Movie recommendation: Brave New World

[morph999]

If you guys like a cool movie that's not all "hollywood" with million dollar special effects, you might try Brave New World. I'm talking about the 1980s verison not the new crappier one. It's a 3 hr movie but definitely worth it and has some interesting lessons to be learned which is hard to come by in movies today. The book was written by Aldous Huxley and it was a classic.

It's online and you can watch it for free. Try to at least give it 5 min. I know the special effects and set and everything look dated but the girls are good-looking and I think it's a good movie.

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[Lock]

HAHA... I have only engaged with the exceptionally pneumatic myself...
Tks Morph

...if there were only somebody here other than these savages...

 

[Reid Welch]

Thank you. I am starting to watch it now and will enjoy and learn from the whole movie.
I hope I can get to the google site direct and so be able to full-screen the movie;
easier on my poor eyes to have a giant, though fuzzy video image.
No white surrounding then as we suffer with when we embed our videos.

I embed videos often, but to really watch them, I prefer to double click on a YT video,
go to the site, select 'HQ' or 'HD' for usually-better playback.

It is regretable that Google Video is languishing, without improvements, ever since Google bought YT,
and now concentrate their efforts on improving YT. Google Video, though does offer us full, long movies;
no ten minute time limit. It just is not as clear, generally.

But what a great film! Thank you. I've long wanted to see this particular film.
You made it possible for me to have a good evening. Thanks morph!

 

[Reid Welch]

Oh me, oh my!!!!

I never read the book or saw any of this in any form before. I only know the book title and that it was movie'd.

About ten minutes into this film. 'Tis still set-up time. IF I WERE DIRECTOR TODAY I would not change a thing.

I do not know the production year, but I could IMDB the film. I won't. But I can about guarantee-guess that this is from 1983.
No more bell bottoms. Slick minimalistic, male-slinking conformational uniforms. Everybody looks ready for Disco Fever, except for
the fact that bell bottoms or flared pant cuff went OUT right about 1982, and would remain gone for more than a generation.

It's perfect: the silver-painted Model T. I drove a car just like that for five years. Henry Ford: the progressive, socialist, determined loon who made Hitler possible and really, despite his generally good intentions, caused the second world war, along with Lindburg: both ardent anti-semites, who were both idolized by Hiitler and Germany in general. Germany was quite sure of itself, that the USA would ally itself with its goals, and to hell with England and France. Wronnnnng. But Henry's Dearborn Independent and other anti-jew shenanigans, made the Germans think: this USA is largely of German extraction and they hate the jews and will allow us to solve the Jewish Problem.

Oh, this is going to be a great viewing/learning experience. History is the bunk! NOT

I love and hate Henry Ford. I already adore this movie. Would not change a thing.
Super morph. You are surely an Alpha.

Your Beta servant,
Reid

 

[swbluto]

I read this book and loved it. I didn't even know there was a movie, but I'm sure it's awesome! I really can't wait until they finally movie-fy Neuromancer, another scifi classic of the sub-1000 page variety.

P.S. Reid, you're really a gamma. Now take your soma and get back to work.

 

[StudEbiker]

Are you wishing they will make a Neromancer movie, or have you jeard something is in the works? Another book that is LONG due for the movie treatment is Stranger in a Strange Land. Brave New World, Stranger in a Strange Land, Siddartha, and Atlas Shrugged are four of my all time favorite books. Atlas is perpetually "coming soon" to the movies. The most recent news has Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggart.....which is just fine with me!

 

[morph999]

what I like about the movie, is that it's supposed to take place in the future. I think 2050. And notice how often they said "praise Ford" or anything with Ford in it. I think the author was showing that corporations basically took over and now we worship them.

 

[swbluto]

what I like about the movie, is that it's supposed to take place in the future. I think 2050. And notice how often they said "praise Ford" or anything with Ford in it. I think the author was showing that corporations basically took over and now we worship them.

If you read the book, you'll notice they have an obsession with automation and efficiency. The reproduction of the society is basically mechanized fertilization by factory-like procedures, and I think the reference to Ford probably refers to this type of automation. Sex is fairly systematic, work is fairly systematic, and there's relatively little "independence" in the daily lives of the characters (Unless you're an Alpha or Beta, in which case you get some degree of freedom.) - they're all cogs in the system, so to say.

 

[Reid Welch]

P.S. Reid, you're really a gamma. Now take your soma and get back to work.

Dear Bluto,


I am a Gamma straight and tall
although I suck the males and all
who let me serve their member ships
and give me smiles, not points, for tips.



(reid is a gamma gay guy; get over it, folks-ses, if you don't like it)

 

[liveforphysics]

I remember reading this book in 4th grade. Watching it again as a movie was fun to remember the story.

The casual and frequent "engaging" reminds me of what life in college was like.

 

[Reid Welch]

The casual and frequent "engaging" reminds me of what life in college was like.

The casual and frequent "engaging" reminds ME of what my life was like until just the past year or so;
gay men have it soooooo easy: no "four F'ing" required with m/m engagements; only three steps:
find 'em (takes five minutes), eff them (takes five minutes) and then forget them (takes five minutes).

Laughing cheers to all normals,
Speedy Reidy (and I don't mean on the pokey ebike)


___________
Private PS to a special ES member to remain unnamed: sir, have a night mare to-day! Be happy!

 

[morph999]

I remember reading this book in 4th grade. Watching it again as a movie was fun to remember the story.

The casual and frequent "engaging" reminds me of what life in college was like.

Yeah, it is similar. In college, I had some girls who liked me who believed in casual sex. I however don't believe in casual sex. So when they would ask me up to their room, I'd go up to their room just to see what the room looked like then I'd tell them that I had to go and I would just leave. hahahahaha. After I did that, I saw the girl crying at the next party. It was like 2 or 3 days later and she was still upset about it. hahahaha. I find that girls who believe in casual sex deep down are man haters and have some problems. They also have big egos. Not my kind of girls. Another girl who also believed in casual sex, I just strung her along for weeks, eating lunch with her everyday and working out with her, she was really hot but her ego was too big so I just strung her along for a while and then disappeared. I was right about her because about 1 month later she called me up to tell me that she was pregnant !!!! (pregnant and wouldn't be going to the gym anymore...hahahaha)

 

[Reid Welch]

The movie is so wry and excellent. I know more about Ford and the Model T than their leaders.

Look at the Savage Reservation segment, where their horribly aged chief ("Oh, he's so old"; over 35), shields
his face from view with a '16-'25 Ford front fender.

And then "Tommykins", tourist, an Alpha superior, scrounging through the Reservation's junk heaps.
OH MY FORD! It is a perfectly preserved radiator! Tommykins takes for a souvenir, the brass, fluted-top Ford radiator cap.

God, I mean FORD, I worship your relics and thank You for making my life so perfect.
I was not always a Gamma Minus. In my youth, I was a sort of proto-Alpha, see the image.
But time passed and I got into a bit of a scrape with my mouth-hole, and was re-conditioned.

Ah, brave new world, world of perfect people who never pine, nor rust-out, but only steel away for, uh, engagements.

Presently-Gamma Reid, away back in the year 2000: