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[Weekly Updates] June 22nd, 2020
Added 2020-06-22 05:15:58 +0000 UTCHow was everyone's week? My insomnia kicks back into gear again, unfortunately. Hope you all stays healthy and active!
Anyway, Happy Father's Day!
ABOUT THE CHANNEL
- Luckily, despite insomnia and a headache, the next episode's editing is currently on track. It's gonna be a fun little action pack video, I think many of you will enjoy. Script for the episode will be uploaded later today.
- While I have a few more episodes planned, I might slow down a bit for the next month and. Continuous quarantine has been tough, and I might need a bit of a break in between episode. Don't worry, I still plan on doing this bi-weekly. But I just won't stick to the set schedule as rigorously, meaning I might take Friday off, but will work on a Sunday instead.
- On an unrelated note: We have a subreddit! Recently someone brought to my attention that, someone created a subreddit /r/AccentedCinema. It's empty there right now, but if you are a Redditor, drop by and say hi. I'll verify my account soon, and maybe post an AMA.
ABOUT MEDIA
- What are some of the movies you didn't managed to finish?
- One recent example for me is 1917. I watched till half way and was not feeling any emotional resonant. The film is beautiful and well-crafted, with strong performance and a pretty good story. But for some reason, I just can't find enough interests in my to finish the viewing. This is a movie that, like Bladerunner 2049, is best enjoyed on the big screen. If watched alone on a small screen.
- The other example I remember failing to finish is Oppai Volleyball, a Japanese movie. I'm so glad the word Oppai has entered the English Lexicon and I don't have to call this movie something else.
- It's about a group of horny middle schoolers and their new teacher's promise: If the boys won the volleyball tournament, the teacher will show them her oppai.
- It's supposed to be a good movie. I heard great praises from many reviews. But if the horny premise didn't deter you, trust me the movie's depiction of the boy's horniness is even worse. I didn't make it past the first 30 minutes, because of the boy's rapid fire sex jokes.
- And I'm the kind of dudes who can handle Japanese ecchi anime. It really is that much.
- Other examples includes 2012, where I was watching it out of boredom. The movie was long, and pretty boring, so I had to take an intermission. I did manage to finish it, though. It wasn't good.
- And finally, I still haven't finish Death Proof, the Tarantino movie. I watch the first half of the film without subtitles, and got lost because I can't hear most of the dialogues. Being a grind house style film, the audio is not the cleanest (on purpose). I plan on going back to the film with subtitles from the start, but so far, I have yet to find the motivation to revisit it.
So that's the update this week. I really should go back to watching more movies, but there isn't a lot that catches my interests lately. Especially with the current climate, It's hard to find myself watching films with heavy and serious subject matters.
I guess in the meantime, I'll continue to find myself sandwiched between Animal Crossing and Xenoblade.
Comments
I watched Birds of Prey in the theatre and was pretty torn about how I feel about it. The first half is kinda slow and dull, and then it becomes a decent action thriller, but still doesn't hold my attention much. The charm of the actresses are the only thing that undeniably make the film watchable.
Accented Cinema
2020-06-28 05:36:24 +0000 UTCI tried to watch Birds of Prey and just couldn't finish it. It's really hard to ignore the 'get woke, go broke' rally cries with a movie like this, especially when the 'strongest' character is the serial killer Victor Zzasz because we can at least understand his motivations (everything he does is out of love for Black Mask or to keep himself safe). And I don't mean 'strongest' as in 'best at fighting' or ' most capable' or even 'highest physical strength by numerical values'. I mean 'most developed character within this film's context.' And when viewing this film it's almost essential to view it both as a part of a universe because of how little we're given, but also very damaging to do so. Are we supposed to believe that the police know about the Canary Cry but Black Mask does not? Are we supposed to accept that the police know where Harley lives and never arrested her despite her being an escaped convict and a murderer? I get that this is the 'shut your brain off' mentality people talk about, but this isn't nitpicking. This is an audience member being pulled from the film over and over and over because the people who made it didn't care about logical or narrative consistency. As for the subtitles comment: there is so much more you get out of films when watching them with subtitles. People say things that there isn't any way you could have heard because of music drowning it out, or because of recording device placement, or what have you. It's almost essential for a good deal of films. Like Nightcrawler from a few years ago - wonderful script, spoken sometimes way, way too quickly or by people off camera. Seeing everything that every character says adds so much to it. That said I feel you can probably skip that rewatch of Death Proof. To me that's a movie that's exactly what the trailer sold, and if you've seen any 'confrontation' chunk out of it you've seen all of it.
Michael Everett
2020-06-23 02:13:47 +0000 UTC
