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Rather you're the jester, warrior, coward, intellect, outlaw, artist, or tragic mulatto, you're a man. These are movies that you should see.
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"In the NFL, we're modern day gladiators"
Ha! What an awful display of hubris, but I'll get to that later. So you run around crashing into other humans at full speed? Big deal, I was doing that in little league and we didn't have leading with helmet rules, and QBs whining and looking for a flag every time they got hit. Your league is a joke, along with the rest of our "modern gladiators".
Our armies fight not face to face like men, but with snipers, IED's, and drone attacks. The Olympics Games? Men used to gather to wrestle, have foot races, and command wild beast in chariot races. The winners were immortalized in poems, while the losers made sacrifices to the gods and begged for forgiveness. Now? We have girls doing gymnastics and men doing choreographed dances while diving gracefully into pools. And how are these already soft winners "immortalized"? By Bob Costas through a NBC broadcast
....It pains me to say that we will be the laughing stock of our descendants.
"Education then...is the great equalizer"-Horace Mann
Agreed. You may never be a true gladiator in Rome, but you can learn what it was like in the days when they walked the Earth.
When you've been captured as slave, you don't sit around singing negro spirituals waiting for the underground railroad to come your way. You grab a weapon, and after rigorous training and discipline you kill any and all who stand in your way to freedom. Start an entire revolution along the way if you have to.
Pay attention to the painting, timeless information that could one day save your life.
Gets lost in the shuffle of his other movies, but this is still Stanley Kubrick in his prime along with Kirk Douglas. Are you not entertained?Comment
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Cool thing they probably didn't teach you in school:
They say life on Earth started about 4 billion years ago. Now lets pretend that the end times comes through either the enlargement of our sun or from Andromeda(our neighboring galaxy which is on a collision course with the Milky Way). Both of these events are expected to happen about 4 billion years from now. This of course means that not only will there be no men watching the end times, whatever we will have evolved into might be as advanced from us as we are from microorganisms. Not just humans of course, this goes for all life on Earth. Take for instance the ape, a relatively smart animal. More than likely they will evolve to something smarter than modern humans. If so, will they have any sense of history? Will they know for instance that their evolutionary ancestors were kept in cages and experimented on by us? And if so...will they demand reparations from our descendants? Strange unimaginable times are surely ahead.
i.e. End times or no end times, evolution means men are operating on a very short time line and before long our entire species will be just a footnote in the history "books" of our descendants. We will be known for two things, the advent of Science and of Religion. And it's the latter along with death, that our next film focuses on.
We're violent, stupid, superstitious, vulnerable, afraid of the dark, and afraid of death. Seventh Seal cuts through human nature at its core like no other movie. After fighting and seeing plenty of men killed in the Holy Wars, a knight named Antonius Block returns home with a crisis of faith when he runs into....
He challenges it to a game of chess with his life up for stake. After realizing it's futile to try and win, he plans to prolong the game while he tries to find some meaning and purpose to life.
Antonius decides to travel through the country with the short time that he has left and it turns out to be a madhouse. Women are being raped in abandoned villages, witches are burned at the stake, and The Black Death is sweeping through the country in full force. All while his atheist squire seems hellbent on making Antonius turn and face his worst fears.
Antonius stumbles through half destroyed churches trying to find God who may or may not be there, all the while being accompanied by Death who most certainly is.
"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. It was our first attempt at philosphy, our first attempt at morality, our first attempt at health care. But because it was our first, it was our worst."
Agreed. Educate yourself on the basic relation between men and religion, or be a fool.Last edited by Houston; 12-13-2013, 08:40 AM.Comment
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The next selection is a modern one and you deserve a slap if you haven't seen it.Comment
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The prologues are just ramblings that loosely tie in to the film.Comment
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