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#33330
June 12, 2016, 01:44:18 PM
Everest: I liked it. B
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Jaron

#33331
June 12, 2016, 03:40:04 PM
Yesterday I watched X MEN: APOCALYPSE

I didn't think it was a great movie, but it wasn't bad either. I couldn't stop seeing Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark, but I found her acting to be flat and subdued. Kind of like season 1 GOT Sansa.
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Admiral Yi

#33332
June 13, 2016, 12:22:48 AM
They've got to stop beating up Danesh all the time in Silicon Valley.

Capetan Mihali

#33333
June 13, 2016, 12:31:01 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 12, 2016, 01:29:26 PM
Jonathan Meades has finally completed his trilogy of documentaries on the architecture of tyrants :w00t:
Quote'The dictator who failed to dictate': free-range architecture under Mussolini

Sounds great.  Did you ever read Roger Griffin's Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning Under Mussolini and Hitler?  I'd think it would be a great primer for this documentary, as it delves into the very conflicted relationship between fascism and modernism (especially in Fascist Italy, where the state was much more encouraging of modernist art and architecture than Nazi Germany ever was).
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Valmy

#33334
June 13, 2016, 08:12:45 AM
Yeah Fascism in Italy had a real avant-garde feel to it. What was that artistic movement called again? Futurism?
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Savonarola

#33335
June 13, 2016, 12:24:18 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 13, 2016, 08:12:45 AM
Yeah Fascism in Italy had a real avant-garde feel to it. What was that artistic movement called again? Futurism?

Yes, although Futurism predated Mussolini's rise to power; in fact The Futurist Manifesto was written before the First World War.  (Marinetti even wrote a Futurist cookbook, take that cubists.  :P)

Similarly there were a large number of avant-garde artistic movements in the early years of the Soviet Union.  Stalin crushed them all and made Socialist Realism the only acceptable art form.

(Like the Soviet Union, Italy made a number of films in the silent era.  Mussolini viewed this as a point of pride for Italy, and invested heavily in the medium.  The films the Italians made were lavish spectacles, very different from the lavish propaganda pieces of the USSR.)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#33336
June 13, 2016, 12:35:44 PM Last Edit: June 13, 2016, 03:25:41 PM by Savonarola
Party Girl (1930)

This film depicts the scandalous party girl racket, in which innocent young men are entrapped in the decadent world of bootleg gin, jazz and party girls.  To make matters worse these shameful escapades are where business was transacted.  Cringe as pillars of their community down hooch, put on grass skirts and grope flappers.  Hide your sons!  Hide your daughters!  New York is the Devil's city.   :mad:

Okay, yeah, this is an exploitation film; and not a very good one.  It's notable for being Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s first talkie.  Everyone else is forgettable, (or rather memorable for obviously reading cue cards.)  The one high point is that there's a lift that takes the car from the street right into the foyer where the party is being held.

Edit:  Check out the 1930 NYT Movie Review.  I like the line about "Indelicate humor."
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Sheilbh

#33337
June 13, 2016, 05:27:58 PM
FYI, Mussolini film here:
https://vimeo.com/169015926

Of that collection I'd also recommend his France documentary and his Brutalised one. The ones on Nazi and Stalinist architecture (Jerry-building and Joe-building) are well worth digging out and on YouTube.

I do normally agree with him but he's recently come out in defence of post-modern design :ultra:
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Valmy

#33338
June 13, 2016, 06:02:21 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 13, 2016, 05:27:58 PM
I do normally agree with him but he's recently come out in defence of post-modern design :ultra:

:o
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

FunkMonk

#33339
June 14, 2016, 07:12:14 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 13, 2016, 05:27:58 PM
I do normally agree with him but he's recently come out in defence of post-modern design :ultra:

Monstrous.
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Liep

#33340
June 15, 2016, 04:57:42 PM
A DC movie I might actually watch.

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Razgovory

#33341
June 15, 2016, 06:02:59 PM
It looks like Troy 2: Lady's night out
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Sophie Scholl

#33342
June 17, 2016, 12:55:16 AM
I decided to catch Warcraft in 3d tonight.  I wasn't expecting a lot, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I've been playing the various incarnations since Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, so it was really interesting to see it come to life.  It's got to be hands down the best video game adaptation to a movie I've ever seen.  Faint praise, I know.  Still, I would definitely recommend it to any past players for the sake of nostalgia at the very least.  I'd be rather interested to hear what any non-players thought of it.  On a scale of Warchiefs, I rate it Orgrim Doomhammer.
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Razgovory

#33343
June 17, 2016, 12:57:51 AM
Looking at the trailer hurt my eyes.  The way the computer graphics and the live actors interacted looked all screwy to me.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

#33344
June 17, 2016, 01:46:13 AM
Quote from: celedhring on June 02, 2016, 07:51:05 PM
Apparently they are going to reshoot 40% of Star Wars: Rogue One and have brought in Christopher McQuarrie (the last MI flick, The Usual Suspects, Edge of Tomorrow...) to rewrite the script. 6 months before release. So, I guess we can toss that one to the garbage bin. Pity.

Edge of Tomorrow was fucking awesome, but yeah...that doesn't sound good to put it mildly.
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