Quote from: Professor Bear on 02 December, 2019, 05:41:11 PM
Speak of the devil.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Professor Bear on 02 December, 2019, 05:41:11 PM
Speak of the devil.
Quote from: SpaceSpinner2000 on 01 December, 2019, 03:47:58 PM
The next time we talk about it I compare it to the music video African Child from the movie "Get Him to the Greek"
Quote from: Leigh S on 01 December, 2019, 02:28:35 PM
Interesting how Tribal Memories as an (at the time) total 80s Liberal "woke" political story feels as wrong to you as all the unreconstructed "Ay Caramba!" that the new creators were quick to either parody (I hope with Morrison/Millar), embrace (Ennis) or resist (Milligan, here).
Quote from: Professor Bear on 30 November, 2019, 12:25:58 PM
As the saying goes, "Yougov is the only accurate poll, all the others are outliers."
Was May unpopular? I know she was despised in the lefty liberal bubble of social media, but so was Cameron. I keep seeing the claim bandied about - by those on the left - that she was more popular than Thatcher and Blair at their peak, and she did deliver three million more votes than Cameron managed.
And Johnson is supposedly more popular than that? At some point we may have to admit to ourselves that we might be getting what we deserve.
Quote from: Proudhuff on 28 November, 2019, 12:48:02 PM
I see the Tory's are doing the old 'its too close to call' rouse they use every election, but hey it works
Quote from: Professor Bear on 27 November, 2019, 03:24:40 PM
This has aged well.Quote from: Frank on 26 November, 2019, 09:31:03 PM
Neil's got Johnson on tomorrow.
Quote from: Professor Bear on 27 November, 2019, 01:10:12 PM
Instead of watching Scorcese's latest white boy crime-wank movie I checked out Dolemite Is My Name, an Eddie Murphy vehicle based on the life of African American stand-up comic turned movie star Rudy Ray Moore that seems both a natural fit for Murphy, and a natural choice for the biopic treatment, and while it hits all the usual notes, something is a bit off about it and it was only near the end that I twigged that it's not a biopic of Moore, but of Dolemite, Moore's onstage persona.
When the movie starts, Moore isn't a young, gifted comedian but a flabby, over-the-hill journeyman, and his big break doesn't come from a producer taking a chance but from Moore stealing material from hobos and freeloading off his aunt to publish a record. The film's story isn't that Moore was a genius but that he got lucky with the right material at the right time, and then never actually became any better as an artist or saw out any grand vision, his victory comes from finding a shallow validation in his cult status among an African-American community literally abandoned to the inner cities by white people (as explained in a brutally-unsubtle minor turn by Bob Odenkirk doing his best not to channel Saul Goodman while delivering what are clearly Saul Goodman's lines).
Biopics are tricky because if the subjects are alive or have a legacy maintained by an estate, the movies tend to be flattering and safe, but this isn't flattering at all. Moore certainly doesn't come across as a bad person - he doesn't do drugs, beat his wife or abandon his kids - but he also doesn't come across as particularly interesting or even that good in his chosen profession, he's just a man who succeeded through the work and/or indulgence of others with more talent or wit but who in the end gave back more than what he took by ultimately becoming a part of the African-American folklore he cynically stripmines to achieve success.
The pacing seems a bit off, but it's otherwise quite enjoyable. If nothing else it was nice being reminded that Wesley Snipes can actually act and doesn't just parody the tough guy act he was peddling in the 1990s.
Quote from: Link Prime on 27 November, 2019, 01:02:37 PMQuote from: Frank on 27 November, 2019, 10:40:13 AM
November 27th is the day everyone's an
IRISHMAN
Couldn't miss the chance to catch it on the big screen last week. An indulgent masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. Pips Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Joker for movie of the year.