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Movies 2026: Shame and Money

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Kep, I think you and I now both have a YouTube addiction.
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Absolutely. It's going to really suck when it becomes wholly unwatchable. It's already close. Search engines are already impossible.

Reading books fills the soul more, but I'm going to be in therapy for endorphin withdrawal for the rest of my life.
 
The sheer number of nominally amateur documentaries and history-based channels that have relatively high production value is incredible, IMO. Unfortunately, AI slop is rearing its ugly head now.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The sheer number of nominally amateur documentaries and history-based channels that have relatively high production value is incredible, IMO. Unfortunately, AI slop is rearing its ugly head now.
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Yeah when the people behind a history channel actually put in the effort and make it themselves, they all do a pretty damn job, and as you said there's a surprisingly large number of them. But more and more are just AI text and AI voice and it's getting annoying weeding them out. Though if they call "St. Petersburg" "Street Petersburg" that's a pretty good indicator.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mObmtnV-X-A

The greatest Coming of Age from a Woman's POV scene in movie history, and barely any words are spoken. A complicated and profound novel in less than 12 and a half minutes.

This was a Hollywood blockbuster film adaptation of a Broadway hit (Carousel) that pushed these glass shards right into your face, without moralizing or salve:
  • wife and child beating
  • a young girl's (Louise is at most 15 in the source material) sexual urges and confusion
  • parental abandonment
  • societal hypocrisy
  • kinda sorta maybe incesty thoughts
  • the blind, mocking viciousness of The People
  • in the original source, an ending with every significant character led off to be tortured in hell (including Louise, both for striking her father in his one moment of complete vulnerability, and for her complicated transference of her sexual desires either for him to another man or from herself onto her father)
The Carousel, in case you missed it, is eroticism writ huge -- the element added to you when your childhood is over (Louise's red rag, the least subtle prop in film history)

The lead character is, as far as I know, the most repellent protagonist in film history, with far more unsettling and terrible as good aspects. (Sinatra was supposed to do it. It would have been his greatest role.) And it's not for laughs -- he's intimately horrifiying. And they actually tried this as a blockbuster with an expectation of finding a sufficiently large audience of people who not only got it, but wanted to see the drama, and the high concept dance. And to follow up Oklahoma which for a lot of critics is the greatest musical ever made, and certainly the most audacious (I know, let's make a flyover state fair movie about rape!).

Carousel did meh. It's the only R&H musical not to win an Oscar, which is criminal but I guess understandable for probably the most overtly anti-democratric, anti-progressive, anti-"nice" movie in the history of American theater.
 
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Greta Garbo and Leo, 1925:

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Jimjamesak said:
Went and saw Supergirl with my daughter.

It was good.
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I've been looking forward to this since I saw that trailer. "Home is wherever you are, buddy." Getting a 3 hour block of time to go to the movies is a challenge though. Probably end up waiting for streaming.
 
Yep, best advice I ever read, back in around 1975, from a different source*. I have been following it with parents, friends, professors, girlfriends, bosses, and wife for the last 50 years.


* Commentariolum Petitionis, Cicero, 64 BC

"Agree; then do nothing."
 
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