Greet vampire flick. Like most vamp flicks, the first half is setting the stage: Getting to know the characters and their lives. The second half is when everything goes straight to hell (in the vein of "From Dusk Till Dawn".) For sharecroppers in 1930's Mississippi, Jim Crow laws made sure that freedom was not much different than slavery. The Juke Joint (black owned bar/dance hall) was one of the few respites from a truly horrible life. Two brothers who had made their fortunes in Chicago had come home to open a Juke Joint, and then... Well... watch it. :)
"my" predisposition? I spoke out against the homophobia of another poster and YOU jumped in supporting them. You can't have Freedom only for some. It doesn't work that way. Me? I'm Hetro. and Old. Like crypt-keeper old. The idea that folks need to "adjust" is bullshit, as it just allows hateful bigots to continue to be hateful bigots.
@Raf - Here's why, and you may want to ponder this for a while... For fascism to work, you have a population ready to say: It's us against them. All our problems are cased by "those" people. If we just get rid of "them", then everything will be perfect. Right now, Fox "News" has called out over 200 things that are "woke". Woke is being used for ANYTHING the sub-intelligent MAGA want to vilify. Eliminating "Woke" eliminates anything they feel like. It empowers the hateful and the ignorant, justifies hatred, beatings and murder, and loyalty to an authoritarian. Pick a minority, suppress it, destroy it. (Hungary & Turkey are going to shit in the same way) This is why Freedom is hard. Because if you fight for and believe in freedom, then it is not the freedom of the majority, but the freedom of the minority that defines the freedom of a population. I'm done.
@Raf - Freedom is something that is very hard for some. Yes, 30 years ago, LGBT was less "noticeable", but that was because people were killed for trying to be who they are. In some locations of Africa, being outed is a death sentence TODAY. Do you support that? Is that your agenda? Kill people for who they are? (Like Africans, Jews, Armenians, Tutsis, Bosnians, etc) The Roman Catholic faith influenced the "LGBT free zones" in southeast Poland. Do you really think that "eliminated" people who are gay? Do you think that there were no gay people a 1000 years ago? 6000 years ago? If it makes you feel icky... but you previously said two lesbians are OK with you, then are you "against" or just feeling "left out"? Freedom ends at your arms-length. Lucky for you there is a remote control there. Watch something else.
A penguin, a revolution. A true story. it is absolutely amazing how much you will learn about the 1976 fascist revolution and the disappeared in Argentina while watching a film about a broken man and a penguin. it is so well done. Recommend.
@unruly-flat-earth - Hmmm... I guess that is why they SPECIFICALLY put into the movie the x-ray scene with the scientist SPECIFICALLY saying (in a movie exposition way) that it is NOT a member of the horse family. IndyWire has a long article on how they decided on the features of the unicorn, for those that want to know. Personally, I think the tripping balls feature of the unicorn was far more interesting than lasers. After all, it's sharks that get fricken laser beams on their heads. As to the movie: watchable, but mixing comedy, fantasy and horror is a tough balance to blend right. At first it seemed a bit slow, then it really teetered on is-it-fantasy or is-it-horror without a deep enough commitment to either. As a result, some of the horror (ex: head scene) seemed out of place. Tea Leone looks great for 59. In the end, it is just a dad-daughter bonding flick. With a lot of blood.
It's a movie that you have seen MANY times before: a perfectly wonderful boring place where residents have created someplace that they think is unique and special... Then pull pack the veneer and horrid things exist. It's kind of a boring film.
There was a nugget of a good idea there... but there wasn't really enough built around that nugget to make a film. As a result, it was slow, followed by moments of near-cartoon-like bloodshed. And after watching it, you are left with the question: What the hell was that?
Oh, FFS people! Quit trying to paste whatever your beliefs are onto an expansion of Margaret Atwood's 1985 book. She's a Canadian that has some great YouTube videos that will allow you to better understand her views. In this show, there are no "transgender kids". There is no "Trump". None of that is in there. But... there IS a fictional christian-faith-influenced authoritarian overthrow of the US government (influenced by a birthrate drop from pollution and inorganic farming.) The show is a good one, as it tells a story of those caught up in the minority and those who become refugees. HOWEVER... if you REALLY want a terrifying apocalyptic view, then just go and talk with a committed evangelical christian in the USA and how quickly they are willing to overthrow everything for a faith based government.
Great flick. A fantastic, extremely violent fairy tale. The artwork was stunning, the wastelands done so well. Fantasy and imagination brought to life the screen. If you didn't enjoy it, well, that says more about you than it does this film. Oh well.
A perfectly good apocalyptic film about a dysfunctional family dealing (or in their case NOT dealing) with the upcoming annellation of humanity... Absolutely RUINED by pasting on a happy ending in the last minute of the film. What a gutless move!
Like most vamp flicks, the first half is setting the stage: Getting to know the characters and their lives. The second half is when everything goes straight to hell (in the vein of "From Dusk Till Dawn".)
For sharecroppers in 1930's Mississippi, Jim Crow laws made sure that freedom was not much different than slavery. The Juke Joint (black owned bar/dance hall) was one of the few respites from a truly horrible life. Two brothers who had made their fortunes in Chicago had come home to open a Juke Joint, and then...
Well... watch it. :)
I spoke out against the homophobia of another poster and YOU jumped in supporting them.
You can't have Freedom only for some. It doesn't work that way.
Me? I'm Hetro. and Old. Like crypt-keeper old. The idea that folks need to "adjust" is bullshit, as it just allows hateful bigots to continue to be hateful bigots.
Right now, Fox "News" has called out over 200 things that are "woke". Woke is being used for ANYTHING the sub-intelligent MAGA want to vilify. Eliminating "Woke" eliminates anything they feel like. It empowers the hateful and the ignorant, justifies hatred, beatings and murder, and loyalty to an authoritarian. Pick a minority, suppress it, destroy it. (Hungary & Turkey are going to shit in the same way)
This is why Freedom is hard. Because if you fight for and believe in freedom, then it is not the freedom of the majority, but the freedom of the minority that defines the freedom of a population.
I'm done.
The Roman Catholic faith influenced the "LGBT free zones" in southeast Poland. Do you really think that "eliminated" people who are gay? Do you think that there were no gay people a 1000 years ago? 6000 years ago?
If it makes you feel icky... but you previously said two lesbians are OK with you, then are you "against" or just feeling "left out"?
Freedom ends at your arms-length. Lucky for you there is a remote control there. Watch something else.
EDIT: Comment removed. When checking the site earlier it seemed to be in complete disarray. Now it is back to normal.
(Love those megusta 1080p 5.1 rips! Good quality even on a big screen.)
it is absolutely amazing how much you will learn about the 1976 fascist revolution and the disappeared in Argentina while watching a film about a broken man and a penguin.
it is so well done. Recommend.
IndyWire has a long article on how they decided on the features of the unicorn, for those that want to know.
Personally, I think the tripping balls feature of the unicorn was far more interesting than lasers. After all, it's sharks that get fricken laser beams on their heads.
As to the movie: watchable, but mixing comedy, fantasy and horror is a tough balance to blend right. At first it seemed a bit slow, then it really teetered on is-it-fantasy or is-it-horror without a deep enough commitment to either. As a result, some of the horror (ex: head scene) seemed out of place. Tea Leone looks great for 59.
In the end, it is just a dad-daughter bonding flick. With a lot of blood.
It's kind of a boring film.
In this show, there are no "transgender kids". There is no "Trump". None of that is in there.
But... there IS a fictional christian-faith-influenced authoritarian overthrow of the US government (influenced by a birthrate drop from pollution and inorganic farming.)
The show is a good one, as it tells a story of those caught up in the minority and those who become refugees.
HOWEVER... if you REALLY want a terrifying apocalyptic view, then just go and talk with a committed evangelical christian in the USA and how quickly they are willing to overthrow everything for a faith based government.
The artwork was stunning, the wastelands done so well. Fantasy and imagination brought to life the screen.
If you didn't enjoy it, well, that says more about you than it does this film. Oh well.
Absolutely RUINED by pasting on a happy ending in the last minute of the film.
What a gutless move!