That’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head done. I thought it was pretty great, to be honest. Felt like it picked up all the various threads of Curtis’s career so far and wove them together into something that managed to be much more all encompassing, and even managed to offer up some hope at the end.

I’d suggest not attempting to binge this if you are planning to watch it, I did an episode per night over the past week. Allowing a bit of a gap between episodes and letting them percolate individually seems to work with this. I didn’t find it quite as confusing and disjointed as other people, each episode seemed to work individually, centred around various themes, but they could start to run together and seem a bit messier if you tried to binge them.

I thought it was good, albeit standard Curtis. I enjoyed it. I watched 6hrs in one evening because I'm big brain.

nick_md wrote:

I thought it was good, albeit standard Curtis. I enjoyed it. I watched 6hrs in one evening because I'm big brain.

You were blazing, don't fuckin lie to me

The consistent theme seemed to be everyone is susceptible to paranoia because humans are terrible at really processing anything and so just make constellations out of things.

Sometimes I think he characterises people in a weird way (I’m not convinced that Michael X - fucking hilarious by the way - deserved the label of idealist or whatever positive spin it had. Seemed like a cynical dude to me)

The ending was a bit of a shoehorn to me because everything felt bleak.

It’ll be interesting to see what a post now looks like and I think his idea that inside a system it’s impossible to conceive of a system different to the system (eg when there were peasants and landlords that seems so far from capitalism). I guess what is possible is that the system that makes tomorrow is kind of radically different but grows through some organic thing that catches fire (the way that money did).

I think the robot one and the putins minister of theatre one are the best.

Loads of content has dropped on Disney+ with the introduction of the 'Star' channel. What this actually means is there's now a shit-ton of second rate American TV and some mostly piss poor films that you've seen before.

You say that but they have a lot of wes Anderson films and also Buffy and Lost which is fun.

I can’t get excited about this tonne of back catalogue stuff. A nice bonus if you subscribe anyway but not a reason to start, if you know what I mean.

poprock wrote:

I can’t get excited about this tonne of back catalogue stuff. A nice bonus if you subscribe anyway but not a reason to start, if you know what I mean.

I literally started because of it. But then I haven’t seen mandoloran or wandavision. I mostly got it for lost.

i'd guess most people signed up to disney+ for the back catalogue initially. access to all the disney classics, not-so-classics, and tv stuff is a great service for those with kids especially.
adding more 'back catalogue' stuff also just increases the amount of things to watch. personally i'm quite happy to have access to lots of stuff i know i like, with a few new things, rather than something that's more heavily weighted to just new stuff.

poprock wrote:

I think you’re an outlier there then. But hey, I could be wrong.

It’s more that I didn’t think the original stuff was worth it on its own and I don’t think the new stuff is worth it on its own buy together for less than £60 for a year is okay to me.

I wonder if they're deliberately drip-feeding. I looked up Planet of the Apes and there's only the original, the 2001 reboot and Dawn from the new trilogy (i.e. one of each).

Yeah amazon need some serious curation in their documentaries. Vast majority are C&I fuzzy 90s shite with bad reconstructions.

Speak of amazon docs, they've announced Juve as their latest All Or Nothing. Some season to do it, welp.

I did wonder where they found so much shite.

I’ve watched Atlanta, so I’m good.

I wonder if they’re planning to add Louie to it ever?

Yossarian wrote:

I’ve watched Atlanta, so I’m good. I wonder if they’re planning to add Louie to it ever?

I suspect Louie will suffer the same fate as the Chris Langham episode of The Muppet Show.  (In other words, I doubt it.)