I saw it more as the background story for a random mid tier boss the actual main characters have to fight. Dude even left behind recordings like you find in the game.
“Can you fix a hi-if?”
“No.”
“Then shut up.”
For the ultimate dirt cheap way to defeat the radioactive monster, some 50’s movie should have had the expository scientist come up with defeating the monster’s nuclear reactions using heavy water. So the climatic scene would have been just turning a fire hose on the monster.
The Unabomber on Netflix. It was… middling. Basically, it tries to serve as a super-villain origin story for the man. Honestly, I thought Ted K was a much better treatment of the subject. Not as an origin story, but as a character study of a seriously mentally ill man with a touch of clarity on socio-technological matters. Also misogyny heaped on top of an already formidable undercurrent of general misanthropy.
I believe in real life, his brother(who had also spent some time living off grid) recognized his writing and phrases and turned him in to the FBI.
I heard they changed that? I think his brother turning him in is pretty much the whole twist the case needed in real life.
I don’t know if they changed it or not. They do have the brother be the one to notify the FBI, but they change his motivation to his brother wanting to convince the brother’s wife, who is convinced Ted is the guy who wrote the manifesto, that Ted is innocent. I have no idea if that motivated the brother or not.
OK, I thought I had heard they changed it. I don’t know the real detail of the truth.
I still don’t really know why he was so adamant in his positions that he decided to mail bombs to people. I also had heard that once Timothy McVeigh blew up the Federal Building, Unabomber upped his bombings in some sort of jealousy or whatever. Not sure if that was the case.
Tim McVeigh and Ted K. met in prison, didn’t they?
:shrug: maybe they got to meet for their one hour a day or week outside their cells? I do recall reading a story 20+ years ago (it’d have to have been) about some drug lord complaining that McVeigh and the Unabomber theoretically got to run elbows, but he didn’t because he was under even more restrictive conditions, all at ADX Florence.
What does “to run elbows” mean in this context?
Drug cartel kingpins get put under extra restrictions to block any chance of their running their empires from behind bars.
Primetime, the movie about Chris Hansen. This movie was made by someone who really did not like Chris Hansen and also someone who is really bad at making movies. I do not think I’ve been to a movie recently where I wanted to pull out my phone and doomscroll instead. I could see hints of where the movie could have been good, but it was as empty of personality as Chris Hansen was portrayed to be. I recommend skip this and just read the Wikipedia page.
My general question is, “Uh, what did Chris Hansen do so bad for people to make negative movies about him?”
I thought he just did the “Take a seat right there, buddy” sneak attacks against people clearly intending to rape children, those that had already had text/chat exchanges with people they thought were kids.
I mean, I would support following the rule of law, but he didn’t really do anything to anyone not deserving. And it’s not like we learned that he was doing the same evil thing.
I’m hardly Chris Hansen’s advocate, but I don’t see any real reason to tear him down. I think he had an affair at one point, but with an adult…so hardly putting him in “real evil” level…
His post-dateline career has included a bunch of appearances on Fox News, and from what I understand a lot of the perps he caught were able to escape conviction due to entrapment. It didn’t seem like they had any legal guidance and were just interested in making successful television. The movie portrays him and his producer as very exploitive of the decoys and other folks involved…
“To rub elbows” means to meet someone in person.
You left off the previous lines, which really make it funny.
“Who are you?”
“A Doctor of Musicology”
“Can you fix a hi-fi?”
“No”
“Then shut up.”
I’m Hugh!
You’re me?
No, I’m Hugh!
Make him stop… somebody make him stop saying that!
The Fabelman’s, Prime. Inna loved this movie which surprised me as shows about American teenagers aren’t her thing. A genuinely great movie.
The Last Duel, also on Prime. I guess America wasn’t in the mood for a medieval film back in 2022, but this was better than expected and seems to be, for Damon, a Odyssey tryout.
Primetime (theater). Not too sure why this movie exists… didn’t tell us anything about Chris Hansen, he has some sort of breakdown and the motivations behind them aren’t explained, and this was just kind of a mess.
A Serious Man, Coens, never saw this before and when Prime suggested it to us, we were like “what the hell, it’s just 100 minutes long”. A great movie, very dry wit, I’m sure a LOT of it went over my head. Story: A Jewish guy in Bloomington, IN in 1967 has his life fall apart.
Supposed to be a modern version of the story of Job from the Bible.
The Weight
Ethan Hawkes in Depression era Oregon. In prison for a crime he did commit, needs to get out, makes a deal with Russel Crowe, things go sideways in the Cascades.
It’s fine, Hawkes character is a little excessively competent at everything. Other than that, the story hangs together, the characters are interesting, no dogs die. 6.5 out of 10, probably?
Predestination. Pretty good Australian time travel movie, based on a Heinlein story I haven’t read. It stars Ethan Hawke as a temporal agent (or timecop, if you will) on the trail of a mass murdering terrorist. He meets someone in a bar. Twisty time travel drama ensues. I won’t say more. I have no idea how faithful to the story it is and don’t much care. I’d recommend it, though it telegraphs some of its twists.
ETA: two Ethan Hawke movies in a row!