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Strange Days (The Coli Movie Club)
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sanityovar8ted
OG Moma Coli....dat bytch Thowd!!!
Always wondered if this type vr shyt would come true in the future when I first saw this movie. Kinda disappointed it didnt.
Roaden Polynice
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I actually really liked this.
This movie really reminded me of the Black Mirror episode “The Entire History of You” which deals with a future scenario where people have a chip implanted into their heads which allows them to play back every single memory they have. It’s an appealing technology, but in both Black Mirror and Strange Days (and perhaps Minority Report?), the ability to recount your memories in such a vivid manner leads to some very bleak drama. It’s bleak because there is of course nagging notion of never being able to move on and an inclination towards obsession. To set up a permanent camp in the past and let things in the present fall to the wayside or to continually examine events and instances, poring over a memory to see why it played out the exact way it did. On the other hand, it makes for a grueling and fascinating watch because of the realism of a technology like that, and how it really isn’t that far out of grasp or too inconceivable. We have our Google Glasses now, and we document everything as is, the only logical way forward is to make our memories more palpable, breathable and livable. It’s a dangerous proposition but oddly irresistible. The simple thing now is, of course, to scoff at Google Glass users, but further down the road you never know.
But while the technology is plausible in Strange Days in some sense, watching it now, from our tech-addled brains and PS4 perches it is easy to laugh at it. The mini-discs, the Walkman like contraption that records, the helmet thing, the pistols that sound like a mixture of a rifle and a high powered laser. It’s part of why this movie is sort of fun to watch, and it is fun to watch despite the odd time discrepancy. Strange Days came out in 1995, so it is odd why it is set in 1999. Perhaps trying to capitalize on events like Rodney King, Tupacalypse and rap music, and the general feel that was occurring in LA at the time, but I don’t think the message would have been lost on anyone if it was set further in the future. It’s just goofy to me to have the film (which, yeah was probably in production and written several years before its release) released in 1995 and having these ridiculous techno-future scenarios FOUR years later. Admittedly it didn’t go overboard with the technology, according to Wikipedia MiniDiscs were introduced in 1992, but the memory stuff is a bit of a stretch for me.
Odds and Ends:
Mark Ruffalo blending in:
Ending credits song is sorta piff
Good choice, I had fun watching this
This movie really reminded me of the Black Mirror episode “The Entire History of You” which deals with a future scenario where people have a chip implanted into their heads which allows them to play back every single memory they have. It’s an appealing technology, but in both Black Mirror and Strange Days (and perhaps Minority Report?), the ability to recount your memories in such a vivid manner leads to some very bleak drama. It’s bleak because there is of course nagging notion of never being able to move on and an inclination towards obsession. To set up a permanent camp in the past and let things in the present fall to the wayside or to continually examine events and instances, poring over a memory to see why it played out the exact way it did. On the other hand, it makes for a grueling and fascinating watch because of the realism of a technology like that, and how it really isn’t that far out of grasp or too inconceivable. We have our Google Glasses now, and we document everything as is, the only logical way forward is to make our memories more palpable, breathable and livable. It’s a dangerous proposition but oddly irresistible. The simple thing now is, of course, to scoff at Google Glass users, but further down the road you never know.
But while the technology is plausible in Strange Days in some sense, watching it now, from our tech-addled brains and PS4 perches it is easy to laugh at it. The mini-discs, the Walkman like contraption that records, the helmet thing, the pistols that sound like a mixture of a rifle and a high powered laser. It’s part of why this movie is sort of fun to watch, and it is fun to watch despite the odd time discrepancy. Strange Days came out in 1995, so it is odd why it is set in 1999. Perhaps trying to capitalize on events like Rodney King, Tupacalypse and rap music, and the general feel that was occurring in LA at the time, but I don’t think the message would have been lost on anyone if it was set further in the future. It’s just goofy to me to have the film (which, yeah was probably in production and written several years before its release) released in 1995 and having these ridiculous techno-future scenarios FOUR years later. Admittedly it didn’t go overboard with the technology, according to Wikipedia MiniDiscs were introduced in 1992, but the memory stuff is a bit of a stretch for me.
Odds and Ends:
- Did anyone else keep thinking that the actors looked like other actors? When Vincent D'onofrio first showed up I was like "Oh shyt, Mark Ruffalo
" but then realized it was Vincent D'onofrio. And this kept fukking happening all film. Ralph Fiennes was Bradley Cooper for me, and Russell Brand, Flea and Angelina Jolie from Gone in 60 Seconds played Philo's Henchman 1, 2, and 3. - The first scene was awesome. It's intense, harrowing, and the film keeps that same type of pace. It started to drag a bit at the end (and steadily became more and more predictable) where there are people rioting and burning shyt, and then they are celebrating the New Years which looks like fukking V-J Day In Times Square all of the fukking sudden (
) but that first scene 
. And Katheryn Bigelow had special cameras made for the POV sequences 
. - Watching these dystopia films I always comment that the interior lights are fukking terrible in the future. I was reminded of Blade Runner when Bradley Cooper goes home and his apartment is lit with some shytty floor lamps and the incessant searchlights from the police.
- Bradley Cooper has the creepiest fukking answering machine greeting I think I have ever heard.
- Jacking off in the future is gonna real fukking depressing.
- Make sure you grab your Armani suits when you're on the lam in the future.
- So, I think I might have missed it but I never felt like they fleshed out why the playbacks were bad? I just remember Bradley Cooper talking to that lawyer at the beginning and them saying it was technology made by the feds and it hacks (1999!) into your cerebral cortex. But I never quite caught on as to why it was addictive and why it was illegal. I mean I could think of some reasons but I just never heard it in the film.
- Bradley Cooper's acting during the playbacks
- Vincent D'onfrio went full Gomer Pyle at the end
- The club scene is hilarious. Looked like the club from Rumble in the Bronx, just a lot more book burning because it's the future! Gotta pay homage to the master Bradbury. And shytty melodramatic rock numbers from Juliette Lewis.
- How long until we get a post about Jeriko One pawging? Or how Jeriko One with a white woman while being a black militant is some sly commentary on something?
- Watch for it, the bald dude's reaction to Lenny and Faith arguing in the club bathroom actually got a pretty heavy laugh out of me, plus the future haircut :
- My favorite scene from the club:
Mark Ruffalo blending in:
Ending credits song is sorta piff
Good choice, I had fun watching this
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So I heard y'all nikkas got a movie club now
I fukks with The Film Room on a semi-regular basis, let me get on that list
I'm gonna watch this #movieclub tag, too. I don't know what it does, but I'll watch it.
We've had one for 4 weeks now
A Kathryn Bigelow movie got dudes going crazy lolIt's not the movie, it's the fact that there's a sitewide banner announcement for it on every pageWe've had one for 4 weeks now
BlackDroog
All Star
I would like to be on the list please.
MF_BREW
All Star
Seen three times. Good modern sci-fi / crime flick.
It's not the movie, it's the fact that there's a sitewide banner announcement for it on every page
We let the shyt bubble quietly, and then we blew
*but kept our cool:not my business though:
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I would like to challenge everyone who wants to join to force themselves to watch each movie, even if it's not something you normally fux wit. I know it can be a grind at times but if you're anything like me you spend HOURS per day staring at a screen in some form.
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sanityovar8ted
OG Moma Coli....dat bytch Thowd!!!
ummm how do u watch a tag?