Author: Kim du Toit
Still At The Movies
Still talking about today’s shit movies, Reader Bruce T. sends an email which adds:
I spent 22 years restoring and preserving classic films for The Library of Congress. I’ve seen many. Don’t fall into the lazy habit, as I did for decades, of almost exclusively watching movies with English dialogue. I’ve discovered a whole new world of sophisticated plots, consummate acting, and beautiful cinematography in films from Japan, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and others. The best part? Even the newest productions are not ‘woke’!
Good points, one and all. (Although I’m reminded of that wonderful opinion: “If the furriners had had anything of value to say, they’d have made their movies in English.” )
I’ll be getting a list of titles the above from Bruce in the near future, which I’ll be happy to include in a post.
Watch this space.
Not Really Voluntary, Is It?
Here’s one which makes me believe that some cops need strangling:
Sussex Police has threatened a women right’s group founder with a hate crime arrest after a rally two months ago where her group was attacked by pro-trans activists. The force told mother-of-four Kellie-Jay Keen an allegation made about her that she used ‘words or behaviour to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation’ was now being investigated.
In an extraordinary phone call released by Standing For Women founder Kellie-Jay, one officer said she could be arrested if she did not attend a ‘voluntary’ interview.
In the first place, it’s a bullshit charge (except that it’s in Not-So-Great Britain, where it’s legal), and in the second, just about any judge in the civilized world should throw this nonsense out the back door, with prejudice.
But apparently calling militant trannies a bunch of sickos is A Bad Thing, so Our Heroine will doubtless be walking the plank soon.
No wonder the Brits ban ownership of AK-47s, because in cases like this…
No Choice At All
Loyal Reader Sean F. explodes in my email:
I gave up going to the theaters for movies years ago, because it was a teenage wasteland of people talking or on their cellphones. I just wanted to watch the expensive movie with no distractions; is that too much to ask?
Well, here we are in the internet age where streaming is king. I signed up to Paramount because they had my American football games for my local channel I don’t receive on my antenna. Aha, movies were included!
So I watched some old Bond movies and classics, but they ran out. I decided to go by ratings (thought I was clever) on Rotten Tomatoes.
Guess what I discovered after abstaining for years? I didn’t miss a fuckin’ thing! Modern movies – 98% SUCK. I guess the plot 1/8 of the way through, and then by 1/4, I have already discovered the ending. UGH – who wants to even try to watch this shit??
I am so disgusted, I watched “Casablanca” for the umpteenth time the other night. What the fuck has happened? Liberal influencce, WOKE, gay, bad directors??? I like Eastwood,Tarantino, and Stone, but they are almost gone. Ford, Kubrick, and Hitchcock are my favorites, among others, but the list shrinks every year. what’s a poor boy to do?
You forgot the bad lighting, bad sound and mumbling dialogue.
My only suggestion — because I am in precisely the same boat, as I suspect are many of my Readers — is to lay in a supply of your favorite classic movies on DVD/Blu-Ray and a backup all-format DVD player.
I know what people are going to say: “I get bored watching the same old movies all the time.”
Frankly, that’s just because you don’t own enough of them. There are literally hundreds of old movies out there, and while not all are Casablanca-classics, I would suggest that even a mediocre Bogart movie (e.g. All Through The Night ) is going to be a hundred times better cinematic experience than Fast ‘N Furious 27 or Captain America: Queer Hero.
My own Christmas- and birthday lists for friends and family are going to be almost exclusively old movies from now on, and I would humbly suggest that you could do a lot worse than that.
If you’re short of ideas, then start with Bogart and Mitchum, and go from there. Or pick a director like John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch or William Wyler, and pick from among their offerings.
Just those five will afford you hours and hours of pleasure. At some point soon — probably on a Saturday — I’ll put together a list of some length, to include not only movies I know well or have in my own collection, but ones I plan on getting in the future.
Today’s Earworm
Pointed out to me by one of my kids: Glass Animals, who are apparently v. popular Over Here on this side of The Pond.
Not bad for a Brit girlyboy band (is there any other kind?), but to me it still sounds like someone fiddling around with his older brother’s Korg Kronos 88 in his bedroom.
News Roundup
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And if that’s not enough to make you feel sick:
...and to think that all they brought with them were guns, a decent concept of government, and sound agricultural practices.
...that they know about.
...and I want a money bush to grow on my patio because that has better odds of becoming a reality.
...if you’re going to lie, why not go Full Goebbels?
...before I came here, I’d always thought that unlike Apartheid South Africa, America was all about NO racial categories. Silly me.
...I wouldn’t even spend that kind of money on a chair if Gwyneth was part of the deal, gagged and tied to it. Wait...
...hands up all those who are surprised by this headline… hmmm, nobody, huh? And:
...not an actual bomb; just a DVD of Disney’s Strange World (see above).
...from Ford: where pronouns are seemingly more important than quality.
...don’t care, because I have more gin than .45 ACP in reserve.
From the Dept. Of Cultural Assimilation:
...just couldn’t wait to get stuck into that infidel poontang, could he?
...we need more of this. Also scourgings.
And from INSIGNIFICA:
Finally:
Worth a hundred-odd bucks? I report, you decide.