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Who Else Goes to the Movies a Lot?
What Do You Make Of the Ending? [Spoilers]
Seeing This Today - Preparing Myself for Disappointment
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Has Streaming Made Things Better or Worse?
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He has two sons, and both sing. The older son, Julian, had a decent career going in the '80s, and is probably the better singer of the two.
The same reason nearly every film has flopped for the past couple years: streaming. Most people are stupid. It's a simple fact of life. If you give stupid people a way to be lazy they'll take it, so being able to sit on their ass at home and watch a movie (that they think of as being "for free" despite paying to stream it), is going to become the new norm.
I remember you! You conspiracy theorists really do have an answer for everything, don't you!
My sense of it is that a lot of people hate Jews, but until recently it wasn't acceptable to express that hatred, so they kept it to themselves. In recent years, racism against white people has become normalized, and after the October 7th attacks, the usual pro-Palestine hate mongers came out to support their cause, and the rest of the anti-semites realized they no longer had to keep their hate to themselves. If it was okay to ridicule and hate white people, maybe it was okay to do the same to Jewish people, who are more or less white people anyway. They tested the waters, found that not only was there no pushback but instead there was support, and suddenly it was okay to be racist, as long as the object of your racism is Jewish people.
I think Gadot is the hardest of the heroes to recast. She was born to play Wonder Woman. Batman, Superman, Flash and the rest are fairly interchangeable, and are more or less the suit first with most any actor underneath. I cant think of multiple actors who'd be fine in those roles, but not one that can replace Gadot.
It's clever and funny, but the sort of movie that isn't made anymore, so it may feel foreign to younger viewers. This feels akin to some of the early Coen Bros. films, especially The Hudsucker Proxy, and in some ways like a Mel Brooks film. It's absurdist, surreal, and full of quick, witty banter.
Wow, in today's Hollywood that's the equivalent to a pre-Covid $300 million opening.
It doesn't look too different from the talk shows of that era.
It's hard to imagine any fan of film not being excited about this.
Nothing in this film says to me "check out how weird this place is." It felt like an accurate and reverential depiction of the country. Besides, it was nothing more than the backdrop for the story. They could just as well have been in Montana, Louisiana, or Tanzania. This was about three brothers coming to terms with their upbringing and their relationships with one another, and their mother. Never once do I feel like India is being mocked or demeaned. I see three city dwellers out of their element, trying to process the death of their father and absence of their mother.
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