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Anyways I haven't seen a movie since M3GAN, despite wanting to. Conversely, I have read a lot.
Meanwhile, that which we see in a fictional production is a part of the in-universe events no matter whether it's CGI or "real". The only way the latter is more impressive is if we are evaluating based on the skill (or perhaps the daring) of the actors and stunt crew. That is an evaluation of a performance, which I guess is a thing but is just not quite the same thing.
Meanwhile, if the overuse of CGI makes it look less spectacular in comparison, such desensitization to spectacle only exists as a meta-textual interpretation.
On the other hand if CGI looks awkward, let's not forget the various quirks of live action and hand-drawn animation, where they aren't necessarily fully realistic either -- just that we've gotten used to them.
Anyway that's my personal take.
I know I posted the first one, like, four posts ago, but I wanted to post this because the part at 5:30 about faking behind-the-scene shots is wild.
b) I will never see the Barbie movie because the hype was too much and also all the stuff I found out about the plot made it clear the America Ferrera character wasn't the central part of the point and Ryan Gosling eats up too much screen-time.
c) Darn, I still haven't watched that video.
It was Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's New York Minute.
I don't have a whole bunch of time to discuss it, but basically it's a "we need to traverse New York" type movie, with a small emotional core to drive the characters (they haven't really communicated properly since their mother died).
Notes:
Like, obviously that old "heroic conspiracy theorist" angle is just not the same thing in the age of post-truth, but it made me wonder about the default bogeyman of the time. Back in the day, in post-Cold War USA, the big bogeyman was their own government. Right now it would probably be over-entitled big baby billionaires or something like that. And conversely, Mulder and Scully were fighting the system, but at the same time, they were a part of the system as FBI agents, and it wasn't really much addressed. Today, in the age of All Cops Are Children Born Of Liaisons Considered Illegitimate By Dominant Patriarchal Society, that'd probably not pass. At least, not pass if the showmakers were really out to depict them as against the system.
Also, when the top TV series are the likes of Game of Thrones and House of Cards, it looks to me like that there's a lot more captivating idea for a show in the amoral global conspiracy trying to out-smart the aliens out to invade Earth so that at least they, personally, won't be affected, than in Mulder and Scully struggling against them.
(Doesn't have a bearing on anything - I just saw the TVT entry for "Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday" and noticed the lack of Labor Day. Figured I post before I forget it.)
In the climax, when our underdog protagonist is down to a single marine or something like that, he recalls the words of his Korean-American/retired Blizzard employee mentor, catches the heroic second wind and out-microes the Korean pro contending him for the championship. Our dude wins the match, the Korean tearfully admits his superiority, his ex-girlfriend finally understands what she gave up, end stage left.