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watchin' stuff
Jan. 23rd, 2024 11:33 pmFor movie night with friends, we watched Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of my Voice, an enjoyable documentary that focuses on her career and incredible voice.
I bounced off of:
Daisy Jones and the Six, a limited series that is fictional, but made to be like a documentary about a 1960s/70s band. I lasted 2 episodes and found it dull.
The Rig, another limited series that is a horror/thriller set on an off-shore oil rig, which is a really interesting setting. Unfortunately I didn't care about any of the characters.
Polite Society is a "martial arts action comedy" about two sisters, Ria and Lena, who are part of a Pakistani-British community. Ria wants to be a stunt performer; Lena is an art-school drop out. A very eligible bachelor shows interest in Lena, and Ria believes she needs to intervene and save her sister from impending doom (marriage). The tone of this is OTT, comedy violence, leaning into a love of spy movie/ martial arts movie tropes. Ria and her friends are delightfully weird and her parents have this tolerant, long-suffering quality. I'm a fan of Ritu Arya, who plays Lena here and has also been in the Umbrella Academy. This is an energetic, fresh, fun movie with great young stars who really felt like sisters, both delighted and exasperated by each other. My one criticism is minor, it felt like the plot went too serious/ violent towards the end, which was a bit jarring given the otherwise light tone; please ask me if you need/want content notes. The magical realism was fun, the costumes colorful, and it was great to see a story about a girl who wants to be a stunt woman, a girl whose most important goal is looking out for her sister. Recommended.
I bounced off of:
Daisy Jones and the Six, a limited series that is fictional, but made to be like a documentary about a 1960s/70s band. I lasted 2 episodes and found it dull.
The Rig, another limited series that is a horror/thriller set on an off-shore oil rig, which is a really interesting setting. Unfortunately I didn't care about any of the characters.
Polite Society is a "martial arts action comedy" about two sisters, Ria and Lena, who are part of a Pakistani-British community. Ria wants to be a stunt performer; Lena is an art-school drop out. A very eligible bachelor shows interest in Lena, and Ria believes she needs to intervene and save her sister from impending doom (marriage). The tone of this is OTT, comedy violence, leaning into a love of spy movie/ martial arts movie tropes. Ria and her friends are delightfully weird and her parents have this tolerant, long-suffering quality. I'm a fan of Ritu Arya, who plays Lena here and has also been in the Umbrella Academy. This is an energetic, fresh, fun movie with great young stars who really felt like sisters, both delighted and exasperated by each other. My one criticism is minor, it felt like the plot went too serious/ violent towards the end, which was a bit jarring given the otherwise light tone; please ask me if you need/want content notes. The magical realism was fun, the costumes colorful, and it was great to see a story about a girl who wants to be a stunt woman, a girl whose most important goal is looking out for her sister. Recommended.
