Originally posted by ladymuck
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Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Fast & Furious 9 (2021), being… well, that. For a franchise known for foolish nonsense, this one takes the nonsense to unprecedented levels of foolishness, but I suppose that's the point. More annoyingly, the stuff about "famly" that normally is concentrated in a bit at the end where they're drinking Corona and eating barbecue is here smeared throughout (in addition to that bit at the end) which makes that aspect even more annoying. But it is what it is, and that's the price of admission. The same old piss in the same shaped bottle
And then a film I haven't seen in many a long year; it may even have been the late 1980s since I last watched it, though it's possible I saw it some time in the 1990s. Anyway, it was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and a fine piece of work it is. These days, they've become quite good at making films of books, but back then it was common for those who'd read a book to say that the subsequent film wasn't as good. Being one of the few people in my social circle who'd read the book, the opinion I gave when asked was that the film was as good a film as the book was a book, and I stand by that. It's exceptionally good, and I must dig the book out and re-read that too
Ken Kesey wrote the book while working night shifts at a psychiatric hospital much the same as the one depicted, and during those shifts he was sometimes under the influence of LSD, psilocybin, or mescaline he'd nicked from a clinical trial he was participating in. He credited much of the insight into the patients shown in the book (and thus the film) to those psychedelic drugs. We now know that those "clinical" trials of major psychedelics in which he was participating were (unbeknown to him) actually part of the CIA's Project MKUltra, so at least some good came out of it all
Goodnight all
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