Most people think the original is good as well, doesn’t make them right. /snark
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Well, I mean, let’s be honest: the original film was a box office bomb that became a cult noir/sci-fi favorite over the past 30-some years, but is still very much a niche film that a lot of people feel is ‘style over substance’ or simply boring and pointless. When I heard box office projections of the new movie anywhere from $50 to $80 million, I had to laugh; a three-hour-long slow-moving atmospheric meditation on the nature of humanity is going to have its own niche audiences. Some will dig the heck out of it and others will feel the way they did about the original. No worries.
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I loved it but I know haters hate it and it didn’t do well financially. I plan on seeing it in the theater a second time.
I thought it was beautiful and I liked the performance of the actors. I’m a huge fan of the director (since Sicario) as well.
I did think this was a problem, especially given how this is supposed to be a hyper-multiethnic LA. They also excised almost all “cityspeak” that I loved in the original. No weird dialect of English/Japanese/Spanish at all.
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Really, this got flagged?
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I thought it would be obvious that I was kidding with the Goodfellas reference about my obvious reluctance to rewatch a movie that bored me, but
UNFUCK 'EM, IF THEY CAN’T TAKE A JOKE.
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The more I thought about it, the more it seems like a deliberate choice (for reasons not clear to me) rather than just lazy casting. In thinking back to the child slave pit scene, I remember it being a room of hundreds of identical androgynous white kids, and many of the main characters were ivory-white people – which, in a world with little to no sunlight, makes sense, and visually makes them stand out against the dark dreary backgrounds. I’m not saying it was a good choice, but I’d be curious to know the thinking behind it.
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don’t look at me. i may disagree with you 100%, but i don’t think i’ve ever flagged anything here ever.
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I wasn’t, actually; although we obviously don’t agree, you remained amicable the whole time. Who knows, maybe I hurt some poor little fangirl’s fee-fees with my sarcastic opinions…
I know my humor is often on the coarse and bawdy side; but I’ve always owned that, and I’m not going to change any time soon.
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Don’t you dare.
or, like, do, if you want to. I’m not the boss of anybody, but it’s up to you.
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I couldn’t, even if I tried… (Mien, herr.)
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Binged this today… and is kind of a satire version of Westworld. Completely enjoyed it. Going back to my cocoon of goo until the next season drops to Netflix (or other … um … channels).
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I’ve been watching Community. I’m not sure why I didn’t watch it before, and I’m really enjoying it.
I also just saw Get Out, and I would definitely recommend it.
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So, I’ve been (slowly) working my way through the classic Dr Who episodes since I mentioned it in The Other Place way back when. Didn’t manage to watch 'em all during the hiatus, got bogged down too much on reconstructed episodes/real life.
I’ve finally made into the Pertwee/Baker era. Yay, no more slideshow reconstructions, and some of my favorite characters!
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Eventually I will work my way through classic Doctor Who, but I’m in no hurry.
Right now, I’m pacing myself with the last 3 episodes of Calpaldi’s run, because I know that’s it, until until the Xmas special…
I’m also watching the Good Place and Ghosted.
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This is my second stroll through the entire series, so I haven’t exactly been hurrying. I burned through most of the first Doctor’s run pretty quickly, but I have to take the reconstructions in bursts - I find I really need to devote a lot more attention to them in order to keep track of what’s going on. The animated reconstructions are better, (I even managed to pick up the animated version of Power of the Daleks when it released just in time for me to hit that storyline), but on those the animation still ends up being pretty sparse and needs more attention than the regular video.
To be fair, even though I am a little less than halfway through the classic seasons, I have still managed to get well over halfway through the classic episodes. So I suppose I haven’t been slacking too much.
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omg, we just got caught up. like EVERY DOCTOR, EVERY TIME, i’m going to be so sad to see Capaldi go – but i’m also going to be excited to see where Jodie Whitaker takes the character.
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Harmon Quest is pretty funny.
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I gave up of Lucifer about a year ago after Tricia Helfer joined the cast. It felt like it was headed in a Mork and Mindy kind of direction, and I wasn’t interested in that.
So now season 3 is upon us, and I thought maybe I should binge season 2 just to see if anything worthwhile ever happened. At least it would be over quickly.
And — whoa 
OK actually what happened is the show got a lot darker and more tragic right after I stopped watching. Good job, Lucifer. I should have had more faith.
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I was surprised how much I enjoyed the first season. I haven’t seen anything from the new season yet – I’m still trying to figure out how to actually view it on its new streaming service.
** ahemyoutubehem **
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