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I enjoyed Pantheon, it was a bit lib but it had Maoist representation.
The ending was very very good. It reminded me a bit of Dark.
The animated show?
Yeah
I liked the whole deal of making the Indian AI’s work process directly analogous to the cycle of rebirth, playing a mantra (speicifically the first line of the Gayatri mantra over and over again) as he repeats the same day indefinitely. And his breaking out of his samsara as a revelatory thing, although they undermined it a lot by doing the whole “It’s bad to do revolution. Also if you want to do revolution you have to end up a weird supremacist”. But overall there were a lot of small things like that that were really cool. A LOT of thought clearly went into the themes, music and art.
I kind of dislike the worship of singular genius, especially when the guy it is directed at was just Steve Jobs.I thought the whole thing with Laurie’s character was the positive version of Chanda’s revolution (though it was a bit suicidal to leave it up to the rest of humanity to decide whether you get to exist anymore or not) and it was her ideas that end up getting implemented in the last couple episodes, except for when communication between the UIs and the humans breaks down. I don’t know that I agree that it went fully into the swerve territory.
It isn’t the swerve, because there is no point where Chanda’s cause is portrayed as sympathetic. He goes from exploited to evil without a stop in-between.
And while Laurie is indeed a more sympathetic take on someone opposed to the company that created them, that is in part because she’s much more of a lib.
Watched Cinderella with the kid for the first time. She’s 2, and doesn’t get any screen time, so it was a special treat. I don’t think it’s a very good or interesting story, however I was really impressed by the quality of animation and the art style. Even the Tom & Jerry -esqe antics were delightful to watch.
I thought it was funny that the Grand Duke dispatches these terrifying black riders brandishing weapons to pursue Cinderella. I imagined them misunderstanding the assignment and slaughtering Cinderella’s friends and roughly hauling her back to the palace to be presented to the Prince.
“Imagine every landlord acted like Cinderella’s stepmother” = the way to explain the Land Reform Movement
Nathan Fielder is a genius, and You Can See Everything is a trip. He does a good job of reusing Fielder-style tropes to make something new, while also finding ways to innovate bits.
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"Isn’t is a bit ironic that I used to make a show about business scams, and now im here?
“hm? I dont see what you mean”
Cracked me tf up
Also saw No Other Choice. It’s a Korean film that’s directly about the alienation from one’s labor under capitalism; anyone who has been unemployed or had to deal with layoffs will find it cathartic.
South Koreaans have been making solid anticapitalist films for a long time now. Excited to see the output after reunification. It is feeling more and more like a unified Korea will be possible in our lifetimes (might be close to the end, but still). Not because of the movie ofc
Rule #1: ALWAYS be glazing Park Chan Wook
Almost finished watching Righteous Gemstones which is great, also recently finished all of Succession, but the ones I have been enjoying most are the Guy Richie Irish gangster series, MobLand and The Lowdown, which has Ethan Hawke playing a very Hunter S Thompson esque gonzo journalist in Tulsa Oklahoma.
My partner and I are partway through Righteous Gemstones and really enjoying it. They made the observation that it’s like if The Gang from It’s Always Sunny was inserted into Succession and it has made it so much funnier somehow
The Gang from It’s Always Sunny was inserted into Succession
lmao that is a perfect comparison.
You should definitely watch The Lowdown I think you both would like it a lot.
Right? The show really clicked once we started viewing it through that lense (not that we didn’t enjoy it before).
And hell yeah, will do! I looked it up, but the nonspoilered description was super short. But based on your previous suggestions being great, I’m definitely in regardless
Also if you like Ethan Hawke, I highly recommend The Good Lord Bird. It’s based on a historical fiction telling of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry and Ethan Hawke plays John Brown. It fucking rules.
I have seen a clip of that I think! I’m not particularly a fan of him (as in like he’s not someone I follow, he seems fine in everything) but that sounds awesome
Been watching Godzilla movies. Decided to check out the English dub of GMK the other night and despite being g a pretty literal translation, it’s a bit too literal and the actors clearly arent enthused making the tone way campier for something already pretty campy. The real draw is the monster fights of course, it’s a 2001 movie so near the very end of dressing guys up in monster suits in a miniature city and and it shows…they knew the craft super well. Lot of great uses of rear projection or keying out and replacing backgrounds. Godzilla throws a monster from a rear screen shot and it lands in the foreground, it’s low budget enough to be able to kinda tell how it was done, but pulled off so well regardless. The model work was also fantastic. Gotta say, Tokyo does seem to have a very tenacious power grid cause lights were still on in building well into the destruction.
Once Upon a Time in the Middle East was excellent.
I’m really enjoying The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza on Adult Swim.
EDIT: Just finished Resident Evil last night. I won’t say it was great, but it absolutely embodied the experience of playing those games. It was funny, too.
Other movies on my list:
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
A New Dawn
Barry Lyndon
Hope
Primetime
The Cycle
The Weight
I watched The Rover (2014) last week, and I don’t usually enjoy post-apocalyptic movies, but this one seemed pretty realistic, and didn’t get into the weeds of how or why civilization ended, and more just about the feeling of it.
But there was still just enough world building to imagine how it probably happened.
I recommend it.
Obsession is amazing but holy shit if you have Content warning issues def check it out. Exit 8 was very good and a good horror for anyone who doesn’t like jumpscare and want focus on atmosphere.
havn’t watched as much stuff lately beside that other then youtube.
Watched The Devils (1971) recently. It was delightfully fucked up. 10/10.
Bugging my friends to go with me, got tickets for next week, so excited ngl
Cyberpunk Edgerunners S2
Prime Time was pretty good. I do think this vein of “isn’t the present so ugly” films like it, Eddington, (arguably the Knives Out movies), etc. that are coming out lately are gunna’ get heavily readjusted (downwards) in appreciation in 10-15 years, especially because they barely say anything – they’re just presenting the current time we live in back at us – but it was still good. It balanced on the line of how we live in a predatory society and then the media is like another sick layer on top of that sickness. Pattinson was really good as Chris Hansen too.
I’m trying to get my “To Catch A Moderator” show off the ground but no one’s biting and everyone keeps telling me “it doesn’t make sense” or “how do you even lure a moderator to a physical location when they’re a strictly online phenomenon?” Idiots.
Let me read this post “That bussy got me actin’ up.”
You felt the need to remove this post? From the BadPosting comm?
You know how this looks, right?
It looks like petty tyranny disguised as social justice. Our researches have the post removal reason as “transmisogynist”.
There are similar posts in c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns and yet this post was removed. Why?
And why did you previously state it was a month-old account in previous modlog entries when our researchers have proven it to be at least twice that in age?
Been watching From, into early second season. Some nice metaphors about mid-20th century America.
Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother is about a devoutly religious ex-hitman struggling to find breast milk for his infant daughter on the backdrop of a gang war waged by religious fundamentalists before he accidentally stumbles into acting out a muslim John Wick style film.
The Mayfair Set is a four episode documentary series from 1999 about how the British and American economies got to their current state with growing finance capital destroying the existing industrial capital infrastructure.
Fred Dibnah’s World of Steam, Steel and Stone is a documentary series about the notable landmarks of Britain’s industrial heritage and the role they played.
Also been watching a ton of old Hammer movies, October sort of got me hooked and now I can’t stop, all this technicolour blood is so goated.
I watched a bit of Families Like Ours, which is about the idea of “What if climate refugees were white, and therefore worth empathising with”.
So far it’s ok. All the characters (But one) are bougie and privileged and I kind of feel like Thomas Vingerberg has reached that point where a creative has been rich for too long, but i am invested in the drama.
