What is the latest good film you watched ?
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The Oxy Kingpins.
As with "Riders for Justice:" you CAN view it IF you live in New England, thru Thurs 5/13 at 1:40PM EST:
https://iffboston.org/film/the-oxy-kingpins/
Some tidbits:
1. A wholesale drug dealer in Miami was making $40K a week, or roughly $1.4M a year, selling Oxycontin.
2. Wholesale cost = $7 a pill; wholesaler price = $31 a pill; a dealer in Boston was getting $80 a pill, from white kids in the suburbs.
3. During discovery, ONE McKesson Retail Manager approved 200 (!) threshold expansion requests IN ONE DAY. Each request was Approved for an ADDITIONAL 30,000 pills. In that ONE day, he effectively approved another 6M additional pills to be distributed.
4. Following are some examples of town populations, vs. the number of Oxycontin pills distributed to town pharmacies:
4,300 1,800,000
4,500 3,100,000
500 8,000,000
400 9,000,000
50,000 13,000,000
As with "Riders for Justice:" you CAN view it IF you live in New England, thru Thurs 5/13 at 1:40PM EST:
https://iffboston.org/film/the-oxy-kingpins/
Some tidbits:
1. A wholesale drug dealer in Miami was making $40K a week, or roughly $1.4M a year, selling Oxycontin.
2. Wholesale cost = $7 a pill; wholesaler price = $31 a pill; a dealer in Boston was getting $80 a pill, from white kids in the suburbs.
3. During discovery, ONE McKesson Retail Manager approved 200 (!) threshold expansion requests IN ONE DAY. Each request was Approved for an ADDITIONAL 30,000 pills. In that ONE day, he effectively approved another 6M additional pills to be distributed.
4. Following are some examples of town populations, vs. the number of Oxycontin pills distributed to town pharmacies:
4,300 1,800,000
4,500 3,100,000
500 8,000,000
400 9,000,000
50,000 13,000,000
"He took English Lessons in Hell?"
"He gets a new outfit made of plot armor"
Little Red Wagon Repairman
MFOMBSoPGA
The sequel to Train To Busan. Not as good as the original but still worth seeing.
The Gig Is Up.
As with the other movies - you CAN reserve it IF you live in New England, thru Sun 5/16 at midnight EST (view thru Tues 5/18 @ ~ 1:30PM):
https://iffboston.org/film/the-gig-is-up/
Some tidbits:
1. One female Uber driver WAS making $2K a week, when the service first started. She's now LUCKY if she makes ~ $1K a week..
2. One male Uber driver WAS making $1.95 a mile, when the service first started. He's now LUCKY if he makes $0.66 a mile..
3. Non-US or non-Indian workers who perform Mechanical Turk tasks make "up to" $2 an hour. And, they are paid in Amazon gift cards..
4. A Deliveroo biker can pedal 7KM for an order, and receive 5.54 Euro as payment.
5. A French Uber Eats delivery guy was fired after he refused a third delivery over a 90-day period.
As with the other movies - you CAN reserve it IF you live in New England, thru Sun 5/16 at midnight EST (view thru Tues 5/18 @ ~ 1:30PM):
https://iffboston.org/film/the-gig-is-up/
Some tidbits:
1. One female Uber driver WAS making $2K a week, when the service first started. She's now LUCKY if she makes ~ $1K a week..
2. One male Uber driver WAS making $1.95 a mile, when the service first started. He's now LUCKY if he makes $0.66 a mile..
3. Non-US or non-Indian workers who perform Mechanical Turk tasks make "up to" $2 an hour. And, they are paid in Amazon gift cards..
4. A Deliveroo biker can pedal 7KM for an order, and receive 5.54 Euro as payment.
5. A French Uber Eats delivery guy was fired after he refused a third delivery over a 90-day period.
I don't know what possessed the Greeks to start making such constantly weird films but I'm all for it. This might be the best of them.
Luxman
#TRE45ON
The Blackout (2019), a good sci-fi movie from Russia.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8664988/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8664988/
Well this was a pile of fun. Such a great idea, well executed.
I thought it was mediocre at best - so an upgrade on Zack Snyder's usual stuff.
I know it's supposed to be a joke with the diminishing amounts, but I thought it was weird how low the payout was going to be. I mean, for going into a zombie infected city to carry out $200 Million in cash, with a 4 day deadline to nuclear bombardment, I would want more than $2-$15 Million. Heck, I don't even bother with lottery tickets with jackpots less than $20 Million.
I literally had flashbacks to that Austin Powers scene...
Little Red Wagon Repairman
MFOMBSoPGA
If only we coulda had a buddy-cop film with Michael Caine and George C Scott. Any pleasant interaction with the community would seem like a brutal interrogation with all the yelling and growling from those two hams.
Ahh this gets better every time I watch it.