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Watching some movies
Sep. 29th, 2023 09:38 pmI rewatched "Thirteen Lives" last night, which is a masterpiece. I love how I movie that I have already watched can still hold tension and keep me on tenterhooks. What a satisfying movie.
Feeling warmly towards this film's director Ron Howard, I went looking for some more of his recent work; I found a documentary called "We Feed People." It is on Hulu. Despite the name it's a profile of one guy, José Andrés, a famous chef who is now promoting his NGO, a disaster-relief organization that focuses on feeding people. I say promoting because this doc had more the feel of a paid advertisement. I've encountered a few different documentaries like this in my wide-ranging tv watching and they have this oily quality. But I had time to use up so I kept watching for a while.
At about the one hour mark, there is assault and harassment on-camera. Talked about in a general way under the cut.
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Anyways I noped out at this point and put up a note on "Does the Dog die", which is a great resource but some of these obscure things don't have any content notes up for them at all.
I also noped out of "Bottoms", mostly because it is not my genre-- teenage, raunchy sex comedy, and about lesbians, but without the political aspect of "Sex Education," and without the warmth. I mean it's selection bias on my part but I've never known lesbians who are like this, just kind of... mean-spirited. Also the one girl talks extremely quickly and in a way that is not straightforward; I had trouble understanding her dialog.
I made it all the way through Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was a mediocre story but had good lighting, good cinematography, some humor, and likeable characters.
Feeling warmly towards this film's director Ron Howard, I went looking for some more of his recent work; I found a documentary called "We Feed People." It is on Hulu. Despite the name it's a profile of one guy, José Andrés, a famous chef who is now promoting his NGO, a disaster-relief organization that focuses on feeding people. I say promoting because this doc had more the feel of a paid advertisement. I've encountered a few different documentaries like this in my wide-ranging tv watching and they have this oily quality. But I had time to use up so I kept watching for a while.
At about the one hour mark, there is assault and harassment on-camera. Talked about in a general way under the cut.
( Read more... )
Anyways I noped out at this point and put up a note on "Does the Dog die", which is a great resource but some of these obscure things don't have any content notes up for them at all.
I also noped out of "Bottoms", mostly because it is not my genre-- teenage, raunchy sex comedy, and about lesbians, but without the political aspect of "Sex Education," and without the warmth. I mean it's selection bias on my part but I've never known lesbians who are like this, just kind of... mean-spirited. Also the one girl talks extremely quickly and in a way that is not straightforward; I had trouble understanding her dialog.
I made it all the way through Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was a mediocre story but had good lighting, good cinematography, some humor, and likeable characters.
