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Tellenbach

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Life After Beth. Aubrey Plaza plays a zombie. Movie isn't that good but I watched it for Aubrey's performance. She's adorably grumpy and sarcastic.
 

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Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan

Located in a small fishing town on the northern island of Hokkaido is a small but vibrant group of people with schizophrenia and other psychosocial disabilities. The Bethel House organization was founded in 1984 to support people with these types of disabilities living in the community. Through various work programs, group homes, and a close relationship with the hospital and town, Bethel’s members slowly reintegrate into Japanese society. The film explores how the members of Bethel struggle with their lives, their problems, and the meaning of community.

Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan (Video 2007) - Plot Summary - IMDb

It's no good if people feel better because they think we did something for them. It's no good if they think I cured them. We're always noting that people who think 'we cured them' always relapse, on the other hand, people get better the 'bethel way' because of everyone's help. They are so happy that they met so many people and it's the richness of these relationships. Within all that I want them to feel the hospital was an important part of their entire experience. This style of treatment, I think, is more stable than 'curing' them. We've managed to reveal the depth, the breadth, and the dimensionality of their personality. - Dr. Kawamura, Psychiatrist at Bethel House
 

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My first and last Eric Rohmer film; it's so mind numbingly dull. There should be a warning about these kinds of films.
 

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Almost finished Daredevil. It has it's problems, but it's possibly my favorite out of all the Marvel movie/tv shows so far.

Also just finished season two of Rick and Morty. Fantastic show, one of the most inventive, create and unusual shows I've come across. The second season didn't quite match the brilliance of the first, but that's only because it's one of the finest pieces of television I've ever experienced.
 

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Started watching Parks & Recreation. Feels a lot like The Office. Meh. It's.. background, I guess.

I miss Bojack Horseman.

Need to find more cartoons.
INTP friend seems enamored with Rick & Morty.. :thinking:
Will probably check out.
 

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Started watching Parks & Recreation. Feels a lot like The Office. Meh. It's.. background, I guess.

A heads up, the first season's not that great. It wasn't until season 2 that I really started enjoying the show. (Specifically April's "I like people... places... and... things" episode) :)
 

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Scream Queens; its string of references is impressive and entertaining. But I do wonder if they'll be able to keep it up.
 

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Finished about 30 episodes of Saiyuki. It's entertaining enough but it's not one of the great ones. Way too much abusive language towards poor Goku.
 

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Movies I've watched in the last couple of days:

Die Another Day: It's not the most original Bond movie (it owes a lot to Diamonds Are Forever), but It moves at a fast pace; it's never dull; it has a terrific sword fight; and the maligned bits - the invisible car, Bond surfing down a glacier - are pretty cool.

Crimson Peak: Looks great, but may be the stupidest movie of the year. It starts off well, as a sort of homage to Conan Doyle and Hammer Horror, but collapses into pure hokum. By the time characters are sticking knives into each other and declaring that this will only end when one of them is dead, I'd had enough. Its saving grace is Mia Wasikowska, who's the spitting image of Rossetti's Helen of Troy.

The Martian: Probably the best space movie of recent years. It's about people solving problems, in an intelligent and optimistic way - how to grow food on Mars, how to communicate with Earth, how to rescue a stranded astronaut. A lot better than either Nolan's pretentious Interstellar or Gravity, which said that being on Earth was better than being in space, where you would probably die and / or get religion. Martian admits that space is dangerous, but hey! it's still worth exploring and doing something you love even if it is dangerous, and we can solve the problems the universe throws at us.

The Walk: Incredible biopic / caper about a guy who walks a high wire between the twin towers. The walk is real edge of the seat stuff - one of the best sequences I've seen in a movie for a long time; the way director Robert Zemeckis moves the camera is amazing. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's French is excellent (until I saw the credits, I thought that Philippe Petit was played by a native Francophone).
 

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The Martian: Probably the best space movie of recent years. It's about people solving problems, in an intelligent and optimistic way - how to grow food on Mars, how to communicate with Earth, how to rescue a stranded astronaut. A lot better than either Nolan's pretentious Interstellar or Gravity, which said that being on Earth was better than being in space, where you would probably die and / or get religion. Martian admits that space is dangerous, but hey! it's still worth exploring and doing something you love even if it is dangerous, and we can solve the problems the universe throws at us.

I watched that last weekend and was really surprised that I thought that it was absolutely awesome! :holy:

I hated Gravity, so I wasn't too keen on actually going to the theater to watch another movie about someone lost all by themselves somewhere in space, but I went anyways. It had a sense of humor to it and didn't lose that throughout the entire movie, which made it so much better than most other movies in that genre... and yeah, I liked all of the different solutions and that nobody just sat around moping... they tried to fix things instead :)
 

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I watched that last weekend and was really surprised that I thought that it was absolutely awesome! :holy:

I hated Gravity, so I wasn't too keen on actually going to the theater to watch another movie about someone lost all by themselves somewhere in space, but I went anyways. It had a sense of humor to it and didn't lose that throughout the entire movie, which made it so much better than most other movies in that genre... and yeah, I liked all of the different solutions and that nobody just sat around moping... they tried to fix things instead :)

:D Yeah, I was a bit worried at first that it'd be po-faced and heavy on the technobabble, but the film works - Ridley Scott's a better storyteller than Nolan or Cuarón; he keeps things grounded and the plot points clear. It helps, too, that Matt Damon is likeable, and can carry large parts of the film by himself. And the movie's, as you say, funny - which I wasn't expecting. And nice to see a film free from angst!
 

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:D Yeah, I was a bit worried at first that it'd be po-faced and heavy on the technobabble, but the film works - Ridley Scott's a better storyteller than Nolan or Cuarón; he keeps things grounded and the plot points clear. It helps, too, that Matt Damon is likeable, and can carry large parts of the film by himself. And the movie's, as you say, funny - which I wasn't expecting. And nice to see a film free from angst!

A Ridley Scott top 5 picture, at its worst....great humor and humanity....so many wonderful characters...all wanting to do what they thought was the right thing, which was not the same for everyone. And some things just need to be done because they are the right thing to do, even when it breaks a few rules :D
 
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