When I get the Conundrum notification, I just pause whatever I’m doing, stand up, and “take the cal” (a la the Bogdanoff Bros). I can sometimes be standing transfixed in the middle of the street for over an hour as onlookers stare in awe at my PUG Bro stature.
Looking forward to the episode on The Bikeriders. I am fascinated by the MC culture and the trailers make it look good and I've been thinking about seeing it in the theater. Have you ever read Hunter S. Thompson's Hells Angels book? It's amazing that San Francisco PD could remove the bike gang from the city. Total victory by law enforcement but the Oakland chapter was fortified by the San Fran refugees and that's how they grew
I’m looking forward to it as well. There was a time when some guys on the Right were romanticizing the biker culture lifestyle as the last free people. While there is that Steppe horsemen blood memory that being with the boys on your bikes could trigger, the more I read about them the less it matches what I picture as truly free people. Many are completely destroyed by alcohol and hard drugs running from abuse or broken homes, their bodies broken in random fights or as muscle for pretty bad dudes. For every hippy they beat up back in the day, there are countless ruined lives that could have mattered lost to these anti-social elements.
I need to go back and watch this again. I think my recollection of it is most likely tainted from the bad press it received and how everyone else I know said it wasn’t good.
To be honest, when I read mystery groves tweets about how it parallels Americas decay and political/social situation it gave me a great mindset to view it in. It was also just kino, how can you not love Vincent Vaughans character (it’s been so long I forgot his name) and Ray. Even the gay cop is a pretty good character and the fact that everyone remembers him as straight and his girlfriend carries has his kid is always funny to me. It sidestepped the way other modern tv shoes would depict that, although I’m sure some people may see that ending as a “tragedy” in the same vein as how Ray and Vaughans character met their ends.
Movie recommendation (review request?): Red Rock West. A 90s western/neo-noir with obvious similarities to Blood Simple and a stacked cast: Nicholas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, and J.T. Walsh. Cage plays an honest but desperate drifter who finds himself caught up in the machinations of multiple violent psychopaths after he tells a seemingly trivial lie to get a job.
As far as I know, it hasn't been very accessible in the US for quite a while and isn't officially available to stream, but it just recently got a very nice blu-ray release.
Really looking forward to your episode on Stalin's War (which blew me away at how good it was, even if there was some wishcasting about a democratic alliance of Britain, France, USA, Finland, and Italy in late '39 and early '40).
If you need anything on Washington, the Fabian strategy, etc. Let me know.
Payload Movie Review Demand Part #2: Q&A (1990) I find viewing this one in 2024 a profound example of how the Multicultural Utopia of the Progressive Left is a retarded pipe dream. While I’m sure this is not what Sidney Lumet intended when it was made it’s obvious viewing it today. Nick Nolte and Armand Assante are excellent as well.
Honestly i couldn’t get through it, just seemed like yet another ‘gritty cop drama’ from another time. Not trying to hate on your recs, looking forward to a new one.
I thought it was solid the first time a saw it a few years ago. Watching it again in 2024 to me it’s a great exhibition on how stupid and dangerous multiculturalism and forced multiculturalism is. I viewed Nolte as a sympathetic figure who’s trying to keep the lid on things but is being overwhelmed. (The gay and mob subplots are just script devises to make everyone look dirty which is what I think Lumet was going for.) The black cop (Charles S Dutton) is the moral center of the movie.
Unrelated, I am very proud of my wife as she is the wife of a Patrician Ultragroup Subscriber, and as such has absorbed valuable information from me forcing her to listen to these podcasts while on drives.
I poasted that pic in a Twitter reply with her and the paid subscriber wojak in front of one of the John Brown exhibits at Harper's Ferry. After I took that picture, she started wandering around and was sort of shocked how repugnant the propoganda was there. She made a comment like "this place is called the John Brown Museum but it's actually the John Brown Religious Temple Shrine" with how hamfisted crap was. She was even mentioning the podcast episodes on Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War wondering how nobody knows about any of that stuff. We got to the section with the spears that he had made to give to his "liberated slave army" to massacre white people and she was disgusted that replicas are there and presented as a noble weapon.
As long as you’re doing an episode on one of the 90’s video games i was obsessed with, maybe do one on the other. Star Control 2. Available on Steam i think it was like $5. I managed to finish it again with a play thru guide in like a week.
I know you like certain themes so lemme say it involves rebuilding civilization while contending with mundane and also evil forces. But im not twisting your arm…
Life is too short, so reasonably, you shouldn’t waste your time with The Forgotten Battle (2020) unless you’ve been to a Canadian film school or if you know about Dutch cinema. I hadn’t read much about this film before stumbling into it, in spite of weariness of Netflix originals; my feelings are mixed after seeing it.
For how much pandering and preaching against particular mid-20th century political ideology it churns through, one may expect a somewhat uplifting resolution. It delivers exactly what seemed to be intended; a completely bleak and nihilistic commentary about war surrounding humanity’s darkest forces, which is still useless. It is completely devoid of any spirit or dynamism whatsoever. Everyone is shattered, mangled, and for nothing.
The Forgotten Battle still offers commendable attention to small details, costumes, and impressive set designs, all in spite of being historical fiction.
Contrasting the pursuit of the peaks of cinematic triumphs, I felt almost invigorated while watching by how many depressing and needlessly cynical turns the film takes, time after time. Lacking a background in criticism, I’ve become adjusted to captivation by the titans of filmmaking, only seeking out well made and refined works.
This film proved to be a challenge to carry through, although unlike its thesis, I came away with a positive impression of knowing what a wholly negative and failed project truly looks like.
Outstanding Round-Up! 😃 It truly is Paid Sub Summer 🥂☀️
“PSS has Commenced!” - Chet Hanks
Getting the notification for a new podcast episode is one of the smaller delights that I look forward to each week.
I usually stop whatever else I’m listening to at the moment and listen to the CC podcast instead.
When I get the Conundrum notification, I just pause whatever I’m doing, stand up, and “take the cal” (a la the Bogdanoff Bros). I can sometimes be standing transfixed in the middle of the street for over an hour as onlookers stare in awe at my PUG Bro stature.
🤣🤣
Looking forward to the episode on The Bikeriders. I am fascinated by the MC culture and the trailers make it look good and I've been thinking about seeing it in the theater. Have you ever read Hunter S. Thompson's Hells Angels book? It's amazing that San Francisco PD could remove the bike gang from the city. Total victory by law enforcement but the Oakland chapter was fortified by the San Fran refugees and that's how they grew
I’m looking forward to it as well. There was a time when some guys on the Right were romanticizing the biker culture lifestyle as the last free people. While there is that Steppe horsemen blood memory that being with the boys on your bikes could trigger, the more I read about them the less it matches what I picture as truly free people. Many are completely destroyed by alcohol and hard drugs running from abuse or broken homes, their bodies broken in random fights or as muscle for pretty bad dudes. For every hippy they beat up back in the day, there are countless ruined lives that could have mattered lost to these anti-social elements.
True detective season 2 I watched back in like 2020-2021 because you said it was Kino.
Spoiler : it was
I need to go back and watch this again. I think my recollection of it is most likely tainted from the bad press it received and how everyone else I know said it wasn’t good.
To be honest, when I read mystery groves tweets about how it parallels Americas decay and political/social situation it gave me a great mindset to view it in. It was also just kino, how can you not love Vincent Vaughans character (it’s been so long I forgot his name) and Ray. Even the gay cop is a pretty good character and the fact that everyone remembers him as straight and his girlfriend carries has his kid is always funny to me. It sidestepped the way other modern tv shoes would depict that, although I’m sure some people may see that ending as a “tragedy” in the same vein as how Ray and Vaughans character met their ends.
Great round up. It’s like rewinding a VHS tape and seeing all the stuff I remember!
Movie recommendation (review request?): Red Rock West. A 90s western/neo-noir with obvious similarities to Blood Simple and a stacked cast: Nicholas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, and J.T. Walsh. Cage plays an honest but desperate drifter who finds himself caught up in the machinations of multiple violent psychopaths after he tells a seemingly trivial lie to get a job.
As far as I know, it hasn't been very accessible in the US for quite a while and isn't officially available to stream, but it just recently got a very nice blu-ray release.
Really looking forward to your episode on Stalin's War (which blew me away at how good it was, even if there was some wishcasting about a democratic alliance of Britain, France, USA, Finland, and Italy in late '39 and early '40).
If you need anything on Washington, the Fabian strategy, etc. Let me know.
Payload Movie Review Demand Part #2: Q&A (1990) I find viewing this one in 2024 a profound example of how the Multicultural Utopia of the Progressive Left is a retarded pipe dream. While I’m sure this is not what Sidney Lumet intended when it was made it’s obvious viewing it today. Nick Nolte and Armand Assante are excellent as well.
Honestly i couldn’t get through it, just seemed like yet another ‘gritty cop drama’ from another time. Not trying to hate on your recs, looking forward to a new one.
I thought it was solid the first time a saw it a few years ago. Watching it again in 2024 to me it’s a great exhibition on how stupid and dangerous multiculturalism and forced multiculturalism is. I viewed Nolte as a sympathetic figure who’s trying to keep the lid on things but is being overwhelmed. (The gay and mob subplots are just script devises to make everyone look dirty which is what I think Lumet was going for.) The black cop (Charles S Dutton) is the moral center of the movie.
Once again I just demand you watch the single worst movie I've ever seen, Captain Fantastic
I think he needs to do a free review of Fallout Shelter for the free subscribers.
Garbage games for garbage people.
So…. true detective season 4….. is it worth any of my time as a paid subscriber?
No, it’s horrible
Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick review now!!!!!
Unrelated, I am very proud of my wife as she is the wife of a Patrician Ultragroup Subscriber, and as such has absorbed valuable information from me forcing her to listen to these podcasts while on drives.
I poasted that pic in a Twitter reply with her and the paid subscriber wojak in front of one of the John Brown exhibits at Harper's Ferry. After I took that picture, she started wandering around and was sort of shocked how repugnant the propoganda was there. She made a comment like "this place is called the John Brown Museum but it's actually the John Brown Religious Temple Shrine" with how hamfisted crap was. She was even mentioning the podcast episodes on Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War wondering how nobody knows about any of that stuff. We got to the section with the spears that he had made to give to his "liberated slave army" to massacre white people and she was disgusted that replicas are there and presented as a noble weapon.
Do you have a link to the John Brown episode?
https://open.substack.com/pub/conundrumcluster/p/a-disease-in-the-public-mind-is-the?r=2q9354&utm_medium=ios
As long as you’re doing an episode on one of the 90’s video games i was obsessed with, maybe do one on the other. Star Control 2. Available on Steam i think it was like $5. I managed to finish it again with a play thru guide in like a week.
I know you like certain themes so lemme say it involves rebuilding civilization while contending with mundane and also evil forces. But im not twisting your arm…
Kane’s not the type of guy to force anyone to do anything. He comes in peace.
Peace Through Power!
"It's time you saw the future ... while you still have human eyes." What an odd thing to say...But Kane 2024!
Life is too short, so reasonably, you shouldn’t waste your time with The Forgotten Battle (2020) unless you’ve been to a Canadian film school or if you know about Dutch cinema. I hadn’t read much about this film before stumbling into it, in spite of weariness of Netflix originals; my feelings are mixed after seeing it.
For how much pandering and preaching against particular mid-20th century political ideology it churns through, one may expect a somewhat uplifting resolution. It delivers exactly what seemed to be intended; a completely bleak and nihilistic commentary about war surrounding humanity’s darkest forces, which is still useless. It is completely devoid of any spirit or dynamism whatsoever. Everyone is shattered, mangled, and for nothing.
The Forgotten Battle still offers commendable attention to small details, costumes, and impressive set designs, all in spite of being historical fiction.
Contrasting the pursuit of the peaks of cinematic triumphs, I felt almost invigorated while watching by how many depressing and needlessly cynical turns the film takes, time after time. Lacking a background in criticism, I’ve become adjusted to captivation by the titans of filmmaking, only seeking out well made and refined works.
This film proved to be a challenge to carry through, although unlike its thesis, I came away with a positive impression of knowing what a wholly negative and failed project truly looks like.
Pet the belly of the fat kitten.