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NacMacFeegle Member
Joined: 16 Jan 2014 Posts: 2653 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
I binge watched most of the first season too, but haven't gotten around to the last few episodes or season two (I watched it on Amazon Prime, I don't get actual television).
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7692 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Hey Nac, have you heard of the series "Humans" on AMC (it's a British show). You might like that. It's about A.I./robots, exploring what consciousness means.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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NacMacFeegle Member
Joined: 16 Jan 2014 Posts: 2653 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Hey Nac, have you heard of the series "Humans" on AMC (it's a British show). You might like that. It's about A.I./robots, exploring what consciousness means. |
Sounds interesting! I'll try it out sometime.
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jinx'sboy Member
Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 927 | TRs | Pics Location: on a great circle route |
Watched "Queen of Katwe". Story of a young Ugandan girl from the slums near Kampala who learns the game of chess and goes on to become a chess-master and Ugandan and African Champion.
A true story, very nicely told....
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Randito Snarky Member
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 9495 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue at the moment. |
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Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:10 am
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Passengers. I really enjoyed this one.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7692 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Watched "Snowden" last night. Directed by Oliver Stone, so you have to take it with a grain of salt. I approached it as a work of fiction that was based on actual people and at least some actual events. I'm a fan of Joseph Gordon Levitt, he was excellent as usual. Overall I enjoyed it, works as a slow burn thriller.
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trestle Member
Joined: 17 Aug 2008 Posts: 2093 | TRs | Pics Location: the Oly Pen |
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Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:08 pm
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Black Mirror is another good BBC series on Netflix.
"Life favors the prepared." - Edna Mode
"Life favors the prepared." - Edna Mode
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Watched "Snowden" last night. Directed by Oliver Stone, so you have to take it with a grain of salt. I approached it as a work of fiction that was based on actual people and at least some actual events. I'm a fan of Joseph Gordon Levitt, he was excellent as usual. Overall I enjoyed it, works as a slow burn thriller. |
Stone admitted in an interview that he liked Snowden, and his slant in the movie was to that end!
Figures.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7692 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
"The Take" was enjoyable. Fast paced action thriller set in Paris. Idris Elba is a bad ass CIA agent stationed there. There's a bombing, then a big city wide conspiracy. Don't think about it too much and enjoy the 90 minute running time.
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Josh Journey a.k.a Josh Lewis
Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 4830 | TRs | Pics
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Backpacker Joe wrote: | Stone admitted in an interview that he liked Snowden, and his slant in the movie was to that end!
Figures. |
Everyone has a slant when it comes to describing interesting people. At least Oliver has the integrity to admit it. The movie was an attempt at showing it from Snowden's perspective and why he felt he had to tell the world what was going on. Sure it could have been a more diverse perspective in terms of showing the damages to the US governments reputation and how that can have negative impacts. It's up to us to carefully examine the implications of global surveillance, and from my point of view this is what Snowden was hoping for.
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AlpineRose Member
Joined: 08 May 2012 Posts: 1953 | TRs | Pics
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If you care about what Snowdon did - and you should - and want to learn more - and you should - watch Citizenfour , an illuminating documentary about Snowdon by Laura Poitras. What I learned sent chills down my spine. Not because I was worried about my country's security, but because it made me concerned about threats to my own rights as citizen.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
AlpineRose wrote: | If you care about what Snowdon did - and you should - and want to learn more - and you should - watch Citizenfour , an illuminating documentary about Snowdon by Laura Poitras. What I learned sent chills down my spine. Not because I was worried about my country's security, but because it made me concerned about threats to my own rights as citizen. |
Certainly. That's just one of the things you get when gvt gets to big!
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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