Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks
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wrote on 30 Dec 2020, 05:36 last edited by
HE-MAN’s origin story:
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wrote on 31 Dec 2020, 01:54 last edited by
Old American kungfu movie.
Trigger warning: even though it was made in the pre-woke era, it features women and minorities as the heroes and a white man as the villain.
Link to videoAnd no, the cover is not a frame from the movie.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2020, 03:15 last edited by
See, this is what happens..
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wrote on 1 Jan 2021, 16:10 last edited by
It’s a cheap trap!
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wrote on 3 Jan 2021, 01:24 last edited by
Bridges!
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Ignore the Chinese characters on the cover, all the audio and text are actually in English.I particularly like the “rotating” bridge shows around the 19:25 mark and the rolly polly bridge right after.
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The Wilburforce pendulum part is good, the part on quantum superposition is perhaps a bit contrived.
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8 days later
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wrote on 12 Jan 2021, 00:56 last edited by
“She’s Funny Like That”
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Graduating medical school with kids in tow.
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wrote on 23 Jan 2021, 06:39 last edited by
Russian superhero movie:
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wrote on 23 Jan 2021, 13:58 last edited by
To retaliate against the lameness of Ax's picks, I would like to recommend "Black Sea". Definitely held my interest through its 90 minutes. Playing now on Netflix.
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To retaliate against the lameness of Ax's picks, I would like to recommend "Black Sea". Definitely held my interest through its 90 minutes. Playing now on Netflix.
wrote on 23 Jan 2021, 21:22 last edited by@horace said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
To retaliate against the lameness of Ax's picks, I would like to recommend "Black Sea". Definitely held my interest through its 90 minutes. Playing now on Netflix.
On your recommendation I put it in my queue and watched about half of it.
Jude Law is amazing in this role - talk about "gritty."
This is "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" meets "K-19."
Pretty gripping so far.
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@horace said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:
To retaliate against the lameness of Ax's picks, I would like to recommend "Black Sea". Definitely held my interest through its 90 minutes. Playing now on Netflix.
On your recommendation I put it in my queue and watched about half of it.
Jude Law is amazing in this role - talk about "gritty."
This is "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" meets "K-19."
Pretty gripping so far.
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@george-k Glad you're enjoying it George. I agree Jude Law is great in this. I was happy to see that Ben Mendelsohn is in it. I would watch anything he's in. Check out Mississippi Grind if you haven't seen it.
wrote on 24 Jan 2021, 01:59 last edited by@horace I have to say I found the second half a bit disappointing. It descended into a lot of typical "adventure movie" tropes.
- The hero who misses his family
- The unstable guy who threatens to kill the mission
- The ultimate sacrifice of the hero
- The unlikely guy on the ship who ends up surviving
- The surprise twist about the true nature of the mission
Many, many, others. I'd give the first half 3 stars, the second half, two.
Not bad, but not great.
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@horace I have to say I found the second half a bit disappointing. It descended into a lot of typical "adventure movie" tropes.
- The hero who misses his family
- The unstable guy who threatens to kill the mission
- The ultimate sacrifice of the hero
- The unlikely guy on the ship who ends up surviving
- The surprise twist about the true nature of the mission
Many, many, others. I'd give the first half 3 stars, the second half, two.
Not bad, but not great.
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wrote on 24 Jan 2021, 21:48 last edited byLink to video
Senior citizen rom-com with a diamond heist adventure. Very well executed and fairly fast paced, but perfectly tame and completely benign. No deep philosophy, not much moralizing, and no heavy social commentary, you can turn your brain off and just watch it with your old ball and chain for a relaxing hour and a half.
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wrote on 27 Jan 2021, 04:20 last edited by
SUPERVIZED (2019), frail, some even senile, geriatric superheroes living in a special old folks home for ex-superheroes had one final adventure fighting a supervillain who absorbs others’ superpowers.
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wrote on 28 Jan 2021, 01:48 last edited byLink to video
@Jolly, is the video/animation accurate?
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wrote on 29 Jan 2021, 07:57 last edited by
Off string yo-yo!
Haven’t pay attention to yo-yoing for many years, just catching up to the “off string yo-yo” innovations, as in yo-yos that can be completely detached from the string.
Brief explanation of the physics involved:
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Off String freestyle by a world champion (Rei Iwakira):
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Then it hit me that it’s just a miniature version of a traditional Chinese circus act, like these:
By amateurs:
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By a professional:
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