I’m not phobic in any way but why is everything coming out of Hollywood fake and gay now? I mean seriously, every show I watch lately I am confronted by gays, lesbians, and trans.
It’s committing the ultimate sin in storytelling: it's predictable and boring.
Honest to God, I am so sick of queers. Everything has to be queer now, whether it has anything to do with the plot. Always the gratuitous queers. I swear, Ryan Murphy should make a movie about the non-profit lesbian “Covid-conscious” bar (Last Ditch, Greenfield, Mass.) going through its woke paroxysms regarding masks not being required for one night a week. Now that would be entertaining and there are queers to boot!
Ironically, I see that Netflix stock is down 40% from a year ago. Plus I unrelatedly cancelled my subscription last week because they suck. Analysts say Netflix may not survive. Boo hoo.
Elizabeth Montgomery, the pretty witch from the Bewitched TV series, played Lizzie Borden in a 1970s television movie. I don’t remember that version having any kink added to the story.
Ah yes, a flash from the past! I vaguely remember that movie. She was wonderful as Samantha. And Endora was the mother-in-law from hell. 😄 Poor Darren. LOL
IMO Ryan Murphy is unwatchable now because he has fallen into the trap of trying to live up to his own legend à la M. Night Shyamalan. It used to be that his style and ideas were fresh and his “twist” of “modernizing” old stories into weird progressive anachronisms were a breath of fresh air. The problem is everything has to be bigger and more perverse and crazy than the last thing he did. Which inevitably ends up as a giant mountain of incomprehensible dogshit. See: The Beauty, Grotesquerie, The Shards. The one thing anyone watching any of those shows can say is “what the fuck did I just watch?”
Fame has spread him too thin and made him lazy. I saw this happen to many creatives and suffered bouts of it myself in my own craft when I did work. He’s got lots of ideas, but the hard part is always closing. And Ryan Murphy is too busy and too rich to close now.
I am the same. I don’t have cable TV and stream Netflix on my smart TV. Pretty much what I watch is 80% foreign content (films and series) with English subtitles, and the other 20% is in English. (Mostly British English). I don’t really care for ‘American content’.
I can't stand dubbed myself. I feel like dubbing distorts the real dialogue to try to fit how the actors' lips are moving. Plus, it's just plain disorienting and distracting to listen to because the distance the voice is carried never changes, unlike the real dialogue.
I find listening to dubbed foreign films is so fake and disorienting. The lips of the people never match up with the words because the words are not the same. Like I said, I like to listen in the language whatever I’m watching was filmed in, with English subtitles. I also wish that the English translation really reflected what they were actually saying. I speak Spanish, albeit Mexican Spanish, so I understand what the Spanish films and series are saying. Many times the translation of certain phrases, are a bit ‘sugar coated’ and doesn’t reflect what was actually said.
Also I think it’s good for the brain to watch foreign language films with subtitles. It helps me keep up with my Spanish to watch content in Spanish. I once watched a 60 episode, historical drama telenovela from Colombia, ‘Bolivar’ on Netflix about the Venezuelan General Simon Bolivar. It was fabulous, the actor who played the adult Bolivar…very hot! I lived in Spanish for many weeks!
But so many people can barely read now, so watching this content has little interest to them.
No…I saw it but it seemed not like something I would want to watch. I mostly watch crime dramas from Spain. I love all the Harlen Corbin adaptations of his novels that have been ‘serialized’ on Netflix by Spanish, French, British, Polish and South American filmmakers.
Watched the Netflix Unabomber last night. Someone on X said the FBI linguistics character was a male in real life. In Netflix's life, they cast an all powerful female character to the role. Russell Crowe is in it, and I swear, I kept expecting him to transform into the Jekyll n Hyde character from Mummie. It's not unwatchable, but I doubt I'd watch it more than once.
Years ago there was a good Unabomber docudrama that focused on the fbi agent who figured out profiling to eventually catch the guy. It was a fascinating story, included the Kaszinski brother who eventually connected the dots & turned his brother in.
😂 Isn’t it awful when that happens? Some actors are so typecast you can’t get by it. I can’t watch Jim from The Office!!! See…. I can’t even remember his real name. 🙄😄
It all started in the 60s when the lunatic liberals pushed and pushed sex education on the school system. And they were able to tune it up as they went along. Everything Hollywould does involves sex, sex, sex. The more weird, sick, and twisted the better.🙈
We were cautioned about the evils LSD. The only part I remember from the film was the kid standing on the edge of a building and the narrator saying he was going to jump because he got high. I found that funny. 😆 Obviously we were too young for that lesson. None of us ever heard of LSD. 😂
You never heard the rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father 40 wacks and when she saw what she had done she gave her mother 41? I grew up hearing that?
Out of curiosity what generation do you hail from?
It's funny, I didn't put it together until last week that these limited profiles were a linked series, and also didn't know until now that they are by the AHS creator. I tried to watch the original series and , even though I've been fascinated by Dahmer, could not make it past episode 3. It was glamorizing him in a very disconcerting way, and now it's all making sense why. AHS has been unwatchable for a really long time. Gross
I’m not phobic in any way but why is everything coming out of Hollywood fake and gay now? I mean seriously, every show I watch lately I am confronted by gays, lesbians, and trans.
It’s committing the ultimate sin in storytelling: it's predictable and boring.
Predictable. Thats the word. 🥱
Honest to God, I am so sick of queers. Everything has to be queer now, whether it has anything to do with the plot. Always the gratuitous queers. I swear, Ryan Murphy should make a movie about the non-profit lesbian “Covid-conscious” bar (Last Ditch, Greenfield, Mass.) going through its woke paroxysms regarding masks not being required for one night a week. Now that would be entertaining and there are queers to boot!
I just listened to Matt Walsh’s commentary on the ridiculous Last Ditch bar! You can’t make this stuff up. 😅👌
That’s what I meant by my comment. What a story of Woke Lesbians Run Amoke!
I am fascinated with that place! I’ll listen to Matt. Thanks!
Matt cuts right through it, great commentary from Matt as always.
Indeed the story of The Last Ditch Bar in MA!
Ironically, I see that Netflix stock is down 40% from a year ago. Plus I unrelatedly cancelled my subscription last week because they suck. Analysts say Netflix may not survive. Boo hoo.
I see that Netflix stock is down 40% from a year ago.
Good News!!!
Great news
Well deserved.
Elizabeth Montgomery, the pretty witch from the Bewitched TV series, played Lizzie Borden in a 1970s television movie. I don’t remember that version having any kink added to the story.
Ah yes, a flash from the past! I vaguely remember that movie. She was wonderful as Samantha. And Endora was the mother-in-law from hell. 😄 Poor Darren. LOL
Endora was a great character. She was played by Agnes Moorehead, an excellent actress who had roles in several movies by Orson Wells.
IMO Ryan Murphy is unwatchable now because he has fallen into the trap of trying to live up to his own legend à la M. Night Shyamalan. It used to be that his style and ideas were fresh and his “twist” of “modernizing” old stories into weird progressive anachronisms were a breath of fresh air. The problem is everything has to be bigger and more perverse and crazy than the last thing he did. Which inevitably ends up as a giant mountain of incomprehensible dogshit. See: The Beauty, Grotesquerie, The Shards. The one thing anyone watching any of those shows can say is “what the fuck did I just watch?”
Fame has spread him too thin and made him lazy. I saw this happen to many creatives and suffered bouts of it myself in my own craft when I did work. He’s got lots of ideas, but the hard part is always closing. And Ryan Murphy is too busy and too rich to close now.
Was it Cecil B DeMille or Billy Wilder who said “If you’re going to put dogshit on the big screen, it has to be comprehensible.”?
I refuse to watch incomprehensible dog 💩!!! 😄
What a world! What a world! One more film to miss.
I could hear the Wicked Witch of West just reading that. 😄
Thanks for the heads up on the Netflix Lizzie Borden piece. It’s not content I lean to watching on Netflix.
I like content in a foreign language with subtitles. I am a ‘boomer’ as far as age goes.
It seems lately that our household watches almost all foreign-language/subtitled films and TV series on Netflix. Not much American/English content.
I am the same. I don’t have cable TV and stream Netflix on my smart TV. Pretty much what I watch is 80% foreign content (films and series) with English subtitles, and the other 20% is in English. (Mostly British English). I don’t really care for ‘American content’.
I can't stand dubbed myself. I feel like dubbing distorts the real dialogue to try to fit how the actors' lips are moving. Plus, it's just plain disorienting and distracting to listen to because the distance the voice is carried never changes, unlike the real dialogue.
I find listening to dubbed foreign films is so fake and disorienting. The lips of the people never match up with the words because the words are not the same. Like I said, I like to listen in the language whatever I’m watching was filmed in, with English subtitles. I also wish that the English translation really reflected what they were actually saying. I speak Spanish, albeit Mexican Spanish, so I understand what the Spanish films and series are saying. Many times the translation of certain phrases, are a bit ‘sugar coated’ and doesn’t reflect what was actually said.
Also I think it’s good for the brain to watch foreign language films with subtitles. It helps me keep up with my Spanish to watch content in Spanish. I once watched a 60 episode, historical drama telenovela from Colombia, ‘Bolivar’ on Netflix about the Venezuelan General Simon Bolivar. It was fabulous, the actor who played the adult Bolivar…very hot! I lived in Spanish for many weeks!
But so many people can barely read now, so watching this content has little interest to them.
Have you watched Fauda?
No…I saw it but it seemed not like something I would want to watch. I mostly watch crime dramas from Spain. I love all the Harlen Corbin adaptations of his novels that have been ‘serialized’ on Netflix by Spanish, French, British, Polish and South American filmmakers.
Fauda is not for everyone. I’ve enjoyed some of the Corbin dramas. I believe one was in Denmark. Very interesting, though I can’t remember the title.
Another fascinating read from a true expert on film who can actually write honestly and with considerable authority.
Thank you Sasha Stone.
Glad I didn’t waste my time watching this trash.
Ryan Murphy joint no less. Murphy’s last Monster series made the spooky homunculus Ed Gein into a sex symbol,
Oh Good Lord!
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Ed Gein a sex symbol? More like a A Norwegian Bachelor Farmer.
Never heard of Ed Gein - just lucky I guess!
He Loved his mother.
Completely agree. Creativity does not seem to exist in Hollywood. Too busy trying to be politically relevant.
Watched the Netflix Unabomber last night. Someone on X said the FBI linguistics character was a male in real life. In Netflix's life, they cast an all powerful female character to the role. Russell Crowe is in it, and I swear, I kept expecting him to transform into the Jekyll n Hyde character from Mummie. It's not unwatchable, but I doubt I'd watch it more than once.
Years ago there was a good Unabomber docudrama that focused on the fbi agent who figured out profiling to eventually catch the guy. It was a fascinating story, included the Kaszinski brother who eventually connected the dots & turned his brother in.
😂 Isn’t it awful when that happens? Some actors are so typecast you can’t get by it. I can’t watch Jim from The Office!!! See…. I can’t even remember his real name. 🙄😄
It all started in the 60s when the lunatic liberals pushed and pushed sex education on the school system. And they were able to tune it up as they went along. Everything Hollywould does involves sex, sex, sex. The more weird, sick, and twisted the better.🙈
We were cautioned about the evils LSD. The only part I remember from the film was the kid standing on the edge of a building and the narrator saying he was going to jump because he got high. I found that funny. 😆 Obviously we were too young for that lesson. None of us ever heard of LSD. 😂
Fascinating. Had no idea who Lizzie Bourdon was.
You never heard the rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father 40 wacks and when she saw what she had done she gave her mother 41? I grew up hearing that?
Out of curiosity what generation do you hail from?
GenX, 1969.
Thanks!! 👌
I have avoided every single film remake for over two decades. I haven't missed a thing, apparently.
Same!
It's funny, I didn't put it together until last week that these limited profiles were a linked series, and also didn't know until now that they are by the AHS creator. I tried to watch the original series and , even though I've been fascinated by Dahmer, could not make it past episode 3. It was glamorizing him in a very disconcerting way, and now it's all making sense why. AHS has been unwatchable for a really long time. Gross