[Sixstrings]

Six you are not the moderator and anyway (you know I really really hate to pick on you) . . . but you started this political discussion and I tried to stop it.

Well what is it with Iraq? Is that like a Godwin rule thing, like any conversation about anything has to lead to Bush's Iraq war?

Can you all at least talk about Obama's getting authorization for the next Iraq war? We can't just talk about one particular war for all eternity, there's a whole history of wars to talk about, and more to come and unfortunately. And changing situations, threats, and circumstances.

[Withnail]

Chris Kyle.





Chris Kyle boasted about killing people, enjoyed it. Was a serial liar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBXzJWA7Ja0

[dinopello]

So, Melancholia is on Netflix streaming. I can't say I'd recommend anyone see this as it will leave you melancholy and most people don't need more of that.

The plot summaries are generally like this

On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was an extravagant wedding paid for by her sister and brother-in-law who are trying to keep the bride and all the guests in-line. Meanwhile, Melancholia, a blue planet, is hurtling towards the Earth. Claire, Justine's sister, is struggling to maintain composure with fear of the impending disaster.

It's a great cast and well shot and you might like it if you like movie making. The interviews about the movie are more interesting than the movie in some ways.

Kirsten Dunst won best actress at Cannes for this movie and it's not her typical role.

If you're depressed after watching Melancholia, you can watch her in the Akihabara video

[Sixstrings]

So, Melancholia is on Netflix streaming.

Haven't seen that, looks good Dino. Thanks for the recommendation. That's what this thread is for, just post something good to watch, doomer angle a plus.

P.S. the phenomenon of "wandering planets" is actually real. If a planet gets thrown out of orbit it can wander off into deep space and to another solar system, and once there, could disturb other orbits or collide. If Earth were thrown out of orbit and into deep space, geothermal energy may could actually keep simple life going on for maybe another billion years. (I saw it on a documentary, please nobody get into a wandering planet argument with me)

And interstellar comets may, some theorize, spread life through the galaxy and universe. There's the massive "oort cloud" at the edge of our solar system, with many dwarf planet bodies, Pluto being just one of the closest:



Also House of Cards season 3 is out later this month.. President Frank Underwood.

House of Cards - Season 3 Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-rUkPrWQ4

[radon1]

So, Melancholia is on Netflix streaming. I can't say I'd recommend anyone see this as it will leave you melancholy and most people don't need more of that.

Great movie of the doomer type, a must see for a doomer type. If not for doom, then for the quality of the picture and play. The second part is much better than the first though.

[Quinny]

Left me melancholic

So, Melancholia is on Netflix streaming. I can't say I'd recommend anyone see this as it will leave you melancholy and most people don't need more of that.

The plot summaries are generally like this

On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was an extravagant wedding paid for by her sister and brother-in-law who are trying to keep the bride and all the guests in-line. Meanwhile, Melancholia, a blue planet, is hurtling towards the Earth. Claire, Justine's sister, is struggling to maintain composure with fear of the impending disaster.

It's a great cast and well shot and you might like it if you like movie making. The interviews about the movie are more interesting than the movie in some ways.

Kirsten Dunst won best actress at Cannes for this movie and it's not her typical role.

If you're depressed after watching Melancholia, you can watch her in the Akihabara video

[Sixstrings]

Left me melancholic

I started to watch it. I fell asleep. Does that wedding ever end, holy sh*t that was depressing, it just drags on and on.

Why is that woman so depressed. There's no call for that. If you're gonna marry someone you can't stand then that's an idiot that does that, what's wrong with people. She deserves to be depressed.

What an odd movie, it seems designed in every detail -- down to lighting -- to be as depressing as possible. I actually got some flashbacks of some past horrible family gatherings.

When does the darn wandering planet hit them, I couldn't even get to that part, the movie is so depressing.

Way to spread the cheer around, Dino! (joking )

[dinopello]

Left me melancholic

I started to watch it. I fell asleep.

Yeah, it's no "Deep Impact" or "Armageddon"



I was expecting a little more action and I actually didn't care for it and fell asleep also.

Tried to warn you without undue bias.

[careinke]

I'm watching the series "The Americans" on Amazon Prime. It's about some deep planted russian spies in America during the cold war. I like how it covers the various cold war crises from the Russian perspective. Warning nudity and other taboo topics. Hey they didn't call soviet female spies "swallows" for nothing.

[dinopello]

I'm watching the series "The Americans" on Amazon Prime. It's about some deep planted russian spies in America during the cold war. I like how it covers the various cold war crises from the Russian perspective. Warning nudity and other taboo topics. Hey they didn't call soviet female spies "swallows" for nothing.

Sounds interesting. The good ole days of the hot Russian spys trying to ply our secrets!

[Outcast_Searcher]

I'm watching the series "The Americans" on Amazon Prime. It's about some deep planted russian spies in America during the cold war. I like how it covers the various cold war crises from the Russian perspective. Warning nudity and other taboo topics. Hey they didn't call soviet female spies "swallows" for nothing.

I enjoyed that series before I tried Netflix. A show with a similar (Russian Spy) theme which I didn't enjoy quite as much but was still interesting (YMMV) on Netflix was "The Assets".

[Outcast_Searcher]

OK. I think I have a really good movie for the doomer/survivalist type on this site. It's called "All Is Lost", starring Robert Redford, and it's on Netflix.

An accomplished sailor crossing the Indian Ocean solo on his boat has the horrible luck of having a floating cargo container vessel run into his boat while he's asleep. His boat and critical equipment on it are damaged.

The movie is about his struggle to survive against the elements as he deals with the problem and things go downhill.

I found it compelling. It didn't have over-the-top special effects (which I found refreshing), but it dealt with the real world forces and hazards that raw nature has in abundance, and it showed an independent man fight with dignity and (I thought) competence for his survival. (Sorry, no zombies).

Despite having no Peak Oil theme -- I want to call this "doomer porn" for this site. (Sorry if I missed it -- I read through the thread and didn't see it mentioned).

[PrestonSturges]

Have I mentioned the sci-fi horror flick "John Dies At The End." ?

It's written a lot like Christopher Moore ("Blood Sucking Fiends" etc) with the hipster slap-stick vibe with a sprawling plot of time travel, alternate dimensions, aliens, demons, and a lot of interesting cameos and cartoonish violence.

[Sixstrings]

I finally watched the end of Melancholia. I had it going while I had company over, paid half attention, but turns out the movie does get better. I like the part where the planet was moving away (and she had this wire hoop she was making ever smaller and holding it up to the sky). And then.. suddenly the planet was bigger than the last hoop, and not smaller -- and she panicked.

The lead character, that was so depressed in the first part of the movie, is the strong one / serene in the latter part. Lot of truisms, there. Doomer types / the depressed can cope and fit in better in a collapse situation versus regular life when all is going well.

@Outcast_Searcher
I've seen "All is Lost" and highly recommend it too, to anyone that hasn't seen it. Quirky factoid about that movie is that Redford does the entire performance with barely any dialogue at all. It's practically a silent film. But a darn good one. He's almost 80, and gave one of the best performances of his career with this movie.

Great movie, it has action but not action-flicky, it's realistic, it's thoughtful and moving and all that. Good suggestion Outcast, this is one movie that does not suck:

Somewhere in the Indian Ocean ("1700 nautical miles from the Sumatra Straits"), a man (Robert Redford) says, "I'm sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am. I tried. I think you would all agree that I tried. To be true, to be strong, to be kind, to love, to be right, but I wasn't." He declares, "All is lost."

Eight days earlier, as he wakes up, he sees that water has started to flood his boat, the Virginia Jean, a Cal 39 yacht.[B] He goes out onto the deck and sees that his boat has collided with a wayward shipping container which has ripped a hole in the hull.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Is_Lost

All is Lost - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgakOh8og4U

I think this is a Sundance movie:

Chandor developed the idea for All Is Lost.[8] After meeting Robert Redford at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival where Margin Call premiered, Chandor asked the veteran actor to be in the film. On February 9, 2012, Redford's casting was confirmed for All Is Lost as its only cast member.[9] In addition to there being only one actor in the film, Redford also stated that the film has no dialogue, however there are a few spoken lines.[10] Because of these aspects, the shooting script was only 31 pages long.[8]

Redford's an amazing man, besides that acting career he's done so much with Sundance over the years. Helping to bring so many good movies out; that's an interesting story in itself, how Redford and Sundance works (it's a filmmaker workshop and then the film festival).

Redford's like a one-man national film board.

@Preston
I haven't seen your suggestion, I'll put it on my list though! Looks like a fun movie.

[Sixstrings]

Ran across this article while looking for things to watch on netflix:

A Woman Violently Pooped Herself at a "Fifty Shades" Screening

People in Milton Keynes, England wanted to see Fifty Shades of Grey but ended up getting a literal shit show. According to the local newspaper there, a drunk woman "lost control of all her bodily fluids" to the point where the movie was canceled and the theater evacuated.

The witnesses on the scene told the story the best:

“She lost control of 
everything, including all bodily 
fluids. The whole cinema stank,” said one disgruntled cinema-goer.

“We all expected to see Christian Grey gag 
Anastasia as part of the plot. We certainly didn’t 
expect to be gagging ourselves because of the stench.”

“I’m not sure of her age but she so drunk she couldn’t move. She practically had to be 
carried out. And the mess she left behind was just 
disgusting."

“There was no way they could clean it up there and then – it would be a specialist job, so the film was stopped and everybody had to leave."

The story begs the question, what the fuck is going on at Fifty Shades screenings in the U.K.? Between the broken bottle stabbings and now people violently vomiting and pooping all over the place, it doesn't sound fun.
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/02/woman-poops-vomits-fifty-shades-theater

Just some comic relief there.

As for something on netflix, I saw this recently:

Get Low | Trailer US (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I755U1Par9w

No one really knows Felix Bush (Robert Duvall), who lives as a hermit deep in the woods. Rumors surround him, such as how he might have killed in cold blood, and that he's in league with the devil. So the town is surprised when Felix shows up in town with a fat wad of cash, requesting a "funeral party" for himself. Frank Quinn (Bill Murray), the owner of the local funeral parlor in financial trouble, coveting Bush's wad of cash, agrees to advertise a funeral party at which the townsfolk will be invited to tell Felix Bush the stories they've heard about him. To ensure a good turnout, a lottery is organized, with Bush's property as the prize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Low_(film)

Not "great" -- but a solid "good" movie. Worth watching.

[Sixstrings]

Okay, something oil related on netflix! About fracking and shale and roustabouts!

And an eccentric preacher, and a small oil boom town in North Dakota swamped with "grapes of wrath" unemployed men from around the country.

Some things I learned from the movie:

* Apparently in the oil boom areas they don't do any background checks, and a lot of these guys have felonies and are otherwise unemployable. And that's a whole other interesting social topic, right or wrong there are a lot of guys in this country that actually CAN'T get a job. Other than construction, roofer, painter, some trades like that, and the oil business.

* One of the guys featured in the film traveled from Wisconsin, looking for work. He got a good job doing something with drill bits. They have to clean them with some kind of solvent, and the solvent makes the guys itch and scratch for weeks -- "until you get used to it."

* Oil and fracking causes rents to triple or more, and there isn't any housing available. So in the documentary, a lot of these guys live in trailers. But then the town passes an ordinance saying nobody can live in an RV.

The "overnighters" are unemployed men that came looking for oil jobs but didn't get hired, or did get hired but can't find housing. So they started showing up at this church and before long the pastor had quite a few of them living there. But the town and the neighbors didn't like it and wanted them out.

Fascinating documentary, and actually not even about oil -- it's about how hard the economic times have really been, and really at the core it's a riveting character study of the pastor. A flawed person; yet doing some good -- yet, you can see why all the neighbors can't stand him.

I mean -- we've got unemployed men in my own town, I wouldn't want to live next to a church that's turned itself into a homeless shelter. Would anyone?

Yet, these unemployed remain invisible. It's like from the great depression and towns would put up signs "unemployed men keep going, you're not wanted here."



Trailer:

The Overnighters Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_50-lKvqF4

[Tanada]

Star Trek. Enterprise, The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and 12 movies. Hundreds of hours of Netflix entertainment where the Earth recovers after World War III and IV to a more perfect fair and equitable society. Where some die making the world a better place but in the end the good guys win and the bad guys lose. Pure escapism with an optimistic ending.

[Subjectivist]

Fed Up with Katy Couric and President Clinton is up on Netflix now. Nice and horrifying to see how corrupted government recommendations for Americans are, including the school lunch program Sixstrings brought up a couple weeks ago.