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Finished watching the Jordan Peel flick Nope finally. I decided to rewatch from the beginning and at night. You can't watch it during the day - because the night scenes are impossible to see.
Still can't figure out how to get rid of the "horizontal" waves on the television set. May call the cable company - but I have a feeling my television was moved one too many times to fix the wall behind it - and the HDMI port got damaged. I don't want to buy a new television set right now - so I'm tolerating it until it gets to the point that I have to get a new one.
Anyhow, sorry for the sub-tangent, back to "Nope". My co-workers hated it. Particularly Chidi and BOSS. They said there was no plot? (I saw a plot, not sure...what their issue was.) Chidi thinks I like movies and television shows that he considers to be "basic". (I keep telling him that it is all subjective. We bring our own baggage to art, what we like or dislike tells people more about us than anyone else. If you dislike my art - that's not about me, or my art, or a commentary on my art - that's about you. It just tells me something about you. My brother's view - which is the conceptual take on art - that we interact with it, and art is meant to be interacted with. He did a show once - for his senior thesis - where it was basically plots of grass on walls, and bits of plants, and dirt below - and little name tags about how each represented different parts of the human anatomy. How people reacted to his art was part of the art. David Bowie had a similar view - and often created shows and art that reflected himself and the audience.)
Anyhow, my "visual" artist friends and the academics I've met online, loved the film and recommended it.
My take? I liked it, more than expected. It's slow to start - and there's a lot in there that you kind of have to pay attention to - in order to understand the film. Jordan Peel's films tend to be more conceptual in format than plot or character driven, which can make some folks nuts. Peel is into visuals and narrative style. That said - I felt this one was character driven and had a definitive plot, if a wee bit on the simplistic side.
( vague spoilers - but you may want to avoid if you want to go in blind like I did )
I'd say its suspenseful, kind of quirky, a little slow in places, and kind of scary? But not that scary? Has a few jump scares. I didn't find it humorous (but we've already established that I've got a quirky sense of humor).
I'd recommend. But with the caveat - that it's very slow in the pacing department. And a bit on the self-indulgent side.
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Also watched the first two episodes of Pretty Baby, the Brook Shields documentary on Hulu. It goes into how she was sexualized as a kid and how toxic this was. ( Read more... )
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Didn't do much today besides laundry and slept. ( Read more... )
Still can't figure out how to get rid of the "horizontal" waves on the television set. May call the cable company - but I have a feeling my television was moved one too many times to fix the wall behind it - and the HDMI port got damaged. I don't want to buy a new television set right now - so I'm tolerating it until it gets to the point that I have to get a new one.
Anyhow, sorry for the sub-tangent, back to "Nope". My co-workers hated it. Particularly Chidi and BOSS. They said there was no plot? (I saw a plot, not sure...what their issue was.) Chidi thinks I like movies and television shows that he considers to be "basic". (I keep telling him that it is all subjective. We bring our own baggage to art, what we like or dislike tells people more about us than anyone else. If you dislike my art - that's not about me, or my art, or a commentary on my art - that's about you. It just tells me something about you. My brother's view - which is the conceptual take on art - that we interact with it, and art is meant to be interacted with. He did a show once - for his senior thesis - where it was basically plots of grass on walls, and bits of plants, and dirt below - and little name tags about how each represented different parts of the human anatomy. How people reacted to his art was part of the art. David Bowie had a similar view - and often created shows and art that reflected himself and the audience.)
Anyhow, my "visual" artist friends and the academics I've met online, loved the film and recommended it.
My take? I liked it, more than expected. It's slow to start - and there's a lot in there that you kind of have to pay attention to - in order to understand the film. Jordan Peel's films tend to be more conceptual in format than plot or character driven, which can make some folks nuts. Peel is into visuals and narrative style. That said - I felt this one was character driven and had a definitive plot, if a wee bit on the simplistic side.
( vague spoilers - but you may want to avoid if you want to go in blind like I did )
I'd say its suspenseful, kind of quirky, a little slow in places, and kind of scary? But not that scary? Has a few jump scares. I didn't find it humorous (but we've already established that I've got a quirky sense of humor).
I'd recommend. But with the caveat - that it's very slow in the pacing department. And a bit on the self-indulgent side.
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Also watched the first two episodes of Pretty Baby, the Brook Shields documentary on Hulu. It goes into how she was sexualized as a kid and how toxic this was. ( Read more... )
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Didn't do much today besides laundry and slept. ( Read more... )