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kate_nepveu) wrote2021-04-24 09:39 pm
Netflix things: Shadow and Bone eps. 1-2; Space Sweepers
Watched a couple things with Chad on Netflix this weekend:
Shadow and Bone, episodes 1-2. This is an adaptation of two Leigh Bardugo series which, I gather, do not originally cross plots. The first two episodes were … fine? It looked good, most of the cast was appealing, and I'm mildly interested how the show will resolve the genre clash of the high-fantasy Chosen One plot with the crime-underworld plot. But I am actively not interested in the apparently-incipient love triangle, and I'd probably be just as willing to read spoilers and go "huh" than to actively seek out more.
Space Sweepers, a Korean SF movie. As long as you're willing to roll with (a) the plot Macguffin being straight-up unashamed magic ("nanobots," mostly) and (b) a backstory of child death, I recommend it. The core characters—four misfits on a space-junk-collecting ship and the adorable child-in-peril who unites them into a found family—are all great; the effects look good; and there's a point at which I said to myself, "ugh, this is not a good plan, but it's the kind of plan we get in this kind of movie, so whatever," and it turned out to in fact be a better plan! Would have been good in theaters, but it is a smidge long, so our living room worked just fine too.
+1 (thumbs-up, I see you, etc.)?
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I'm always glad when people in a certain kind of movie have a better plan than that kind of movie usually does.
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It's such a relief.
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I'm the wrong person to ask about that as Guardians is not my thing! I do note that there's no romance, fwiw.
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No romance is a plus!
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Hope you like it if you get around to it!
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I'm glad you found Space Sweepers enjoyable!
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In my infinite free time I shall definitely look up more of Captain Jang's actress's work (by which I mean, ask you!).
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Kim Tae-ri, yeah, she's great. She doesn't seem to have had a super prolific career, but it's been fairly celebrated.
The only drama series role of note was a doozy: she was the noblewoman working as a secret revolutionary and rooftop assassin in Mr Sunshine. That one's a major time commitment though.
Her big breakthrough film role was The Handmaiden, which competed at Cannes for the Palme d'Or and won a bunch of awards, including a good handful for her. I haven't seen it, but it seems to most often be described as "erotic lesbian crime thriller in colonial setting." It looks like it's available on Amazon Prime?
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I hadn't realized she was in Space Sweepers. I was wondering if the latter was fun, and have now seen multiple friends recommend it.
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Ah, The Handmaiden! I have indeed heard positive things about it.
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With the (rot13) gur ulqebtra obzo naq gur "xelcgba jnirf"? Yeah.
So many good details that I omitted for time! The aviator sunglasses and the colorful sweatshirts and the shoes, just to pick the costume axis.
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Would have loved to be a fly on the wall for Chad's commentary!
(Or was he like the rest of us: "enh, it's magic, what can you do?")
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Generally we do not comment much at each other while watching, but I tried asking about something after and he was just like, no, the question can't even be formulated.
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Oh, the costuming was fantastic. And a lot of the set design too -- just really fun kinds of colorful and scuffed-up and lived-in.