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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Tue Apr 11, 2023 4:09 am

Christoph Schlingensief - Egomania: Insel ohne Hoffnung (Egomania: Island Without Hope), 1986 with English Subtitles
https://vk.com/video-168081674_456239235

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090998/
"There will be no other end to the world: fierce battles full of hatred and love for incest and wealth."

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Patrick Bokanowski - La Plage (The Beach), 1992
https://vk.com/video-168081674_456239233

The Angel (much longer non-verbal "art film")




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A series of odd Japanese films starting in 1970s, which may have inspired Kill Bill.



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Bela Tarr - Werckmeister Harmonies (I don't believe this has English subtitles)
https://vk.com/video-168081674_456239247





Andrew Noren - Imaginary Light, 1994 (30 minutes no sound)
https://vk.com/video-168081674_456239207


Takashi Ito - Ghost, 1984 (6 minutes, better)
https://vk.com/video-168081674_456239194



Vipin Vijay - Video Game, 2006 (in English)
https://vk.com/video-168081674_456239170







The bamboo water-fountain yard art that tips out and makes noise is called a Shishi-odoshi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishi-odoshi







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10 Best JRPGs Ever Made, Ranked
https://www.dualshockers.com/best-jrpgs-of-all-time/

I've considered returning to Square Enix games but I can't be bothered. Every time I look at them I'm reminded why they simply are not the same company they were in the 1990s.





I would rather replay a game like Earthbound a third time than some of these.


I should mention that the Bioshock series is fully available for $12 on Steam, and if I didn't already own them I would buy them again.
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Post by Catoptric » Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:24 pm





Andrei Tarkovsky’s Very First Films: Three Student Films, 1956-1960
https://www.openculture.com/2012/06/and ... -1960.html





A ton of Photojournalism documentaries
https://archive.org/details/@barangbagus


This guy just died in December (100 years old) and was a journalist in WW2


Contacts: Photographer's Secrets (2004)
https://archive.org/details/contactps

A ton of short videos (mostly really stunted robotic-sounding voice audio. . . though I don't think it's a robot) covering many of the Magnum photographers like Cartier Bresson (who also had a long life of nearly 100 and I assumed he was dead when I first heard about him in 2002.)

The least they could have done with that last link is show some damn photos, but it looks like they compiled audio clips and enlarged bad thumbnail images. This is why I don't jump ahead and download videos on Archive without playing them first.



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The music with Westworld experimental video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFFiPxm ... U0&index=1



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The followup of the child actor (who sounds a bit like Billy Driscoll, Jake Loyd, perhaps Macaulley Culkin )


The Life of a Child Star: Why Some Go Crazy and Other’s Don’t
https://www.medicalbag.com/home/special ... hers-dont/



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


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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Wed Apr 12, 2023 7:35 pm



Hironobu Sakaguchi


3:30 and then he makes a film (Spirits Within). . . Though I don't want to ruin a good story. It was a golden era of RPG games (even when I didn't really care for some of the games that were being made at the time, simply because I appreciated the artistic license behind works like Saga Frontier or Legend of Mana.) Something seems to have happened where the games degenerated once they attempted to appeal to too many people; and perhaps just as he is saying, more creativity can produce a passionate game full of energy, so too do "too many cooks spoil the soup," and they can become formulaic cash grabs (even if they are designed without any interest in the money itself, it becomes evident that Squaresoft panicked and started to mass produce things like Kingdom Hearts games) with little inspiration to create the depth that compelled earlier games to be made in the first place.

Looking over FF6 (my first RPG game,) FF7, Chrono Trigger and Xenogears (which was rushed in the second disc to make way for FF8.) The stories seem to gradually become oddly placed stage props where a "good enough" idea becomes justified in creating iterative platforms, filled by little more than making things work as they go along with it (which was evident during the 1990s but more recently it carried over into production hell for FF XV.) The characters are inspired but sometimes the game really is more than just characters, and over time the environments seem empty and vacant, and "forced" into existence.


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Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967) Paul Newman


A ton of movies (a lot of Japanese ones)
https://archive.org/details/@tajones2328

An example is, 'CAT SHIT ONE THE ANIMATED SERIES'


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Soylent Green with Charlton Heston


Blog: Still Watching the Skies: Episode 4 "Soylent Green"


The Getaway ( 1972) Steve McQueen



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Mediums, Magicians, and the Ouija Board: A Spiritualist History of Baltimore
https://www.facebook.com/theprattlibrar ... 5761711336

The presentation of this is pretty cringe.





Henry Cotton
https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-cotton

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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:38 am






Alfred Hitchock Presents (TV special)


Many (all?) of his films


I had a DVD collection but they show as VOB files, and I'm not really in the mood to mess with them. Here are the ilst of movies and their ratings (since I needed to go over each disc to see what they were, since it's all in Chinese,)

Alfred Hitchcock collection 8 disc with movie ratings Rotten Tomatoes Critic~Audience/IMDB
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Alfred Hitchcock collection 8 disc
Disc 1
Mr and Mrs Smith – 1941 64~48%/6.3 Carol Lombard and Robert Montgomery
Under Capricorn – 1949 59~33%/6.2 Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Secret Agent – 1936 89~47%/6.4 Peter Lorre
Spellbound – 1945 85~82%/7.5 Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck

Disc 2
Notorious – 1946 96~91%/7.9 Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant
Rebecca – 1940 98~92%/8.1 Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders
Suspicion – 1941 97~77%/7.3 Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant
The 39 Steps – 1935 96~86%/7.6 Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, John Laurie

Disc 3
The Birds – 1963 94~83%/7.6 Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor
Dial M for Murder – 1954 90~92%/8.2 Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, John Williams
Rear Window – 1954 98~95%/8.5 James Stewart, Grace Kelly
Psycho – 1960 96~95%/8.5 Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh

Disc 4
North by Northwest – 1959 97~94%/8.3 Cary Grant, Jessie Royce Landis, James Mason, Martin Landau
To Catch a Thief – 1955 92~84%/7.4 Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Shadow of a Doubt – 1943 100~89%/7.8 Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Saboteur – 1942 80~71%/7.1 Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane

Disc 5
Rich and Strange – 1931 75~31%/5.7 Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann
The Trouble with Harry – 1955 88~73%/7 John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine
The Wrong Man – 1956 93~75%/7.4 Henry Fonda, Vera Miles
I Confess – 1953 81~77%/7.2 Montgomery Clift, Anna Baxter, Karl Malden
Stage Fright – 1950 91~68%/7 Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman

Disc 6
Marnie – 1964 83~73%/7.1 Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Murder – 1930 89~38%/6.3 Norah Baring, Herbert Marshall
Lifeboat – 1944 90~87%/7.6 Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Mary Anderson
Foreign Correspondent – 1940 95~81%/7.4 Joel McCrea, Loraine Day,
Sabotage – 1936 92~69%/7 Silvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, William Dewhurst, and cameo Hitchcock

Disc 7
The Man Who Knew Too Much (B&W) – 1934 89~67%/6.7 Peter Lorre, Edna Best
The Lady Vanishes – 1938 98~88%/7.8 Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
The Paradine Case – 1947 77~48%/6.5 Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton
Young and Innocent – 1938 100~88%/6.8 Nova Pilbeam, Pamela Carme, Pat Fitzpatrick, Mary Clare
Jamaica Inn – 1939 55~35%/6.3 Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton, Horace Hodges

Disc 8
The Skin Game – 1931 38~18%/5.7 Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Konstam, Jill Esmond
The Man who Knew Too Much (color) – 1956 87~84%/7.4 James Stewart and Doris Day
Strangers On a Train – 1951 98~92%/7.9 Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Pat Hitchcock, Ruth Roman
Vertigo – 1958 92~93%/8.3 James Stewart, Kim Novak
Rope – 1948 92~90%/7.9 James Stewart, John Dall

The critic reviews differ starkly with the audience ( https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrit ... _hitchcock )


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Streaming:

American Cinema (Annenberg Series which are used as classroom learning material)
https://www.learner.org/series/american-cinema/

12-part 1.3 gig each episode


One Director shown in Episode 10, Jim Jarmusch, is someone I only knew as the 'Frostee Cream Boy' (age 40+) in Sling Blade, which happens to be his movie involvement with the highest rating, on here:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jim_jarmusch

He seems like what Quentin Tarantino would be if he never was noticed for Pulp Fiction, but it's apparent where his films lack and seem like old Hollywood B movies. At his best, he reminds me a lot of Jean-Luc Godard (who has similar ratings.)

I get the impression the movie, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, probably influenced the making of GTA games like San Andreas (which seemed to introduce katanas as weapons around that time, but also Kill Bill?)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghost_ ... he_samurai


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The above was a bad remake of this?

Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/le_samourai



Needs subtitles in a video playback software
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd12330/the- ... e-samourai


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ReBoot (CGI cartoon from 1994-2001)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108903/

This seemed kind of crazy at the time (and still does when you consider no other TV series ever did full CGI before or since, that I'm aware of) :

Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 7y-p2xq9qs
Download https://archive.org/details/re-boot-epi ... son-binome


Even George Lucas had given up on any kind of full CGI animation during the mid-1990s (though of course, he utilized a lot for Star Wars) when he sold Pixar to Steve Jobs.

I tended to ignore the series after the first season and seem to have thought it was made even earlier than it was. Part of the reason for this is that the series was canceled by ABC after the 2nd season, restarted in Canada in 1997, and then again in 2001 (when it took on a darker theme from earlier shows.)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108903/ep ... =tt_eps_sm

ReBoot: 30 Weird Things About The Show Nobody Ever Knew
https://www.thegamer.com/reboot-weird-t ... irst-nulls



Saint's Row 4 seemed to be greatly inspired by this show, as the voice actor seemed to imitate the voice mannerism for the evil alien character (and I could have sworn they used the same actor, but apparently he was dead earlier in 2004 or something; I would look up the name again, but it should be pretty obvious.)

To compare Megabyte to Saints Row IV Zinyak





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Mighty Max
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140749/ep ... =tt_eps_sm

It was around the same time another slightly overlooked cartoon was aired.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJ68aL ... deo0-1Wx9S

I can't seem to find an Archive video of it.

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EL TOPO (1971) by Alejandro Jodorowsky
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/el_topo



The movie got John Lennon's attention and may have contributed to Jodorowsky's cult appeal (though the guy's eccentricity seems to have been a major disservice to his career, where this kind of narrative style he's known for grew out of fashion.) Most companies would be terrified of working with someone like Jodorowsky.



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The best movie adaptations of THE COUNT OF MONTE CHRISTO by ALEXANDER DUMAS



I liked Depardieu's TV program (each of 4 episodes was movie length) though I only had the first 1-2 vhs.)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1434047/

The book isn't listed here for some reason
https://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?a ... 0Alexandre
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:33 pm

Some new ones to go through. . .
https://archive.org/details/television_inbox

(and I was looking for X-Files earlier but it didn't seem to show)

The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen And Millennium(All 3 Complete Series)

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm

It's missing the Pilot episode



PBS Nova Documentaries

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm


Similar (though maybe something better off skimming with the index) Alternatively, look through https://archive.org/details/@seamac

Bridging World History - Annenberg Series by Oregon Public Broadcasting
https://archive.org/details/bridging-wo ... -religions



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Dragon Ball Z - The Ocean/Westwood Dub Collection + Movies
https://archive.org/details/dragon-ball ... d-complete

Different compression?

Dragon Ball Z - The Original Ocean/In-House Dub + Movies Collection
https://archive.org/details/DBZ-original-version

DBZ shows
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm

DBZ movies
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls075011720/

I'm reluctant to download any of them because too many of them differ with versions (sound dubbing and length.) and whether any are any good (or not derivative.)

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Futurama
https://archive.org/details/bitemyshinymetala--
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm



I was a bit surprised to see Doraemon, though it's literally one of the worst shows by the look of the ratings (despite being made since 1979-2005)
https://archive.org/details/doraemon-19 ... -subtitles
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm

Sacred Weeds BBC Channel 4 Documentary Series


1. Amanita Muscara
2. Blue Lilly
3. Henbane
4. Salvia Divinorum



Utopia
TV Series
2013–2014
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2384811/



What is it about British TV series only having 6 episodes to a season? ?

The story revolves around a fictional comic, 'The Utopia Experiments' (2013,) that functions as the MacGuffin for the story, shown here:


PDF download here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/utopiatv/comme ... &context=3

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This actually looks pretty cool: an historical Ottoman drama

Diriliş: Ertuğrul or Resurrection Ertugral
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4320258/

The English subtitles are present.


An insane number of episodes, and I never heard of it.



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X (2001) (anime series)
https://archive.org/details/x-2001
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312258/


X-Men: The Animated Series (1992)
https://archive.org/details/x-men-the-a ... eries-1992
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm


1966 Speed Racer - The Complete Original Series
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:28 am

These are pretty cool (Victorian and a Christmas Farm special) circa 2009-2010


This is a newer iteration of those in 2013 featuring the Tudor era.


ep 2



2016 series The Farming Life


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Seemingly as old a period of time

The Gumby Show
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm









https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm



The Magic Short Bus



https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm



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Theoria Apophasis YT channel
https://www.youtube.com/@kathodosdotcom/videos



How the US stole America (from the natives)
https://fb.watch/jWDdYM4pIC/



John Pilger Documentaries (includes a Utopia documentary about Aussie aboriginals from 2013, not to be confused with the British show Utopia from 2013 (or the shit Amazon trash from 2020)




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X-files spinoff, Millenium (which seems to have corresponding show names from the main series, but it looks like a desperate attempt at success similar to how Star Trek created alternatives like Deep Space 9.)
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm

A similar 1/3rd above 8 rating, compared to X-files, though it seems that I must be forgetting how even the best shows of the series seem rather dumb.



The problem is that Mulder and Scully are so firmly entrenched into the name of the show, that even a PS1 game using a different lead character makes people turn away from it, where even a crappier version of the lead title characters will replace a much closer story arch to what people commonly think.)



Similarly this one (which seems far more familiar to early parts of the series)

The Lone Gunman
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243069/

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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:06 am



A ton of different movies


I ignored these when they were released though was always curious about them (and somehow I forgot I had Okami in Steam. . . That's basically my problem, etc.)







They tended to remain as Sony exclusives, though Okami was ported to PC.




Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)




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

Sega Mega LD games are still not emulated, though the Daphne Arcade system from a decade prior is (which is really odd.)


This reminds me of 'The Magical Dinosaur Tour' for Turbografx CD


Jump to 10 minutes if you can't stand his weird lip-smacking tourettes.


I'm going back over this one since the only version (for Sega Saturn) available had the English voiceover dubbed to Japanese and never released in English for Saturn, and I've been distracted thinking about it.




All are in English except for this one, which has Japanese subtitles but will need to use auto-translate.
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First I paid much attention to this. It's badly written but very unique.
https://www.honestgamers.com/5666/game- ... eview.html



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Post by Catoptric » Sat Apr 22, 2023 3:55 am

A ton of films

https://archive.org/details/sonic.-the. ... x_20210713






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V (about aliens, which had a remake in 2009 that also looks stupid)
TV Series
1984–1985
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086822/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0738550/




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I think it's starring Actor James Woods who has been in 30 years of hiding? I might have confused it with Ed Woods, though he would have been dead some time now.


11:22 (on repeat) summarizes it pretty well.

Seems the Heaven's Gate cult wasn't available?

'Darryl Anka is a fraud'
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bashar_Essassa ... s_a_fraud/


The craft Daryl and his siblings seem to have seen in the late 1970s, could very well have been a government top secret craft, and a patent was made more recently in 2004 for a triangular shape:

US20060145019A1
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060145019A1/en

I've seen a triangle ufo of some kind and it was massive, and the sides were very narrow, and though initially, I believed it was a our government technology, I can't see why it would be flying over the area it was, but if Daryl was in California he would have been near Skunkworks, and JPL, and potentially something of that nature (assuming technology like that in the 1970s was much more likely to be our own.)

The video makes a reference to the "Seth Material" by Jane Roberts, and it seems evident that during the time Daryl decides to start to "channel" he was inspired by not only her, but also the movie Close Encounters of the Third kind (so putting two and two together of a blockbuster film, it's safe to say why he charges $400 for a session. . . If he was truly enlightened he would just create a bigger venue opportunity like a nature hike on a mountain somewhere and not charge admission (presumably???)

Are these people enlightened or crazy as some who came in contact with such "channelers?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/occult/comment ... l_written/

If people wanted to believe that someone had contact with such beings, are they more likely to suspend criticism or judgment, if they went out of their way to confirm validation for belief? If someone has no incentive to validate an assertion, would the alternative to their desire make them reluctant to admit a believed truth?

To what extent is Daryl just using this as a venue to be perceived as validation for a belief, or to lower people's guard down while charging admission?





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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:15 am



This is like the old Simpsons.

The reviews stopped after some time
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_simpsons

It seems this doesn't reflect it
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096697/episodes?season=30

Episodes are an hour and a half now? Also, I kind of stopped watching after 15 minutes. . . The shows are kind of dumb still.


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This may be one of many reasons why the Dreamcast failed. . .



Compared to this DOS game that came out years prior, the above game can't really be taken that seriously.



Another example of Sega playing Russian Roulette with games.
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