Well - I watched Oppenheimer free weeks ago and nearly fell off my chair when 'Barbie' was put up against it.

Opie was a folk hero - Barbie was a.... plastic doll... what a hoot.... and terrible what was done to Oppenheimer afterwards.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/11/christopher-nolan-best-director-opp...

Don't laugh - Chris Nolan is my kid's mother's cousin - hence their second cousin... I don't make stories up - though I have copped one hell of a lot of 'tall poppy syndrome' from under-achievers... sounds familiar to me...

As I said to Marla - I'm by nature a gentle, trusting, loyal, honest, deeply spiritual soul, I don't make stories up and I am certified totally sane - civilised ... people have been sneaking up on me for decades... and I have always been left wondering WTF and YTF some loser would hate me when all I do is my job superlatively and never even consider myself special.... or they to be lesser .... never take the piss out of a pin-head or flea-brain physical unachiever or similar - never have...

EVERYTHING about my life, much of which sounds incredible to some/many, can be verified except one thing...... and those responsible admit mine are one of 172 'missing' records that may be 'held by the unit' (their words).

Vic probably knows something given he lives in Darkest Victoria...

Gandhi - a 1982 epic biographical film based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, a major leader in the Indian independence movement against the British Empire during the 20th century. A co-production between India and the United Kingdom, the film was directed and produced by Richard Attenborough from a screenplay written by John Briley. It stars Ben Kingsley in the title role. The biographical film covers Gandhi's life from a defining moment in 1893, as he is thrown off a South African train for being in a whites-only compartment and concludes with his assassination and funeral in 1948. Although a practising Hindu, Gandhi's embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted.

Gandhi was released by Columbia Pictures in India on 30 November 1982, in the United Kingdom on 3 December, and in the United States on 8 December. It was praised for providing a historically accurate portrayal of the life of Gandhi, the Indian independence movement and the deleterious results of British colonisation on India. Its production values, costume design, and Kingsley's performance received worldwide critical acclaim. It became a commercial success, grossing $127.8 million on a $22 million budget.

The film glossed over Gandhi's attitude to Blacks and women.  It basically told a vanilla version of his life and made him into a saint like figure.  The supporting cast are superb and feature such greats as John Mills, Edward Fox, Martin Sheen, Sir John Gielgud, Candice Bergman, and others.  Well worth watching.  9 out of 10.

UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 11^th, 2024 at 10:25pm:


No joke at all - just literal truth.  He's their mother's cousin.  Ex and daughter are both in movies too.

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 14^th, 2024 at 9:12pm:


GTTF is prone to fantasizing and he then believes figments from his fantasies are real.

"I, Tonya" is probably worth watching at least once. That is, unless you are caught up with the drama of the real Nancy Kerrigan incident in 1994. I thought the whole incident was faked by Kerrigan to get sympathy. But, the years went by and people were implicated. Having heard the admission that Harding knew about the plan to injure Kerrigan, my opinion changed. But, even then, Kerrigan was being a big drama queen.

Deadly Cuts is a 2021 Irish comedy film directed and written by Rachel Carey.  It stars Angeline Ball, Ericka Roe, Lauren Larkin, Shauna Higgins, Aidan McArdle, Pauline McLynn, Victoria Smurfit.  It is about a hair salon in a mythical depressed suburb of Dublin called "Piglintown".  The girls are being stood over by a local thug who is demanding protection money from them and all the other shops in a small shopping centre.  One morning one of the girls comes in late explaining that the thug had threatened to cut her long locks of hair off.  She is terrified and suddenly the thug appears at the door and forces his way in and threatens all the girls that unless they pay him, he'll cut all their hair off.  A fight breaks out between the thug and the girls and he ends up dead.  The girls stare at one another and ask what are they going to do now?  They need to dispose of the body and next door is a butcher's shop which happens to have a large industrial sized oven in it.  So, they have the keys because the butcher is always forgetting his and he keeps a spare set in the hair dressers'  So they lug the body next door and after a few comical scenes about needing to cut him up and saying a few last words, they do the deed.

The rest of the movie is them hiding what they have done.  They enter a hair dressing competition which their owner had been humiliated in once before, when younger.  She ends up facing her nemesis and needs to defeat her, played by Belinda Smurfit.   The thug's 2-i-c becomes suspicious and rings his phone and it rings on live TV during the competition.  So, off he trots to confront the girls.  Now, the girls have a pistol that they confiscated from an OAP who was collecting money for their effort in the competition to protect herself against the local thugs.  Anyway, the thug's 2-i-c appears on stage and threatens the girls and the mousiest one who is barely articulate draws the pistol thinking it is a fake and shoots and kills him in front of everybody but assures them that it is a fake and all part of the act.  Everybody believes her and the show goes on with a dead body in a cart.  They win the competition against all the odds and hide the body.  Later the next day in the salon a sleezy councilor  appears and threatens them with closure because of the thug's antics.  They are devastated but the OAP who was robbed earler does him in with her knitting needle.  They remark that you, "don't upset the oldsters of Piglintown."   They look at each other and decide to dispose of the councilor's body in the butcher's oven.  That is where the movie ends.   It is a funny movie, well worth watching and includes many favourites of Irish TV and movies, it includes Angeline Ball, who played Imelda Quirke in the Commitments movie, Pauline McLynn is best known for her roles as Mrs. Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, Victoria Smurfit who was in Bulletproof Monk.  A movie well worth watching,  9 out 10.

Scandi epic about the crusades and the unification of Sweden in the 12th century in the face of Danish designs on the kingdom.
 
Not an African in sight. Lotsa Skargards.

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi887555609/?playlistId=tt0837106&ref_=tt_ov_vi

Godzilla vs Kong: a New Empire - a 2024 action fantasy movie from Hollywood.  Directed by Adam Wingard. Produced by Legendary Pictures, it is a sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), and the fifth film in the MonsterVerse franchise. It is also the 38th film of the Godzilla franchise and the 13th film in the King Kong franchise. The film stars Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle, Alex Ferns, and Fala Chen. Hall, Henry, and Hottle reprise their roles from the previous film. In the film, Kong encounters more of his species in the Hollow Earth and must unite with Godzilla to stop their tyrannical leader and a powerful, frost breathing Titan from destroying the surface.

Not overly much of a story line, just a good action fantasy movie.  Film supposedly in Rome, the Arctic, Gibraltar. Cairo and Rio, it features multiple fights between Kong, Godzilla and the Star King.  Kong gains an adopted son and a pet Titan.  Overall not a bad movie, well worth watching to complete the story line.  9 out of 10.