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Wiggs Dannyboy

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A movie called, "The Road." Based on a Cormack McCarthy book. Vigo Mortensen and some kid play a father and son trying to stay alive after a calamitous event takes place. Here is the official description:

Based on Cormac McCarthy's best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Road is the epic post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son across a barren landscape that was blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and most life on earth.. Release Date: October 16th, 2009

It's a real good movie, but certainly is a bit of a bummer...

Oh yea...streaming on Netflix.

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furrywall11

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Ravenous. A good example of how the soundtrack can GREATLY enhance a movie.


What else.... getting kind of excited about X men: Days of Future Past....

Just watched a first anime film in years... Full Metal Alchemist: something.... . Drinking Papaya Juice... About to read a graphic novel- Day Trippers from Vertigo.
 

LowFalutin

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Ravenous. A good example of how the soundtrack can GREATLY enhance a movie.
Awesome movie. Great cast. Can't believe netflix offers this "cult classic".
Uses cannabilism as a metaphor for westward expansion- manifest destiny.
(oh the crap we tell ourselves to rationalize/justify/ennoble our behavior-
anything to avoid accountability/reality.)

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The soundtrack is a creepy fractured Americana, provided by Damon Albarn (Blur) and Michael Nyman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDl4OhRN3bQ&list=RDwDl4OhRN3bQ#t=33

Director Antonia Bird's even more controversial movie, Priest, is also up on netflix.
 

Wiggs Dannyboy

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Awesome movie. Great cast. Can't believe netflix offers this "cult classic".
Uses cannabilism as a metaphor for westward expansion- manifest destiny.
(oh the crap we tell ourselves to rationalize/justify/ennoble our behavior-
anything to avoid accountability/reality.)

The soundtrack is a creepy fractured Americana, provided by Damon Albarn (Blur) and Michael Nyman.

Director Antonia Bird's even more controversial movie, Priest, is also up on netflix.

Glad to hear somebody say this is a good film. I was perusing the horror flicks on Netflix streaming the other day and saw Ravenous was being offered. I had watched it a few years ago, and had been surprised how good it was( I must have read some reviews that said otherwise). Well, since my memory failed me big time on another movie I watched recently, I went to Rotten Tomatoes to see the reviews, and Ravenous got pretty crappy reviews, even called it a horror/comedy. I didn't remember it being on the funny side, but anyways I decided not to watch it based on RT.

Now I'll go and watch it again, thanks to my friendly reviewers at IC Mag. :biggrin:
 

Wiggs Dannyboy

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I agree 944....I tend to always like Norton's acting.

The reason I re-watched 25th Hour though was to watch Philip Seymour Hoffman. After he checked out with an overdose some months back, I decided to watch all of the movies he made, from the first one to his last (at least those that were available to me through Netflix), in order. He was one of my most favorite actors, first saw him in The Big Lebowski, and was totally bummed when he died. It's been real interesting watching his performances in the order he made them...the first few movies he had real small parts, then they became more substantial with time, until the beginning of the 2000's when he started playing very important characters. No matter big role or small role...he pretty much nails every part he plays.
 

Wiggs Dannyboy

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doc streaming on nflx

"Movie Info

Admit it: you don't really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download.
But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family, your finances, and your secrets...
and are not only selling the information to the highest bidder, but freely sharing it with the government.

And you agreed to all of it. With fascinating examples and so-unbelievable-they're-almost-funny facts, filmmaker Cullen Hoback exposes what governments
and corporations are legally taking from you every day - turning the future of both privacy and civil liberties uncertain.

From whistle blowers and investigative journalists to zombie fan clubs and Egyptian dissidents, this disquieting exposé demonstrates how every one of us
has incrementally opted-in to a real-time surveillance state, click by click- and what, if anything, can be done about it.
(c) Variance Films"

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Just watched this doc on Netflix. I knew shit had gotten bad, but I had no idea it was this bad. I've always stayed away from Facebook because I knew they were harvesting data about people, but I didn't know how much Google was doing, and just about any other entity we relate with on the internet.

I truly believe it may be too late, our privacy rights seem to have disappeared, and the very few people who have attempted to stop the government and big business from stealing our privacy have run into a brick wall. The only way this shit gets reversed (and that's what needs to happen, stopping it in it's tracks will be too little too late), is if millions of people start marching in the streets and writing millions and millions of letters to the lazy ass politicians who have allowed this attack on privacy to happen. What are the chances of that happening? Too fucking low, I would expect.

We're fucked, people. Just around the bend ahead, say hello to 1984.....
 

D. B. Doober

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Watching New England Patriots Aaron Hernandez getting indicted for a double murder in 2012. He's already on trial and in jail for one murder somewhere else.
 
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