the crazy thing is this doesn’t really seem anything like his other movies. i guess ww2 dork nolan is an intermittently expressed persona starting from dunkirk? idk.
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No idea what it is about Oppenheimer that has everyone who’s seen it so enthralled, but I make it a point to see every Nolan thing in the theater regardless. Even the lackluster ones like Tenet are at least trying to do something and are good for spectacle that doesn’t come at the cost of watching a Marvel Comics movie or something.
Nuclear war movies can be very good when done well, too. Miracle Mile, Threads, The War Game, etc.
The only movie I watched recently is Zardoz. I didn’t really know what to expect, but if I’d had expectations I think it would have exceeded them.
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the subtitle file on blackberry says “english (canada)” lol
say what you will about ontario they gave grants for this movie where glenn howerton is throwing pirates of silicon valley fits
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yeah i feel like this sentiment is relatable to anyone making things to survive under capitalism. i’m definitely guilty of romancing myself into believing i’m serving higher principles and the knowledge that my lifestyle is only enabled thru exploitation and pain of others, many of whom i’ll never meet, is a constant reminder that my embrace of anarchism leftism and pacifism is inherently compromised because of Systems outside my control
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i dont think christopher nolan should have set off 100s of tons of TNT to recreate nuclear explosions. that desert has suffered enough
also the guy playing oppenheimer starved himself for no reason while making it which is really funny to me. i dont get why i should care about this movie at all!!!
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i was astonished to hear that the blackberry movie includes an “i’m from waterloo, where the vampires hang out” reference in it
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this is like when i found out the nike movie ben affleck made uses the Theme of Perversion from Body Double when he shows off the air jordans for the first time
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the Blackberry movie is pretty decent, the guy who made it also made a movie about faking the moon landing that played the festival here a few years ago, he’s both very film school and very Canadian.
my complaints were basically that a lot of the movie hangs off of him playing himself, and he does so in a very Trailer Park Boys-y, eastern canadian, shlubby way that seems simultaneously essentialist and marginal, it’s like a half-remembered stereotype at this point that was more fun a decade ago
I believe it. it’s the nirvana the band the show people.
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this country’s arts infrastructure used to make stuff like Shortbus and Take This Waltz!!! and now look!!! what a hopeless thing for me to lament!!!
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He tried to big time me once when I was working the door for the Polaris music prize. What a prick.
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glenn howerton in a dramatic role is so fucking good
none of the nerd entrepreneur business sociopath movies have been any good since noah wyle screaming at anthony michael hall but we’re back baby
i love the punchline that the SEC couldn’t prosecute because the emails were encrypted. the feds fucking haaate end to end encryption
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yeah so basically my problem with the blackberry movie is that I genuinely liked Telefilm’s editorial priorities in the late 2000s and 2010s when the stuff that got made was like, broadly progressive and a little subversive, and since the liberals have had time to replace all the relevant bureaucrats it seems like all we get are these yokel stereotypes misremembered from the 90s or something that is so “”“broadminded”“” as to be totally toothless
but Glenn Howerton is great yeah
to be sure “blackberry movie” is a great shame for canadian arts funding but my yank pwm-whine-hearing ass loved it
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something positive i’ll say about canada–i think a lot of anxiety about canadian arts funding and the canadian entertainment industry is artificially exaggerated both positively and negatively through geographic proximity to the united states, which is really just a horrible point of comparison for a country that actually has a pretty pronounced interest in good-intentioned state support for cultural production. the positive thing is that i think so many canadians have this inherent knee-jerk skepticism for ‘canadian content’ that is, imo, really healthy and funny, and most of the best stuff in that category tends to have been that which was produced explicitly to make fun of the idea that it exists. when you compare this situation to other countries that are like, similarly interested in performing (and spending money on) support for the arts, canada comes across as much smarter and funnier. and there is still plenty of stuff that is actually subversive or intelligent getting made with national arts funding. there may not be as much really like high brow internationally renowned stuff like youll see getting made in other countries, but to be honest that stuff is kind of overrated anyway. like i would rather the weight of the nation be utilized to give momentum to kids in the hall rather than like lars von trier or whatever, come on.
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damn nearly everyone i’ve talked to about/seen the wind rises with has expressed a little wariness of it but i didn’t think it was un-pacifist at all, i always thought it clearly framed jiro’s life/humanity in general as just monumentally tragic full stop. generally think it’s my favorite miyazaki these days
missed that conversation though, so i’ll add i’m also blackberry-(and matt-johnson-)pilled. despite the fact that i am posting from a hot tub right now i can barely parse felix’s post about it
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counterpoint: whenever I go to the theater here I have to see fuckin simu liu doing an ad spot for something. this country should be invaded
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Many nations must share the blame for allowing Simu Liu to become famous.
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guy who’s mad at canada for producing too many himbos is a new one to me i gotta admit
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