I love Talladega Nights (or did when I last saw it eight years ago) and have been kinda bummed with the developments in McKay’s career every since The Other Guys
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y’all sleeping on succession on the assumption it’s too bougie or something are all out of your minds
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My dad wrote an entire song about that single line.
i think succesion and righteous gemstones and schitts creek and whatever other rich asshole family show du jour might be good but like i’m already under too much constant psychic damage by these people irl at this point for it to be “fun”
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maybe but I bounced off the latter two pretty hard because I didn’t think they were caustic enough so I still object to the grouping
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i get what you mean about schitt’s creek but honestly the premise sort of melts away after the first season and it ends up basically just being a show about catherine o’hara doing the absolute weirdest performance a main character in a sitcom has ever had, surrounded by extremely sentimental light family melodrama that (to me) has been surprisingly effective
it’s… very good
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tangentially related it’s kind of amazing how arrested development really just totally fell off a cliff from a show that people were 100% obsessed with to something where the last batch of episodes don’t even have wikipedia summaries
between season 4 being a weird video game and jeffery tambor being terrible i guess everyone just gave up
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oh did they finally release that last batch after the first half of s5 landed with such a thud
arrested development is one of the prime examples of why bringing back a dead show almost always sucks
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it was so nice at the meetup to be able to say JOSE YERO outloud and someone understand
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wow this was so good fuck
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i watched “The Shape of Water,” thought it was OK but I think I liked “Crimson Peak” better, which no one ever talks about. I seriously just have no idea why some things are popular and others aren’t I guess
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Crimson Peak is beautiful and perfectly cast but arch and talkative and overexplains itself. It destroys its own mood with chatter. It tries to explicate the contents of The Heads instead of letting the setting do the heavy lifting and so the whole structure collapses!
Shape of Water is “I like classic Hollywood movies and I identify with Monster Mans so here is a movie that sometimes apes those movies but also features a Monster Man fuckin’! I finally did it! You won’t let me make Hellboy 3 because I want like 100 million bucks for it? Fine! Enjoy my Abe Sapien sex movie!”
The subject is just close to his heart I think.
I don’t think it’s actually that great but I’m glad he just made a fish man fuck movie already?
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i saw john wick. i give it a 4 out of five popcorns. it would have gotten four point five but they used a horrible marilyn manson song TWICE at really poignant scenes.
i think like, i care about realistic gun shit, everything i liked about the action in this i also liked in way of the gun, but way of the gun had those sweet ass practical effects like when justin timberlake falls in the dried up well of broken glass and has to pull the huge ass shard out of his arm
way of the gun was also a gay love story and didnt have the constant up close JUDO THROWING AND GUN GRABBING woo that shit was dope actually. oh so was the strategic stabbing
ALSO DID IAN DUNBAR TRAIN THE FUCKING DOG HIMSELF??? what a well behaved beagle!
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way of the gun was formative in the development of my taste in action movies and is still super underrated imo??? its always v special when other stuff channels it
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Way of the gun owns, i just remembered earlier today that it was the first DVD I ever bought, and I bought it before I had a DVD player for some reason
I probably haven’t seen it in like fifteen years though!
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i bought the dvd on sale at frys because BRIGHT YELLOW COVER
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as an avid GdT follower, I am a bit on the fence about where to put Crimson Peak, it has made me dip my toes back into horror flicks, which i passed on for years before that (and I absolutely loved Midsommar this year, which i would surely have passed up if it wasn’t for that change of mind), but robots, trash-50ies monster movie done right are just so up my alley that i prefer them any tike, any day.
However, there are such visceral/impressive setpieces in Crimson Peak that are still etched into my mind, that i find it hard to call it less impressive or “good”… it’s just missing TECH, is what makes it personally dig a percentage lower than the other GdT flixxx.
But boy, the usage of color in Crimson is worth watching it twice, and just for that alone.
i think i was expecting it to be more of a typical ‘haunted house’ style movie so was initially disappointed along these lines, but i have grown a lot fonder of it in retrospect. i think you’re right that it is a little too talky, but on the other hand one of the things i liked about it was like… how deep within its own plot it was able to go. most recent gdt movies seem kind of like just the bare minimum level of story required to allow him to create the type of creatures he wants to make (in shape of water for example i was completely not sold on the relationship between the woman and fish, and the fish man himself is very devoid of personality. plus the cold war / civil rights subplots were… perfunctory at best). basically i feel like the movies rarely give you more than you expect based on what is presented in the trailers. but crimson peak was totally unlike what i was expecting it to be. again, initially kind of disappointing but in retrospect much easier to appreciate. i also felt like in this case there were reasons why the movie had the historical setting it did, as opposed to SoW which seems to have been set in the 50s-60s just because that’s also the period we associate with the creature from the black lagoon, etc.
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also there was more human woman butt in this movie than fish man butt and i feel i deserve a refund of some kind even though i watched it on netflix
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