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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
A non-mediocre movie would have been nice.
They took one of the most amazing, dynamic performers in rock, who led a turbulent, scandalous life off the stage, and poured a bit of lukewarm water on his story, just to tone it down for the kids. Then they poured on some more lukewarm water. Then they soaked everything in a tub of lukewarm water. Then they threw that tub into an ocean of lukewarm water until any semblance left of Freddie Mercury's legend drowned from the mediocrity. I would have been more entertained watching Brian May read his thesis on radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud while Queen tunes were playing in the background. I'm not even joking, that would be fascinating.
Other than that, it was fine.
Severance (2022)
What is real?
I just watched Severance, a TV show on Apple TV about a dystopian workplace. Considering the dark nature of the show, I was surprised to find that Ben Stiller (net worth $400 million) directed many of the episodes.
And now it's fun quiz time! (There are a few spoilers, but you should take the quiz anyway.) You have to guess whether these things happened to workers in the show, or if they happened to workers at Foxconn, the real world factory where most iPhones and iPads are manufactured.
1. When a worker causes trouble, they are forced to sit in a room for hours and repeat a phrase about being sorry until they really mean it.
2. In 2010 a video surfaced of 20 guards beating two workers. Other employees reported that bullying and beatings by guards were common. In 2012 a riot broke out at a factory "...employees interviewed by Reuters said tension between workers and security guards boiled over... after a worker was severely beaten. "
3. Workers have a chip implanted in their brain to separate the consciousness of their work selves from their personal life, so that one has no memory of the other.
4. Workers live in company provided, on site, shared dormitory rooms to facilitate faster, round-the-clock production. "Workers experience broken marriages, are separated from family, and are forced to leave their children behind in home towns."
5. A worker attempts and fails to commit suicide by hanging herself in an elevator.
6. Between 2007 and 2011 there were 17 reported suicides at the factories, and so many more attempts that there were "large nets installed outside many of the buildings to catch falling bodies."
And now for the answers: Each entry with quotes is real. I hope you had fun playing!
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
I wish I had just watched Ragnarok again instead of this.
Thor: Love and Thunder was like watching a table read of a first draft of a parody of some other movie. The only member of the cast and crew who didn't mail it in was Christian Bale. Maybe there was a key rigging gaffer or 2nd unit digital imaging technician who also didn't mail it in, but it was hard to tell with everybody else sucking so much.
Helstrom (2020)
Horrifically bad lighting made this unwatchable.
I cranked up the contrast and brightness as high as I could, and I still could not see what was happening. I made it through about 20 minutes until I gave up because it was so unwatchable. It's probably a fine show otherwise.