this scans to me, though idk about peep show over succession if you have to pick one jesse armstrong joint, I’ve always checked out of dan harmon projects because I wasn’t really in the right mindset in his heyday, and I found silicon valley unwatchable in the same kind of broad mid-2000s “I don’t know if this is punching down exactly but it’s not king of the hill and nothing ever will be again” sense as righteous gemstones
I’ve also still never made it through twin peaks s2 so I never watched the return, oh well
i’m interested in silicon valley intellectually now that it is functionally a light scifi show about a world where blockchain tech was useful for anything
oh I liked Hostiles quite a bit, though it begins with a baby getting shot and an outrage is done to almost every female character, so it’s not for everyone.
this guy also played christian bale’s sidekick in public enemies so I imagine bale called him up and said he needed him once more for this passion project of his
Dredd
The Turin Horse
Mad Max: Fury Road
Only Lovers Left Alive
Meatball Machine Kodoku
No Man’s Land directed by Ning Hao
7Days directed by Hirobumi Watanabe
Listed the directors for the obscure ones for disambiguation sake.
nuts!
rewatched rocco cuz i was like ARE YOU SURE ITS THAT GOOD and it was better than i remembered
was graphic sexual horror 2010s? NO IT WAS 2009 DAMN
i, tonya
bottled up
i didn’t include them on my earlier lists but i’m just gonna say that i liked man of steel and i think bvs is great and the reactionarism and general cinephile derision around it is goofy and baffling to me all the time
yes, justice league is one of the worst films ever made
ben affleck was the best onscreen batman (in bvs), idc about other opinions lol
i liked man of steel ok (have never cared about superman in anything), and found bvs boring and justice league tolerable? i think if i watched them again i’d have a different opinion maybe, i don’t know
which one of those two do they end up fighting what looks like a troll from lord of the rings?
anyway i agree that affleck’s batman is super underrated and it is kind of a shame that he isn’t ever going to do his own stand alone batman movie
he really nails the ‘bored rich asshole’ version of the character and i love it
i’d say “bored rich asshole” is more fitting of other batmin, while what i like about snyder/affleck’s batman is how visibly wearied and full of rage he’s become. i like a batman who’s shed the good guy “never kill anybody” veneer, and he’s so traumatized and consumed by bitter anger that he knows he’s a monster and a criminal–but he’s also blinded by this. it takes the flash delivering him some sort of time-travel dream message (like the “this is not a dream” bit in prince of darkness) for him to really set a plan in motion, but since the flash’s delivery was evidently “too soon” it ends up leading him astray, confusing him…
I liked how seeing a flying alien god do 9/11 was to tired burned out veteran batman what seeing his parents eat lead in an alley was to child bruce wayne, and to reassert control of life he rededicates himself in the batfit training montage, a adaptation of the first panels to batman #1, but now with tire slams and anti-superman tech. movie was at least more interesting than every marvel thing I sat through and was always asking myself why I keep doing this to myself by the end, though I didn’t really care for the cgi monster fight at the end of this one either.
The guy ritchie king arthur movie was another one everyone hated that I also liked until the cgi monster fight at the end.
i like the lotr troll, cgi monster, whatever we wanna call doomsday. i’ll grant his design could be more interesting, but i still enjoy it for what’s at stake–not just the world or whatever, but superman’s outlook on a world that rejects and fears him. and i love the slow shot of him up in space after eating a nuke before the fight continues…!
anyhow, while i’ve enjoyed a handful of the marvel movies well enough i agree–i feel pretty strongly that there’s more substance to bvs. i sincerely feel it’s a misunderstood film and a victim of cinephile dogpile mentality… (but no, i’m not one of those folks still out there clamoring for a ‘snyder cut’ of justice league. i can see clearly what went wrong with that movie and why it’s such a miserably disappointing sequel, but yeah. not holding my breath on that ever happening.)
Most big budget movies of the 2010s could be improved by cutting out the opening sequence where the villain explains his motivations or crashes to earth in a haunted asteroid or whatever, and also by figuring out some way to conclude other than having the hero fight a cgi blob
