Blind Ambition
I’ve let my feelings about Bird Box be known. Still, I’m fascinated by the meme economy’s bolstering of this sad film’s performance. It created a sort of distortion field that sucked in viewership without a definitive, “Yes, this is a good movie,” recommendation. People simply wanted to be in on the joke whether it meant slogging through a shit movie or finding that they thought it was alright.
Anyway.
I just wanted to also point out that of course General Bastid sleeps on a mattress on the floor.
I, too, was ‘Bandersnatched!’
I didn’t feel as strongly as PJ about Bird Box. I thought it was fine/OK and it was very cool seeing Sandra Bullock in a horror movie where she yells as kids because they never do what the fuck she says, I could definitely relate. I think it was a metaphor for parenting? But not as good as The Babadook, maybe? I’m OK if Netflix spends money on b-grade meme-generator content that everybody has seen and can reference together.
Also, I am still sorting out my feelings about Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
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