ANOTHER OLD MOVIE

While I’m going on about old movies, today I’m re-watching Blade Runner again. The original one, from 1982, directed by Ridley Scott and based on the book by Philip K Dick. It stars Harrison Ford, still looking fairly young, as this was only five years on from the original Star Wars.

It is a very dark movie, but it’s so well done that it’s absolutely engrossing. In 1982 some of those scenes must have been quite mind boggling. In fact many of them still are.

The movie is full of classic quotes. They are not so much quotes as samples now, because they have since appeared in music videos and other movies. Classic lines like Leon the replicant saying “Let me tell you about my mother” are right up there with Dirty Harry asking “Do you feel lucky, punk?” 

 One of the final scenes, Rutger Hauer's final monologue, has been described as "perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history".

It was set in what must have seemed like a bleak distant future back in 1982 - 2019. A scary dark future world. The scariest thing about 2019 from the current viewpoint of 2025, is that we now look back to it as the last year of a sort happy innocent pre-covidhoax era, before everything got well and truly screwed up.

Predictably the more recent sequel staring Ryan Gossling, “Blade Runner 2049” (2017) by comparison, is unimaginative, slow moving, boring, and depressing. It’s not so much that it’s particularly bad if it was an original stand alone movie, but the big issue is that it copies every last detail from the original, and brings almost nothing new to the table. 

In 35 years it seems to have not moved forward a single day from the vision of the future from 1982. So it’s a sad letdown compared with the amazing original.

I’ve long been a big fan of Philip K Dick, and despite the fact that these days I’m asking questions like “did he have deeper motivations for the dark visions he described?”, I still think the original Blade Runner was a spectacular and visionary movie that was decades ahead of it’s time and truly original.

A DIFFERENT WORLD

Most of the movies I watch are fairly old. The main reason for that is because modern movies are all utter crap. 

Yesterday I looked at a list of the top 100 movies so far in 2025 by box office returns. There was only one movie this year I’ve seen or even had any desire to see – F1 staring Brad Pitt. 

It was fairly entertaining with some good action scenes, but it was also too long at times, and the acting was fairly predictable and average. It was pretty good but is often compared unfavorably to the earlier F1 movie "Rush" (2013) staring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl, which arguably had a better plot and only cost a fraction of the amount to make.

The other 99 movies in the list all look totally lame and gay, so much so that I would probably pay money to not have to watch most of them, and if there was even one other movie I actually did want to see, I’d just find a torrent and download a copy, as I did with F1.

Here is the Top 20 - what a bunch of crap! And it gets even worse from Snow White down to 100th place...

So it really isn’t a mystery why the movie industry is losing so much money. They spend hundreds of millions making boring woke crap, that very few people actually pay to see. The real mystery is why they appear to be so clueless about how to provide entertainment - what are they really up to?

Part of the attraction of watching old movies, apart from the fact that some of them are light years better than anything that has come out in the past 10 years, is to be able to visit different worlds. Ones without computers, or cell phones, or an internet.

In movies made before 1985, (yes, only 40 years ago) there was no digital crap at all. Nobody had it, nobody wanted it, there were entire realities functioning without it. Yesterday I re-watched Magnum Force staring Clint Eastwood from 1973. It’s an entertaining classic, and some of it is pretty awesome.

I’m fully confident that in 50 years time, nobody is going to be watching any movies from 2025 and using words like “awesome”. 

Either the future will be so totally crap that enslaved subservient humanity won’t even understand concepts like “awesome”, or it will actually be an awesome future. In which case they will look back at the movies from 2025 and wonder why anyone even bothered to make them.

Despite feeling a bit daunted sometimes, I’m still aspiring to option two, the awesome future. And avoiding seeing any crappy modern movies is part of how to avoid the horrible futures they endlessly depict.

FIRST DAY OF LIMITED INTERNET

I was expecting to be hanging out to see online stuff, especially cryptos, after nearly 24 hours with no internet, but the truth is I didn’t even really want to plug in the connection and felt relieved not to be looking at all that crap.

I never even did a half hour session to try that out, but instead decided to make it only one internet session a day, for a maximum of one hour.

I didn’t seem to suffer the cravings of an addiction withdrawal, but more like the relief of removing a butt plug (I presume).

 

When I finally did get around to doing my hour of internet in the evening, I was quite excited to start my timer and see how it would go. It was fine, and I got all the essentials done.

Next I'm planning to do an internet checklist to help me whiz through all my more essential internet jobs in one hour each day without forgetting any.

Quick blog post, tick! 

 

 

INTERNET FREEDOM

Information overload has long been an ongoing problem, but this year it seems even more excessive than usual. Despite being totally burned out from the endless inflow of data, I seem to be compelled to keep looking at it, endlessly searching for the missing link. 

At the start of this week I decided to make some positive changes, and I could see straight away where most of my flow of exhausting negative input was coming from, but I have always seemed to avoid facing up to it.

The internet is my main problem. It can be a very useful tool, but it’s starting to feel like a giant sewage pipe pumping crap straight into my mind, and for some reason I have become addicted to that inflow. 

Today I woke up with a new plan to put the internet back in it’s place as a tool, and stop it taking over my life. It’s a very basic plan that only took about two seconds to implement.

Before starting up my computer I unplugged the internet connection. My plan is to leave the internet unplugged most of the time, and also to permanently stop using WIFI.

 

I now have a digital timer on my desk, set to one hour. That is the maximum amount of time I want to spend connected to the internet on any given day. So when I plug my internet connection back in and start my timer, it’s safe to say I won’t have much time to piss about looking at distractions like YouTube or Facebook.

And if anything is going to take up much time, I plan to download it and look at it offline, or in the case of something like a blog post, to write it offline, and then quickly upload it during my connected time.

ARE YOU CROOKED?

This documentary, highlighting the effects of aluminium, mainly coming from "vaccines", is fascinating - once you start seeing crooked faces, they are everywhere!
 

You can watch it on Rumble  - https://rumble.com/v1zpbms-are-you-crooked.html 

There is a webpage for it here - https://www.forrestmaready.com/are-you-crooked/ 

It came out in 2017 but there is still an old Facebook page for it here -  https://www.facebook.com/areyoucrooked