I enjoyed this a great deal, the documentary inserts worked surprisingly well but the film part was also excellent. On the surface it just seems like this superficial heist caper but goes deeper into how it affected them, particularly their attack on that poor librarian.
I’m really interesting in seeing this:
Interview with the director and Dennis Ross, who was special envoy to Israel during these negotiations:
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Anyone else watching The Stand?
I am having a really hard time with it. I guess tv and society has changed enough since the '94 version that the morality is really offputting. I dislike the Dark Man’s association with unashamed sexuality, and the seeming total lack of it with the ‘good guys’. It bothers me that they are willing to put themselves in danger and devote their lives to some lady that claims she hears god. I dunno, I guess back in the mid-90’s it was just more normal to see this kind of binary, conservative thinking being “good”.
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No, though I have been thinking about rereading it, in light of our current global pandemic.
(I would watch, but I don’t have the streaming service it’s available on.)
Interesting to hear your take on it. I remember liking the book a lot (read it in Highschool, huge Stephen King fan.) but I didn’t really like the ‘94 miniseries very much. It seemed to almost Disney-fy what I had gotten from the book.
I don’t remember unashamed sexuality being much of a thing when I read it (but I was a sheltered virgin, so I probably kind of glossed over that message) but I do remember it was striking that the bad guy’s second in command was really weird about cleanliness and sex.
I also remember being really surprised that gasoline could go bad.
Maybe I will reread this…long cold winter ahead. High is 8 degrees F this weekend. 
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Great, mental film.
Yeah, I loved it… Well written, funny and sweet in just the right measure.
One of those really offbeat ones. Like Little Miss Sunshine.
Nothing beats good writing.
Nuthin beets gud ritin.
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Which my elder daughter loved, the younger loved song of the sea. They also did the breadwinner.
Pretty damn good track record.
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I have not seen that one yet or the Song of the Sea… but I loved the Secret of the Kells. If I ever get a white cat, I’m naming it Pangur Ban. I love how that’s from some 8th century Monk’s poetry too… He was actually someone’s actual cat in actual reality in the 8th century, and here we are talking about him… A cat.
I sort of feel like I want to write a whole lecture about that sometime…
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Getting up in a monk’s business while he was trying to copy an illuminated manuscript was the 8th Century version of napping on a keyboard.
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Right?
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Update: I’m enjoying Wanda now. Episode 3 was cool and 4 is more inline with what I was hoping the show would be like. Episode 4 starts 2 weeks before episode 1, and basically covers the material of episode 1-3 in digest form from another perspective. So if you really hated ep 1-2 you could skip them. I found 3 better but if you skipped straight to ep 4, you will do just fine.
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Episode 4 was such a change in tone and i liked that, including the triumphant return of Darcy! and Agent Woo. The unsnappening never made much sense but once you get past that the cold open was really impressive but i wish they’d spent at least a whole episode dealing with the fallout, we saw even less in the films.
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Same.
I wasn’t feeling the first two eps, even though I groked what they were doing; it was obvious to me that Wanda had created an entire alternate reality in order to deal with her trauma. But I’ve never been a fan of 1950’s/1960’s sitcoms - they rather freak me out, as I know that they’re basically a bigot’s ‘idealized’ vision of American life that never actually existed.
The third ep was okay, and once they finally tied it back to the MCU, it immediately became much more engaging for me.
Also, Kat Dennings as Darcy is a blast.
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Back in college there was a wooden bench lounge area carved out with pangúr bán on it. Monks loved their cats! I did read an article ages ago about other cats in the margins of illuminated manuscripts. I believe some only paw prints too. Because they were, as pointed out above, always at the keyboard.
Song of the sea was a big deal in our house. All the people had names like us, our friends, and our children. My younger daughter used to sing the Lisa Hannigan theme in her little girl voice and it was the cutest thing ever.
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So much this!
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I liked the first couple episodes of Painting with John. I’ve never seen Fishing with John so I don’t really know how it compares. Lurie kind of went from hipster to just being a regular old hippie.
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If this was a show featuring a brand new character unknown to us then some sort of m night shyamalan intro might of been worth while. But we all knew generally what was happening so pretending everything is normal for two episodes just felt like a waste of time.
Now that I have watched some theory videos I guess there were hints in ep 1 and 2 dialog about somethings that still haven’t been revealed. But I would say the writers shouldn’t get too caught up in how clever they think they are.
Same for me.
Yes! I hope she is a regular on several of the new series. She’s awesome.
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