Movies 2022; Separation of SF and reality blurs

Severance {first episode available free} Is apparently a documentary of what it is like to work at the Apple headquarters in California. Available now on Apple TV (and the link provided) it follows employees who have decided to do away with the stress of trying to juggle work and life by completely separating the two via surgery. As they leave the building a device is triggered that hides everything that happened at work that day and is switched "on" the next day as they enter the building making all their work day memories intact and unencumbered by any memories made outside the building. This is not good news for "happy hour" bars of course which previously provided that service.

Dune {have not seen it yet} won the Oscar slap fight as "Denis Villeneuve’s Dune was the most-awarded film of the night, winning Best Sound, Best Original Score, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, and Best Production Design" as related by Screen Rant
I hope to get to the theater this year to see a few movies but it is really tempting to just stream them...

>1 DugsBooks: I really enjoyed Dune but hope to see it on the big screen someday (I streamed it at home). It really deserves an IMAX.

We watched the penultimate episode of Severance last night. What a great weird show. What else would you expect from Ben Stiller? 😀

I hope everyone had a wonderful May the 4th be with you!, as we continue our record of always being consistent and never missing a deadline. Still subscribing to the Disney channel there are some Star Wars offerings that evoke the original series - a stark contrast to other recent SW themed shows (In the opinion of many). Obi-Wan Kenobi (pictured above) is one of them and worth a watch. All episodes are available now.

The Mandalorian season 2 also has all the episodes of 2 available and is interesting in its own unique way as the 50 year old toddler Yoda is baby sat in different galactic locations.

My favorite however is the currently streaming show Andor which creates a good mystery/intrigue tale comprised of interesting characters with more depth than many in the SW universe. No mention of "The Force" or Jedi/Sith yet.

>2 Neil_Luvs_Books: Yep ,I saw Dune on Blu Ray and it was a little underwhelming. I also would like to see it on the big screen because the dvd reminded me of when I watched 2001 A Space Odyssey on the old cathode ray tube tv and how that seemed to be a parody of the film I saw in 3 projector 70mm film cinemascope in the original run of the movie back in the 1960's.

>4 DugsBooks: yup! Some films (like 2001) just need a large screen. A couple summers ago I went to the IMAX to watch Apollo 11. That was awesome!

>5 Neil_Luvs_Books: Some years ago, on its 40th anniversary re-release, we went to see 2001 on an IMAX screen. It's a tribute to Kubrick, Trumball and the rest of the crew that only one shot failed on being blown up to eight stories high (the Aries-1 shuttle approaching the Moon, where the Moon looked very much like a flat photograph from ground-based telescopes matted into the frame - which of course it was).

Everything else coped with that degree of extreme enlargement; and many of the shots - the approach to the space station, the space station interior, the Aries-1 landing sequence and the establishing shot of the Discovery's carousel - were stunning, even when, in the case of the carousel, you knew how the shot was done.

>5 Neil_Luvs_Books:>6 I first saw 2001 in a movie theatre when it was new. I sat fairly far up and was tripping on LSD. You can imagine... It was years before I could hear Also Sprach Zarathustra without practically having a flashback. Those were the days, all right (thank God for the past tense).

>7 rshart3: 😅👍

>7 rshart3: Was the psychedelic popcorn still legal then? I remember those days. I bet it took some time to leave the theater. ;-) The 70mm first version I saw had 6 track stereo sound, very impressive opening scenes.

>6 RobertDay:
A couple of weeks ago I was browsing one of the streaming channels. I think it was Netflix. In the documentary section I found "2001: The Making of a Myth". I had never seen it before and really enjoyed watching it.

I presume you have seen it. If not, it was a documentary about the making of 2001. I believe it was made in 2001. They interviewed some of the actors, production team, and Arthur C. Clarke. Kubrick died in 1999 so was not in the documentary. They showed how many of the special effects were executed.

I must say, I found the documentary fascinating.

Going off topic here a little but this recent event, for me, is SF and Reality kind of blurring.

Falcon Heavy’s side boosters landing simultaneously


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>11 DugsBooks:
You are correct. It gets harder and harder for Science Fiction writers to keep the work "Fiction" in the genre. :-)

>11 DugsBooks: Indeed, young Mr Musk seems determined to propel us into the science fictional future we always expected, and this is a prime example.

But no-one who ever wrote about capable entrepreneurs opening up space travel when the dead hand of government could not, ever considered that the character of said entrepreneur would be so flawed.