gafpromise
23d ago
This is entirely beside the point, but Kubo and the Two Strings is a masterpiece and I won't hear any different. I don't think it performed outstanding but it at least made back its budget. Although interestingly, at least in the posters I can find you can't really see the eyepatch. It just looks like he has his hair pulled over one eye.
Marketing (or lack of) certainly didn't do Elio any favors - this is not how a studio promotes something they have faith in and want to support.
But yeah, I hate that bean mouth style also. It looks ridiculous.
Thanks for this, you may have inspired me to make the purchase. I haven't revisited Lewis in a long time. Whatever people think of his arguments, I think his popularity is due to how well he's able to explain things to laypeople, to lead them along a journey, setting out his arguments one step at a time. It's very easy to follow and very accessible. I'm not aware of many high-quality modern authors who can write with that same accessibility AND intellectual rigor.
Of course some of his writings are less dated than others. Stuff like The Abolition of Man and even That Hideous Strength are eerie when they are describing social and intellectual trends that we still see today, although set in a very different time and place.
Every time C.S. Lewis comes up I have to recommend Till We Have Faces. It's not one of his better known ones, apparently, but I think it's one of his fiction works that really doesn't seem dated to me at all. It has a lot to say on the nature of love and possessiveness and what kinds of gods are worthy of worship.
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