Octopussy

Dr Strangelove

Terminator

In fact

Terminator
Mad Max
War Games

Not a movie, but the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl is phenomenal.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 1 minute ago
Not a movie, but the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl is phenomenal.
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This. Every performance, even every line, just hits home and stays with you. As good as television gets.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 22 minutes ago
Not a movie, but the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl is phenomenal.
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This

This is what has always set our people apart. A thousand years of sacrifice in our veins. And every generation must know its own suffering. I spit on the people who did this, and I curse the price I have to pay. But I'm making my peace with it, now you make yours.

comment by Clockwork Red: Rúben's Train (U4892)
posted 7 minutes ago
This is what has always set our people apart. A thousand years of sacrifice in our veins. And every generation must know its own suffering. I spit on the people who did this, and I curse the price I have to pay. But I'm making my peace with it, now you make yours.
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As well as the writing and acting, as someone who lived in the former USSR a decade after Chernobyl, the locations / sets / costumes were amazingly realistic too.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 26 seconds ago
comment by Clockwork Red: Rúben's Train (U4892)
posted 7 minutes ago
This is what has always set our people apart. A thousand years of sacrifice in our veins. And every generation must know its own suffering. I spit on the people who did this, and I curse the price I have to pay. But I'm making my peace with it, now you make yours.
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As well as the writing and acting, as someone who lived in the former USSR a decade after Chernobyl, the locations / sets / costumes were amazingly realistic too.
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I got a sense of that (and I've only visited modern Russia, twice). Just things like the carpets and wallpapers - I could stare at them all day.

I'm going to have to watch it a third time now. And it's your fault, Clockwork!

Speaking of nuclear disasters, remember when the Trump apologists were depicting him as the president of peace? Those were the days.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 2 minutes ago
Speaking of nuclear disasters, remember when the Trump apologists were depicting him as the president of peace? Those were the days.
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They were right tbf. He is a peace of shiiit

Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’

comment by Robb Cunha (U22716)
posted 10 minutes ago
Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’
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I was in Seattle and San Francisco in April-May and in those liberal, progressive cities it was easy to forget that MAGA is happening. I think that's part of the problem. Fascism doesn't always feel like it's happening to you.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 28 minutes ago
Speaking of nuclear disasters, remember when the Trump apologists were depicting him as the president of peace? Those were the days.
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the wurldz cockroaches n twinkies will b able too live in peice soon

One Hour to Zero. One of those made for school films but we thought it cool as quite a bit was filmed in our home town and featured the nuclear power station we had in a neighbouring village.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by Robb Cunha (U22716)
posted 10 minutes ago
Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’
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I was in Seattle and San Francisco in April-May and in those liberal, progressive cities it was easy to forget that MAGA is happening. I think that's part of the problem. Fascism doesn't always feel like it's happening to you.
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I guess in the same vein, you also don't really understand first hand why these extremist political views take hold in certain places because we don't live in them. If you're desperate enough you're much more likely to be hoodwinked by swindlers, religious leaders and facists sadly.

comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted 52 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by Robb Cunha (U22716)
posted 10 minutes ago
Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’
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I was in Seattle and San Francisco in April-May and in those liberal, progressive cities it was easy to forget that MAGA is happening. I think that's part of the problem. Fascism doesn't always feel like it's happening to you.
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I guess in the same vein, you also don't really understand first hand why these extremist political views take hold in certain places because we don't live in them. If you're desperate enough you're much more likely to be hoodwinked by swindlers, religious leaders and facists sadly.
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The real frustrating thing is that the ones fully onboard the Trump train and its core values are the ones least affected by any of it. Rural farmlands primarily.

One of the reasons I get so annoyed listening to feckin idiots thousands of miles away labeling all Americans the same when the reality is very different as we saw at the weekend with the parade and protests.

I have barely met a Trump moron yet and the ones I have met are mostly the wifes family and they are ultra religious and just not worldly wise and will never travel more than 50miles from home for the most part.

Even sadder, those folk are the ones banging out 5+ children so the US is already lost, it will become more one sided over the next 20-30 years, especially now the blueprint has been set.

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posted 51 minutes ago
comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted 52 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by Robb Cunha (U22716)
posted 10 minutes ago
Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’
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I was in Seattle and San Francisco in April-May and in those liberal, progressive cities it was easy to forget that MAGA is happening. I think that's part of the problem. Fascism doesn't always feel like it's happening to you.
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I guess in the same vein, you also don't really understand first hand why these extremist political views take hold in certain places because we don't live in them. If you're desperate enough you're much more likely to be hoodwinked by swindlers, religious leaders and facists sadly.
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The real frustrating thing is that the ones fully onboard the Trump train and its core values are the ones least affected by any of it. Rural farmlands primarily.

One of the reasons I get so annoyed listening to feckin idiots thousands of miles away labeling all Americans the same when the reality is very different as we saw at the weekend with the parade and protests.

I have barely met a Trump moron yet and the ones I have met are mostly the wifes family and they are ultra religious and just not worldly wise and will never travel more than 50miles from home for the most part.

Even sadder, those folk are the ones banging out 5+ children so the US is already lost, it will become more one sided over the next 20-30 years, especially now the blueprint has been set.
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Living in a large, posh suburb of a big city this week and drove to a mall 20mins away and it hit me - I hadn’t seen a black face all week. Restaurant and hotel staff, construction, gardeners, even a street window cleaner all white. Didn’t think that was possible in modern day America. Full of surprises.

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posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Cinciwolf-----JA606 NFL fantasy champ 2023 (U11551)
posted 51 minutes ago
comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted 52 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 33 minutes ago
comment by Robb Cunha (U22716)
posted 10 minutes ago
Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I was in Seattle and San Francisco in April-May and in those liberal, progressive cities it was easy to forget that MAGA is happening. I think that's part of the problem. Fascism doesn't always feel like it's happening to you.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I guess in the same vein, you also don't really understand first hand why these extremist political views take hold in certain places because we don't live in them. If you're desperate enough you're much more likely to be hoodwinked by swindlers, religious leaders and facists sadly.
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The real frustrating thing is that the ones fully onboard the Trump train and its core values are the ones least affected by any of it. Rural farmlands primarily.

One of the reasons I get so annoyed listening to feckin idiots thousands of miles away labeling all Americans the same when the reality is very different as we saw at the weekend with the parade and protests.

I have barely met a Trump moron yet and the ones I have met are mostly the wifes family and they are ultra religious and just not worldly wise and will never travel more than 50miles from home for the most part.

Even sadder, those folk are the ones banging out 5+ children so the US is already lost, it will become more one sided over the next 20-30 years, especially now the blueprint has been set.
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Living in a large, posh suburb of a big city this week and drove to a mall 20mins away and it hit me - I hadn’t seen a black face all week. Restaurant and hotel staff, construction, gardeners, even a street window cleaner all white. Didn’t think that was possible in modern day America. Full of surprises.
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Where were you?

It isn't like that here of course, though Scottsdale is primarily white Phoenix in general is a mixed bag. I don't really work much but most of my better friends/acquaintances are Mexican and one or two Navajo and a Russian

I used to live in North London where it was probably 30% White, 30% Asian and 40% Black and then went on holiday to Salzburg where it was 110% White and looked like an aryan dream. One day I went to a big shopping mall and then a black guy was just walking through on his own and when I say everyone stared at him that’s an understatement. It was so uncomfortable.

Dr. Strangelove. Peter Sellers coup de grace.

A boy and his dog.

I remember only one black kid at my school in the four year groups, probably 700 students and I don't remember any Asians at the time and I don't remember any more as the years rolled either, this was through the 80s leaving in 91.

I wouldn't be stretching it to say that my mother quite possibly never spoke to a black person until my wedding, she would have been 72 then. My wife's maid of honour is black and my wife's two best friends are also black.