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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2015 - 11:28pm PT
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Just finished this one:
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Streamable on Netflix.
Very watchable, esp. for those of us of that generation, with skaterat histories.
In particular, the profiles of Tony Hawk & Rodney Mullen are especially engrossing. A great quote of Mullen, on Hawk's success:
“He won everything…or close to it.
That creates…so much more pressure
Because there’s no gratification in winning
There’s only upholding something so you don’t lose it.
And it is staggering…it usurps the joy…
It’s like…a Kafka short story…
You build something but you can’t live in the house because you sit around guarding it.”
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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The Color of Pomegranates
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crankster
Trad climber
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Thanks for the great suggestion, Ed.
Just saw "Locke". Excellent
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Mar 10, 2015 - 01:21am PT
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Watched Terminator and Shaun of the Dead for the first time last week. Entertaining. Culture?
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L
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California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Mar 10, 2015 - 05:30am PT
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Inherent Vice.
Not a fan.
The sound mixing was abysmal. Couldn't hear much of it, and turning up the volume blew my eardrums out on the remainder.
There were certainly good moments, but "intricate plot"? Seemed more like a snarled 1970's macrome hammock to me...something you could untangle if you wanted to, but would rather just fall asleep on.
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 14, 2016 - 10:31pm PT
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'The King of Comedy'
Somehow managed to miss this one for so many years....until tonight.
Fabulous!
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Kemics
Trad climber
Bristol
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Apr 15, 2016 - 03:32am PT
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Watched film called 'Victoria'
It's super intense but quite liked it. The craziest thing is the entire film is shot in a single take, no edits. Works well!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 19, 2016 - 06:51pm PT
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Walkabout (1971)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 19, 2016 - 06:55pm PT
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Not a movie, per se, but certainly worth noting is the recent German 3 part
TV series "Generation War". Brutally honest and extremely well done on
all levels: production, acting, writing. Can't recommend it enough.
Available for streaming on Netflix.
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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2016 - 07:07pm PT
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High and Low
"Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku), the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on contemporary Japanese society."
Kurosawa meets film noir. Really good!
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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2016 - 10:56pm PT
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Somebody here recommended 'Picnic'....as one of the most romantic movies of all time.
Yes, it is very that.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Tron. A movie about a video game. A video game based on a movie. Who knew?
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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2016 - 10:56pm PT
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Embarrassingly, I watched this for the first time tonight:
Yes, this is as classic and important as anyone has ever said.
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apogee
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2016 - 10:10pm PT
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Just watched this:
I might (probably) learned of it from someone here at ST...not sure my feeble mind was able to access more than about 15% of what Campbell so fluidly articulates, but it was greatly compelling, nonetheless.
The implications of his view into film is especially tangible.
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jogill
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Colorado
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Aug 10, 2016 - 11:16am PT
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Not movies, but excellent TV series: The Night of (HBO) and Preacher (AMC).
TV series are wonderfully sophisticated these days compared with amateurish stuff from 30 or 40 years ago (Bones vs Hart to Hart, etc.)
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 10, 2016 - 11:57am PT
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Walkabout is great.
Star Trek Beyond is a lot of fun. Any movie where the Beastie Boys play roll is a hoot.
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John Mac
Trad climber
Littleton, CO
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Aug 10, 2016 - 12:01pm PT
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Not a movie but the new PBS French/English series The Tunnel has been great.
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