I’m not normally huge on anime, but a friend of mine whose aesthetic sense I trust recommended this to me without reservation. I’ll echo that here.
Beautiful, meditative, immersive. Takes hold of you gently, like a mother’s embrace.
Great show for the dead of winter.
I do wanna watch Blazing Saddles now, though. There’s that.
The revolution will not be televised in the mirrored reflection of your own eyes
Truly some of the best cinema of its era. Phenomenal, and my personal favorite of the french-flag-colors trilogy. Liberte indeed.
Holy shit that woman actually just spit social contract theory like heavy slam poetry. Fire.
wonder who it is kovac? perhaps agian or will their be a darker
plot to the mystery person or aliens !! ???????????????
Saw your comment so came by because I remember that movie from looong ago and only that it was disturbing. So I watched it, lol. Yea, I can see why this kinda freaked me out a bit as a kid. Even for today’s standards, it’s still weird, lol. Nice trip back and love James Woods so it was a ol’ win. =o)
Oh man, the DVD release of this included a perfect little companion short film by him which is EASILY one of my top 5 favorite shorts ever, “Camera” (6min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC7YsHWoX5A
I love Cronenberg to hell and back. For like 20 years he makes the most insane abstract/psychological body horror (I particularly love his psychotic adaptation of Burrough’s Naked Lunch), and then out of nowhere suddenly makes two insanely strong, Oscar nominated films of totally different genre/tone (A History of Violence, Eastern Promises).
I wanna be pen pals with himmm
Yes, they say they hate Michael Moore, but more to the point, they hate what he represents. They hate the fact he points out blatantly obvious imperfections and other evils in the American system, political and otherwise, when they’ve been brainwashed into believing America is perfect, guided by the hand of God, and can do no wrong. They don’t want to admit to themselves that America is far from perfect, and in many ways, is the exact opposite of what it claims to be. That kind of denial leads to anger and hate, and in some cases violence, especially since they’ve been so passionate about that misbelief their entire lives! Sicko is one of the best Moore documentaries, and one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen period. A lot of eye-opening stuff! I was for universal care before I saw this in 2007, and all this film did was solidify that belief in me forever!
^^ Man, rough crowd. Is the title of a loved song by Mr Bungle (OP’s handle)
you could more succinctly have said to fact check him. He lies and exaggerates, plain and simple.
Hmmm, I MAY have had some rhetorical fun, haha. But my criticism wasn’t about his honesty really, more the tragic role he’s played setting back the very causes he advocates. My guess would be out of some ill-conceived “fight fire with fire” counter-Limbaugh sorta deal, hitting all the same addictive-righteous-rage pressure valves.
When you’re on moral high ground, the smart play usually looks like helping others people up while pretending not to notice. In today’s insane resentment/“doubling down” culture war loop, to encourage waging a culture war in its own trenches is reactionary as best, rabid at worst.
Always with the penultimate episode.
Every goddamn time.
This show delivers.
Yes, they say they hate Michael Moore, but more to the point, they hate what he represents. They hate the fact he points out blatantly obvious imperfections and other evils in the American system, political and otherwise, when they’ve been brainwashed into believing America is perfect, guided by the hand of God, and can do no wrong. They don’t want to admit to themselves that America is far from perfect, and in many ways, is the exact opposite of what it claims to be. That kind of denial leads to anger and hate, and in some cases violence, especially since they’ve been so passionate about that misbelief their entire lives! Sicko is one of the best Moore documentaries, and one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen period. A lot of eye-opening stuff! I was for universal care before I saw this in 2007, and all this film did was solidify that belief in me forever!
Because he aggressively refuses to take the hint that, when you are on the right side of an argument/history, you DO NOT NEED to make arguments in bad faith; in fact, historically it almost always does more harm than good.
I mean, seriously, if I were a Koch Brother, and I wanted to invent someone to steer progressive discourse to my advantage… Someone who would crusade to CONSISTENTLY derail the few meaningful ideological discussions which DO arise into reactionary, tribal slogans to yell past one another…
Someone who could do it all: to those inclined to agree, promote a mindset and talking points mired in self-righteous class resentment rather than strategic class struggle. To those NOT inclined to agree, to be self-appointed Strawman General of talk-show-land, learning nothing from ceaseless, infuriatingly problematic use of disingenuous half-truths and questionable framings. And to those who don’t really know, aren’t very political: half the time older ones are gonna feel defensive or dismissive before a word of substance gets spoken; and the younger ones, bred to smell partisan-hackery a mile away, are gonna go full cringe at a range of rhetorical/theatrical stunts so tired and anemic they were prolly interviewed in this film
Kinda week opening episode of the season… :/
Tone of the writing felt like it was conceived as a “necessary sacrifice”; given the % people who haven’t done their homework on the subject, there may well be an argument it’s a justifiable one.
Oh god. Oh… oh. That last blow… I shoulda seen it coming, sure in the back of my mind I always knew but GODDAMN it doesn’t hurt any less, at that moment, already bittersweet, as the implications start to sink in.
this movie is amazing ive always loved it and have it on dvd but still watch it on here also
I watched this when it came out. I remember it having an interesting way of exploring its own relationship to modern voyeurism and sensationalism. I thought that for what it was trying to pull off, it didn’t do a bad job. Maybe tried a little too hard. Cool soundtrack.
And, uh, if you frame it a bit differently, the amount of theoretical harm the existence of this film could EVER wreck on our kids is an order of magnitude lower than literally any project produced by Disney.
Like a Cassavettes film projected against the backdrop of modern long-form storytelling. Nuanced, dark, and witty as hell. Well played.
I actually quite liked this. Though the deconstruction of the genre itself is far from new — hell I’d be willing to bet using the heist structure to send up its genre isn’t even new — I was impressed with how well it worked to tie it in with the Rick/Morty relationship pyscho-pathology. To set out not to steal one’s silly dreams, but rather manufacture circumstances to provide the tools through which they’ll disillusion themselves for you.
It’s an uncommon style of heist - but it does sound rather familiar. Like a Camus novel. Or perhaps an Adult Swim cartoon…
This show really does love it’s meta-commentary, doesn’t it?
P.S. Love the fact that they actually got Elon to voice this.
Hot damn. That last scene ran cold in perfect deadpan. Nicely done.
As a lifelong Radiohead fan, this is the first version of Creep I’ve heard that doesn’t make me want to vomit.
Interesting concept episode. A few sequences reminded me a little of David Lynch. Beautifully shot and staged, as always. Plus Darlene’s grim, deadpan B-story — a pitch-black comic nod to Planes, Trains, and Automobiles — was flat out hilarious, perfectly wrong in all the right ways.
A nagging thought: given the 180 sudden turnaround of Tyrell Welleck’s personality from cold corporate vampire into insecure emotional vampire last season, now, after the suggestion this season of a 3rd dissociative Eliot persona existing, I gotta say that during this episode I was sooo tempted to think it was a manifestation of Welleck.
solid B-, not particularity inspired in its use of meta-awareness of the shortcomings of the reboot process, but nothing egregious and a few decent laughs
To the person I recommended this to: if you’re currently reading this I’ve guessed wrong ^_^
jons still paying some semblance of attention by the sounds of it :)
I’ll be damned if he doesn’t have some impeccable comedic timing, what in his offering to the Comedian’s daughter right after she told the brick joke
the creators said this is not supposed to be a sequel but they seem to be leaning into the movie pretty hard.
Well, the movie is an adaptation of a graphic novel, so I’d guess this production wanted to be seen as the same, not as a “sequel to the adaptation”.
Whoa. Well played, France. Elegantly edited, nuanced storytelling with style to burn. Solid A
As a fan of the podcast, I gotta say, this was adapted far more tastefully than I’d expected. Yeah, growing pains are inevitable in any adaptation — no easy task to balance the spirit of the source material with changes in narrative structure made necessary by a new medium — but the groundwork layed here suggests some genuinely fertile soil for character development. Fingers crossed.
To those saying this show was created as an attack on Christianity: I’m not sure that’s quite right. Perhaps quite the opposite, really. If I were to guess, I’d say this show was designed to be an attempt at “Christian Horror”, and not necessarily a bad one at that — i.e. using many of the tropes that makes horror enjoyable, but with a particular emphasis on Christian iconography and symbolism, adding another layer of visceral revulsion to tap into for certain audiences. Basically, it seems to be trying to explore the profane using the language of the “sacred.”
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One of my absolute favorite films. Don’t blink, or you might miss it.