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| bartist |
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I was in the restroom, but my film copain described it to me and I was sorry I didn't exert more stoicism on the bladder front.
I guess it's getting some blowback from people who say the main characters were too pale. Washington Heights is mostly Afro-Dominican, and they felt there was the Hollywood filter where casting selects people who pass "the brown paper bag test." Given how many filters exist in Hollywood casting, I'm not sure I can get too worked up about this. But I'm not a dark-complected aspiring young actor who's being overlooked for being too mestizo or African. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:14 pm |
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bartist wrote: I was in the restroom, but my film copain described it to me and I was sorry I didn't exert more stoicism on the bladder front.
I guess it's getting some blowback from people who say the main characters were too pale. Washington Heights is mostly Afro-Dominican, and they felt there was the Hollywood filter where casting selects people who pass "the brown paper bag test." Given how many filters exist in Hollywood casting, I'm not sure I can get too worked up about this. But I'm not a dark-complected aspiring young actor who's being overlooked for being too mestizo or African.
I'm not worked up about it at all, like I wasn't with "Raya and the Last Dragon." When you have a movie with an all (or mostly all; the guy in the ice cream truck isn't Latino, which is the point) Hispanic cast about a the Dominican (and Puerto Rican; they did fudge about that) community and you're worried about the color of the their skin, I think you're missing something. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 4:50 am |
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Has anyone seen Promising Young Woman (2020) starring Carey Mulligan?
Sounds interesting from what little I know of it so far. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:37 am |
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gromit wrote: Has anyone seen Promising Young Woman (2020) starring Carey Mulligan?
Sounds interesting from what little I know of it so far.
I didn't care for it. Probably because it was billed as a comedy but it's more of a revenge flick. Also, all the male characters are weak, predators or both (and our protagonist is a predator as well). |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:39 am |
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Yeah, it sounds like a feminist revenge flick in the mode of a super-hero film.
Not my cuppa, I suspect. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:43 am |
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I do recall your complaining about a film being billed as a comedy and being a revenge flick. Didn't recall the title/film.
I got briefly interested, and now think I'd probably hate it. I'll have to take a Mulligan. Actually I like Carey and have just run across Burnham and somewhat curious to see him in a film. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:25 pm |
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I had just panned a feminist revenge flick over in Couch. Which I really didn't expect "The Invisible Man, " (HG Wells, not Ralph Ellison) to be.
Too many films rolling off the line with male roles being pathetic or sinister caricatures. A bad pendulum swing -- when female roles were too often weak, predatory, etc. that wasn't good either. Plus a lot of revenge flicks are too gleeful about cruelty, which I think lowers everything down to bloody mindedness. Karmic revenges are so much better. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:09 pm |
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I feel like Miranda , in writing the stage musical, just wanted to capture the Latinx experience in NYC, not do an ethnographic study of Washington Heights.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2021 8:31 am |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:13 pm |
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Despite rave reviews (82 on Metacritic), Michael Sarnoski's "Pig" is a silly movie with no redeeming features, not even Nicolas Cage's "restrained" performance.
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:23 am |
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Good to see you Ghulam.
So what are the best films of 2021?
What's worth seeing from this year?
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)
I'm up and down on his films. This seems to be (another) 70's music/coming of age film set in LA.
Pig seems at least interesting.
What else? |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:24 am |
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Good to see you Ghulam.
So what are the best films of 2021?
What's worth seeing from this year?
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)
I'm up and down on his films. This seems to be (another) 70's music/coming of age film set in LA.
Pig seems at least interesting.
What else? |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 4:23 pm |
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| I liked "Raya and the Last Dragon" and "The Sparks Brothers" a lot, and admired "In the Heights" without loving it, but I've seen less than ten movies in the theater this years and some of those were really from previous years. I actively disliked "The Green Knight." |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:24 pm |
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| The Guilty, the current remake of the excellent Danish film, is disappointing. To properly render the 911 dispatcher requires just the sort of Scandinavian restraint that Jakob Cedergren brought to the original. The remake fails, with much self-indulgent emoting from Jake Gyllenhaal, and far less coherence. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 1:14 am |
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Not tremendously current, but it's been hard to see films during the pandemic.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020)
Has this been seen?
Thoughts?
I usually like Kaufman films, but they've grown bleaker since he started directing his own scripts (and as he ages). I might prefer others adding more emotional resonance to his often intellectualized writing. |
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