@hkanz The first Mad Max certainly aged but is very noteworthy for a no-budget production and it truly kick started the
Ozploitation genre. The followup is also one of the most influential movies of all time.
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley is another retrospective documentary about a legendary (and abysmal) movie and is as crazy as stories get. My favorite part were the stories of the drug induced orgies of the animal people extras and the original director´s journey into near insanity towards the end. What a trip!
The Hunger Games should stayed a duology of books/films and the notion of dividing the last (and weakest) book in 2 needs to stop as Mockingjay managed to get even more bland.
I watched all of
Jessica Johnes within 24 hours of release and it is the B+ to Daredevil´s A-. 10 episodes would have been enough though and the lack of the word "fuck" or smoking is noticeable to readers of the comic but the shows is edgier than expected.
How many shows feature a bed braking scene of anal sex within the first episode after all?
The shows has a bigger focus on rape than the comic despite less such victims present and Jessica´s related backstory was changed a bit too. The show runner´s decision to never actually show sexual violence is further a good call (you see some in the comic) due to the the over reliance of such nonsense on current US TV. My biggest problem is how aggressively non-superhero the shows is despite strong tie-ins to the Netflix Marvel universe as the comic lived of it´s contrast of Marvel glamor and noir grit.
More Luke Cage would have been better too and i assume that his and Jessica´s show will be merged after their introductory season.
Isn´t it lastly crazy how sexually explicit American TV managed to get in the last 10 years?
I can´t complain as i am into The Affair, Masters of Sex, The Knick, Spartacus and so on and 97´s Oz should still be the most explicit among them. Next year´s West World is set to break it´s record (HBO cast android sex tables
) but how much deeper can that rabbit hole go till i end up watching straight up porn.
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