Singletona082 @ singletona @lemmy.world

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thus I have my personal library backed up on calibre. Wonderful software that's been around for twenty fiveish years.

I have a few books I bought, but even then, I grab from z-library. More portable and no DRM.

FBI and CIA are both busy gong through their own version of Squid Games thanks to the current regime wanting to get rid of anyone who's investigated them in the past.

Propaganda of the Deed has long been discredited. As in no, the stereotypical bomb throwing anarchist that mass media wishes to sell DOES. NOT. WORK. At best you end up with the political figure merely replaced and business moves on with the attacker vilified, or at worst the now deceased has become a martyr and support is generated.

As that is trying to force a systemic change through one giant act on a population that won't know what to do with the opening.

It is far better to work within local communities to educate and help build support networks of aid and reliance on eachother rather than systems that can punitively be taken away. That way if an opening presents itself through the course of events, you have a population that will know roughly how to make the best of a situation.

WITH ALL THAT SAID....

The death of the united Healthcare CEO is interesting inthat all attempts at media whitewashing and lionization have fallen on deaf ears.

The problem with Strange Days is.... the same problem cyberpunk as a genre has.

it served as a warning. A lot of people in the world took it as a blueprint.

Yea. When they see the size of the shark 'we're gonna need a bigger boat.'

Wait what? Big trouble in little china got- Pardon I'm gonna need to process that for a moment as that's one of the few things me and my stepdad will call time out on arguments on. It's a great carpenter adventure movie. It's literally a sendup of the modenr john wayne archatype. Hell, jack isn't even stupid, he's just, to borrow a tv tropes term, wrong genre savvy. Also I recommend the boom comics when/if you can.

it contextualizes him refusing to kiss Grace Law at the end and... it is utter heartache in the best way.

Dredd ... needed a netflix mega city one police proceedural followup. with Urban's Dread showing up a couple times when thigns get above everyone's heads both to prevent his overuse and to remind everyone WHY he is feared.

I'm gonna admit i saw the Dune novels as overrated, but i liked that the 80's movie tried to have fun while telling the story.

Well at the point red dawn was made, we were starting to thaw on the russians, even as Regan kept juicing the Empire of Evil rhetoric. The message 'war destroys everyone' is a good one.

'but it's not historically accurate!'

Y'get to see heath ledger in armor win the girl, bust heads, and have a grand time doing it! All to a solid soundtrack.

One could argue it is a demonstrative of every 80's action movie trope, then going straight into the 90's tropes list, and it does so with a smile.

Everything goes above Rise of Skywalker. Even Human Centipede.

Stallone Dreadd.

I am in complete agreement with everything you said about it being a crime against 2000 AD Dreadd, yet if one can excize rob schnider from it? It's popcorn. I've asked a few fan editors to have a crack at it because for me it has the same issue as Constantine. It is its own thing I can both appreciate it for being its own thing while also being a crime against the source material..

Urban Dredd? I kept hoping netflix would pick that up as the pilot to a mega city one police proceedural. that was just some solid movie making and wish we'd gotten more, though conceed 'what would you do for a sequel?' thus the idea of direct to stremaing platform show giving any of a number of plots time and space to breathe.

For me Tron Legacy was a case of 'disney squandered what they had, then when that one airbrushed movie bombed and they got the MCU they shelved Tron' ... likely permenently. Had a fun soundtrack. Ya the father/son story is a cliche but it's more an excuse to tour the world more than anything. I liked Legacy's look as both Kevin's use of late 80's 'money is no object' hardware vs late 70's likely PDP based hardware alongside software changes. After all by the end of the eighties the Unix Wars had happened and the landscape had changed. Plus Uprising, while flawed, had promise and showed what life was like in the early days of the regime when CLU kept a facad of normalcy.

Strange Days feels like one of those movies a LOT of people sleep on and gloss over. I am seriously recommending finding the fan edit scene and seeking it out, because the work done just.... elevates it.

I can respect your opinions of Highlander II. again, fan edits do a lot to save this one for me but even at base 'eh it's in the slush pile of shit movies I can run in the background. It's goofy it's dumb... run with it.' Then again I've kinda hated most of the highlander movies past the first one for having very little that interests me. Though I did love the show. It was a fun ride even when it got weird. Though I will admit it is guilty of helping popularize the 'katanas are just better' trope.

I mean.... you aren't wrong.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Tron Legacy

Guyver: Dark Hero

Strange Days (get the ultimate extended edition fan edit if you can.)

Wild Wild West

Demolition Man

Judge Dredd

Highlander II

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Jacob Barlow vs the Demonic Toys

There are a lot of fun movies that are considered garbage.

Him going from the punchline of 'creepy engineer focusedn erds' to family man who has his life together...

I remember the reading rainbow episodes about ILM and Star Wars's special effects, then another episode explaining Star Trek's effects and how they used glitter to get the transporter effect. that theme will be burned into my brain.

It is also where I remember first hearing the stories of anansi.

Also. Gordi was ... helpful for showcasing even with correction, vision imparement was an issue that affected people.

The romans really did give him a lift on that whole routine.

.....Yea I'm not buying it.

Well I personally think Zek had managed to find a woman whom genuinely interested him on a deeply intellectual level and they hit it off. Which is good given how quickly he started to decline. Think of what would have happened if an ambitious woman showed up that had hoped to use his decline for their own ends in a more selfish manner.

If nothing else, having activitypub based communities that are by default closed, and maybe over time federate would help bring back something of the smaller communities that we lost when facebook devoured everything.

All while groveling on bent knee to the tech asshats that are paying trump off.