Thanks now I have Panzerlied playing in my head.
With apologies to our German-speaking brethren:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-YroapQT5g
Won’t You Be My Neighbor. Caught it in the local art house theater. One of the more interesting and affecting things I’ve seen in a while. Recommended without hesitation.
Cool thread with an animator breaking down some of the more iconic seqeunces from Akira, which turned 30 years old last week. #ifeelold
https://twitter.com/@twitter/status/1020372022348505088
I was never a big Akira fan personally, but the thing was a spectacular feat of animation.
Murphy's Law. 80's Charles Bronson movie. I expected it to be lame but I actually enjoyed it. It's on Amazon Prime.
Started rewatching The Shield. Vic Mackey beating a pedophile with a phone book in the interrogation room brought back a bunch of fond early 2000's memories.
Yeah... that adaptation did the source work little justice, but the animation was an incredible feat.
On another note, the wife and I watched Get Out last night and it was pretty decent. I think it's running on HBO right now because it's on my Amazon HBO subscription.
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We saw this yesterday. It was helped by the fact that we saw it in the big theater at a local art house, with a good crowd and an excellent audio system. It is an exceptionally beautiful movie and is well soundtracked. It is enjoyable for that alone.
As a portrait of an artist, it's hard not to be cynical. It's easy I think to perceive the art in what Oudolf does, but like many creatives both he and the filmmakers make too much of his significance beyond that. They (both) attempt to suggest that he's somehow doing something about the environment, which is stupid and vain.
There's also a cringeworthy part wherein he's taken to a Texas barbeque and is just aghast at the spectacle, and has some rude things to say later. I'm not sure the irony of those scenes juxtaposed with the final fete wasn't completely lost on the filmmakers, and most of the audience.
All that said, I do recommend it, especially if you have access to bad-ass home theater or better a good large screen experience.
Saw two movies this weekend:
Mamma Mia 2: it's the B side, enough said.
The Equalizer 2: has more of a Taken vibe than the "assault weapons of Home Depot" of the first one, but entertaining enough.