Nitrate City is probably my favorite Fate setting, and while I love all of the campaigns I run for the Fandible podcast...I probably love this on a little bit more than the others.
Nitrate City is a noir setting in a Hollywood where monsters and other weird creatures live side-by-side with humans after "The Big Flicker." There are mobsters and femme fatales, private eyes and damsels in distress. And in our campaign, the bar the Waning Gibbous, staffed by a werewolf bartender, a created-man bouncer, and a shadowy piano player. (No, literally - he's made of shadows)
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Tldr: title, but with a gay character perspective if possible.
I'm a 25 year old guy and Ill be honest I don't watch to many movies like this. Was spending some time over at the parents and they put it on after dinner. While it wasn't a perfect movie, and i don't really love mark wahlberg, I did feel alot of it hit really close to home.
I actually had to hid my face at one part because I was feeling the tears a bit. I think it would be good for me to see more material similar to this. Mabye more on the perspective of the gay induvial. If anyone has any other movie or book suggestions would greatly appreciate it.
I personally love Mark Wahlberg, and thought the movie was pretty solid. Opinions? Might be biased. Have personal and familiar connections to Boston, but Chicago native.
So I saw "Joe Bell" today, a new movie starring Mark Wahlberg as the title character. Well, not really a character as I found out that Joe Bell is a real person. This story revolves around a man whose teenage son, Jadin, is bullied for being gay, and so the man decides to walk across the USA, from Oregon to New York, to raise awareness about bullying and its costly impact on people.
And the movie basically follows through on that. We see Mr. Bell do a lot of walking across the western vistas, and we see him meet occasionally with civic groups and high school students to talk about bullying. There are also scenes with his gay son and his wife (the fetching and skilled Connie Britton) and his other son.
I'm against bullying, I'm not sure how anyone can "favor" it, or be indifferent to it. So the message is an easy one to get behind. I also saw critics reviews of this film, which are mostly unfavorable. The RT rating is about 36%, with the consensus being that it is mawkish and like a TV movie. I didn't experience it that way. I was moved by the film, primarily because of the story, and how it was executed by the cast. Wahlberg and Britton are very good, and a kid named Reid Miller, who plays Jadin. He's outstanding.
I happened to see the film "Pig" yesterday. Unlike "Joe Bell", "Pig" has been raved over. It has gotten excellent reviews, its RT rating is like 98% or something. FWIW, I was not moved by "Pig" at all. It fell totally flat with me, a "meh" movie in my book*. I was far more impressed with "Joe Bell", even though I found him to be personally hard to like - >! IMO you don't leave your wife and living son to go on a long walk to commemorate your deceased son, and dying while doing it is doubly tragic. !< But the story and acting did move me.
B ....... Recommended.
* I saw "Pig" at another theater, not AMC, so did not write an A-List review of it.
First up was Vivo
"Vivo" is a film that, for all its visual splendors, falls well short of its aspirations. Given how strong the first fifteen minutes are, this could have been one of the great animated films of recent years. All the elements are there, and there are stretches of the opening act that are simply inspired. But, like practically every other animated movie meant for mass consumption, it gets lost in the chase - the point where story flow is interrupted so that characters get lost as they try to achieve their objective, and a manufactured villain tries to keep them from their goal.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, that most energetic and dynamic composer of stage and screen musicals, takes the lead casting role here. He is also responsible for film's diverse list of songs, which embrace a few Latin traditions of music, give us a couple of amusing or heartfelt ballads, and often incorporate or simply dive straight into hip hop. The songs aren't meant to carry the film, but they certainly keep it on track in terms of momentum and tone. Miranda's songwriting skills are still stellar, but the best part of "Vivo" happens when the music and animation work in tandem to elevate the story, playing with the visual style to highlight the music, so it all meshes together in a beautiful symphony.
Miranda plays the title character, a kinkajou named Vivo who plays music with his elderly human owner Andrés (Juan de Marcos González), who was once a musician with a promising professional career ahead of him. Now, he's more than happy to simply make music. There's a boisterous introductory sequence that provides an example of their usual street performances in Havana, Cuba, with the kinkajou's own expertise on various rhythm instruments and acrobatic dancing. These two have a good thing going on, and Vivo never wants it to change. Since he fell off a crate as a baby and can’t speak English (we hear Miranda speaking and singing while the onscreen characters only hear squeaks), connecting with this kindly old man through the power of song is what works best for him.
They are a musical force, but Andres decides to take a brief break from their routine when he receives a letter from the United States, written by his former musical partner, the now famous Marta Sandoval (voiced by Gloria Estefan). She's retiring and, after decades apart, would love Andrés to accompany her on stage one last time for her farewell concer
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I saw the movie and I thought it was pretty good (also pretty sad).
I was surprised to see bad reviews and low ratings.
Rotten Tomatoes - 38%
Metacritic - 54%
IMDb - 5.4/10
I thought it would do better. It's got a great, strong theme - bullying. We're seeing Mark in something other than a gun-toting badass emotionless brick wall. The casting on the kid's part is perfect. Plot seemed fine to me.
I just don't understand why the low ratings and reviews.
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