The Big Sick plays less like a great
movie than a platform for its appealing tone, but it's so well acted and dense with insights into the culture clash at its center that nothing about the central dynamic is strained.
Not exact matches
It's been more
than a quarter - century since the hit
movie «A League of Their Own» brought the All - American Girls Professional Baseball League back to life, and since then, the players from that league have used the
platform to create more awareness about girls and women playing baseball.
From appearing in campaign adverts, jumping on campaign
platforms to recently announcing that the NDC had fulfilled its promise to fix the power crisis (Dumsor) while presenting an award at the 2015 Ghana
Movie Awards, John's political stance and views were more
than certain.
The attendant remix seems more reverent of the
movie's aesthetic virtues and limitations, barely doing more
than providing a lossless
platform for the original mono track, which is on board as well in DD 2.0.
Battlefront has its Jakku maps, Disney Infinity 3.0 has its
movie adventure, but about the
platform with more current Star Wars games
than any other?
The
movie is more of an
platform builder for every other DC
movie coming out in the near future
than being a
movie about Batman and Superman.
Lip - service is given to the wacko fundies and the pro-science liberals arrayed on opposite sides of the debate, though I can't help but wonder if the interesting
movie in Closer to God is a Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - style genre exercise that uses its
platform to think rather
than moderately thrill.
The implications about the current state of online culture in the film is disturbing, perhaps even a bit hyperbolic, but what better
than a B
movie cheapie to spell out the ugliness of social media in both the genre and the social
platform's gruesome, unforgiving terms?
Digital technology has made content cheaper to produce
than ever, and the rise of digital
platforms has led to a manifold increase in the number of avenues for distributing
movies.
If the goal is to get the story out there in grand fashion, I can't think of a better
platform than what they chose and it's a gusty move putting a
movie like this into theaters competing with what most folks consider to be popcorn - worthy pictures.
In practice, however, because video games are programs to be interfaced with a user, their data are more variable and much more complex to read
than movies, making interoperability across different
platforms a near impossibility.
Movies Anywhere doesn't solve every problem, and not every studio is on board, but it does bring us closer
than ever to
platform agnosticism.
The company says that you'll find more
than 500,000 hours of shows and
movies on the
platform from the likes of Hotstar, Voot, Sony Liv, and TVF, and that 80 percent of the catalog will be available to stream online for free.