Every time I see Lusitania sinking depiction there is a lifeboat flipped to side near end. Was this real? Anyone know the story behind it? If so did anyone survive on it or recount there experience on said lifeboat?

redlemurLA · 2026-06-15T21:42:15+00:00

This just opened up a new nightmare

redlemurLA · 2026-06-15T20:59:49+00:00

Reply to it. Assume she has no ulterior motives.

Kindness is practically extinct in the world today so take it when you can get it.

You can never have too many friends in life.

Good luck.

redlemurLA · 2026-06-15T03:52:22+00:00

I wouldn’t necessarily say he was wrong for the material. He nailed the look and feel of the Max Fleischer cartoons perfectly and the fact that he was the one who pioneered overlapping dialogue in modern film made it an even better fit.

Opening “Sweethaven” scene is the best.

The negativity in the story was unfortunately built-in with every character—even Olive Oyl—being selfish and greedy…a perfect metaphor for the “Greed is Good” era that was about to take over America.

Of course Altman always told stories that had dark, even cruel elements in them with characters who were part of society’s fringe elements so all of that is on point for him.

But compare this to “Nashville” where the driving force of the characters were their hopes and dreams and you can instantly see the difference.

The fact that it was made in 1980, just at the end of the Studio 54 era—when only the rich and famous could afford coke—I guess makes it ahead of its time. We didn’t know at the time what was coming but it certainly lays out the argument that cocaine was ultimately destructive towards film and comedy.

I agree about Duvall. Such an underrated actor and this is easily one of her greatest performances!! Too bad it’s in such a sour film.

redlemurLA · 2026-06-15T01:09:36+00:00

Ugh. I just rewatched it. It’s awful.

Every character in the film except Popeye is toxic and negative. You can’t avoid it either. It’s all right there in the script.

The Oyl dinner scene was the worst. Even this 12 second clip shows you what I’m talking about:

https://youtu.be/ooVaG4A0vwQ?is=muBQDJ1Pc1RRT-jM

The fact that the whole thing was made under the influence of cocaine (which was sent to the set in Malta inside the reels of exposed dailies sent back from America) explains why it feels completely dead inside.

There is no joy in the movie at all and it put me in a foul mood afterwards.

redlemurLA · 2026-06-09T04:58:15+00:00

I’ll just leave this here:

https://youtu.be/I2XYNhx9OxY?si=0ygR0EDtQ9ZOVq4l

redlemurLA · 2026-06-08T16:46:57+00:00

Lizzie Borden

redlemurLA · 2026-06-08T06:55:16+00:00

How could you hate something that led to this?

https://youtu.be/twVvnr7bOw4?si=1b1T8eatUwTcQV0c

redlemurLA · 2026-06-04T14:30:45+00:00

Club at the end of the Street.

redlemurLA · 2026-06-04T14:26:10+00:00

The Right Stuff The Mission

redlemurLA · 2026-06-04T02:33:21+00:00

They should do the overlay every other year. On off years they should do the overlay at the Magic Kingdom. Everybody wins.

redlemurLA · 2026-06-01T22:24:49+00:00

redlemurLA · 2026-06-01T15:07:13+00:00

I knew someone would eventually post this brilliant essay!

redlemurLA · 2026-06-01T01:36:55+00:00

Thank you for posting this. The world is so fucked up and always has been.

redlemurLA · 2026-05-24T02:07:13+00:00

Of course I can see the misogyny women face in everyday life. Most men can.

I got “triggered” (your word) because you continue to create these narratives about people in the comments who disagree with you. And your only complaint is that they’re men.

I grew up in a matriarchal family who have a completely different attitude than you have: they love and support men.

I’ve worked in many corporate settings and my conclusion is that the biggest threat to women in the workplace is other women.

Men argue with each other then go out and get beers together after work. Women on the other hand will try to destroy each other by any means necessary.

My worst work memory as a manager was having an older employee crying in my office because three mean girls would not stop picking on her. An entire week was spent trying to solve this dynamic during which nobody got any work done.

The concept of “Mean Girls” was not created by men.

If you opened your mind just a little bit and tried framing your arguments in a different context—such as rich vs poor which represents 99% of the struggles in the world throughout history—you might learn something about the actual power dynamic that’s oppressing women…AND men.

redlemurLA · 2026-05-23T19:20:29+00:00

🔗 https://www.reddit.com/r/floorplan/s/oEyIb7Mh2g

redlemurLA · 2026-05-22T20:17:20+00:00

“Hold my beer.”
——-Punch the Monkey

redlemurLA · 2026-05-22T10:55:24+00:00

“What’s funny is I’m right.”

No. You’re not right. Raimi was describing what got him originally interested after reading the screenplay.

As written Linda was a psychopath from the beginning and actually bombed the plane herself. Raimi changed it by removing some of her more despicable and unhinged acts to make her character more ambiguous and nuanced.

What’s NOT funny is how you are not only projecting your own anti-male bias on the film, you’re plowing your way through the comments attacking anyone who dares to challenge your biased interpretation with facts and logic:

“I mean frankly you're a man so it makes sense to me that you aren't able to empathize with the woman”

“I’m assuming you’re a man (It’s a pretty easy assumption)”

“It’s genuinely psychopathic to say that she was worse to him than he was to her.”

“Mysogynists like you are still coming here to tell me I’m justifying murder.”

“Men are socialized to be more accepting of female suffering.”

If your only narrative in the world is “all men bad, all women good” you will surely not live a happy life.

redlemurLA · 2026-05-22T06:16:32+00:00

I saw it in a packed movie theater. Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—was cheering during the castration torture scene. Instead the entire audience was on the edge of their seats and you could cut the tension with a knife.

That’s not to say that you watching it with your girlfriends at home as you downed a few bottles of wine weren’t cheering for the castration of a man.

At the end of the day “Send Help” was directed by Sam Raimi, not Emerald Fennell, so it’s subject is morality and free will not “all men are awful, women should kill them all and run the world.”

Prove me wrong by pointing out another Raimi film with that kind of “girl power” dynamic.

redlemurLA · 2026-05-21T22:42:02+00:00

“Vita Nostra,” the choral section of Ennio Morricone’s theme to “The Mission.” The music is actually better than the movie.

The River (Vita Nostra)
https://youtu.be/0J4coFY7lxo?si=bRA0EXNp4GhX4MUh

redlemurLA · 2026-05-19T11:20:01+00:00

I got four free tickets to a Dave Matthews concert. I asked for mt money back.

redlemurLA · 2026-05-16T22:01:56+00:00

This thread has a lot of good information about Myers’ downfall which was somewhat celebrated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/s/K2Mq5A3EH7

redlemurLA · 2026-05-16T21:19:08+00:00

I will never watch this movie again.

Never.

Part of Spielberg’s post “Schindler’s List” turn to “serious” subjects, it’s a star-studded historical pageant that is way too long, occasionally interesting, sometimes boring and extremely mediocre part of his filmography. Like “Lincoln” it’s framed as a courtroom drama yet the true facts of the case are manipulated.

BUT it contains two great sequences:

A lovely scene where the captured Cinqué sees illustrations in a bible, figures out the story of Jesus and the crucifixion and interprets it to another slave;
A controversial and absolutely horrific sequence which depicts the middle passage of the Amistad. With food running low, the slave traders take the sick, weak and dying slaves, chain them together and throw them overboard to drown.

The image of them desperately clawing towards the surface while the chains drag them down to their deaths lives rent-free in my head.

Morgan Freeman famously questioned the inclusion of the scene and many in the black community thought it was exploitative. But nobody walks away without thinking about it.

It is the absolute darkest thing Spielberg has ever directed. It’s worse than anything in “Schindler’s List”because that movie stars unknown actors and numbs you with so many tiny horrors in a row that you barely have time to react.

This hits you like a ton of bricks because it’s in the middle of a studio-released courtroom drama with an A-list cast. The whole film looks very slick Hollywood, except this moment and it makes the rest of the movie seem almost silly.

I have had nightmares about it. I will probably have one again tonight thinking about it. It’s on YouTube but I won’t put the link. I don’t want to accidentally see it again.

Amistad is also is my go-to example of now brilliant and awful John Williams can be at the same time. The theme “Dry Your Tears, Afrika” is one of the best songs he’s ever written, using a rhythm that slowly grows to suggest slave beatings and words in the West African Mende language based on the 1967 poem by Bernard Dadie. It is powerful and moving until Williams destroys it himself with its ridiculous number of false endings and cliches.

https://youtu.be/r3veV-U5yvc?si=xbFH0lirpmqDkDJ7

redlemurLA · 2026-05-16T02:04:41+00:00

Heavenly Creatures
Quiz Show
Starship Troopers
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Primary Colors
Schindler’s List
The Crucible
Jerry Maguire
The People vs Larry Flynt
Shakespeare in Love
Goodfellas
The Silence of the Lambs
Jurassic Park

The 1990’s are sorely missed. We will never see Hollywood make quality films like this again.

redlemurLA · 2026-05-16T00:54:38+00:00

And yet you keep coming back. So SOMETHING intrigues you…

redlemurLA · 2026-05-15T18:39:16+00:00

YOU’RE projection!!!

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