RE: Movies/TV Thread
I am SO tempted to go down one of Owl #s' rabbit trails because (and this ties in with the thread anyway) one of my very favorite TV shows is "Air Disasters" on the Smithsonian Channel (and the related "Mayday: Air Disaster" on the Weather Channel). I mean, I have watched every episode multiple times and if you showed me a picture of any NTSB investigator I could probably give you the name. So when Kobe's copter crashed and I saw the wreckage pattern and heard some of the witness reports of engine sputtering and high-speed descent, I instantly ruled out: CFIT (controlled flight into terrain -- he clearly didn't hit the hills in the fog while flying normally) and fuel starvation (out of gas = no postcrash fire), leaving us with either mechanical failure (rare), pilot incapacitation (even rarer), or loss of spatial awareness leading to either a stall or some other loss of control (bingo).
But I digress!
Parasite was a sophomoric anticapitalist critique but still a great film in terms of technique, storytelling, acting, pace, etc. Absolutely deserving of Best Picture, especially given this year's good-but-not-great field. Case in point: I dig Tarantino, so sure, I enjoyed Once upon a Time etc. but come on, a Best Picture nom? In what other year would this (still entertaining) trifle have been put in the category of movies of substance? Nice period piece, but no masterpiece, and frankly lacking in Tarantino-ness until the last half hour. The Irishman: again, good but not great. A technical achievement, sure, and it did hold my interest throughout (then again I'm gonna love most mob movies anyway) but if you name your 3.5-hour movie after one single character, I would expect to know that character inside and out by the time the credits roll. DeNiro sitting in a chair in the old folks' home and staring into the camera while not really saying much took up too much of this movie.
Succession, like Big Little Lies, is beautiful trash IMO, eminently watchable and instantly forgettable (and I'm a connoisseur of beautiful trash, I watch Survivor and Vanderpump Rules!). Chernobyl was great and McMillion$ is good so far, Curb is a Hall of Famer and laugh-out-loud funny as always, and Silicon Valley will sorely be missed. Avenue 5 is on probation with me, although I fully admit that to expect another Veep (absolute Hall of Famer) is unfair. Better Call Saul returns next week!
Heartily recommend What We Do in the Shadows on FX. Season 2 debuts in April. Based on the Taika Watiti (Jojo Rabbit) vampire comedy movie of the same name. Quirky, raunchy, and hilarious.
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2020 03:42 PM by illiniowl.)
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