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  • HoraceH Horace

    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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    @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.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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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.

      Education is extremely important.

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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.

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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.

        1. The hero who misses his family
        2. The unstable guy who threatens to kill the mission
        3. The ultimate sacrifice of the hero
        4. The unlikely guy on the ship who ends up surviving
        5. 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.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • George KG George K

          @horace I have to say I found the second half a bit disappointing. It descended into a lot of typical "adventure movie" tropes.

          1. The hero who misses his family
          2. The unstable guy who threatens to kill the mission
          3. The ultimate sacrifice of the hero
          4. The unlikely guy on the ship who ends up surviving
          5. 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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          @george-k I've been buying gold recently which may have swayed my opinion. It was watchable if not transcendent. Just wanted to let y'all know about a way to waste a couple hours. Mississippi Grind next! If you want.

          Education is extremely important.

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            Link 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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              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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                Link to video

                @Jolly, is the video/animation accurate?

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                  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:

                  Link to video

                  Off String freestyle by a world champion (Rei Iwakira):

                  Link to video

                  Then it hit me that it’s just a miniature version of a traditional Chinese circus act, like these:

                  By amateurs:

                  Link to video

                  By a professional:

                  Link to video string yo-yo!

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                    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:

                    Link to video

                    Off String freestyle by a world champion (Rei Iwakira):

                    Link to video

                    Then it hit me that it’s just a miniature version of a traditional Chinese circus act, like these:

                    By amateurs:

                    Link to video

                    By a professional:

                    Link to video string yo-yo!

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                    @axtremus That is cool

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                      Pluto’s psychotherapy session:

                      Link to video

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                            30 minutes talk followed by 40~50 minutes Q&A.
                            Quite a few gems here and there.
                            The one idea about “capitalizing a bunch of kids” that came up in the Q&A really piqued by interest. 😄

                            Link to video

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                                Mortdecai, art heist film.

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                                  Super old Hong Kong kung fu classic: Buddha’s Palm

                                  These two (out of a series of four) are from around 1964, many years before Bruce Lee came onto the scene to show the world how it’s done.

                                  By modern standards, these are poorly produced movies — simplistic script/plot, mediocre acting/direction, bad animal costumes, worse than cartoonish “special effects”, forget about period authenticity ... they are really, really bad.

                                  Nonetheless this series of movies brought a lot of foundational kung fu mythologies to the silver screen, their many elements are widely derived, referenced, or otherwise paid homage by later kung fu movies, novels, and graphic novels.

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                                      “BKO: Bangkok Knockout”
                                      Thai parkour and martial arts action flick.

                                      Link to video

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                                        RWBY: Volumes 1 through 4 now available on YouTube.

                                        The animation style gets a bit to get used to, but you get used to it very quickly, and the action sequences are GREAT !!!

                                        Link to video

                                        The above links to Volume 1, the YouTube side bar on the right should take you to the other volumes. Enjoy!

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                                          Link to video

                                          16 ways to wrap a dumpling.
                                          No need to understand the audio, just watch the video.
                                          1 through 8 can be boiled in water.
                                          9 through 14 can only be steamed.
                                          15 & 16 are for deep frying.

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