This was so, so good. I’m one of the many old Kanye fans who’ve soured on him a lot in past years.
This first episode tells the story of Ye’s early days in the music industry. His incredible drive, confidence and bravados are amazing to watch. He was such a breath of fresh air in a rather stale hip-hop culture of the early 2000’s.
Above all though, this documentary makes me incredibly sad for Kanye’s early loss of his mom, who was so important to him. Her scenes, full of wisdom and love, are the absolute highlight of this episode for me.
If you’ve ever enjoyed Kanye, you cannot NOT watch this. If you don’t like him, I challenge you regardless. You might at least understand why millions of us love and miss the Old Kanye.
Eh the jokes were a bit played out and would’ve worked better if they were more implicit. That ending montage killed me though. Seeing Frank the hairguy on “stage” with Giuliani was so good.
Saw this in cinema last night, slept on it and can now share my thoughts.
In typical Bond fashion, NTTD is a blazing-fast ride from beginning to end that doesn’t bore for even a moment. The biggest positives for me were its humor, its sound design (Zimmer delivers with a much more modest OST than we’ve heard in his well-known bombastic projects), the acting (Craig is versatile, charming and disarming) and it had some of my favorite scenes in Bond films ever. That whole Italy sequence up until the title track starts is phenomenal and especially that scene with Bond and Madeleine in the bulletproof car. Another high for me was the scene leading up to the interrogation between Bond and Blofeld, even if its climax left me a little unsatisfied.
Less positive for me was the plot. I’m not even talking about the ridiculousness of the weapon in itself, but more about the quick acceptance of Bond’s fate at the end. These mad scientists came up with an out-of-this-world weapon, but it suddenly is a bridge too far to find an antidote for it? This wouldn’t normally bother me as much, but with this ending it really seemed like they wanted to have the film end a certain way only to afterward find ways to get to said end neatly. I also did not really feel Malek’s villain. Maybe I missed it, but I did not really get why he wanted to fulfill his plans. There was a little too much left in the open, for my taste.
