100%. I bought the 4K Blu-rays and watched them both back to back with some friends and family for an epic 6 hour marathon. Incredible experience.
This was a great movie! Highly enjoyed it.
I watch a lot of movies, and 9 months ago I started collecting physical copies to free myself from being a perpetual renter through streaming services. So if I do say so myself, I'm the perfect person to answer this!
I would say the 2 most impactful movies that I've seen, that I cried during (I'm a 30+ year old man), and have watched at least half a dozen times each are:
1: Puss in boots: The Last Wish.
I went to the theater to watch this on a whim thinking I like Shrek movies well enough, and I was stunned the entire time. The animations are stunningly gorgeous, the story is fun and heartfelt, the characters can be hilarious, the villain is incredible. All around, one of my favorite movies of all time. I cannot recommend it enough! Peak DreamWorks.
2: Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio.
I saw it on Netflix when it was recommended and I was crying throughout the entire movie. I have watched it so many times because I showed it to so many people. This is the best Pinocchio adaptation ever made. Incredibly well done story, absolutely gorgeous stop motion animation, and it really puts in perspective the gift that is the time we have to spend with those we love.
Other movies I would also recommend highly as really well done:
3: Dungeons and dragons: Honor among thieves.
This is just a really well made, really fun movie. I've seen it several times and really enjoyed watching it each time. Great characters, really funny interactions, and decent plot.
4: All Quiet on the Western front.
This isn't a fun movie, it's very depressing honestly. Very well done portrayal of life as a young German youth at the start of The Great War, how they were lead to believe war was glorious, and they ended up as shells of their former self through the experience of it.
(The FIAT system has enabled these horrible wars, that alone is enough to make me support Bitcoin with a strong moral conviction, it's just the right thing to do to starve the FIAT system and make these wars less likely to occur, and end them quicker if they do. Loved your book BTW, and love the YouTube video version even more thanks to how it allows me to show the heart of the book to my friends and family in an easily digestible way.)
5: The last duel.
This movie was very different from your typical film. It's an adaptation of a historically based book telling the story of the last duel in medieval France. The duel took place due to a historical rape, and the movie tells the story in 3 chapters which each retell the same story from the different perspectives of each of the main characters. Very well done. Incredible acting by the cast. Incredible set design and costumes. Peak Cinema.
Honorable mentions:
6: Spider-Man across the spiderverse.
Absolutely incredible viewing experience. Incredible animations, great story and audio.
7: Last night in Soho.
Great and unique ghost story style of movie.
8: Everything everywhere all at once.
Hilarious the first time I watched it, but for some reason it's just okay on subsequent watches.
9: Knives out.
Great "Who dunnit?" detective movie.
10: Dora and the lost city of Gold.
Much more enjoyable than I expected, fun movie.
11: Jojo rabbit.
Hard to explain, but it's a great movie.
12: Barbie.
13: Oppenheimer.
14: Dune (Both parts)
Those are my personal recommendations. Maybe someday we can share a cup of coffee and have a chat over some of them, or about macro economics and Bitcoin. I enjoy listening to your interviews on podcasts and especially loved your recent interview on Macroscopic.
I'm actually writing my own book on Bitcoin. Who knows how long until I'll be published, but the best things are worth the wait. Having a low time preference is a much better way of life than most people live, and since I've really embraced that my life has become much more relaxed and enjoyable.
Have a great rest of your week.
#LifeAdvice:
#Slowdown.
Everyone knows that fast paced things seem to end quickly, and relaxed paced things seem to last a while.
The reason is our brains can only absorb and process so much information at a time. If you sit in a park and just #observe your surroundings, or close your eyes and just listen, you notice things you never have before. Ants crawling along the ground, squirrels chasing each other, the way other people are living their lives, birds flying overhead, leaves blowing in the wind.
So much goes on around us that we never notice because we have too much going on so we tune it all out, this actually shortens our lives from a perception stand point and makes us feel like the day went by in a flash.
If I can perceive things more and on a deeper level by going slowly, I'm experiencing more in a shorter amount of time and in a way I'm lengthening my life.
Take your time, don't rush, enjoy the small things and spend quality time with the people around you. Do all this and you will live better than 99% of people.
#TouchGrass
#LiveToLive
#LiveLaughLove
Streaming is trash anymore, I'm tired of being told to be a perpetual renter with monthly subscriptions. As a kid I dreamed of owning my own video rental store, now as an adult I'm saying no to $100/mo of different streaming services and I'm instead building my own "video store" style library of DVDs/Blu-rays/4K Blu-rays. I'm almost to 1000 films for about $7k. Feels good.
If not a small issue with Nostr maybe it's a small issue with how clients rank notes. #Primal
Good Morning, I wanted to test something and point out what may be small a flaw in how we rank posts in #Nostr. Opinions on it?
If this note appears at the top of the most zapped posts list then my suspicions are confirmed.
If you zap yourself a large amount of Sats, there's a net effect on your balance of 0 Sats (as what goes out comes back in), this can be abused to unfairly shoot to the top of the most zapped posts.
In that case perhaps the "most zapped" lists can be set to ignore large zaps from otherwise small relatively inactive accounts or the same account to prevent this?
#GoodMorning #Nostr! Enjoying a nice #walk among #greenery. Very calming.
#TouchGrass #LiveLife #Outdoors #Outside
Over on the #BitcoinSubreddit there are often #Buttcoiners (people from the Buttcoin subreddit) that comment insulting things about Bitcoiners being uneducated or psychotic. I was writing a reply to one when I realized I'm just wasting my time. I'm giving #reddit my content for free, and this person will just dismiss what I say outright because they're not #OpenMinded. Instead, I'll post my reply to all the naysayers here for those who can appreciate it more.
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You don't believe in Bitcoin until you see the problems it fixes, and truly understand that it does fix them and is #unstoppable in it's path.
One thing I know is without Bitcoin there is #NoHope with how things are going.
Unaffordable #housing, unaffordable #education, unaffordable #healthcare, unaffordable #childcare, destroyed #ecosystems, growing #monopolies, continued #debasement of wages 4 - 5% a year (after counting a 2 - 3 % raise for "#CPI adjustment").
Without Bitcoin we'll continue to have government printers enabling #EndlessWars without asking their people, which #destabilizes countries and causes #RefugeeCrises in the countries that accept more than they can comfortable #assimilate.
Few can afford to truly live anymore, less and less people are able to live comfortably on 2 incomes let alone 1. More people are putting off having #children, one of the most beautiful miracles in life, because they can't afford them anymore.
When living in a world of #abundance, why is this the case? Because the money is BROKEN.
Bitcoin is the only solution we have to any of these problems, and it really is the solution. If you don't get it yet then I'm sorry for your future, because it's one without hope for a better world. My future world is one filled with #hope thanks to #Bitcoin, and until I see the #protocol itself stop functioning I don't care what the price is because the principles of #SoundMoney that just works haven't changed.
#FixTheMoney
#FixTheWorld
Any of these?
Isaac Asimov, George Orwell, JRR Tolkien.
The volatility is also evidence that it's a truly free market good. I wrote about this the other day: https://primal.net/e/note1j28fk6jcpszl3r4cqjw9qlkmjy6xg2vpvnzzrn48q0tv26xcecxsscn2xt
I prefer weed, but a good ice cold beer in a glass bottle is just 😗🤌
Protons (they have a positive charge 🤪)
Always open to good book recommendations. I'll check em out!
When I was a child I preferred the square, but now that I'm a man I prefer the triangle.
#TeamTriangle
Good Morning #Nostr! I just finished moving to an awesome new place with my awesome girlfriend, and my first Amazon package delivered here got stolen off my porch! Love it. 🫠
Now the tedious but also fun unpacking and organizing begins. Yay!? 😂
Any funny/crazy moving stories? I'd love to hear them!
#NormalLife
#Moving
#PackageTheft
One thing I love about #Bitcoin is it's #volatility. Why? Because it's volatility is evidence of it being a truly #freemarketgood.
You see when something is 'stable' it's actually being #manipulated. The U.S. Dollar is the most 'stable' currency in the world, yet it loses about 7% of it's value in a year in perpetuity due to this #manipulation. (So only giving the #illusion of stability really).
Here's an #analogy: Think of the demand for any good within a free market like an open pool of #EconomicEnergy that we'll represent with oil (the demand is literally the economic energy flowing into it, through purchases and the work needed to create more of this market good), with the surface of the pool being the spot price.
Just as with actual oil it takes a lot of energy to produce new quantities of this oil and put it into the pool, but this is good because it maintains the quality of the oil (energy) in the overall pool. It's volatile but the larger the market the less turbulent the surface is relative to the overall capacity, and you're confident that the quality of the oil you put in will be the same as what you pull out.
(Bitcoin specifically revolutionized this mechanism by adding a way to track the percentage of the overall system that your energy represents at the time you input it, and maintains that percentage as the network grows to maintain fairness for everyone.)
Dumping a ton of oil in this pool at once (lots of buying/producing) causes the surface to become more turbulent, and scooping a ton of oil out all at once (selling/spending/using) does the same.
With Bitcoin, this pool always has a source of new oil regardless of what the market is doing. That is the value of the time / effort / energy that the #MiningNetwork is inserting through #ProofOfWork which simultaneously expands the pool size (the ever reducing creation of new coins) and adds new oil (the proof of work energy those coins represent) at the same time to maintain and grow the overall capacity of the pool.
Mining is the constant source of the energy needed to make the system sustainable (like the Sun provides to earth which sustains life), without it the system cannot survive due to the #SecondLawOfThermodynamics stating all isolated systems become chaotic due to increasing #entropy without a new external source of #energy. This is why #ProofOfStake coins are #unsustainable long term, they have no perpetual source of new energy input outside the open market. Proof of stake coins are closed systems doomed to fail without offering an alternative value proposition to sustain them.
When people stop focusing on the surface turbulence they realize that over time the overall energy of Bitcoin's pool is consistently growing larger, supported by mining, and the surface waves aren't worth worrying about at all if you're not over extended/leveraged.
On the other hand, a government currency is like a sealed box of pressurized water that was once an open pool of oil when it was on the Gold standard. It once was the case that both citizens and their governments would need to do work to put actual oil into it, preserving the quality within when withdrawn, and the market for gold matured long ago so it's volatility was rather small relative to it's overall value enabling it's use as a unit of account.
Gold also takes energy in through the mining of new Gold, but lacks the tracking mechanism to maintain percentages of the overall system that our input represents.
When governments broke from the Gold standard they put a lid on this pool, with a funnel for citizens to continue putting their hard earned oil (economic energy) in, and small valves the government controls for the distribution of oil to those same citizens.
At the same time they added special giant in and out connections for themselves that allow them to simultaneously pump in as much water as they want (printing more fiat with no marginal cost of production, and therefore no energy being input into the system) which dilutes the oil and reduces its ability to function for its purpose (pay for things), while also pumping the mix of citizen provided oil (diluted with government water) out when needed to spend however they see fit.
They can exchange worthless water with the mixture of oil and water as much as they want/need; do it too quickly and citizens lose faith in the pool, as it's obviously not as pure as the oil they put in, and the currency hyperinflates. 7% a year is enough that most people don't immediately notice the change in quality over time, especially when technology reduces how much oil is needed to live through efficiency gains.
In this #FIAT system their is no surface turbulence because it's a sealed box so people have a false sense of safety, in turbulent markets when the pressure in the box grows too low they add restrictions on your ability to use your oil, and pump in a lot of water to increase the pressure of the system to make everyone think everything is fine. But this again reduces the quality of the oil within and also reduces faith in the system (what good is money if it's unavailable when you need it most?), and you need more of this diluted oil to get things done.
Eventually governments abuse this and the system gets diluted of economic energy faster than citizens can add fresh oil, and it just becomes plain water that nobody can use for anything.
Bitcoin prohibits these government manipulation tactics. There is no dilution of the oil allowed. No special government spiggets. It's fair for everyone thanks to it's method of tracking the percentage of the overall system our input represents. During market turbulence you have full access to your #SelfCustodied Bitcoin. And it has a constant source of fresh oil from the mining network that sustains the energy held within.
Bitcoin is truly #Revolutionary. It provides us a way to #Peacefully starve the current toxic system that is #Enslaving us to ourselves. I welcome the #NewAge of #Prosperity it is slowly bringing to #Humanity, and I can't wait to see what the next few decades bring about when supported by the #SoundMoney system that is ₿.
#Freedom
#Bitcoinisfreedom
#Bitcoinisfair