Movies I think I truly great I usually only watch once, sometimes twice. If a movie ends and I just sit there thinking to myself… “wow”… I will probably never watch it again.
Movies I watch over and over again are movies that I relate to in some way or find comforting. These are ones I’ve watched at least 5 times, and some I’d bet more than 30 times.
Well documented and was the base for "GTA San Andreas" and "Training Day".
And even though it has been 20 years now, the problem seems far from solved.
You've probably heard about this before and didn't realize it. Did you watch Training Day? That whole movie was centered around the leader of a cop gang.
There’s a scene in the movie Training Day when Ethan Hawke’s character is being told a nonsensical joke by someone, who claims if he understands the joke, he understands the streets. Hawke doesn’t get the punchline but laughs anyway.
There are all kinds of internet theories about the joke, but this makes me realize it wasn’t ever about the joke itself, it was about Hawke voluntarily going along with the nonsense coming out of the other character’s mouth. Which is the exact behavior the criminal character wanted to elicit and evaluate.
what about Prisoners, In the bedroom, The guilty (2018), Good time, Oldboy (original, not from Hollywood though), Collateral, End of watch, Training day, Drive, etc. - all these were released after and they are better movies (most of them more thrillers than action though, but some straight up action), I can't really recommend exactly same alternative since I don't watch stupid action flicks like Fugitive, now that I have much more options than in 90s
Do you have evidence of this other than from the movie Training Day? Saying "most" is a huge generalization. I would agree it probably happens, but "most"?
The idea of tracking people by phone was definitely out there in 2007; Heck I'm surprised people were surprised about "stingray" type devices in Cop cars which have been depicted in movies since the late 90's, especially since 'Training Day' they actually used a branded Stingray one....
I really am beginning to wonder what kind of people self-select to become police officers: a strong belief in order, conformity, and demand for unquestioning obedience, with no hesitation for meting out brutal penalties for any divergence.
It also seems that the training they receive only amplifies these tendencies rather than screening out these pathological behaviors. The cop with the most abuse complaints (68 complaints) in Chicago was actually given a service award.
Unfortunately, it also seems like this has been going on for a long time, perhaps decades. Movies like Training Day (with Denzel Washington) appeared as pure fiction when they appeared in 2001; now you can watch them as watered-down documentary of the real thing.
> The border patrol officer started telling me I was hiding something because of my body language (apparently he saw too much "Lie to me") and started questioning why I had friends in the US, how had I met them and so on
Cops are dicks, plain and simple, they are not your friends; Hollywood definitely glosses over this. The reality is more like Training Day, those are real cops, mostly straight but dirty when it benefits them. How they treat you tends to depend heavily on your race.
> In (most) mainstream US movies, you see that no matter what your job is you can lead a pretty nice life. Even if you work as a bartender, you can have your small apartment and be in charge of your life.
Ah, interesting observation; yea, that's not true that all.
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Movies I think I truly great I usually only watch once, sometimes twice. If a movie ends and I just sit there thinking to myself… “wow”… I will probably never watch it again.
Movies I watch over and over again are movies that I relate to in some way or find comforting. These are ones I’ve watched at least 5 times, and some I’d bet more than 30 times.
- Back to the Future
- Home Alone
- What About Bob?
- It Could Happen to You
- Matilda
- As Good as It Gets
- Office Space
- Cruel Intentions
- Boiler Room
- Finding Forrester
- Training Day
- Super Troopers
- 8 Mile
- The Transporter
- Elf
- Bad Santa
- Mean Girls
- Saved!
- Garden State
- V for Vendetta
- Thank You for Smoking
- Stick It
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Idiocracy
- Hot Rod
- Run Fatboy Run
- The Other Guys
- Wreck-It Ralph
To name a few.
>I remember several […]
Same thing happened to me with my boss literally winking sarcastically during a critical argument (which I ignored).
This guy who I’ve worked with for ~12 years barely did any real work and was heavily into office politics.
Kinda reminds me of the opening scene in the movie Training Day when Denzel tested Ethan after they found money under the floor.
"This is the first I’m hearing about it. I do wish we had a more neutral source than the Rolling Stone."
How about that outstanding episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources_Against_Street_Hoodlums
Well documented and was the base for "GTA San Andreas" and "Training Day". And even though it has been 20 years now, the problem seems far from solved.
You've probably heard about this before and didn't realize it. Did you watch Training Day? That whole movie was centered around the leader of a cop gang.
There’s a scene in the movie Training Day when Ethan Hawke’s character is being told a nonsensical joke by someone, who claims if he understands the joke, he understands the streets. Hawke doesn’t get the punchline but laughs anyway.
There are all kinds of internet theories about the joke, but this makes me realize it wasn’t ever about the joke itself, it was about Hawke voluntarily going along with the nonsense coming out of the other character’s mouth. Which is the exact behavior the criminal character wanted to elicit and evaluate.
what about Prisoners, In the bedroom, The guilty (2018), Good time, Oldboy (original, not from Hollywood though), Collateral, End of watch, Training day, Drive, etc. - all these were released after and they are better movies (most of them more thrillers than action though, but some straight up action), I can't really recommend exactly same alternative since I don't watch stupid action flicks like Fugitive, now that I have much more options than in 90s
I swear there was a Keanu Reeves movie like this. Also, Training Day...
not sure if this is coming back anytime soon:
1. games are a much bigger market than movies, which makes hollywood even more risk averse than usual
2. superhero movies make most income, sucking up all the talent
3. huge emphasis on TV series in the last decade, again sucking up all the talent
for these three reasons i’m not sure if i’ll see another sin city/training day/etc in the near future
Do you have evidence of this other than from the movie Training Day? Saying "most" is a huge generalization. I would agree it probably happens, but "most"?
Yeah. It’s a slightly modified transcript of a conversation from the movie Training Day.
The idea of tracking people by phone was definitely out there in 2007; Heck I'm surprised people were surprised about "stingray" type devices in Cop cars which have been depicted in movies since the late 90's, especially since 'Training Day' they actually used a branded Stingray one....
I really am beginning to wonder what kind of people self-select to become police officers: a strong belief in order, conformity, and demand for unquestioning obedience, with no hesitation for meting out brutal penalties for any divergence.
It also seems that the training they receive only amplifies these tendencies rather than screening out these pathological behaviors. The cop with the most abuse complaints (68 complaints) in Chicago was actually given a service award.
See here: https://cpdb.co/data/bmEM6b/citizens-police-data-project
and compare here: http://guardianlv.com/2013/05/chicago-annual-award-ceremony-in-honor-police-departments-heroes/
Unfortunately, it also seems like this has been going on for a long time, perhaps decades. Movies like Training Day (with Denzel Washington) appeared as pure fiction when they appeared in 2001; now you can watch them as watered-down documentary of the real thing.
Agreed - that is an awesome experience - its happened a few times to me - Cape Fear, Training Day & The Fugitive - all great movies.
> The border patrol officer started telling me I was hiding something because of my body language (apparently he saw too much "Lie to me") and started questioning why I had friends in the US, how had I met them and so on
Cops are dicks, plain and simple, they are not your friends; Hollywood definitely glosses over this. The reality is more like Training Day, those are real cops, mostly straight but dirty when it benefits them. How they treat you tends to depend heavily on your race.
> In (most) mainstream US movies, you see that no matter what your job is you can lead a pretty nice life. Even if you work as a bartender, you can have your small apartment and be in charge of your life.
Ah, interesting observation; yea, that's not true that all.