#rollerball — Public Fediverse posts

I didn't realize that #RollerBall was such a prescient movie. I'm going to have to watch it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMbnCJMKxy/

@ChrisCorrigan

Yeah! #rollerball #sportsbetting #nhl #nfl #mlb

#fifa #eufa #concacaf #football

#abjectcorruption

#peckerheads

#kushner

#worldcup

(And the #ioc, cuz why not!)

On June 24, 1994, Escape From New York, Rollerball, and Logan's Run were screened as a triple-feature on TNT's MonsterVision. Here's some art inspired by the three features!
.
#MonsterVision #MutantFam #EscapeFromNewYork #Rollerball #LogansRun #Dystopia #SciFi #SciFiArt #Art #FilmSky

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Action #BallisticEcksvsSever #Rollerball 6 Worst 2000s Action Movies That Are Truly 0/10 http://dlvr.it/TT3sNr

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Action #PointBreak #Rollerball 10 Worst Remakes of Beloved Action Movies, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TSSRS0

This movie was more interesting than I expected. I thought it would basically be a sports / action / SF movie but it was actually more a melancholy art movie.

James Caan gives an unusual performance. Most of his dialogue I simply didn't catch. That's how mumbly he is. But his character is — no pun intended — extremely laid back considering he's the most terrifying Rollerball player ever and considering he's being forced out of the league by corporate overlords.

#movies #Rollerball

One thinks about a lot of things while watching movies. That's what they are, actually: contemplation spaces. While watching Rollerball, I spent quite a bit of time thinking about how little a helicopter blade would have to teeter to slice off someone's head.

#movies #Rollerball #cinemastodon

The future will be recumbent.

#movies #Rollerball #cinemastodon

Here's a first generation #LamyTipo with a blissful #Schmidt #FineLiner 6080 refill replacing #Lamy's abysmal M66 #rollerball; one of the few #Pens, that aren't #FountainPens, I deign to use.

I am struck by how the only bit of the film Rollerball which hasn’t yet neared reality is the cultural ubiquity of the game itself: the film’s portrayal of the destruction of traditional sources of knowledge with digitised and sanitised information, the rise of hallucinatory AI and the rising power of corporations (and their executives) over governments was at the time satirical (and faintly ridiculous) but now seems painfully prophetic. Here’s the sequence where Jonathan E starts to realise his thirst for knowledge is not going to be satisfied (reducing him back to ‘just’ a sportsman, with only power through violence left to him)…

https://youtu.be/g6-rcIjKFFs

Also see:

https://reel-librarians.com/2017/02/01/reel-librarians-in-rollerball/

Yes this is a a subtoot ;-)

(Norman Jewison also directed the movie of Jesus Christ Superstar, which includes the use of IDF tanks and a fighter jet)

#digitization #libraries #rollerball #AI

RETRO MOVIE REVIEW: ROLLERBALL, 1975
ROLLERBALL, 1975. Directed by Norman Jewison (THE CINCINNATI KID, 1965 and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, 1967). Starring James Caan, THE GODFATHER, 1972 and FREEBIE AND THE BEAN, 1974.

If there’s an old classic science fiction film that holds relevancy today it’s the epic blood sport film...
https://comiccrusaders.com/tv-movies/retro-movie-reviews/retro-movie-review-rollerball-1975/
#James Caan #Lance Lucero #Norman Jewison #retro movie review #ROLLERBALL

Movie Review: Rollerball

I liked the scene when Jonathon E asks the computer to explain the corporate wars---and the computer refuses to answer:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&id=27

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#dystopia #rollerball

John McTiernan: “

TAGS: #JohnMcTiernan #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmDirector #FilmMaker #Screenwriter #DieHard #BruceWillis #JanDeBont #TheThomasCrownAffair #TheHuntForRedOctober #LastActionHero #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #Basic #Rollerball #BIFFF #FilmIndustry #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2022/09/27/john-mctiernan/

I have a new pen. This is one I designed and made myself!

Printed on an FDM printer in PLA, using a brick-layer POS processing script.

It requires a bit of cleanup with sandpaper, but works well.

#pen #3dprinting #fdm #rollerball

My sense was that the #movie #Rollerball was set far into the future, but it was set in 2018. They got the corporatocracy right to some extent. #film

🍿Dystopian classic Rollerball (1975) is set in 2018 and stars James Caan as Jonathan E, star of an ultraviolent gladiatorial sport.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DH1Z2qdMSKi/?igsh=eDJydGJ5MzUyaGs3

#rollerball #jamescaan #movies #films #filmreview #movietok

https://youtu.be/75-9A6XZt9s?feature=shared

#rollerball #murica #liberty #therewasnoremake

Baroness put on #TheIcePirates, and I just noticed that on the ship they loot at the start of the film, the entire bridge crew are watching #RollerBall!

Great Sci-Fi Movie Posters, day 8. #GreatHorrorMoviePosters #MoviePosters #Rollerball