Movies on Airplanes
Oct. 3rd, 2019 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseTo my mild irritation, I've been over the wings for several long flights this summer. (I don't care where on the airplane I sit, so long as I get a window seat and an unblocked view out, up, and down.) So, instead of enjoying my usual cloud-watching, I did some catch-up on movies and documentaries.
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019): a tidy condemnation of Elizabeth Holmes. Focuses more on the scamming than the science she scammed around. I'd like to see more context on the black box of lab medicine, which isn't so much unknowable as neglected by the public, until something like Theranos happens.
Free Solo: In case there were any chance I thought free climbing was a thing I might be interested in, believe me, I have been warned off for life. Fascinating and nail-biting.
Avengers: Endgame: those were some, uh, interesting storytelling and editing choices! Particularly the choice to make a 182 minute movie with no intermission, by the last hour I was checking my watching and wondering how they'd fill the time.
Tolkien: "Based on a true story" style biopic of Tolkein up to WWI-ish. Young men on Wagner: "it shouldn't take six hours to tell a story of a magic ring." Well, someone's making a meta commentary!
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019): a tidy condemnation of Elizabeth Holmes. Focuses more on the scamming than the science she scammed around. I'd like to see more context on the black box of lab medicine, which isn't so much unknowable as neglected by the public, until something like Theranos happens.
Free Solo: In case there were any chance I thought free climbing was a thing I might be interested in, believe me, I have been warned off for life. Fascinating and nail-biting.
Avengers: Endgame: those were some, uh, interesting storytelling and editing choices! Particularly the choice to make a 182 minute movie with no intermission, by the last hour I was checking my watching and wondering how they'd fill the time.
Tolkien: "Based on a true story" style biopic of Tolkein up to WWI-ish. Young men on Wagner: "it shouldn't take six hours to tell a story of a magic ring." Well, someone's making a meta commentary!