The Great Movie Thread

[C-Mag]

It's a top five movie.

OK, give me 3 reason why I should try it again.

[Fife]

It's art; subjective.

If you don't like it, nothing wrong with that, not any infringement on me.

[GloryofGreece]

Anyone like First Man? Worth it?

[TheReal_ND]

The Ωmega Man

[Hastur]

Finally watched The Death of Stalin. I'm a bit stunned. It's to good to be possible today. It's up there with Dr Strangelowe and Brazile. It should be mandatory viewing in every school.
It's also impossibly funny. That's the greatness of it. I'll watch it again just for the laughs.

[heydaralon]

Anyone like First Man? Worth it?

Too nationalistic. Focused too much on the American aspect of the moon landing and didn't discuss the ways that Ghana and Syria made that landing possible with their engineers and tech.

[Fife]

No respect for Indian (dot head not feather head) maths either. Not even a shout out to Ramanujan.

[heydaralon]

Finally watched The Death of Stalin. I'm a bit stunned. It's to good to be possible today. It's up there with Dr Strangelowe and Brazile. It should be mandatory viewing in every school.
It's also impossibly funny. That's the greatness of it. I'll watch it again just for the laughs.

IRL Beria was a rapist and monster but was actually extremely moderate compared to Stalin. Wanted to pardon some Gulag prisoners, give more autonomy to countries in the USSR. A monster, an absolute monster, but more nuanced than you'd think. Kruschev also came off as moderate, but like Beria he was intimately involved in the mass murders, purges, and deportations that Stalin ordered, to say nothing of the incompetence that occured during WW2. Decent movie imo. I like how the last 10 minutes shit went from comedy to serious as fuck. In a way I think it sort of broke the fourth wall. Its like, "You laughed for 90 minutes at the absurdities of Stalinism and we had a good time. Now, let me show what it was actually like to have a kangaroo court and summary execution. Its fucked. Your former "friends" are screaming at you and you are crying and soiling yourself. Then you get killed without ceremony and your corpse desecrated."

Of course, Beria was a piece of human filth, so no tears shed, but you really felt his fear. I thought that scene was incredible. He got more and more frantic and it felt real to life.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Just watched Dave Chappelle: Equanimity on Netflix. Probably one of the best political comedy specials I’ve seen. Very positive.

[GloryofGreece]

The Highwaymen (2019)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860242/