Movie Reviews (With Spoilers)

[Michael]

Recently, watched a movie call Idaho Transfer it was included in a 50 pack of science fiction movies that I got for my birthday. The movie seems to linger with one, even though it is not a great movie. The movie is basically a Eco-catastrophe/hippie/time travel movie. It was made in 1973 and directed by
Peter Fonda. Acting is rough at times but not that bad especially considering how for many of the actor and actresses this was their only movie, though rough around the edges at times is a lot better than many mainline "stars."

The lead actress Kelley (or Kelly) Bohanan (or Bohanon) played Karen who is a mentally disturbed young woman who is selected for the time travel project by her father who runs it out of a government facility but the government does not know about the time travel project, but the government does evidentially comes in a close down the project that they don't know about for some reason.

But before that happens Karen sister Isa takes her 56 years into the future where they log tagged snakes (the snakes were being tagged in the opening act) and Isa falls into a ravine or a hole in the ground and is injured. Karen helps her back to the time travel device and Isa dies either from traveling back in time or her injures.Karen goes back into the future and mopes. Her father sends her letters (he can not come froward in time becauseany "much over 20" kidneys will hemorrhage), which she does not open. At that point the government comes in and close down the project that they don't know about. A bunch of "kids" and at least one adult, who kidneys later hemorrhage, go forward in time. At one point the time travel device that is synchronize with the one the "present" stops working and they split up with a group staying at camp and the rest heading off to Portland with most going by water but Karen and a male head off by land. The group than rejoin together, they found a group of primitive and handicapped survivors who are selfless and peaceful, it is a hippie movie after all, and Karen who wants to have lots of babies to repopulate the Earth discover that time travel has made them all sterile, the oblige older black scientist told them before he left the group to die when his kidneys hemorrhaged.

Karen takes this badly and heads back to base camp alone only to find all but one of the ones who were left their died and the last one is a homicidal mad woman who tries to killed Karen but the time travel device is working again and Karen goes back to the "present." Which startled the technician in the room who flees. Karen locks the door resets the time travel device to travel farther into the future leaving right as the military opens the door and watch her vanish.

She arrives even farther into the future in very cold weather and she is not properly dress she stumbles around falls beside a road her life flashes before her eyes but a car stops for her the guy gets out picks her up and puts her in the truck, she screams as he closes it.

The future man and woman drive off and their child ask if they are sure it was one of "them" they say yes, and the child ask what happens if they stop coming, the adults assure the child that another way will be found but the child says that if another way can't be found or if it is too hard they start using "each other."

The movie seems to pull one along into useless scenes, plot points, strange twist and confusion.The left-wing anti-government environmentalist hippie agenda took a movie that could have, at least, become a cult classic and turned it into an all but forgotten could have been.

Why have the lead actress character be mentally unusable for who in their right mind would send a mentally unstable person into a basically unknown environment on a piece of experimental equipment!And why kill her sister off so early in the movie if they wanted to isolate Karen wait until they are trapped in the future. The only purpose Isa death served was to send Karen moping into the future. And what did the hippie hitchhikers add? A single line that could have been delivery many other ways? Then the government comes in and closes down a project that they don't know about. That is a plot device design to send them permanently into the future. Could have had the disaster strike forcing them permanently into the future with no chance for return to escape a homicidal woman or even for toilet paper, yes, Karen went back for toilet paper, among other things, dodging guards to get it.

The only reason to have them sterile seems to be to break into rambling speeches about how over rated having children and procreation is and to push the agenda that intelligent people shouldn't have children but dumb primitives have lots because they are good and "compassionate".Of course, the homicidal one is one of their own. And the ending of the movies, why is Karen put into the truck to be used as fuel (that doesn't make a bit of sense) a slave or something else. It is designed to be a twist ended but it just ends in confusion with more question but no answers.

Idaho Transfer a movie of its' time left-wing agenda that could have been so much more but by mixing in their left-wing environmentalist anti-human agenda the movie became a flop. The Hollywood agenda is likely one reason why they make so few good movies. In Idaho Transfer a rape was mention that in no way tied into the movie just a throw in line as part of the Hollywood anti-male agenda, the mutant primitive idiots, who in reality would probably be to dumb to survive in that harsh of a climate, are said to not live much over 30, the 1960's don't trust anyone over 30 line and ploys like the sterility that turns them into only helping the primitives instead of reestablishing civilians with their kids.The left-wings agenda and it doesn't matter if it is Marxist Democrats or Fabian Republicans is the same only the method and timetable differ the end goal is a global kakistocracy kleptocracy plutocracy. The left-wing agenda just doesn't lend itself to making good movies. Traditional values, struggling, self-sacrifice, noble deeds, (re)building civilization these are the makings of a great movie, though their are other ways too, but nothing of greatness fixes the left's agenda for it is of greed, hypocrisy and selfness. In Idaho Transfer they hiked around camped, and rafted, a hippie movie not much struggle and a lot of littering during a camping trip in which they didn't build anything.

They could, probably, have turned it into a cult classic if they had forgotten about the agendas and turned the movie into a post catastrophe rebuilding civilization flick.Basically, trap them in the future where they have to build shelter find food, possibly, fight off the mutants, and grow-up in order to rebuild civilization. You could end with a glimpse of the future civilization, the birth of the first baby, or men and women with their arms around each other looking out at the settlement with a sunrise/set. But this does not fit the left's agenda because traditional values, struggling, self-sacrifice, noble deeds, (re)building civilization are all White things.

 

[Thrashen]

Michael, "movie reviews"Â￾ is a good idea for a new thread.

By far, the best "new"Â￾ movie I've seen in the past five years was "The Fountain"Â￾ (2006). That was the last time I saw a movie in a movie theater. Yes, the writer/director, Darren Aronofsky, is a Jew, as is Rachael Weisz, the female "lead."Â￾ Nevertheless, I found the film to be quite beautiful, in many different ways.

The plot is exceptionally intricate when compared to the traditionally undemanding set of circumstances spawned by "new"Â￾ Hollywood to be easily digested by the clapping seals. The overall plot has three sets of individual stories. Past, present, and future. The characters known as Tommy, Tomas, and Tom are all played by Hugh Jackman. The characters Issi, Isabel, and Issi the Apparition are all played by Racheal Weisz. The story takes place in three time periods, spanning several hundred years...

1) In modern times, a man named "Tommy"Â￾ (Hugh Jackman) is a neuroscientist desperately searching for a cure, as his wife, "Izzi"Â￾ (Rachael Weisz) is terminally ill with a brain tumor. Before her body surrenders to illness, Izzi is attempting to "finish"Â￾ a novel she'd been writing entitled "The Fountain."Â￾ The premise of said novel involves a "Spanish Conquistador"Â￾ named "Tomas,"Â￾ a character obviously inspired by her husband, Tommy. Tommy and Issi are passionately in love, thus, Tommy is feverously engrossed in the research that may save Issi's life. In order to "research"Â￾ the novel, Issi visited Central America, where a local man told her a story about his father's death. The man had planted the seed of a tree over his father's buried body so that the tree could utilize his fathers' remains to grow strong. So that his father would become part of the tree, and when birds ate of the tree's fruit, his father would "fly."Â￾ This seemingly insignificant anecdote is an important part of the ending, which I won't "spoil."Â￾

2) Upon the official order of the Spanish Queen, Isabel (a character obviously derived from the modern day "Izzi"Â￾), Tomas leaves Spain during the "Spanish Inquisition"Â￾ in search of the "Tree of Life"Â￾ / "Fountain of Youth"Â￾ in Central America. Queen Isabel promises Tomas that should he find this tree, he would become King of Spain...and that he and Isabel would "live forever" as husband and wife. Tomas and his men desperately search the rain-soaked jungles for their prize and encounter resistance from Mayans guarding the temples. Eventually, Tomas kills the guards and finds the Tree.

3) In the future, a man named "Tom"Â￾ is hurdling through outer space in a translucent "spaceship."Â￾ A large, dying tree and Issi's novel keep him company. Tom has been supposedly traveling for eons towards "Xibalba,"Â￾ a much-celebrated Mayan nebula. He tries desperately to keep the aging tree alive for the journey.

There is so much more, but I would spoil significant details for any first time viewer. The sets and scenery (spanning the course of several hundred years) is lovely, the acting is splendid, and the male-female relationship is teeming with concentrated spirituality and genuine love. Aside from the Mayan savages (portrayed a tiny, dirty, ugly, and vicious), there are no non-white characters. Besides the fact the modern-day "Tommy and Issi"Â￾ have no children, I perceived absolutely no references to archetypal Cultural Marxist banality.

In order to fully understand the film, I needed to view it twice. If anyone would like to discuss the film's "meaning,"Â￾ perhaps we could "PM"Â￾ back and forth? Edited by: Thrashen

 

[Highlander]

Glad to hear someone else likes "The Fountain" as much as I did. There's a lot of depth and layers to it and I loved the music that went along with it as well. I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen with excellent audio before its premature departure from the theaters, probably because it lacked the requisite degeneracy and banality that is part and parcel of a culture in serious moral and intellectual decline.

I appreciate Aronofsky as a director, although the subject matter of most of his movies can be pretty disturbing. I believe his protege to be director John Frankenheimer who made many great movies in the 60's and 70's; "Black Sunday" being one that some older CF'ers may remember seeing in 1977 about a terrorist plot at the SuperBowl. He also did "The Manchurian Candidate", "The Birdman of Alcatraz", "Seven Days in May", the Twilight-Zonish "Seconds", and the vastly underrated "I Walk the Line" from 1970 starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld. "Grand Prix" was another one in the late 60's that he did that CF'ers may like. A car racing drama that shows it as it once was...a high risk, death-wish, but well-worth it because of the glory.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

I rarely ever go to the movie theater...save for totin' the young'ernz to see a picture (once in a blue moon). However, I used to rent a movie from Blockbuster once in a while. I'd be interested to see if there's an "CF favorites" that'd be worth a trip to theater to see.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

There are rarely any films worth going to a theater to see. I try to learn something about the movie before I go watch it, but I'm still usually disappointed by it.

 

[Deus Vult]

I rarely ever go to the movie theater...save for totin' the young'ernz to see a picture (once in a blue moon)... I'd be interested to see if there's a "CF favorites" that'd be worth a trip to theater to see.

I went through a period of several years wherein the only trips to the movie theater were to see kiddie shows. It was during this time that "Gladiator" came out -- and I've been kicking myself ever since for not seeing "Gladiator" on the big screen.

I believe most movies worth seeing are fine when view at home, whether on cable/satellite or DVD. However, there are a few I've been privileged to see at the cinema ("Gladiator" not among them! Dammit!!), and really came away impressed:

Braveheart (twice)
The Patriot
All the LOTR movies
Jurassic Park (the first one -- NOT the awful 2nd one!)
The Hangover
Last Of The Mohicans
The Lion King

 

[jaxvid]

I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen with excellent audio before its premature departure from the theaters, probably because it lacked the requisite degeneracy and banality that is part and parcel of a culture in serious moral and intellectual decline.

Ain't it the truth!! Nice statement. Every movie I see I think to myself "what kind of sick culture would want to show this to it's people (especially children) as an example of any kind of decent way to live". It's everything about movies, from the basic premise to the actual details. I know the people putting this trash out are sick, but what the hell is going on with everyone else that is watching the stuff?

 

[Charlie]

'Animal Kingdom' is a 2010 Australian effort which did well at Sundance and Cannes. IMHO it is superior to 'The Town'. The only non-PC aspect involves a Leb in a tuner car.

While 'The Town' portrays bank robbers as noble yet doomed 'Animal' presents criminals as sociopaths as fixed in their trajectory as lions on the Savannah.

 

[Tom Iron]

Excellent,

My wife and I go to the movies often. Here's a new one. "The Way Back," about the Gulag (Soviet era prisons in Siberia) and an incredible escape, apparently true ( 4,000 mile walk). Great footage of Siberia, Mongolia, China, Himalayas, etc. Really lurid footage of the prison. Something most Americans have no way of understanding anymore. That something like that actually existed.

If anyone's really interested, more on it would be the reading of the "Gulag Archipelago."

Another movie is "29th Street," about the first lottery winner in NYC. Really good movie made in 1991, about a time and a sort of people unfortuneately gone in our country today.

 

[Charlie]

'Nerdcore Rising' (2008) follows MC Frontsalot on tour. Two things stand out; nerdcore, like geekdom in general, is implicitly white (one 'rapper' even goes by the tag YTCracker, of course there are wogs about, even the documentarian is Iranian, but the waft of curry and kim chi is minimal). And there is a reason for the desperate rush to 'darken-up' all things tech with turd world H1-Bs and promotion of all things turd.

The nerds are chagrined. And they tend to be enthusiastically competent at something, even if it's Magic: The Gathering. Why are they angry? They want to get paid and they want to get laid. Increasingly there is a conspiracy to prevent both, especially if it involves intelligent (YT) people lacking social and political status. But even without status these angry bots are dangerous. Replace them, ASAP.Edited by: Charlie

 

[Charlie]

'Let Me In' (2010) is an American remake of the Swedish 'Let The Right One In' (2008). Both are excellent and transcend the vampire genre. The worry was that an American remake would reflect the increasingly non-white nature of America and would include non-white cast members. Luckily this is not so and this fact alone makes it non-PC. Setting the story in Los Alamos, NM was a nice touch as Los Alamos has the highest per capita IQ and highest per capita church membership in the U.S.

Vampire movies tend to be less saturated with non-whites. In contrast zombie stories have lots of blacks and other non-whites, often in protagonist roles. This is due in part to George Romero's casting of a black hero in the seminal 'Night of the Living Dead' (1968). Many an otherwise good zombie movie, like 'Dawn of the Dead' (2004), has been undercut by unfortunate casting.

Filmmakers continually make the mistake of not appreciating non-whites are the zombie horde. Edited by: Charlie