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Here’s the Malek Live Aid in split screen with the real thing. Amazing how accurate it is. 

https://youtu.be/8z6wJHPhJUM

Addickhead86 said:

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

sillav nitram said:

If Beale Street Could Talk.

Awful film, storyline is ok as is the setting 1970’s Harlem but unbelievably slow, didn’t think the acting was very good either.

Painful!

Going to see it this week - had high hopes.

IMO you can keep them relatively high, wasn't quite as impactful as Moonlight, but I thought it was very good.

Saw If Beale Street could talk last night - some bits of the film are excellent and the acting was oustanding. Visually it's stunning but the narrative for me was a little disjointed. Not as impactful as you say as Moonlight. 8/10

Meant Can you ever forgive me.

JessieAddick said:

Went to see Alita: Battle Angel. Usually not my type of film but I really enjoyed it. The visual effects are great and the film is fast-paced. Very exciting. Some say the storyline is weak but I liked it. Overall it surpassed my expectations. 8.5/10

Interesting to hear how Alita is viewed in China.  I think they're pinning quite a bit on the Chinese market to put the film in profit so that they can make a sequel.  It seems to be doing quite well, even when it has to compete with Wandering Earth.

Caught Green Book yesterday. On my own, as the rest of the family opted to see Bohemian Rhapsody for the third time. I loved Green Book. It had me in stitches at times, was serious and painfull at others, the actors were captivating. I'd have gone with my younger daughter, but the certificate was 13+, and she's nine. There was nothing in this to really make that age limit relevant for me, and I think she'd have enjoyed it. Ah well, it'll turn up on cable soon enough.  But this was a rivetingly good film, and after a run of very poor cinema, it was nice to come out feeling as if it was money well spent.

Finally got to see Green Book a couple of days ago. Great film and worthy of an Oscar. Brilliant chemistry between the two main actors. Reminded me of the natural chemistry between the wealthy French paraplegic and his black carer in the film The Intouchables. 

If anyone wants to know why Spike Lee walked away in disgust when Green Book won the Oscar, I would suggest listening to the New York Times Daily Podcast from earlier this week. 

It's available here. 

I haven't seen Green Book yet so it's hard to comment, but I understand Lee's perspective now. I'm often not a fan of his style but him not getting any Oscar recognition for so long, and losing out to Driving Miss Daisy and Green Book when he IS nominated, is crazy. 

The crux of the podcast above is that Green Book, like The Help, Miss Daisy and many others, features horrible white people learning the errors of their ways while black characters only exist to help the white people achieve that. 

That's a pretty boiled-down explanation from me, the podcast explains it much better than I can. When I consider the complex relationships between the black and white characters in BlacKKKlansman, I find it hard not to side with him. 

And kudos to Kim Basinger for calling the Academy out on it while presenting best picture in 1990. I didn't know about that, and it's a fucking amazing thing for her to have done. 

Bedsaddick said:

JiMMy 85 said:

If anyone wants to know why Spike Lee walked away in disgust when Green Book won the Oscar, I would suggest listening to the New York Times Daily Podcast from earlier this week. 

It's available here. 

I haven't seen Green Book yet so it's hard to comment, but I understand Lee's perspective now. I'm often not a fan of his style but him not getting any Oscar recognition for so long, and losing out to Driving Miss Daisy and Green Book when he IS nominated, is crazy. 

The crux of the podcast above is that Green Book, like The Help, Miss Daisy and many others, features horrible white people learning the errors of their ways while black characters only exist to help the white people achieve that. 

That's a pretty boiled-down explanation from me, the podcast explains it much better than I can. When I consider the complex relationships between the black and white characters in BlacKKKlansman, I find it hard not to side with him. 

And kudos to Kim Basinger for calling the Academy out on it while presenting best picture in 1990. I didn't know about that, and it's a fucking amazing thing for her to have done. 

I'd like Spike Lee a lot more if he got rid of that massive chip on his shoulder. He's made some piss poor films in the past 20 years and that's the reason he hasn't won . 

To compare Green Book with Driving Miss Daisy is ridiculous. Green book is a great film and worthy of winning best picture. If he's actually saying it's about horrible white people learning the error of there ways while black characters on exists to help white people achieve that then 1. He hasn't seen Green book and 2.  We might as well dismiss great films Like The Green Mile and American History X . 

Sorry ,  but the man is Pillock at times and should concentrate on making better movies instead of digging out other film makers  . BlacKkKlansman '  whilst being a pretty good film , didn't deserve best picture because it wasn't good enough.   Green Book was .  Try to get to see it Jimmy . I think you'll like it a lot. 

I think Green Book is a good film as was BlackkKlansman - the level of criticism it's taken is OTT and it certainly depicts the racism of the time without a heavy handed 'white saviour' theme. It works as a piece of entertainment and has a strong narrative.

Bedsaddick said:

JiMMy 85 said:

If anyone wants to know why Spike Lee walked away in disgust when Green Book won the Oscar, I would suggest listening to the New York Times Daily Podcast from earlier this week. 

It's available here. 

I haven't seen Green Book yet so it's hard to comment, but I understand Lee's perspective now. I'm often not a fan of his style but him not getting any Oscar recognition for so long, and losing out to Driving Miss Daisy and Green Book when he IS nominated, is crazy. 

The crux of the podcast above is that Green Book, like The Help, Miss Daisy and many others, features horrible white people learning the errors of their ways while black characters only exist to help the white people achieve that. 

That's a pretty boiled-down explanation from me, the podcast explains it much better than I can. When I consider the complex relationships between the black and white characters in BlacKKKlansman, I find it hard not to side with him. 

And kudos to Kim Basinger for calling the Academy out on it while presenting best picture in 1990. I didn't know about that, and it's a fucking amazing thing for her to have done. 

I'd like Spike Lee a lot more if he got rid of that massive chip on his shoulder. He's made some piss poor films in the past 20 years and that's the reason he hasn't won . 

To compare Green Book with Driving Miss Daisy is ridiculous. Green book is a great film and worthy of winning best picture. If he's actually saying it's about horrible white people learning the error of there ways while black characters on exists to help white people achieve that then 1. He hasn't seen Green book and 2.  We might as well dismiss great films Like The Green Mile and American History X . 

Sorry ,  but the man is Pillock at times and should concentrate on making better movies instead of digging out other film makers  . BlacKkKlansman '  whilst being a pretty good film , didn't deserve best picture because it wasn't good enough.   Green Book was .  Try to get to see it Jimmy . I think you'll like it a lot. 

Might just get to see Klansman today. Loved Green Book, and I understand the criticism that it focuses on the white man’s perspective. But isn’t that because it’s based on a book about the white man in question, written by the white man’s son?