things I watched…

Humans really are an awful bunch, aren’t we? We fight, we steal, we beat each other down, and we never seem to learn from our mistakes. Of course, we don’t want to admit that we’re that bad. No, we just want to stick our head in the sand and ignore the truth. Sometimes it’s up to works of art and media to hold a mirror up to us and make us confront our ugly reflections. One work that does an excellent job of this is 1968’s Planet of the Apes.

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I put on Failure to Launch because I was looking for (and I quote) a “dumb and cosy movie”. Did I get what I was looking for? Yeah, pretty much.

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Ed Wood is kind of the “forgotten” Burton film. Everyone knows the Burton classics like Edward Scissorhands or Batman or Beetlejuice, but nobody really remembers Ed Wood – even though they really should do so.

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Weirdly, despite having a major in history, I’ve never gone in much for historical films (especially war ones). That being said, there are some historical war films that I do like: Hacksaw Ridge, Gallipoli, Dunkirk and 1917 probably the ones that most readily come to mind. The film Greyhound is not something that really piqued my interest, and after watching it, I remain thoroughly underwhelmed.

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The most generous way to describe the historical accuracy of 2019’s The King is “lukewarm at best”. The film, starring current Hollywood Golden Boy Timothée Chalamet as King Henry V, is (very) loosely based on several of the works of Shakespeare that chronicle the same period in Henry’s life.

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