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Andromedia - (1998 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303658/

A girl is digitized, becoming a valuable commodity for people seeking power and immortality.

This might be interesting for fans of science fiction history, but it’s dumb in too many places for me to enjoy it.

If you end up watching this, here are my edited Andromedia subtitles.



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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2387513/
was libertadorfilm.com

Inspired by the French Revolution, a rebellion is launched against Spaniards in South America.

This movie leverages the “yeah freedom!” but spins the old yarn that all of the rich are bad and oppressors and the poor are good and oppressed. Entertaining, though propagandistic. It is particularly interesting to think of the underlying themes of the events portrayed in this movie, and how Socialism has plunged Venezuela into a dark age. I don’t know that I would bother recommending this; it’s alright.

  • aka Libertador
  • Although this is in Spanish, a tiny amount is English, and a tinier amount is in French.




2018-02-08

  • 3:00 — Wouldn’t he be in a stronghold, or some well-defended place?
  • 5:15 —

  • Madrid, The kingdom of Spain – 28 years earlier
    FIXME – early version
  • 6:15 — CaracasVenezuela province
    FIXME
  • 9:30 — Province of Venezuela – Kingdom of Spain
  • 11:00 — Guava
  • 13:15 — Rousseau
  • 13:30 — Catholic Church
  • 13:45 — Against nations, something akin to Anarchy or possibly just Communism.
  • 15:00 — Paris
  • 15:15 — Sugar Cane
  • 19:30 — Oh my.
  • 20:45 — I thought Spanish women rode side-saddle at that time.
  • 24:00 — I’m sure a pregnancy would seriously weaken her.
  • 27:30 — South America
  • 29:15 — Champs-Elysees

    • Also, presumably they have been in France, likely Paris since that was mentioned earlier.
  • 29:45 — Napoleon
  • 31:30 —

  • 31:45 — So he’s basically, what, pre-Marxist?
  • 32:15 — Dillitante
  • 33:00 — Thomas Jefferson
  • 35:15 — George Washington
  • 35:45 — TODO – Creole people in South America
  • 36:45 — Valencia, Province of Venezuela – The Kingdom of Spain
  • 37:10 — Wilhelm scream
  • 52:15 — I’ll make you free, to be my slaves.
  • 59:30 — He’s had more time to talk..
  • 1:09:15 — Kingston, Jamaica

    • September 6th, 1815
  • 1:10:00 — “Privelage”

    • It’s an amusing irony that this immediately references freedom of thought and expression.
  • 1:10:15 — “Equality”. This sort of phrase needs to be clarified these days.
  • 1:13:15 — The Andes
  • 1:13:30 — Hanibal crossing the Alps
  • 1:14:45 — Dublin
  • 1:16:45 — Why would you bring a pregnant woman?
  • 1:19:15 — Cortez – burning boats
  • 1:26:00 — Wilhelm scream
  • 1:32:45 — A little nod to the problem of economic sovereignty.
  • 1:35:45 — It took all this time to actually get back to “the present”.
  • 1:46:30 — Port of Barranquilla – December 1st, 1830
    TODO
  • 1:50:30 — “Fire”. HuH?
  • 1:50:30 —

    Simon Bolivar never arrived in Venezuela.
    His death was announced 16 days later.
    The official cause of death was tuberculosis.

Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence - (2004 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347246/
http://www.production-ig.com/contents/works_sp/01_/index.html

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  • Original title: Innocence
  • Trailer



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Oldboy - (2003 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

A man is kidnapped and held for reasons he’s never told, only to be let out to be confused alongside this movie’s viewers.

I want to like this, I really do, but it makes no damned sense.



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Marяvel Comics
Marяvel Comics

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4600952/

An evil scientist works to realize his vision, but his previous superhero creations are assembled to go against him.

Russia’s answer to Marvel, I guess. High-budget and shockingly-poorly executed. Odd and badly-written, it’s not bad enough to be fun and funny. I recommend this movie for people who are tired of all the superhero movies.. it is like a vegetable cleanse.

  • Trailer

    • The song in the trailer is a clip from Защитники by Юлия Терещенко (on YouTube)
  • previously titled “Zaschitniki”
  • aka “The Guardians”
  • early rumours of this movie mis-titled it “Defenders”



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High and Low - (1963 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057565/

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

Not bad, but not a keeper.

  • Original title: Tengoku to jigoku
  • Trailer



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Ghost in the Shell - (2017 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219827/
https://ghostintheshell.tumblr.com/

A special agent combat-cyborg pursues a cyber criminal who comes to have a special interest in her.

Although I like it, I suspect it’s because I like the original so much and I can’t be unbiased. I also think Scarlett is hot.

I became even more interested in seeing this movie in light of the incorrectly-supposed-whitewashing of the lead character. Antisocial injustice is actually pretty good at recommending things.


Boda Secreta - (1989 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094774/

A man wakes up naked with amnesia and seeks out his fiance from years ago.

Not great and not recommended. It’s got a shaky story and a weakly-portrayed world. Both the movie’s world and the film quality are particularly low. Its acting and speech are stiff.

  • In English, the title is Secret Wedding.



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Versus - (2000 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275773/
movie.softgarage.com/versus/ (not archived)

In a forest where any who die rise as zombies, an escaped convict does something something.

I got 1/3 in and got bored. It’s too over-the-top.



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Robotrix - (1991 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102562/

An evil scientist constructs a robot surrogate and transfers his consciousness into it to carry out his plans for global domination by kidnapping a very wealthy sheikh’s son.

A watchable moderate-budget movie which somehow still falls into an 80s-cheese style. It’s rare to find such a bold movie, even with it being unashamedly graphic to the point of dark comedy. I think that’s why I like it.

It’s worth watching once.



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