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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Queequeg

#18285
April 10, 2014, 09:28:26 PM
Sheilbh, what did you think of Wind that Shakes the Barley?  I found it extremely effective emotionally but ultimately a bit repulsive.  Loach's anti-Irish Protestant/English sentiments are near self-hating. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Queequeg

#18286
April 10, 2014, 09:59:48 PM
Anyone remember an HBO adaptation of And the Band Played On?  I really wanted to read the book, but saw the movie on HBO Go and decided to watch.  I actually think I watched at least a part of it in the 90s, the opening scene looked really familiar.  I'm fascinated by the subject, it looks pretty good so far. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

CountDeMoney

#18287
April 10, 2014, 10:02:40 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 10, 2014, 09:59:48 PM
Anyone remember an HBO adaptation of And the Band Played On?  I really wanted to read the book, but saw the movie on HBO Go and decided to watch.  I actually think I watched at least a part of it in the 90s, the opening scene looked really familiar.  I'm fascinated by the subject, it looks pretty good so far.

Yeah, that was a very good production.  Alan Alda was spot on for Gallo as he was portrayed in the book.

Queequeg

#18288
April 10, 2014, 10:06:39 PM
It is really good.  Ian McKellan and Modine are great.  Extremely humane, but simultaneously terrifying. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

CountDeMoney

#18289
April 10, 2014, 10:14:04 PM
Yes, medical researchers can be terrifying at times. 
Doing a lot of work right now with that particular community;  try being the only person in the room with a humanities-based education, and you learn very quickly what terrifying truly is.  :lol:

Queequeg

#18290
April 10, 2014, 10:22:48 PM
By the time I was born (1988) the AIDS epidemic was at its peak but some of the first antiretrovirals were already being introduced.  I can't imagine how terrifying it was to come up against a disease with a near-100% mortality rate that kills in the most painful, humiliating way imaginable. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

CountDeMoney

#18291
April 10, 2014, 10:29:07 PM
Yeah, you missed all the panicky fun of the early outbreak, bad conspiracies and all.  People worried that it could be transmitted by mosquitoes.  The insanity surrounding Ryan White.  That Castro used it as a biological weapon against the US.

It took Rock Hudson to bring real mainstream awareness to the issue, as up to then it was considered a plague solely for the "Three H's": Haitians, hemophiliacs and homosexuals.

Queequeg

#18292
April 10, 2014, 10:31:12 PM Last Edit: April 10, 2014, 10:33:30 PM by Queequeg
I asked my mom about it, and apparently the adopted brother of one of her sister's best friends was born with it and died in the mid-80s.  She almost started crying. I can't think of an infectious disease that has effected my family.   

Also; fucking Pacman?  Seriously?
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

CountDeMoney

#18293
April 10, 2014, 10:33:11 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 10, 2014, 10:31:12 PM
Also; fucking Pacman?  Seriously?

It's called a plot device.

Queequeg

#18294
April 10, 2014, 10:34:29 PM
Oh.  I was wondering if that was actually what happened. 

Also; I pretty much automatically love anything with Donal Logue.  Donal Logue is the best. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Queequeg

#18295
April 10, 2014, 10:39:29 PM
I'm kind of surprised Richard Gere had the guts to be in this.  You'd think he would avoid it, as I am guessing the gerbil rumor was already well entrenched.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Josquius

#18296
April 11, 2014, 07:01:58 AM
The Warriors- Never seen this one before. I understand why they made a game of it. It does unfold like a video game. It is wonderful.
Hearing "Can you dig it" used unironically is funny.
Though I do wonder how the gang is white/black mixed, and how they got dibs on the name The Warriors.
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Eddie Teach

#18297
April 11, 2014, 07:16:58 AM
Quote from: Tyr on April 11, 2014, 07:01:58 AM
"Can you dig it"

We can dig it. :yes:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Grey Fox

#18298
April 11, 2014, 07:18:13 AM
Because they are from Cooney Island.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

The Larch

#18299
April 11, 2014, 07:34:20 AM
Best adaptation of a classic greek work until O Brother.
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