Yesterday, for MLK Jr. day, I decided to watch Amistad, a 1997 film about a mutiny that occurs aboard the title Spanish slave ship, and the resulting legal battle that results when the escaping slaves are captured by a passing American ship, brought to America, and tried as murderers, under a treaty that the United States has with Spain.

Like Schindler's List, Amistad is a historical drama by Steven Spielberg that has a much more serious tone than earlier Spielberg movies like E.T. or the Indiana Jones films. Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins are among the cast. As with List, Amistad delves into one of the darker chapters of human history. In a similar vein to Dances With Wolves from seven years prior, Amistad encourages to root against the American government and root for the oppressed racial minority instead, becuase (I'll be the first to admit) the U.S. government has not always done the right thing. The film also makes for a great history lesson on the slave trade era.

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards but did not win a single one; it was up against Titanic that year.

This is so funny and pathetic at the same time  

The beast!



The fucking legs!!




Florian "Big Nasty" Munteanu as the son of Ivan Drago-- Vitor Drago

From Rocky IV to Creed 2-- 33 years later!!!

>>This is going to be a WAR!

@IfHeDies,HeDies,Again
#RockyVIII
#Creed2



Bonus Round:

Facts;

Burgess Meredith was 69 when Rocky (1) was released in 1976
Sylvester Stallone was 69 when Creed (1) was released in 2015

#TheBoxers
#TheTrainers

Tonight, Royal Rumble 31 and the first ever women's Royal Rumble



#30thAnniversary

^The ending of: Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up? (is the 64th episode of The Twilight Zone)

Epic ending and one of my fav' from this show, I remember to have seen it on tv for the first time in 1985 in the French television program named Temps X.



Edit:



Sen. Durbin to Zuckerberg: Would you share the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?

@Zuckerberg
#SoWhoIsWhoNow

I saw the Best Picture winner The Shape of Water at my uncle's last week. I'm surprised this type of movie actually got Best Picture. It's more of a sci-fi drama, set during the Space Race of the early 1960s when the American and Russian space agencies both want to dissect a mysterious humanoid creature captured from the Amazon to learn more about how it gets its oxygen (so that they can develop their spacesuits accordingly, I assume). However, a woman working as a janitor develops feelings for the creature, and fights to spare its life...

My dad and I also watched Darkest Hour that same night. That type of movie is normally what gets the Best Picture Oscar. It's a historical drama that tells the story of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and how he got Britain involved in the war against Adolf Hitler and his Nazis. His predecessor, Neville Chamberlain, wanted to make a deal of peace with the Führer, but Churchill knew that Hitler would quickly break his deal and conquer Britain anyway, and public opinion agreed with Churchill, ultimately pressuring Chamberlain to step down from office. Churchill's wise words won over the British public and King George VI alike. Despite saving Britain, Europe, and maybe even the entire world from the rule of the Nazis, Churchill did not win reelection... but he did get knighted.

My dad thought Darkest Hour was boring, but I found it to be a great history lesson, as I'm not nearly as well-versed in WW2 history as my father, who watches WW2-themed films on an almost daily basis. There's no actual combat shown in the film, as it focuses more on Churchill and his attempts to win over his people, his Parliament, and ultimately His Majesty. I'm shocked that it got a PG-13 rating, as there is little offensive language and the only other think keeping this from a G (in my opinion) is the film's honest depiction of Churchill's heavy drinking and smoking. This should have been a PG (and was, in the UK and some other countries, but I guess the director wanted something higher than PG because he didn't want people thinking his serious piece of work was "for kiddies"... or something...)

Antistar wrote on 04/24/18 at 00:20:11:


Yea, LOTR isn't done any justice without watching the extended editions imo. About a year ago, my roomate and I each dropped some acid, opened a bottle of whiskey and binged LOTR extended editions 1-3. Was quite a trip, haha

This past week my dad and I went to my uncle's to watch 12 Strong. Set in the aftermath of 9/11, it's about twelve American soldiers on a classified mission to battle the Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan, with some help from a local warlord and his militia. And some horses.

We then saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I'm just not big on Star Wars, unfortunately. The film seemed overly long and drawn out and I was bored for most of it.

I watched Infinity War last night.
I physically felt my heart split into two when the credits started rolling.

My dad and I went to Uncle Johnie's last night to watch two Netflix movies. Yeah, by now you probably know that my uncle's house doubles as my family's movie theater.  

The first one we watched was called The Titan. In this movie, Earth is becoming uninhabitable due to nuclear warfare as well as overpopulation and the related famines. A British scientist has determined that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the best place to send humans in order to save our species from extinction. However, rather than terraforming Titan and changing the new world to suit human needs, the scientist devises a plan to transform humans so that they can be adapted to the conditions on Titan. Our protagonist, Rick Janssen, played by Avatar star Sam Worthington, has to make the difficult decision to leave behind his wife and son as he undergoes the new medical treatment that will transform him into the first "Titanian"...
Think Avatar, in a way, except rather than give the Sam Worthington's character an extraterrestrial body that he can switch his consciousness into from his human body, his human body is gradually transformed into the extraterrestrial body.

Movie two was one called What Happened To Monday? Known as Seven Sisters internationally, this movie, like the first, takes place in a dystopian future where overpopulation is threatening to destroy the planet and leave billions starving. Nicolette Cayman, played by 101 Dalmatians star Glenn Close, has imposed a one-child policy (similar to China's) on the entire world, or at least the "European Federation" (a hypothetical successor to the EU). According to Cayman, any children that a couple has after the first will be taken away from the parents and put in "cryosleep" (think Demolition Man), presumably to be thawed out at a later time when the population problem is solved. When one Karen Settman has identical septuplets (and dies while giving birth to them), her father takes in all seven girls and names them each after a day of the week. Their grandfather wants to raise all seven girls and doesn't want to give six of them up for cryosleep, so he devises a plan: Each girl can only leave home on the day of the week that bears her name, in order to convince the outside world that there is only one girl (and they will all assume the name "Karen Settman", the name of their late mother). As adults, all seven sisters are played by the same actress!

I liked both films, but I liked the second one a lot better. Being Netflix films, neither was theatrically released or even given an MPAA rating, but What Happened To Monday? is very much an "R-rated" film. There is frequent profanity, violence and some gore, a sex scene with nudity, not to mention some rather strong subject matter. (I won't spoil anything, but I will say there are nasty surprises revealed later in the film) Perhaps Netflix, not being fettered by the MPAA rating system, is able to create bolder films like this one without fear of being saddled with an "NC-17" rating (although Monday would almost certainly get an R). Maybe we should seek out more Netflix films rather than the theatrical films that take fewer risks to appeal to broader audiences. Who knows, there may be more hidden gems out there. Considering that some big stars (Sam Worthington, Glenn Close) have been in them, Netflix could be a very real rival for mainstream studios...

To be fair, the world is getting more populated (more people), more connected (more advertising and word-of-mouth about movies), and ticket prices are increasing (more $$), so just about every new blockbuster seems to take a new record.

AlexPenev wrote on 05/07/18 at 15:54:27:


I can't wait to see the results with Avatar 2 (and sequels)