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Post by cubanitafresca on Apr 19, 2021 12:40:17 GMT -4
Has anyone watched the new HBO documentary about Qanon called Q Into The Storm ? They are releasing it two episodes each week for a total of 6. The early reviews make it seem like three would have sufficed and that while overlong it seems to focus too much on finding out who Q turned out to be vs the complete unrest the movement has created. I may try to watch a few of the episodes this weekend to see if it is worth it. Yeah, they really could have edited it down and had a better documentary. They were clearly fans of red herrings. And maybe it was just their way of showing how tangled the process was. Listening to some of these Qanon followers and seeing how deeply they bought into all of it just tied my stomach in knots. I don't think there is any rescuing some of these people. They are so invested in the entire thing. For some, it seems to give them such a sense of power to "know" something that no one else does and be part of the "cool club" probably for the first time in their lives. The phrase Dunning Kruger has never been so self-explanatory. The thing that I wish they had addressed more was that it really seemed at different times, different people were controlling the Q narrative. I am convinced that Watkins started it, and did so mostly for financial gain. But somewhere along the way, it seemed to change. Either they were being influenced by someone in the Trump camp (possibly Bannon, Stone or I think maybe Jr) or Q actually changed. The elder Watkins himself seemed to change and become more radical, so that may have been where it came from. But I still believe someone within the Trump world had a hand in the whole thing at some point.
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Post by chiqui on Apr 22, 2021 12:53:25 GMT -4
Wait. Walter was still on TV in the 2000s, on Telemundo I think. He did his little bit between program breaks.
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Post by eclair on Apr 24, 2021 11:54:58 GMT -4
Wait. Walter was still on TV in the 2000s, on Telemundo I think. He did his little bit between program breaks. Thanks, chiqui, I misremembered. I wish someone could have gotten him onto YouTube in later years, I think he would have found an audience. What a unique character he was!
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Post by ratscabies on May 1, 2021 21:18:45 GMT -4
We just watched a movie on Prime called Punk Like Me.
It was magical.
Middle aged writer scams his band a slot on the Warped tour, and they break up two weeks later.
He throws together a punk mariachi band in like 5 weeks, and does the tour.
The songs are gloriously moronic.
Maybe it was because we watched it right after the awful Monkees biopic, but this might be better than Spinal Tap.
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Post by chitowngirl on Jul 19, 2021 21:22:41 GMT -4
McCartney 3, 2, 1 on Hulu. Just when you think you’ve heard everything there is to know about The Beatles….
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Post by satellite on Aug 5, 2021 11:56:23 GMT -4
I watched Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage on HBO (part of it’s new Music Box documentary series) and found it to be really good. A must-see for X-ennials. I just started listening to a podcast Break Stuff: The Story of Woodstock ‘99 from two years ago.
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Post by Auroranorth on Aug 15, 2021 12:38:47 GMT -4
We have a Roku channel called Kanopy which is a library channel. Not sure if it's only in Colorado or not. It has a lot of good movies. We watched The Booksellers a documentary about antiquarian book dealers, mostly in NYC. It's narrated by Parker Posy. We also watched Faces Places, another documentary. Agnes Varda, an 89 year old film maker, one of the French New Wave ones, travels around with a 33 year old artist who pastes large black and white photos on building, train cars, silos, etc. They meet some wonderful and unusual people and install some of the large photos. Very touching. Both of these were excellent. If you can find them through the library or in your cable packages I really recommend them. We've also been watching a PBS series with Henry Louis Gates, called African Civilizations. I know very little about the history of Africa, so I learn a lot. Not exactly documentaries, but good. I started watching The Booksellers, and am really liking it! I adored The Booksellers. I watched it yesterday, was kind of in a meh mood when I turned it on, and was hooked within five minutes.
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Post by royalwave on Aug 26, 2021 16:59:50 GMT -4
I watched "Val" the other night. Interesting look at his career, but of course when you have a documentary produced by the subject and his children you know it's going to gloss over a lot of the more messy stuff. Only vague allusions were made to his difficult reputation, to the downfall of his marriage, etc. I think Val Kilmer could be a real dick on set back in the day, but that was sort of explained away by his perfectionism and passion to make the best movies he could possibly make. He clearly wasn't always happy with roles he felt were too limiting, and I think he probably feels he should have had an even bigger career. But I'll hand it to him that he is making the best of his situation now, and seems to have arrived at a place of contentment.
I would have liked to know more about how he has handled the last few years of cancer treatments too and how he's come to terms with his new life. They really didn't get into much detail around that at all. It was mostly a retrospective with a large focus on his most well-known movies, his childhood and the death of his brother, his time at Julliard and his love for his family. That being said, I thought it was worth a watch.
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Post by Ginger on Aug 26, 2021 19:00:10 GMT -4
I just want to know if he talked about Kevin Spacey and their falling out. Back when Spacey was riding high and Val had alienated everyone in Hollywood, people liked to take Spacey's side. Now would be a wonderful opportunity to get revenge and kick Spacey while he's down. I think Val Kilmer could be a real dick on set back in the day, but that was sort of explained away by his perfectionism and passion to make the best movies he could possibly make. He clearly wasn't always happy with roles he felt were too limiting, and I think he probably feels he should have had an even bigger career. This is the defense given by all notorious dicks - they are perfectionists with high standards who just want everyone else to put in the same effort they do. The reason why Val didn't have a bigger career is because he was a dick, not the other way around. I'm sure he's not going to own up to the full extent of how awful his behavior was, but I read about it back in the day, and he was really, really bad. Think of how hard it must be for a good-looking, charming white man with a million-dollar smile AND talent AND a bunch of hit movies to his name to wreck his career just by being obnoxious to people. It doesn't happen because he's got a passion to make great movies. And now I think I'm going to watch a Val Kilmer movie, because I miss that dick!
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Post by royalwave on Aug 27, 2021 13:38:07 GMT -4
I don't think a word was said about Spacey. There were lots of missed opportunities with this documentary, but at the same time I get that it was never meant to be a "warts & all" biography.
With his marriage, the insinuation was that it fell apart because he was away on set too much. In reality, I'm pretty sure she accused him of infidelity and "cruelty", and then later ended up suing a couple times over child support. His ex does briefly appear in the documentary in present day though, so I assume they are on decent terms now. And clearly his kids adore him and he seems to have been good to his parents. He was just an egotistical jerk on movie sets.
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