You don’t have to explain. My point is basically what you are saying, that life experience is not necessary to appreciate what the film is doing. Though I was maybe less generous than I should have been, because you did in fact say that you didn’t catch all of its nuance, instead of any nuance.
yeah, idk. I liked the new matrix a lot and I thought what they were doing in the first 20 minutes of this (minus the awful Jenny Slate character) with the family dynamic was really nicely rendered. they then proceeded to run it into the ground with nonsense. I reserve no judgment
I think the new mode of analysis in which people profess to be unqualified to have an opinion on this or that basis is pretty bad for everyone tbh
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sorry for wasting everyone’s time then lol
god, will this make me feel the inchoate annoyance I felt building and screening a print of The Kids Are All Right at 1 AM on a Thursday night
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I think this is a fair reading. It’s true that the character is the one being shocked by it first and foremost. I guess I’m just not fully on board with the exploitation as presented. Still feels like they’re having it both ways.
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I mean – the principle of making room for other perspectives is obviously good, but I think injecting it into a debate between people you like and trust at like, a hypothetical, remedial level, on behalf of someone who may not exist, basically amounts to hack EDI consulting that’s designed to make people trust their own judgment less. there are differing opinions on how good or bad this is overall or whether its capacity to work is a comfort to you, but I think at a minimum it’s no fun when the stakes of the argument already aren’t very high.
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also, when presented universally like this on behalf of marginalized groups, I think its capacity to create bitterness or cynicism in people who have adjacent, non-canonical traumas or what have you is probably understated by people who want it to work 100% of the time on balance
this was good imo
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i know we’re in the company of friends but do you?? what response do you expect to “the way you’re choosing to view this work of art is Bad for Everyone” lmao
well, it didn’t seem like you were actually presenting your view, you were presenting a hypothetical view in response to criticism! you didn’t need to delete your other posts!
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Finally saw Brazil (1985). Weird how Bob Hoskins is in this movie as a plumber and also a plumber in a movie that was directly inspired by Brazil (Super Mario Brothers: The Movie)
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Sonic 2 sure is a movie with too many non-CGI characters. please give me 90 minutes of Jim Carrey absolutely devouring the scenery while the cartoon animals act as if he didn’t say something borderline risqué
also I guess Sonic watches a lot of movies? dear lord there were a lot of tenuous movie references
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I guess what I’m saying is that I know showing my kids Ace Ventura is a bad move
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it is true that the rich know luxury and quality
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probably going to regret my brain candy/it’s pat double feature aren’t i
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finally got around to watch Nightmare Alley, GdT’s latest work, which has a 150min runtime that, at least to my eyes, didn’t feel that long, but took its time.
It somehow lacked the magic (as a topic) that he likes to put in most of his movies, though he obv was playing w/ providing a lot of leads that went nowhere.
Also a big shoutout for the craftsmanship shown when shooting this movie, it is refreshing to watch a movie that looks like they did it 50+ years ago, and by god, people still know how to do lighting on a set, rejoice.
Love the atmo, setpieces and attention to detail in making the 1930ies come alive, and i am lookimg forward to watching it a second time to catch all the foreshadowing he likes to do.
Is it epic?
Don’t think so.
Is it worth giving it a shot?
Hell yes.
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I had mixed feelings on this one – a lot of the scenes felt pretty claustrophobic, like it was clearly produced under pandemic protocols, and though some movies have worked with that in a way I really enjoyed (Soderbergh’s Kimi, in recent memory), this one often felt let down by it. Also, Cate Blanchett’s recent work is a really weird combination of dramatic and campy that I never quite get along with…
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Blanchett gets a carte blanc…hett… (sorry, i regret nothing) for her role in this.
Note that i am a GdT fanboy, so as long as he knows how to shoot his stuff, I am gonna like it (and did, obv!)
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sped up 3x he gets through a lot of them
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Thinking about Brazil:
according to youtube comments on the police invasion scene everyone who saw the film in the 80’s thought it was cartoonish but now it’s pretty much reality. Also the scene where Lowery’s mom’s bag gets xrayed and they demand to know what’s inside, which is pretty much every time I’ve gone through the TSA. On my last flight I had a small appliance in my bag and was super worried it would get searched because it looks like something on the xray.
Constant bombings in the movie happen and basically no one reacts, which terrifyingly mirrors the US and mass shootings. One of them happens directly after the Xray scene so despite the security, terror attacks still happen. The repeated motif of “Information Retrieval” electrical charges being incredibly expensive sort of foreshadows the US’s medical insurance industry.
Micheal Palin is terrifying as a totally normal person, and I feel like drives home how terrifying normal people can be when they ignore everything around them and what they do.
I feel like a huge part of the movie hinges on the scene where Robert DeNero comes over and fixes Sam’s AC. I get the feeling that Terry Gilliam had to build a shed but needed a permit, and was so annoyed by this he wrote a scene about an outlaw AC repairman who stalks around at night to avoid the paperwork, then built the rest of the movie around that universe. But also, DeNero in these few scenes is just going 100% with the character and it’s great.
Also Bob Hoskins is fucking great here.
Jill’s relationship with Sam makes the least amount of sense, Jill seems like a character that would be smarter than to fall for a sweaty and nervous guy who clings to her truck because she appeared in a dream of his.
i had spoiled myself on the movie’s final twist long before I saw it but I don’t think I cheated myself out of too much considering the “it was all a hallucination” is one of my least favorite twists
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a dangerous method has as much sexual tension as it needed to. I loved the letter fight. also it follows the same story beats as story of o (until the white text explains the rest of their lives)
cutters way was fucking amazing. gonna yell at all my coward friends GO ON TAKE YOUR FAMOUS BONE WALK! WALK! WALK! that actor always be jumping off of shit
brick would have been better as a rugrats episode
dark or the dying of the light recut had some great losing your mind effects but good fucking lord I wish he had any other job. I can’t stress how much I DONT FUCKING CARE about cia shit. I wish he was a teacher or a line cook or any other profession. he could still have a stupid revenge story to fail because brain rot. whatever it looked VERY cool at the end
combat shock featured the Landlord Special in every room, just complete filth and poverty, looks like my apartment. also it was really fun screaming SHOW US THE AGENT ORANGE BABY every time you’d see the swaddled child from the back and boy howdy was it worth the wait. also our protagonist in pro keds did what Gerald Witcher was too much of a coward to carry out
tonight I’m finally watching mismatched couples I just had a lot of stuff on my hard drive but now there’s ROOM
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