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The daughter's recommendation "It has the best villain EVER", and so I commit to season 1. And binge watch them all.
They're OK, I thought I recognized Martin Freeman from " The Office", and after later googling it realized it was him, although he's aged considerably. And Colin Hanks, others, and Billy Bob Thornton is a good (not great) villain. But, somehow it's...well, it sucks you in a bit, it's good, but the "folksy Minnesota humour" is done to death, what was charming done once in a movie is overdone in the series, in the end the real joy lay in recognizing locations around Calgary, largely Inglewood, and some of the outlying areas.
But it inspires you, there's no need for a big budget, this story could be told without the big names on a fraction of what it would cost to film most other TV shows, what is important is to know some talented people, have a good writer, some careful editing and directing, and you'll be off...
And so if there's a value to it, this is it.
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Apparently the next big thing, a movie apparently even better - or worse - than "The Room". I didn't know there was a competition, this is not the kind of stuff you can "plan", it just happens, I'll have to go with my son...
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Saw with the Daughter. We lasted an hour, googled the ending, meh. I thought we were going to see "Hereditary", which looks good, but I was confused by the recent publicity "Uncrazy" had gotten, "IPhone 7...bleah bleah bleah" for "Scary as shit horror". My bad. The ending, as it turned out, was entirely predictable (as per Google) and so our time was better spent at the Sushi Bar.
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Watching a new series on Netflix, "Wild Wild Country", a documentary about the Rajneesh movement in India and later Oregon, the development and later conflicts the cult experiences, it's good, by which I mean it's not a good documentary - aspects of it are simply terrible, but the information, the points of view, well, they're interesting and I didn't know...
"The Cult" might be the wrong words, the members don't seem particularly brainwashed to me, and the "who's right or wrong" here runs into grey water pretty quick, some parts - for example, the showing of the movie about the "the cult" to their new neighbors is particularly hilarious, one can imagine; and the interviews with the locals in Antelope, Oregon are hysterical; what it is is the contrast of 2 very different points of view, the old, established order, and the new generation looking for a little bit more. And it's interesting as well in that whatever methods "the cult" stoops to, you can see how they were radicalized by their environment - the "non-cult" mainstream of white-bread-America, how they took upon themselves the ability to grant themselves the inalienable rights promised to them by the Constitution yet denied to them by their neighbors...
What makes it good is how you can see both sides, sympathize with both points of view, the official, government one that denies "The Cult" rights that really should be theirs, and their own subsequent radicalization and retaliation...
...I'd sum it up as kind of like the "Breaking Bad for Bhagwans"...
I haven't finished this yet, there's still a couple of episodes to go (6 all told), but I'm interested for sure. And then I'll do some Googling and more research...
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Continuing the horror bent: Suspiria, good, 70's, high 70's style, Art Nouveau, vivid colors and imagery. The version I found, a little uneven on sound, and the overdubbing of the language is rather unconvincing, artificial, seems a little unsynced, but overall - definitely not the best, but you can see how it influenced later movies.
Trivia: I'd always wondered what became of Jessica Harper - the lead from "Phantom of the Paradise" - well, this was her next big thing. She turned down Annie Hall for this.
Curious.
LINK(Warning, Spoilers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria