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Covidland (2021)
Ugh
More fodder for those that want to hear that their failures are not their fault- it's a giant plot to prevent you from being successful.
Unfortunately, it's a lot more complicated than that & continuing to insulate yourself in a world that reinforces your deepest desires is a recipe to continue down the path you're on. Worse yet- these are the people capitalizing on the fear you feel for their own financial gain.
Please go and listen to Alex Jones when he was out under oath during a defamation lawsuit. You won't, bc it's not what you want to hear, which already proved the point. If you do muster the courage to listen to him, in his own words, admit to how he and others are conning you, just know that there are people who will welcome you back to the real world. It's never too late.
Colin in Black and White (2021)
Maybe watch it first?
There are a lot of barely-veiled reviews from people that just don't like the subject & dont make any reference to the actual content.
-Yeah, Colin Kaepernick made money.
-Yeah, he kneeled during the national anthem of a country in which his parents were born into legal apartheid.
-Yeah, he was coming off a down year when he got blackballed but was clearly one of the top 60-90 QBs in the world still. Probably could have started for a few teams and better than almost every team's backup.
Side note: much like the underlying evidence for climate change & Anthony Fauci, the phrase "black lives matter" is only political to a small sect of easily triggered right wing culture warriors. To the rest of them world, the accusation that these are inherently political things only tells us exactly who you are.
My advice would be to watch this and rate it on the merits. Not whether or not you believe rich black people are allowed to acknowledge basic truths about the culture they grew up in.
The Fight of Our Lives: Defeating the Ideological War Against the West (2018)
Very narrow sub-section of The Right represented
A bunch of Hoover Institution types sitting around and telling you why NFL players kneeling during the national anthem will somehow allow Muslims to dismantle "European culture", which seems to be a synonym for white Christians.
I wish I were joking.
Windy City Heat (2003)
My favorite movie of all time
No exaggeration. But it's not for everyone. This is one of those movies that you get more out of by watching multiple times. If you get really into it, there's a whole universe with a diehard fan base but, sadly, a decade too soon for mass appeal.
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
From a huge QT fan: this is a genuinely bad movie
Some context: I'm a gigantic Tarantino fan. I haven't been to a movie theatre in years, probably because Tarantino hasn't released a movie to theatres in years. While this was in maybe its second week of release, I got my ticket and checked out the IMDb rating.
It was 8.3.
Immediately after it was over, I had trouble offering my thoughts to my companion. I ultimately settled on, "I can't tell if this is just Tarantino's worst movie (which doesn't automatically make it bad) or a genuinely bad film in its own right."
I've since realized that, two weeks in, the 8.3 was artificially inflated by the fact that most people who had seen it by then were fanboys. Anecdotally, I've had two conversations with friends who were relieved to finally hear someone describe the movie as bad. I'll actually paste from a text from the one that was most explicit:
"...yeah, I left the theater a little miffed at best. I've actually lied to people and told them I loved it, when I really didn't. At all. It was really bad. And it feels good to say that."
Now that it's at 8.0, it is certainly moving in the right direction, but this would be at about a 5.0 with any other director's name attached to it.
Again, I will be really excited to see his next movie. But this one was a bigger quality deviation from a usually-excellent director than Buster Skraggs was for the Coens.
I wish I could be as declarative about the performances- at least one of them. But, while the pairing of DiCaprio and Pitt helps to make it really obvious how much more talented Pitt is, of the two. I can't say that DiCaprio's Performance was worse than the movie itself. But that should actually serve as an indication of how bad the movie was, more than anything else.
TLDR; I actually don't believe the other reviewers here. It's hard for me to believe that many people liked this movie. My sense is they're motivated by fandom, not trusting their real opinion, and (justifiably) being worried they'll sound like the odd one out.