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Forum: Intermission: Miscellaneous Chat 27 minutes ago
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

Maybe she came up with and then pitched the sketch to the producers.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 40 minutes ago
Replies: 426
Documentaries
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Documentaries

If you're into births, check Kawase's Birth/Mother and Genpin.
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Mr Minio
Interesting. I remember playing with toy soldiers...

Interesting. I remember playing with toy soldiers that I perhaps never ever had. I also had a memory of throwing one of the soldiers behind a wardrobe. Years later, during renovation, when they...
Replies: 31
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Mr Minio
Sorry to hear you had this kind of experience. I...

Sorry to hear you had this kind of experience. I didn't, mercifully.

I quoted the wrong post, sorry!
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Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Mr Minio
Is that true? I mean, memory is obviously...

Is that true? I mean, memory is obviously selective, but there's a difference between reinterpreting memories and having different memories.
Replies: 31
Do you often feel nostalgic?
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Do you often feel nostalgic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzRk9f-f1Fc

I dislike Friends, too :(

I sometimes feel nostalgia when watching films. Sometimes even for things I never lived.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 21 hours ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
To which I replied that art that attacks and...

To which I replied that art that attacks and challenges norms is oftentimes propaganda and thus is also used to the advantage of political movements that rely on the populace who no longer question...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
Replies: 324
My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
Posted By Mr Minio
Curtis' takes can be so historically incorrect...

Curtis' takes can be so historically incorrect and tinfoil hat, but I love the atmosphere of his films and Eno's music.

While I generally grasp Curtis’ intentions, his concepts, and his underlying...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 2 days ago
Replies: 218
Poll: Next countdown vote (May '24)
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Next countdown vote (May '24)

Are film operas considered musicals?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 28
Watching My Collection
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Watching My Collection

Protip: Don't buy anything new until you watched & read what you already have.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
Sure, I'm just criticizing Costa's word choice....

Sure, I'm just criticizing Costa's word choice. We can talk (finally?!) about what he means by that, too, as I already mentioned before.

Maybe we can grasp what they mean, but misusing words can...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
As long as they take Mussolini's fascism and...

As long as they take Mussolini's fascism and implement it on a governmental level for countries, like Austria's Fatherland Front, or local level for organizations. Mussolini called themselves fascist...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

Fascism is the doctrine of Benito Mussolini implemented in Fascist Italy.

That's it.

Well, Austria and Croatia can too be argued to had been fascist, theoretically. Maaaybe Vichy France. And in...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
It can. But it isn't espoused by Ridley Scott....

It can. But it isn't espoused by Ridley Scott. LOL.

This sentiment/emotion is not enough to misuse words, though.

If you use the word 'fascism' any time you mean 'authoritarian' or...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

I think many people dislike modern commercial cinema and are hard-pressed to find out why. It's not revolutionary enough, it's not deep enough, it's not questioning enough, it's not cool enough, it's...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

Not much politics here. Just a tad bit of history in the broader context of assessing commercial cinema and its downsides.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
I'd say it doesn't mean that at all....

I'd say it doesn't mean that at all. Concentration camps are not implicit to fascism.

I don't think he was suggesting that. I believe he was pointing out that those films cannot be...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
Costa is from the school of Straub. It should...

Costa is from the school of Straub. It should come as no surprise he'd misuse the word fascism just like any Communist/leftie would.

I think many leftists see what's happening in Gaza, what's...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 28
Watching My Collection
Posted By Mr Minio
After reading all that, one starts to think that...

After reading all that, one starts to think that Hitler guy wasn't very nice to some groups of people... :laugh:

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The Twitter crowd: I'm reading three books at once!

Jeff: Hold my beer.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 4 days ago
Replies: 24
George Lucas named richest celebrity alive
Posted By Mr Minio
Including once in your bathroom. Now that's...

Including once in your bathroom. Now that's everywhere!
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 4 days ago
Replies: 24
George Lucas named richest celebrity alive
Posted By Mr Minio
If only commercials... Dude is everywhere. ...

If only commercials... Dude is everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC9RI8_QYmw
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

I think the issue is that some people use words within a very specific context without saying they do. What follows is people not aware of that framework, or even people who are aware of that...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
Quite the contrary. I think that it's the...

Quite the contrary. I think that it's the opposite of being a poser. After all, doesn't striving to like conventional art and (over)rating it reek of ostentatiously trying too hard and dropping one's...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 days ago
Replies: 217
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

Pasolini was right. Conventional art always corrupts one's soul.

I'm trying to purify mine.
Forum: The Television & Music Forum 5 days ago
Replies: 431
The Guitar Guild
Posted By Mr Minio
Re: The Guitar Guild

I'm bored with the guitar

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