AndyDursin wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:55 pm Did you watch the American "highlight reel' SHOGUN ASSASSIN? All the "good parts" rolled into.one 90 minute feature.
Seriously it was a big cult hit at the time. Music by the IN SEARCH OF... guys.
I re-susbscribed to Netflix last week to watch The King, so I will check this one out before my subscription expires (yeah, I already canceled it!).
I think there's been a little worthwhile stuff on NF -- but I watched it all! None of their "original series" have impressed me, and mostly seem like cheap imitations of popular shows on other networks / streaming services.
How old is this "write" Katie Rife. She looks like she bare breaks her 20's. I wonder about the validity of people who frame discussions in an obviously pointed direction for something that's supposed to be about Audio/Video.AndyDursin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:55 am For me, there's enough for me to pay for a monthly subscription. I mean it's less than the cost of 1 movie ticket a month. Theo watches a ton of older animated series which they have on there, so even if we're not watching something together, he gets enough mileage out of it. Some of the original content is good, a lot of it sucks -- my main problem with them is I've sat through several decent original shows, only to have them canceled after literally weeks of first premiering. Their model seems to be throwing a glut of content at the viewer, which makes it difficult to find the decent stuff worth sitting through, though by and large I think it's an extremely good value for the use we get out of it. Even if I don't use it a ton, it's not like they're charging $25 or $50.
As for HILLBILLY ELEGY that was pretty much my reaction Paul -- it's been sanitized enough that it's like an R-rated Lifetime movie, and the way Howard handled some portions of it, you can tell some of the grittiness was glossed over. But the performances for me made it worthwhile.
My thoughts were mostly geared towards a reaction to the hostile, downright angry reviews from liberal wokesters that it's received -- like this one. Some have have called on Amy Adams and Glenn Close to apologize for taking roles in this movie!
https://film.avclub.com/may-hillbilly-e ... 1845625283
Yet comes off as an authority in her "review"! This is how it goes these days. "Critics" are mostly now like "reporters" in the current media: they serve a purpose for advocacy. Something like this triggers them. Something like a typical Disney or Marvel movie with "diversity," they stand up and applaud. Like how BLACK PANTHER is as groundbreaking a cinematic milestone as CITIZEN KANE. I'd be funny if it weren't so sad -- and transparent.Edmund Kattak wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:09 amHow old is this "write" Katie Rife. She looks like she bare breaks her 20's. I wonder about the validity of people who frame discussions in an obviously pointed direction for something that's supposed to be about Audio/Video.
Re-watching Doctor Sleep again recently, it struck me how the role of the young girl "Abra" was white in King's novel, yet black in the movie (with black dad/white mom parents, to boot), and while it certainly didn't "matter" from a narrative standpoint, it does irk me how you can swap a Caucasian character out for a Black/Latino/Asian/Whatever one, and critics will beam at how "diverse" and color-blind the new cinematic landscape has become, yet if you took a character who was specifically Black/Latino/Asian/Whatever in the source material being adapted, and swapped them out for a Caucasian one, you'd get raked over the coals for "whitewashing".AndyDursin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:13 am"Critics" are mostly now like "reporters" in the current media: they serve a purpose for advocacy. Something like this triggers them. Something like a typical Disney or Marvel movie with "diversity," they stand up and applaud. Like how BLACK PANTHER is as groundbreaking a cinematic milestone as CITIZEN KANE. I'd be funny if it weren't so sad -- and transparent.
The door should swing both ways for a truly "diverse" Hollywood. I, for one, am sick of established white characters being swapped out for different ethnicity, when the movies could just create a new character who is black, Asian, Latino, whatever. I don't want to see James Bond become black, Asian, a woman, or a transgender Whatever in a wheelchair in the next recasting of the role. That might make me a racist/sexist/transphobic, backwards-thinking dinosaur, but I've had it. 
