I saw the recent Superman teaser trailer. Usually I am not that interested in superhero movies, but what caught my eye is that apparemtly sincerity is back on the menue.
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anyone else watching/ has watched One Hundred Years of Solitude?
so frikkinâ awesome! really captures the âmagicalâ of magical realism.
that the entire production was filmed in Colombia and acted by Colombian actors,
and was well received by the Colombian people for portraying their ânational poemâ in such a wonderful light, is great praise for the show.
it has been many years since i read the book, but it seems this 8 episode run is only part one. there will be eight more episodes, soon?
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I shouldy reread the book before I see it. It was my Latin American Politics profâs favorite book and I read it for his class in the spring of 1986. I then went on a Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez reading spree during the summer.
Hmmm, maybe I should watch the movie and then reread it?
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oh! do watch, then reread!
thatâs what i am doing and⊠fantastico!
i can see why it has garnered the praise of the country it is such a huge part of!
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Thatâs James Gunn for you⊠youâd think a guy who got his start in the industry at Troma would be nothing but tongue in cheek, but he can do sincerity pretty well.
Also, Krypto!
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Oh, I saw Tromeo and Juliet at the theater not too long ago but I never made that connection.
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I know that fact, but it still blows my mind that someone who got their start at Troma is directing major blockbusters⊠strange times!
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I read parts of the book in HS and did a whole dissection of the themes of the novel. Story-wise it just never really grabbed me, but if i were to describe it to someone who isnât familiar with the book is think of it as Game of Thrones level story telling but in a more grounded world, and with more regular folk. Thereâs a lot of family drama and interconnected generational trauma.
Didnât know they had made a series out of it, but honestly iâm glad it got made (and seemingly well) because Gabriel Garcia Marquez is such an unbelievable writer and story teller. My personal favorite that he wrote is Relatos de un Naufrago (The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor), itâs a highly embellished real life story of a guy that was actually shipwrecked and survived but Marquezâ retelling of it really resonated with me. I havenât re-read it since HS though so i wonder how that holds up.
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I always find it better to watch the movie and read, because doing it the other way around makes it too distracting for me to just watch the movie on its own merits. I constantly compare to what i know of the source material, even if i try not to do it on purpose it just happens automatically and by the end of watching whatever movie iâm just annoyed or disappointed. Watching the movie first, and the reading the book then you are introduced to a much richer wider world and i find that more fun.
I was surprised to see Krypto, but i donât hate it. Want to see how they introduce the dog 
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That sort of thing happens now and then.
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Thanks upthread for the recommendations re: 100 years (I read the book so long ago I canât remember a lot about it). and the new Cunk series (bloody weird genius).
I watched the new Wallace and Gromit (excellent) and tried to find Gavin and Stacey but failed somehow.
So I rewatched the Sandman series, which I loved first time around but, again, have forgotten a lot of the details.
I love his family, from Wiki:
The Endless are a family of cosmic beings who appear in American comic books published by DC Comics. The members of the family are: Death, Delirium, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Derek and Dream.
edited for better word (details not nuance)
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I will say, the twice a year joke swap segment is my goto counter example when someone says âYou canât tell those kinds of jokes anymore because of political correctness/wokenessâ.
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Also⊠this segment on Seth Meyerâs showâŠ
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Same. Maybe a bit long but that seems churlish when it was packed with so much stuff and the animation is just extraordinary, CG films are so common place now that they donât register like they once did but thereâs nothing like this. Still plenty of CG in this but used wisely.
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Oh, I loved it.
There were so many oblique references to dark older movies.
My favourite - Feathers doing pullups in chokey - gotta be Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear.
Too many to mention, warrants further watching.
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I burst out with laughter when the Norbots (so creepy) come to collect him in the zoo and heâs stroking a seal pup like Blofeld.
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I enjoyed the farmer from Shaun the Sheepâs cameo, and the Aliens referenceâŠ
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