Movies

Here is a selection of movies I can recommend and suggestions from others

Movies I can recommend:

• Cloud Atlas (2012)
• Inception (2010)
• District 9 (2009)
• Memento (2000)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Lock stock and two smoking barrels (1998)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Fargo (1996)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Resevoir Dogs (1992)
• Down by Law (1986)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• The Thing (1982)
• Das Boot (1981)
• Alien (1979)
• Halloween (1978)
• Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail (1975)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Movies suggested by others:

• arrival
• Band
• office killer
• karakter
• de aanslag
• reykjavik rotterdam
• code 46
• aaltra
• thunderbolt and lightfoot
• kannibal the musical
• burlesque
• idiocracy
• meet the feebles
• the magic pudding
• revolver
• steam punk
• city of lost children
• amores perros
• trancendent man
• thank you for smoking
• the cove
• roger dodger
• the day after tomorrow
• high fidelity
• point blank
• Salt and Fire (2016)
• Intersect (2020)

Silly Movie things

What I cannot for the life of me understand is that in this day and age in movies:

• the sound of the wheels touching the tarmac of an airplane landing is instant. Sound travels slower than light. (same goes for lightning strikes)

• tyres make squealing sounds on a dirt road. There is not enough friction to make the rubber sound like that.

• space ship engines and explosions observed from outer space make sound. They do not because sound does not travel well in a vacuum.

• text on a computer screen makes noise when it is printed. It does not.

• when satellites are shown in an orbit around the earth the sound of 1950's Telex RTTY is heard. Or Morse code. Or both!

• when someone is stabbed with a knife it makes a noise as if cutting through plated steel. A knife through meat is very silent. Try it.

• countdown timers are always too slow. Do you own counting and you can sometimes find movie-seconds that last 10x as long.

• movies shot on a boat often have the camera moving slowly clockwise and counterclockwise as if the boat is bobbing. I'm not even gonna explain this.

• the view through binoculars is like a figure-8 on it's side. This is impossible, it's round!

• they tap the camera when there's an earthquake or an explosion, but no-one in the picture moves.

• space helmets with lights on the inside. Why would blinding yourself with light up-close be practical?

• image enhancement absurdity.

• semi-automatic machine gun cartridge capacity absurdity (common cartridges only hold 30 rounds)