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By that token, you'd think you wouldn't want to engage with religion.

All the best, Tony.

"The Wolf of Wall Street"

Well-crafted, and Di Caprio is an excellent actor, but it didn't do it for me.

Stock market "Goodfellas", obviously, but sex and drugs appear to make a poor substitute for violence and murder.

I lost faith in modelling when they told me I was too fat, and too ugly.

Judgmental pricks.

Ingrid Bergman:

Watching a movie called "Saratoga Trunk", made in 1945, and whoever lit it knew his business as she looks fantastic.

From a movie called "Period of Adjustment".

Nothing special, Jane aside.

Watched "Dawn of the Dead" a while back.

That movie actually scared me as a kid. I must have been high.

It's laughably bad, though it does contain this memorable scene:

He used to preach hate against Mexicans, and Moslems, and the deep state, etc. His solutions were simple: build a wall, stop immigration, drain the swamp. Straw men with straw solutions.

His problem is the enemy this time is a real threat, it's killing Americans by the thousands, and he has no answers.

Was supposed to be in Hanoi today, on my way to Singapore and then Colombo.

Fuck you, covid 19!

Instead, I spent last night watching "Waco".

An impressive production, over-all. 7 of 10

As always, it's hard to tell how accurate it is, but I think I agree with it's take on what happened there at the end.

The return to work recommendation, is that for everyone?

Or has there been some attempt to bring it in in stages, according to the work that's most necessary and/or those workplaces that can most easily be adjusted to allow social distancing, etc.

The first time I saw Spacey was in the TV show "Wiseguy".

His character was a bad guy, and his partner in crime, and everything else, was his sister.

Played an oddball as if he was born to the role.

Robert Shaw

Ian McKellan

Alec Guinness should be on the list.

Even though they're circumcised, I still don't think their kosher.

RIP

One of a kind.

Four Lions

That was an interesting experience.

Hilarious movie--the scene where he's telling his son the revamped version of the Lion King, the water-pistol fight with his wife and brother, and many more--but at the same time I kept thinking of Manchester.

I'd recommend it, in any event.

34 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

What you said was that victory in WW2 was "actually accomplished by the one ideology that righties are always banging on about that they hate".

 

All I did was point out that victory could have been achieved without such a terrible loss of Russian life, and that throwing corpses at the Nazi war machine isn't a particularly great advert for the Stalin regime.

 

My argument is that victory wasn't accomplished by the ideology, so much as with sheer force of numbers, which is something the Russians would have had whoever was in charge. I don't see this as particularly controversial.

I'll leave you to parse the question of what role the ideology played in winning the war, defeating the Nazis, and ending the holocaust. 

And whether or not it could have been achieved with the loss of fewer Russian lives.

As I said, there's just no pleasing some people.

8 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Not sure where your point was proven, exactly, because surely the Nazis could have been defeated without quite such a colossally futile loss of life.

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the one ideology that righties are always banging on about that they hate

They end the war, defeat the Nazis, stop the Holocaust, and yet it's not enough, as they didn't do it as efficiently as possible.

There's just no pleasing some people.

45 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Not sure sending millions of undersupplied peasants to their doom is a tremendous advert for the Soviet ideology, if I'm honest.

I'd say the defeat of the Nazis was the one event which you could say was a tremendous advert for the Soviet ideology.

It took one monstrous regime to defeat another.

But thanks for proving my point.

3 minutes ago, A Red said:

Its celebrating the end of the war and sacrifice in the defeat of the one ideology that lefties are always banging on about that they hate,  what is there not to like?

The fact that it was actually accomplished by the one ideology that righties are always banging on about that they hate?

Schrodinger's Kat

2 hours ago, Mook said:

It's a body double for her in that nude scene.

 

Mudbound (Netflix), this was well above the usual 'A Netflix Film' standard, this was about the war, families, racism & some other stuff. Set in the deep south during the 2nd World War. Worth a watch.

Even the initial frontal nudity?

I feel almost as hoodwinked Sergeant Howie.