I would like to do a TROM-Cast all about movies this week. To discuss about the present day movies, the popularity of these "things", and how could we do them better perhaps. To provide examples of educational movies and so on. Stay tuned. ;) I'll post about it these days if we decide. On another news, we had to cancel the recordings for TROM II for now. I hope to get back to that in a week or less. #tromlive
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in reply to Tio • • •I'll just say that my views about movies and art in general have changed after watching the TROM documentary.
I still enjoy movies, series, music etc. But I acknowledge that art cannot be judged, and that its a subjective experience. So there are no shitty or great movies in real life.
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in reply to Tio • • •I'm really glad you asked though, it feels great to be able to talk and interact with people/organizations that you admire and care for. Its the best thing about being on the fediverse.
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in reply to Rokosun • • •I'll just say that these are generally better than the chicken and monkey type movies, lol 😂. But they're still mainly for entertainment purposes, so I wouldn't really call them "educational".
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Unknown parent • •The point about trade-free movies. What we argue is that when there is an industry that makes movies to get something else in return (based on trades), be it money, attention or whatever, it tends to lean towards repetition, mindless entertainment, shocking content, and overall not original and well made stuff. And if you look overall at the movie industry (as we showcase in that book), that's really the case. "trade-free" movies, meaning movies made to inform, educate, entertain, are quite rare if any. So we can't really test/compare, but we can do that with documentaries as showcased in the Origin of Most Problems book, and there you can see a clear difference between documentaries made to make a profit (trade-based), and those who are not meant for that purpose specifically.
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in reply to Rokosun • •In the end, I would argue that most movies nowadays are made to make some money out of them. Just like most stuff in our world. So it ends up low quality.
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in reply to Tio • • •I too wish more people were interested in topics like science, so we put more money on documentaries. One funny thing about it is that I think my interest for science came from the SciFi movies I've watched as a kid, lol 😂
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in reply to Rokosun • • •I don't think I'll ever have a favourite movie, it just keeps changing as I watch more and more ones. Although there's a few I'd recommend you. I recently watched a lebanese movie called Capernaum, its one of the most realistic movies I've watched and it talks about real world issues like poverty, overpopulation etc. You might even add this movie to videoneat.
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in reply to Rokosun • • •If I come across any movies like this, I'll let you know, so you can watch it and maybe add it to videoneat if you like.
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