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"The Barbarian and The Geisha" 1958. Full Movie.

A beautiful movie about "Gunboat Diplomacy" and Bigtime Culture Clashes. Highly recommended viewing....see it before it disappears like a lot of other great movies etc.

John Wayne makes a great Foreign Devil.

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[Skybird]

I red the book, not as great as the original triology, but interesting and good enough to connect it to the brand. On this fifth (!) movie however, I am not certain, too many things in the first movies were done too good and the cast was too great as if that can easily be repeated. Here is hope it is at least like with the book: at least good enough to connect to the brand.



From he trailer I must say I cannot connect the shown cast to the figures I imagined when reading the book. What a great difference to the first movie where every role, even small ones, was casted perfectly, not to mention the main figures. They had a dream cast, and the actors enjoyed their time on the set and played with bravour.

[Skybird]

I recently watched the first part of Dune again, and this time liked it better. What I see as weaknesses in the film indeed are caused by the super-pedantic detail-obsessed translation of the book into the film and thus the inclusion of the weaknesses of the book as well. Frank Herbert may have had stories to tell, but a great literary man he was not, his style was adequate in most of his later novels, economic and unoriginal, no verbal art. I know all six Dune novels (like practically all of his novels, some are good, some are not so much good), red them all six at least twice, the first three books even four and five times (and the first even in English). My favourite novel by him ironically is one of his most unknown: The Santaroga Barrier, it is so wonderfully nostalgic. I love the mood in that, and its modest story.

[Eisenwurst]

"Children of Glory" 2006.

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A movie considered to have been lost. Thank you to whoever found it.

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Eradication.

When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting them down.




What a load of bleeding junk this film is, the lighting was as bad inside the house as well as the outside, it never showed any proper daylight as it was just showing the same light 10 to 20 minutes before the sun went down, poor, poor, bleeding poor. As for answers, there was virtually none, 42 minutes in and I knew as much now as I did in the first two minutes, WTF, I'd had enough of this bollocks, good riddance and **** off.

Someone Else's Review

“Eradication” is another of those post-apocalyptic movies in which an unknown virus has wiped out most of humanity and society has collapsed.

The film, shot in the scenic Adirondack Mountains, centers on David (Henry Aspinwall, who cowrote the movie with director Daniel Byers). David, an asymptomatic carrier of the disease, has lived in isolation for two years. His only contact is with his wife, Sam (Anita Abdinezhad), a scientist studying his blood in search of a cure.

David’s life is one of routine and tedium. He is told never to venture outside after dark. He must deliver blood samples every day to a specific site where he finds food cans.
He also seems to be constantly under surveillance by drones.
The monotony of his life causes him to hallucinate at times. He has several timers that dictate when he performs his daily functions, including communicating with Sam via computer. (One aspect that is never explained is how his computer continues to work when electricity is no longer available.)

Like many movies in this growing genre, the cause of the outbreak is never explained. But we have seen the symptoms before; Those infected turn zombie-like, crave blood and attack uninfected people.
After a while, David — having not heard from Sam for a while — breaks protocol and ventures outside.
What he finds upends his tightly-controlled world.

Much of “Eradication” is left unexplained. Who are the people — and what government agency do they work for? who is controlling the drones? Why does David seem to be the only asymptomatic individual?
Answers for these questions are not forthcoming, which dilutes the movie’s impact.
Byers does create tension and builds suspense, but “Eradication” needed to be fleshed out a little more. We are left with too many questions to ponder and no real satisfactory conclusion.
“Eradication” is no better nor worse than any of the other pandemic-related features shot and released since COVID-19 changed our lives.
At 87 minutes, it at least holds your attention.

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