I am ashamed to admit that I have yet to see Schindler's List. The length is putting me off, really, which is sort of funny because I have no problem watching Seven Samurai. I guess the genre plays a part too?
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I am ashamed to admit that I have yet to see Schindler's List. The length is putting me off, really, which is sort of funny because I have no problem watching Seven Samurai. I guess the genre plays a part too?
I've always put it down to her just getting the media backlash for the heinious crime of being absolutely huge and inescapable in pop culture for a while (you know a bit like Kylie got in the mid-90s). I started to sense it around the time of Alien: Resurrection and it was no surprise to me a few years later that the shoplifting incident was absolutely gorged on by the press.
Now, she is experiencing a second Moment in Time and the people in a position to run with that celebration of her are all the key media people from Gen X/Millenials/older Gen Y who loved her from her first moment in pop culture or grew up with her movies on home video.
The length is the most off putting thing about films for me too! I'm gearing up to Ben Hur (which I might have to do in two parts). I've not seen Seven Samurai yet.
Not film but I recently read Gary Numan's autobiography and he said the same thing. The press really went for him in the 80s but 30 years later it was his original fans that ended up becoming journalists and so he finally got a second wind. It's awful that artists sometimes have to wait so long to get a reprise, especially when they've not really done much wrong.
Just watched this new Uglies film on Netflix and honestly... don't bother, absolute hogwash.
Fuck, I liked the book....don't know if I should check it out for nostalgia's sake or steer clear.
Kneecap might be my film of the year so far, so good - especially considering none of the leads are professional actors.
I didn't even realise this until I came home and looked at the wikipedia page for the movie and all the leads names linked back to the original band. They were so good. I just thought they were all TV actors on their first feature (I don't watch TV so I tend to miss a lot of what and who's blowing up in the UK industry unless they impact queer culture)
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Duncan Jones has been a bit of a flop since then but Moon is nepo baby excellence.
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Watching Death Becomes Her in full for the first time. I only caught the last 30 minutes drunk in college like 12 years ago and vibed so yas.
Very excited to try the Kneecap tomorrow.
Very excited to try the Kneecap tomorrow.
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I've been having a rewatch of Lord of the Rings and 20 years on I am still mad about how much Peter Jackson butchered the character of Faramir and how fundamentally he misunderstood him. David Wenham did a great job but I can imagine how much better he could have been and it makes me sad.
Still, he remains my third favourite from the series, behind Eowyn and Merry (I could write a whole ass essay on how much I loved their relationship in the movies, one of the better changes from the book)
Still, he remains my third favourite from the series, behind Eowyn and Merry (I could write a whole ass essay on how much I loved their relationship in the movies, one of the better changes from the book)
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The Dark Knight helped kick off the current superhero glut and Warner Bros have been trying to recapture that high while Marvel/Disney eclipsed them. After the mess of the DCEU they let Todd Phillips have a go at making an unconnected story, which went on to make a billion dollars, so they've given him a sequel.
The Joker is one of three characters where two people have won an Oscar for playing it (along with Anita from West Side Story and Vito Corleone), too.
