Favourite Movies

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I saw Greyhound the other day which stars Tom Hanks. It was on Apple TV here in the UK, but I expect it will be on DVD in the near future.

It's about the Atlantic convoys. Very well done I thought and worth a watch.

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Sounds like a good movie. I'll have to watch that. My dad was in the Navy during the war. He was a wood pattern maker on a foundry ship, where if a destroyer or another ship was damaged, they would make all new parts and fix it right there so it could keep fighting. I guess Tokyo Rose would broadcast they knew where his ship was and they were coming. What a great generation that was.

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Anyone else like documentaries? I've heard alot about "Social Dilemma." Apparently former employees of social media giants say artificial intelligence is being used to develop algorithms to grab our attention, keep our attention and then sell our attention for profit as if we were a product instead of a consumer. It exploits our loves and hates, and explains a lot about the divisions we're experiencing (again, all in the name of profit). Scarey stuff.

[anirbas]

I adore documentaries, Heartfelt. Quite often, if the subject is one I enjoy, I will watch them over and over. Dr. Lucy Worsley and Janina Remirez, Neil Oliver and Waldemar Januszczak, are a handful of my favorite present day historians.

Watched a couple of riveting documentaries on Chief Sitting Bull and Frank Finkel, respectively, several days ago.

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It might be old news for some, but I finally got to stream "The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot" with Sam Elliott and Aidan Turner. Turner was great as usual playing an innocent young man in love with his normal voice, then the soldier trained to kill in a lower voice, leading to the depressed, gravelly-voiced Sam Elliott in old age.

The best line too... "Hitler died...but the monster lived on." How true.

So many facets to this little indie movie. I loved it!!!