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Bandersnatch
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Just to be fashionable, the latest from Netflix by Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame.
Now #1, I didn't enjoy it, but #2 - there was a lot to appreciate in it. Meaning my enjoyment is separate from the quality of it. It was - brilliant, inspired, well realized, worked across a variety of meta-levels, it was, in short, perfect, and in some dark sense probably reflects the future of entertainment - not the pause and choose - this will be done by eye tracking and details that grab your attention in the picture, your gaze alone will be enough for the computer or "television" to predict what choice you'd make, and provide you the "ending" you most would enjoy or appreciate.
That said, like with YouTube and Cellphone companies and the internet and banking, credit-cards, GPS, etc, etc, this is just one more step towards corporations "knowing" their audience, and knowing is synonymous with manipulating and what has been so far a very a dark governance.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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Best Netflix Movie for quite a while. The opening story alone sets the tone - and a high bar, for the stories that ensue. In 20 minutes you'll know if you're going to love it or hate it. I loved it.
Bird Box
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Along the lines of "A Quiet Place", - same silliness, only a little more - plausible? Nah, that's not right. Nothing great, but what you'd expect, better than your average NetFlix Fare, and I enjoyed it more than "A Quiet Place". But nowhere in the league of "Get Out" or "Don't Breathe".
The Favorite (2)
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Saw this with the boy over the holiday season - posted the trailer earlier. It was every bit as good - and savage - as I expected. A perfect metaphor for the current political climate (a different style of telling than "Sorry to Bother You").
What's funny, despite almost universally stellar reviews - check out CalgaryMovies.com and read the reviews local Calgarians left. Clearly they didn't "get" it, but you have to laugh, elderly people walking into a movie expecting a sort of Merchant-Ivory styled period piece, and getting - well, - definitely not that.
By director Yorgos Lanthimos, who's previous films included "The Lobster" and "The Killing of a Sacred Deer".
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