What Are You Watching Now?

[Brian Peacock]

The Postman was better. Waterworld was worse.

[macdoc]

are you mental? Postman was very marginal - the Oscar Committee frowns on you.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_accolades_rec...
It was nominated for twelve awards at the 63rd Academy Awards, winning seven, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted ..

Geez the film is 35 years old....while it's nice to see familiar indigenous actors, many are aging now as I am

Graham Greene and Wes Studi very familiar to Canadians and Tantoo Cardinal, just saw her in Quebec production.



Studi has been in many productions including one of my favs Last of the Mohicans and also in Avatar.

[Brian Peacock]

The opinions of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have little to no sway over my own.

[macdoc]

Apparently
Nor all of these of course....why be a single issue curmudgeon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_a ... ith_Wolves

[Sean Hayden]

I’ve never seen it, and now that you’ve reminded me it’s nearly 4 hours long I probably never will.

—//—

—been watching Netflix movies lately.

[macdoc]

Wonderful movie ....you deprive yourself.

[Brian Peacock]

Apparently
Nor all of these of course....why be a single issue curmudgeon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_a ... ith_Wolves

Come on mac. Rather than relying on a spurious argument from authority to somehow show that my personal feelings about the film are factually wrong, why not just talk about what you liked about the film and why you enjoyed it - because I suspect that none of that had anything to do with the number of Oscars it was nominated for or received eh?

[macdoc]

How the fuck would I know that your "personal feelings" are about the film?
Success in film is judged by peers, critics and audiences via a variety of awards and in the most part I will agree with that evaluation tho not always.
Top critics like Ebert and the NY Times will provide a more nuanced and/or extended analysis.
To categorically trash a film like Dances with Wolves just says puerile.....and to rank a complete commercial failure like Postman ( which I was "okay" with ) above it just reeks of poor judgement of the art.
I also like Waterworld but I'd never rank it above Dances.

and "spurious"???!!! .....you write off not only the film but the entire film critique community as "spurious"
I think the term for you is "hubris".

[Brian Peacock]

How the fuck would I know that your "personal feelings" are about the film?

Because I told you. I said I thought Costner's The Postman was better than Dances with Wolves, and that I thought Waterworld was worse. To which to said, "are you mental?"

Success in film is judged by peers, critics and audiences via a variety of awards and in the most part I will agree with that evaluation tho not always.
Top critics like Ebert and the NY Times will provide a more nuanced and/or extended analysis.
To categorically trash a film like Dances with Wolves just says puerile.....and to rank a complete commercial failure like Postman ( which I was "okay" with ) above it just reeks of poor judgement of the art.
I also like Waterworld but I'd never rank it above Dances.

Steady on there. I didn't 'categorically trash' Dances with Wolves - I expressed an opinion, that I thought Costner had made a better film in The Postman, and a worse one in Waterworld. I didn't hate it, I just preferred a different one of his films to you.

and "spurious"???!!! .....you write off not only the film but the entire film critique community as "spurious"
I think the term for you is "hubris".

Well yeah, 'spurious' -- "spurious appeal to authority" (an appeal to authority being a logical fallacy) -- because you decided to cite its Academy Awards credits and then its apparent critical acclaim as somehow debunking me personally preferring another of his films, and thereby validating your own "judgement of the art" as better, cognitively/psychologically/intellectually (mentally) superior, factually correct, etc etc.

You're entitled to an opinion about which of Costner's films is better, but imo reflexively calling someone "mental" for not sharing that opinion has more than a whiff of overbearing presumption and arrogance about it - or, if you will, hubris!

And you still haven't said anything about why you liked it or what you found enjoyable (beyond it being 4 hours long), which imo is a far more interesting and honest response to any artwork than merely deferring to what the self-appointed gatekeepers of "taste" are telling us we should/shouldn't think or feel about a bit of art, eh?

[macdoc]

inspire me to get a ride tomorrow to Daintree Village for croc spring rolls. 220 km out and back - not bad,
Will try and leave early as 31 high and I'm on the coast. I do have to call dentist first,

[tattuchu]

I'm watching Resident Alien on Netflix. I thought it was going to be stupid, but I actually like it quite a lot.

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[macdoc]

looks good and a true story

[macdoc]

the art world is nuts.

[macdoc]

Well maybe not tonight for the Unforgiven

No idea what to expect.....
or not....

[Brian Peacock]

Any good?