(371) I will take you there + links

Well I'm back to work now but at least until Wednesday I managed to watch a lot of movies and TV series. And now it's back to going to bed at 10 PM and waiting for the weekend to actually watch something.

The Favourite was great but it's not my favorite movie of the year. I swear to God Aquaman is gonna remain on top. The actresses were all fantastic and Nicholas Hoult was hilarious. Also Glenn from The Thick of It was there! I'll try to review it next week.

Green Book was a nice movie and the performances were great (not Oscar worthy though). However you can tell Farrelly has absolutely no experience directing a movie like this. It was really clumsy, there were things that were simply happening and never really addressed again. It's kinda astounding this is getting any buzz for screenplay and direction.

Burning was trash. Steven Yeun was very good but this film was as long as it was disgusting. The female character literally exists to show her tits and disappear. The only thing we know about her is that she fell into a well or some shit like that. It was all very troubling to say the least.

And this has 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Of course.

The Old Man & The Gun was very charming. This is the film that should be called the biggest crowd pleaser of the year. Both Redford and especially Sissy Spacek were really lovely, the score was great and the film was just all around very, very pleasant and smoothly made which gave it quite the advantage over Green Book.

The Sisters Brothers was so dull. No wonder Annapoorna is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Midnight Special was also quite dull but at least Shannon was as always great and David Wingo's music was fantastic.

I also rewatched Blade: Trinity because of course I did.

I've binged all 5 seasons of Silicon Valley and that is such a great show, especially the characters who are really memorable. My favorite dynamics is definitely the intense hatred between Dinesh and Gilfoye, oh my God their scenes are just the best!

Get Kumal to host the Oscars!

What the fuck is Ellen doing and why is she acting like the Pope of gay people? What, whatever she says goes? Come on.

Ugly, tacky and unimaginative poster for Stranger Things season 3. This should be called "minimum effort".

NOPE.

Here's Storm holding an umbrella on a promo still from Dark Phoenix, because fuck it, right?

They look like hostages, you guys.

People are doing Bird Box Challenge now. Yep, it's exactly what it sounds like.

The Punisher is coming back 2 weeks from now! Here are the photos. Jigsaw looks like he was scratched by a big cat wtf.

Annual wacky W magazine photoshoot is out and that Redmayne/Malek cover is practically an assassination attempt on me.

I am not watching Globes live this year and I doubt I'll even watch the Oscars. I think I am too old for this. I rather sleep than sit all night watching Gaga parade around dressed up like robot or kaiju or whatever and Cooper trying to act surprised. And of course Rami "I have no problem working with Singer" Malek being present. Nah, I'll pass on those festivities, man.

At least Amber is gonna be presenting.

On Saturday I went to seeAquaman again with my mom and she loved it! She gasped when Manta went to stabbed Arthur but he just smirked. Her favorite scene was just like I anticipated the Sicily festival of adorable. I love that my mom doesn't watch movies like this and isn't really familiar with what CGI can do - she is absolutely mesmerized when she gets to see stuff like this. She couldn't figure out how they did the de-aging stuff in some of the scenes.

And then tonight guess what?

I WENT TO SEE IT FOR THE THIRD TIME.

I WILL TAKE YOU TO THAT BILLION JASON.

I WILL TAKE YOU THERE.

AS GOD IS MY WITNESS I WILL TAKE YOU THERE.

The film is gonna cross 900 million worldwide this weekend so yey!

Look at this trash and tell me there is no bias. Another moronic thing that is being written about box office (and it's going to be only the fourth superhero to make over one billion for his solo flick. FOURTH. In all of history.) is "if we take China out of equation" hot take.

Is China not a real country?

Is it not on planet Earth?

Are their money not real?

Is the money's existence conditional on media's ability to see it?

It's really hilarious how bent out of shape American press is. Also this is all more than a little racist. Black Panther gets all those points because black people are there but I suppose fuck all the other minorities, huh? Because there is no peep about diversity in Aquaman. Had Jason not been mentioning it so much, it wouldn't be mentioned at all.

I mean it's one thing to be biased, whole other to be racist and whole other to be this goddamn dumb.

And boy, they manage to hit the trifecta right there.