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Finally, one from the list of "to watch" and in no ways did it disappoint.
You can download, watch online, find it in the theatre...
Any more information would be a spoiler. It's terrific.
5*.
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When I was a kid I loved this.
I mean, it was the best, the concept - of "Going Boldly Where No Man Has Gone Before", the imagination, costumes, aliens. All of it. Well ahead of it's time.
Then I got a bit older, and still appreciated it, but also realized the rather simple good-nature quality of it's imaginings, the naivety, William Shatner's over the top performances, his portrayal of the best of our we would like to believe are the best of our qualities, and I slowly cottoned on to the fact that it was more than a little bit of bollocks.
Still...
And then there was the 'trekkies', those nerds that took it for far more than it was worth. And no one wanted to be seen with them...
And Shatner, his honest-to-goodness lack of self consciousness, his ability to sink his teeth into the most 2 dimensional role possible, lightly, lovingly even satirized in "Galaxy Quest", I mean, you get it, it was time for my tastes to move on, and it's even now still a guilty pleasure. Ahead of it's time, but...
Anyways. He's been the perfect everyman, completely himself, un-self-conscious, barreling on forward, turning what for many actors would have been a liability into a career, satirizing himself, he's carved and created a niche, become a loveable caricature of himself, and he's shown some growth, and gotten to know himself. And so I was a little pleased to see that they've made a movie
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKiW0yxfbSQ
And now, perhaps time to congratulate him on being himself, time has proven that it's been more than enough. And he's an inspiration for everyone that's ever been on their way and yet never arrived that sometimes that's all you gotta be...
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This has been getting a lot of publicity lately. So I watched it. No spoilers (or none of any relevance), but I was surprised that I quite enjoyed it. Not perfect, or great even, but a damned sight better than most of the other "made for Netflix" series I've watched. Now to survive the cliffhanger until the next season...
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And this, because why-not, a Rom-Com entirely written and generated by AI.
Now, Rom-Coms (Romantic Comedies), they're not my thing. Although I did like "4 Weddings and a Funeral" and "Groundhog Day" - which until this day is still a 5 star movie, regardless of what anyone says.
But this, which bills itself as entirely written by AI and the film *(??? Code?) as well - well, ...
God damn. A hard genre to fail in, but if this trailer doesn't hit all the bases...
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQnnISdDIU
This is one of those cases where you should be damn grateful I didn't embed the trailer (because I can't, I upgraded to an unstable version of Joomla!), but - even if I could I'd want you doing that away from here. It looks like fucking hell. You're gonna love it.
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I'm at a friends for dinner, the final episode of "The Brothers Sun".
File under "Action/Comedy/Drama", but it succeeds in none of these. 8 episodes, 8 hours, for a big "Meh".
She's a bit of a pothead, and I'd always attributed her inability to accurately remember or describe any of these things to her 'bad habits'. But the more I watch Netflix, Prime, the other media so often hyped, and I realize that it's not her. It's the fact that the programming is so unutterably mediocre. With the exception of the "Ballad of Buster Scruggs", Coen Brothers, masterpiece.
Talking about kids, and someone I have to catch up with from when I was young, and I suddenly remember the series "Seven (7) Up", a longitudinal study of British Children that I'd mentioned on this blog some 14 years ago.
You can read my original review here: https://rodboyle.com/index.php/archives/reviews/film/the-up-series?highlight=WyJzZXZlbiIsInVwIl0=
OK. No Bird-Dog Video. But still...
I was impressed. I still am.
And by now there should be another 2 episodes for me (us) to watch.
So I put her on to it, and maybe she gets it, maybe she doesn't. But it's a fucking damned sight better than anything else Netflix is offering. We watch the first two episodes together. Oddly enough I remember them both. And I'm keen to catch up.