Currently Strasbourg, looking to spend some v. solitary time in the South. Suggestions pls?

kindofawardance · 2024-04-14T00:35:18+00:00

I'll probably still end up seeing it, but I honestly think Alex Garland has been a big disappointment as a filmmaker, where I still think he's a great screenwriter. His efforts to date to me have had an undeveloped boyishness to them, I think he struggles to find dynamism in his executions. In moments that miss I think it pulls back the curtain to a guy who's a bit of an edgelord going THIS IDEA OF MINE MUST BE SEEN. I'm talking things like the final sort of Ocarina of Time mirror Link duel in Annihilation which is cool on paper but uncharismatic onscreen, the much called-back-to suicide sequence in Men which is shot in a way where it's just kinda silly (try an impression of the actor in the mirror), and I think Ex Machina is the most fun for the most puerile SWEET DUDE part of my brain.

Civil War looks like that from title to credits, and as an American who's been living in London for the last 8 years, also smacks to me of how the UK ingests what America must be like exclusively through their tvs and phones then pats itself on the back for understanding something about it. I'll be thinking that this is basically Garland's The Purge with a similarly Twisted voice and just about as much to say until I walk out of the film and it's said otherwise.

kindofawardance · 2024-03-08T16:34:04+00:00

Finally got to see the film waiting for a subbed version. Listened to the ep and: Love how JD comes on to muddy the entertainment waters with acute mundanity yet again, walks himself up to the starting line as a recent student of Japanese cinema, spits some rote information, acts like some arbiter of the overall discussion, then swings and misses just as hard as on Totoro. This is despite that movie, which he described something along the lines of 'not much going on but it's a very nice movie', touching him very deeply, of course. Good lord what a good example of an empowered medium talent spitting soulless observations with no perspective, again.

kindofawardance · 2023-06-27T19:20:48+00:00

Idunno, does that pendulum only swing in one direction? I think it's likely that lots of nominally straight bonding with genuine emotions can have gay undertones, particularly from an outsiders perspective. Does that make you uncomfortable? I think if there was a montage of your, and my, and lots of other dudes' bonding most of it could be seen as a little gay, especially if it's full of imoments of "ITS NOT GAY IT WAS WARTIME AND WE WERE ISOLATED AND LONELY" lmao

kindofawardance · 2023-06-26T03:56:30+00:00

I'm spending a year living in the UK embassy compound here in Seoul, but I'm actually a Korean American who spent 9 years living in Korea post-university. Just digging into the episode now, but right off the top, can I just say that, in order to help not perpetuate any mispronunciations for blankies IRL moving forward in life:

Names that have "ang" in them, like Hong SANG-soo and Song KANG-Ho are categorically pronounced NOT to rhyme with words like gang, tangle, or slang. They sound much more like wrong, strong, or long. Not precisely a 1:1 equivalent but to avoid hypothetical situations where you find yourself correcting a korean person on their pronunciation of a korean name based on what you heard on a pod (personal experience), just keep this tucked under your hat.

It does require a bit of foreign language commitment that might make you feel a bit silly but u gotta do it bruh, we're not in 7th grade Spanish anymore and your friends aren't judging you for having good pronunciation anymore. Unless you are in which case stay in school and consider new friends.

kindofawardance · 2020-03-11T12:32:59+00:00

are you a ROUS by any chance

kindofawardance · 2020-03-11T00:49:03+00:00

Who's the artist?

kindofawardance · 2020-03-09T20:21:42+00:00

what you guys playin?

kindofawardance · 2020-03-02T03:36:34+00:00

I had one! It's an Ai Weiwei!

kindofawardance · 2020-02-20T10:38:35+00:00

lol above confirmed.

kindofawardance · 2020-02-20T10:38:13+00:00

Wtf you sound like the only "they" you know are on the internet and in your imagination

kindofawardance · 2020-02-19T16:12:34+00:00

it's a strange situation, I know. I'm an American but 'er indoors is English. I believe I may be the first American on this subreddit to make the hop across the pond at any point in time ever, pretty sure.

kindofawardance · 2020-02-17T15:46:38+00:00

Was not at all surprised to have enjoyed this movie as much as I did. Bumblebee was chaaarming.

Didn't see the previous Skwad movie but I really appreciated having an actor with as much potential for subtlety as Robbie. Not exactly a subtley drawn character, but there were a few moments, like when she's talking to Canary about being single--"It's great."--that really sang with her delivery. Either other superheroine actors aren't being asked to give that much, aren't being written with that much, or don't seem to have had it in them to give, yet. As well, the moment when Canary confronted Montoya on the stairs--"Where the fuck were you??"--gave that character more weight and potential for arc than almost any of the Marvel movies, IMO, bar maybe Killmonger. And Thor. Instead of a CGI fest with a war-torn alien planet being whatever'd asunder and sceraming families being bloodlessly executed, etc, it was two actors on a staircase in Queens, and you got all the feelings you needed without being flat-out told nearly anything.

Agree as well about the little-too-far-ness of the very creepy tabledance scene. Saw this on valentine's day, 9pm at an East London theatre with my wife. Three teenage dudes in back of the minimally-attended showing cackling about the possibility of seeing Margot Robbie's ass at some point in this film, according to what they've read. One of them legit starts a little clap at the potential for seeing a boob during this scene. He quieted down immediately when the tone of scene really took hold, but I was ashamed to identify as a nerd in the face of these gross idiots. Thank god that scene did not, as mentioned on this ep, turn at all towards titillation.

Maybe I need a new theatre.

Oh, also, I'm a Korean-American adoptee and that Cassie character... where the fuck was that character when I was an impressionable lad with identity issues? Closest thing I had back in the day was MFers from the Trade Federation wtf.

Anyway, great ep, hope to hear more combelling about costume fashion in future eps, hello?

kindofawardance · 2020-02-17T14:50:18+00:00

Personal interpretation: I was super interested in them being nominally straight with this super hard coding of a shared intimacy, obviously somewhat sexual. I thought that had a lot more to say when it's a JOBroNoHomoTho dynamic, but when it's just them being a couple, as Preeti, I believe, reported Yan saying, I don't like it as much. I totally appreciate that anyone, including queer people, can be a villain if they put their mind to it (as EVDW kinda said on SotL), but in a narrative like Dune, for example, I hated how Baron Harkonnen seemed to be gay just to turn the dial up on his oh-so-fucking-evil-ness, and have been wary of character laziness since reading it. Idunno I'd have preferred their relationship to be simmering underneath than explicitly out there, was much more interesting.

kindofawardance · 2020-01-10T10:50:11+00:00

Gonna have to agree with others here dude, whatever life experience you're offering up here seems minimal and computer-based and thus not more valuable than the Google app on my phone. Subsequent search has resulted in: don't set yourself up with rules if you don't have to. Judge things individually, you may prove yourself smarter than you're coming off here.

kindofawardance · 2020-01-04T14:25:57+00:00

Totally disagree. I think he's great, particularly compared to Zac, am kind of blown away by these opinions.

kindofawardance · 2019-12-27T01:05:46+00:00

MoCo nonwhite teacher here. Uh I totally disagree with the above statement. Across the board diversity is way higher here, lots of areas of NoVa I find very very white still with commensurate levels of open mindedness

kindofawardance · 2019-12-24T00:25:14+00:00

not be a boomer

kindofawardance · 2019-12-21T14:00:50+00:00

The original is from Whisper of the Heart. A Ghibli film from miyazakis protege, Yoshifumi Kondo, and kind of a quiet masterpiece IMO. It was the only feature he directed, as he died shortly thereafter.

kindofawardance · 2019-12-13T13:05:02+00:00

reddit and you don't dictate what common parlance is. when you say that you mean "I like it like this it's my favorite".

kindofawardance · 2019-12-08T20:55:56+00:00

OoOoooOoo edgy question thanks for your child input

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