Watching Netflix at a friends, the price I have to pay for dinner.
It's my meal-of-the-day at the moment, and I don't want to miss it. And I don't mind the break from my head, it can get a little claustrophobic up there at the moment.
We'd started on "The Gentlemen", Guy Ritchie, then given up after 4 episodes, derivative, silly, Guy Ritchie has a knack for dialogue, stereotypes, but it was proving far too predictable, and even the presence of Giancarlo Esposito from "Breaking Bad" couldn't save it. It would have been a bad 90 minute movie, spread out over 8 1 hour episodes it was unbearable.
So we switched to "The Brothers Sun", absolutely no better, another "Crime Family" ala every other show on Television, the 'hook' is the fact that most or all of the actors are Asian. I sort of recognize some of them, but can't remember their names, and jokingly put it down to the fact that all Asian Actors look the same.
This is of course a heinous prejudice that I sincerely don't share, but it was funny at the time, most probably because there weren't any Asians present.
But you can see the room for confusion - I mean, I recognized all the black actors in "The Nutty Professor" and "Meet the Klumps", but other than Eddie Murphy I don't think I could name a single one...
But it recalled a certain interview - and I'm pretty sure my memory deceives me, but it's of Samuel L. Jackson on a talk show - David Letterman maybe? And the host, or perhaps one of the guests, congratulates him on his work in ... such & such a film, to which Samuel L. Jackson dead-eyes him and replies as only he can "You must mean the Other Black Actor", which from the movie I knew to be Morgan Freeman...
It sounds like something Ricky Gervais would do, and I thought it's be funny to confuse Samuel L. Jackson for Robert Downy JR's character of Kirk Lazarus from "Tropic Thunder", which would be even more offensive and therefore funny...
But since the memory is somehow compromised and I can't really say where it's from, or how it's compromised, but damn, I'm pretty sure Samuel L. Jackson would even have a laugh at that...