Ever have a movie that you’ve felt you *should* see, but one that stayed in that status, unseen, for a decade or more?
For me, one of those movies was “Get on the Bus.” Finally saw it last night. 12+ years on my “to see” list, about two years in my Netflix queue, and then at least four weeks sitting in my living room.
I know I'm supposed to be working towards not obligating myself with "shoulds," but in this case, at least, it became a matter of pride. Sending the movie back to Netflix after coming so far in this particular journey would have been like dropping out of a 25k trail run within sight of the finish line.
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It was pretty good. It followed the general Spike Lee formula: Beautiful (underrated, actually) cinematography, and at genuine warmth tinged with meanness. There are some conversations within that are a little uncomfortable to listen to. I always feel like white people in his films that are unnecessarily insensitive & unaware; but then I realize that a lot of his black characters are unnecessarily kind of mean themselves; and then I realize the whole thing is to make you sort of consider opposing viewpoints and see there is some common ground (ala the Obama "race speech). At least, I hope that's the intent. But it was pretty good. Well-written, well acted, well shot. 7 or 8 out of 10
Guess what? It's in my living room as well. I should be seeing it.
Is it spinning up as we speak?
Insane! That you rented it, too! Wow! What are the odds? I guess some people may have had it top of mind due to the whole Inaguration thing, but for me (as you can read), it was utterly unrelated.
Mixx, with the subtle dig at Stephen's "I'm spinning it as we speak" comment with no followup on "Johnny Seedcorn." Zing!
Irresistible!
The fact that get on the Bus has been featured on your blog page's Netflix widget for 4 weeks may have moved that synchronicity along.
For me it was a combo of Jan. 20th and Dan's list. It's one of those "shoulda seen it earlier" kind of movies.
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