I love everything that Beatty’s Dick Tracy represents in both production design and high camp and casting and weird Boomer experiments in sincerity toward the end of the 80s before Spielberg economized all that, but I do find it incredibly dull to actually watch end to end
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I was thinking of your upcoming Rudy Giuliani biopic for the part where Al Pacino is lurching around the dance rehearsal gesturing unintelligibly while everyone else tries not to make eye contact, wish he’d gone even further into that zone
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i’m beatty pilled he can do no wrong
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I don’t think I’ve actually seen him in anything besides Dick Tracy and like 8 minutes of Bulworth
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he’s great in Ishtar but everyone’s great in Ishtar and Ishtar is still pretty bad
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Haven’t gotten to Ishtar yet but even with its reputation i refuse to believe anything Elaine May did was bad
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Beatty really plays a himbo king in The Parallax View to perfection
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Reds to Bulworth is a very sad trajectory
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ishtar is way underrated… i’m pretty sure next time i watch it i’ll actually start saying it’s good
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imo Ishtar is like… not spectacular enough. it’s a big romp by her standards not as much of one as it should’ve been which is why it didn’t work
the first 20 minutes of Ishtar with them just being loser songwriters was very promising (Paul Williams considers it one of the most fun projects he ever worked on having to write “good” “bad” songs for them) gets tedious when the political intrigue takes over.
hopefully Elaine May gets to finish that Crackpot film there’s next to no info about, even if two of her films are duds imo, the other two are The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey and Nicky so
(also, genuinely think Bulworth is b̶u̶l̶worthwhile if not on its own terms then as someone telling on themselves, a little time capsule of Clintonian Hollywood boomer liberal neurosis and vanity barfed up on the big screen, it looks pretty good too, Ennio Morricone is wasted, helluva swing I’m impressed by the resulting gust of air if not “the point”)
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Is this A New Leaf slander!??
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yes but I take no pleasure in it
a new leaf is so good omg!!
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Just finished watching Nope.
Actually thought it was pretty good. Self indulgent, sure, but not in the way that made Us such a slog. I appreciate that the movie refused to confine itself to one genre so it settled on halfway between Ted Chiang’s “Hell Is the Absence of God” and Tremors with a dash of the most basic anime references (evangelion and akira); obvious theming but I prefer that to the self-sabotaging incoherence of his previous film. Beyond that, I appreciate that it avoided exposition for its own sake.
spoilering the A-meets-B titles because you can figure out the entire plot just from seeing that and I think I took joy in putting together that that’s what Jordan Peele was doing.
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Is Tremors part of the Dune universe?
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Moreso than most things!
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Seoul Vibe (on Netflix):
Set in 1988, it serves up B-movie CGI feeling, endearingly trashy F2F action, useless and IQ-eliminating Handbrake drifts every so often, soaking wet 80ies nostalgia, of course a batch of sleazy baddies, and a cast that way, waaaayyyy outshines the razor-thin plot, and has some really good performances inbetween the cringe-enducing main protagonist ‘acting’, dishing up plotholes which are as big as potholes in 1988 Seoul outskirts and a soundtrack which … never really felt like it was informed that this was supposed to be an 80ies fest.
Of course, I had a blast watching it.
Oh Jung-Se’s performance alone is worth watching it, Moon Sori seals the deal.
Highly recommended if you like your K-Cast having fun while burning through Netflix’ Cash 
saw thief in 35mm ln w/ the girl ive been seeing who also got me a copy of heat 2 
during the “join a labor union” scene she leaned over and whispered “capital volume 1 chapter 10 btw” in my ear.
fun movie… it’s interesting how like little in terms of his later style as a director feels present here, lots of weird and goofy moments it’s actually a funnier movie than i remember. james caan (rip) going around telling everyone unprompted how sick his emerald ring is… or like there’s this shot that kind of circles around a bus on the highway and then zooms into the bus and then looks up into the black sky and then down to green-tinted chicago bokeh… it’s a cool sequence but feels so diff from the stuff i rlly adore him for
i feel like this is by default the best Chicago Movie
like it’s the one that feels like it was actually shot here… i feel like i recognize every other cross streets in every exterior scene
so idk if i think its especially a great movie like obvs its fun and it’s rlly interesting (much better than contemporaneous bruckheimer productions incl. top gun and tony scott is another director who got a lot more distinctly himself after a point) how much his later crime movies (esp. heat / collateral / miami vice / blackhat all feel like kind of sequels to this and to each other) remake bits from this (jose yero jackson pollock… late nite diners talking abt prison trauma…) and how as a writer (since after all he does at least in part write all the scripts he directs) it’s a lot of the same themes
this is the 2nd time ive seen it at that theater!!
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