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shadowkat1. Wonder Woman #2: 1984 Trailer
One question? How in the hell are they going to explain bringing Steve Rogers back from the dead?
I'm more interested in Mulan -- which is the only Disney animated film that actually works better as a live action film.
2. Peter Hotez vs. Measles and the Anti-Vaccination Movement
3. Well...as my father turns 84, some of his contemporaries didn't survive, actors Ron Leibman (Norma Ray, Angels in America, Rachel's father in Friends) and acclaimed Star Trek actor, Rene Auberjonois died at 81 and 79 respectively.
Auberjonois wasn't just known for his Star Trek roles, he was also in various Robert Altman films and Benson, among other things.
Me: Happy Birthday Dad, Congrats on reaching 84.
Father: Quite the accomplishment. I'm thinking of joining the 90 and over club.
Me: You have to get there first -- consider this a goal.
Father: Yeah, well, hard to keep track...
Me: Just to see what happens next..
Father: Sometimes I think I don't want to know.
Father had tried to watch the impeachment hearings today and got fed up.
He is better this year than last. He can walk. He's not confined to a wheelchair.
And he is coherent, and not hallucinating as much as he did previously.
I'm grateful for what I have and have not lost. Life can disappear in the blink of an eye, and often without warning.
4. Saw episode 6 of His Dark Materials -- the pacing of this series is well done. Also, I've decided that non-traditional and off-the-beaten track casting choice of Lin Manual-Miranda as Lee Scoresby is inspired. He's playing the Texan that Pullman had originally envisioned as looking like Lee Van Cleef (of spaghetti Western fame) but actually Lin Manual-Miranda works in the role. The casting is actually rather brilliant -- I'm pleasantly surprised.
This is a ridiculously hard series to adapt, because it is so complicated - it has a complex world, plot, characterization, and science/metaphysical theme. All intertwined.
But somehow they are pulling it off. They did bring in characters from the next book into season one, which surprised me, but actually works -- since it was rather jarring to shift from Lyra to Will in the next book. By bringing Will in much earlier -- it'll be less jarring.
Anyhow, I was hooked enough to be disappointed that the next episode didn't air until tonight. I thought it was last night and was desperate to find it. I love the characters. And the bad guys get it, so it's quite satisfying, unlike Game of Thrones where you have to wait an eternity for the bad guys to get it. The heroine/protagonist doesn't do dumb things. So, it's not frustrating to watch.
5. I'm finding the news depressing of late. I turned on the 10'clock News on NY1, only to switch it off again. Apparently, yet another pedestrian was killed going across an intersection -- a cross walk. This round it was a three year old boy in his stroller, killed by a pickup truck driver who was not paying attention the road.
The number of pedestrians killed grew by 3.4 percent last year, to 6,283, and the number of cyclists killed rose by 6.3 percent, to 857, even as total traffic deaths decreased. On average, about 17 pedestrians and two cyclists were killed each day in crashes. Together they accounted for one-fifth of traffic deaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/pedestrian-cyclist-deaths-traffic.html
My area alone has had a death each week. I'm careful -- I tend to walk with people. But I've had more than one dumb inattentive driver almost kill me.
6. And let's not discuss politics, shall we?
7. The List of Golden Globe Nominations for those that still care or are remotely curious
Robert Deniro, Greta Gerwig, and Cats were notably absent.
Well, to be fair...Cats is the sort of movie musical that movie musical fans are actively boycotting, while the anti-musical crowd is flocking to it -- just to mock fans of musicals. Have you seen the trailer? It's scary.
Also, Robert Deniro is playing a role he's done before, better, elsewhere.
Father: Have you seen the Irishman?
Me: No. It's three hours long...
Father: True it is too long, or I felt it was
Me: And after reading the description, I feel like I've already seen some version of it more than once already
Father: Most likely have.
He saw it.
And Greta Gerwig directed the upteenth version of Little Women. It's not like she came up with something original...no, just yet another adaptation of a book, that has been adapted to death. What is it with Hollywood film directors and Little Women? They can't find any other female coming of age stories to adapt?
There's a handful of literary works that have been overdone in my opinion, they are:
1. Little Women
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Hamlet, MacBeth, King Lear, Midsommer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Henry the V, Twelth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing
4. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol
5. Les Miserables
Honestly, you'd think they couldn't find anything else?
They also snubbed Watchmen and Game of Thrones. (Personally, I'm rather pleased Game of Thrones was snubbed by someone.) Although Russian Doll should have gotten a nod. And why out of everyone on Game, did Kit Harrington get nominated? Maybe because he looked so pained throughout and seemed to be the only actor who wasn't looking at the directors and thinking, what the fuck are you guys doing -- and just going along with the flow?
It is however nice that most of the movie nominations are currently available on Netflix.
Chidi did not like Knives Out -- which was nominated in the comedy category. (Which is interesting, considering everyone else I know loved it.)
My difficulty with the list of movie nominations though is how male centric they all are. There were good female centric films out this year, but they chose male centric ones...what does this say about them, exactly?
I still think sexism is the biggest problem in our world. Not that racism isn't also a problem, but sexism is worse. I've noted that from personal observations over time. I see it everywhere.
One question? How in the hell are they going to explain bringing Steve Rogers back from the dead?
I'm more interested in Mulan -- which is the only Disney animated film that actually works better as a live action film.
2. Peter Hotez vs. Measles and the Anti-Vaccination Movement
3. Well...as my father turns 84, some of his contemporaries didn't survive, actors Ron Leibman (Norma Ray, Angels in America, Rachel's father in Friends) and acclaimed Star Trek actor, Rene Auberjonois died at 81 and 79 respectively.
Auberjonois wasn't just known for his Star Trek roles, he was also in various Robert Altman films and Benson, among other things.
Me: Happy Birthday Dad, Congrats on reaching 84.
Father: Quite the accomplishment. I'm thinking of joining the 90 and over club.
Me: You have to get there first -- consider this a goal.
Father: Yeah, well, hard to keep track...
Me: Just to see what happens next..
Father: Sometimes I think I don't want to know.
Father had tried to watch the impeachment hearings today and got fed up.
He is better this year than last. He can walk. He's not confined to a wheelchair.
And he is coherent, and not hallucinating as much as he did previously.
I'm grateful for what I have and have not lost. Life can disappear in the blink of an eye, and often without warning.
4. Saw episode 6 of His Dark Materials -- the pacing of this series is well done. Also, I've decided that non-traditional and off-the-beaten track casting choice of Lin Manual-Miranda as Lee Scoresby is inspired. He's playing the Texan that Pullman had originally envisioned as looking like Lee Van Cleef (of spaghetti Western fame) but actually Lin Manual-Miranda works in the role. The casting is actually rather brilliant -- I'm pleasantly surprised.
This is a ridiculously hard series to adapt, because it is so complicated - it has a complex world, plot, characterization, and science/metaphysical theme. All intertwined.
But somehow they are pulling it off. They did bring in characters from the next book into season one, which surprised me, but actually works -- since it was rather jarring to shift from Lyra to Will in the next book. By bringing Will in much earlier -- it'll be less jarring.
Anyhow, I was hooked enough to be disappointed that the next episode didn't air until tonight. I thought it was last night and was desperate to find it. I love the characters. And the bad guys get it, so it's quite satisfying, unlike Game of Thrones where you have to wait an eternity for the bad guys to get it. The heroine/protagonist doesn't do dumb things. So, it's not frustrating to watch.
5. I'm finding the news depressing of late. I turned on the 10'clock News on NY1, only to switch it off again. Apparently, yet another pedestrian was killed going across an intersection -- a cross walk. This round it was a three year old boy in his stroller, killed by a pickup truck driver who was not paying attention the road.
The number of pedestrians killed grew by 3.4 percent last year, to 6,283, and the number of cyclists killed rose by 6.3 percent, to 857, even as total traffic deaths decreased. On average, about 17 pedestrians and two cyclists were killed each day in crashes. Together they accounted for one-fifth of traffic deaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/pedestrian-cyclist-deaths-traffic.html
My area alone has had a death each week. I'm careful -- I tend to walk with people. But I've had more than one dumb inattentive driver almost kill me.
6. And let's not discuss politics, shall we?
7. The List of Golden Globe Nominations for those that still care or are remotely curious
Robert Deniro, Greta Gerwig, and Cats were notably absent.
Well, to be fair...Cats is the sort of movie musical that movie musical fans are actively boycotting, while the anti-musical crowd is flocking to it -- just to mock fans of musicals. Have you seen the trailer? It's scary.
Also, Robert Deniro is playing a role he's done before, better, elsewhere.
Father: Have you seen the Irishman?
Me: No. It's three hours long...
Father: True it is too long, or I felt it was
Me: And after reading the description, I feel like I've already seen some version of it more than once already
Father: Most likely have.
He saw it.
And Greta Gerwig directed the upteenth version of Little Women. It's not like she came up with something original...no, just yet another adaptation of a book, that has been adapted to death. What is it with Hollywood film directors and Little Women? They can't find any other female coming of age stories to adapt?
There's a handful of literary works that have been overdone in my opinion, they are:
1. Little Women
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Hamlet, MacBeth, King Lear, Midsommer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Henry the V, Twelth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing
4. Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol
5. Les Miserables
Honestly, you'd think they couldn't find anything else?
They also snubbed Watchmen and Game of Thrones. (Personally, I'm rather pleased Game of Thrones was snubbed by someone.) Although Russian Doll should have gotten a nod. And why out of everyone on Game, did Kit Harrington get nominated? Maybe because he looked so pained throughout and seemed to be the only actor who wasn't looking at the directors and thinking, what the fuck are you guys doing -- and just going along with the flow?
It is however nice that most of the movie nominations are currently available on Netflix.
Chidi did not like Knives Out -- which was nominated in the comedy category. (Which is interesting, considering everyone else I know loved it.)
My difficulty with the list of movie nominations though is how male centric they all are. There were good female centric films out this year, but they chose male centric ones...what does this say about them, exactly?
I still think sexism is the biggest problem in our world. Not that racism isn't also a problem, but sexism is worse. I've noted that from personal observations over time. I see it everywhere.
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Date: 2019-12-10 12:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-10 01:17 pm (UTC)That's what they did with the television series? I couldn't remember. Except, no that's not what they are doing -- since if you watch the trailer, she says : "Oh, Steve! I've missed you sooo much." So cryogenic freezing?
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Date: 2019-12-10 03:26 pm (UTC)It's a comic. You may care, but they don't. The explosion shot him seven decades forward to a soft landing? WW discovers her ancient boyfriend rescuing powers? Lord Voldemort's experiments in creating his signature dark mark over Belgium went terribly wrong? I don't think it's going to make a lot of sense one way or the other.
3. I've decided that the reason so many actors I recognize from my childhood seem to be dying off is that the explosion of TV in 1950's created a lot of jobs for actors that movies alone couldn't provide. Of course stage actors wouldn't be as recognizable outside the area where they lived. Another guy died this week who played in soap operas and before that was the confused and dangerous teenage kid in at least one episode of every cowboy and detective show on the air in the late 1950s.
5. Tucson, unlike Phoenix, seems to try hard to cut down on pedestrian accidents. But sadly it doesn't always work.
7. Not sure the world needed another gangster flick from Scorsese starring De Niro and the other gangster movie veterans. I can't say I liked Good Fellas. I guess folks who love Scorsese are happy to have another. I think the reason we've had so many movies made from comics lately is that *everything* is being overdone from Disney princesses to classics.
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Date: 2019-12-11 01:56 am (UTC)It was an exciting teaser trailer; I've already watched multiple times.
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Date: 2019-12-11 02:45 am (UTC)I'm not worried about it. It's a comic book movie. I love Chris Pine (and ship Diana Prince and Steve Trevor) so I'm happy to see him return.
Love the book and have zero interest in the latest Little Women adaption. Austen gets remade every ten years--I can only assume it sells tickets. I have no problem with new versions of Shakespeare's plays. I've seen multiple performances of my favorites on stage and I always enjoy them and find something new.