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seasonal salutations
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
27 Dec 2022 12:14
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Wachoo cats doon?
We had a quiet chrimbo in due to inclement weather and incipient sloth, watched a heady cocktail of cinematic gems 'n garbage, and braved the viral barrage-spreading zombie shopping hordes yesterday for a meal out at a famous deli chain.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
28 Dec 2022 08:59
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Quiet here by comparison with Christmases past. Over to the in-laws on Christmas Day for food and booze. They are still reasonably chipper in their 80s plus had their son to help. Then they all came over to ours on Boxing Day. Our son and daughter were there too. Otherwise slothful with plenty of shit TV. Watched both the Knives Out movies back to back as they're on Netflix. Remembered half way through Knives Out that I'd already seen Daniel Craig returning the compliment to Dick Van Dyke accent-wise.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
28 Dec 2022 12:35
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I thought he acquitted himself fairly well playing against type/Bond. As someone who grew up in the deep south, I didn't find the accent, though pastiche -y, off the charts weird. Ed Norton, OTOH was way too insipid as a supposed tech titan, someone more like DiCaprio (were he available & affordable) might have been a better choice.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
28 Dec 2022 12:59
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Fair enough. I did hear the occasional line that came out entirely in BBC English. But no, in all honesty, I suppose he did avoid the "Stroyk a loyt Meery Poppins" mash-up of imaginary accents favoured by Mr Van D. I like Ed Norton as a villain, but he was a bit light-weight for such a colourful cast.
By the end of the second film (Glass Onion) I was too engrossed in my Christmas bottle of Palma gin to worry about either accents or casting.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
28 Dec 2022 15:19
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Best thing we watched (of several really good ones) was "Surge" with Ben Wishaw in the lead as an airport security dude losing his mind.
From: milko
5 Jan 2023 12:20
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merry xmas and new years and things.
Most of us got flu at various intervals so not much was done. I watched a film called DUNC that turned out to be an extended pilot episode for Dune, I'd have assumed a big-budget tv series by the pacing if I didn't know better. And Glass Onion which yeah, it's alright and quite fun.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
5 Jan 2023 13:27
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We watched Villeneuve's Dune over xmas. Reasonably entertaining but meh, didn't really add anything to the Lynch version and in some ways (fx, surprisingly), inferior. E.g., the giant worms were dumb AF.
EDITED: 5 Jan 2023 13:28 by DSMITHHFX
From: milko
5 Jan 2023 15:18
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Yeah, that's the one I watched as well. I'm just being facetious over the stupid typography.
I liked the look of the thing, Deakins-esque sandy stuff at times and brutalist architecture and whatnot. I'm not sure about this whole 'take a single story and split it into multiple films' thing that they keep doing though, this one ends feeling very incomplete. Because it's only halfway through the first book!
From: william (WILLIAMA)
5 Jan 2023 22:38
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I know nothing about Austin Butler who is stepping into the Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen role that Sting did in the Lynch version, but his IMDB bio, including the Elvis role, makes me worry that there's more TV pilot episode on the way.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
6 Jan 2023 17:39
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Villeneuve has had some great outings, this ain't one of them.