What movies are you watching (2023)

Forgotten Silver

6/10

Great funny documentary movie about early cinema especially if you know in advance that it is completely 100% fiction which makes even better to watch when knowing in advance.

Free on Youtube about 1 hour.

Was in an Al Pacino kinda mood… So, Dog Day Afternoon, because the pitch I got for it was too good to pass up: 3 guys rob a bank to pay for one’s husband’s sex change surgery. Sure, sign me up.

What else can I really say? It’s a good time. It’s got Al Pacino in it for chrissake, and he kills it as you’d expect. Hard to believe it is at all based on anything true, but there you go🤷‍♂️. Properly enjoyed it, and a film ostensibly about a bank robbery from the mid 70s touching on LGBT themes? Wild.

I for one am glad Hollywood is finally open to trans representation

Did the cries of “Attica!” make sense to you?

Finally? DDA came out almost half a century ago. :blush:

And before that was John Waters’ ‘Pink Flamingoes’, which came out in ‘72 and had a transsexual* eat dog poop for its finale.

*- actually, “she” was just a transvestite… but close enough.

I just watched Bottoms, which is a bitingly satirical teen comedy with many expected tropes (outcast nerds, cheerleaders who are actually really cool, football game as dramatic climax), but with fresh modern twists (LGBTQ, food allergies, etc.). I thought it was hilarious and brilliant. Stars an amazing young cast include Ayo Edebiri from The Bear.

Sar ca sm! Sar ca sm! Sar ca sm!

The first casualty of the Internet.

Trolls Band Together.

It is shit. But not as shit as Barbie. 3/10

Edit: In two scenes they had a troll wheelchair user. 4/10. There was no woke subtext or trans agenda being pushed down the throats of the child audience. 5/10

When was the last time you saw a toy in a wheelchair?

Yea I got that one lol, there were some period politics which I might’ve missed but naja :man_shrugging:

Either way, properly fun

Don’t, please, confuse disability with the madness that gender dysmorphic individuals are being exposed to in the mainstream. I know many wheelchair users. Wheelchair users are badly underrepresented everywhere, and to see two trolls in wheelchairs, dancing and having a bloody good time in the background scenes was an uplifting moment for yours truly. The utterly woeful Barbie film makes a very oblique reference to it, when they ask why Share a Smile Becky was discontinued. Becky is a wheelchair user.

Edit: You can buy toys in wheelchairs. They are obviously both very hard to source and ridiculously expensive, just like real wheelchairs.

This has the whiff of being split into a new thread… :joy:

Does that South Park character have his own toy?

There should be more wheelchair toys, not X-men related. Like rubber treads that go fast down hills and stairs and shit. That would rule!

Timmy! Yes, Timmy Burch is a wheelchair user and has a toy made of him. Jimmy Valmer uses crutches. Nathan has down syndrome. And Evie Butterfield (?) has an autism diagnosis. South Park does a good job with disability inclusion. Also, Nathan is an absolute bastard, which I love. :heart:

I’ve been busy so I haven’t seen many things recently and the ones I did see kind of aren’t great. The only one I liked was The Boy and the Heron.

Invaluable information for anyone looking to watch a film. Many thanks. :v:

When added to your guide to places to eat in London, you may be on to a very low selling book idea. :+1:

Hey snarky remarks require minimally at least a :slight_smile: or something

:rofl:

Yes. I saw it in the cinema. Taiwan was its first overseas market.

It has English subtitles so if you can watch it even if you don’t read Chinese.