just want to say that I very much appreciated the reflection in the middle here, especially the thoughts on finding a balance, and thoughts on speaking carefully/ context collapse.
Just wanna thank you for being so openly vulnerable on here. Hearing you talk about your experiences with depression and how you comment upon and read about current geopolitical issues is honestly super felt on my end!
53:00 my canonical answer for the first Q is always _Paddington_. The trailer just looks like lowbrow slapstick and I got chewed out by Devin Faraci for saying as much.
I've said this multiple times, but the funny thing about the Scott Pilgrim comics is that I read the first 3, thought Scott sucked shit and thought the text was supporting him, and never read the rest. Then I watched the movie, it was much clearer that Scott sucked, and I was like "Oh, was that the point?" I still have not gone back to read the whole run of comics, so maybe it was more obvious than I realized. But in that sense, the movie clarified Scott and improved him for me.
I think you're definitely supposed to kind of find some cartoon fun in his "antics" (see: bad behavior) earlier on--I had loved the series when I first read it as I powered through it all and loved it as a whole, but revisiting it recently, I felt the thematic stuff about Scott being quite mean, quite selfish, and just in need of growing up doesn't really come through until later on. Maybe it was fresher at the time to have the story start off as it did and then subvert this sort of story with this sort of protag later, but it did just feel uncomfortable waiting for it now.
question for next time: what are some other adaptations you enjoy that both A) feel very devoted to the source material but also B) take a huge divergence from that source material? The big one that comes to mind for me is the recent Little Women, and its decision to reframe the book's weird ending/ to bring in Louisa May Alcott's biography a bit more into the ending.
Question for the Next Episode: What are some of your favorite "Wait, they were in/did that?!" pieces of movie trivia? One of mine is the fact that Jim Dangle and Junior from Reno 911! wrote the Night at the Museum movies. And that Dean Cundy was the cinematographer on Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. And although it's not movie related, I can't not mention the most insane piece of trivia you taught me--that Rivers Cuomo helped Cold write "Stupid Girl."
Q for next time: is it better to patronize movie theaters on holidays or not? If people want to go, then service workers have to be scheduled and don't get time with their own families, but maybe they could use the extra hours? (subQ: do movie theater workers get extra pay for holiday hours?) If people are scheduled anyway, is it better to give theaters the business? or to not add to the workload?
Not serious question: Now that you've WATCHED A NEW ANIME could I somehow convince you to watch another? 😈 Same staff members-ish as the Scott Pilgrim show's actually, as it's made by the team that would become the studio that made this show. Legitimately one of my favorite stories in all of fiction: Ping Pong--let me know if you get around to it : )
Actual question: back in the heyday of torrenting, was there ever a movie you wanted to see so badly that you had to resort to some really terrible camrip/some version with huge burned-in subs/etc?
just want to say that I very much appreciated the reflection in the middle here, especially the thoughts on finding a balance, and thoughts on speaking carefully/ context collapse.
Just wanna thank you for being so openly vulnerable on here. Hearing you talk about your experiences with depression and how you comment upon and read about current geopolitical issues is honestly super felt on my end!
53:00 my canonical answer for the first Q is always _Paddington_. The trailer just looks like lowbrow slapstick and I got chewed out by Devin Faraci for saying as much.
I've said this multiple times, but the funny thing about the Scott Pilgrim comics is that I read the first 3, thought Scott sucked shit and thought the text was supporting him, and never read the rest. Then I watched the movie, it was much clearer that Scott sucked, and I was like "Oh, was that the point?" I still have not gone back to read the whole run of comics, so maybe it was more obvious than I realized. But in that sense, the movie clarified Scott and improved him for me.
I think you're definitely supposed to kind of find some cartoon fun in his "antics" (see: bad behavior) earlier on--I had loved the series when I first read it as I powered through it all and loved it as a whole, but revisiting it recently, I felt the thematic stuff about Scott being quite mean, quite selfish, and just in need of growing up doesn't really come through until later on. Maybe it was fresher at the time to have the story start off as it did and then subvert this sort of story with this sort of protag later, but it did just feel uncomfortable waiting for it now.
question for next time: what are some other adaptations you enjoy that both A) feel very devoted to the source material but also B) take a huge divergence from that source material? The big one that comes to mind for me is the recent Little Women, and its decision to reframe the book's weird ending/ to bring in Louisa May Alcott's biography a bit more into the ending.
Question for the Next Episode:
What are some of your favorite "Wait, they were in/did that?!" pieces of movie trivia? One of mine is the fact that Jim Dangle and Junior from Reno 911! wrote the Night at the Museum movies. And that Dean Cundy was the cinematographer on Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.
And although it's not movie related, I can't not mention the most insane piece of trivia you taught me--that Rivers Cuomo helped Cold write "Stupid Girl."
Q for next time: is it better to patronize movie theaters on holidays or not? If people want to go, then service workers have to be scheduled and don't get time with their own families, but maybe they could use the extra hours? (subQ: do movie theater workers get extra pay for holiday hours?) If people are scheduled anyway, is it better to give theaters the business? or to not add to the workload?
Not serious question: Now that you've WATCHED A NEW ANIME could I somehow convince you to watch another? 😈 Same staff members-ish as the Scott Pilgrim show's actually, as it's made by the team that would become the studio that made this show. Legitimately one of my favorite stories in all of fiction: Ping Pong--let me know if you get around to it : )
Actual question: back in the heyday of torrenting, was there ever a movie you wanted to see so badly that you had to resort to some really terrible camrip/some version with huge burned-in subs/etc?