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No AI. No color. No sound. No kiddinâ, this is magnificent!
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I just watched the whole original series. I highly recommend it. I think it works better streaming than it did originally week to week. The first season is definitely stronger, but the actors are so compelling, the whole thing is a lot of fun.
I remembered it as being very trippy and disjointed, but actually, itâs pretty cohesive.
I have a new respect for Kyle McLaughlin. He was always pitch perfect. He is super impressive as an actor.
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We watched Coupling some years ago. It is hilarious!
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My daughter and I saw Dune last night in the theater. It was so good. We both agreed that it was nice to go the theater to see a movie that needed the big screen and the sound. There was a lot of CGI crowd stuff, but it actually served the plot because it really shows the scale of this religious fervor they are whipping up.
There was great costume design. I like how theyâve adapted what was in the book to the screen.
To me, itâs like what I want Star Wars to be. It has a lot of that feel of clunky old school machinery on a hard scrabble planet, but thereâs a lot more internal motivation of the characters that creates good plot conflicts that seem to arise more from each characterâs unique role than I find in Star Wars.
Timothee Chalomet is a great lead for this; heâs blank enough that he is an âinsert selfâ character, which is definitely what the lead of Dune is supposed to be. Youâre the hero saving the world! But he also pulls off all the action and smolders with gawky teenage musky attractiveness. He reminds me SO MUCH of my high school boyfriend, not that they looked alike, but just in personality and physicality. He definitely feels like a teenager even though I think heâs like close to 30 now.
There are way more women characters than in the first movie and they have more interesting, complex roles. I especially felt that Zendayaâs character had a much more interesting part in this movie.
Iâm looking forward to Part 3. I know thatâs not greenlit yet, but I canât imagine they wonât make it.
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What is Wim Wenders watching?
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Surprised I never heard of this movie before. Itâs a bit like Dangerous Minds + Dead Poetâs Society + Red Dawn all mixed together with mid-80âs style and music.
Some of the reviews mention Miami Vice, but I donât really remember that show. Others label it as an action movie but, while there are a couple of really good action scenes, itâs mostly about a group of juvenile delinquents growing as individuals and learning to work together and become a force for good. With a teacher that has a few problems fitting into the system but really only cares about helping the kids. Itâll make you feel things.
Itâs free on Youtube. Well worth a watch.
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After watching the first episode, three reactions (avoiding spoilers):
- A few actors are similar enough that Iâm having trouble keeping track, though this could just be face blindness in action.
- It looks like theyâve recontextualized the ânear futureâ of the novel to more present day. Itâll take more to know what I think of that, but it feels like they might need to spend time explaining some things that could have been lampshaded and then just gone with the setting. On the other hand, it looks like theyâre avoiding explaining things like the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation to the viewers.
- Things feel⌠a little rushed? Itâs like theyâre trying to pack in added character information while still trying to compress the time scale, so important points are both coming quickly, but also sometimes being interrupted for no apparent reason.
And one (minor spoiler) thing that applies to both the show and novel:
Technically (and if you avoid metaphors), itâs a 4-body problem. Small detail, but one that keeps being ignoredâŚ
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Pyutin and Gazz.
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What a mess.
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One of my all-time faves! When I was about 10 years old I could be found glued to the TV every Saturday evening absorbing the latest episode, watching the Eagles crash.
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Two of my favorite channels on YouTube:
I donât know what it is about this channel. Iâve been watching it since before the pandemic. I appreciate that thereâs no dialogue but thatâs true for a couple of channels. In this particular episode, he somehow manages to make it seem like heâs all alone, if you donât count the audio. He somehow fills the time with all of these empty, liminal spaces.
I canât tell if his channel is some sort of stealth marketing for inter-island travel inside Japan, or if he genuinely just loves to travel by ferry.
And then thereâs his preoccupation with industrialized food.
This is another one of my favorites. These two guys are real craftsmen. The location is beautiful.
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I find that Iâm ignoring the plots and just looking at it. It just looks so good.
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Up to episode 4, and it seems like a pretty faithful depiction of the wasteland so far. Although I know there was a lot of AI-generated angst about the trailers, the show itself seems fairly solid.
Though the ârule of thumbâ thing has been debunked, it still gave me chillsâŚ
(from the comments on that video:
âŚyeah, that. )
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Stingray was better.
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This was a fun little lighthearted family road trip movie in the style of National Lampoonâs Vacation. The dysfunctional family takes a road trip full of mishaps to try to get their daughter to a childrenâs beauty pageant so she can live out her dream, which doesnât turn out quite like anyone expected.
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