Hey, I just watched the Fabelmans. It's really good! All time great cameo appearance at the end, followed by a really good gag right as the credits come in.
bringing David Lynch (as John Ford) to yell about keeping the horizon out of the middle of the screen is probably gonna get overused by film nerds who want to yell about Marvel movies, but the end gag of Spielberg realizing that he's got the horizon in the middle before blatantly moving the camera is A+ work
Aside from that, the whole movie is very human and filled with really good performances, and, pretty clear-eyed looks at his parents, that are still very much full of compassion.
I suspect that the reason this isn't going to sweep the Oscars the way other movies that are about how good and interesting making movies have done, is that this movie really isn't about that at all, and cuts off before it really even gets to Hollywood, so it's mostly a smaller story about his family, and it's funny and human and I really liked it! Fun to see he's still got his fastball.
Hey, I just watched the Fabelmans. It's really good! All time great cameo appearance at the end, followed by a really good gag right as the credits come in.
bringing David Lynch (as John Ford) to yell about keeping the horizon out of the middle of the screen is probably gonna get overused by film nerds who want to yell about Marvel movies, but the end gag of Spielberg realizing that he's got the horizon in the middle before blatantly moving the camera is A+ work
Aside from that, the whole movie is very human and filled with really good performances, and, pretty clear-eyed looks at his parents, that are still very much full of compassion.
I suspect that the reason this isn't going to sweep the Oscars the way other movies that are about how good and interesting making movies have done, is that this movie really isn't about that at all, and cuts off before it really even gets to Hollywood, so it's mostly a smaller story about his family, and it's funny and human and I really liked it! Fun to see he's still got his fastball.
oh, speaking of it not really being an uncompromising love letter to movies (even though, to be clear, his love for movies permeates the whole thing)
there's a scene where his parents announce their divorce to the family, and his sisters are yelling and fighting with their parents over it, and the Spielberg character is sitting off to the side, having already pieced together the reasons and talked to his mom about it
and you see him imagining himself walking through the argument with his camera, filming the entire argument
really good movie! I don't know why they've made it so difficult to watch it
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My local theater is having it as their final movie before they shut down for good, so I think I’m gonna try to catch it there.
if you're gonna try to walk on water make sure you wear your comfortable shoes
The theater I saw it at is also apparently closing (it's one of the Regal theaters they're shuttering) but I have no idea when. I thought it'd be soon but apparently they're hiring?
I saw Everything Everywhere All At Once tonight with some friends and it was.... fine
Sorry for the controversial takes but
I was digging it for the first third but I honestly kinda feel like the movie would have been better with half the budget
It got to a point where it just got real slapstick and goofy and caught up in its own cleverness in a way that really pulled me out of the movie
When it hit the point where there's a buttplug kung fu fight and an actual raccoon it was just... too much, and got too distant from the emotional core of the movie
It was like it wasn't confident the audience could hang in there and appreciate the grounded bits without having enough flash to keep them engaged
Hot take:
It uh... kinda turned into Scott Pilgrim For Unappreciated Moms partway through and only really course corrected at the end
I think I would have a hard time watching it again because I wouldn't have near as much patience for the goofy bits
Do you remember the guy who only worked out 1 arm?!?
It was on side of his whole body! It was creepy as hell looking and everyone treated it like a silly eccentricity and not the cry for help it would be in any realistic circumstance.
Man, I really dug that movie. Just a lovely little fairytale about love and loss and longing. Sensual, in that every sense is treated as a source of potential joy.
It's a movie that's not gonna change the world, that's not trying to, and that's part of why I loved it. It's content to make a lovely world and invite us in, and it's feeling increasingly precious to find a movie with those simple aims.
Like I know this is not a controversial or new observation but this is like four movies badly stitched together
I am genuinely glad I watched though, and had a blast
Like, it's an absolute unmitigated mess, but it's also the kind of messy where you can see the seams and can feel the chaos and compromises and script doctoring
And I'd rather if a movie is going to be a failure, that it be this weird "vanity project clashing with unfinished JSA script clashing with remnants of a SHAZAM sequel" THING rather than like a polished but forgettable Hollywood studio thing
I'm gonna spend time thinking about all the ways this went wrong and I appreciate it for that
Have known several girls who got breast reductions because their back buckled under just regular sized breasts
back in like, junior high, one of my friends developed... quickly, and abundantly, and then came back after summer break with them reduced
I did the usual dumb guy "why would you ruin something so beautiful?"
I told my mom, and my mom, who has never once in her life hit me, smacked the living hell out of me and was like "YOU APOLOGIZE TO HER, CALL HER, RIGHT NOW. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH BREASTS SUCK?"
edit: they were indeed causing her back problems, like, if they stayed that size she'd finish growing up with a fucked up spine.
edit 2: I had my first actual relationship with her, and it was also the only relationship where it didn't take years to rebuild the friendship we had before we were dating.
just kinda "this isn't working out, back to friends?" "hell yeah wanna get some froyo?"
Like I know this is not a controversial or new observation but this is like four movies badly stitched together
I am genuinely glad I watched though, and had a blast
Like, it's an absolute unmitigated mess, but it's also the kind of messy where you can see the seams and can feel the chaos and compromises and script doctoring
And I'd rather if a movie is going to be a failure, that it be this weird "vanity project clashing with unfinished JSA script clashing with remnants of a SHAZAM sequel" THING rather than like a polished but forgettable Hollywood studio thing
I'm gonna spend time thinking about all the ways this went wrong and I appreciate it for that
A friend of mine called it the worst movie he has ever seen
I'm extremely excited to watch it next time I have a hangover
Like I know this is not a controversial or new observation but this is like four movies badly stitched together
I am genuinely glad I watched though, and had a blast
Like, it's an absolute unmitigated mess, but it's also the kind of messy where you can see the seams and can feel the chaos and compromises and script doctoring
And I'd rather if a movie is going to be a failure, that it be this weird "vanity project clashing with unfinished JSA script clashing with remnants of a SHAZAM sequel" THING rather than like a polished but forgettable Hollywood studio thing
I'm gonna spend time thinking about all the ways this went wrong and I appreciate it for that
A friend of mine called it the worst movie he has ever seen
I'm extremely excited to watch it next time I have a hangover
It wasn't even the worst superhero origin movie from last year.
Like I know this is not a controversial or new observation but this is like four movies badly stitched together
I am genuinely glad I watched though, and had a blast
Like, it's an absolute unmitigated mess, but it's also the kind of messy where you can see the seams and can feel the chaos and compromises and script doctoring
And I'd rather if a movie is going to be a failure, that it be this weird "vanity project clashing with unfinished JSA script clashing with remnants of a SHAZAM sequel" THING rather than like a polished but forgettable Hollywood studio thing
I'm gonna spend time thinking about all the ways this went wrong and I appreciate it for that
The casting for everybody but Black Adam is good with great performances from Hodges and Brosnan which help make the bad script more bearable.
Man, I really dug that movie. Just a lovely little fairytale about love and loss and longing. Sensual, in that every sense is treated as a source of potential joy.
It's a movie that's not gonna change the world, that's not trying to, and that's part of why I loved it. It's content to make a lovely world and invite us in, and it's feeling increasingly precious to find a movie with those simple aims.
It was easily my favorite movie of 2022 (that I've seen so far at least, I'm not great at watching movies when they come out)
I adored its mix of like, big spectacle cool stuff going on and like, fairly simple small story in the foreground, a nice little fairy tale
Also it's a movie about stories and why we tell them so I'm a huge fucking mark for it
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Last night I watched Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing for the first time.
A damn good film.
Tonight I plan to watch Mo' Better Blues.
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
Do the Right Thing is 100% my favorite Spike Lee film.
Love that movie.
mine is Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
edit: I have seen that film at least three dozen times. that movie and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist were the movies my girlfriend and I would "watch" while we were actually fooling around
you know, so her parents would think we weren't gettin' bizzay.
that was a weird dynamic, I think the mom wanted to Mrs. Robinson me, stepdad fucking hated me, and this girl was alarmingly attached.
there was a mural of swimming dolphins in her garage and I saw it and was like "wow that's really good" and she was like "yeah I used to be really obsessed with dolphins but I have you now!" and I'm like
edit: god, the little titter she made after saying that chilled me to the bone.
Depressperado on
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
Do the Right Thing is 100% my favorite Spike Lee film.
Love that movie.
mine is Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
edit: I have seen that film at least three dozen times. that movie and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist were the movies my girlfriend and I would "watch" while we were actually fooling around
you know, so her parents would think we weren't gettin' bizzay.
that was a weird dynamic, I think the mom wanted to Mrs. Robinson me, stepdad fucking hated me, and this girl was alarmingly attached.
there was a mural of swimming dolphins in her garage and I saw it and was like "wow that's really good" and she was like "yeah I used to be really obsessed with dolphins but I have you now!" and I'm like
edit: god, the little titter she made after saying that chilled me to the bone.
"I now officially know too much."
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Do the right thing is something that I 100% didn't appreciate when I saw it as a kid but as an adult I will go to bat for constantly.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Don't be a menace to scwdyjith isnt a spike lee joint?!
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Do the right thing is something that I 100% didn't appreciate when I saw it as a kid but as an adult I will go to bat for constantly.
Jackie Brown was my version of that. Bounced off as a teen, but as an adult I learned the magic of Elmore Leonard and I like Jackie Brown a bunch more now.
Rosaline is very dumb, but I actually appreciate several things about it, despite it doing that arch anachronistic thing I dislike.
Spoilers for this riff on Shakespeare...
The messaging is actually pretty good for a romcom!
The stinger kinda obnoxiously drives home that Romeo and Juliet were dumb teenagers and did not know each other at all, but I'll allow the repetition for the cheap seats. This isn't a great love story, and is only known as such because people love a tragedy and romanticize infatuation as more than it is; this is subtext and text in some scenes. At the same time, it's respecting the emotions as real, just presenting the dumbass decision-making as such.
Meanwhile, you get a romance subplot with the characters feisty, engaging & getting to know each other in a variety of situations -- still accelerated, but for a romcom, it reads much more believable that they're on a path to love, drawn together by mutual attraction, but not tied up in a 'happily ever after' bow.
(... What evidence for Dario being a "good person", tho? Dude is hot, I'll grant you, but how many people has he been helping?)
At one point, my partner was hoping we were about to see the fakest dummy thrown off a balcony, "just full Mac and Me."
Before that, there's a knife throw that we briefly thought murked a dude, so we were squawking at this goofy movie suddenly getting Really Real, holy shit!
Which is why in the future, when we quote Rosaline goading Romeo to cooperate by saying, "I killed a man," (to be clear, a line adlibbed by my partner) it'll be a weird callback to this silly movie...
So it was a good time, lotta laughs. Pretty costumes, sets, some nice cinematography, could do worse, for sure. Plus, it prompted my partner to ask me occasional questions about the play, and read up on it a bit afterwards! Anything that gets people to reach for source material has that going for it.
Man, I really dug that movie. Just a lovely little fairytale about love and loss and longing. Sensual, in that every sense is treated as a source of potential joy.
It's a movie that's not gonna change the world, that's not trying to, and that's part of why I loved it. It's content to make a lovely world and invite us in, and it's feeling increasingly precious to find a movie with those simple aims.
Yeah, it was real fun with some fantastic imagery and perfomances.
Though, I do have one major criticism. Something i'm never ever forgiving George Miller for. Just absolutely unacceptable.
Man, I really dug that movie. Just a lovely little fairytale about love and loss and longing. Sensual, in that every sense is treated as a source of potential joy.
It's a movie that's not gonna change the world, that's not trying to, and that's part of why I loved it. It's content to make a lovely world and invite us in, and it's feeling increasingly precious to find a movie with those simple aims.
Yeah, it was real fun with some fantastic imagery and perfomances.
Though, I do have one major criticism. Something i'm never ever forgiving George Miller for. Just absolutely unacceptable.
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My first thought is, "Oh, that poor woman"
Have known several girls who got breast reductions because their back buckled under just regular sized breasts
Aside from that, the whole movie is very human and filled with really good performances, and, pretty clear-eyed looks at his parents, that are still very much full of compassion.
I suspect that the reason this isn't going to sweep the Oscars the way other movies that are about how good and interesting making movies have done, is that this movie really isn't about that at all, and cuts off before it really even gets to Hollywood, so it's mostly a smaller story about his family, and it's funny and human and I really liked it! Fun to see he's still got his fastball.
oh, speaking of it not really being an uncompromising love letter to movies (even though, to be clear, his love for movies permeates the whole thing)
and you see him imagining himself walking through the argument with his camera, filming the entire argument
really good movie! I don't know why they've made it so difficult to watch it
Sorry for the controversial takes but
It got to a point where it just got real slapstick and goofy and caught up in its own cleverness in a way that really pulled me out of the movie
When it hit the point where there's a buttplug kung fu fight and an actual raccoon it was just... too much, and got too distant from the emotional core of the movie
It was like it wasn't confident the audience could hang in there and appreciate the grounded bits without having enough flash to keep them engaged
Hot take:
I think I would have a hard time watching it again because I wouldn't have near as much patience for the goofy bits
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It was on side of his whole body! It was creepy as hell looking and everyone treated it like a silly eccentricity and not the cry for help it would be in any realistic circumstance.
Man, I really dug that movie. Just a lovely little fairytale about love and loss and longing. Sensual, in that every sense is treated as a source of potential joy.
It's a movie that's not gonna change the world, that's not trying to, and that's part of why I loved it. It's content to make a lovely world and invite us in, and it's feeling increasingly precious to find a movie with those simple aims.
Like I know this is not a controversial or new observation but this is like four movies badly stitched together
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I really enjoyed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, it felt like a love letter to indie film making.
I am genuinely glad I watched though, and had a blast
Like, it's an absolute unmitigated mess, but it's also the kind of messy where you can see the seams and can feel the chaos and compromises and script doctoring
And I'd rather if a movie is going to be a failure, that it be this weird "vanity project clashing with unfinished JSA script clashing with remnants of a SHAZAM sequel" THING rather than like a polished but forgettable Hollywood studio thing
I'm gonna spend time thinking about all the ways this went wrong and I appreciate it for that
back in like, junior high, one of my friends developed... quickly, and abundantly, and then came back after summer break with them reduced
I did the usual dumb guy "why would you ruin something so beautiful?"
I told my mom, and my mom, who has never once in her life hit me, smacked the living hell out of me and was like "YOU APOLOGIZE TO HER, CALL HER, RIGHT NOW. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH BREASTS SUCK?"
edit: they were indeed causing her back problems, like, if they stayed that size she'd finish growing up with a fucked up spine.
edit 2: I had my first actual relationship with her, and it was also the only relationship where it didn't take years to rebuild the friendship we had before we were dating.
just kinda "this isn't working out, back to friends?" "hell yeah wanna get some froyo?"
A friend of mine called it the worst movie he has ever seen
I'm extremely excited to watch it next time I have a hangover
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Wow, it really is on there, and has the craziest and/or most glorious trailer ever:
https://www.criterionchannel.com/deadly-weapons/videos/deadly-weapons-trailer
(ALL KINDS of NSFW)
See CAPTAIN HOOK IN...
DEADLY WEAPONS
It wasn't even the worst superhero origin movie from last year.
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The casting for everybody but Black Adam is good with great performances from Hodges and Brosnan which help make the bad script more bearable.
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It was easily my favorite movie of 2022 (that I've seen so far at least, I'm not great at watching movies when they come out)
I adored its mix of like, big spectacle cool stuff going on and like, fairly simple small story in the foreground, a nice little fairy tale
Also it's a movie about stories and why we tell them so I'm a huge fucking mark for it
A damn good film.
Tonight I plan to watch Mo' Better Blues.
Here's something to blow your mind if you're not aware:
(Giancarlo Esposito!)
I will be rewatching Magic Mike XXL tonight in preparation
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Moff Gideon the scourge of Mandalore?!
Love that movie.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1JI9WWSRW1YJI
I think I'm too dumb for this movie
Didn't love it, but it's growing on me more and more as I continue thinking about it, which rarely happens with other movies
It's definitely got some legs and will continue to live in my brain for a while
I'm even thinking about watching it again, which is wild for a 3 hour movie
I used to have the criterion menu on loop, because it played this song over and over.
mine is Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
edit: I have seen that film at least three dozen times. that movie and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist were the movies my girlfriend and I would "watch" while we were actually fooling around
you know, so her parents would think we weren't gettin' bizzay.
that was a weird dynamic, I think the mom wanted to Mrs. Robinson me, stepdad fucking hated me, and this girl was alarmingly attached.
there was a mural of swimming dolphins in her garage and I saw it and was like "wow that's really good" and she was like "yeah I used to be really obsessed with dolphins but I have you now!" and I'm like
edit: god, the little titter she made after saying that chilled me to the bone.
"I now officially know too much."
Jackie Brown was my version of that. Bounced off as a teen, but as an adult I learned the magic of Elmore Leonard and I like Jackie Brown a bunch more now.
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Spoilers for this riff on Shakespeare...
The stinger kinda obnoxiously drives home that Romeo and Juliet were dumb teenagers and did not know each other at all, but I'll allow the repetition for the cheap seats. This isn't a great love story, and is only known as such because people love a tragedy and romanticize infatuation as more than it is; this is subtext and text in some scenes. At the same time, it's respecting the emotions as real, just presenting the dumbass decision-making as such.
Meanwhile, you get a romance subplot with the characters feisty, engaging & getting to know each other in a variety of situations -- still accelerated, but for a romcom, it reads much more believable that they're on a path to love, drawn together by mutual attraction, but not tied up in a 'happily ever after' bow.
(... What evidence for Dario being a "good person", tho? Dude is hot, I'll grant you, but how many people has he been helping?)
Before that, there's a knife throw that we briefly thought murked a dude, so we were squawking at this goofy movie suddenly getting Really Real, holy shit!
So it was a good time, lotta laughs. Pretty costumes, sets, some nice cinematography, could do worse, for sure. Plus, it prompted my partner to ask me occasional questions about the play, and read up on it a bit afterwards! Anything that gets people to reach for source material has that going for it.
Yeah, it was real fun with some fantastic imagery and perfomances.
Though, I do have one major criticism. Something i'm never ever forgiving George Miller for. Just absolutely unacceptable.
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