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Movie: Blackfish, IMDB 8.1

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Charlie Prime

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Blackfish is a masterful piece of propaganda. It has clearly defined bad guys/good guys, sympathetic characters, credibility, emotional triggers, and presents a simple, actionable message for viewers.

"Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top Seaworld trainer. Blackfish shows the devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity."

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This film is very enjoyable. It is well directed and edited. I learned a lot. Highly recommend!

 
Man, give yourself break. (you're trying too hard ('This film is very enjoyable. It is well directed and edited. I learned a lot. Highly recommend!').). If (IF) you're not trolling, I sincerely apologize in advance.
 
Apology accepted.

It's a good film. For some reason the supply of new movies seems to have dried up this month. I'm revisiting old ones.
 
Thanks nameless. I put that on my list.

Last night I watched this movie Nymphomaniac (2013) because I suffer from an unhealthy fascination with Uma Thurman's weird eyes. I watch everything she appears in.

Nymphomaniac (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I was shocked at how graphic the sex scenes in this movie are. In the olden days actors would simulate sexual intercourse by hiding pillows between their bodies.

This movie showed close-ups of Christian Slater's naughty bits being jumped on by an actress. In another scene the main character played by Charlotte Gainsbourg does oral sex. This was not obscured like in most movies, but a close-up side shot.

I thought "Wow. Movie making has "progressed" to the point where big actors must now do porn".

Apparently there is a thing called "unsimulated sex". In this movie they claim on Wikipedia that these scenes were done with body doubles' naughty bits digitally imposed on the real actors.

Fooled me.
 
Watched the first part last night. I thought it was good except for Shia Labeuf's accent, i wasn't quite sure if he was meant to Australian, english, italian American, fck knows. . I thought it was an interesting look at sexuality and not in the least bit gratuitous or even "sexy". I liked the fishing analogy and ideas and experiences as metaphor. It reminded me of Shame which imo is more moving and honest in its psychological interpretation;

Shame (2011) - IMDb
 
This morning I got to thinking about Nymphomaniac and realized it was an occult movie.

Because my parents were atheists, I had no religious education. After school the other kids went to Hebrew school, Catechism, and bible study. I rode my bike. Consequently, I'm just now, as an oldster, beginning to learn about such things.

There is nothing new under the sun. All movies, television, and novels are merely re-tellings of ancient fables and myths.

I don't understand exactly what all these things mean, but these are the esoteric metaphors I saw in this movie...

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  • The whore travels west, away from the eastern church into the torture and suffering of the western church.

  • The whore confesses her sins to the virgin monk.

  • The virgin monk is ultimately brought down by the whore's temptation.

  • The ash tree and its black buds mean something in Nordic legends. (Skarsgard is Nordic).

  • The Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio figure strongly into Jo's deflowerment.

  • The "Devil's Music" tri-tone and Bach were one chapter.

  • Fishing for Men is what she did.

  • The whore's ability to orgasm is given to her at the age of 12 by Mythras and the Whore of Babylon.

  • The whore's husband "Jerome" is a biblical name I think.

  • "Madame H." the Scorned Wife" (played by Uma Thurman) is the 8th letter of the alphabet. 8 has something to do with the Resurrection.

  • The whore's father, whom she idolizes, dies in pain, and is humiliated at death.

  • The whore's decent into madness and torture begins when she suddenly loses her ability to orgasm after marrying Jerome.
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If anyone can identify which fable or myth Nymphomaniac is probably based on, please tell me!
 
Jezuz charlie, you watched it once last night and you got all this? just watched David Fincher's Girl with the dragon tattoo which seemed to follow up nicely.
 
It wasn't easy. I sat and thought about it for like 15 or 20 minutes to come up with those.

If anyone can identify which fable or myth Nymphomaniac is probably based on, please tell me!

I also liked The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo a lot. The sequels were kinda lame though.

Due to that movie I developed a bit of a crush on Naoomi Rapace. :)

When Prometheus came out (another occult movie), I couldn't wait to see it, and was not disappointed.

noomi-rapace-elizabeth-shaw-prometheus.jpg
 
nameless said:
I thought it was good except for Shia Labeuf's accent,
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Ha! That accent was indeed pretty lame. It did sound like some kind of bad Australian. I prefer what they did with Uma Thurman where they let the character have whatever accent.

That is not possible in period pieces. My daughter contends that Leonardo DiCaprio has the worst British accent of all major celebs.
 
Charlie Prime said:
Ha! That accent was indeed pretty lame. It did sound like some kind of bad Australian. I prefer what they did with Uma Thurman where they let the character have whatever accent.

That is not possible in period pieces. My daughter contends that Leonardo DiCaprio has the worst British accent of all major celebs.
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This guy has the worst british accent and he's british. His american accents are ok , can even do spanish but London????
here he is outside Julian Assange's house.
 
nameless said:
Have you seen both girl with the dragon tattoos?
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I enjoyed the first one. The second one was boring, but I suffered through it hoping it would pick up. It never did. The third one I abandoned after about 20 minutes.

> This guy has the worst british accent and he's british.

Ha! He is indeed a contender. Sons of Anarchy is one of the few shows I do watch with my wife. That show is a soap opera based on Shakespeare's Hamlet but placed with a 1%'er outlaw motorcycle club in central California.

Charlie Hunnam plays the role of Jax Teller/Prince Hamlet. It's a running joke with my wife to laugh when he slips between his British and fake American accent. Sometimes you can see his fellow actors cringe a little bit.

sons-of-anarchy-june-wedding_article_story_main.jpg
 
RE the best London accent, I have never seen a better portrayal of Londoner than Mr van Dyke's :

RE: Movie plots: you might like: The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories: Amazon.co.uk: Christopher Booker: Books

RE: Blackfish Although I agree with the intention of the makers of the film, I have little good to say about it, especially because some of the contributors were either dishonest or stupid or both. In a nutshell you don't need a degree in marine biology to figure out that keeping an oversized dolphin in a glorified bathtub is cruel, especially when you coerce it to perform by means of nutritional sanctioning.

If I am being brutally honest although wrong, Sea world is not that cruel compared to modern factory farming, it makes me sad to think that people seem to care about a large dolphin but don't give a second thought to what or who they ate for lunch, and its journey before reaching their plate.
 
Charlie Prime said:
I enjoyed the first one. The second one was boring, but I suffered through it hoping it would pick up. It never did. The third one I abandoned after about 20 minutes.

> This guy has the worst british accent and he's british.

Ha! He is indeed a contender. Sons of Anarchy is one of the few shows I do watch with my wife. That show is a soap opera based on Shakespeare's Hamlet but placed with a 1%'er outlaw motorcycle club in central California.

Charlie Hunnam plays the role of Jax Teller/Prince Hamlet. It's a running joke with my wife to laugh when he slips between his British and fake American accent. Sometimes you can see his fellow actors cringe a little bit.

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a guilty pleasure for me. Its the worst of tv and the best of tv. JUICESAYYY
 
Han said:
I have never seen a better portrayal of Londoner than Mr van Dyke's
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Ha! Last week I watched Saving Mr. Banks. It was really good. Apparently the author of Mary Poppins was horrified at the choice of van Dyke to play her father.

nameless said:
JUICESAYYY
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Juicy stretches credibility way too much. One of my old, dear friends is a high-up elder nomad in the Fat Mexican. Juice would never have survived his transgressions this long, regardless of his utility.
 
I love SOA but for the amount of rounds fired, few people get hit and also, they run guns and drugs so obviously a blind cop could bust them!
Still love it tho...
 
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