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kate_nepveuWatched 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.
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Date: 2021-04-25 12:28 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2021-04-25 02:33 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2021-04-26 11:10 am (UTC)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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Date: 2021-04-26 03:02 am (UTC)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.