What are you watching?

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The movie is available here along with a bunch of other stuff.
https://archive.org/details/history_202103















He gets to the gist of it about 10 minutes in

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The film that got Malcolm McDowell recognized for A Clockwork Orange. You can also find his movie Caligula. . . The only other 2 movies he seems to be recognized for (more or less.) Tales from the Crypt had him featured, as well as the PS1 game Wing Commander (I thought it was the 2nd one, but could be wrong.) Other than the movie Star Trek Generations, he seems to have wasted most of his career.



Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films'
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/j ... f-my-films

Some of his movies may have typecast him, as it seems rather odd that in a decade since Clockwork Orange, the one film he's known for was basically a continuation of some of his character's imagination in the previous film. His acting looked kind of bad (such as Caligula wishing that all of Rome had one neck to strangle it,) though that might have been a failure of the Directors (it had 3. . .)

Silent Films 1920-1930



Alien Nation (TV show)


Dinosaurs (1991)


Highlander TV Show Season 1-2 (better than the movies?)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103442/


The main actor was considered for Star Trek, though asked for too much money.



'Robin (of Sherwood') Hood 1980s TV show




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This is how the Star Wars movie would have originally appeared in theaters
https://archive.org/details/StarWars16mm

The other films are also uploaded here:
https://archive.org/download/star-wars-episode-8-2017

This is probably the best way to see the original theatrical release without visual artifacts from deterioration, which was briefly on DVD (and it seems to be unaltered since it uses the original voice of some of the characters which were changed.) It seems it's the Laserdisc release, and not DVD. . . though it is a decent version.
https://archive.org/details/star-wars-o ... rical-cuts







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Electronic Jihad Presents: Grindhouse Forever (Volume One) (basically trailers of exploitation films from the 1970s, which is probably better than actually watching the films.)

https://archive.org/details/ElectronicJ ... One_201402

Spoiler

Show

01. Intro
02. Foxy Brown
03. Love Camp 7
04. Just Before Dawn
05. Cannibal Holocaust
06. Motel Hell
07. Devil's Three
08. The Driller Killer
09. TNT Jackson
10. SS Camp 5 - Women's Hell
11. The One Armed Executioner
12. The Last House on the Left
13. Black Caesar
14. Maniac
15. The Forest
16. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
17. Cleopatra Jones
18. Death Promise
19. The Toolbox Murders
20. Race with the Devil
21. Snuff
22. SS Experiment Love Camp
23. Willie Dynamite
24. The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
25. Cannibal Ferox
26. Deranged
27. The Mutilator
28. The Last House on Dead End Street
29. The Cannibal Man
30. Don't Go In The Woods
31. Don't Go In The House
32. Don't Look In The Basement

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Hiram Abiff (means Widow's Son) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Abiff

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prison-hou ... own-tools/









A 5 minute short clip as a summary:


Clay animation has the same uncanny valley of AI.







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World's Wildest Police Videos

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Why The Wicker Man has divided opinion for 50 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-so ... d-65470238



That link has the full version of that fan restoration (and many claim the theatrical release should be the only version to watch, and yet I have yet to watch any of them.)

The original negatives were destroyed though an original cut of the footage was acquired (though the audio track is in bad shape according to the Summerisle Cut link?)
https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4664 ... s-theaters

A very different kind of movie.

"Here lieth Beech Buchanan, protected by the ejaculation of serpents?"
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCP ... eeb65bf7d6

Historical
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker_man

The main "theme song" Corn Rigs (and Barley Rigs) by Magnet

Spoiler

Show

It was upon a Lammas night
When corn rigs are bonnie,
Beneath the moon's unclouded light
I held a while to Annie.
The time went by with careless haid
'Til 'tween the late and early,
With small persuasion she agreed
To see me through the barley.
Corn Rigs and barley rigs
Corn rigs are bonny
I'll not forget that Lammas night
Among the rigs wi' Annie.
The sky was blue, the wind was still,
The moon was shining clearly.
I set her down wi' right good will
Amang the rigs o' barley.
I kept her heart, was a' my own.
I loved her most sincerely.
I kissed her o'er and o'er again
Amang the rigs of barley.
Corn Rigs and barley rigs
Corn rigs are bonny
I'll not forget that Lammas night.
Among the rigs wi' Annie.

Shows at these moments
https://twm.fandom.com/wiki/Corn_Rigs_and_Barley_Rigs

Historical origin (Robert Burns)
https://www.scottish-country-dancing-di ... -rigs.html





After seeing the film, it's certainly very different from what I imagined, and next, I will need to actually watch Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which are considered "classics" of horror. . . I prefer Dawn of the Dead or Night of the Living Dead because they didn't try to be too derivative and had a certain vibe that made games like Resident Evil appealing.

Currently, I'm watching Trainspotting and wish it had English subtitles instead of Portuguese. . .

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It seems a fairly evident question

If life is suffering, then why do people reproduce?
https://www.quora.com/If-life-is-suffer ... -reproduce

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I was looking over 1980-90s films:
https://archive.org/download/dazed-and- ... 993_202208
https://archive.org/details/@dj_liquid_louie

One of the films (the 'Nope' Sci fi) in the above link
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nope

Background of Nope by Jordan Peele
https://thinkchristian.net/nope-and-nahum-36


https://archive.org/details/@derganzblonde


And remembered Young Einstein (1988. . . so I saw it on TV) and realized, 'Yahoo Serious' is an actual name. . . But there's more.



https://archive.org/details/young-einstein-1988
https://archive.org/details/reckless-kelly-1993




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The last video was not the result of toxic grounds but extreme neglect, and the buildings are now all razed.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/business ... 933281007/

Seems like a conflict of interest with the city, since 154 buildings (300 condos) were destroyed to make way for a complex intended for 1000 residents with attached restaurants and shops, so very evidently this was intended to revitalize the area and perhaps a bit of gentrification.

It looks like a prime area for takeover?
https://goo.gl/maps/zZWTfjmy2LZfFkPJA

This Four Seasons Golf Center closed down around the same time of the takeover (2018) and doesn't exist in the recent satellite images.
https://goo.gl/maps/8taVNaANugFsCFtg7?c ... 3&entry=tt


Considering a large golf course is just to the south of it, it's evident what the city was trying to do.


I'm posting this here for later.

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Bloodsport


Higher res: https://archive.org/details/bloodsport-1988

5:40 minutes into it

Frank Dux (as the young version of Jean-Claude's character) might have just been "a little slow. . ." And his strabismus belies that he probably didn't even notice the katana and the karate master realized he was perfect for taking blows to the head?

The "real" Frank Dux was a liar extraordinaire, though the movie does have a "special place" with sentimentality.

The crappy acting was a weak point in many moments, and the people who were trained in genuine martial arts thought Jean-Claude was a poser when it came to fighting.

An alternative is the Bloodfist series (rated 45% and lower out of 9 films. . .) which uses actual experienced martial artists (and it shows in the bad acting? Was the title: BLOODFIST III: FORCED TO FIGHT tongue-in-cheek?)
https://archive.org/details/2.-bloodfis ... 80p-dvdrip
https://www.themoviedb.org/collection/1 ... uage=en-US




Recently uncovered 1947 headline from long-defunct newspaper offers "amazing glimpse" at UFO incident in Roswell
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roswell-uf ... -dispatch/





Good archival footage




War Journalist in Russia (Grozny conflict with Russia invasion)


Chechen's of Grozny are a republic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny)

And had been in conflict with Russia (1999-2000 and 1994–1995)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... 80%932000)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... 80%931995)




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I was looking over some old CD disc files (currently being uploaded to Archive to try and preserve it, and will include a link if it ever does upload; ex "There is a network problem 503 slow down," to try and run, and some of them are Windows 3.1 exclusively.

An example of such a game could be

9: THE LAST RESORT (And though it shows Windows compatible, released in 1996, it correctly lists 3.1 in the blog.) Abandonware Windows game won't work due to corruption?
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/9-th ... m#download
https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/p/adventure.html

A non-CD version
https://archive.org/details/9TheLastResort_1020

To run this you will need to use regular Dosbox and Win3DOSBox to drag and drop the 'windows' batch file into Dosbox (via shortcut works.) (If using a physical cd rom you would 'edit' by right clicking the 'windows' batch file and in-between the very last two * line, insert by typing without qoutation, "Mount G E:\ -t cdrom" with G being the assigned drive to 'mount' the burned disc iso and the E for whichever drive the CD is in.) In this case an ISO needs to be mounted, and the abandonware one doesn't work due to file corruption of the ISO?

Not sure it's worth messing with old discs or files, and I'm rather curious how this person got it to run at full rez for screen capture.



An example of how to use the older Windows games (since these apparently don't run directly with dos.)


I was tempted to get the MAC version of the above but then it has a .SIT compressed file, so I recognized it wouldn't even extract with 7-ZIP if downloaded, and since it isn't SCUMMVM it likely wouldn't run as I was interested in attempting, such as this next one (but then playing the video reminds me of why I stopped doing this. . .)

Either way, 9: The Last Resort is an overlooked game and has a lot more involved with the game than I expected (A bit like the big budget PC game Toonstruck featuring Christopher Loyd and Bill Nye.)

https://lparchive.org/9-Last-Resort/



One type of PC FMV game that strangely made it to PS1 when most games were moving past that era.


Another overlooked one





A ton of PC games (most of which are obsolete with different versions now.)
https://archive.org/details/@iceteaman


I've never noticed this before and it looks really good for 1994.

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A lot of odd claims (just let this happen. . .)







Less about Google maps





Somehow I never heard of this until now, it's rather interesting.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Essex

I guess you could say, "Mark Essex got Sacked?"

H.G. Wells War of the Worlds, presented as though fact.

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The Pilot ('Cemetery') painting 'Eyes' portion was Directed by Spielberg and starred Joan Crawford.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0064725/plot ... _=tt_ov_pl




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Disney "Marvel" movies:



I started and finished Guardians of the Galaxy 1&2 and Avengers 2 ending with 3 (Endgame) which I wanted to focus on considering it kind of wraps up much of the decade of MCU crap (I was a bit dissappointed in 'Marvel'/Disney BS formula of entertainment.)

The comics seem to appear very different (but if Disney has anything to go by, they really could care less other than to peddle their crap.)
https://screenrant.com/guardians-galaxy ... -not-ronan


An example of Disney/MCU bullshit is feigning competence, such as when Iron Man talks about physics.

The Physics of Avengers: Endgame
A quantum physicist separates fact from fiction
https://medium.com/@thomaswong_8663/the ... af65f7ee0


Basically "Tony dismisses it, saying, “Quantum fluctuation messes with the Planck scale, which then triggers the Deutsch Proposition (a time-travel paradox.)” These three terms have some meaning, but together, the sentence is meaningless. Quantum fluctuations refer to temporary fluctuations in energy due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle."

Refutation and summary:
"The Planck time is how long it takes light to travel that distance. Quantum mechanics tells us that everything is constantly fluctuating on small scales, but Planck-scale jitters of space and time themselves are so small that they've never been measured in the laboratory."

"“British physicist David Deutsch, invoking the 'many-universe' interpretation of quantum mechanics, believes that 'pastward' time travel would require travel to another, parallel universe — one in which I could kill my grandfather and in which I (therefore) would never be born."

It's humorous only as far as you can stand "I am Groot" and the obvious interest in peddling merchandise and sounding like Idiocracy with marketing bullshit products to the mindless consumers. It was only by luck that I watched Guardians of the Galaxy first, as Avengers would seem even more stupid than it already does if I didn't watch it in that order. The name-dropping nonsense and trying to fit into popular retro culture really get pretty stupid by the 20th time as well. You can also smell out the artificiality and trying to appeal to the audience on an emotional level (where the viewer feels as though they connect to the actors such as eating crappy cheap sandwiches or tacos while the actors are being paid gold bullion to crap all over the movie screen.)



Video Essays Explain Why The Making of The MCU Was a Sh*t Show (to make)
https://geektyrant.com/news/video-essay ... a-sht-show


One quote I thought was a bit odd sounded almost like a euphemism: "Who puts mayo on a hot dog? Probably your brothers. Uh, two mustard, please! Thanks, Mama. Got it! Nate, mayo or mustard? How about ketchup?"
https://clip.cafe/avengers-endgame-2019 ... -a-hotdog/

Seems he thought they were a "peter puffer?"

Then of course they all get taken away into the 'Rapture' and disappear.


Disney Is Ruining Marvel and STAR WARS
https://geektyrant.com/news/disney-is-r ... -star-wars



After some deliberation raging at the movies on pause, FUCK YOU DISNEY!


Likewise



Most of the actors involved seemed like they were all auditioning for the parts they played. . . And no one else was possibly better. . . Which is remarkable.

Marvel's VFX Artists Are Suffering -- and Starting to Speak Out
https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainm ... aking-out/

Allegedly it's claimed that Marvel studios always had budget constraints, but when Disney fully expects their 250 million dollar movie to make 2-3 times the amount in return within a short time-frame (expecting the streaming services to continue to profit for years to come) you can usually expect a greed-based enterprise is to blame.

The same with Disney hiking up the cost of waiting in lines at a theme park and buying overpriced crap made in China, often has to do with what is an expendable consideration to what they can get away with while keeping their brand contained to a surface-level superficiality tolerated by a FOMO BS fanbase.


https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopini ... spoilers/
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I know people like this

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This has PDF files as well in the link


MK ULTRA, LSD, Hippie Movement, Mind Control, Persuasion, Identity


That link has excerpts from this 3 hour movie about genuine MK UItra project studies in Canada
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138104/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_Room





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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Epstein
https://archive.org/search?query=creato ... Epstein%22

L'Or des mers (Law of the Sea) Jean Epstein France / 1932
https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/ ... tein-1932/


short 20 min
Les feux de la mer (1948) The Fires of the Sea
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/forepla ... -de-la-mer

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Doxastic attitudes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxastic_attitudes
https://www.fosterphilosophy.com/









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Star Wars Holiday Special (Steven D. Binder, 1978)
Rated 19-25% (though somehow better than Disney Star Wars movies?)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_w ... ay_special

(This has shorter clips after the main movie)

"Higher quality" (2.4 gig version)
https://archive.org/details/the-star-wa ... lete-60fps

That last link has these (aside from a majority of Thomas the Train stuff. . .) :

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This video went viral online:


I was trying to look into what the 963Hz refers to (I'm mostly familiar with what Schumann resonance are, which is considered what the earth gives off) and this one refers to as 'Solfeggio' frequency (one of many based on a medieval music theorist who popularized harmonics as an art form, but had far less to do with study of frequency because the concept didn't exist yet, and was an implied study of octaves and how it get's utilized with sound patterns.)

https://www.emiferguson.com/solfege

Though the above video is more of an applied attribution of the music theory, I'll post more videos in connection to the singer (since he became popular on 'Britain's Got Talent,' another musician who was recognized early on acompanied him, and also reprised his earlier role. Incidentally if he was performing music over a century ago he would have been turned into a 'Castrato' to preserve his higher pitch.

Aled Jones and 12-year-old treble Malakai M Bayoh sing stunning 'O Holy Night


The person he's singing with (whose name is Aled Jones) reprises his earlier role:


I tend to believe frequency was an important concept early on in antiquity; much of it has been glossed over in modern religion. A concept referred to as a Merkaba/Merkabah is incorporated in many different old-European Christian churches (and I've seen it with the Hebrew words for Yahweh incorporated into stained glass.) https://consciousitems.com/blogs/practi ... ba-meaning

Even the "Om" and similar sounds used in meditation could be considered similar in nature:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... ticulation.


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Pedro really wanted some strawberry ice cream.












Barry Lyndon and Alien and Alien 3, etc.
https://archive.org/download/night-that ... 975_202108

Not sure about this one. . .




https://archive.org/download/fgo-1996_202104



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Batman and Justice League (DC Universe) mostly cartoons
https://archive.org/download/httpsarchi ... orporation