Holy shit The Whale sounds terrible but that article was hilarious, I’ve just signed up for the newsletter. And in terms of the paper on animal weight, I’ve long assumed that there’s something in our environment that has affected our average weight and probably our overall fertility rates, rates of inflammatory diseases, etc. as well. Sorry the animals are also affected.
The first Avatar was Dances with Wolves in Space (Dances with Wookies), with the same problematic themes (white savior syndrome) in both. Apparently the second one has all the same issues (Maori tattoos on the sea people tribes, etc.) with the added benefit that underwater the CGI characters look like Sea Monkeys ads from 70s comic books. No clue what the attraction is supposed to be with this film. I wish Hollywood would stop making movies based around ethno-surrealism. They're embarrassing in their very existence, even for those of us who don't drop our money on them.
If you haven't seen the 5 Oscar-nominated short films, I highly recommend them. 3 of the 5 deal with sexual violence (incest, international child sex trafficking, sexual assault), with another starring an actor with Downs syndrome playing the character with Downs syndrome (which is a welcome trend), and the final one being a quirky weird piece about orphans in an Italian orphanage in WWII. I thought the Irish movie that won the Oscar deserved to, but they were all good. The one shot in Greenland used a drone to capture landscape footage that is amazing to watch on a big screen--and it wasn't CGI, with which I am deeply bored.
About movies, I also have to add I reached the saturation point with superhero movies of all kinds in the 2010s & cannot find the motivation to watch another one, no matter how well-made it may be. Okay, that's not 100% true--I'd definitely be up for an Unbeatable Squirrel Girl movie.
Holy shit The Whale sounds terrible but that article was hilarious, I’ve just signed up for the newsletter. And in terms of the paper on animal weight, I’ve long assumed that there’s something in our environment that has affected our average weight and probably our overall fertility rates, rates of inflammatory diseases, etc. as well. Sorry the animals are also affected.
I loved EEAAO... It was confusing the first time I watched it... And I liked it more the second time?
The first Avatar was Dances with Wolves in Space (Dances with Wookies), with the same problematic themes (white savior syndrome) in both. Apparently the second one has all the same issues (Maori tattoos on the sea people tribes, etc.) with the added benefit that underwater the CGI characters look like Sea Monkeys ads from 70s comic books. No clue what the attraction is supposed to be with this film. I wish Hollywood would stop making movies based around ethno-surrealism. They're embarrassing in their very existence, even for those of us who don't drop our money on them.
If you haven't seen the 5 Oscar-nominated short films, I highly recommend them. 3 of the 5 deal with sexual violence (incest, international child sex trafficking, sexual assault), with another starring an actor with Downs syndrome playing the character with Downs syndrome (which is a welcome trend), and the final one being a quirky weird piece about orphans in an Italian orphanage in WWII. I thought the Irish movie that won the Oscar deserved to, but they were all good. The one shot in Greenland used a drone to capture landscape footage that is amazing to watch on a big screen--and it wasn't CGI, with which I am deeply bored.
About movies, I also have to add I reached the saturation point with superhero movies of all kinds in the 2010s & cannot find the motivation to watch another one, no matter how well-made it may be. Okay, that's not 100% true--I'd definitely be up for an Unbeatable Squirrel Girl movie.