I’ll probably be looking at this just for the historical interest, since it’s very early moviemaking style (silent film with titlecards), but…
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Something else I WON’T be watching:
FFS, filmmakers, I don’t want another story about how a white guy gained his one, black friend. That is not an interesting story in this here 2018. I want the story about the actual interesting person. Ah, well. At least you saved me some money and time.
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“Three years ago when we started writing this thing, no one knew about it --not no one , obviously, but nobody I knew,” Farrelly told Shadow and Act about why he chose to title his movie Green Book . “White people didn’t know about it, I didn’t know about it, and most of the Black people that I spoke with didn’t know about,” he said.
Um. I knew about it, and I’m not even from a country where the Green Book was used. There were at least two longform news articles about it in recent years, plus there’s been talk about resurrecting the Green Book because of all the crap going on with Trump.
Sounds like the director/writer needs to get out more.
I’m pretty sure this is one of the articles I read:
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Mentioned on this very site
and in at least two threads on BoingBoing in the past year.
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I know!
That movie is angling itself as Oscar-bait, and might even get there, too. Another racist disaster, just like the Academy adores.
I really want the story of Dr. Don Shirley, though. Properly centred (on him!) you could have something awesome.
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Thank you! I was wondering if it was from here. Makes sense.
The news curation. It is working.
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I guess Iit tells us a lot about how the people in the Academy think, at least.
With Get Out, Black Panther, Moonlight, and many, many others, maybe that’s been smashed once and for all.
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I said back when Donald Trump asked “What is wrong with these shithole countries,” someone should answer him. People are starting to.
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Although the shithole country referenced here is mostly just the U.S. He really could have talked a lot more about not-the-U.S./Canada America. Maybe as a series instead of an extended bit.
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I watched You Were Never Really Here this evening.
It’s a familiar path based on a novel, so nothing really new or surprising, story-wise. However, it’s from Lynne Ramsay, writer/director of films such as Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, and We Need to Talk About Kevin. I’ve always felt her perspective and visual translation is one of the better elements of contemporary filmmaking.
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Well they’ve cancelled dare devil so I guess thats all of them.
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All of the Marvel Netflix shows? Not quite: Jessica Jones and The Punisher haven’t been pink-slipped yet.
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Ok that’s something.
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I watched this the other night (Netflix).
It’s been compared to a Black Mirror episode, and just judging by the plot that’s fair, although the execution isn’t on that level. Still, it’s an entertainingly creepy thriller.
Fun fact: I just found out that the lead actress, Madeline Brewer, was actually in an episode of Black Mirror.
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Over the last holiday we we’re trying to find something the two of us would both like.
My partner mentioned Star Trek -Discovery. I had been briefly interested in it when it was announced, but wasn’t going to pay for another streaming service. So I promptly stopped paying attention to it.
But, there was a free month offer which I thought we might get through season one in that time.
It started off good, but my partner checked out during the third episode.
I made it to episode 13 and just can’t bring myself to watch any more.
I could rant about everything I felt was wrong, but I’ll just chalk it up to being “not made for me.”
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Alien Covenant: It starts off as pretty standard Alien flick-- naive humans get curious, they split up, they do stupid things, and the Aliens start eating them.
But, all of a sudden, it starts continuing the narrative threads of Prometheus.
Also, robots are very bad for human health. Especially David.
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Weirdly, I just came here to post that I just finished the first season and have the complete opposite reaction that you did! I thought I’d go in not liking it, but I really did enjoy it. It had enough Star Trek elements for me and I think it’s probably the most like DS9 (which is my personal favorite Trek). What I did not like was the Klingon redesign, I just flat hate how these Klingons look. The movie/TNG Klingons are the best Klingons. I liked everything else, though.
But yeah I can see how some might not enjoy it.
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Too much, “Surprise! It’s a twist!”
Too much violence for my partner. (The comments about eating the first captain made her leave the room)
The tech seemed too advanced for 10 years before TOS.
Time manipulation at the drop of a hat. Harry Mudd (admittedly well played) has a time loop thingy. And of course the Fungus Freeway offers time travel.
And the Spore Drive? How are they going to make any knowledge of that disappear from the data banks. I’m sure Janeway would have liked that back in the Delta Quadrant.
Why did Spock never mention his adopted sister?
I want more boldly going and less federation at war.
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This is my problem with pretty much all Trek since Voyager ended. Even the first season of Enterprise seemed to be too much about the run-up to the Temporal Cold War (and I more-or-less stopped watching after the first season).
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