What movies are you watching?

[Ms Harmless]

I watched one of those "great horror / thriller films you've forgotten about" vids the other day, and it featured Mean Creek

I hadn't forgotten about Mean Creek, but I haven't seen it for years and years; I should watch it again

[lennytheweedwhacker]

he’s a stay at home father

I do have a job, but during covid I have an office at home.

This week however, I am on a delayed paternity leave, since my job needed me to come back two weeks early in January. So I traded it for a week off in April, and another in May.

yeah I made that up...what’s your profession?

We help businesses with customer service, IT, collecting debt, credit administration, legal administration, sales and other services. I was the first employee in 2015, as I had known the top guys for years. We’ve since grown exponentially, even through covid and changing laws. I am responsible for handling the largest clients and biggest cases, of course in cooperation with IT, lawyers etc. Probably not as exclusive as it sounds, but it is an interesting job.

am i qualified to do the same job? if so, hire me

[Mickey]

WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

Man, that was awesome. I love this docs were they show you this stories.

Yeah echoing this, this was great.

[VinylGuy]

The Burnt Orange Heresy.

I liked it a lot. Very classy, very weird little thriller. Loved the cast, specially sir Mick Jagger. And Elizabeth Debicki must be the most beautiful and classy woman on earth

[VinylGuy]

WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

Man, that was awesome. I love this docs were they show you this stories.

Yeah echoing this, this was great.

it was right? I think its very interesting in how it shows the culture of We. The social media interactions, the culture of work, the we life segment...

[Mickey]

WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

Man, that was awesome. I love this docs were they show you this stories.

Yeah echoing this, this was great.

it was right? I think its very interesting in how it shows the culture of We. The social media interactions, the culture of work, the we life segment...

Yeah like I said earlier, I vaguely knew it was a real estate scam but the extent to which the success of the scam depended on selling this pipe dream of like, meaningful communal capitalism--and how that preyed on millennial anxieties after 2008--was super fascinating. Literally commodifying the idea of community and selling it to venture capital. And the movie itself was so well done, even if they had some corny visual interludes (the unicorn especially lol)

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Mickey]

This is a decent article if you're curious, but I'd just watch the doc if I were you.

https://newrepublic.com/article/160299/ ... am-neumann

[VinylGuy]

WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

Man, that was awesome. I love this docs were they show you this stories.

Yeah echoing this, this was great.

it was right? I think its very interesting in how it shows the culture of We. The social media interactions, the culture of work, the we life segment...

Yeah like I said earlier, I vaguely knew it was a real estate scam but the extent to which the success of the scam depended on selling this pipe dream of like, meaningful communal capitalism--and how that preyed on millennial anxieties after 2008--was super fascinating. Literally commodifying the idea of community and selling it to venture capital. And the movie itself was so well done, even if they had some corny visual interludes (the unicorn especially lol)

Agreed yeah...i was specially fascinated with the culture part. Those big parties with everyone yelling, the WEEEE WOOOORK chanting, him talking about this ¨new way of working¨.....It was super interesting, depressing and sad.

[VinylGuy]

The Girlfriend Experience.

Well, i really liked it. Looks gorgeous, has a great score, loved the montage, and Sasha Grey is a goddess and was good.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Anders]

Plan to see Giant, Funny Face and The King And I today, finishing off 1956 and 1957 for now.

Seen Giant before, maybe five years ago. It’d a bit of a long epic, but with some fantastic acting. Will probably have it on in the background this time. Still doing some other stuff.

Never seen The King and I or Funny Face before, so that should be interesting. Musicals have to hit me right though, if they don’t I can get bored.

[Anders]

Funny Face was charming, because Audrey Hepburn was at her most lovely. Still felt a bit like a by numbers musical. Lacked the it factor it needed. Age difference was too large between her and Fred Astaire, and I’m not usually ageist.

[Anders]

The King and I had its moments, some good tunes, grand stages, but other times felt more antiquated than other movies of its time. Yul Brynner was never my favorite too dramatic.

[Anders]

Elizabeth Taylor really was magnificent. What an amazing actress, screen presence very few could ever match.

[Malloy]

I’m watching one year at the time. Started with the 1910s, and I am now at 1956.

how many per year? and how are you picking them?

[Anders]

I’m watching one year at the time. Started with the 1910s, and I am now at 1956.

how many per year? and how are you picking them?

I’ve worked on picking out the best movies out there. On this run I’m only watching movies I own on itunes, apart from the 1910s and 1920s, where I watched about a dozen movies from online providers or dvds, to get the full feel of the times. I have a dvd/blu-ray collection (mostly in the basement, after we went from 1 to 2 to 3 in my apartment), and also several subscriptions/apps like HBO/Netflix/Classix etc, but have disregarded those in this current run. From 1935 there are at least four movies per year.

1920s 8
1930s 46
1940s 52
1950s 72
1960s 60
1970s 60
1980s 92
1990s 110

[Anders]

Have watched a few out of turn, so have only got five left in the 1950s, all rewatches from several years past.

Some highlights so far (all five star movies):

The Kid (1921)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
High Noon (1952)
Singin In The Rain (1952)
Shane (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Marty (1955)
The Searchers (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Witness For The Prosecution (1957)
The Big Country (1958)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
North By Northwest (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Anatomy Of Murder (1959)

[epilogue]

WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

Man, that was awesome. I love this docs were they show you this stories.

Yeah echoing this, this was great.

I didn't like this as much as y'all did. I didn't hate it by any means but it's a pretty service level doc. I have so many questions and some of the narrative choices are strange if not distasteful, especially regarding the wife.

Still, a lot to think about and discuss. I'm always interested in things like this. It definitely makes me want to look into it more.

[VinylGuy]

WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

Man, that was awesome. I love this docs were they show you this stories.

Yeah echoing this, this was great.

I didn't like this as much as y'all did. I didn't hate it by any means but it's a pretty service level doc. I have so many questions and some of the narrative choices are strange if not distasteful, especially regarding the wife.

Still, a lot to think about and discuss. I'm always interested in things like this. It definitely makes me want to look into it more.

what did you found distasteful about his wife? If only i thought they should have put her and the other partner more into the spotlight