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Visioneers

It's been out for a while. It sort of reminds me of office space, but I think its much better. It makes me want escape the corporate rate race and subdivision life of plastic Greenville even more so than office space did.

Synopsis:
George Washington Winsterhammerman lives an ordinary life. He has a wife, a kid, a house and a boat. Every day George gets in his minivan and goes to work as a Level Three Tunt at the Jeffers Corporation, the largest and most profitable corporation in the history of mankind. It is an utterly comfortable life, but when people around George begin exploding, he fears he might be next.
The ending was kind of lame, but overall it was a good paraody of life as an office drone.
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Reefer Madness (2005)

Based on the stage play, this musical parody of 1936 film 'Reefer Madness' takes that already overblown criticism of marijuana usage in the source film and ups the ante to humorous effect.
:D :thumbup:
Reefer Madness (Tell Your Children) (Doped Youth) (1936)

This is one of the '30s-era "out-for-your-best-interests" films. This one deals with the dangers associated with smoking marijuana and shows how high-school students, after smoking a little pot, may easily commit rapes and other awful drug-induced activities. In later years, in a more marijuana-enlightened society, this film has become a comedic cult classic.
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My cable company is giving me more channels than I'm paying for. No real premiums and some are shlock, but I am getting National Geographic and an additional public station with Blue Ridge Community College TV. I'm also getting STARZ Encore Westerns, serials and movies. I'm not a big western fan and I'm not watching the old serials, but:

High Noon (1952)

:clap: Kind of an anti-It's a Wonderful Life (1946) with guns.

Ned Kelly (2003)

:clap: :clap: Some invention, but a lot that's accurate, Wiki: Ned Kelly.
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Vrede too wrote:My cable company is giving me more channels than I'm paying for. No real premiums and some are shlock, but I am getting National Geographic and an additional public station with Blue Ridge Community College TV. I'm also getting STARZ Encore Westerns, serials and movies. I'm not a big western fan and I'm not watching the old serials, but:

High Noon (1952)

:clap: Kind of an anti-It's a Wonderful Life (1946) with guns.

Ned Kelly (2003)

:clap: :clap: Some invention, but a lot that's accurate, Wiki: Ned Kelly.
The Man from Snowy River (1982 film)

:clap: :clap:
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Vrede too wrote:
Vrede too wrote:My cable company is giving me more channels than I'm paying for. No real premiums and some are shlock, but I am getting National Geographic and an additional public station with Blue Ridge Community College TV. I'm also getting STARZ Encore Westerns, serials and movies. I'm not a big western fan and I'm not watching the old serials, but:

High Noon (1952)

:clap: Kind of an anti-It's a Wonderful Life (1946) with guns.

Ned Kelly (2003)

:clap: :clap: Some invention, but a lot that's accurate, Wiki: Ned Kelly.
The Man from Snowy River (1982 film)

:clap: :clap:

Once Upon a Time In the West 1968


The opening has one of my all time favorite bad guys with his evil eye doing battle with a fly

Jack Elam and the fly.

https://youtu.be/ysvwk-5H8H8
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HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!!!
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Ride with the Devil (1999)

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A lot of the young cast has killed it since, as has Director Ang Lee.
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Michael Parks, ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ Actor, Dies at 77
Always liked this guy. I first noticed him as a teenager in Then Came Bronson, where he seemed, at first, to be dull and unresponsive in his acting, by the more overwrought standards of the 50s & 60s. But watching him, even a kid began to notice how authentic his acting was, how little he said with dialog, but how expansive he was with subtle facial expressions and body language. There was a brief period in the 8th grade when all the boys adopted a black stocking cap like Jim Bronson's, turned up just so and worn forward, just above the eyebrows.
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Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific

Amazing for 1939. :clap: Barbara Stanwyck is brilliant and Akim Tamiroff (a Russian-Armenian playing a Mexican?) is a hoot in a supporting role.
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Vrede too wrote:Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific

Amazing for 1939. :clap: Barbara Stanwyck is brilliant and Akim Tamiroff (a Russian-Armenian playing a Mexican?) is a hoot in a supporting role.
Almost anything de Mille did was as overwrought as a Lifetime Channel movie. And, yet, I rarely miss an opportunity to watch The Greatest Show on Earth. So much scenery to chew; so little time.
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The Help

:clap: :clap: :clap: Not just for the message, also a really well made and powerful film.
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The Help

:clap: :clap: :clap: Not just for the message, also a really well made and powerful film.

https://youtu.be/oQ6aVQxwerw

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Doh! It was altered to 'spit' for TV. Even better, thanks. Sissy Spacek was hilarious, I cracked up with her.
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Vrede too wrote:
Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:17 pm
rstrong wrote:
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...A week later after Fargo is devastated, it heads for Winnipeg...
Rest of the world doesn't notice. :P
Traffic is tied up around my office because a major route a couple blocks away is shut down for filming all this week. Forest Whitaker and Theo James are in town filming "How it Ends" for Netflix. "A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos."

Earlier this summer another major route was shut down to film "Break My Heart 1000 Times." "Set nine years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts."

Winnipeg used to be the standard location for filming anything set in Chicago. Including three movies in one summer alone, a decade or so ago. Now we're the go-to location for post-apocalyptic events. And to think that I once had a hell of a time trying to convince the Emergency Measures Organization that Winnipeg was like this when I got here.

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rstrong wrote:
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Vrede too wrote:
Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:17 pm
rstrong wrote:
Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:44 am
...A week later after Fargo is devastated, it heads for Winnipeg...
Rest of the world doesn't notice. :P
Traffic is tied up around my office because a major route a couple blocks away is shut down for filming all this week. Forest Whitaker and Theo James are in town filming "How it Ends" for Netflix. "A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos."

Earlier this summer another major route was shut down to film "Break My Heart 1000 Times." "Set nine years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts."

Winnipeg used to be the standard location for filming anything set in Chicago. Including three movies in one summer alone, a decade or so ago. Now we're the go-to location for post-apocalyptic events. And to think that I once had a hell of a time trying to convince the Emergency Measures Organization that Winnipeg was like this when I got here.

Winnipeg... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
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The Homesman

One of the saddest movies I've ever seen. If you can handle that, it's a great one.
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The Homesman

One of the saddest movies I've ever seen. If you can handle that, it's a great one.
That movie was really good. I
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Another sad movie, Andy Griffith's first, but also funny and scary. Still relevant 60 years later.

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This looks like a good movie:

Piranhaconda

"A piranha-anaconda hybrid terrorizes a movie crew after a scientist steals an egg from the creature's nest."

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The Wrestler

I gotta start watching more upbeat movies, but it's a great one.
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