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Father Heathen

Veteran Member
"Ideal" isn't a term I ever hear applied to it.
However mass murders in the millions are
typical of socialist regimes. And this one is
actually much smaller than ones committed
by Mao & Stalin.
I'm not socialist myself, but I'm not aware of any that yearn for the systems of 3rd world, tinpot dictators.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I'm not socialist myself, but I'm not aware of any that yearn for the systems of 3rd world, tinpot dictators.
As I see it, you're not a socialist according to
any dictionary, ie, you don't oppose individual
people owning the means of production.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Won't have the original writer either, but he was dropped due to sexual misconduct allegations.
Meh. The writer is one thing, but it's the music of the game series that gatewayed me into being a lifelong fan of classical music.
Amd really how hard can writing it be? The first series touched on the whys and now all they have to do is just follow what the games provided. This one especially should be easier to do as these games actually had some story behind it, unlike the original games which were typical for games of that era with most of the story coming on a page or two in the instruction manual.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
As I see it, you're not a socialist according to
any dictionary, ie, you don't oppose individual
people owning the means of production.
It's more that Pol Pot was such an extreme outlier that even the French Communist Party kicked him out (and they didn't even kick out Foucault for being gay).
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
For fans of war movies, & movie making in general,
this is one of the greats....
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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
It's more that Pol Pot was such an extreme outlier that even the French Communist Party kicked him out (and they didn't even kick out Foucault for being gay).
Pol Pot fit right in with other socialists who
seized power, & got rid of economic liberty
(ie, capitalism), eg, Mao, Stalin, the N Koreans.
Castro was the most benign of all socialist leaders.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Pol Pot fit right in with other socialists who
seized power, & got rid of economic liberty
(ie, capitalism), eg, Mao, Stalin, the N Koreans.
Castro was the most benign of all socialist leaders.
Lots of commies and socialists distanced themselves from Pol Pot. That is a historic fact.
Or, consider the fact most Marxist, regardless the subtype, are academics. Pol Pot had intellectuals amd academics killed (in all likeliness he even would have killed Marx and Engels).
It's partly how it was made into a movie because few have been as vicious, blood thirsty or genocidal (especially against his own). He was extreme in ideology and application of it in every sense of the word.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Movie buffs who've not seen it yet must watch
Aliens. The greatest hybrid horror, action, military,
family, sci fi movie ever. James Horner was
integral to this greatness with his compelling score.

Note: The family movie aspect is only seen
in the extended version. It shows how Ripley
grieves for the loss of her daughter, & adopts
Newt, forming the basis for much of the movie.
I hate it when crucial scenes are cut, just to
cater to an audience unwilling to watch a
longer than standard movie.


The great Jeanette Goldstein gets one of the
best one-liners in movie history...

A favorite tune....

The cut crucial scene...
 
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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Lots of commies and socialists distanced themselves from Pol Pot.
Of course.
They distance themselves from every socialist regime.
Instead, they align themselves with capitalist countries
that they label "socialist", eg, Denmark.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Of course.
They distance themselves from every socialist regime.
Instead, they align themselves with capitalist countries
that they label "socialist", eg, Denmark.
All you're doing is saying you haven't really looked into the history of Pol Pot. It's probably not a good idea to fail to acknowledge him for what he was and claim it was something else because factually the Communist party showed him more contempt than the Republican party shows Trump, and he killed up to 30% of the Cambodian population/his own people.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Movie buffs who've not seen it yet must watch
Aliens. The greatest hybrid horror, action, military,
family, sci fi movie ever. James Horner was
integral to this greatness with his compelling score.

Note: The family movie aspect is only seen
in the extended version. It shows how Ripley
grieves for the loss of her daughter, & adopts
Newt, forming the basis for much of the movie.
I hate it when crucial scenes are cut, just to
cater to an audience unwilling to watch a
longer than standard movie.


The great Jeanette Goldstein gets one of the
best one-liners in movie history...

A favorite tune....

The cut crucial scene...
Those are great movies. But, and this is a very big and important but, you forgot to mention the artwork of Hansruedi Giger being a very central point of what makes the Xenomorphs (and the general atmosphere) more like demons from a nightmare than extraterrestrial life (ET **** pants then urgently call home on an emergency line :tearsofjoy:).
 

Yerda

Veteran Member
As I see it, you're not a socialist according to
any dictionary, ie, you don't oppose individual
people owning the means of production.
I was once a member of a small socialist party that had 6 MSPs, thousands of monthly subscribers, and won hundreds of thousands of voters in successive elections. In the 3 or 4 years I was active I never met a single member who opposed absolutely all private ownership. The official party line was common ownership of key sectors - energy, housing, transport, health, education etc but no-one thought we should nationalise B+Q or liberate Costa coffee shops for the people.

It's fair enough for you to have you're own understanding of what socialism is. Part of the process of being a good socialist, infact, is arguing with everyone else about what socialism is. But it is worth remembering that when people call for socialist transformation they very rarely mean that a violent insurgency should take over all ownership and production (some do, but they're oddballs).
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Those are great movies. But, and this is a very big and important but, you forgot to mention the artwork of Hansruedi Giger being a very central point of what makes the Xenomorphs (and the general atmosphere) more like demons from a nightmare than extraterrestrial life (ET **** pants then urgently call home on an emergency line :tearsofjoy:).
I didn't forget.
I avoided making the post longer.
But I did expect you (a Giger fan) to mention it subsequently.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I was once a member of a small socialist party that had 6 MSPs, thousands of monthly subscribers, and won hundreds of thousands of voters in successive elections. In the 3 or 4 years I was active I never met a single member who opposed absolutely all private ownership.
Opposing private ownership is a communist thing.
Socialism only opposes private ownership of
the means of production.
The official party line was common ownership of key sectors - energy, housing, transport, health, education etc but no-one thought we should nationalise B+Q or liberate Costa coffee shops for the people.
That's pretty darn socialist, but not all the whole enchilada.
It's fair enough for you to have you're own understanding of what socialism is.
My understanding is based upon applying dictionary
definitions to what happens in the real world.
Part of the process of being a good socialist, infact, is arguing with everyone else about what socialism is. But it is worth remembering that when people call for socialist transformation they very rarely mean that a violent insurgency should take over all ownership and production (some do, but they're oddballs).
Avowed socialists present a confusing view.
They condemn actual socialists countries like
N Korea as not really socialist, & then praise
capitalist countries like Denmark as socialist.
All the while, they're condemning capitalism,
& supporting politicians like AOC, who says
capitalism "is not a redeemable system",
implying she wants it eliminated.
Go figure.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
For those who love the music & visuals of movies,
I recommend A Clockwork Orange. Further,
read what Anthony Burgess originally intended,
instead of what happened after publishers weighed in.
I watched it only once...and it sufficed me.
The most traumatic movie I have ever seen.
I had accepted to watch it just because of McDowell's interesting scenes...
Flesh is weak.... I was kinda lured into watch it...
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
Meh. The writer is one thing, but it's the music of the game series that gatewayed me into being a lifelong fan of classical music.
Amd really how hard can writing it be? The first series touched on the whys and now all they have to do is just follow what the games provided. This one especially should be easier to do as these games actually had some story behind it, unlike the original games which were typical for games of that era with most of the story coming on a page or two in the instruction manual.
The games really didn't have much story beyond whip candles, eat wall chicken, kill dracula.
 
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