An advice for a good movie to watch ?

ondoho · 05-11-2022, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by business_kid

The problem is: If one party started to make America green again, the other party would sweep to power on a platform of undoing their reforms.

Yeah yeah.

Thankfully not only politics, but even big corporations are waking up to climate change now.
Very late, but the elephant is so big now that it starts to impact their profits.

business_kid · 05-12-2022, 04:43 AM

I started into teckk's Big Oil series yesterday.

It's PBS and the subject wasn't fascinating enough to live with the 'baby crawling' pace at which those programs travel. But it did get accross how the big oil companies effectively sowed doubt to delay action by some decades - enough for ruining the place.

Just like the tobacco companies managed another 40 - 50 years by sowing doubt, oil has done the same. And Biden can't even get a coal ban through, because one of his senators in the coal companies' pockets.

teckk · 06-07-2022, 03:16 PM

The forum, watch this one if you want.

Ricky Gervais Supernature (Stand up Comedy)

Time sensitive link. If you don't make it in time, ask, I can scrape it again.

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Remove stale link

business_kid · 06-08-2022, 07:07 AM

I'm enjoying the British series "New Tricks." It's a comedy, nominally a police thing. There's a fiery female detective in charge of 3 retired detectives who are not actually police, but 'consultants.' She has the badge, they don't. Even my wife goes for it, and the police work is good, if unorthodox.

teckk · 07-30-2022, 05:03 PM

Beavis and Butthead do the universe.

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Removed stale link

teckk · 07-30-2022, 05:11 PM

David Attenborough

About 850MB each.

Green Planet Tropical worlds

Code:

ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/green-planet/\
176059a3-3b88-4772-8148-64f8b9a9653b/2000302880/hd-16x9-mezz\
anine-1080p/grep0101-hls-16x9-1080p-540p-2000k.m3u8" \
-c:a copy -c:v copy GPTropicWorld.mp4

Green Planet water worlds

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ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/green-planet/\
f3b1a29c-0ccb-4976-ace5-c53b2e44f723/2000304767/hd-16x9-mezz\
anine-1080p/grep0102-hls-16x9-1080p-540p-2000k.m3u8" \
-c:a copy -c:v copy GPWaterWorld.mp4

Green Planet seasonal worlds

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ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/green-planet/\
0c687343-28d3-4d54-b1d1-d11409adaf52/2000305012/hd-16x9-mezz\
anine-1080p/grep0103-hls-16x9-1080p-540p-2000k.m3u8" \
-c:a copy -c:v copy GPSeasWorld.mp4

The Green Planet Desert Worlds

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ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/green-planet/\
18b50af3-aa05-4127-8ba9-df43821a00f8/2000305368/hd-16x9-mezz\
anine-1080p/grep0104-hls-16x9-1080p-540p-2000k.m3u8" \
-c:a copy -c:v copy GPDesWorld.mp4

linustalman · 07-31-2022, 02:00 AM

Re: Green Planet -- Thanks, teckk. 👍🏻

teckk · 07-31-2022, 11:45 AM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jame...pace_Telescope

Ultimate space telescope. (Has separate audio and video streams)

Do it yourself.

Code:

ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/nova/\
f83211aa-563b-4310-968a-c740727818ea/2000305640/hd-1\
6x9-mezzanine-1080p/nova4910_ultimatespacetelescope_\
mediamanager01_rev071522-hls-16x9-1080p_72552.m3u8" \
-vn -c:a copy ust.m4a

ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/nova/\
f83211aa-563b-4310-968a-c740727818ea/2000305640/hd-1\
6x9-mezzanine-1080p/nova4910_ultimatespacetelescope_\
mediamanager01_rev071522-hls-16x9-1080p-540p-2000k.m3u8" \
-an -c:v copy ust.mp4

ffmpeg -i ust.mp4 -i ust.m4a -c:a copy -c:v copy UltSpaceTele.mp4

Or let yt-dlp use ffmpeg.

Code:

yt-dlp -f 2267 https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/nova/\
f83211aa-563b-4310-968a-c740727818ea/2000305640/hd-16x9-m\
ezzanine-1080p/nova4910_ultimatespacetelescope_mediamanag\
er01_rev071522-hls-16x9-1080p.m3u8 -o UltSpaceTele.mp4

linustalman · 08-01-2022, 03:14 AM

Saw this last night, great film.

Sitting Pretty (1948) - https://www.reddit.com/r/fullmovieso..._maureen_ohara

business_kid · 08-14-2022, 11:18 AM

I made a remark on some LQ thread about windows 11 being like the volume controls on Spinal Tap. Windows 10 was supposed to be the last.

But it prompted me to rewatch the mockumentary to end all mockumentaries:

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This is Spinal Tap

EDIT: I also laid my hands on "All you need is Cash" which is an English-looking B/W (in places) piss-take on the rise of the Beatles (The Prefab four). Whereas Spinal Tap was in a class of it's own, this is highly placed. I've also heard 'Fear of a Black Hat' praised in this genre, but imdb users mentioned enough strong language to warn me off. This is lampooning hip-hop.

teckk · 10-28-2022, 02:52 PM

If anyone wants to see it.

Putins attack on ukraine documenting war crimes

From Utube

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#640x360
yt-dlp -f 18 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PSFjGXKS59Q -o PutAttakUkr.mp4

#1280x720
yt-dlp -f 22 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PSFjGXKS59Q -o PutAttakUkr.mp4

From PBS

Code:

#640x360
ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/frontline/818fa25d-78ad-\
4932-b67f-6c505c9cc8df/2000321896/hd-16x9-mezzanine-1080p/00004105-hls-\
16x9-1080p-360p-730k.m3u8" -c:a copy -c:v copy PutAttakUkr.mp4

#960x540
ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/frontline/818fa25d-78ad-\
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16x9-1080p-540p-2000k.m3u8" -c:a copy -c:v copy PutAttakUkr.mp4

#1280x720
ffmpeg -i "https://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/frontline/818fa25d-78ad-\
4932-b67f-6c505c9cc8df/2000321896/hd-16x9-mezzanine-1080p/00004105-hls-\
16x9-1080p-720p-4500k.m3u8" -c:a copy -c:v copy PutAttakUkr.mp4

ChuangTzu · 10-28-2022, 03:10 PM

I'll Take Your Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cY7uTZ6sUg

rokytnji · 10-28-2022, 11:03 PM

Just watched Mid Century

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mid_century

business_kid · 10-29-2022, 08:25 AM

I've started into a season of Spoof/pisstake movies

The recognised king of them seems to have been Spinal Tap, although some others are up there. They have to move fast - Robin Hood - Men in Tights, or the better Mel Brooks jobs, like Airplane. I'm halfway through Blazing Saddles right now. If you want to go back far enough, I really enjoyed "A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum." But I was taught Latin in school and got bitten by the history of it. The film is nothing like the history, I assure you.

EDIT: I left "The Producers" out of my Mel Brooks list of better ones.

business_kid · 11-13-2022, 01:36 PM

I watched 1984 last night. John Hurt carried it, imho, but it is Dark. And true. The bleakness of the place was probably overdone.

The world was still using thermionic valves (=tubes in the Excited States) in 1949 when Orwell wrote 1984. Little did he know about street cameras, facial recognition, doorbells with cameras available to police, censored internet segments (Anyone got a list?) dashcams, forensic techniques, etc.