The NW Passage is basically the shipping route north of the American continent. It was discovered finally by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen - the dude who was the first to reach the South Pole -, and it is very significant because... well it isn't as most of the time it's unsailable as it's frozen solid. In the past few years it's importance grew as with the global warming it stands open most of the time and certain ships just cannot into Panama canal so they have to travel south of South America and for some destination a northern route would be more advantageous.
But back in the 19th century it was completely useless but they kept trying and hoping it's just seasonally frozen.

Watched this a couple months ago. The entire film is in Youtube with English subtitles.

A Portuguese military convoy moves through an African colony in the waning years of the Estado Novo. Its bored soldiers begin to discuss their war, with varied opinions: one is a cynic, one is a patriot and one seems to sympathise with the opposition. Their conversation fails to break into new ground or reach any conclusions. Ensign Cabrita, a more intellectual soldier, derails their talk by narrating the tragedy of Viriathus. As Cabrita proceeds to speak of more events in Portugal's past, they spend almost the entire rest of the film immersed in serious philosophical and metahistoric discussions. The legacy and purpose of an empire is debated. The notion of fate is strongly present: it is said that Portugal's fate was to be conquered by the Romans, to fail in its bids for expansion within Iberia, to explore the seas.

The soundtrack is good and the scenes are subtle but beautiful. Nonetheless, towards the middle it becomes too slow and weak, and only at the end it regains steam and becomes grandiose.

>>18092
This sounds good. I run out of things to watch.

Recently started Castle Rock. Another Stephen King adaptation of some sort. It's a tv show. Starts good, but no Stephen King adaptation exists which is good so I'm waiting for the inevitable decline of quality.

>>18092
Watched it yesterday night. War, war never changes.
Yea that scene on the island with Venus, the Cupids and singing is very out of place. And out of pace between all those fighting.
>Batalha de Toro
The eternal trope of drawning in a body of water. I'm not questioning if that how these happened just pointing out how common it is/was.
Also picrel, that dude with the candlestick hat.
All in all it is a very different cinematic experience from what the average people consume. It's worth that hour and a half.

Finished watching Stalingrad, the movie Taiwanese Bernd mentioned with the five dudes who are the father of one Sirgay.
As I wrote elsewhere it has the taste of those American WWII movies except with lots of CG effects which sometimes make it little vidya-like. The Germans portrayed more nuanced (not by much tho) and human than those Murican war movies but 99% of them has the same role of ragdolls waiting to be butchered while the Russians are all honest heroes (even the one shittalker) with little exception. Hard faces and manliness with good heart everywhere.
Still it's not a bad movie especially considering it's a Russian creation and really can't blame them to be a little bit biased toward themselves. It didn't make me puke, that's always a boon. My only regret that I watched a dubbed version, at least what was originally Russian it was in English (subs were for the German lines).
Maybe I should rewatch Enemy at the Gates sometimes. But I just can't stomach Saving Private Ryan.

I have watched couple films recently but I'll post about something that Bernd might be interested.
Alatriste, or Captain Alatriste. There is spanish series by similar name which is supposedly a shit so don't mix it.
It's a swashbuckling film made by Spaniards. There's some historical inaccuracies and fedora tipping on XVI century Spain, but great costumes and sword fights. It's very well made and I enjoyed watching it. Also Tercio.

Finally got to watch 1864 because they aired it on German-French tv again. It's about the second Schleswig war between Denmark and Prussia (with the help of K.u.K Austria-Hungary). Too bad they dubbed the Danish speaking parts instead of using subtitles. Monrad, the fanatic council president of Denmark is played fantastically. The series is full of feminist subplots and PTSD, like the current year part, where a help helper girl visits the descendant of the woman who brought shame to her family during the war years because she would get pregnant by a serf. The essential stuff is in the original with subtitles on youtube, so you don't have to watch the subplots.
Monrad, t. Otto von Bismarck and kc tier assburger general of Denmark De Meza in action:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bgrtcN8I5PE [Embed]
Monrad's speech in the parliament:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=imE1iZRtefY [Embed]
Full episode of the main battle with funny subtitles:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EUud0nylj7Y [Embed]

Do long informative videos count?

This was a presentation to the media given by General Schwarzkopf, Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command, on the 27th of February, 1991. Within one hour, he answeres questions and gives a moderately kc tier operational description of Desert Storm.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ReU2QlwX2o [Embed]

>>18487
Sure.

I watch this >>18259 btw. In parts. He's just gone back to Flanders.

>>18793
Btw it's about the eternal stupidity of men. Can relate.

Beautiful stills, I'll try to watch that.
Interestingly, I just looked it up and the guy playing the main protagonist also did Aragorn.

>>18798
Yes. And Freud. I don't think I saw any other of his movies.

>>18793
Impressive aesthetics.

>>18798
wew I didn't notice, those mustaches hide faces well

also I watched this some time ago
>>18323
holu fuck what an experience

It starts with a wonderful idyllic scene of danish countryside, then it moves inside our protagonists house when they are still young and their mother comes to their bed to wake them up and she is greeted with a very loud fart.
Then shortly after in the barn the boys and their friend or something are jerking off into the jar and then one of them inspect the content of it using his finger.
At this point I wanted to stop watching and started to wondering if danish cinematography is like this but I forced myself to continue because I saw a cool looking fragments on YT with battles and politics and I liked it. Thankfully it was much better after this moment but I still ended generally butthurt after watching it because it turned out I watched some kind of cut off fragments from a tv-series made into a full-lenght movie, and there were many fragments thrown away that made many plots lose sense completely, they also removed 99% of politics while keeping the aforementioned feminism and the actual series are not currently available in english.

>>19058
I also wanted to get it somewhere. Haven't found anything. Didn't search with too much intensity tho.

the last thing i actually enjoyed was probably Our Daily Bread and i watched it years ago

its really uhm, aesthetic. and its easy to watch
there's no comments or voice in the whole video

imdb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765849/
youtube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=x8SIsAwFId4 [Embed] (shit quality)
torrent: https://thepiratebay.bid/torrent/4398584/Our.Daily.Bread-Unser.Taglich.Brot.2005.PAL-DVDR

>>19888
>I really hope they'll make another one
I've got bad news for you.

>Nabwana IGG had completed work on the 2010 sequel Tebaatusasula when a massive power surge in Wakaliga destroyed the hard drive that contained the film footage, resulting in it being a lost film.[13]

I watched Used Cars yesterday and thought it was pretty fun but not all that great sadly. It's a comedy of cheap American culture and the acting was alright. Anyway, I'll give the films posted in this thread a go in my spare time. Cheers.
>>19122
Yeah Our Daily Bread was a very nice film and I still have it on my hard drive.

>>19890
That's one "the dog ate my homework" tire excuse. I call bullshit.

>>19890
They had a Kickstarter campaign since then and gathered bunch of maniz to make reshoot the movie or make another version of it. Ofc this isn't an insurance they will do it, maybe the local warlord used up all that mani to finance his tribal war.

>>19895
Kurt Russel?

>>19896
The best part: they can say anything noone will believe them. It's liek when you were late from school.

>>19888
>entire film was made with a budget of $200
>still better than 99% of Hollywood shit
wew lad

Watched White God. Hungary is a really dark and evil place with lots of evil people. They also have Polish deathcamps for dogs, but really good electronic music. Also hobos that are selling dogs to kebab places who sell them to dog fighting enthusiast that roid their dogs into killers. The question is what is the movie really about. A coming of age story of a girl, a horror movie of dogs going rogue or a parable standing for the current political situation of Hungary? I liked the movie. The dog CGI or whatever technology they used was better than Hollywood.

>>19939
Haven't seen it. From this and what I can find on the net I can't tell if it's an allegory or something.

>>19939
>horror movie of dogs going rogue
Seems likely. There's plenty of films about evil places and evil people but not as many about cruelty towards dogs, which is what stands out.

>>19897
>Kurt Russel?
That's the one yes.

>>19943
>There's plenty of films about evil places and evil people
I know what you mean, I saw Romanians are Coming.

>>16423
Adding a supernatural aspect, always makes a movie more interesting for me to watch.

>>20023
It expands the possibilities. Sometimes tho it just ruins the plot, a malevolent mind can be more frightening in a horror setting for example as it makes it more realistic, making people to think it can happen to them as well what happens in the movie.
In The Terror it was a fusion of both.

>>20025
No wonder sailors were the most superstitious people of all. They were spooked by everything, anything could be a bad omen.

>>20029
They had a term for people they thought brought them bad luck, I think it was "JONA".
They would trow the "jona" overboard.

>>20032
Jonah. From the Biblical Jonah.
Also women. Who couldn't piss over the rail meant trouble.
Also just about everything they could think of.

>>20023
Apropos supernatural. Or occult.
Angel Heart. Nice twist.
I would bet I've never seen this before. It came out when I was a kid so even if state tv broadcasted it probably was too late in the evening for me also I wouldn't have been allowed to watch anyway.

>>20050
I think I'll try to watch this today or tomorrow. Thanks for the tip.

>>20178
Probably you'll figure it out what's going on, still felt nice.

Watching Needful Things. Considering all S.K. adaptation are shit it ain't that bad. For now, I'm about at the half.

>>18118
This started out well ended not that well but wasn't a shitfest either. So a solid OK.

>>20219
Well, wasn't a catastrophe but most actors were terrible.

>>20219
I think I saw that a few years ago. It was good, if I remember right.

Have just finished picrel. It wasn't good but it could have been.
I don't know that was the intention of the creators. They wanted to make an outdoor movie? Weren't enough outdoorsy stuff in there. Wanted to make an action movie? Not enough action for that (and what was, it was bad). Wanted to make a mystical movie? Not enough mystic stuff either (or at least not complete). Wanted to make a movie of a couple who are murderous psychos (liek for example in Natural Born Killers)? Not enough focus on them. I dunno.

>>20331
>very bad cases of engrish
Sold.
I'm not fond of anime. I saw some stuff, probably considered mainstream (Death Note, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Ghost in the Shell movies, erm that's it) and were all right. But I'm just really cannot into it.

>>20332
I'm not too fond either, however I like animated movies in general so I always try to talk about chinese motion pictures from that perspective. I often joke about noseless anime gurls but I really find this kind of style which is dominating in anime lazy and inferior and generally enough to disregard a show (probably there are other things but can't really point that right now).
Jojo had it's own style so I decided to give it a shot and was generally entertained. To be honest I think that this old series I talked about could pass as western animation with maybe few tweaks. In fact I had at least one situation in my life that I didn't know I was watching anime until end credits were shown.
Also check my trips heh

>>20335
fuuug it took me more time to write this than I thought
at least i got nice time doubles

>>20331
READ THE MANGA

>>20349
NO
GO AWAY

>>20353
Memes aside, it's really worth it if you're interested in the series. I know not everyone likes reading manga but there's a pretty big difference in quality between it and the animu.

>>20356
I try to keep up with part 8, but always completely forget the plot by the time a new chapter comes out. Monthly releases are pure suffering.

>>20353
You can't argue or bargain with animufags. You offer your pinky finger they'll want your arm.
It's like in the tale with the piggies and the wolf who asked if he can warm in their house and get the piggies to let one finger in, then one leg, then two, then the whole back etc etc. but just wanted to get inside to eat them by fur and skin.

>>20361
your three pigs fairy tale seems wildy different but is not surprising tbh.

>>20364
*the pigs lead him

>>20361
Normally it's best to think of animu like film adaptions of books, in that the source material is better 99% of the time. I guess not everyone is autistic enough for reading manga, though.

Just started Resident Evil (2002), might watch the whole series. Probably not on one sit. We still liek Milla, don't we? She has interesting walk, kinda unwomanly sadly.
Is Umbrella Corporation an umbrella corporation?

>>20410
With the exception of the one from 2016 (Final Chapter?) watched them all on the long weekend. Not the animated ones. The first is okay, can be dusted off once in a while, but Afterlife is trash, the others... meh, fine with soda. I saw the first three before and maybe Retribution it was very familiar. From that one I really enjoyed the scene of the simulation where she was a simple mom in a middle of an average zombie outbrake. And maybe this with these movies, a good scene here and there with a bunch of forgettable actions and lines.
Also interesting to follow Milla getting old. The movies came out with a regular 2-3 years of gap.

>>20445
Today I had to watch Final Chapter, because no /kc/ forced me to also discussed Marx on Ernst, and posted my balls, I mean my polanball comic, on Kohl, the quality is on par with the others. At least it closes the story well enough.

Watched Street Fighter for the first time in my life. Goofy, had some smirks. Constant weak jokes. Some scenes made me chuckle. It feels like a must watch at least once type of movie. Frankly I have more sympathy for these older movies than the recent full of CGI ones.
Two things. Never played Street Fighter tho I know about it ofc. Van Damme was kinda popular action movie star on the Hungary in the '90s, he was even invited to a talk show every telly watcher watched.

>>20495
I remember watching this years ago, of course it isn't accurate to the vidya games but most films based on vidya aren't (like the Resident Evil ones you were talking about). Still worth a watch just for the memes, though.

>>20499
I think it's similar to Mortal Combat, which I played, that the game to be enjoyable only need some vague backstory, so there's not much to build upon in the first place.

This >>20495 also made me think why Balrog chose the this username. Previously I thought because of LoTR but not sure anymore. Maybe he's a neger.

>>20500
I had heard the Mortal Kombat films are actually canon in the game universe because since the events of the games were publicized the movies are supposed to be the actual characters (the good human ones that is) playing themselves in the films depicting the events of the game in the in-game universe as a matter of record.
I'm not sure if it's true, or maybe the games just referenced the movies in a tongue in cheek way and some autist went off the deep end explaining it that way.
Kind of fun to think about though, I guess.

>>20520
I dunno.
I played MK I and II back then as a kid and even saw III but wasn't interested in it. Didn't observed any backstory at all for me it was a game where you can pick a character and you could beat the pulp out of your pal's character or other way around, if no pal was present then you could test yourself against the computer. I moved on quickly.
The movie I had never seen for a long time and from what I could tell they just invented some backstory for the empty fighting.
Now I know more but just bits and pieces I picked up throughout the years. I know it's a whole franchise and there are more than one movies. I know there's a large fanbase of it in the US like any other such franchise, not that big like Star Wars or something. I suspect there is a campaign mode in the games where the player picks a character and have to beat all the others moving up on a ladder, maybe tournament style, I absolutely didn't know this somehow, I don't even remember the menu of the game, and as I wrote I only suspect this.
And that's it.

I've just checked Wikipedia and was surprised to see there are other games, action-adventures and cartoons and shit.

>>20572
>tfw no subtitled Spede films
I wonder if we could convince some autistic Finns on other /int/ boards to do it for us?

>>20595
The redeeming factor in MK is the soundtrack. Very pumping. Not as good as Quake 2 but adequate. Finished it yesterday btw.

Has Bernd seen this? What's his opinion as I'm planning to watch it?

>>20575
>Commando

Pretty good movie. Simple classic plot, good action, Arnie - everything is good. It is sad that these things couldn't be made nowadays, even if someone will try, it will result in parody at best.

>>20722
To me it feels liek the action genre is a bit looked down category of movies/films as if it's associated to bydlos or something. But it can be very satisfying and Arnold's classics are very fine. Think will watch Terminator 1-2 sometimes after I finished Threads I started yesterday, which is ok so far. Also Predator.

>>20742
A lot of action movies in the last 20 years that I have seen don't usually have very exciting, pulse pounding type scenes. John Wick was a notable exception and the movie Drive that I couldn't finish had an excellent chase scene to start the movie but the rest that I got through was pretty molasses.
It seems like it would be really hard to choreograph and shoot really visually appealing action scenes and prohibitively expensive if it took several attempts to get it right when CGI is an option.

>>20742
I guess these days many people want films to be artsy and complicated, which is nice and all but sometimes all you want is some simple entertainment.

After the Commando finally I could got around and watch Predator, another a fine action movie of Arnie which I seen more times than the previous one. All the tropes there from the bullet storms, the hard faces and looks to the one liners. Most of the time the person of the Predator didn't even look cheap so back then people had to find it super cool. Tho the chameleon effect was a little weird.

>>20979

It is sad that second movie is much less interesting that first. And without Arnie. First one has man-vs-nature feel, second one is just another action.

>>20980
>has man-vs-nature feel
It do has.
I wonder how they came up with the idea of the Predator. Clearly it is the main
antagonist, but it just feels out of the place, you know the viewer would expect a warlord or high ranking KGB officer behind endless waves of cannon fodder they chew themselves through but then hey an absolutely unlikely sci-fi element. It is awesome tho how the hero and the Predator change roles when Arnie discovers he can hide his heat and become "invisible" and the one who hunts instead of the prey (ofc still on the edge otherwise it wouldn't be exciting).
I'm undecided what to watch next, Predator 2 or Terminator 1. I guess I would follow up the T1 with T2 so I should just watch P2 first.
Hm I still have the Yakuza Papers - well 6 of them, I think all in all they made 8-12 or something like this movies - those have to be finished sometimes.

>>20983
>I wonder how they came up with the idea of the Predator. Clearly it is the main
antagonist, but it just feels out of the place, you know the viewer would expect a warlord or high ranking KGB officer behind endless waves of cannon fodder they chew themselves through but then hey an absolutely unlikely sci-fi element.

Main idea was about hunting and battle with much more powerful invisible adversary, some kind of ideal hunter. But who can be powerful enough? Only magic or sci-fi person, but first one may look too cheap for that action movie. So, they invented that alien. There is almost no real sci-fi, nor plot about it (just few words).

It is wrong that they decided to add backstory for predator in later movies, although keeping thing in the dark would look strange for viewers.

Schwarzenegger? I rewatched The Running Man not long ago. A dysutopian action movie featuring a future of a totalitarian regime that puts opponents into Polish-Californian working camps. Same happens to the police officer Arnold, who refuses to kill unarmed hungry protesters (they probably wore yellow gilets). So he gets arrested, while the other officers kill the protesting scum and media tells that Arnold did it and is imprisoned for it. Arnold escapes, but gets caught again and forced to play in a very popular and sadistic game show. Never a bad mix having action together with a totalitarian future and of course bad puns. It has 2 future governors in the movie, Arnold of course and Jesse Ventura. Americans love to elect movie and TV personalities into politics.

>>20996
>Polish-Californian working camps
what

>>21024
That's for us to investigate by watching the movie. What I've never done, surprisingly. Well, not really, I was more of a reader than a movie fan and my family didn't have access to satellite or cable for a long time.

>>21233
Thanks. Will watch.

>>21234
But first gonna watch Hevi reissu.

>>21233
interesting, for its origin mostly
>jewtube
is that how you learnt about it? is it being distributed there officially or is that just some random upload?

>>21248
I heard about it on r/syriancivilwar.

>>21252
:S

>>21255
It's actually a reasonable place to hear Syrian war news.

>>21256
dunno about it in particular but know enough about that site (and others like it) to warrant the 'off-putting' reaction
but i'm guessing film promotion is indeed the sort of news that would be reasonable to find in such places

forgot to ask: what's up with the 1st pic? is it from the same film?

>>21258
Your reaction is understandable.

>what's up with the 1st pic?
It's the film's Nipponese poster.

>>21238
All right. This one is recommended. Giggled the whole thing through.
>"REEEEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEE"
>sips from kuska
>"REEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE REEEEEEEE"

There was one war movie a Finnish Bernd posted. I think some amateur stuff. I think I have it somewhere. Or just the link maybe, it was on youtube.

>throatsinging intensifies
It really do at one point somewhere by the end.

>>21321
Name of the Rose is pretty good, Perlman with his "unique" features fits into very particular roles.
From the other three I heard about Kaspar Hauser but didn't see it, other two are unknown to me entirely. What made you enjoy those?

Funny article. It's a mystery to me what was the intention of the author. Was it a reply for a notion that someone should shoot a movie about Trianon? After I read it my first thought was: "why couldn't he write an article about making a Trianon themed movie without writing the whole thing about the Holocaust?" He could have just wrote simply what he did in the last paragraph: it's too complicated issue to make it understandable for anyone else except us. Punkt.
Maybe even it's too complicated for most of us, but frankly they could just grab a Wass Albert book and turn it into a film and that's it.

>>21323
well first of all the emotions were not abstract in those, it was solid and seeable I like the movie when it has more 'in your face' emotions. I feel easier sympathy that way. Plus Herzog and russian cameramans are generally better than generic ones. I dont know how to put otherwise, so sorry if I cant make myself clear, you shouldnt use action oriented camera in emotion heavy movie, camera views are usually underestimated while criticizing movies.

So tl;dr the details make these movies good but kaspar hauser movie is the one that have it all. I posted the link because it was related with ww1 and I knew I'll get gueranteed replies :DDD

>>21325
>I knew I'll get gueranteed replies
I can't reply to everything, some I revisit later, some remains unreplied. If Trianon is posted here it kinda feels that I was addressed so yeah.
>I dont know how to put otherwise, so sorry if I cant make myself clear
Well, I'll try and watch one of them and it'll make it more clear.

>>21238
With Hevi Reissu I didn't specified that this is a Finnish movie, a comedy to be specific, about an unknown metal band in a small village behind the back of God and their story how they became internationally famous. Some (lot) Skandi metal tropes (and metal fan tropes) are depicted and it's full of little details one can pick up on or miss. Probably will watch again.

>>21336
>spoilered (I hope it will be)
Endchan software failed again?

>>21345
Seems so. Selected the files I wanted to upload, then marked the "Spoiler" checkboxes next to them. I wonder what the big Spoiler do, maybe it spoilers the whole post. Let's try it.

>>21352
Nope.

All right, after this shitfest let's step back to Damascus Time. Who is the target audience? I'm sure it's a different experience to watch it as Muslim and I'm sure how things work out in the end of the movie also part of the fact that the creators themselves were Muslims. If it would have been created by Hollywood I'm sure the hero would sit on the hood of a police car wrapped in a blanket as the movie ends.

>>21376
Iranian movies have some level of international recognition, so reaching audiences outside the Middle East was at least considered, and this may help explain the extensive use of English. But overall it seems geared towards Iranians who enjoy action movies.

>>20331
that show is haram

>>22836
Not bad but feels a little flat.
So it's about a group of samurai who was ordered to kill a certain aristocrat on his way to home, and how they plan and prepare and finally how they fight with the retinue of the lord. Behind the events the theme is how to be samurai in an era when samurais are outdated relics of the past.
The shots are nice, the fight scenes... was shot from a little too close so it cannot really see what's happening but it makes it look like it is very action packed, and I didn't like it, not to mention it's the usual "hey we are vastly outnumber that guy but we're gonna just jumping around in the background until he kills everyone around him one by one" style. I'm not sure how could they do otherwise tho.
They could have spend more time on the preparation phase, make it more detailed.
The comic relief a little bit lame but has it's moments.

This is a loose adaptation of the Greek mythology story about Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece. I watched it a few weeks ago, and it became one of my favorites. The stop-motion is very impressive for its time (1963).

>>22875
begone spooky scary skellingtons

>>22875
>>22880
Those special effects are great.

>>22888
Seen it. I wasn't impressed tho I don't mind I watched it. Was kinda mandatory as you know I'm kind of a cyberpunk fan.
Not sure if Gosling was picked for the role for his sameface - not good at acting emotions - but feels very possible.
Huh I forgot bunch of stuff, I remember the part with Ford was underwhelming. Were some nice parts tho, some touching moments about human relationships and such. All in all it was okayish.
Didn't I wrote about it? I know then I watched the first one too again.

PS: The game is nice as well.

>>22889
Maybe you wrote something, I dont remember. Not in this thread that's for sure.
>not good at acting emotions
wew maybe that's true, but I don't really know him from other roles

>>22890
He has as many faces as Steven Segal.

>>22891
I just checked his history and I never saw any other movie with him

By then the Communists had been exposed and began to preach to the locals. Their morale was high and they expected it'd take a long time until the military returned. They didn't realize that the Army was preparing operation Sucuri, a brilliant counterinsurgency campaign. Planning was transferred from the regular hierarchy to military intelligence. A small number of men from the political intelligence service (DOI) and the 3rd Motorized Infantry Brigade were acclimated to rural life in estates around Brasília, took up aliases and covertly arrived in the area. They blended into the local population and became merchants, sometimes even selling weapons to the insurgents to appear trustworthy. This allowed them to meticulously compile information on guerillas and peasants, drafting maps and building up 400 individual profiles by September 1973.
This was followed by operation Marajoara in October. A few hundred men taken from the Army's elite formations arrived under total silence with no identification and immediately imposed a curfew and violently coerced several peasants to collaborate. With plenty of intel, they killed off the militants' command hierarchy, reducing it to isolated pockets in the jungle. Those were systematically hunted down and liquidated until October 1974. Large numbers of prisoners were taken, but they were all executed. Only two communists escaped, one of whom lived in hiding until 1996.

Military authorities imposed total media silence about the event (though word of it would end up leaking to the wider world) and remained quiet for decades afterwards. A cleanup operation in 1975 destroyed or hid a number of corpses, and agents still made occasional visits to eliminate traces in the following years. The government only spoke of it once: President Geisel mentioned on a briefing to Congress in March 1975 that attempts were made to organize "guerilla bases in the remote and unprotected hinterland", but they were "completely reduced".

The second event was simpler. The Party was set to hold an important meeting on São Paulo in December 1976 for serious discussions about the war, but an imprisoned militant tipped off the government in exchange for $ 150 thousand. They were ambushed, with 3 Party members dead and 5 imprisoned. This decapitation strike initiated the Party's transition to a moderate player in electoral politics.

So onto the film. It is part political piece, part documentary and part reenactment. It builds its narrative by alternating between four sequences:

-Scenes of poverty, raw materials extraction and trade in the Amazon and the Third World play while someone rants about how foreign investment is literally theft, commodity exports are evil and imperialism is to blame for the global south's poverty. It is, of course, implied that foreign trade must be closed and import substitution industrialization attempted. It's unremarkable, as this discourse is widespread and has been popular for a century.
-The heart of the film: interviews with old militants, aswell as a few modern activists. They are spontaneous -as, after all, they're not acting- and provide nearly all of the information. A notable presence is José Genoino, former PCdoB militant who joined the PT and found himself caught in the Mensalão scandal. He was condemned to 6 years and 11 months in jail over active corruption and criminal association in 2012, but got freed as part of a Christmas presidential pardon in 2014. As a mainstream politician, he's the easiest to understand. At one point he even cites the American Constitution as an argument for armed struggle against a government. Though looking back he doesn't approve of the war, and the other interviewees are similarly skeptical.
-Two generals on a featureless room with a black background discuss the war, and their repression of subversive activity in general. They are relutanct over the morality of their actions but ultimately embrace them and deem them effective. This part has the only believable acting in the film. There's some emotion to their discussion.

-The insurgents' fate. Initially a fighter cleans himself at a river and then moves through the jungle. He is fed at a peasant's house and keeps moving. He's captured while sleeping and kept in a pit blocked off at its top (this was an actual imprisonment method at the war). He is then taken to an abstract prison/torture chamber that is similarly dark, featureless and somewhat abstract, with red cell bars. Other captured militants are present. The torturers are the two generals.
-Three modern-day gommie activists sift through a briefcase with personal documents and photographs of the Grabois family -Maurício Grabois led the guerilla until his death in 1973. At the end they grab a loaded revolver. Then, quite disturbingly, the two generals are shown tied down in front of a wall. They try to negotiate and promise to give the militants names of "gringos and businessmen", but then one woman (who also appears in the interview part) picks the revolver and shoots them. The three activists then move into a street demonstration.

The film traces the Party's history since the 40s: it was repressed under Vargas but then allied with him during the World War. It was then legalized but then made illegal again. The Maoist/Stalinist wing then breaks to form the PCdoB. The interviewees don't mention that this was due to their opposition to Kruschev's "revisionism" and focus on disputes about the revolutionary process: the orthodox pro-Soviet line wanted participation in electoral politics and an alliance with sections of the bourgeoise. This is said to be a bad decision, because bourgeoises in commodity-exporting countries are irrevocably loyal to imperialism. In contrast, the Maoist wing was open to armed struggle and hostile to any sort of cross-class alliance.

The breakup is finished in the early 60s. By then the Right was maneuvering to take power and the PCdoB began to prepare for military action even before '64 and its coup d'etat. The story diverges a little to mention that there were as much as five thousand communists and other leftists as officers in the Armed Forces, some in high ranks, but their social democratic and orthodox communist civilian political leaders told them to stay quiet and not fight the government. This demoralized them and they were easily demoted/expelled.

The Left is then said to have been given an unwinnable dilemma: to be neutered as a nonviolent moderate opposition or to be isolated and crushed in a futile armed struggle. This is compared to "1930 or 1935": the former saw what could be called a bourgeois revolution in Marxist terms, while the latter year saw an idiotic and short-lived attempt at a Communist revolution. Several groups in the far left followed the secound course, most fighting an "urban guerilla" through bank robberies, kidnappings and so on. The most famous revolutionary theory of the time was Foco theory, which sought to replicate Cuba's experience. But the PCdoB rejected foquismo-after all, Castro was nothing but a pawn of the Soviet revisionist social imperialists- and instead embraced Maoist Protracted People's War. This theory emphasizes mobilizing the masses in a political-ideological, not military, struggle and surrounding the cities by taking over the countryside.

This requires a proper starting point. It must be rural, have difficult terrain and face both the hinterland and the core. For this reason the Party scouted out the country and handpicked the Araguaia region.

Then there's an interesting bit: Maurício Grabois and other high-ranking Party members visit China and meet Mao Zedong in person. He gives the Helmsman a realistic briefing of the Party's condition and its odds of success. Mao simply puts his hands behind his head in great consternation. He later advises them caution because their situation is complex.

Once the insurgency is crushed, the Party is split on how to interpret its legacy. The majority believes it was a grave mistake and what happened was not a protracted people's war but a Foco, a mere private crusade with no meaningful participation from the masses. Indeed, this is also how non-Communist accounts see the conflict. A minority faction believes it was a success and had to be replicated, with one article published at the time saying "many Araguaias are needed". The Lapa massacre reshaped the Party and the minority's view took over, preventing a critical review of the events and enforcing a mythicized narrative. This was followed by the Party becoming even more moderate than the orthodox wing it split off from, fully embracing participation in the democratic transition government in the 80s. They backed down and moved slightly to the left after harsh measures were used against a general strike in 1986, but otherwise remained in the paradoxical position of glorifying the Araguaia war and following a nonviolent course.

Much is discussed about why the guerilla failed. Its location wasn's as good as thought; this is briefly mentioned but makes sense, as after all, Brasília and the nearest state capitals have little strategic value, the real demographic centers were too far away. It was too small of an area to make a difference, too. The fighters were few and inexperienced, and the Party lacked qualified cadres. Most importantly, popular support was not achieved and only a few peasants joined the rebels. Non-communist accounts attribute this to the peasantry being deeply religious and totally indifferent to Marxism and the passions of urbanites from the core. Rampant factionalism and thirst for power are also blamed for the far left's failure in general: groups split off into factions at the slightest disagreement and militants clung on to their posts even when that was detrimental to the larger movement and they should have accepted criticism and allowed others to take over. Some activists then complain that communist parties are attempting to appeal to society at large rather than speaking directly and exclusively to the proletariat.

Overall this is not worth your time. The Mao bit is the only fun thing I learned from this, though I was also informed of a lot of obscure organizational history and Maoist theory. I failed to understand quite a lot of it because of how much jargon is used. As a film it fails to impress unless you're a Maoist fellow traveller, and most of the historical reenactment part is awful. It also failed to make me feel sad for the fighters. It's a good thing they were crushed.

One thing about jargon: I once used to buy a Maoist newspaper. Hardcore Maoists use a lot of uppercase-initiated words, literary conventions and wordings that feel like you're reading a translated Chinese article from the height of the Cultural Revolution. The result, if not byzantine, is at least clunky and out of place. This movie is actually light on that, mostly using just general Marxist jargon. But unless you're already part of the authors' ideological circles you won't understand much. I didn't.

>>22928
Good read. Thanks!
>Overall this is not worth your time
I don't think it would be understandable for those who don't know Portuguese anyway. Especially for the jargon you mentioned.

>>22928

Very interesting, thanks.

>Much is discussed about why the guerilla failed.
>Most importantly, popular support was not achieved and only a few peasants joined the rebels.

They surely didn't read much about Russian revolution: peasants aren't revolutionary class and couldn't be core of commie movement at all. They want to own land and houses or own them already, and don't want that share-everything concept of collectivism. Only class that has nothing, like poverty-ridden urban workers or lumpens, may really drive the revolution.

Bolsheviks allied with peasantry, promising them land, but actually didn't give it to them, forcing collectivization instead, and this ended in peasants rebellions that were harshly suppressed by the army.

>>22943
>>22943
>Bolsheviks allied with peasantry, promising them land, but actually didn't give it to them, forcing collectivization instead, and this ended in peasants rebellions that were harshly suppressed by the army.
That reminds me of Vendée uprising.

>>22943
Actually the real drive in the communist revolution is the communist intelligentsia who are capable of organize the urbanite workers who become the soldiers of the revolution. In specific situations - typically for guerrilla warfare - they need to win the support of the peasantry living in the back country. But frankly this only works if the peasants are hostile toward the ruling power in the first place, it's hard - if not impossible - to turn them against someone who means no danger to them, to their property and way of life.

To remain on topic.
Past days I revisited Shinobi: Heart Under the Blade since I started to browse Japanese movies to watch and it came into my mind. Seen it not long after it was released so it was a long time ago.
It's a fantasy ninja movie in a historical setting with a Romeo and Juliet theme (not too sappy). It's meh. The ninjas have superpowers.

>>22974
It's part one of a literary trilogy, the other two were never made into movies iirc. The movie is prescient not so much in the technological sense, but as a metaphor of a totalistic system. Also the president looks like John F. Kennedy.

I stumbled upon a tv-show the Impulse. Breddy gud/10. Created out of an sci-fi novel the same title by Steven Gould.
It's about a teenage grill, called Henry, who can teleport - and for now she tries to deal with her situation her newfound power forces her in. Her stepsister or some such and an Bernd helps her. She's also a brat.
One other dude has this power who is French, and it seems he fights some shady organization who might used him in the past or made experiments on him it's still not clear, I don't really care for his storyline, I guess it's there to give a background story for this power when it will be needed.
The actors seems to be noname ones, I can't recognize but one, an antagonist type who was the hero of J.A.G. the tv-show.

Anyone seen this? I heard its swell.

>>23027
Breddy gud. Solid cast, and it gives a view into a life of a sect and into a federal fuckup.
It's based on the real events of the Waco siege in 1993. Not sure how much is fiction but for my understanding we can't be sure what's happened there due contradictory statements.

So basically binge watched Waco, or at least what's count as such for me.
Very good, recommended. Will look up what happened there irl.
That holocaust symbolism tho:
- Branch Davidians
- got gassed
- got burned

Kagemusha is next (by Kurosawa), the background theme is the end of the Sengoku period.
Then I'll see if I can find any of these: >>22973 >>22974

>>23113

You know what is going.

>>23118
What was Trump's previous form?

>>23119
Oh wait, I know.

>>23118
>>23119
>>23121
So Trump is an amphibian shapeshifter.

>>23123
I could try to draw a long face similar to a croc if that'd please your autism.

>>23123

Pretty much true. Also:

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

>Dermophis donaldtrumpi is a proposed species of caecilian – a nearly-blind, serpentine amphibian – to be named after Donald Trump. It was originally discovered in Panama and is yet to be confirmed as a new species; as of February 2019, the binomial name has not been formally published.

>>23126
I remember that one. All caecilian traits -burrowing, limited vision, parental care- were used to own Trump and that was frankly ignorant and insulting to caecilians. They are noble and beautiful creatures and I'd consider it a great honor to have one named after me.

>>23140
He does have a species of fossil sea urchin named in honor of him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragramma_donaldtrumpi

>>23126
>>23140
>>23162
Too bad the bald eagle ain't available for naming anymore.

>>23126
>According to the Rainforest Trust, amphibians such as D. donaldtrumpi are vulnerable to extinction due to being exceptionally sensitive to the results of global warming

Plot by the global warming lobby to play on his ego for policy concessions.

On the other hand there's Baracktrema obamai, a parasitic flatworm named after Oblong.

>>23140
>I'd consider it a great honor to have one named after me.

Not everyone understand this.

For example, Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of scihub - site that allows free access to research papers, fell into rage and decided to block Russia when someone named wasp after her. That guy actually did it without bad intentions, but she reacted strongly. Although she really had internet conflict with people near-scientific community because she is mad stalinist, and that wasp wasn't sole reason.

>>23177

Fuck off gypsy.

>>23188
Reported for spam.

So finally finished Kagemusha here >>23080
It covers Takeda Shingen's - a great daimyo of the Sengoku period - uncertain death. The creators picked one version and built a tale of it by adding the central element of the film: the daimyo's double. Shingen's generals decided to hide their master's unfortunate fate and go on as if nothing changed.
I'm not sure about the moral of the story if there's any. I didn't notice any accentuated theme, maybe how the double kept loyal to his master but frankly how this loyalty was built, it wasn't shown, so I guess this isn't it.
I dunno. Nothing remarkable, was some interesting visuals, and some close up faces and expressions maybe. I lieked how a sniper explained how he took a shot.

>>23190
Ray Mears makes some good documentaries. Primarily they're usually about bushcraft and local people, but he normally talks about wildlife too.

>>23203
Huh, he made actual documentaries. Quite a few I see. Didn't know that. I thought he's "just" bookguy. Will look into it. Thx.

>>23190
I was pretty disappointed in the last series from the nature documentaries department of the BBC. The success of Blue Planet I + II mixed with Hollywood music turned their documentaries into empty shells with really nice camerawork and obnoxious music that shouldn't be in the foreground at all. It's just story telling, but zero information about the animals themselves. But it's a cash grab with record viewership, so they will continue with this watered down style as long as Attenborough is still alive with his voice over.

>>23208
I forgot to add the perfect expression to describe it: dumbed down

>>23208
So they made American documentary. I have the notion of watching those you mentioned for a while, I'll try not to postpone it and see for myself. Maybe get an older Attenborough documentary tho I still remember stuff.

Back then Hungarian crews shoot some too, they were quite nice. One great documentary series however wasn't about animals tho nature got some focus. The title is One and a half million steps on Hungary. It was followed by ...and another million steps. Both had more of a touristic purpose, the crew followed the National Blue Trail - on foot ofc - from one corner of the country to the other and filmed such material a cultural anthropologist would lick the corner of his mouth. The Trail leads through small villages where old people still practiced at that time the traditional professions and they made a chronicle of them. Ofc they talked many other people, filmed many buildings, monuments and did many nature shots in between, and gave a picture of the hardships that a tourist should suffer during his hike since tourism was on very low level and infrastructure lacked. I would think it's part of it's charm tho.
Uncut intro music:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UazsO1FYrG4 [Embed]

Don't you welfare gyppos have anything better to do?

>>23215

nice gypsyshit

>>23223
>>kek turan
Oh fugg.

>>23249
>brown

At least it's the right color.

Encouraged by the past discussion about Gosling's acting talent or the lack of it I sacrificed time and energy to watch The Nice Guys.
Paired with Russel Crow they play private investigators working on a case, first independently but for the unexpected turn of fate they have to cooperate and solve it together.
Most of it didn't really grabbed my attention, but it has not one funny moments which made me genuinely laugh.

>>23249
>brown

At least the color's right.

Funny he >>24022 mentioned watching a film after webm "recommendation". Coincidentally me too did similarly and picked The Square.
It's a Swedish movie, got some recognition in Cannes. Despite this it's breddy gud. Not sure what was the intention of the creators, but for me it shows a series of different confrontations. Aggression, stress inducing situations and ways the characters dealing with it. I didn't recognize any moral for the story or big climax by the end. It has a mild humor tho.

>>23282
enjoyed it tbh

>>24030
>I didn't recognize any moral for the story
I believe, it's about civilized Europe.
America tries to trick Europe (that American lady).
Pushy refugees try to spread their order (that Turkish boy).
Russians are unable to be reasoning with, they just bully everybody and take whatever they want.
And civilized Europe takes everything meekly.

>>24033
That's a nice little analysis.

>>23282
I put off watching this for a long time but I finally watched it and it was 5/5 nod bad. A few of the comedy scenes seemed overacted but it was mostly well executed, good use of props and cultural staples of the 70's too.

>>24074
When surfing on the .org I show up as Swedish apparently.

>>24074
I'm constantly postponing The Yakuza Papers. Watched the first and maybe started the second. They good too. But somehow I always manage to say: "nah, not today".

Everyone post some good movies from your countryball.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1808223/?ref_=tt_rt

>>24083
preferably the ones which have english subs.

>>24089
Which film was when the soldiers on a truck were talking about history?

Also must watch, straight from Wakaliwood: Who Killed Captain Alex
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KEoGrbKAyKE [Embed]

>>24090
>Which film was when the soldiers on a truck were talking about history?
That was a Portuguese one >>18092

I watched this recently for no apparent reason. Even in its time it was a historical movie, being set in the 1930's and it did the age right I think. 8/10 classic's and good

>>24088
All right. So on the plus side I have Kontroll and an .srt that fits perfectly to it. On the negative side it's 1,7 GB and not sure how to make it available for Bernd. It's from a closed, invite only tracker, the subs is from opensubtitles.org.

>>24142
All right. Subs included:
https://mega.nz/#!rVpzkabT!bT64_LFrjjSbWIFtRvy2MBjHZL7mbNBPbjMmqNaBWVM
If you are interested, Bernd, hurry, on the evening of April 3 I'll delete it.

Give this a bump so Bernd won't miss it.

>>24150
Great movie, definitely would recommend!

The series combines 18 of unrelated episodes, mostly animated. It covers variety of themes, like sci-fi, mystic, comedy. Don't expect these to be deep, watch it if you want to entertain yourself (and get some doze of agenda that is currently been pushed in media).

>>24190
It is.
I frequently emphasize our actors are of theaters and not cinema so how they play some stuff seems weird, I'm not sure if it's apparent for foreigners.

>>24191
Seen. It's the Heavy Metal of the millenials. Some nice CG there and it won't get cringy like the CG in movies.

>>24194
That's what our people say about Japanese actors

>>24223
Since personally I don't know Japanese people in general (tho I met some) I can't really judge that. On the other hand I saw a good amount of Jap films, movies (for a Hungarian) I can agree there is really something strange in the actor's play, a few relatives and friends of mine whom I talk about these things mostly don't even like them probably for this reason.
Nevertheless I recommend that Hungarian movie, you can download it from here: >>24150
The zip contains an .mkv and an .srt file. You have to load the latter manually into your favourite media player.
The main hero is a conductor working for a metro company - the film plays in the tunnels, stations and on the trains. The story is about a series of murders on the surface, but about good and bad behind all that. It has a good load of mystic element, and it's hard to fit in a certain category, it's very eclectic: comedy, drama, crime, thriller, action, all can be found in it.

>>24191
that video gave me GRIDS

>>24228
Quickly, here's the antidote!

>>24236
1. Offtopic.
2. We already has a degeneracy thread, use the Catalog to find it.

>>24237
>1. Offtopic.
Agree, but that's not fun of having rules without breaking them sometimes. Btw, I tried to undo that post, but endchan wouldn't allow that.

>>24239
>torfag wants to delete shitpost but Endchan won't let him

Can't report from TOR either, how will torfags correct their abusive compatriots then? Truly torfags are the disadvantaged youths™ of the internet.

>>24239
We don't have rules.

>>24150
Oh forgot. I decided to leave it up for a little more. Not sure if all the Bernds who would want to watch it acquired it already.

I can recommend a few movies that is easy to watch

The prestige

The illusionist

Mediterraneo (they speak spagetti but you can find english subs)

Le Samourai (great french movie)

>>24279
>The prestige
It's quite enjoyable.
>The illusionist
Seen this but don't remember. Maybe I'll uncog my memory with a quick peek in a trailer or something.
>Mediterraneo
Sounds good. Will try to find it somewhere.
>Le Samourai
Is that picrel? I seen a great deal of Delon (and Belmondo) movies when I was a kid. In those times French films were broadcasted frequently on "royal" tv channels. Mostly these two, and Funes. And Marceau nice legs.

Why wasn't mr. Green scared for his little niece who was on the verge of been shot?

asterix the mansions of the gods is very pleasurable to watch

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7366338/

looks pretty good from the trailer and hbo usually makes good stuff

Weird movie, build upon occult symbolism. Might be interesting for those who are into spirituality too.

>>24320
yes, very good
don't know (and don't trust) any of the new instances but can fully recommend the 'classic' ones

the longest day is a decent movie because of the scenes with this man

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vr3RyEV5-54 [Embed]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jOKnXZK0apE [Embed]

fascinating documentary about bepsi and goga gola

maybe a bit assburger

>>24615
>The war between PEP and COC helps them both to sell the product.
Very nice.

A mysterious organization abducts a woman, which seems to be an ordinary lonely mother of a boy.
Now the woman has to overcome her darkest nightmare, in order to transform into next gen being.
Essentially, the movie is the story of enlightenment, but not the sweet one, which fairy tales are telling around, but the real one — brutal, ruthless, straight.

very good doc about the great depression in usa

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VjH4pCatx0I [Embed]

4 parts

yesterday I watched our daily bread (1934) with my cat and it was a very enjoyable movie. made by a hungarian director (hungary stronk) with the coolest name ever, King vidor.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wnDxHTaeNX0 [Embed]

a bald man is exploring moldova

looks like hell tbh

>>24797
Not that bad.
They are poor as fuck. Just like Albanians. Frankly if public safety was fine it would be quite livable.
As for the tourists. The main base of that should be moved to the country, into the villages, farms. Sell it as "live simply for a month" or such. With wells and outhouses. But then for that they would need quaint little wooden houses and such in simple but good condition.

Today I watched a Japanese show which interviewed a Japanese old migrant in Kalmykia. I didn't remember the place name. But when I saw the Mongolian faces of the local people, and that the place was a exception among soviet republics that had Buddhist religion, I suddenly remembered that a Russian poster on /kc/ told me about the place.

20130510 Sekai no Mura de Hakken! Konnatokoro ni Nihonjin (Miyazawa Sae) part03
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzwdlh

This show would send Japanese actors or actress to remote places to interview Japanese emigrants there. The show showed many different emigrants. Some are younger foreign aides volunteers. Some are migrants who find jobs there. Some, very old ones, are war prisoners or orphans taken by the host countries in WWII.

>>24811
Never seen people knocking on a gate. Also strange to see Japanese in that post-communist milieu.
>wallcarpet
Kek.

>>24811
>But when I saw the Mongolian faces of the local people, and that the place was a exception among soviet republics that had Buddhist religion, I suddenly remembered that a Russian poster on /kc/ told me about the place.

It also may be Tuva, it is Mongolian and Buddhist, and located at Far East near China. But this guy is from Kalmykia, it is known story.

Story says that he was fighter pilot who was been shot down and became prisoner in USSR. He tried to kill himself with sword but failed and remained alive, so he was afraid to return back because it is dishonor or something like this, and decided to stay in USSR.

Here is the article in Russian: https://www.mk-kalm.ru/social/2018/10/29/posledniy-kamikadze-yaponii-zhil-v-kalmykii.html

>>24817
>Never seen people knocking on a gate.

People do it sometimes, knocking and using voice is better that just one voice. When there are no doorbells of course.

Carpet is interesting, looks like my own wall carpet, but with slightly different ornament.

>>24827
When i saw the show I got the impression that...well my impression wasn't very accurate either. Should be careful when I watched the show

Despite being famous for its pedo context, the movie is not just that simple. Huge poplar trees, shaking leaves in smooth breath, a lot of sun, insects and birds are noising around — the nature definitely takes a great part in it. But also there is something which is hard to grasp with words. If you like books of Gabriel García Márquez, the movie could fit into the mood.

I decided I'm gonna watch the last episode of Dexter today. Back then when it aired I followed every season but the last two I didn't enjoy I felt it turned awful. I can't remember why I haven't watched the very last episode, and ofc I forgot for a few years I have it on my hard drive. Now am gonna make some dinner to go with it.

>>24859
Hmm. It finished the story but not ended it. Or ended it but not finished. So it's not entirely closed down but an acceptable ending point storywise.
I think I got disenchanted of the show because it turned more melodramatic soap opera-ie.

>>24869
Nothing new, a lot of "Mason explains Freemasonry" books already exist

https://youtube.com/watch?v=efQU4XW2ZIA [Embed]

very good talk again by mr icke

https://imgur.com/gallery/XqJod

good comic

>>24960
>yew, which combines two woods in one
Every tree has a heartwood and sapwood parts. In some they are more visible (walnut is a good example), in some they are less but still can make out the difference.

A barely familiar woman drops her daughter with a man. Now the man and the girl are traveling, trying to get the girl home. A pretty shallow, but warm movie of Wim Wenders.

>>24965
>Back in the '90s
exatly how old are you

>>24979
I am exactly twice as old than if I was half as young but half as young than if I was twice as old.
I saw Don't Be a Menace around '99 I think. But haven't seen Menace II Soc and Boyz n The Hood up until now.

>>24965
I think I prefer Boyz n The Hood over Menace tho this one's seems faster and most of the Boyz is slow and lukewarm. It is clear that they were great influence on GTA San Andreas.

>>24981
do you think it was better in the 90's than today? regarding society etc

>>24982
Was different. Better? I don't think so. But things haven't become better either. Maybe things still had potential of improving, maybe I just became more cynical (tho I'm far from being as cynical I was about 2010) therefore less inclined to be optimistic about the future.

>>24984
must have been a big change in hungary from communism to free market

>>24989
Was and wasn't. And the impact still haunts us.
The problem was that in 1989-90 the people wasn't prepared to take it's own matters into it's own hands - while the thirst for democracy was there for a long time we couldn't mature for it, it was killed in 1849, 1918-20, 1947-48 - and the elite wasn't willing to give it anyway either. So they just widened the political elite with the "enrollment" of the opposition's leadership, they shared the power with them. There wasn't any revolution what could swept clear the stage of politics, where the people could build their own structure, to play their own drama. The elite is still trying to direct the country from above like back then in the communist dictatorship, and similarly creating their own stratum of cadres who are given privileges. Still forcing people to lick the arse of those above meanwhile trample the heads of those below.

For the occasional Hungarians who might browse /kc/ here's a list of movie titles which play during the regime change or about the regime change in a way. The list isn't fresh I think, just found so this post will be somewhat related to the thread.
For other Bernds sadly this is useless.

1990
Isten hátrafelé megy – Jancsó Miklós
Félálom – Rózsa János
Itt a szabadság – Vajda Péter
A túlélés ára – Erdõss Pál
Az utolsó nyáron – András Ferenc

1991
Csapd le csacsi – Tímár Péter
Édes Emma, drága Böbe – Szabó István
És mégis – Kézdi-Kovács Zsolt
A három nõvér – Lukáts Andor
Kék Duna keringõ – Jancsó Miklós
Zsötem – Salamon András

1992
A csalás gyönyöre – Gyarmathy Lívia
Hoppá – Maár Gyula
Roncsfilm – Szomjas György

1993
Fényérzékeny történet – Erdõss Pál
Halál sekély vízben – Gyöngyössy Imre – Kabay Barna
Nyugattól keletre – Dárday István
Vasisten gyermekei – Tóth Tamás

1994
Megint tanú – Bacsó Péter
Törvénytelen – András Ferenc

1995
Bolse Vita – Fekete Ibolya
Szeressük egymást gyerekek – Makk Károly – Jancsó Miklós – Sándor Pál
Vörös Colibri – Böszörményi Zsuzsa

1996
Balekok és banditák – Bacsó Péter
Gyilkos kedv – Erdõss Pál
Retur – Palásthy György

1997
Szelídek – Balogh Zsolt
A miniszter félrelép – Kern András – Koltai Róbert
A rózsa vére – Zsigmond Dezsõ

1998
Zimmer Feri – Tímár Péter

1999
Gengszterfilm – Szomjas György
Hippolyt – Kabay Barna
Közel a szerelemhez – Salamon András
Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr, Pesten – Jancsó Miklós
Pattogatott kukorica – Gábor Péter
Visszatérés – Grunwalsky Ferenc

2000
Anyád! a szúnyogok… – Jancsó Miklós
Nincsen nekem vágyam semmi – Mundruczó Kornél
Rosszfiúk – Sas Tamás

2001
Utolsó vacsora az Arabs Szürkénél – Jancsó Miklós
Moszkva tér – Török Ferenc
I love Budapest – Incze Ágnes
Meseautó – Kabay Barna

I only saw a few of these and don't really remember them anyway.
Two more I found quick which could be add:
2010
Az ügynökök a paradicsomba mennek - Décsy Zoltán
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XZiTOQ7RCQw [Embed]
It is really about the regime change but mostly of the previous years.

2014
Sikerült!? - Varga József
This is about the 24 years after the regime change.

>>24990
do you recommend roncsfilm to a foreigner?

I think its hard especially for a swede to grasp how hungarians have had it the last 200 years, wars wars wars famine wars famine etc. from ruthless ottomans to corrupt austrians to ww1 land grab etc.

and most dont even know this I only know it because im a history nerd

https://youtube.com/watch?v=leHb2hdCLqo [Embed]

fascinating doc about a dude surviving in a tropical island

very easy to watch

https://youtube.com/watch?v=crqZsAi5yhA [Embed]

top kek

>>24991
>famine
We only had famine in the first half of the 1950s. In the previous millennia never ever, only the communism could reach this "achievement".

>roncsfilm
That particular one I saw many years ago and I don't remember. It's the type when the regime change gives the background but the movie's plot isn't about it or politics. I also think it's a comedy but more of the raunchy type. I dunno if it's available in any other language - even in subtitle form.
If you wanna watch a Hungarian movie I still recommend Kontroll, I uploaded to mega, dl link is here: >>24150 it's still alive. I placed the subs also in the zip.
But I'll look into it what could I acquire for you guys from the list, with subs at least.

That movie was an absurd joke.

>>25278
It starts then after a while it says the file is corrupt.

>>25279
Yes, it happens for some people, but works for others, I don't know why.

>>25280
obviusly the gods are telling us something

>>25280
It wörks now.

>>25282
Indeed gods are messing with us.
>>25283
Good to know.

watching this atm

https://youtube.com/watch?v=K7lb6KWBanI [Embed]

good quality production. I think we often overlook the fact that philip was the one who made alexanders conquests possible.

>>25283
and I was about to sacrifise a goat lucky me

>>25285
Great, thanks!

>>25278
They need reservation.

>>25291
I see that detail startled you a bit.

>>25293
Why can't Anglos just call him Air-is-total-ease somewhat similarly to how normal people do?
Or was he Aristurtle? The long lost brother of these guys: >>24799 ?

>>25298
the last picture made me laugh uncontrollable

TRUE ROMAN BREAD FOR TRUE ROMANS

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xH0kO5qcPf8 [Embed]

>>25329
I missed that town crier, best guy in the series.

Today I watched Superfantozzi, an old italian comedy.
We follow fate of a Fantozzi family through the ages and the protagonist is just the most unlucky fellow.
It's hilarious
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-_Y3ghVFkk4 [Embed]

I watched this movie called The Silent Teacher
It's about a husband "donated" his dead wife's body to a catholic medical school to be a cadaver used in dissection lesson.
The students held lots of Taiwanese catholic rituals (similar to the Chinese rituals) because the school tried to teach them about issues of life and death

I agree with commentators. The dissection program impacted the living relatives but they are not given enough concerns because most of the programs only talk about the deceased

>>25469
>Pina
That means pussy in Hungarian.
Hehh, good scene. Money, easy comes, easy goes.

>>25483
Sounds grim, so it's probably for me. I wonder if it is somehow available for us too. Will check.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8pSr8fQa9mA [Embed]

very fascinating

>>25483
I guess the school tried to teach students about sympathy. A professor said that it's important for students to learn that the bodies they treat needs their sympathy. And I guess there are other mental stress too. So there are lots of the religious rituals. The students have to call the cadaver "teacher" and learn about her cause of death.

The problem is that the dissection disturbs the family. Although the deceased signed the consent contract, it was the family who actually execute the contract. People like to have a proper funeral. Seeing their relatives getting embalmed, dissected and discussed disturbs them.
But most of the schools' focus is on "have sympathy for the deceased". Not the family.
There is also a problem of burial ground. The school often buried the deceased in catholic cemetery near the school. But the family is Buddhist and want a place closer to them.

I didn't really watch the whole movie. I saw it on tv but cannot focus on the channel. I don't really want to be disturbed.

Watched Green Book.
Based on real life events. The theme behind the story is very typical for an American movie of our time but I very much enjoyed it. Viggo Mortensen's acting as a wop is great, but all the other actors - with very few exceptions, and even those aren't terrible - played with such quality they really made the scenes entertaining. I liked those little moments which gave a tiny insight in the life of those people in the movie. It's also has humor but doesn't take it too far as comedy.
It's a good solid movie.

>>25510
That's a rarely discussed topic. Here too, the people mostly just want to shove the old granma into the grave and get on with the mourning.
But then the movie seems to show a threefold conflict, on one level there's science and tradition, on another the matter of will: whose important, the deceased's or the family's, and on the third level it's a cultural/relgious conflict between Christianity and Buddhism.
Do I see it right?
Well as you can judge it.

>>25538
I have seen that Green Book movie. Good movie

You are probably right about the movie. The way I saw the issue is that the family of the deceased wasn't quite ready with the donation . And it seems that if religion is such an issue they might want choose a Buddhist medical school.

>>25538
goddamn nigger lover movie I aint seeing that shit

>>25555
Are you afraid they're gonna convert you neger lover?

>>25556
alright you got me eh

>>25557
You can decide what you watch and how it effects you.
Green Book is a quality movie with good acting. I could have missed out but didn't and problems weren't.

What are some "mandatory" movies from the '80s, '90s?

>>25659
DeepStar Six

>>25659
https://cyberpunkdatabase.net/search.php?decade=1980-1989
https://cyberpunkdatabase.net/search.php?decade=1990-1999

if its after 1995 and/or mainstream it can be omitted

have you watched polish Sex Mission too?

>>25663
>>25664
Thanks.
Hm cyberpunk, that's good.
I'm fine with mainstream stuff too. Nothing like a good Commando here and there, as I mentioned earlier ITT.
Probably with the exception of romantic movies, mostly anything's fine, from Alien to Wag the Dog, whatever.

>>25669
>polish Sex Mission
The what? Is it about a Catholic Mission trying to introduce the moral ways of consummating their wedlock to the depraved natives?

>>25659
demolition man if you want to see the future

>>25683
That's not bad, I rewatched that few years back. Or maybe last year? I dunno.

>>25682
>>25682
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/

actually its pretty good

>>25714
I remember that. I mean a short scene was posted... back on 8 I guess. I think I even saved it.
It's when they sitting in front of a jury or whatever and they got told that Copernicus was woman and such.

chernobyl was good pilot episode

>>25714
I will watch it

>>25915
>>25714
watched it, pretty funny but I must warn bernd that has alot of nudity.

>>25669
>polish Sex Mission too?

Pretty fun movie. It was shown often at early post-Soviet TV, although with some censorship of course.

>>25914
Just finished that. Pretty rad. Recommended for Bernds.

>>26266
episode 3 out

>>26288
Great! Thanks!
I still have Ep.2 to watch first.

I'm impressed. This show is very solid. I mean mini series, I assume it consists of 6 episodes in all.
I wonder if it will give birth some new anti-Russian and anti-Ukrainian banter on international boards.

>>26298
that professor is the same actor who played in terror I think. hes great. gotta hand it to the soviets, their infrastructure was damn impressive. just pulling all those resources (busses, helis, manpower) in so short time.

>>26300
Yeah, yeah. Cap'n Crozier.
About the soviets: that was the central will. They shat themselves due to what ifs and they had to do something fast.
They paint the picture of Gorbachev good, I dunno how those behind the scenes meetings went down irl, but in the show he handles the situation well. He is the sources of power and he is willing to give a free hand to those who has the knowledge and the initiative to alleviate the situation.

>>26303
And he (Gorbachev) does it in a way he could shift the blame away of himself if necessary, ofc.