So I've been chipping away at the Cyber Security 101 path for a while now, and I've been wondering how I can apply what has been taught to me so that I can prove myself to potential employers? Any and all advice would be appreciated, I'm trying to escape a bad job right now. Would I need to go back to school as well?
Info:
Release: September 20th, 2013
Director: Ron Howard
Music by: Hans Zimmer
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Pierfrancesco Favino
Studio: Universal Pictures
Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes
Rating: R
Synopsis: In the mid-1970s, charismatic English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) share an intense rivalry in Formula 1 racing. Driving vehicles that are little more than gas-filled, rolling bombs, Hunt and Lauda burn up the track, all the while pushing themselves to the breaking point of physical and mental endurance. Meanwhile, the women (Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara) in their lives can only watch as both drivers risk death with every lap.
Review: Love the way the races are shot and edited, the angles some of the shots are at really give off the sense of skirting that line between life and death. Speaking of that, those scene where Niki is in the hospital following his crash are hard to watch, especially the part where he's getting his lungs vacuumed. I can't begin to imagine the immense pain and agony he has to be in in that moment. Also love the scene where he and James stare each other down before the final race, no exchange of dialogue between the two, just the look of two men who have the utmost respect for one another. Kinda makes the ending bittersweet where James leans into a life style of partying and hedonism while Niki tells him to take it easy the last time he sees him to which he ignores. Even if the two were very competitive with one another, he did consider him a friend and feels saddened that he can't help him.
Info:
Release: October 5th, 2007
Director: Tony Gilroy
Music by: James Newton Howard
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack
Studio: Warner Bros.
Runtime: 2 hours
Rating: R
Synopsis: Former prosecutor Michael Clayton works as a "fixer" at the corporate law firm of Kenner, Bach and Ledeen, and takes care of his employer's dirty work. Burned out and deep in debt, he is bound tightly to the firm. Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career when a guilt-ridden attorney has a breakdown during a huge class-action lawsuit.
Review: Tom Wilkinson is very good in this, he really captures the manic energy of a man who is just completely unhinged. That scene where the 2 guys kill him is genuinely disturbing in how thorough and precise they are by making it look like a suicide, wouldn't even be shocked if actual companies have done this to actual whistleblowers. Very satisfying ending though, the look on Tilda Swinton's face as she realizes that her career/life is over is great. "You're so fucked" followed by her meakly saying "you don't want the money?" Is probably one of my favorite ways I've seen antagonist get dismantled in a movie.
Info:
Release: September 11th, 1998
Director: John Dahl
Music by: Christopher Young
Starring: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Framke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, John Malkovich, Martin Landau
Studio: Miramax Films
Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute
Rating: R
Synopsis: Mike McDermott loses his money in a poker game against Russian gangster Teddy "KGB". Under pressure from his girlfriend, Jo, he promises to quit gambling. This lasts until his friend, Lester "Worm" Murphy, gets out of prison and needs to pay off an old debt. The pair come close to earning the money back but are caught cheating. Then Mike finds out the debt is owed to Teddy and makes one last-ditch effort to beat the Russian.
Review: Probably one of the best Poker movies ever made, it's not afraid to showcase the dangers and pitfalls of such a game while also showcasing a lot of the techniques used by players to win. I usually like John Malkovich in a lot of movies I see him in, and he's so over the top and goofy in this. If you're tell is you eating cookies that you just happen to have on you, then you're kind of an idiot IMO. Also a nice scene where the Professor gives Matt Damon's character money to help pay off his debt, even after he massively fucked up beforehand. It harkens back to his earlier speech about how for some people that what they want to do with their lives may not be their true calling after all.
Info:
Release: June 26th, 1998
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Music by: David Holmes
Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina, Albert Brooks
Studio: Universal Pictures
Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes
Rating: R
Synopsis: Meet Jack Foley, the most successful bank robber in the country. On the day he busts out of jail, he finds himself stealing something far more precious than money ... Karen Sisco's heart. She's smart. She's sexy, and unfortunately for Jack, she's a Federal Marshal. Now, they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
Review: The montage of Detroit at one point in the film made me laugh, we go from bright and sunny Miami to cold and shitty Detroit. Can't blame Jack for his plan in this, Albert Brooks usually plays assholes in most movies he's in. He has no real right to call Jack a lowly bank robber when he ended up in prison for the same kind of crime, he just went about it in a different way, and to him still having the money makes him "superior." The part where the guy accidentally trips and blows his brains out as a result caught me off guard so much, guess Jack was right about most thieves being morons.
Info:
Release: June 15th, 1990
Director: Warren Beatty
Music by: Danny Elfman
Starring: Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Dustin Hoffman, Dick Van Dyke
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Rating: PG
Synopsis: Hard-boiled detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) is searching for evidence that proves Alphonse Big Boy Caprice is the city's most dangerous crime boss. He may have found the key to unraveling the crime lord's illegal empire in Breathless Mahoney (Madonna), an enigmatic barroom singer who has witnessed some of Caprice's crimes firsthand. However, she seems more set on stealing Dick away from his girlfriend, Tess (Glenne Headly), than helping him solve the case of his career.
Review: Dick Tracy has a lot of style, but is unfortunately held back by a weak script and story. He's not that great of a detective either, he just kinda breaks into places, arrests people, or guns them down. That scene where he guns down Big Boy's henchmen feels really gritty for a movie like this, super cartoonish looking henchmen dying like that feels a bit tonally off. The No Face guy was cool, but the reveal of who it actually was was so obvious that it would've been better if there was no disguise in the first place.
Probably not the right place to post this, but I got stood up the other day and feel really shitty as a result. I've been having bad luck in the dating field this entire year, after being stood up for the fifth time, I think I'm done with the dating apps. Anyway, I'm down to talk with anyone who wants to message me, I'm just kind of annoyed and tired that my effort is being wasted on the wrong people.
Info:
Release: June 21st, 1985
Director: Ron Howard
Music by: James Horner
Starring: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: An Oscar-winning fantasy in which the residents of a Florida rest home get a new lease of life when they stumble across an alien "fountain of youth" in a disused holiday home. Unbeknown to them, aliens have been using the swimming pool in the house to store their cocooned brethren, giving the waters a powerful, rejuvenating quality.
Review: The fears of getting older and into your twilight years. Everything hurts, nothing makes sense anymore, and the shadow of death is hanging over your head at every waking moment. I can completely understand why the old folks used the pool so frequently, imagine having energy again, a second shot at life. Though that is sad as shit when the guy's wife dies and he desperately tries to revive her with the pool's waters only to be told that it doesn't work anymore. I did appreciate that he was the only one not to go at the end, even if the fear of death is the fear of complete oblivion, it is another journey everyone has to take at some point.
Info:
Release: August 12th, 1988
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Music by: Joe Jackson
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Mako, Dean Stockwell
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Rating: PG
Synopsis: Obsessed with cars since childhood, inventor Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) has his first successful auto design partnership in the 1930s and designs a successful gun turret for World War II use. With those achievements under his belt, Tucker is determined to create a futuristic car for the masses: the Tucker Torpedo. However, his dreams are challenged by Detroit's auto manufacturers, production problems and accusations of stock fraud, and he is forced to defend his dream and honesty in court.
Review: Wow, I absolutely love how this movie looks right off the bat. They nail the time period of the late 40's and early 50s so well. Really like that scene where Tucker meets with Howard Hughes, both men with great ambitions and dreams that were ultimately crushed by the weight of reality. While the ending may be bittersweet, Tucker explains to Abe that it was the fact that he had an idea and made his dream come true is a very nice point to end on.
26M here, I feel as if I'm struggling with trying to meet/befriend (maybe even date if we really want to go there) people in this city. Before anyone brings up therapy as a solution, I have gone, and while it's nice to unload a lot of stress and insecurities in a safe and controlled environment, it feels like I'm only getting a nice talk/someone saying they understand me without giving me a clear solution most of the time. Not to say that it hasn't helped me out, I find myself less prone to ranting about my current life situation to complete strangers who don't deserve all my bitterness and apathy, I still dislike where I am currently, but I'm actively looking to change that going forward. That being said, communication with complete and utter strangers is still a huge hurdle for me. I've tried a few groups out and I've either not been able to talk to anyone, I have talked to people but our interests don't align and the conversation peters out, or I've met people that just completely ghost me after a while. It could be me, it could be them, I don't like to judge or make assumptions, but I'm just baffled that this keeps happening when I'm trying to put forth the effort to be a friendly and outgoing person.
I'm into Movies, video games, comics/manga very basic stuff. Though I've felt as though in the past that I like the "wrong things" if that makes any sense. In regards to movies, I have no problem with people liking more crowd pleaser stuff (Spider-Man: Brand New Day as an example), but I feel like people haven't seen a lot of the stuff I like or want to talk about unless it's super popular.
I've tried with a lot of Meetup Groups, but they always felt very cliquey and not accepting of newcomers at all. The last one I went to was incredibly awkward and uncomfortable, me and a lot of other people just stood around without anyone to talk to or initiate any conversations. Not saying that accepting groups don't exist, but they feel like finding a needle in a haystack.
Just seeking acceptance at this point, I feel very stuck and lonely :(
Info:
Release: December 15th, 1989
Director: Edward Zwick
Music by: James Horner
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Studio: TriStar Pictures
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Rating: R
Synopsis: Following the Battle of Antietam, Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) is offered command of the United States' first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. With junior officer Cabot Forbes (Cary Elwes), Shaw puts together a strong and proud unit, including the escaped slave Trip (Denzel Washington) and the wise gravedigger John Rawlins (Morgan Freeman). At first limited to menial manual tasks, the regiment fights to be placed in the heat of battle.
Review: Yeah, I can see why Denzel Washington won an Oscar for this. Broderick isn't a bad actor, but Washington is acting circles around him the entire time. I especially like how you can make out his anger though the expression on his face alone, that scene where he's being punished for attempted desertion is a good example. Also like when he tells Robert, "you have a home and family to go home to when this is all done." "I don't have that luxury, I don't care who wins." That honestly makes the attempted capture of Fort Wagner all the more tragic, you can tell very quickly that they're not going to win. Not sure how to feel about that final shot either.
Info:
Release: October 27th, 1995
Director: Jon Amiel
Music by: Christopher Young
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Will Patton, John Rothman, J.E. Freeman, Harry Connick Jr.
Studio: Warner Bros.
Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes
Rating: R
Synopsis: Deeply shaken after being assaulted by a deranged man (Harry Connick Jr.), Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) must face her fears if she is to help solve a series of murders. Helen is a psychologist who has studied serial killers, but this case, in which the crimes seem modeled on the work of infamous deviants, is grimmer than most. With the help of two San Francisco police officers (Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney), Helen tries to come between the murderer and his next victim.
Review: It's no "Silence of the Lambs," but this is a solid thriller. Really like how the film portrays paranoia and phobias, the utter confusion and panic as well as the constantly shifting angles paints a great picture for how deeply upsetting Dr. Hudson's trauma is. Pretty good villain as well, even if his methods for fucking with Dr. Hudson are hilariously dated by today's standards. I don't think a computer file can run away into the distance to delete itself, also his video detailing his next murder was more amateurish and amusing than shocking IMO.
Info:
Release: December 19th, 1980
Director: Colin Higgins
Music by: Charles Fox
Starring: Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, Sterling Hayden
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Rating: PG
Synopsis: Office satire about three female secretaries who decide to get revenge on their tyrannical, sexist boss by abducting him and running the business themselves. The trio, one of whom has been passed over for promotion because she is a woman, spend a night together having drug-induced fantasies of killing the slave-driving chauvinist. One of them panics the following day when she suspects she really has poisoned the tyrant.
Review: A lot better, and darker, than I initially thought it was going to be. I like that they play Mr. Hart very straight and he's not an overly cartoonish depiction of a tyrannical boss. This guy is rude, loud, and a sex pest, something that sadly hasn't changed in the workplace for women in the almost 50 years it's been since this movie came out. It makes the second half of the movie where he gets his punishment very entertaining to watch, I wonder if never being heard from again is the same as murder?
Info:
Release: July 13th, 2001
Director: Frank Oz
Music by: Howard Shore
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Runtime: 2 hours, 4 minutes
Rating: R
Synopsis: Career thief Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) is about to mastermind a nearly impossible theft that will require his joining forces with a clever young accomplice (Edward Norton). The unlikely alliance, arranged by Nick's longtime friend and fence, Max (Marlon Brando), interrupts Nick's plan to retire from crime and settle down with his fiancée, Diane (Angela Bassett). Worse, it requires that Nick violate his most important rule: Always work alone.
Review: Solid heist movie, saw a lot of the cliches and reveals coming from a mile away. So it unfortunately does not get to join the echelon of heist movies I really like such as "Thief," "Heat," and "Ocean's Eleven." Good acting from De Niro and Norton at least, I can see why Norton's cover of being a neurodivergent janitor would rub people the wrong way, but I think it works in the context of the film. Literally nobody would find him suspicious at all since they think he doesn't know any better, I feel so bad for his coworker who found out and desperately tried to catch him before he escaped, poor guy.
Info:
Release: December 18th, 1987
Director: Matthew Robbins
Music by: James Horner
Starring: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy
Studio: Universal Pictures
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Rating: PG
Synopsis: Frank (Hume Cronyn) and Faye Riley (Jessica Tandy) are an elderly New York City couple living in a depressed part of town. There, they run a diner as well as an apartment building, which is home to a poor but friendly group of people. One day, Frank and Faye learn that a property developer wants them to sell the apartment. When they refuse, their diner is vandalized. However, Frank, Faye and their tenants are aided by mysterious flying saucers, which help them repair the diner and fight back.
Review: This was a very cute and very charming movie. Really like the effects work for the Fix-Its, really impressive for the 1980s, very curious how they did most of it. Wasn't expecting them to reproduce either, that was actually upsetting when it looked like they had a miscarriage, but then the guy who didn't speak fixed him which was a nice surprise. Also was not expecting the reveal of why his wife kept calling the guy Bobby to be that sad, very abrupt tonal whiplash.
Info:
Release: September 20th, 2013
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Music by: Johan Johannsson
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Belo, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano
Studio: Warner Bros.
Runtime: 2 hours, 33 minutes
Rating: R
Synopsis: Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), arrests the driver (Paul Dano), but a lack of evidence forces Loki to release his only suspect. Dover, knowing that his daughter's life is at stake, decides that he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
Review: This is a very tense and very VERY stressful movie to sit through at points. Phenomenal acting from Hugh Jackman and Paul Dano, Jackman portrays a father who has lost everything and has nothing else to lose so well, his torture of Dano's character is hard to watch at points. Dano gets points for being very convincing as a hostage, I love how terrified he clearly is when Jackman threatens him with a hammer. The reveal of what actually happened wasn't that shocking, but that scene where Gyllenhaal's character is speeding towards the hospital in the pouring rain is beautiful looking. Great looking film cinematography wise as well, Roger Deakins never dissapoints.
Info:
Release: September 26th, 1997
Director: Lee Tamahori
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Elle Machpherson, Harold Perrineau
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Rating: R
Synopsis:The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert Green (Alec Baldwin) and assistant Stephen (Harold Perrineau), Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert, whom Charles has reason to believe is having an affair with his wife and would not mind seeing him dead.
Review: This is a great survival movie/thriller, love the wilderness setting as well as it makes for somw gorgeous shots of the landscape in the film. Shoutout to the bear as well (he deserved that special mention in the credits) very menacing threat that the two have to deal with, some of the up close shots are insane, I'm surprised how close they got for them. Kinda saw the reveal coming from a mile away, but was pleasantly surprised in the direction the film went afterwards. Caught me off guard.
26M here, I feel as if I'm struggling with trying to meet/befriend (maybe even date if we really want to go there) people in this city. Before anyone brings up therapy as a solution, I have gone, and while it's nice to unload a lot of stress and insecurities in a safe and controlled environment, it feels like I'm only getting a nice talk/someone saying they understand me without giving me a clear solution most of the time. Not to say that it hasn't helped me out, I find myself less prone to ranting about my current life situation to complete strangers who don't deserve all my bitterness and apathy, I still dislike where I am currently, but I'm actively looking to change that going forward. That being said, communication with complete and utter strangers is still a huge hurdle for me. I've tried a few groups out and I've either not been able to talk to anyone, I have talked to people but our interests don't align and the conversation peters out, or I've met people that just completely ghost me after a while. It could be me, it could be them, I don't like to judge or make assumptions, but I'm just baffled that this keeps happening when I'm trying to put forth the effort to be a friendly and outgoing person.
I'm into Movies, video games, comics/manga very basic stuff. Though I've felt as though in the past that I like the "wrong things" if that makes any sense. In regards to movies, I have no problem with people liking more crowd pleaser stuff (Spider-Man: Brand New Day as an example), but I feel like people haven't seen a lot of the stuff I like or want to talk about unless it's super popular.
I've tried with a lot of Meetup Groups, but they always felt very cliquey and not accepting of newcomers at all. The last one I went to was incredibly awkward and uncomfortable, me and a lot of other people just stood around without anyone to talk to or initiate any conversations. Not saying that accepting groups don't exist, but they feel like finding a needle in a haystack.
Just seeking acceptance at this point, I feel very stuck and lonely :(
Info:
Release: September 8th, 1995
Director: Beeban Kidron
Music by: Rachel Portman
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner, Arliss Howard, Chris Penn
Studio: Universal Pictures
Runtime: 1 hour, 48 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) -- one of the losers that evening -- the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joint wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.
Review: Honestly a lot more respectful and tasteful than I thought it was initially going to be, I thought it was going to be a pure comedy at first. I also was not expecting to see scenes of attempted rape and domestic abuse either, it sort of feels like a whiplash at times. I did like that the town they ended up in knew they were drag queens from the start, but didn't care. They were seen as people and not a stereotype, very uplifting message for the mid 90s.