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In Praise of "Watch Instantly"
Much has been said and written about Netflix’s “Watch Now” or “Watch Instantly” feature. Most things I’ve read but am too lazy to look up again and link to seem to agree that the selection could use some improvement. I do know that some dude from Slate wrote:
I found the offerings impressively bad, as though some schlock curator from an Ivy League cinema studies department was called upon to select the dreckiest soft-porn screwball comedies ever made
I’ve never studied film at an Ivy League school, but I did take film classes at a school just up the road from one, and I take offense at the suggestion that soft-porn screwball comedies are somehow an anathema to the cinema. A world without Jewel Shepard is a world I don’t want to be a part of.
No, It Isn’t
So I’m perusing the latest online edition of my favourite publication of the Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology, when I came across an article entitled, Is Apocalypto Pornography?”. Although I had originally intended to catch up on some Tut Talk (he is my favourite honky, after all), the allure of pornography was too great to pass up.
The basic premise of the article is that although Apocalypto is a well-shot, action packed film, director Melvin Gibson presents a one-sided view of the most violent and sensational aspects of what was actually a multifaceted and dynamic society. The author also uses the word ‘hellavuh’.
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