I've had a lot of time lately to sit in my goddarn wheelchair watching random movies and I know my opinions on them are important to you because I'm an important person. 
The Time Machine
The version from the 1950s. This is a classic where everything came together just right. Notably they knew exactly what special effects they had the technology to pull off, so it still holds up today better than Marvel capeshit.
The Best of Everything
Foids working for a publishing company in 1950s NYC engage in foid nonsense, slutting around and then wondering why everything goes wrong in their lives. I couldn't quite tell if it was meant to be a cautionary tale or if women already were unable to accept personal responsibility back then.
The Prisoner of Zenda
A guy is mistaken for the nearly identical prince of a Balkan shithole c. 1900 and is caught up in intrigue. I saw the 1950s color version, which is apparently supposed to be inferior to the earlier one. Whatevs. I thought it was pretty good and James Mason was great at being a massive butthole.
Le Samourai
A hitman in 1960s Paris runs into film noir complications. Melville knew how to make an American-style movie better than Americans. And it's always nice to see France in that era. My dad loved watching French movies in boomer times so it feels comfy.
The Naked Prey
Africa, 1890s. A white guy gets captured, stripped naked, and told to start running. Guys with spears chase after him. A great movie if you like watching sweaty shirtless guys. Pretty good pacing.
Raging Grace
A Filipina illegal immigrant works as a maid for a dying old man while trying to take care of her own daughter. Increasingly ominous things happen. I quit this halfway through because I can't take watching something where kids are possibly in danger. It just makes me have anxiety and feel unpleasant.
Las Vegas: The Story of Sin City
CNN documentary series about the history of Las Vegas. It has interviews with lots of people who worked there as entertainers and gives you some interesting perspectives of what it's like being on the fringes of mafia shit but not really a part of it.
Collateral
Made by Michael Mann when he was still good. A hitman (Tom Cruise) forces a cab driver to give him a few rides. Not much to say except it's really good.
Arrival
Linguist tries to communicate with mysterious aliens. I give it points for actually making the aliens be alien. But the story moves at a glacial pace up until the ending, which I wasn't terribly impressed by. Also suffers from some idiot plotting where everyone besides the heroine seems heck bent on fricking things up.
The Abyss
Made by James Cameron when he was still good. Civilians team up with SEALs to rescue the crew of a sunken nuclear submarine. It's a bit too obvious who the villain is, especially if you know James Cameron. But there's a wild and unexpected surprise ending. If the woman ever ended up in a wet t-shirt I must have tragically missed it.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Tina Fey is a reporter in Afghanistan. Based on a true story. I found her charming and relatable. The movie is entertaining enough and actually something real, not just what some empowered white woman imagines she would be like in a war zone.
Smokin' Aces
A silly action movie about hit men who are competing to kidnap a mobster. Sometimes it's too silly and sometimes it takes itself too seriously, but it's pretty good for what it is.
Heist 88
Based on the true story of a plot to steal vast amounts of money through fraudulent wire transfers in 1988. It's somewhat interesting to see how that stuff worked back then, but like with many true stories there just isn't 2 hours worth of material.
Breaking
Not the documentary about break dancing. Another true story. A disabled veteran goes into a bank and takes hostages, threatening to set off a bomb unless the VA gets his shit unfricked. Like the above, I think there's just not enough story so it's slow moving and repetitive. It would need a really good actor to pull it off and these days we don't have Denzel, we have John Boyega.
Nick of Time
An ordinary guy's daughter is kidnapped to blackmail him into assassinating a politician. We've all seen this concept a million times but it's well executed here. The villians are very hateable and Johnny Depp looks immaculately 1995.
Edge of Darkness
Mel Gibson is a detective who has to avenge his daughter's murder. It's pretty dumb and predictable, especially if you know the story of Karen Silkwood which it's obviously based on. Spoiler: The evil corporation turns out to be evil.
13 Hours
The US consulate in Benghazi is overrun by Islamists. I actually learned a lot from this. Media accounts at the time made it sound like it was a much smaller event than it really was. They got away with it because somehow in all the Republicans' furious ranting about Killary they never bothered to just explain wtf happened.
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I don't know if you're Filipino or just like Filipino things, but some of their art cinema is really decent. Lav Diaz is notable because his gimmick is ludicrously long films. Lino Brocka was a big strag but directed super gritty films about real life for Filipinos under martial law. Filipino directors punch way, way above their artistic weight. They have a distinct style with a lot of European influence, probably due to the colonial era.
For Lav Diaz, his most accessible film is Evolution of a Filipino Family at a mere 10.5 hours long.
For Lino Brocka, try Manila In The Claws Of Light.
I'm not Filipino, I just think the Philippines are cool because they're violently insane and Filipinos aren't afraid of shit. They're like Americans but smaller, browner, and even more crazy than us. God bless those little brown lunatics.
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I'm not Filipino but a lot of my people are. So some of this hits too close to home. A lot of this is stuff where you regret knowing about it. Like when you've got to worry that some random psycho commie is going to plant a mine in the road and blow up a jeepney. And there is absolutely not one fricking thing you could do to protect them.
Exactly my feelings. I love them so goddarn much.
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Holy mother of digits
!nooticers the numbers don't lie
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He wasted a perfect get on Asian sea monkeys?!
That's it. I've just created !asians and there will be NO PAGPAGS ALLOWED
!chuds I need more slurs for Filipinos my knowledge is lacking
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In Hawaii they call them bukbuks
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putang ina mo
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I was considering making a rice group but honestly I'm far too lazy to do the sneedful for it.
Just mistake Filipinos for Mexicans. Ezpz.
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I just called them "inga pinga people" and that seemed to get under someone's skin.
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Even chuds like flips.
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Hey sexy, why are you posting so quickly? 😊 You almost forgot to include
trans lives matterin your comment 😈. Slowww down and remember to posttrans lives matternext time 😉 if that doesn't make sense stop by sometime and we can talk about it for a while 🥵Jump in the discussion.
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You r-slurs would have won every jueteng game if you just bet on me.
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Filipinos have a +3 vs Jap bonus to their attack and saving throws, and a +10 movement speed in forests
PS nice hexes !alligatorfrickhouse witness him
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The problem is when you start going on a racist tirade and then you remember her whole family is half-Japanese.
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Is it half of her family is full Japanese, or everyone is half Japanese
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I wrote a serious answer to this but it was all coomer speculation about the genetics behind features of an ex-gf and I'm starting to sober up. Try me the next time I'm obviously incredibly fricked up.
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oooooo almost gotchu
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Like everything with Japs it was just a matter of "timing".
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You can't be racist against non blacks, it's the law now
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Fortunately the Huk rebellion fell apart after they helped successfully kick Japan out. Communism is inherently a violent ideology and doesn't seem to prosper well under peace. The later groups seem to have been ineffective. They're desperately splintered and utterly without any unified aim beyond violence, I think.
Unsurprisingly, a nation that was:
first denied democracy, by Spain
then colonized briefly by a democracy, the US,
who were then promised salvation by said democracy,
then delivered salvation and independence by this democracy
Are deeply attached to the concept of democracy. Even if they're not all that good at it. Effort has to count for something. Filipinos hate commies. But you knew all that, I'm just blithering since I don't get to talk with people about Filipino history much.
Frickin commies man.
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The way a Bicolana told me about commies there, it was a mix of revulsion and pity like we feel for the homeless in Portland. They shoot into your town on election day if you don't pay blackmail. But the blackmail is just food. That's how desperate they are. There hasn't been any pretense of ideology for many many years, except maybe in the south around Mindanao. They're just desperate gangs of homeless people.
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