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Real Venezuela has never been tried.
Real Venezuela has never been tried.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363510/
http://www.vitagraphfilms.com/films.htm

In Venezuela, when a democratically-elected socialist starts ruining the fourth largest oil industry in the world, using socialism, effort is made to initiate a regime change.

It begins as a pro-communist propaganda piece on how socialism didn’t do nothin’ wrong and real communism has never been tried. It gets good later on, as there are legitimate concerns actually being shown.

Feel free to look at this and compare it to current (2017-2018) reactions to United States president Donald Trump, because it will make your head explode.

You can thank events featured around this time, and the fucktardedness that followed, for plunging 90% of the population into poverty.. and I’m not exaggerating. This is the wealth-generation of socialism.



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Westworld - (2016 show) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/
https://www.hbo.com/westworld

Nothing could possibly go wrong in an amusement park populated by robots.



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Wonderstruck - (2017 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5208216/

Something about a boy in the 70s wandering around and a girl from earlier who also wandered around because reasons and things happen but they’re not exciting so just give this a miss.

I don’t know what the fuck these people were thinking, but this is beyond confusing and awful.



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Atomic blonde - (2017 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2406566/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200527165344/https://www.uphe.com/movies/atomic-blonde

As a commentary on Edward Snowden or WikiLeaks or some such, a list, that somehow exists, is out in the clear and being hunted by various spies.

It would have made a huge difference had this not been portrayed as a flashback/debriefing. Because of this complete failure in storytelling, there was no sense of risk at all; an important part of a spy movie like this.



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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.

Future Man - (2017 show) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975856/

Time travelers recruit an everyman to help save their world.

Crude and un-funny.

Timeline - (2003 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300556/
was timelinemovie.com

to be re-watched



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