbed by such a tense atmosphere between main two characters.
I also liked the cinematography - I don't know any other movies of that director, but the way they filmed it, those scenes, where camera was not showing their faces, those slow motion bits, exaggerating the tension and love between them.
Main female character - that actress, Maggie Cheung - wow - she is so feminine, moving with such a grace and finesse.
Fantastic, highly recommended.

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Oh nice. We were considering watching this, but then the wife looked into the length and the description and said it was too arthousy After this film was released in Russia, it became a must-watch for all our pretentious types

[tp4tissue]

It's a boarding house. Back in the day, it would've been hard to pipe utility to each individual apartment.

Tp4 still remembers when he first got piped gas on the 6th floor. Before then we had to drag these giant metal cans upstairs.

I see. Boarding houses, like boarding schools.
Does it mean that whoever owned the whole building, was also cooking for all tenants, or offered food for them for extra cost?
In that movie, old lady was cooking food and most of those peeps were eating there.

There are alot of optional arrangements. It's not 1 size.

[phinix]

In the Mood for Love

Really good melodramatic movie. It was so nice to watch it and let myself be moved and even disturbed by such a tense atmosphere between main two characters.
I also liked the cinematography - I don't know any other movies of that director, but the way they filmed it, those scenes, where camera was not showing their faces, those slow motion bits, exaggerating the tension and love between them.
Main female character - that actress, Maggie Cheung - wow - she is so feminine, moving with such a grace and finesse.
Fantastic, highly recommended.

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Oh nice. We were considering watching this, but then the wife looked into the length and the description and said it was too arthousy After this film was released in Russia, it became a must-watch for all our pretentious types

I had to google "arthousy" to find out what do you mean   Oh, this is not that, I can tell, cause I have been avoiding those kind of arthousy movies whole life, dont like those independent artsy pantsy crap
This one is different, it is filmed differently than most movies, but I really liked all scenes, way it was filmed, put together.
I encourage you to watch it, I don't think you would be disappointed

[tp4tissue]

Rick Mort, Season 8, Epi 1.

Pretttty decent start.  Funky-freshness,  6/10.

[iri]

In the Mood for Love

Really good melodramatic movie. It was so nice to watch it and let myself be moved and even disturbed by such a tense atmosphere between main two characters.
I also liked the cinematography - I don't know any other movies of that director, but the way they filmed it, those scenes, where camera was not showing their faces, those slow motion bits, exaggerating the tension and love between them.
Main female character - that actress, Maggie Cheung - wow - she is so feminine, moving with such a grace and finesse.
Fantastic, highly recommended.

(Attachment Link)

Oh nice. We were considering watching this, but then the wife looked into the length and the description and said it was too arthousy After this film was released in Russia, it became a must-watch for all our pretentious types

thanks
I had to google "arthousy" to find out what do you mean   Oh, this is not that, I can tell, cause I have been avoiding those kind of arthousy movies whole life, dont like those independent artsy pantsy crap
This one is different, it is filmed differently than most movies, but I really liked all scenes, way it was filmed, put together.
I encourage you to watch it, I don't think you would be disappointed

[tp4tissue]

Life on Our Planet narrated by Morgan Freeman.

They is use AI to generate prehistoric animals, blended with real footage, you can barely tell what's real.

[iri]

I have no idea what happened with my post above, but I meant to say thanks to phinix

[phinix]

I have no idea what happened with my post above, but I meant to say thanks to phinix

its ok, it went above my text, you can see it there

[tp4tissue]

Is there like a home use, hot caramel spraying nozzle assembly kinda thing'majigger you can buy?

[tp4tissue]

Just watched, The Fix (2024), Dystopian, B-movie

Script's pretty decent. Probably heavy use of AI co-author. Not in a bad way though.

The actors gave it their all, what little they had, a bit prickly around the edges, but it's fine.   Similar vibe as Ultraviolet (Milla Jovovich).


Small drawback of them using manipulative male-gaze throughout, but the result probably had to pass through a bunch of corpo-execs who wouldn't fund anything less.

/Watchable.

[tp4tissue]

The Silent Planet (2024).

2 people,  penal planet,  non-violent movie,  but 1 guy's gone a little whacky.

Solid for what it is.  A mild relaxing mode throughout.   Watch with glass of something.

[tp4tissue]

Pluto,  artwork is gud' bit more cerebral than action.

Homeostatic future with Machines + Hughmahns.

/can Recommend

[Findecanor]

I miss TV-series. Back in the 90s, you could spend an entire evening watching TV, and everything was captivating, now legendary shows, no reruns. Discovery Channel used to have educational programmes, not just reality shows.

I have started watching Murderbot. I like sci-fi and the sentient bot's sarcastic self-monologue. But every episode feels too short.

Other than that, I watch anime.

[iri]

Bron

[tp4tissue]

I miss TV-series. Back in the 90s, you could spend an entire evening watching TV, and everything was captivating, now legendary shows, no reruns. Discovery Channel used to have educational programmes, not just reality shows.

I have started watching Murderbot. I like sci-fi and the sentient bot's sarcastic self-monologue. But every episode feels too short.

Other than that, I watch anime.

Did you watch Pluto, it's exactly "that."

[noisyturtle]

Robot and Frank was a very endearing and well acted little indie movie


Probably gonna go see The Phoenician Scheme next week, Wes Anderson's new movie. I like Benicio Del Toro 

[Leslieann]

Finally started the "Last of Us", that intro (and basis of the series) is scary as hell.

Pretty good show though.