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Variously translated as "The Angel of Hearth and Home" or "The Fireside Angel", subtitled: "The Triumph of Surrealism."

Ernst painted The Triumph of Surrealism shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. In this conflict, Spanish fascist leaders were supported by Germany and Italy in their victory. Ernst's goal was to depict the chaos that he saw spreading over Europe and the ruin that fascism brings to countries.

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retitled by Ernst in 1938 as The Triumph of Surrealism, "a despairing reference to the fact that the surrealists with their Communist ideas had been unable to do anything to resist fascism."

https://www.max-ernst.com/the-triumph-of-surrealism.jsp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo)

This is a pretty horrible movie in terms of acting, plot, realism, special effects, etc. The one redeeming value is the following. Apparently it was made with the support of the local chapter of the Japan Karate Association, a "traditional" shotokan karate organization known for the rigor and quality-control of its training. So every once in a while you'll see people doing karate moves that clearly demonstrate they've spent years of practice on them.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14991177

A famous martial artist, Steve Hunt, travels to the desert for what he thinks is an Olympic-style competition. The competition turns out to be a trap set by Baron von Rudloff, an ex-Nazi general who is still bitter over the humiliating defeat of his martial arts team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_or_Be_Killed_(1976_film)

It has a sequel, you know....

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHFcQlOiM0 - this film, "Kill or Be Killed"
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hwo2Cu6Sg - the sequel, "Kill and Kill Again"

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No. 4.– The picture represents the Vicious State, or State of Destruction. Ages may have passed since the scene of glory – though the decline of nations is generally more rapid than their rise. Luxury has weakened and debased. A savage enemy has entered the city. A fierce tempest is raging. Walls and colonnades have been thrown down. Temples and palaces are burning. An arch of the bridge, over which the triumphal procession was passing in the former scene, has been battered down, and the broken pillars, and ruins of war engines, and the temporary bridge that has been thrown over, indicate that this has been the scene of fierce contention. Now there is a mingled multitude battling on the narrow bridge, whose insecurity makes the conflict doubly fearful. Horses and men are precipitated into the foaming waters beneath; war galleys are contending: one vessel is in flames, and another is sinking beneath the prow of a superior foe. In the more distant part of the harbor, the contending vessels are dashed by the furious waves, and some are burning. Along the battlements, among the ruined Caryatides, the contention is fierce; and the combatants fight amid the smoke and flame of prostrate edifices. In the fore-ground are several dead and dying; some bodies have fallen in the basin of a fountain, tinging the waters with their blood. A female is seen sitting in mute despair over the dead body of her son, and a young woman is escaping from the ruffian grasp of a soldier, by leaping over the battlement; another soldier drags a woman by the hair down the steps that form part of the pedestal of a mutilated colossal statue, whose shattered head lies on the pavement below. A barbarous and destroying enemy conquers and sacks the city. Description of this picture is perhaps needless; carnage and destruction are its elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)

Not a GREAT movie, but I think it's fun, and the idea is solid.

"the truth is, there's more than enough. no-one has to die before their time."

cross-posted from !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee

In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol.

Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star as inhabitants of a society that uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency, with each individual possessing a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live. Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki, and Alex Pettyfer also star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time

About half of these are cyberpunk, most of the rest are kinda steampunk I guess. The music is sorta weak so just listen to some synthwave instead lel.

When, at an important moment in the story of an anime, the quality of the animation improves drastically to make more impact or to be more dramatic or memorable, you can say that this moment is sakuga or has sakuga.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sakuga

The link goes to Episode 1 of the 1994 live action TV series. See this playlist for all 22 episodes of Season 1. There was no Season 2; apparently ratings weren't that good. But it's not that bad, given the limitations of its TV budget.

RoboCop is a 1994 cyberpunk television series based on the RoboCop franchise. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence of the original film RoboCop and its sequel RoboCop 2 and is more in line with the tone of RoboCop 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(live_action_TV_series)