with none of the self-awareness and shot like a mid-budget television show
Well yeah
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You will believe Tom Cruise can outrun a drone.
well if anyone could
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God bless this terrible insane man
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that was right after he broke his ankle too.
I read an article recently explaining how hugh jackman is the exact same kind of weirdly empty nobody home shell except for the absurd commitment and drive to Entertain as tom cruise, which I hadnât really noticed before but sounds right
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if the Cruiser had been a serious Musical Theater Kid 
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i feel like every clan of theatre dorks has one person in it that is like way better looking than anyone else, way more psychologically well adjusted, and way more naturally talented, and yet all of this makes the other theatre dorks sort of apprehensive about them because you can just tell they donât need theatre to like, survive, man
hugh jackman is totally that guy
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This guy was in the theater group at my high school except he was also maybe the nicest dude in a completely not suspicious way, so people werenât too suspicious of him.
Heâs already been nominated for a Tony that he lost to John Laroquette.
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Iâm watching The Ring right now.
AndâŚ
CW animal death
This movie has waaaaaaaaaay more horse death than I expected and the ferry horse sequence was fucking buckwild.
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Boy the ring sure seems like a movie about the cycle of committing atrocities to restore normalcy that ultimately said âyeah, thatâs basically fineâ.
Also the ending should have been someone else watching the tape. instead of just implying someone would. Even the original deleted final scene would have been better!!
And what was up with them pulling the girl out of the well? Like that had no impact on anything besides setting up the twist ending.
Edit: and by setting up I mean having an ending that seems like the ending but doing a different thing. It just doesnât matter
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Finally got around to watch Detroit, the 2017 movie. Uncanny how it is history thatâs recounted/dramatized, but if it were recent events, it wouldnât feel out of place⌠definitely outshines Detroit:Become Human, which has been released in the timespan of roundabout a year.
Also, i think i didnât touch upon another movie i saw last month, might as well do that now - Vox Lux, it just got a mini-release over here last month, with a very limited run⌠have been in the first screening, prime time, and had the whole cinema for myself⌠happened last time in the transformers 5 screening. Anyway!
It took me two days to come to a decision whether it was goodish or great, pretentious or challenging, hit or miss:
And, a bit to my own surprise, the more i think about it, the better i think it is.
I still havenât made up my mind about several things, especially since you can debate whether it throws shit on the wall and looks what sticks, whether it is crammed full of symbols and layers of content/meaning, and finally, whether it were deliberate choices or lucky coincidences that went into it.
As of now, i think it makes use of four to five layers of meaning, and is crafted in an unusual well staged way, e. g. where a monologue in the middle of the movie could have easily felt out of place, it is set up in such a way that it is on face value a dialogue of Portmann and her daughter, but actually is a monologue of Portman, with her daughter just being caught up in it and having to endure it the same way as the audience does, and that doesnât even factor in the several topics sheâs touching upon in that monologue.
And thatâs just one scene out of the whole movie!
Will have to watch it a second time, but may very well be one of the big surprises in 2019/MotY. And iâve seen (and loved!) Godzilla/King of Monsters already, so thatâs the greatest praise a movie can get from my side⌠letâs see!
rocko movie good
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The pace is crazy (I wish it was feature length!) but I loved it.
finally saw i, tonya and i WISHHHHHHHHHH i could see the original interviews the movie was based on. ooo that part when the actress playing tonya harding was talking about how the way the public treated her was just another form of abuse, the way she said âyou the public were my attackersâ MAN i wanna hear the way tonya harding actually said it
also i forgot what a fucking idiot oaf her bodyguard was
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âI, Tonyaâ was pretty good. The performances were generally excellent.
However, its a tough movie for me to get behind. It rides several different lines, to strange effect. At times it plays as a comedy (to be fair, the comedy was reality, in the case of the bodyguard and it also plays from some of the tabloids of the time). Other times, it plainly shows multiple view points. Other times, it tries to be blatantly sympathetic. And I was totally watching Figure Skating at the time and knew all of the names and faces. I dunno if I can ever separate myself enough from that, to really be able to quantify the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
Also, I get that Margot Robbie was probably instrumental in this movie even being made. But man she is way too slim and trim and super model tall, to be playing Tonya. A REALLY BIG aspect of Tony Hardingâs struggles in the sport had to do with the fact that she wasnât super slim and dainty or outright look like a model. And her weight fluctuated as she struggled to maintain a slimmer figure. particularly towards the end of her career. and that whole angle was basically missing from the movie. Because of course they couldnât have it in there, with Margot playing the role. Margot did well in the role and for many scenes away from skating, I was like yeah ok this works. But as someone who was watching as she rose and fell, its a significant omission from the skating side of the story.
One thing is certain: Tonya Harding was a hell of a skater. One of the best to ever do it.
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i thought it was pretty sympathetic the whole time and really appreciated the funny bits to break up WHAT A FUCKING BUMMER HER WHOLE LIFE WAS
youre right about the actress being too fit and model pretty (when i was young i always thought tonya harding was pretty, even though her poofy hair bugged child me). like that part where shes talking about being super out of shape i groaned
apparently tonya actually taught her how to skate for her scenes!
the movie feels like a good companion piece to that lorena bobbit docuseries from earlier this year