Thread: Rudy's TV Screen

Youtube Tons of movie reviews and analysis channels lately, since I'm trying to be okay about the film Suicide Squad coming out. Usually, my go-to for movie reviews is Chris Stuckmann because he's very even keel and I love his personality and the reviews he's done. Even when he doesn't like something, he gives it a fair shake, analyzing all the possibilities and giving credit where it is due. But lately, I've found a few other channels to enjoy. Jeremy Jahns - Kinda snarky and brash, I like the humor he brings to a lot of his reviews and I like the perspective he adds. New Rockstars - I love love love these guys's indepth analysis of movie trailers. Like, they did one for one of the very first Suicide Squad trailers and there was so much information packed into it that we missed because they flash on the screen for 2 seconds. I also loved how they analyzed why Bohemian Rhapsody was not only perfect as a representation for the Suicide Squad themselves but also for how instrumental it was in illuminating themes and key points of the trailer. Excellent work. Love them. CinemaSins - Another awesome channel that I just started getting into. sometimes, I find their nagging on certain things to be incorrect or trigger fingeredlike, that's not a sin, you're just stating something that happened in the movie but it's intended to be funny and light and not taken too seriously. Wisecrack - I love to watch their philosophy videos. I have searched high and low forever for books and blogs analyzing movies and talking about their messages and symbolism, the motivation of the characters and such and I've actually been finding all of this stuff on Youtube just this year. I've also been watching a lot of America's Got Talent clips from this year, I think. My favorites are Tape Face and Jon Dorenbos . Now, as a magician, of course it's an illusion what Dorenbos does and once you watch the videos that pick apart the mystery, it takes the magic out of the performance, but I still love it anyway. TV NA Film Just finished Deep Dark and I cannot gush enough about this film. It's not scary but it's definitely creepy and unsettling. I feel like similar ground has been covered before with films like with Comforting Skinwhich was horrible and May2002 but I also feel like the themes and artful metaphors are handled so much more aptly. An artist looking for Muse in a talking hole in the wall. So much of it is symbolically perfect, from the innocuous nature of the origin of inspiration itself, often finding us in a ball of lint or striking us down with the taste of a fruit we haven't had before, right down to the intimate relationship Hermann eventually develops with the hole, mimicking the trope of a Muse being a lover to the artist. The clingy, passive aggressive relationship is also a lot more fitting than the other movies I mentioned because creativity and inspiration can so often be isolating, especially once you tap into the vein you struggle so hard to connect to, it keeps bugging you, nagging at the back of your head for attention, even as you want to glorify and find validation in an audience. You feel pulled in two conflicting directions. At first, I found the little baubles that Hermann pulls from the hole to be weird but then again, it strikes me as perfect. Encapsulating the organic nature of truly moving art, he incorporates these organ-like pieces of flesh into his mobiles, putting parts of himselfhis Muse in the hole into the works he's creating. Despite the trailer, there wasn't very much gore in this, not what I expected, although the hole does hurt people. I also really liked the theme of dismemberment as a catalyst for freedom, to give up responsibility to the mode of creation by relinquishing access to the creating limbs. Movies to See Swiss Army Man with Daniel Radcliffe. I watched the review by my favorite movie reviewer, Chris StuckmanGET STUCKMANIZED!! Swiss Army Man Review and it really makes me want to see it. I'm not sure if you guys know this about me yet, but I'm pretty alright with spoilers. I like to watch trailers and reviews and analysises and theories and go through the tv tropes pages for shows and movies I'm sometimes thinking about seeing. Like, usually I do it with books because I am super picky about putting time and money into a book and I often go through phases where I obsess about certain themes. But sometimes, I do it for movies too. Usually, if it's freecheap and it's right there, I watch the trailer and then just dive right into it, if it gives me a good vibe. But a lot of times I research a bit more, like with the upcoming Suicide Squad, where the first trailers made me feel conflicted, I read negative and positive reviews, I watched fact videos about the film, analyses about the new backstory revealed in recent years about the Joker actually being 3 people over the years all things to sort of acclimatize myself to preparing for enjoying this experience a little more. I used to shun films that looked dumb or overhyped to me and after many years and the hype died down, secretly watched them and became a huge fancan't think of any off the top of my head but there have been a few where I was like, I wish I'd been a fan sooner rather than a stubborn dummy. I've also been doing this acclimatizing to myself with the new Ghostbusters movie. So, Swiss Army Man looks good from Stuckmann's review and even though I brought up this huge explanation for my spoiling myself on films, I actually hadn't even heard of this film until I watched the review.