I have the perfect solution. HINT: “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

• Sorcerer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film) This film has an uninformative title and came out JUST before the original Star Wars so it didn’t have a chance. But it’s a decent thriller.

• Southern Comfort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Comfort_(1981_film) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ttua8 https://fawesome.tv/movies/10343295/southern-comfort Has decent ratings on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, but didn’t make much money and is generally overlooked by critics. On !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social I said: “The obvious comparisons are to “Deliverance,” but thematically closer to “Aguirre, the Wrath of God.” You could write a great college or high school paper talking about justice, discipline, social structures, power, subcultures, etc. If you’re into film technique, the way this movie uses sounds, silences, and setting is masterful. An action/thriller that also makes you think.”

I’ll just draw memes for myself

Hide them in the pages of a bible. Smuggle them out of state to a place with more freedom. Have someone scan them and post them on the internet.

Cat has his own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(cat) including a section for his medals and honors.

I use the Buddha’s Palm that Falls from the Heavens to straighten my sheets.

I don’t think I’ve even watched the first French Connection, I’ll have to check it out sometime.

I think 2010 is underrated bc to really get into that movie you had to: 1) have watched 2001, 2) have liked 2001, 3) be open to a sequel that was very different in tone.

I also really liked the way that scientist was having a dialogue with his computer back on Earth. AI seemed so open, so full of possibility, not so limited and corporate like it turned out to be.

“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.”

2010

A lot of good moments in that movie. My fave is when that scientist has to tell Hal to stay behind, and Hal’s like hol up, what’ll happen to me? Then for a couple seconds the movie just pauses while Hal decides whether to go along with it or not.

Yeah same, I imagine it to be an old-time actor who played a lot of cowboys or soldiers. I’m not in England tho.

Gordian Knot style. Every time you put on your shoes, make a knot that cannot be untied. Every time you take off your shoes, cut the knot with a sword.

I’m not a joker, but I’d do it like: “/jk”

Informally, I phrase it like:

• WHAT do you want to protect? (e.g. money, personal info, business data, specific items/resources, etc.)
• WHO do you need to protect it from? (e.g. online scammers/criminals, business competitors, an enemy government, etc.)

Consultants come up with more formal approaches for their corporate clients, but the above is usually enough for your average person. Then they can start reading the technical information looking for answers to the questions: “HOW might the threat actors get to my assets?” and “HOW can I protect those assets?”

The very weird behaviour of most characters was special.

Yes, to expand on this: each of the characters had enough “story” to make a movie of their own, and there were a lot of characters. But it was paced well enough that it didn’t get overwhelming.

Also the casting was very well done. At the time Travolta was a bit of a has-been, and Samuel L Jackson was getting supporting roles but wasn’t as iconic as he is now.

The movie was very influential, so a lot of the innovations it made have been copied, so it seems more “normal” now.

That’s how they get ya.

Baby: “Teke-lili! Teke-lili!”

Woman (with a hideous smile): “SKREE!”

Human: “WTF?!?”

Woman’s arm curls around from beneath, grabbing the human by the throat.

Then the woman and the baby, they feed…

The woman’s arm naturally grows that long so she can pull the baby out by herself if need be.

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Yeah, that’d work, go for it.

1619:

• learned their trade on corpses stolen from graveyards
• collaborates with alchemists and exorcists
• pay what you can, takes 10 minutes to either cure you or kill you

2019:

• might be able to see you 10 months from now in a virtual visit
• “your insurance probably won’t cover that!”

Yeah I’m like 95% sure this is a joke, and “Chelm institute” is a satirical reference.

Unfortunately I can’t pay the $100+ for the journal articles to figure out if that’s true or not.