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I saw Challengers yesterday.

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The only other Luca Gudagnino film I've seen is Call Me By Your Name, which has become one of my favorite films of all time, and I'll admit the main reason I went and saw this was the director's name. I don't know anything about or particularly care about tennis, but a good film can make the subject interesting even if it's not something I'd normally want to watch a movie about, and did it ever. If you'd told me just a couple weeks ago that a romantic drama about tennis players would've had me on the edge of my seat by the end, I don't think I would've believed you.

Brilliantly shot, non-linear story, at times agonizing...it gets a 4/5 from me.
 
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VulchR said:
Great film.

I did duck-and-cover under my desk in the first year of elementary school, but then it became a tornado drill where we sought cover in the hallway. Apparently tornadoes give one more warning than nuclear detonations. One of my schools had a bona fide bomb shelter. When it wasn't needed any more (no shelter protects one from a fusion bomb) the school officials opened it up like a time capsule and found nothing but WWII-vintage Saltine crackers and a fresh water tank. No toilets, TP, bunks, blankets or first aid kits. Grim.



I live in one of the few places in Western civilisation that does not fluoridate the water. Why? Because apparently many where I live feel it will contaminate our precious bodily fluids. I kid you not.
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My first holiday job during High School was with 'Coopers Tank Works', making corrugated iron water tanks. Sydney had just started to fluoridate the water, and people wanted to drink pure rain water, along with all the crap, crud, bird droppings, dead frogs and everything else that washed off the roof.

Sydney Water's* solution was to get councils to ban home water tanks, for the good of their health. It had nothing to do with Sydney Water's bottom line...

* the corporation that supplied our water
 
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DaveFromCampbelltown said:
My first holiday job during High School was with 'Coopers Tank Works', making corrugated iron water tanks. Sydney had just started to fluoridate the water, and people wanted to drink pure rain water, along with all the crap, crud, bird droppings, dead frogs and everything else that washed off the roof.

Sydney Water's* solution was to get councils to ban home water tanks, for the good of their health. It had nothing to do with Sydney Water's bottom line...

* the corporation that supplied our water
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Good lord, besides these days with all the pollution in our atmosphere (atmosflat for you flat earthers) not sure even standing outside with your mouth open during a rainstorm is a good idea. There was a big issue with acid rain from unregulated industry in Eastern Canada and the US killing off lakes in the 1980s that led to a joint effort to reduce emissions, especially sulfur dioxide.

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Mulroney and Bush committed to cutting down on the air pollution that causes acid rain in 1991, under the Canada-U.S. Air Quality Agreement. Both nations promised to reduce the emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — the air pollutants that give rise to acid rain — through a cap-and-trade system.

“It was everything we had been asking for, and he delivered, big time,” Mulroney said of Bush in 2012.

The agreement led to major reductions in dirty fossil-fuel emissions in both countries. Canada slashed its total sulphur dioxide emissions by approximately 63 per cent from 1990 to 2014, while the U.S. cut emissions by 79 per cent. Both countries also recorded major reductions in nitrogen oxide pollution.
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Sorry to go off-topic but well there are plenty of films dealing with the environment as well as apocalyptic films where an ecological collapse is the cause.
 
decafjava said:
Good lord, besides these days with all the pollution in our atmosphere (atmosflat for you flat earthers) not sure even standing outside with your mouth open during a rainstorm is a good idea. There was a big issue with acid rain from unregulated industry in Eastern Canada and the US killing off lakes in the 1980s that led to a joint effort to reduce emissions, especially sulfur dioxide.

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Sorry to go off-topic but well there are plenty of films dealing with the environment as well as apocalyptic films where an ecological collapse is the cause.
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The first of that kind of film that I watched was The Hellstrom Chronicle.
Wall-e may be the best of those films.

Going back to water tanks. In London in the 1800s many houses had rain barrels, filled from the roof. They had a swinging down pipe that was directed away from the barrel for the first 20 minutes or so of the rain so that the roof was properly rinsed of coal soot and other crud. After that time the junior footman had to go out into the rain and swing the down pipe over to the barrel to collect 'clean' rain water. I believe this is covered in one of the several books that Mrs Beeton wrote about Household Management.
 
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Very funny and moving.
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Thanks for this one. One of the best movies I've seen this year. Unpredictable, characters that you care about. The way the main character deals with absolutely insane situations which seem quite realistic in the film. Simultaneously funny, sad, emotional, novel situations, real living characters, excellent dialogue. You don't know what is going to happen next and when it does happen it seems quite realistic. Almost every scene is unpredictable. Quite emotional at the end.
 
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Queen6 said:
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)
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TV film: Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica. Might have to break out the series and give it another spin

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The series was unsettling to watch sometimes. I normally don't get surprised or "jump out of my seat," but that scene where Boomer suddenly shoots Adama - I literally got startled.
 
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Rafterman said:
Yeah, the carbonized ashes of you would have mixed with the desk you were under :D
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Rafterman said:
The series was unsettling to watch sometimes. I normally don't get surprised or "jump out of my seat," but that scene where Boomer suddenly shoots Adama - I literally got startled.
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Was good in the day and still stands up in 2024, a decent space opera done well. They wisely knew when to stop and not spoil the broth...

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It's from 2018 but I just saw it for the first time; Skyscraper - I liked it but I loved Diehard. IF you liked Diehard you'll like this. The Rock goes John Mclane!!! (Netflix)
 
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Miller’s Girl… Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday, Scream), so what could possibly go wrong? 0 out of 10, it is shockingly bad. Avoid at all cost.
 
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Now that it is available on streaming (Max) finally was able to watch it. Was good, but had major flaws.

1. Christopher Walkin was poorly cast as the emperor. Appeared tired, weak, uninvolved. Not the sort who who would exterminate an entire house.
2. I was looking forward to seeing the scene where the navigators appear before the emperor. Not only was that scene entirely left out, but the whole story of the navigators and their relationship to the spice was omitted. Major diaappointment.
 
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