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12 Monkeys
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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In full Apocalypse mode, watching the trailer and select scene from the old Dustin Hoffman film "Outbreak". Which was overall a pretty bad movie, but what's curious is how every character has their own agenda, plan, scheme...
As the reality unfolds we discover how optomistic - literally - those predictions were - even for the Villains.
And, after that "12 Monkeys" - which is grotesquely brilliant, Brad Pitt - Bruce Willis - both well outside their typecast roles, and both turning in amazingly relevant performances. Still a 5 star movie, and it hasn't aged badly, not a bit...
It's a Class War
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- Category: Rants
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It's about so much more than a pandemic, it's become a fully blown class war where every celebrity who was isolated anyways gets tested, and everyone else is told to ride it out. What about Jeff Bezos and Whole Foods - suggesting that his employees pool their unused sick days for the benefit of employees that are sick? Link: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/grotesque-level-of-greed-jeff-bezos-whole-foods-wants-workers-to-pay-colleagues-sick-leave-during-coronavirus/
Or the uplifting story about the Italian who 3D printed respirator valves - only to be shut down by threats of a lawsuit: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200317/04381644114/volunteers-3d-print-unobtainable-11000-valve-1-to-keep-covid-19-patients-alive-original-manufacturer-threatens-to-sue.shtml. There should be no threat of lawsuit here, unless it's against the country for withholding aid in time of National Crisis. But companies have more rights than people.
There is absolutely no good news in the world at the moment. And, cap that with Bernie's out of the race, Trump has won the GOP nomination, we're now living next to the biggest trailer park (soon to be necropolis) in the world.
Isle of the Dogs - Wes Anderson
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Quite enjoyed this, the aesthetic, look, feel, animation, but on that note Wes Anderson commits the sin of having the "American Savior". By this point it should be obvious that they can't even save themselves. So - all in all, a very good film diminished by the gratuitous presence of an American.
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