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Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

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Spartanforlife4 said:
Probably doesn’t help it gets sandwiched between Forest Gump, Apollo 13, and Saving Private Ryan in his filmography.
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I think that's exactly it. Those were a bunch of blockbuster big-budget epics and people were expecting another one of those, so a nice little story got overlooked. But it's a solid movie that does a great job telling its story.
 
I’m glad I watched Kimi last night. A simple story, neatly concluded (and yes, the final tool used by the hero wouldn’t actually work in the way depicted) but I’m still thinking about the issues it raised, today. Very pleasing entertainment to the jet-lagged mind.
And the best thing about it, is how it didn’t end (who ends up saving the day)
 
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Having finally watched the first Fantastic Beasts movie (because my daughter insisted that we watch it) and read into some of the lore, I can finally understand where the whole “JK Rowling is a TERF” thing came from: She has zero understanding of how the real world works. Her depiction of the US in the “Wizarding World” makes zero fucking sense. Actually, her entire “Wizarding World” makes zero fucking sense, even the British part.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Having finally watched the first Fantastic Beasts movie (because my daughter insisted that we watch it) and read into some of the lore, I can finally understand where the whole “JK Rowling is a TERF” thing came from: She has zero understanding of how the real world works. Her depiction of the US in the “Wizarding World” makes zero fucking sense. Actually, her entire “Wizarding World” makes zero fucking sense, even the British part.
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Makes perfect sense to me. It's fiction. I have a hard time with it as well because they never write the story I want to hear, or the story I want told. But, I'm not the author.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Her depiction of the US in the “Wizarding World” makes zero fucking sense.
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Because American depictions of other countries in movies are always accurate? Especially in the speculative fiction arena?

I mean, I get it, but there's some "what's good for the goose" in play here, too.
 
unofan said:
Because American depictions of other countries in movies are always accurate? Especially in the speculative fiction arena?

I mean, I get it, but there's some "what's good for the goose" in play here, too.
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I mean, she’s too kind to the US to be honest. No racism, no problems with Native Americans (which is the hardest part to believe)? You’re telling me there’s no southern, aristocratic wizarding families kinda still PO’d about the civil war?

That’s the big thing with her world: all the witches and wizards are so concerned about keeping secret from the muggles that things like racism or imperialism don’t exist? In world where this whole “blood purity” thing runs rampant? Really?
 
Jimjamesak said:
That’s the big thing with her world: all the witches and wizards are so concerned about keeping secret from the muggles that things like racism or imperialism don’t exist? In world where this whole “blood purity” thing runs rampant? Really?
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IMO, the entire idea of wizards / muggles is that an intelligent and kind minority have to stay hidden from the stupid and violent majority. Our "magic" is our ability to think clearly, which to the majority is so mysterious (and threatening) they see it as supernatural. The villains are the intelligent people who lack kindness and abuse their gifts to harm.

Almost all of fantasy is metaphors for being a human born among apes. It is the perennial dilemma of the smart person.
 
Jimjamesak said:
I mean, she’s too kind to the US to be honest. No racism, no problems with Native Americans (which is the hardest part to believe)? You’re telling me there’s no southern, aristocratic wizarding families kinda still PO’d about the civil war?

That’s the big thing with her world: all the witches and wizards are so concerned about keeping secret from the muggles that things like racism or imperialism don’t exist? In world where this whole “blood purity” thing runs rampant? Really?
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I'm guessing she felt the whole fascism thing was covered by Voldemort and the Deatheaters and their pure blood obsession that sort of views magical folk as a "race" of their own to be protected from intermingling with "Muggles" (though note how she invented a pejorative slur of sorts there). So she didn't see a need to further inject racial tensions into books that were read by large numbers of young children (like, under 12). Not saying I necessarily agree with her choices, but it's her story to tell and her bank accounts to pad. *shrug*

I haven't watched any of the Fantastic Beasts stuff, nor do I plan to, so I can't comment on her depiction of America.
 
Kepler said:
IMO, the entire idea of wizards / muggles is that an intelligent and kind minority have to stay hidden from the stupid and violent majority. Our "magic" is our ability to think clearly, which to the majority is so mysterious (and threatening) they see it as supernatural. The villains are the intelligent people who lack kindness and abuse their gifts to harm.

Almost all of fantasy is metaphors for being a human born among apes. It is the perennial dilemma of the smart person.
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Shocking that you would have this belief. *rolls eyes*

Of course, like many “smart” people who hide away, they emerge years later to find the “idiots” have passed them by in technology.

(It’s common by Harry’s that many in the Wizarding World lament that the muggles have passed them by with things like cars and airplanes)
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I'm guessing she felt the whole fascism thing was covered by Voldemort and the Deatheaters and their pure blood obsession that sort of views magical folk as a "race" of their own to be protected from intermingling with "Muggles" (though note how she invented a pejorative slur of sorts there). So she didn't see a need to further inject racial tensions into books that were read by large numbers of young children (like, under 12). Not saying I necessarily agree with her choices, but it's her story to tell and her bank accounts to pad. *shrug*

I haven't watched any of the Fantastic Beasts stuff, nor do I plan to, so I can't comment on her depiction of America.
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Yeah, I’m not talking about the books really. It’s more the whole “Wizarding World” she’s done the last decade or so with the Pottermore and Fantastic Beasts stuff. If she had just left it with the Potter books it’d be fine but, she just had to keep going and make a huge mess.
 
Watching a Bowery Boys movie this morning. Slip says to Sach, "Why you have a pencil when you can't even write?" Chuck says, "That's an old joke, Chief."

I'm not crazy, right? That's a dirty joke?
 
Kepler said:
Watching a Bowery Boys movie this morning. Slip says to Sach, "Why you have a pencil when you can't even write?" Chuck says, "That's an old joke, Chief."

I'm not crazy, right? That's a dirty joke?
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I first heard this about 40 years ago. I was fishing in ON with my dad and a guy in his 80s. Over evening cocktails the old guy announced that he "still had lead in his pencil but he couldn't find someone to write to".

Etiology: https://wordhistories.net/2021/09/23/lead-in-ones-pencil/
 
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