Posts by Michael Ortiz68

Nicholas Walker3 said:The opening of Herzog's Cobar Verde is incredibly gripping... absolutely phenomenal.

I find the beginning of Fitzcarraldo just as brilliant. Those shots of the Brazilian jungle are... wow.

Alright everyone, let's keep it civil here 😬
It’s important that we have a dedicated thread for this, as I suspect the film will catch our attention for several reasons:

1. We’re always on the lookout for a solid piece of Sci-Fi
2. This one looks promising thanks to an interesting director paired with an even more intriguing producer, plus the cast isn't half bad either
3. So far, the audience ratings are looking good (even if it's early days), as are the critic reviews
4. With movies in this genre, "atmosphere" is everything, and judging by the trailer, they might actually pull it off

I'm waiting for 🙂

There is already an identical thread 🤷

Watchmen and Jean-Claude Van Damme

ruggedridge22 said:They all hold up, especially Bill Paxton, David Morse, and William Fichtner.

We should also mention John Turturro; the man has practically earned a PhD in delivering phenomenal supporting performances.

I had to 😁

casualeagle82 said:, very few films have managed to leave me feeling that level of hopelessness and melancholy.

I assume you haven't seen Threads or Letters from a Dead Man 😁

casualeagle82 said:One of the few legitimate Steampunk films out there.

If you have an appetite for steampunk, check out the short film The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello.
You can find the whole thing on YouTube. It’s a bit artsy, but it isn't bad.

The first thirty minutes actually held some promise, but then the whole thing just spiraled into a collection of tired clichés, topped off with some truly abysmal acting and characters making decisions so brainless they practically invite plot holes.
I don't regret seeing this on the big screen—I think catching it in a theater was the right call—but I really went in hoping it might rise above the usual sludge you see in this genre. Sadly, it didn't.

Rating: 6/10

The animation is top-tier.
They really lean too hard on the action sequences and explosions.
The ending felt pretty predictable.

Supreme Court verdict: 7/10

restlesscobra11 said:So, what exactly is this supposed to be? 😕

Haven't you ever heard of the movie "s" 🙄 nov Spielbergov i taj u 4 D - revolucija go

nov Spielbergov jebati CE Keva avatar

The weakest thread I’ve ever seen. Sudden Sid ftw 🙏

Timothée Chalamet

A pretty recognizable trope in recent German cinema

briskhound2 said:I guess it’s a little early to be dropping full reviews since the movie just hit theaters, but let's leave this thread up—it'll probably pick up some steam eventually... 🙂 Honestly, I rewatched Romero's original a few days ago and it just didn't quite click for me—don't get me wrong, there are some solid scenes in there, but the whole thing felt kind of underwhelming overall...

Threads used to pop up way before any movie actually hit theaters, so here we are. I’ll just leave this here and wait for the comments to roll in. 🙂
I haven't actually seen the original version, but based on some of the feedback I've been reading, apparently the remake managed to outdo it in terms of sheer quality. 🤷

Inace, zaboravih stavit trailere u prvom postu

trailer 1

trailer 2

The Crazies (2010) - a remake of Romero's horror/sci-fi flick about the residents of a small town in Kansas who start acting "strange" after an unknown toxin contaminates the local water supply.

The premise sounds pretty cliché, but the movie actually landed well with both audiences and critics. Anyone here seen it? 🙂



IMDb

Rotten Tomatoes

redharbor23 said:You people are irrational and prone to extreme generalizations. It’s clear there is no point in debating with you; no matter how well-reasoned an argument is, you simply double down on your own delusions. Your core takeaway seems to be that doctors are nothing more than heartless bureaucrats who do nothing all day but run around hospital halls looking for attention. 🙄
I'm done.

And what you said is spot on. It's always the same old story.
Doctors have been scapegoated by every system imaginable; they've always been the favorite target for disgruntled small-town types looking someone to blame.
My stance remains unchanged: leave the doctors alone. All that schooling and hard work shouldn't result in being treated like walking moral failures by everyone around them... At this rate, we might as well let herbalists run the whole show.
We live in America, after all. 👍

mistyraven said:My GP failed her internal medicine boards ten times!!!
She's clueless—not just dumb, but straight-up incompetent. Honestly, I have no idea how she even qualifies as a doctor.
Every little thing, she’d try to refer me to some specialist at the Mayo Clinic, because she’s too terrified to make a single move without getting a specialist's stamp of approval first.

People generally treat them like they're some "higher" class of being. Not in my book.

If you actually want to prove you're good at what you do, you have to put in the work—doesn't matter if you're a doctor, a physicist, a manager, or a professor...

What exactly makes them "superior" beings anyway?

Medical school isn't even the hardest major out there. There are plenty tougher paths.

Then why don't you just switch 😕?

ruggedscout91 said:No. It's more that you doctors retreated into the safe haven of psychology. I didn't intend to stay angry, but what's worse is that regarding patient treatment—and that whole mess—I am right. Unfortunately. I truly wish I weren't right, or that certain things hadn't happened to me.
My sincere sympathy goes to the responsible physicians who are actually facing impossible situations.
The rest of them? Disgraceful.

As far as I am aware, this thread was actually started before the one on the New York Times forums.

goldenpilot20 said:My cousin is a registered nurse, and honestly, I think she knows just as much about medicine as most family doctors. She doesn't have a massive library of medical texts, though—from what I’ve seen, there’s really only one book, and it mostly sits around being used by her daughters. One of them already finished nursing school, and the other is just getting started.

It is important to maintain faith.🙄
At the end of the day, we might find that some random guy named Miles actually knows more about medicine than actual primary care physicians.🤣

Susan Rodriguez72 said:And who exactly told you that? The people who felt personally attacked by that documentary?
Everything deserves a healthy dose of common sense and critical thinking, doesn't it?

Naturally. Why would anyone watch a documentarian driven by an agenda? The type who cherry-picks every single detail to support their preconceived notion while tossing everything else into the cutting room floor?

Look, I’m no cheerleader for the American healthcare system, but I certainly don't find much credibility in someone who relies on all their documentaries being built on nothing but clever editing and empty rhetoric—stuff that has been "debunked" countless times over the years.

At the end of the day, I was just trying to offer some advice rather than nitpick the flaws in your argument.
Let's move on from Moore. He already litters this forum with far too many of "his" specific topics...😁

Susan Rodriguez72 said:

And we’re all paying for it, aren't we? I certainly am.

So what's the plan? Set aside some cash... let me check my watchlist...$169...and maybe see a doctor once a year. If I had the choice, I’d pour everything into private coverage—just my own premium health insurance. But who can actually trust them? Who guarantees that some bureaucrat at the insurance company won't just deny an essential surgery when the time comes, purely to pad their own profit margins?
Go watch Moore: Sicko! by
It's mandatory viewing for anyone working in healthcare, or any citizen who actually needs it. 😁

", if you allow someone to belittle you, be rude, or talk down to you while you just tremble, nod, and stay silent; then you are the one to blame!"

Real life isn't quite that simple, is it?
A doctor leaves you waiting for hours without a word. Is that being rude? Maybe not strictly, but it's indescribably unpleasant. They skip the diagnostic protocols they should be following and instead just "handle" you with two basic tests—look left, look right, okay, you're fine, goodbye!

Now, don't get me wrong—the American healthcare system is far from perfect. It's nowhere near perfect...

But at the same time, Moore isn't exactly a documentary filmmaker you can take at face value. He’s more of a classic propagandist and self-promoter than anything else, though that’s a conversation for another day.

cosmicwalker21 said:I can't recall the title, but I remember watching this flick when I was just a kid—some old movie where people were literally turning into rats.

The Savior

OT: Maybe we should rethink the thread title. Something like American Horror Story or Hollywood Horror might fit better.
Since about 90% of our discussion centers on those specific cult classics from the old era, but the current title feels too localized to one specific region.🙂
Just a suggestion.☕