Movies
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Loved Blackkklansman, though my take on it wasn't that it was especially bleak, perhaps because I've had to be around actual klansmen in the past and perhaps because, living in America, I think we're still in pretty bad shape as it pertains to race relations.
Mild SPOILERS AHEAD
There was a lot of comic relief, and the klansmen were pretty comedically wrought as characters–it was hard to take any of them too seriously. And I expected there to be much more racism in the police department than there was. It was good to see Stallworth make some close and genuine friends among his team at the PD, and there was really only one asshole there, and the PD "did the right thing" in working that sting to bring down that asshole. I may be prejudiced in thinking that the Colorado Springs PD of the era was probably rendered charitably.
The film could have told this story in a much darker, bleaker way than it did, and that pleasantly surprised me and made it a bit easier to watch, while still carrying the message effectively.
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Loved Blackkklansman, though my take on it wasn't that it was especially bleak
I said the underlying message was bleak. The movie is a boatload of fun. The kick in the stomach Lee gives you at the end isn't.
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I don't think that's what Lee was going for. The tribute to Heyer "rest in power" to end it is to me a message of resistance and hope, not one of hopelessness and despair. But to each his own.
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Isn't that already painfully obvious?
One unsettling thing I didn't notice, perhaps because it didn't happen.
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Was Flip the Klansman they zoomed in on at the cross burning at the end of the film, before the epilogue? This doesn't make much sense to me since Stallworth outed himself to Duke with Flip standing right there but a lot of people seem to believe this to be the case.
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I thought it was Chief Bridges… But I'm probably wrong...
Big shoutout to Isiah "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" Whitlock for a phenomenal cameo though…
I like that interpretation, that or the one I mentioned both would add to the bleakness….
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Good?.. GOOD ?.. It's flippin fantastic!!! Humour, action, self depreciative jokes, Stan Lee cameo, it's LOUD, it's LIT, it's motherflippin LEGIT!!!
I'm glad you liked it.
It really is damn near perfect. Too bad you didn't see it in a theater- it was even better that way. -
Yeah, I totally get not liking going to a theater, but the giant screen makes the animation even more impressive. There were a couple of scenes that just made me think, "holy shit, that looks amazing!" I actually even said that out loud once.
Personally, I usually wait a couple of weeks after a movie is released, then I go to a matinee- you mostly get the place to yourself if you go on, say, a Tuesday at 11 am.
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I'd agree that theater viewings for me need to be justified by it being the kind of movie where a large screen impacts the experience–I can't imagine watching a comedy or drama in a theater unless there's some visual element, or it's something I just can't wait for.
I saw "Free Solo" in the theater at a screening (with Alex Honnold-it was so cool!), but I really regret not having made time to catch it when it later showed on IMAX. Beyond that, I don't often watch movies anymore (like comics or most sci-fi) that benefit enough from the silver screen to justify the hassle, and even when I really want to, it rarely seems to happen. First Man is an example that I wish I'd seen on a large screen (and still have not watched at all--I am a terrible procrastinator when it comes to movies, which might not be all bad).
The one I am interested in catching right now is Alita, which looks visually interesting and cool enough to buck my normal lack of interest in similar genres, but there's no way Brandi would join me, so perhaps when she's out of town I'll get to it.
The last one we went to see did not fit the bill of the kind of film I gravitate towards catching in a theater, but was born of date night consensus: A Star is Born. Of course, the projector went out with about a half hour left, and we have yet to finish it.
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This is my local cinema. I used to live in the same building, now I live about 500m from it.
http://therexberkhamsted.com/Matinees with a bottle of wine and a cheese board are bloody marvellous.
“Just the one ticket, please…”
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FREE SOLO - have it here, need to check it out. I'm also gonna check out Elizabeth's MERU, which is supposedly also really breathtaking and exhilerating.
Both excellent films.
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FREE SOLO - have it here, need to check it out. I'm also gonna check out Elizabeth's MERU, which is supposedly also really breathtaking and exhilerating.
Both are IMO FANTASTIC, I hope you enjoy them.
There's also a film (I think on Netflix, at least in the States) called Mountain that's pretty good. Jimmy Chin (Elizabeth's husband–he's very cool, also in both movies you cited, and an elite climber, skier, and photographer) is in that one too (passing a joint on top of a rocky crag in one scene haha).
