u/Bettal56

Man, what a fun romp. This movie is very entertaining, far more than I expected going in. It’s a definite recommend if you just want a short (it’s about 90 minutes) bloody violent (and often pretty funny) flick. You know, even if that’s not what you want, I’d still recommend just because of how entertaining it is.

Now the film does have a problem. Promotional material for the film basically spoiled the premise, so if you don’t know about the movie I’d recommend not looking too much into it. However if you are like me and saw the trailers, thus got a chunk of it spoiled, I will say there is more to the movie than the trailers showed. Not a lot but there is more.

To any unaware of this movie, it stars Zazie Beetz who plays a young woman hired as a maid at a luxury hotel for the wealthy elite. Stuff ensues. That’s all you should know going in.

The movie is short, simple, over the top bloody with genuinely funny bits. Zazie Beetz commits and fucking rocks all the way through. It has style and an alright soundtrack. My only critique would be there is some stuff that happens I’m not sure logically fit the established logic of the story but the movie never really cares too much about that stuff, so it mostly just slides by. It’s suppose to be pulpy fun, never actually deep and that was perfectly fine for me.

I watched the movie on HBO Max, so I’d assume it’s available in all regions on that platform.

The prompt for this comes from me remembering the movie Malcolm & Marie exists. Malcolm& Marie if you didn’t know is a slow burn drama film starring John David Washington and Zendaya. The plot concerns a filmmaker (Washington) and his girlfriend (Zendaya) returning from the premiere of the filmmakers big picture and the subsequent conversations the two have about their relationship and careers. It’s a good movie and I do recommend it if you haven’t seen it but I cannot stress enough how big of a deal this movie was and yet it barely exists as a picture nowadays.

It was a big deal because it was the first major film production that occurred during COVID lockdown. When lock down started, production on movies and TV shows ground to halt. Studios rushed to push out what they had but there was this big question about what mainstream entertainment will do now. Enter Malcolm & Marie. A fully fledged film made during lockdown that complied with lockdown laws. Shit was a big deal.

So the movie was proposed and shot during lockdown and could be the blueprint going forward for movies and tv shows. Then it didn’t come out. It was done but just didn’t come out. All the hype about it died off because when it did come out, movie and show productions had kind of returned to normal, Covid lockdown was a fading memory.

When I came across it on Netflix I was kind of taken aback because I could’ve sworn that it was made several years prior and was all the hype but there it was on Netflix and nobody was talking about.

Malcolm & Marie was supposed to be this big return to form for movies during Covid and what studios were still capable of doing but the movie didn’t get a widespread release until everything else had moved on, causing it to basically be forgotten.

Been using the reddit app on IOS a fair bit recently and omfg is it frustrating. Am I missing something or is it purposely bad?

Replying to comment threads is a chore as either the comment box can’t be downsized/closed or the comment box (and my comment) completely disappears and I have to leave a post and come back and start over. I was in a back and forth with another user in a thread and the comments were lengthy and I just couldn’t close the comment box to look at their comment. Efforts to do so either hid the comment, swiped me onto an ad or just cancelled my shit altogether.

Writing comments also sucks because jumping to parts of the text can cause the comment to close and reopening it starts you at the top. I have to carefully scroll down (lest it closes again) and be very exact where I want to type. I just want to correct a spelling error or add something but it’s making me feel like back spacing up to that point is easier than just selecting after a word to correct it or type more.

Am I just making it hard on myself or is this shit genuinely supposed to be like this? I’m more use to desktop reddit then mobile but fuck, I do not feel I am the problem here.

When I was a kid with my parents on holiday at some point in the 2000s, my dad was watching something on the tv at the hotel we were at. I remember only a few points but remember it scaring the shit out of me.

What I remember: the show or movie revolved around a kid or two kids being kidnapped and to be held for ransom. The show/movie followed the police trying to track down the abductors. Might have been a man and woman partnership. The guy behind the abductions was this inexperienced guy who was annoying. The other people were more experienced with this type of stuff and they hated the guy who hired them. One of the guys that was hired was Native American. Iirc they took the kid/kids into a desolate environment. Might’ve been desert or snow (I say might’ve been as I feel it was snow but the whole thing was really bright like it was filmed in the snow). It reached a point in the abduction where the main guy started verbally abusing the other conspirators about their conduct. This resulted in the Native American criminal blowing some dust in the guys face and later the investigators found that guys heart in a box.

I stopped paying attention after the police found the heart but on the odd occasion I looked back at the screen I think the Native American guy went crazy at some point and tried to battle the police with traps and stuff.

This was like 20y+yrs ago now and honestly it could be anything, so I’m open to all suggestions.