One of the best Indy Films as well as War films I have seen is this one âSaints and Soldiersâ
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Actually itâs barely a game. as a âgameâ the only interaction is simple choices to make at intervals. The film series is in the works right now, HBO.
The âgameâ sold 20 million units world wide. This type of âgameâ is an âinteractive movieâ. Thereâs no real âgameâ it was released on Playstation. Technically it is amazing, but the Game Engine it was built on, only provides primitive interaction. They use real actors augmented withCGI.
the âplay-throughsâ on youtube try different choices but it all works out essentially as a 20+ hour movie. There is no competition or puzzles to solve, other then looking around It not the first big seller of this type of interactive movie.
Some years ago I watched/ âplayedâ âLife is Strangeâ. a much shorter series. As a game âitâs NOT a game other then basic choices or looking for clues to solve the mysteries. As a movie it was a very moving and haunting , psychological drama, with a âYoung adult,â mostly female, audience.
Life is Strange
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These âinteractive moviesâ are despairing views on âYoung adultâ life or fantasy, but both better than Cyberpunk 2077, which has a similar interactive movie Game Engine, causing computer and game consoles crashes everywhere. Sony is recalling and refunding purchases from them. Steam is also refunding PC versions. It was released prematurely.
Yes, they are movies, films, motion pictures but with the interactive features. None of them are strictly speaking, âgamesâ either.
The population of the audience, the depressive storylines and existential moods are all a sign of the times.
I recommend watching the playthrough of Life is Strange, above. Iâve only skimmed The Last of Us.
Itâs the new direction of things in film. When they ban youtube playthroughs then it will be a pity. There are already dozens of Cyberpunk 2077 playthroughs on YouTube. I got a refund of Cyberpunk 2077 after 2 hrs from Steam. Technically, Graphically amazing but terrible writing and voice acting and the interaction is feeble and stupid.
For these above, itâs more of a stretch to call them âgamesâ than interactive movies.
Speaking of this new direction in film, Spielbergâs Ready, Steady, Play , should be mentioned. The Kubrick scenes are fun. The rest of it gives me a headache
I am not much into this as I see it undermining the art of film and story telling. Itâs not real to me which is what I go for when watching anything narrative related.
I understand the purist film ideaâmy default position. I am still open to these things. Interactive movies are inevitable, but when they have stories that reach people at a deep level that is ok with me.
One thing for sure is one has to see it to really understand it. I am all for stories however they are presented. The game part of it annoys me, especially since they arenât really âgames.â and just programmed gimmicks.
I have empathy for the character in Life is Strange and some of The Last of Us that I saw, was very emotional drama.
The technical aspect of using suits on actors and scanning them digitally, to create wireframe models and then texturing the faces and animating the movements is probably the only way to create âInteractive Moviesâ and if you see Life is Strange the main character has a way to rewind time to change present events, and test out various actions.
Although real film is best, and I generally dislike CGI as is common today, the technical end is still important. I saw Life is Strange and was moved by the story, I far prefer the playthrough because being saddled to a keyboard is annoying.
Film and TV is criticized for requiring passive viewers, so the idea of creating Interactive Movies is interesting,
Interesting article about Marnie.
âMarnieâ Is the Cure for Hitchcock Mania The New Yorker
Which is of course true for any animation film. Itâs still a major art. There is also the composition of the audience watching Life is Strange and The Last of Us. They are not regular gamer types. If their Video Console is more important to them than TV and Movies, it helps me to understand the younger audience.
I am talking mostly about the narrative, Character development. Even in animation these elements are present. My point is the film (if you want to call it that) interaction slash game doesnât appeal to me, nor does the virtual reality approach that this is headed in. I only have so many years left on this Earth, such indulgences are not on my list of priorities that will by design Robb me of my precious time. At least with films I can be inspired of other threads of thought.
I see the psychological pain of the young audience that made these stories so popular and that they could relate to them. The idea of interactive movies is not exactly the same as VR. I think certain young people in todays world donât appreciate traditional movie formats. Both of these have a young depressed girl as the lead character trying to figure out their life and that is where the interactivity come in,
This pretty much sums up my sentiment on the young crowd who give in to such feelings without so much understanding the art itself! Product of the times we live in. Eventually Cinema will die! Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Itâs not just âCinemaâ to defend, itâs stories and human feelings. The âyoungâ cannot be reached if they are sick of todayâs regular âHollywood,â that has for too long been only concerned with keeping their establishment as the only bastion of creativity, and churning out so much junk. Video Games too, are mostly junk.
Is that Paramount Goddess, National Amusements, Shari Redstone beating off, other buyers to create the CBS Viacom merger? I donât think âArtâ is what she has been defending,
I have a number of most favorite films of all time, and I have to put Kubrick in a different category in my mind. Of all his masterpieces, EYES WIDE SHUT is his greatest film and my favorite Kubrick film. He had said it himself this was his best film, although at least one person (Sgt HartmanâR. Lee Emory) disputed this, saying Kubrick told him the opposite, but it is confirmed and Emory was the kind of person Kubrick would might give a different opinion to.
SPOILERS. Donât watch this video unless youâve seen EWS a number of times
Kubrick passed on MARCH 7, 1999
This really gnaws at me. March 7th 1999
Sidney Gottlieb (August 3, 1918 â March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and
spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agencyâs 1950s and 1960s assassination attempts and mind-control program, known as Project MKUltra.[1]
Gottlieb along with other Doctors, was behind the distribution of LSD to celebrities.
Here is an interesting essay about Al Hubbard and his connections to celebrities, including Kubrick
" [Note: Recently, a researcher for WorldNetDaily and author of a forthcoming book based on the Frank Olson âmurder,â revealed to this writer that he has received, via a FOIA request of CIA declassified materials, documents which indicate that Al Hubbard (NICKNAME âCaptain Tripsâ ) was, indeed, in contact with Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and George Hunter Whiteâan FBI narcotics official who managed Operation Midnight Climax, a joint CIA/FBI blackmail project in which unwitting âjohnsâ were given drinks spiked with LSD by CIA-managed prostitutes, and whose exploits were videotaped from behind two-way mirrors at posh hotels in both New York and San Francisco. The researcher would reveal only that Al Hubbardâs name âappeared in connection with Gottlieb and White, but the material is heavily redacted.â]
Hubbardâs secret connections allowed him to expose over 6,000 people to LSD before it was effectively banned in '66. He shared the sacrament with a prominent Monsignor of the Catholic Church in North America, explored the roots of alcoholism with AA founder Bill Wilson, and stormed the pearly gates with Aldus Huxley (in a session that resulted in the psychedelic tome Heaven and Hell ), as well as supplying most of the Beverly Hills psychiatrists, who, in turn, turned on actors Cary Grant, James Coburn, Jack Nicholson, novelist Anais Nin, and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
Laura Huxley met Captain Hubbard for the first time at her and her husbandâs Hollywood Hills home in the early 1960s. âHe showed up for lunch one afternoon, and he brought with him a portable tank filled with a gas of some kind. He offered some to us,â she recalls, âbut we said we didnât care for any, so he put it down and we all had lunch. He went into the bathroom with the tank after lunch, and breathed into it for about ten seconds. It must have been very concentrated, because he came out revitalized and very jubilant, talking about a vision he had seen of the Virgin Mary.â
I comment: Oddly the name of the deadly bio-weapon Virus that Stephen King used in his novel The Stand was âCaptain Tripsâ
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Continuing from the above EWS post
Here is an amazing film of a 1979 conference at Dr. Oscar Janigerâs home in 1979 with pioneers of the LSD experiments, including Dr. Gottlieb discussed above and and Al Hubbard, discussed above Dr. Myron Stoloroff, Tim Leary and others. The film is amazing if you know the participants in the Psych/Psychiatric field and the use of LSD by various Movie Stars and Celebrities in the 50âs and 60s and the connection with the CIA and MK Ultra.
In Plain View: Jaw-Dropping Video of LSD Promoters Holding 1979 Meeting | Winter Watch
Awesome review on the latest show success âMandolorianâ and what its success really means in the civil war that is going on at Lucus Films. Get the stupid fktards SJWâs out and let the ones who actually care about actual story telling and film making do the franchise some solid.
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Hmmm. I guess I will have to see if it is so much better than the later movies which were mediocre.
I watched a movie last night that just came out on On Demand rental. It had mixed reviews but had enough reviews saying it was great, amidst reviews sounding like people who were expecting a regular, cheesy horror movie, to go ahead and take a chance.
The Trailer gives absolutely no idea what the movie really is like, or what it is about. Itâs a creepy movie. Maybe the first of a seriesâapparently based on a comic book seriesâbut not like the usual Comic-book type movie at all.
I had to rewind it over and over to figure out what was going on and am still needing to watch it again. Hard to compare it to other films. Like most people seeing the trailer alone I thought it was going to be a teen horror movie with ensemble cast. Not at all.
It has some very twisted, cultish paranoia. Heretical in every way. Reminded me a little of Mementos. Good, weird music, score
scary.
A recent movie I had watched which of course that is on my top list is Terrance Malickâs "The Thin Red Line. Why I am mentioning this movie, and why I am recommending it to be watched, is due to the recent events of Afghanistan, the decisions being made by our military leaders, and our politicians, this movie in a poetic sense offers some really keen insights about who we are as a country and is eerily reflective of the blind ambitions of career military personnel who get obscene on young blood to achieve greatness. The fact that we have been in a perpetuate state of war for quite some time is something that is not to be escaped upon, but rather a meditative journey that is both spiritual and a karma retribution in the making. America is now on the verge of collapse due to such perverse Patriotism that has been hijacked by Deep state actors who never had intentions of fighting a war for principle but for profit. I digress.
Nick Nolteâs role is outstanding in this film, not to mention that there are a lot of known stars who played a role in this film. Nolteâs character is the one to study and meditate on, and ask yourself in a figurative sense if this is what our military and our ruling elites are now accustomed to?
This is one of if not Malickâs best work. The camera work in this film is outstanding, and the stunning visuals and the use of sound, ie: the wind blowing through the tall grass is memorizing. The use of inter poetic dialogue periodically to express the deeper thoughts that soldiers have is on another level of profoundness. War sucks! So why do we continue to do it? (We know the answer)
I guarantee, that if you choose to watch this film, or if you have seen it already, and it has been years that you will gain new insights as it pertains to our current situation both politically and our future lives as Americans.
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Iâve seen that film, my favourite film of Malickâs is still âBadlandsâ
Hey Lucy! Great to see you here again! I trust that the good Lord has been protecting you through these difficult times!
âBadlands?â With Martin Sheen?
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