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Charlie's Angels

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baseball is back?

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Yep. With no fans in the stands.

sum1

And no balls on the players.

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Friends


How so?

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How To Build A Girl

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LightYears

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Good Girls

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So... The Great Debaters stars Jurnee Smollett, Nate Parker, Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker and Whitaker's son Denzel. It's an excellent, very moving film with great performances. Jurnee is fast becoming one of my favorite actresses. I'll have to watch HBO's Lovecraft country, she's central in it. Anyway, this film just reminds me how great an actor Forest Whitaker is. One of the worst things about Black Panther was how such a great actor as Whitaker was reduced to phoning in his performance. Nothing seemed real in Black Panther. I really feel black people were cheated by that film. It was sold to them as this big, epoch-changing, pan-black landmark, a renaissance for black film, black representation, but it was just another plastic piece of Disney pap and its Africaness was so inauthentic -it wasn't even filmed in Africa and African-born actors were poorly represented in it. Nigeria's got a big film industry, English-speaking to a considerable extent, why couldn't they have worked with that and those actors? I would have loved a genuinely African Black Panther film, they could have really made something of the character. Instead we got another one of the MCU's stinkers. Don't watch Black Panther, watch real black film like The Great Debaters.

I also watched Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 "classic". Awful film. Because it was the rebel '60s they made the film a romanticization and whitewashing of a bunch of ruthless killers. It was also painfully emotionally distant and uninvolving. And just about every actor in the film managed to turn in a downright annoying performance. If I never have to see Warren Beatty in a film again I'll be happy. I spent the whole film just longing for them all to finally get shot. And this piece of crap film actually won Oscars. I can't believe it. Alex, this is an example of how films that won Oscars back in the 20th century weren't necessarily great. Give me The King's Speech or Moonlight any day over that crap.

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Well, I never mentioned Bonnie and Clyde as one of my favorites, sum1.

You have to remember that Bonnie and Clyde was significant more for its cultural and historic importance in cinema. It was part of the so-called “new Hollywood" of the late 1960s and early 70s, along with The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Last Tango In Paris, etc. This was when cinema was pushing the boundaries of cultural and societal norms and when the Hays Code was abolished in favor of the MPAA ratings system. Does that mean I like Bonnie and Clyde? Nope. I didn't like The Graduate either.

However, I still say that there were more entertaining, substantive, and iconic films made in the 20th century than in the 21st, especially regarding the films of the last ten years.

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Tomorrow (hopefully) I'll get to watch something Loki's Army been on me to view, and that's "Highrise". It's supposed to be like... a psychological horror/suspense film? Whatever... its a Tom Hiddleston film so... its got a lot of praise. Hope its better than Crimson Peak (not a film I hate, loved several elements, story was developed poorly)