JFF: What Was the Last Film You Saw, and How Would You Rate It? (Pt. 20)

Hahaha.

Oo, I've been looking forward to this. I forgot to tune in when it dropped. The fact that the episode lengths are shorter than The Boys is slightly worrisome to me. Anyway, all of these big-budget streaming-television shows tend to have short seasons. I'm still hoping for a new season of Evil, but I'm guessing that it might be cancelled or about to be cancelled.

Yeah, the big budget shows have short seasons but the episodes often run over 50 minutes, not so with this show.

@jeorj_euler​ 

"Evil" is strictly "case of the week", right?

No seasonal story arcs?

Well, Evil is significantly procedural, but there are also ongoing story arcs, not necessarily the kinds of arcs that resolve within the time span of a season. The format actually kind of reminds me more of Supernatural's and Fringe's than series that are consistently procedural (like Dragnet, Mission: Impossible, Cold Case, Poltergeist: The Legacy, Friday the 13th: The Series, Scooby Doo, Ghost Writers or Odd Squad, to give disparate examples of a common setup over the many decades).

@jeorj_euler 

Thank you.

Supernatural and Fringe were good examples to use; I see what you're getting at.

Something of a disclaimer here, I stated what did in parentheses even though none of the  mentioned series were seen through-and-through by me, some not even a single episode such as the children's shows. I just know that all of them involve a team of people who investigate stuff and then either uncover the truth or take down some kind of troublemaker (put the genie back in the bottle). Haha.

Genies - Azazel, Lillith, Alistair, David Robert Jones, Walternate, New Timeline William Bell, Observers.

Yeah, that's a neat joke and all, but I might be too aloof to see it anything close to true. I would frown upon day drinking, but I do it sometimes, so drinking in the daytime on a day other than a twelve-hour daytime work day is might be alright. (Drinking on Sunday is alright, but pious people ought not attend Services while obviously tipsy.) I think highly of people who speak more than one language, even if it is only one more, but I'm not too cool with people who don't comprehend the language of the place to which they relocate and who simply stick to speaking the language of the people in the place from which they originated. I frown upon the unnecessary self-administering of hard drugs. I applaud tax avoidance regardless of the income (or net worth) of the people doing it. I'm looking forward to more "X, Y and Z walk into a bar" jokes, as usually those are reasonably comedic.

@jeorj_euler​ 

Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and Paul Ryan walk into a bar.

The bartender serves them tainted whiskey because there are no regulations.

They die.

Such lovely gallows humor with lack of irony. What's especially comical is how a government shutdown can last for months causing the Food and Drug Administration to thrive on a skeleton crew, and yet all the beef, lamb, pork, turkey, chicken, legume, bean, nut, fruit and vegetable produce is no worse for the wear than usual. Nevertheless, supposedly we're vastly less likely to find a severed finger of a sweat shop worker inside a can of soup than we would've back before the Delano gaslit the world and pilfered the people's personal gold reserves. Anyway, I've never really thought about the odds of a tavern with a spectacular reputation for adequate sanitation suddenly falling down on the job on the evening that somebody vaguely opposed to federal regulation of the private sector happens to show up as a paying customer. Is that supposed to be bad karma or something? I don't know. Seems like the same could happen regardless of the level of regulation, such that regulators (agents who can make up shit as they go along) can retain their jobs even when having poor job performance.

Ah, come to think of it, I do suppose there is some irony in the idea of a tavern keep injuring to death the very same people who fight so hard to ensure that he or the business for whom he works does not have to incur involuntary extra expenses (i.e. Stamp Act type crap) that may not be affordable. Haha.

I don't think the point of the joke was that the barkeep targeted them deliberately.

Right, I also understood that to not be the point, hence untimely neglect resulting in unexpected hazard resulting in unexpected injury resulting in unexpected death, but all of which might be considered "preventable if only..."

Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurimaski, The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer and Close your Eyes by Victor Erice also intrigue me.

@Maxence_G​ Saw Fallen Leaves yesterday. It was cute and charming. But a bit dry (comedy wise). 8/10. Pretty sure it was my first Aki Kaurismäki film.

A Haunting In Venice (2023)

A dull and charmless offering from Sir Jar Jar Kenny. 

5-/10