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yeah i’m v whatever abt this trend
there’s even a movie about flaming hot cheetos on hulu rn i think

All these movies just seem centered around plaid and bad mustaches idk. It feels very much like Wolf of Wall Street-lite, or maybe it's a trickle-down effect of the Tiger King dateline nbc-ing of the documentary genre. I feel like that about a lot of the frenzied pursuit of making true crime/scandal stories within a few months of the stories breaking.

That shit can only be redeemed if they announce theyre adapting that movie air into a 10 part limited series and the whole thing ends up being set in a sweatshop and filmed in the style of a wiseman documentary

How much of the viewer base watches these for grindset reasons I wonder

These films are all the children of that movie where Greg Kinnear invents the intermittent windshield wiper

I watched a fairly good doc on the Beanie Babies rise & fall a few years back; it's worth searching out.

i watched a doc on netflix about a guy who went to a pez factory and bought pez dispensers really cheap and then sold them for a hefty profit. i was told that this person was a GENIUS.

If you can stand the most Australian of Australians, Deadloch on Prime is a great watch.

That shit can only be redeemed if they announce theyre adapting that movie air into a 10 part limited series and the whole thing ends up being set in a sweatshop and filmed in the style of a wiseman documentary

― Grandall Flange (wins)

Haha I kept seeing ads for this and people I respect seemed to like it but there's no way I'd see it bc it just isn't an angle on this I'm interested in. Same thing w any story about Steve Jobs. And I honestly just kinda felt a bit like that about the social network too and I know everyone loved that one.

After what affleck did with argo though I'm not sure I'm down with his angle on anything

I avoided social network when it came out but when I finally caught up with it I was pleasantly surprised that it does paint Zuck as a monster and the whole enterprise as gross and bad

Yeah I mean I think the social network was very well done and fincher/sorkin had the correct take on Zuckerberg. But I almost feel like it wasn't quite gross enough, a bit too glamorized over the reality, which I guess is a Hollywood necessity but I think it misses a certain uncanny valleyness about the dude that is even more excruciatingly off putting.

xxpost one of the creators of Deadloch, kate mclennan, was a friend of my sister’s when they were kids!

I am going to be a dissenting voice on "The Social Network."

Which is NOT to say I'm captain save-a-Zuck. I give exactly zero shits about him as a person.

But the film's narrative is that he (Zuck) devised the site to further his own romantic pursuits. Patently untrue, because he (Zuck) actually had a girlfriend and subsequently a wife.

The alleged romantic disappointment that was supposed to have triggered the development of the social media juggernaut (filmicly) COULD have happened, but apparently didn't, so it's a slim foundation on which to build a cinematic biographical opus.

Nota bene: it's not that I actually care about him (I don't), but we could at least introduce a modicum of honesty in the storytelling. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk thxbe

Zodiac is probably more egregious in the libel dept but works a lot better as a movie. Tonally, they really should have gone full screwball comedy instead of that weird halfway tone that the Dick Cheney movie also flubbed. Sorkin's Steve Jobs movie was also pretty corny.

I came away from the social network liking zuck esp in comparison with any other character in the movie .

like it was only when I read takes like daniel's which turned out to be v much the consensus that I even considered that the audience wasn't supposed to like him.

Also took me a long time to watch The Social Network because of vague fears it would lead to exactly what you all are describing: the flamin'-hot-cheetofication of docudrama

ok TOM CLANCY’S JACK RYAN on Prime is still a hot mess but they seem to have acquired one or two writers who aren’t doing weird “Ryan is a Patriot who is doing good work against Real Enemies” crap

it only peeks in every other episode, but they have Michael Peña who is always fun, and this week’s episode features Ryan and Peña’s character entering a country using passports with aliases of characters from THE CONVERSATION. Michael Kelly does a good job playing a seasoned CIA clean-up guy

watched the first episode of Mrs. Davis on this thread's recommendation, what a wild ride

yeah same, i was like….. wtf is going on (in a good way)

did you guys like The Big Short? i thought that was a pretty novel way to tell a complicated recent history story but i have no idea how accurate it was. i feel like its probably a pretty tough job just to get anyone to watch a movie like that. unless they are bale fanatics. baleaddicts. xian soldiers.

I love the big short. Sure it’s smarmy and on the nose and didactic and whatever but I’m a sucker.

yeah ditto

Watching Silo with the family. Forgot how many of the big secrets are discussed in the first episode. Just out of context.

Johnnie To's Life Without Principle, on Netflix, is a good comparison/contrast piece with Big Short.

xxpost one of the creators of Deadloch, kate mclennan, was a friend of my sister’s when they were kids!

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, July 13, 2023 3:10 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

woah! It's an impressive show!!!

I was impressed while watching, the triumvirate of Kates - Mclennan and McCartney as co-creators and Kate Box starring.

I hope Scott Seward returns to this thread soon, but he was far, far too generous to The Out-Laws, one of the worst things I've ever seen.

i'm here. and i think i'll stick with movies and music on ilx.

don't get me wrong, The Out-Laws sucked and I commend you for watching the entire movie! it shows gumption and fortitude or something. or a truly profound boredom.

you know what's even sadder? i've seen TWO other movies by the same director. The Wrong Missy and Father of the Year. i'm pretty sure the director is just Adam Sandler's nephew.

without enraging anyone i will say that i tried to watch everythingeverywhere yesterday and i stopped. i just wasn't in the mood. it reminded me of a disney+ movie. for kids. nothing wrong with that. i happen to be a fan of Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior. I just wasn't in the mood.

i started Midsommar as well. I will go back to it. I did like Hereditary.

But better than all of this was the movie I watched with Cyrus last night on Mubi called Taste by Bao Le. An African footballer and some Vietnamese women make some, uh, art together. It is Art with a capital A with a million staged tableaux and very cool images and it is theatre and dance and also a sort of faux-ethnographic portrait. Anyway, its cool.

and i also watched a movie called The Toll on Showtime which for some reason was changed to Tollbooth in this country just in case The Toll was too vague for Americans. it was okay. mild dramedy set in Wales with some of those quirky crime characters that apparently never go out of style. i wouldn't recommend it but you wouldn't die if you watched it.

without enraging anyone i will say that i tried to watch everythingeverywhere yesterday and i stopped. i just wasn't in the mood. it reminded me of a disney+ movie. for kids. nothing wrong with that. i happen to be a fan of Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior. I just wasn't in the mood.

I didn't finish this either.

I'm almost finished with Power, but Hulu doesn't seem to have any of the spinoff series and honestly I'm not sure how interested I am in those. Tariq is just a shitty teenage asshole, and I don't need a series about him unless every episode ends with someone slapping the shit out of him.

Yay Scott. I actually walked out on everythingeverywhere when I went to see it at the cinema (and as my previous post suggests, I'll normally stick with any old shite) - too shrill, too zany for my tastes.

I think there's a separate MUBI thread on ILX but as I'm here, would highly recommend Albert Serra's Pacification on European MUBI right now - a wonderful vision of purgatory, everywhere all at once.

pacification is on my list to watch. it looks cool.

unperson, Raising Kanan is kinda the best Power series. i would recommend it to someone as just a stand-alone series to watch. the retro thing isn't really overdone. its just solid. and everyone in it is good. and, like i already said on here, Patina Miller on that show should win every award. she probably won't though. one of the best characters and acting jobs i've seen in years.

Tariq IS a dick. i didn't even watch the latest season of his Power show. the newest season of Tommy's spinoff is coming out this year and Tommy is hella entertaining so i will probably watch. Tommy in Chicago was an inspired touch.

Pacifiction, bloody autocorrect

Been watching L'Alligatore on Mhz Choice, based on some of my fave Italian PI novels.

i was thinking of starting L'Octopuse on MHz Choice! El Polpo? Anyway, The Octopus in my native tongue. 80s Italian crime.

its hard to pull myself away from my Equalizer dvd box though. soooooooo many dramatic twin towers backdrops in every other scene. and awesome early 80s Times Square action.

i watched a bunch of those Murder In...t.v. movies during pandemic on MHz. murders in different pretty french locales. they have 10 seasons of movies!

they also have 5 seasons of french movies of the week. not all are crime movies.

I saw ab ad for a new streaming service that is all documentaries - True Crime, War, Nature etc. Has anyone seen this ad and recalls the name?

On mhz I also like the bastards of pizzofalconr.

xp DocPlay?

hooooo boy, watched the Iranian film *Holy Spider* and it is a tough one. on Netflix. it has some disturbing scenes of violence and it might not be for everyone, but it is really something else. intense.

i was slightly burned out on the italian mafia stuff after gomorrah, suburra, zerozerozero...it all got a little too bleak for me. hardly a soul left to feel empathy for by the end of those. bastards of pizzofalcone looks like a solid palate cleanser maybe? i do love Naples location pr0n.

Bastards of Pizzofalcone has some comic relief in the form of the foppish pretty boy cop. BoP is also one of two contemporary book series I know directly inspired by Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct novels.

watched the sci-fi movie Vesper on Hulu. the first half was pretty darn cool. but then they had to make the rest of the movie! a common problem. worth watching for the plant stuff. if you enjoy sci fi plant genetics.

i have a dim memory of also watching the Liam Neeson movie Run All Night but my memory is already foggy. wait, was ed harris there? was he liam's brother? were they irish mob? what was liam's accent exactly? i don't think i could actually swear in court that i watched the whole thing. but there is no reason to believe that i didn't watch the whole thing. it's a mystery...

(Vesper also worth watching for high fashion apocalyptica outfits! very chic. and the main character looks like a runway model, so, she really sells the look.) (also the brother from ray donovan is in it. he's dreary. the one who owns the boxing gym in ray donovan. i always forget he's from the u.k. until i see him in a movie and then i say: "ah, right, i knew that about him...")

gonna watch this tonight on Mubi. maybe. things change. but i love a good cave movie. #embraceyourfears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSESIvz2888

Run All Night is pretty good — it's on the grimier end of the Liam Neeson spectrum, like A Walk Among The Tombstones.

I'm considering Vesper. I have a ton of movies in my Hulu queue, though. She Dies Tomorrow, Benedetta, Escape From Alcatraz, Hell Hath No Fury, Dual, Swallow...

watch Prey. and Triangle of Sadness. on Hulu.

i don't have to watch Banshees of Inisherin, do I? for some reason i really don't want to watch it. i already like Local Hero and The Secret of Roan Inish, that's good enough, right? those are the first movies i thought of for some reason. i just watched a movie about a sad Welsh tollbooth worker, for heaven's sake. saints preserve us. i watched 45 minutes of EverywhereAllthetime and 45 minutes of Midsommar. the zeitgeist and i are good for now. i even watched that horrible Nomadland movie!