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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 13, 2023 14:29:01 GMT -5
My view exactly, John. Actors should act and brewers should make beer. When actors get involved in politics.  They really hate Republicans. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 16, 2023 7:22:42 GMT -5
Watched DENIAL last night. American historian sued for defamation, in London, by a rabid holocaust denier. For me the two “main events” of the 20th C were WW2 and the Holocaust. Hard to watch in spots but a very good film with a strong cast and an excellent script— some of it taken directly from the trial.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 16, 2023 13:51:38 GMT -5
Watched DENIAL last night. American historian sued for defamation, in London, by a rabid holocaust denier. For me the two “main events” of the 20th C were WW2 and the Holocaust. Hard to watch in spots but a very good film with a strong cast and an excellent script— some of it taken directly from the trial. I'll look for that. Was it a DVD? |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 16, 2023 13:55:17 GMT -5
 It streams on Amazon Ron, good flick, but sad!
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 16, 2023 14:00:24 GMT -5
It streams on Amazon Ron, good flick, but sad! The whole thing pisses me off. I learned about it at 6 years old. I can't watch movies like Shendlers List. Makes me want to kill Nazis. With prejudice. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 16, 2023 14:18:29 GMT -5
I got it from dvd.com. My first exposure to the Holocaust was in a movie theater in Gainesville, FL. The Allies has just liberated the camps. There was a News-of-the-Day running and suddenly my mother clapped her hand over my eyes. I shoved it away and saw an image of a pile of corpses, mounded high. It has never left me.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 16, 2023 15:19:42 GMT -5
I served with Warrant Officer Woods, he was in the army and liberated Dachau, hope I spelled it right. When he got drunk I was the only one who could handle him, tears and visions, he was haunted for the rest of his life, he said Eisenhower made all the villagers close by March past the mounds of bodies and past the ovens, before that I really wasn’t aware, so evil.
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Post by instymp on Jun 16, 2023 17:02:58 GMT -5
Very eerie,saddening mind blowing place to visit.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 16, 2023 17:39:26 GMT -5
I was getting a haircut and the barbers were a couple of camp survivors. They had a book of photographs. My mom had no idea what her 6 year old was reading. They also had a hardbound copy of Small Arms of the World. Set up a life-long fascination firearms. And together made me become a life member of JPFO.
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 16, 2023 19:46:24 GMT -5
Spitting on people ain’t my style. A rhetorical device only. But it does express my extreme animosity, so it’s honest to that extent at least.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 16, 2023 21:14:10 GMT -5
Spitting on people ain’t my style. A rhetorical device only. But it does express my extreme animosity, so it’s honest to that extent at least. Well, spitting isn't exactly what I would like to do to them either. It's symbolic. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 16, 2023 21:39:35 GMT -5
Had no doubt that’s what you meant.
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 17, 2023 22:44:52 GMT -5
If I were sod I would not have him.
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 17, 2023 22:48:51 GMT -5
Tonight I watched THE CONSPIRATOR (2010). The trial of Mary Surratt. A very powerful film. Excellent cast, strong script, well photographed, perfectly acted. A fine performance all around. If you watch it, it will stay with you I think.
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Post by trailboss on Jun 18, 2023 9:41:16 GMT -5
Tonight I watched THE CONSPIRATOR (2010). The trial of Mary Surratt. A very powerful film. Excellent cast, strong script, well photographed, perfectly acted. A fine performance all around. If you watch it, it will stay with you I think. looks pretty interesting, I will have to check it out. |
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Post by toshtego on Jun 18, 2023 10:07:28 GMT -5
I will look for that one.
Watched the first of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" series. First half of the movie I can do without. Too many CGI villains; trolls, orcs, goblins all seem much the same. Sadly they sound like working class Brits from London's East end and I found that insulting.
I can do without these movies and rely on the book which I enjoyed well enough at age 14/15.
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Post by trailboss on Jun 18, 2023 10:16:49 GMT -5
“Man Shakes Fist At Goblin”😂
I get it though, I have been encouraging the grand kids to read books, the imagination runs pretty wild as you envision these creatures when the mind is young.
And it needs to be a book!
“Man Shakes Fist At E-Reader”!
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 18, 2023 10:36:48 GMT -5
Kids seem to be falling away from reading at a great rate. This is a tragedy. We’ll all suffer from it.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 18, 2023 10:43:38 GMT -5
Kids seem to be falling away from reading at a great rate. This is a tragedy. We’ll all suffer from it. I was always a reader from my earliest days and cannot imagine a life without books. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 18, 2023 12:02:35 GMT -5
Kids seem to be falling away from reading at a great rate. This is a tragedy. We’ll all suffer from it. I was always a reader from my earliest days and cannot imagine a life without books. Ditto. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 18, 2023 12:31:54 GMT -5
I was always a reader from my earliest days and cannot imagine a life without books. Ditto. Thanks to my mother’s obsession with flash cards I was reading at 4 and at 9th grade level in the 2d grade. Whatever that meant. On a practical level it meant I was a newspaper hound during the latter part of WW2. I can’t imagine a life without books— real ones. Although I do also appreciate my digi-tomes for their convenience, especially when traveling or camping. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 18, 2023 12:42:21 GMT -5
Yep, read at 5, skipped a grade graduated just turned 17, reader all my life, passed it on to my children, visited art museums with them, taught them the financial world at the table, they knew what a dollar was and how to earn it, I really tried and it loooks like it worked.
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 19, 2023 19:30:26 GMT -5
Watched THE MARTIAN last night. It was enjoyable. Not being a scientist I have no way of evaluating all the Mars and space science it involves. The actors did a good job, with a little schmaltz once and a while. I thought the final scenes with the whole world listening in to the rescue conversation was a bit far-fetched, but needed for emoto-impact I suppose. It was OK. I really liked the Mars Rover best of all.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 20, 2023 0:50:11 GMT -5
Watched THE MARTIAN last night. It was enjoyable. Not being a scientist I have no way of evaluating all the Mars and space science it involves. The actors did a good job, with a little schmaltz once and a while. I thought the final scenes with the whole world listening in to the rescue conversation was a bit far-fetched, but needed for emoto-impact I suppose. It was OK. I really liked the Mars Rover best of all. It was about as scientifically accurate as I think a general audience movie can be. I only had a couple of minor eye raises. Loved the movie so much I read the book. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 20, 2023 7:21:58 GMT -5
I thought the amount of space (room) they had in the craft was not very realistic. The “gym” was huge. But might have been pretty oppressive had it been more realistic. I hadn’t realized it was a Ridley Scott film until the credits rolled.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 20, 2023 9:42:06 GMT -5
I enjoyed "The Martian". Matt Damon did a fine job and was believable enough.
Similarly, I watched the Luis Buñuel Technicolor version of Robinson Crusoe from 1954. With Dan O'Herlihy. Very well done. Very moving story about the meaning of life, how it is to grow old.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 20, 2023 10:37:24 GMT -5
Watched Denial last night. Very good.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 23, 2023 9:13:46 GMT -5
I started "The Man in the Attic", 1953, with Jack Palance. Considered a Film Noir classic and quite interesting so far.
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Post by toshtego on Jun 24, 2023 11:35:13 GMT -5
"It Conquered the World", 1957 or so. Richard Carlson saves the day defeating a Venusian invader who possesses mind control properties strangely similar to the Soviets. Lee Van Cleef is the scientist and hapless pawn of the creature who awakens at the end. Corny? Sure. Paranoid? You bet. The 1950s were that way.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 24, 2023 13:27:20 GMT -5
I loved those movies. Saw them in the theater.
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It streams on Amazon Ron, good flick, but sad!
