Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

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.

Straight Up

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.

Hard Candy

Wow, this is creepy!

I hope there’s a twist soon. Is Page gonna kill the perv soon or what?

Perhaps Page is a vampire!? That’d be a good twist.

Oh!

It’d make sense, even!

Yup. Vampire. But one of those vampires that can be out when it’s day?

This is getting kinda tedious… when’s the vampire stuff starting!!!

OK, so she’s not a vampire, but she’s definitely torturing the perv.

I’m so shocked at the twist!

(It’s basically Buffy, but a decade later.)

What!? She hates Goldfrapp? That’s a twist!

It’s just… kinda boring? I mean, nobody watching this could possibly care whether this guy dies (or whatever), so is the tension supposed to be whether he escapes and kills Page or something? But… it’s a bit hard to care about that, either?

His fake stories are so boring!!! This is just badly written.

Yeah, right.

All the twists are just so… obvious. And it never ends!

Oh! A different person!

Hard Candy. David Slade. 2005.