Wow. They’ve gotten the perfect child to play a young Bette Davis.

And… they’ve cropped the movie down to 16:9. *sigh*

Heh. When the opening titles started, they switched to windowboxing (so that the text isn’t cropped), presumably to make it less obvious that they’re cropping the rest of the movie… CLVR.

But you are, Blanche. You are!

This movie is properly nightmarish! But it doesn’t… really make that much sense? I know it doesn’t really have to make that much sense, but… Blanche could just shout out the window to the neighbour? And then the movie would have been over after ten minutes?

Which is why she doesn’t, of course, but…

Wow. This is pure genius.

(Except for a couple of scenes that aren’t.)

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane. Robert Aldrich. 1962. ⚄

Is this room greenscreen? If it is, it’s extremely good greenscreen. It just looks to detailed to be real… I don’t think it can be greenscreen, though. The set designers have been meticulous! Amazing.

But, man, this is a bad movie. It’s colour graded into “beige” because everybody knows that The Olden Times didn’t have so many colours. It’d edited into three second shots, and everybody’s up in everybody’s face all the time.

It’s like … really annoying.

So did it win all the Oscars? I’m assuming it won all the Oscars.

Man. None of the lines have anything to do with what anybody would ever say. I can see this working as a theatre play? Some of the lines sound like they’d work in that context…

Man, it’s like I have ESPN:

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a 2020 American biographical musical drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the 1982 play of the same name by August Wilson.

It’s another Netflix movie all right.

So much fake drama.

I like some of the monologues. Well, OK, I liked the one monologue that Ma Rainey did about Coke. The rest are kinda bad.

It did indeed win all the awards.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. George C. Wolfe. 2020. ⚀

This is most amusing.

This is the second new film in 4:3 I’ve seen the past week… is 4:3 making a comeback as a hipster aspect ration?

If so, I’m all for it.

This is the cutest meet cute ever.

The cinematography on this is really cool. All these pretty shots of gorgeous interiors. And exteriors.

This gets more serious after a while, as virtually all movies do. And I hate that so much! So muuuuch.

I mean, it’s still… fine… but the first third was really great. Snappy, funny repartee and a surprising plot, and now it’s just… ordinary.

Straight Up. James Sweeney. 2019. ☐ ⚀ ⚁ ⚂ ⚃ ⚄ ⚅