Hello. I’ve been silenced, removed and blocked enough on lemmy dot ml for being a filthy leftist but not a falling in line defending totalitarian states full blown authoritarian communist. Sooo I’m blocking everything from lemmy dot ml so I don’t have to be bothered with any more of that nonsense. If you are on lemmy dot ml and commenting on me I will not see it. Ta ta.

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  • Intent is really important, along with a good script, good characters and the pacing of the story. The intent can be a statement, or an artistic vision, or just having a damn good story to tell. Originality is really important too, something I haven’t seen before or at least not told in this way.

    I’m not too bothered about production quality as I’m happily enjoying movies from 70s exploitation and 80s b-movies to low budget oddities, art house flicks, auteurs and the occasional cineast pieces. There are a lot of hidden gems in the lower layers of the movie industry, made by people with a vision that worked with what they had to pull through.

    I don’t care much for template big budget flicks like romance, action-comedy or superheroes, unless it’s something recommended to me as something that stands out from the genre. I don’t mind that people watch them, they just aren’t my thing. (Though I do sometimes watch series below my uptight movie snobbery as a sort of relaxing enjoyment and dirty pleasure.)

    Anyway, I want a movie to be a journey and a great movie is something I’m fully immersed in and takes turns I didn’t expect and that is making me think about it after. I’m very subjective in what I like and don’t care much for neither clout or critics or cineast cred.

    Recent great movies I’ve watched, not selected for any particular reason other than I found them great and watched them recently:

    • Walker (1987) by Alex Cox.

    • Tideland (2005) by Terry Gilliam.

    • Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005) by Sion Sono.






  • Pretty much, yeah. There is a legit problem with organized crime and gang affiliations with predominantly immigrant leadership that recruit children for hits and are difficult to bring down.

    So the right wing coalition (that has the nationalist party for support) goes after the legal honest immigrants with jobs that pay taxes and nobody has a problem with except the racists.

    They even go after 18 y/o that have grown up in Sweden, that are Swedish in every sense of the word, that have had their upbringing and education paid by Sweden, but now they are of legal age and are sent to some country they have no relation to except their parents fled from there. Even disregarding it being inhumane, it’s plain stupid in all the economic reasons that the right wing are always claiming.










  • TL;DW for the curious: “Orienteering with Napalm Death” seems to be a signature move by a popular wrestler using it as a slogan on merch and in a computer game. It originated from Stewart Lee having a number in his set back in the days after being in a hiking club alongside the original lineup of Napalm Death.