I saw Mother by Bong Joon-ho the other night, highly recommend it. Very fun take on the old whodunnit formula. I've been on a SK film kick lately - I watched Burning a couple weeks ago and I can't believe I hadn't heard of it before now. One of the best movies I've seen in a while. It's on Netflix if you need something to watch.
Watched Knives Out last weekend, pretty fun whodunnit but with strong lib tendencies.
The last thing I watched was Generation Kill. It's a miniseries that follows the first recon unit during the invasion of Iraq. It's made by David Simon who made the Wire. It has just 7 episodes so it's not as sprawling as the Wire but it's fucking amazing. It's definitely one of my favourites.
I love Generation Kill. The only remotely sane TV or movie depiction of the Iraq war that I've ever seen.
Been watching Money Heist, just started season 2. It's pretty good, but damn do they talk fast...
You have to suspend your disbelief quite a bit at times, which I'm not always willing/able to do.
Highly recommend the host, okja and snowpiercer by Bong Joon Ho if you haven’t watched them
Just finished watching The Old Guard. Sort of like Zelig meets a tier-one operator action B-movie, but with lots of subtext about the futility of war, the immorality of torture, and never-ending war. Not amazing but definitely better than expected.
Just saw About Schmidt, a movie about a guy that gives his life to his job and at the end of it realizes he really doesn't have much to show for it. The movie just tracks him trying to figure it all out afterward.
last movie I watched was Free solo, also on netflix.
I don't watch a lot of things, but there's one movie in particular i'd like to watch, I can't seem to find it on the internet, children of the revolution, the 2010 documentary by Shane O'Sullivan
I just watched "House of 1000 Corpses) [spoilers below] I watched Devil's rejects a few years back and remember that I never saw the "original." Ho1KC is gruesome and unpolished. To the extent that "Devil's Rejects" was about American Response to 9/11 (I think this point was made in an Onion AV Club Article) Ho1KC isn't about anything. I absolutely love Sid Haig (RIP) as Captain Spaulding. He is truly a reminder that comedy and horror are two sides of the same coin. Cpt Spaulding owes more to Basil Fawley than any other character. Watching office Dwight mutilated and turned into Fish Boy was pretty cool too. Some people might say Sheri Moon can't act, but she spent 2 hours pretending she had an ass.
The only good movie Rob Zombie has done was Devil's Rejects. House of Ten Trillion Corpses is ok, I'd just rather watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
It's a mess, but I do have to give Zombie some respect for Lords of Salem. It's way out of his comfort zone tone-wise, and it's a witch movie and those are always weird.
I find the alternate trajectories of Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson very interesting. Both of them clearly just started bands in the 90s as a stepping stone to something else: Zombie to make Horror movies, Manson just to shock people.
Just watched Never Have i Ever. Its a teen drama series that has season 1 on netflix. Indian american family, with kickass daughter being a normal high schooler trying to be cool and date the hot guy, while dealing with overzealous hindu, tiger mom. Pretty funny and cute. There was one annoying political moment though. The history teacher is always teaching about WW2, fascism and the holocaust. He asks the students to list the groups the nazis persecuted, and the list is something like "jews, blacks, handicap, transgender, roma" all identity politics zero mention of socialists, communists or trade unionists.
Oh, my favorite scene. She goes on a model UN field trip to avoid being grounded and gets revenge on her nemesis boy. He is the US and she is Equatorial Guinea. He has some lame idea for climate change. She announces the US is the main source of the world climate change problem and an intention to nuke the USA. He was expecting cooperation so suprised challenges that she has no nukes. Meanwhile, the dork who is russia had a crush on her, so she offers him her email address is he will allow access to their nukes. So she then announces plans to nuke the usa and and country allied with it. Gets every other country to take her side and start chanting "world war 3, world war 3".
I was smashing my way through sopranos for the first time during lockdown but since going back to work I’ve only watched a few episodes :(
