Shows & Movies A Poster Should Watch

[Estro Felino]

I also suggest @Revoltingest and @Shadow Wolf to watch this show.


To give you an idea of what the Vatican really is. I think it's absolutely perfection. It pretty sums it up...and the actors are all wonderful.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

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...

I oddly feel sorrow for Alex, as terrible as he is, over the whole forced conformity thing.

 

[Father Heathen]

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 ).

Have you seen the game "Scorn"?

 

[Estro Felino]

I oddly feel sorrow for Alex, as terrible as he is, over the whole forced conformity thing.

I guess I need to read the mind of the novel's author...to understand the movie...actually.
Because ...you know...I haven't understood it yet...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The games really didn't have much story beyond whip candles, eat wall chicken, kill dracula.

That was the earlier ones. Dracula X added romance, family, and is where the part of Lisa being burned as a witch and being the catalyst of Dracula's war against humanity comes from. It's where an actual sort of proper Castlevania story and lore began to form and become more than another NES/SNES action platform game, just with different artwork and sprites (Symphony of the Night is still my favorite in the series).

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Have you seen the game "Scorn"?

I have now and I want to play it.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I also suggest @Revoltingest and @Shadow Wolf to watch this show.


To give you an idea of what the Vatican really is. I think it's absolutely perfection. It pretty sums it up...and the actors are all wonderful.

It's likely I'd more entertained by Uhtred of Bebbanberg's antagonism towards the clergy and Christianity in general. He's kills a few priests in the TV show, at least six or seven of them by midpoint of the book series.
I don't feel particularly drawn towards learning more about Catholicism or the Vatican at this point.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

You might like Norsemen. It's funny, very funny, but due some especially dark humor I don't lightly recommend the show. But it's what happens when you take the Norse and introduce a bit modern insight and thinking things through, lol.

I liked Norsemen.
The humour is dark in a Scandanavian way, but I'm well used to that, and found it amusing and an easy watch.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I don't feel particularly drawn towards learning more about Catholicism or the Vatican at this point.

Don't sell yourself short. The history of some of the key players through the period either side of the Lutheran Reformation is fascinating.

Rather than following the Church through the period, follow the prominent players.
The de Medici family is an obvious one, but it has every bit the twists and turns present in The Last Kingdom (which I'm also a fan of, and have the books).

It's always fun watching the way material considerations are interwoven with spiritual messages about the temporariness of earthly kingdoms.

 

[Revoltingest]

I oddly feel sorrow for Alex, as terrible as he is, over the whole forced conformity thing.

Burgess's plan was more realistic & unacceptable,
ie, that Alex would simply grow up, & become a
non-violent family man...the sort of thing that
actually happens to many guys.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I think Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is great for posters.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I think Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is great for posters.

Have you seen Echoes from the Dark Side of the Moon?

 

[Wildswanderer]

It's hard to find anything new that's worth watching.
The new "Top Gun" wasn't bad

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Have you seen Echoes from the Dark Side of the Moon?

I haven't even heard Echoes from the Dark Side of the Moon. But you prompted my curiosity. That's a pretty cool poster. I reminds me of the poster I had in college. Somebody gave it to me. It was fascinating. I wish I could remember who did it and what it was called. It had the vast scene of all nature of activities. Flying snakes chasing nude women. Men worshiping a giant breast. That sort of thing.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I haven't even heard Echoes from the Dark Side of the Moon. But you prompted my curiosity. That's a pretty cool poster. I reminds me of the poster I had in college. Somebody gave it to me. It was fascinating. I wish I could remember who did it and what it was called. It had the vast scene of all nature of activities. Flying snakes chasing nude women. Men worshiping a giant breast. That sort of thing.

My brother had that Pink Floyd poster. I spent many hours looking at it and seeing everything in it. I'd be fascinated to know exactly how much of that poster I failed to recognize. It has so much there has to be at least a few things.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I liked Norsemen.
The humour is dark in a Scandanavian way, but I'm well used to that, and found it amusing and an easy watch.

To me it wasn't easy to watch because there were parts that had my chest hurting I was laughing so hard.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

To me it wasn't easy to watch because there were parts that had my chest hurting I was laughing so hard.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The jokes like this reminded me of my (half) sibling's grandmother who was Finnish (and a Dutch guy I knew and a few Germans, lol).

 

[Heyo]

Opposing private ownership is a communist thing.

As is the idea of a "dictatorship of the proletariat". Socialism can do with or without that.
Most socialists now oppose the idea of an "intermittent" dictatorship - because it never is.

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.

They condemn dictatorship.

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.

Capitalism, especially late stage capitalism like in the US, is not sustainable. It is going to self destruct if left unchecked.
The real problem is when capitalism is no longer a form of economy but becomes a form of government (a.k.a. "money in politics"). Marx saw this plutocracy and had no other remedy against it than revolution and dictatorship. Except for one or two no socialist (and even the communists) condone dictatorship.

 

[Erebus]

Another show I think is relevant to RF is Hellbound.

It won't be for everybody as you need to be able to handle extreme violence and terrible CGI. It's a genuinely fascinating "what if?" scenario though. What if people were publicly condemned to Hell? Is eternal suffering justifiable and if so, what sins warrant it?

There are a few other what ifs in the show but I can't go into them without spoilers.