5 Movies worth their weight in Gold

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    Gravel Pit
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    Interstellar

    Interstellar Above and besides being the best depiction of time dilation in cinema, Interstellar is at once, a eulogy for homo sapien, a grief stricken whimper for how lost, alone and isolated we are, how truly doomed we all are. I literally cried during many viewings. Some films surpass their genre, this film surpasses film itself. A suicide note for humanity. I’m hoping for a sequel delving into the ‘bulk beings’ and how we find them several centuries after the events in the film.

    TheThineRedLine

    The Thin Red Line Quote from the film: spoken with a backbone “Look at this jungle. Look at those vines, the way they twine around, swallowing everything. Nature’s cruel..” I’m exhausting my writer’s charm today in trying to describe how this movie nails home the existential crisis that is war.

    LIfe Aquatic

    The Life Aquatic. This comedy is directed by Wes Anderson a major, modern visionary. Audiences appreciate his gentle subject matter and symmetrical perspective. Bill Murray & William Defoe will keep you grinning while Anderson’s compositions are a kids playground for your subconscious.

    master&commander

    Master and Commander Deeply deserving of a sequel yet Follywood only cares about the dollar signs. Apparently, French and British navy conflicts during the reign of Napoleon (early 1800’s) aren’t as cool as Transformers; a clear sign of social decadence in the arts and history.

    David, Alien Covenant

    Prometheus & Alien Covenant (as well as the final act to come).

    Unlike the poetry and realism in Interstellar, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus/Covenant films abort us into the throws of deep space with only our own human folly to accompany us. Our desire to seed other worlds, thwarted by our own AI and insane yearnings to be our own Gods. Here we have crafty storytelling exploring our origins, the limits of our technology and how we may just be too smart for our own good. Suspense and monsters are mere trail markers in this ongoing cerebral fantasy about humanity’s future among the stars. R. Scott knows how to serve it up best, other space based Sci-Fis are pale in comparison.

    HONORABLE MENTIONS:

    Bladerunner 2049 (and the original as well). I’ve spoken about this film in depth here. It is my all time favorite. Spoilers in these threads, beware. /forums/topic/blade-runner-2049-2/

    Blade Runner 2049

    The Big Lebowski. Funny enough to cause rib pains. Jeff Bridges and John Goodman will keep you going. I can’t say that all Coen brother films are good, but they do have a distinct style. Watch Burn After Reading too, if you love this film.

    The Lives of Others. German film, English subtitles. Its about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, the GDR’s secret police. I felt like throwing in a Foreign film. I could have listed Leviathan (Russian) Delicatessen or Holy Motors (French) Time Crimes (Mexican) or even Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. (Chinese) all of which are good.

    Watchmen The only superhero film worth a s~~~ beyond Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy (my opinion). I list it here as a worthy contender because its so good graphically, with a strong overall moral plot. It’s deeply worthy of people’s admiration despite the seemingly childish hero/villain tropes. This film really goes beyond it’s genre.

    Under the Skin, Logan’s Run,

    Top Ten MGTOW Movies

    #841932
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    Colin Combover in a Coma
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    Interesting films.
    Two French films I advocate watching. Lemming and Martyrs.
    There is an abstract 6 episode UK series called “Nathan Barley” that is free on you-tube(don’tknow if you will get in the US)

    #841933
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    Zarathustra
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    We have the same movie tastes! The only one I haven’t seen is interstellar. I will check that out.

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    PistolPete
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    I haven’t seen any of these but now I’m going to give a couple of them a try—thanks man!

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    Sorry dude but Interstellar is blue pill as f~~~. “I transcended time with love” or some bollocks.

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    DorkShit
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    Paint your wagon!

    Can’t beat a movie where Clint Eastwood sings.

    Peace brothers

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    Blood Axe
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    It’s a good list GravelPit. I haven’t seen some of them. The Thin Red Line looks interesting.

    Interstellar blew my mind. This movie’s portrayal of a black hole and space time, was amazing. You gotta love the name “Gargantua”. We know so little about black holes, the imagination runs wild. Is God hiding inside? Is there a whole other universe crammed in there?

    The Big Lebowski is also one of my all time favorites. The dude abides.

    Back off Barbie!

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    Secret Agent MGTOW
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    a boy and his dog.

    cherry 2000 – stop the movie after he and the bot are flying away in the plane, skip the final scene.

    the martian – hate damon and female commander bs, but like the grit parts of the story and surviving by seat of your pants.

    sam kinisons 1st hbo special, around 1987 or so.

    louie anderson ‘big baby boomer’ – he has a great standup act.

    Women want everything, but want responsibility and accountability for nothing.

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    Christopher
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    Interstellar is definitely a blue pill movie imho. In more ways than one – its laden with NASA nonsense. Thats fine if escapism is your thing but you wont find truth in modern Hollywood movies. There are distortions of the truths, partial truths to hook you, subtle lies, mistruths, and blue pill nonsense in many modern Hollywood movies to confuse/mislead the masses. Peace.

    Feminism was funded by bankers/politicians to create more taxpayers. MGTOW IS FREEDOM https://archive.org/details/mgtowisfreedomblurayready

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    You have good taste in films. I will check out some of these I have not seen.

    Have you seen Cloud Atlas? I thought that was an impressive piece of work.

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    Gravel Pit
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    Have you seen Cloud Atlas?

    Cloud Atlas is an exceptional film. It’s not for everyone but I hold it in very high esteem. It almost made this list but for a few glitches. The Matrix and Cloud Atlas were the only good things those two idiots ever made (Wachowski eunuchs)

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    The Matrix and Cloud Atlas were the only good things those two idiots ever made (Wachowski eunuchs)

    V for Vendetta was cool too, but what the hell happened to those guys? Hollyweird must have got to them.

    Maybe the Red Pills were too much to swallow and they choked. Gone transgender instead. 🙁

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    Gravel Pit
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    Interstellar is definitely a blue pill movie

    Sorry dude but Interstellar is blue pill as f~~~. “I transcended time with love”

    My counter is, compared to what? Rambo? Jerry Maguire? I think people mistake Interstellar for being blue-pill when in reality its just ‘blue’ which is to mean sullen and unhappy. We’re dealing with the extinction of humanity and a lot of tears. This movie is real as f~~~. Tears aren’t for everyone, I can understand that well enough. The Martian is more of a NASA bulls~~~ and blue pill movie, more so than Interstellar.

    INTERSTELLAR SPOILERS

    Cooper lost his wife to cancer, he isn’t exactly parading around begging for Brand’s pussy. The only reason he sacrificed himself to go into the black hole is because he has nothing left to lose, he already lost everything at that point. His kids, his wife, 25 years+. His sacrifice is more black pill than anything, he chose death. The fact that he returns to Brand in the end, I don’t find that bluepill. He has nothing left to do with humanity and his shipmate is stranded on that planet. I believe he’d be going whether it was a female or male shipmate.

    The more I think about it, Interstellar actually gets a lot of things correct about women. Brand’s emotional nature, she is the one who fronts the ‘love across dimensions bulls~~~.’ The female characters are what you’d expect women to be, making a lot of mistakes, thinking with emotion, complaining and being hysterical. His daughter Murphy acts just like any girl would, she throws a tantrum and refuses to send him messages.

    Also, Murphy is not too smart after all, she never discovers anything that TARS doesn’t send back in time through the watch. She didn’t write either half of the gravity equations, Brand’s dad wrote the first half and TARS transmitted the second half. She just happened to be the conduit that Cooper was able to send the math back through time. Cooper’s son the farmer stayed true to his father’s memory while Murphy abandoned hope right away.

    It’s not bluepill at all really. It’s actually kind of redpill. If I had written it, of course I would change a lot. Murphy would be the farmer and the boy would have become the astrophysicist instead but as I said, she never really discovered s~~~ and she is less of an astrophysicist and more of an emo-wreck. Romilly’s part (the black guy) would have been written different if it were me. Though I don’t know how, I just feel bad for him for waiting 20 years and then getting waxed by Matt Damon. (Matt Damon would have never been casted in my version, I hate all those Boston actors). Instead of the guy dying on the water world, we’d of left that bitch Brand instead (but you know we can’t write that heavy of redpill movie, that itself isn’t realistic either).

    To a certain extent, writers can still write a best-selling screenplay that isn’t total bluepill garbage. But there are going to be plot devices that attract female ticket buyers, sorry. There’s gonna be “love” in the movie, even if it’s just a lousy theme to excuse women out of having to understand timedilation.

    Where I believe they dropped the ball is not making a sequel about the Bulk Beings. In my opinion, I agree with TARS, humans could not have built the Tessaract. I think aliens did. I think Cooper is being optimistic, thinking humans in the future helped themselves in the past. Its more plausible and exciting if aliens did it, and we need to meet them. Like the aliens in Arrival, I’m bored with the story about the humans. I want to see the story 700 years in the future. Writers and Hollywood have a hard time of plausibly presenting the deep future. It’s always just like now which is a massive error.

    #842375
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    Gone transgender instead.

    I might be too hard on them. Their art was decent, I’m happy for having viewed it. If they want to be women, whatever… some people just want to wear panties and be someone else, that’s fine, they didn’t do s~~~ to me and I rather enjoyed their films.

    #842380
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    Gravel Pit
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    Maybe yall are right, Interstellar is blue pill. In that it’s so realistic, it accurately displays how blue pill humans really are. I don’t know. I just really like the film. I admit, there is a lot of love woo woo, and a whole truck load of crying and sadness… Still, it stands alone as something on par with 2001: A Space Odyssey. No other sci-fi has really nailed home timedilation.

    The black hole survival and worm hole near Saturn are pure SCI FANTASY, I admit that. But there is no other way to get your characters across the galaxy unless you want to write a film about a Generational ship crossing. To an extent, we’re always going to see woo woo in Sci Fi because spacetime is nearly impossible to traverse.

    You want to see a blue pill sci fi? Look no further than films like Passengers or Contact or Solaris. Interstellar allowed only so much blue-pillory as it had to in order to sell, which was not that much IMHO.

    Again, maybe I’m just crazy though and I’m infatuated with blue pill sci fi LOL

    #842400
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    Blood Axe
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    Sorry dude but Interstellar is blue pill as f~~~. “I transcended time with love” or some bollocks.

    Are you implying that anything with a hint of the blue pill is not to be enjoyed. Good luck with that. Evidence of the blue pill surrounds us, it’s everywhere. I would have to exist as a bump on a log that sank to the deepest depths of the ocean to avoid everything blue pill. I agree with GravelPit, it’s a great film that entertains the imagination.

    Back off Barbie!

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