This will be me when I'm making a movie:

@@@@This comes from above: it's strongly recommended to use a VPN for cytube. @@@@ There was a thread recently about vpns and a few you should explicitly avoid.

Tonight's visual cuisine is Battle for Moscow Aggression part 1, a prequel to Typhoon which we finished last week. The Battle for Moscow is a 1985 Soviet war movie about the 1941 Battle of Moscow, it was "a Soviet-East German-Czechoslovak-Vietnamese co-production directed by Yuri Ozerov who also wrote the script," and "It was made in time for the 40th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. "

After that we will continue with the legendary anime My Life as a Teenage Robot. Jenny continues juggling a life as a superhero and one as a teenager with her best friends from next door. Each episode is actually split into two smaller episodes so we are actually getting four :bko-joy:

imdb:

Mlaatr

content warnings:

Battle for Moscow:

• Depictions of violence but no blood/gore
• War
• Nazis and nazi imagery
• Gun violence
• Death

Despite being a war movie, there does not appear to be any blood or gore. It's also on youtube without an age gate so it's most likely pretty safe.

Mlaatr:

• Depictions of bugs
• The protagonist prefers a different name to the one given to her by her mom in the first episode, however both are used throughout the show by different characters. Her given name is generally used in a more formal manner by authority figures and her preferred one more casually by her peers. She responds to both and after the first episode generally seems to not be bothered by it.
• Jokes about weight
• Explosions
• Cartoon violence, primarily involving robots and alien monsters.
• The protagonist regularly loses limbs but she is a robot
• The protagonist practically dies or experiences a near death experience in one episode.

Unlike anime from Japan, there isn't really anything excessively grotesque nor is there a theme of :tony-disappointed2: moments.

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I feel like it really captures the hell of being in a tin can going in a line while planes and flak riddle you. The dichotomy between days of peace with the chance to flirt and drink interspersed with sheer terror, freezing cold, a screaming man in the ball turret.

The bombing campaign was no walk in the park and the boys who blew up the factories of the German war machine were certainly brave as fuck.

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this extra-long edition of Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting with one of the all-time classic French films, A Man Escaped (1956)! It strips the prison film down to its most basic elements, centering on a French Resistance fighter’s attempt to escape a tiny cell under the eyes of his Nazi captors. The director is Robert Bresson, whose donkey tale Au Hasard Balthasar (1966) we previously watched. This is commonly considered his magnum opus, and is a staple of lists of greatest films; it currently ranks #86 on Letterboxd’s Top 250.

After that is Boy and the World (2013), a dialogue-free Brazilian surrealist peace about a boy who leaves his village to find his absent father, and his subsequent journey through the urban, industrial, consumerist hellscape of the modern world. It received rave reviews across the board, and garnered a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 2015 Oscars. It is the best-known and best-regarded work to date of director Ale Abreu. We were going to watch this last night, but it started after midnight, so everyone went to bed instead. I moved the showing to this evening instead.

Third up is the highly-anticipated highly-acclaimed new blockbuster, Dune Part Two (2024), the second half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel. We will be watching a camrip. It is decent quality, though a watermark wanders around the screen for the whole movie. That’s just the price we pay for good early rips, I guess.

We’ll start at 7PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• A Man Escaped: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-man-escaped/
• Boy and the World: https://letterboxd.com/film/boy-the-world/
• Dune Part Two: https://letterboxd.com/film/dune-part-two/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• A Man Escaped: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/41444
• Boy and the World: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3183630/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Dune Part Two: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1070684

CWs for A Man Escaped:

• Suicidal ideation.
• Prison.
• Nazis.
• Torture.
• Claustrophobia.
• Blood.

CWs for Boy and the World:

• Strip club.
• Police brutality.
• Capitalism.
• Chld endangerment.

CWs for Dune Part Two:

• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug use.
• Deaths of animals.
• Snakes.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone is crushed to death.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Someone is buried alive.
• Head squashing.
• Unconsciousness.
• Someone has a seizure.
• Torture.
• Someone falls to their death.
• Stabbing.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Trypophobia.
• Vomiting.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Spitting.
• Destruction of priceless artifact.
• Needles.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Screaming.
• Flashing lights.
• Fetuses.
• Orientalism.
• White savior narrative.
• Ableist languae.
• Discussion of religion.
• Implied sex.
• Nudity.
• Male character ridiculed for crying.
• Fat suit.
• Sad ending.
• Nuclear explosion.
• Blood and gore.

Links to movies:

• A Man Escaped: https://tankie.tube/w/haXDfWccXLUwUNQbkYnEm4
• Boy and the World: https://tankie.tube/w/5vxfFCU2M9Dc6wFrpHdbLu
• Dune Part Two: https://tankie.tube/w/4wmegiWzySPA1E8nGiLsmh

Holy shit how is this movie so bad

I seriously cannot tell if i'm enjoying this. Someone else needs to be subjected to this. Should railroad this through as a movienight interstitial.

Trivially simple script to automatically decrease the horizontal margins on the chat and video containers on hextube. By default both left and right margins are 15px per container. I set them to 1px for a 56px gain in chat and video viewing area. It's free real estate.

// ==UserScript==
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// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match       https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies*
// @grant       none
// @version     1.0
// @author      -
// @description 3/1/2024, 10:31:12 PM
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(function() {
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      document.getElementById("chatwrap").style.paddingLeft="1px";
      document.getElementById("chatwrap").style.paddingRight="1px";
      document.getElementById("videowrap").style.paddingLeft="1px";
      document.getElementById("videowrap").style.paddingRight="1px";
})();

What is ViolentMonkey?

ViolentMonkey is an open source browser extension and small alternative to GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey. It can run custom JavaScript in your browser for you automatically to modify page behavior. If you install the extension you can create a new script and copy and paste the one I wrote above. Always beware of installing untrusted scripts that you don't understand.

IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a VPN whenever visiting Hextube, or anywhere else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy.

For this Friday Movie Night, since the Oscars are coming up soon, we’re doing a double feature of Best Picture nominees. First up is The Zone of Interest (2023), a family drama about SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss’s efforts to build his dream house for his family in a fabulous new property he acquired right next door to Auschwitz. The camp’s horrors are not directly shown, but they nevertheless keep impinging on his attempts to live an idyllic, peaceful life with his family. Banality of Evil: The Movie. We already watched director Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013) on Hextube, and it was a hit, so let’s give another one of his films a shot.

After that is Poor Things (2023), a magical-realist/sci-fi/black comedy/romance/feminist drama/weird thing from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster [2015], The Favourite [2018]). Emma Stone stars as a corpse brought back to life with the mind with a child by a Frankenstein-esque scientist (Willem Dafoe), and she steadily takes back control of her life and sexuality from the shitty men who manipulate her. Pretty much everyone lists this as one of the best films of the year, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Zone of Interest: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-zone-of-interest/
• Poor Things: https://letterboxd.com/film/poor-things-2023/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Zone of Interest: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1067040
• Poor Things: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/749562

CWs for The Zone of Interest:

• Nazis.
• Holocaust. Although the horrors of the camp are not directly depicted, disturbing sounds are often audibe.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Torture (albeit offscreen.)
• Cheating.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Screaming.
• Antisemitism.
• Hate speech.
• “Sexual content”. Seems pretty tame from what I can see, though.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Poor Things:

• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Sexual assault. A woman who does not understand sex is touched by a man in a lascivious manner. However, she does not express any fear or refusal, and initiates sex later. Sexual liberation is one of the film’s main themes.
• Pedophilia, following on from the above, since the main character has just been born, albeit in an adult body.
• Sexualization of minor, in the sense that the main character has been reborn in an adult body.
• Necrophilia, since the main character is a revived corpse.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Abusive parents.
• Abused person forgives their abuser.
• Stalking.
• Domestic violence.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Gaslighting.
• Child abuse.
• Drug use.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Deaths of animals.
• Animal abuse.
• Body horror.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Chloroform rag.
• Prostitution.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Disfigurement.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Decapitation.
• Choking.
• Someone is lit on fire.
• Amputation.
• Unconsciousness.
• Someone falls to their death.
• Eye mutilation.
• Stabbing.
• Blood and gore.
• Death of child.
• R-slur.
• Disabled character played by able-bodied actor.
• Kidnapping.
• Death of parent.
• Cheating.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Razors.
• Someone wets themselves.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Farting.
• Mental hospital scene.
• Cancer.
• Mental illness.
• Self-harm.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Dissociation.
• Suicide attempt.
• Unstable reality.
• Meltdown.
• Misophonia.
• Jump scares.
• Crying baby.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Obscene language.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Death of pregnant woman.
• Age-gap romance.
• Religion.
• Objectification of female characters.
• BDSM.
• Someone loses their virginity.
• Chronic illness.
• Homelessness.
• Debate over existentialism.
• Drowning.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• The Zone of Interest: https://tankie.tube/w/sVkspww6SXPfMnHRd714L2
• Poor Things: https://tankie.tube/w/ePUvWzN2yYyiRTBTRP48Kj

wimps

David Cronenberg

In a September 2013 interview, Cronenberg revealed that film director Martin Scorsese admitted to him that he was intrigued by Cronenberg's early work but was subsequently "terrified" to meet him in person. Cronenberg responded to Scorsese: "You're the guy who made Taxi Driver and you're afraid to meet me?"

In the same interview, Cronenberg identified as an atheist. "Anytime I've tried to imagine squeezing myself into the box of any particular religion, I find it claustrophobic and oppressive," Cronenberg elaborated. "I think atheism is an acceptance of what is real." In the same interview, Cronenberg revealed that it depends on the "time of day" as to whether or not he is afraid of death.

He further stated that he is not concerned about posthumous representations of his film work: "It wouldn't disturb me to think that my work would just sink beneath the waves without trace and that would be it. So what? It doesn't bother me."

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies aaaaaa

I just watched it and I gotta say it was pretty ok, maybe even good.

It's pacing is far more "TV" than Season 1 which feels like an 8 part film, and I was definitely bored through the middle 4 episodes, but overall I think it did have something to say that was well communicated.

Definitely pretty bleak though.