More Wrong Updates
Added 2024-07-31 20:24:24 +0000 UTCHey all,
Just wanted to update you one more time on the status of my upcoming videos. Obviously my goal of releasing before the end of July proved to be a fool's errand-- the Wrong video is currently 82 minutes long and only getting longer. On top of that, my Patreon exclusive tie-in is over 30 minutes long, and I still have most of that to edit, so it's just getting to be a bit of a bigger project than I anticipated.
I also just got a wisdom tooth extracted, like an hour ago (they didn't have to put me under, I'm not writing this in a stupor), and it's been 90+ degrees with no air conditioning for about a week now where I am, which makes productivity sluggish. Those are both completely my problems and not yours, but maybe it helps contextualize!
The good news is that I'm probably 70% done editing the Wrong, and you'll get a nice long Patreon video alongside it. The other good news is that the dentist let me keep my wisdom tooth and take it home! Win!
Thanks so much for your patience. I like to have a new video out about every month when I can, but often these longer ones just take more time. I'm hoping it will only take another week or so to get this project finished.
I've watched Twister (1996) three times in the last week, and I'm also trying to make my way through the Step Up series-- not for a video, just for my own perverse enjoyment. What have you guys been watching?
Comments
Well then I might have to watch... turning the tooth into a necklace DID cross my mind
Jane Mulcahy
2024-08-05 15:42:37 +0000 UTCIt's so cool that the dentist let you keep your tooth! And it actually reminds me of a movie I really love called Nige and Deano's Best Last Day Ever (also called Two Little Boys but they changed the title at some point) which is a toxic gay Australian movie that features a tooth necklace as a kind of promise ring. It's kind of my holy grail because the two leads are two of my favorite Guys and it's not only a crossover but a GAY crossover. I can't watch it without vibrating
Gabriel Meil
2024-08-05 00:05:58 +0000 UTCThe Man From U.N.C.L.E is so nostalgic for me because it’s from the height of Tumblr fandom but surprisingly didn’t generate some huge controversy/drama (that I know of, at least). Like it really had little to no impact on Tumblr culture long-term. Just a few months of pure intense shipping and fandom then everyone moved on.
Kaitlyn Min
2024-08-02 06:29:58 +0000 UTCAlso Steven Strait from The Covenant is in it!! 😭😆
andie bansil
2024-08-01 17:43:13 +0000 UTCIf you like that, Magic City is another mid-century drama I liked from that time. Also short-lived and even more dramatic. Miami mobsters! The CIA!
andie bansil
2024-08-01 17:35:12 +0000 UTCOooh honestly a flight attendant period drama sounds like a no brainer, I'm surprised it only lasted one season! Also surprised Ryan Murphy wasn't involved at all tbh, seems like his kind of deal. Frustrating that a show set in the 60s and presumably meant to showcase the struggles of women at the time would have its own blind spots on race. But only 14 episodes and it's on Tubi? I might have to stream.
Jane Mulcahy
2024-08-01 15:35:15 +0000 UTCI've been rewatching Pan-Am, part of the slew of Mad Men ripoffs in the late 00s/2010s. it's cheesy and occasionally racist (multiple "Chinatown" episodes, which makes me, a Filipino-American, cringe extra hard). Baby Margot Robbie is cute, Chrstina Ricci steals the show, and there is espionage! Hoping you're staying cool – I am definitely experiencing the same difficulties in an apartment with no AC so I sympathize.
andie bansil
2024-08-01 05:27:56 +0000 UTCThose both sound interesting! I watch a lot of movies and silly network TV but I tend to have trouble getting into actually good streaming TV. I can imagine period shows incorporating pop songs might be a trend now because of the Bridgerton effect. And I guess its use in Bridgerton might have been the Baz Luhrmann effect. That kind of thing can be cool but doesn't work for everything obviously
Jane Mulcahy
2024-08-01 01:51:42 +0000 UTCI just finished watching My Lady Jane on Prime Video, a show that can only be described as a yassified Tudor AU, complete with a tiktok enemies-to-lovers and Philomena Cunk-style narration. It was okay, but my toxic trait is that I don't think pop songs belong in period/fantasy media. Bridgerton gets a free pass because it has the grace to convert them into orchestral renditions, but anything else takes me out of it and makes me feel like I'm watching a fanedit on twitter. Another show I really loved was the Lazarus Project on Stan, cancelled this year after 2 seasons; featuring a cast of British secret agents who have a time machine that lets them rewind up to a year while still letting them keep memories of their lost time. They use it to save-scum their way through solving international crises, but things get messy when they start using it for personal gain.
Finn
2024-08-01 00:22:38 +0000 UTCThis is so funny because although I never watched The Man From U.N.C.L.E. I DO REMEMBER when it was all over tumblr!! I never really got what that was about since I never watched the movie. But it looked like it had a cool vibe and I guess where there's hot men smoke there's a tumblr shipping fire.
Jane Mulcahy
2024-07-31 23:44:49 +0000 UTCI've been rewatching The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) because I just realized that it's on Netflix again (it's been on and off Netflix for the past few years, probably because of licensing/contracts/whatever). Do you remember the summer that this movie came out when every single person on Tumblr was seemingly obsessed with this movie and shipping the two main leads together (classic Tumblr move tbh)? I literally didn't realize that this was a box office bomb until I read the Wikipedia page a few years ago because of how popular it was in my niche internet circle when it came out. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is such an interesting movie to me because I actually do not think either lead (Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer) are good actors and haven't liked them in basically any other project but for some reason, they work so well in this. It feels like they unintentionally stumbled into a good performance. Maybe I'm reading too much into it or projecting but whenever I rewatch this, it's like I can see what each actor was aiming for but they completely miss the mark and yet somehow that's better than their original intentions.
Kaitlyn Min
2024-07-31 22:50:27 +0000 UTCExtremely relieved that I am not cursed but instead simply haunted by the ghost of your unrealized script. Perhaps there is a collective unconscious after all, and its name is Tubi. Sorry for the removed comment, btw. I have no clue how the new patreon comment system works and it scares me
Air Stratus
2024-07-31 22:28:46 +0000 UTCVery true, I the main thing that's lacking for me is the 'dancer from the streets/posh dancer from the arts school' opposites attract storyline. Like halfway through the movie they reveal that the love interest girl is secretly rich, but by that point they've kind of missed their chance to make the story ABOUT that. Tbf there was a really funny scene where the main boy and girl stand over a subway grate and blow their Icees through straws, which makes it fly (?) in the wind from the grate (stupid 3D gimmick), and the Icee is CGI and looks awful. That did give me a laugh
Jane Mulcahy
2024-07-31 22:21:44 +0000 UTCI kind of get it because there isn't actually a plot in that movie. The characters are barely characters, so it doesn't even have the normal emotional stakes of "I hope they win that dance contest." I just take it in as more of an experience than a story, I guess.
Steven Clark
2024-07-31 22:10:38 +0000 UTCUgh Step Up 3D is the one I'm currently on. I have to be honest I'm finding it so boring! It's weird because the individual scenes don't SEEM like they should be boring, and there are certainly plenty of ridiculous elements (Kid Darkness, Disney Channel-esque subplot between Alyson Stoner and the nerd kid, the main guy telling everyone he's "BFABB - Born From a Boom Box") but I keep watching 15-20 increments and then turning it off because it's not grabbing me. But I guess I'll just keep doing that until I've watched the whole thing.
Jane Mulcahy
2024-07-31 21:52:41 +0000 UTC(oops pressed send too soon) It was fun and campy at times, but I think I lost interest when I realized just how little happens from episode to episode. Such is the soap opera way I guess. I was trying to actually watch from the beginning (random episodes sounds smarter) and apparently the famous vampire guy doesn't even show up until a couple hundred episodes in. So all that was happening in the episodes I was watching was like... people talking in a house. I am also a big fan of the OG House on Haunted Hill, I've seen it several times. Love William Castle! And Vincent Price is such an icon. Another weird coincidence is that a couple years ago I actually wanted to write a play that was basically a spin on House on Haunted Hill but set in the modern day with the characters all being (fictional but real life-inspired) YouTubers.... clearly that never materialized but a Mr. Beast type could've been the Price role
Jane Mulcahy
2024-07-31 21:49:07 +0000 UTCThat's actually a wild coincidence because I too had a brief classic Dark Shadows phase a while back. It was all right there on Tubi and I thought why not
Jane Mulcahy
2024-07-31 21:41:52 +0000 UTCThe only Step Up movie I've seen is Step Up 3D, which I love but also understand that it's pretty bad. It's like they took an action movie script (maybe an unused Never Back Down sequel) and word-search-and-replaced the word "fight" with the word "dance." There's a character named Kid Darkness. Still, the one-take oldschool-musical-style dancing in the street scene is kind of amazing.
Steven Clark
2024-07-31 21:32:35 +0000 UTCSorry to hear you’re being baked alive— summer is wreaking furious vengeance this year. I wish you a pleasant recovery from dental surgery and hope that your salvaged tooth makes for good company while editing. On my end, I’ve been chewing on random episodes of Dark Shadows recently. I’ve been trained to associate black and white film with prestige or high-quality media that was curated for its perceived cultural value, so watching a soap-opera-ass-soap-opera from the 60’s with a campy vampire bustling around, botched line reads, and single-take performances has been an Experience. I also watched House on Haunted Hill for the first time and immediately had a nightmare that recast Mr Beast in Vincent Price’s role, so I may have been cursed by a witch.
Air Stratus
2024-07-31 21:22:31 +0000 UTC
