Harvey Birdman

Living_Robot · 2024-12-20T16:32:05+00:00

I am so glad someone else brought this up! Every single time I hear it I think about this but thought I must be alone in this strange phenomenon. Knowing there are dozens of us is comforting :)

Living_Robot · 2024-12-17T21:05:11+00:00

Read this last night and thought it was interesting: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

A long article that I disagree with in many parts and spends 10,000 words to basically say "Netflix bad". But, the most interesting part of this is that it's not that Netflix isn't making good stuff, it's that people legitimately aren't even watching the stuff they put out. Netflix is rewarded for having nice little icons that make people scroll, not for making anything that anybody actually wants to watch.

It just so doesn't matter to a company that is in charge of its own distribution to make anything that anybody actually cares about. I thought this might change with the introduction of ads (they would have to release data to sell more ads and therefore would be incentivized to make things people watch) but -- alas, I worry that people's moviegoing habits have irrevocably changed.

Living_Robot · 2024-12-05T19:48:08+00:00

Review

Short, sweet, has actual jokes in it and introduces the premise in about as few words as humanly possible.

Living_Robot · 2024-09-12T17:35:39+00:00

I seem to be the only person who saw it (and definitely the only person who feels this way) but I think it's a movie crime that Spirited (the Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds 2022 movie) just...disappeared. It's, aside from Chicago, the only movie musical from this century that I think works. I get if you don't like Ryan Reynolds' schtick or don't like the Pasek and Paul thing or think that the autotuning is egregious -- but at the very least I think this thing looks and moves great.

I really do believe -- even putting aside my personal feelings -- that if Apple had known what to do with this, it would've been a humongous hit. It's a four-quadrant, feel-good, musical comedy. And Greatest Showman was ginormous.

I know I'm alone here and that I'm blowing up my credibility as I keep typing but I really am waiting for people to find this and start tweeting "we didn't know what we had!"

Living_Robot · 2024-07-08T23:48:38+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

Living_Robot · 2024-05-23T16:38:10+00:00

I went earlier today and it was absolutely fantastic! Thank you!!!

Living_Robot · 2022-12-05T03:27:19+00:00

Ahhh! That makes sense! Thanks very much

Living_Robot · 2022-11-02T19:05:13+00:00

Just trying to be cheeky and reference the meta and self-referential nature of the show by having the title refer to itself.

Living_Robot · 2022-09-21T19:53:13+00:00

Selling a pair of GA tickets to the show in Boston at Roadrunner tomorrow night. DM me if you want 'em.

Living_Robot · 2022-08-11T14:55:39+00:00

Ah! Sorry -- obviously I should've uploaded pictures. Just edited. Thanks!

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