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  1. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I saw The Hunt (2020). I remembered the controversy about this when it released during the pandemic. And I was struggling to remember until the social commentary popped out. It was like "oh yeah...

    I saw The Hunt (2020).

    I remembered the controversy about this when it released during the pandemic. And I was struggling to remember until the social commentary popped out. It was like "oh yeah this is about rich liberals hunting conservatives."

    This got labeled alt-right and whatever at the time. Even though it's written by Damon Lindelof, who was the showrunner for Watchmen the year before and which got a lot of support from the woke crowd.

    I liked this a lot. I think the film has aged well. I think it's biggest mistake was it's timing. Two years later we get Bodies Bodies Bodies which does a similar thing with a similar format. And a year after that we get American Fiction which is the prestige version of making fun of white liberals. It would have been better received if it released during Biden's term, which is when the era of endlessly criticizing everything that didn't follow a rigid political philosophy started to die down.

    Actually watching this now, I don't understand the controversy. It is essentially doing what Get Out did in 2017. The difference being that the lead character here is a working class white woman.

    It's a really funny movie, I like the direction from Craig Zobel who also directed every episode of Mare of Easttown and did the first few episodes of The Penguin. I have a script that's like if Woody Allen characters were thrown into a Shane Black film, and watching this I was like oh this guy would be perfect for that.

    The main character isn't even a conservative. She's apolitical. She's smart and capable, and arguably smarter than the educated rich antagonists. But they all assume she's a dumb hick, and are surprised when she's read Animal Farm. Showing that they also have their own biases. Much like Get Out did, just in a different direction.

    Reading reviews of it at the time is interesting. It's like going back and seeing what critics were writing about Joker since it was the same era. And because that's when I came of age, I suppose, it's interesting to see how that fell out of fashion. Especially when stuff like it started getting more acclaim.

    This would be a really good double feature with Bodies Bodies Bodies.

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  2. Comment on The Odyssey (no, not that one) | Official trailer in ~movies

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    As a fan of exploitation and b-movies, I’ve tried watching Asylum films. I can’t do it. They’re always so boring. Not relevant, but one time my high school did a haunted house and it was themed as...

    As a fan of exploitation and b-movies, I’ve tried watching Asylum films. I can’t do it. They’re always so boring.

    Not relevant, but one time my high school did a haunted house and it was themed as a psychiatric asylum. And they made posters with the Asylum’s logo on it lol.

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  3. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I think the crowd pleasing ending fits more specifically because it’s an evocation of a certain type of studio film from the late 20th century. And those types of films almost always ended happy.

    I think the crowd pleasing ending fits more specifically because it’s an evocation of a certain type of studio film from the late 20th century. And those types of films almost always ended happy.

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  4. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Spoilers! To quote Looper: “Time travel shit. Fries your brain like an egg” I don’t think we’re supposed to be thinking about the ethics of it too closely, even though it’ll jump out at you. Nor...
    Spoilers!

    To quote Looper: “Time travel shit. Fries your brain like an egg”

    I don’t think we’re supposed to be thinking about the ethics of it too closely, even though it’ll jump out at you. Nor do I think we’re supposed to think of the others as alternate selves. It’s them just a few days earlier.

    It’s supposed to be a happy ending that you don’t think about too much. The ending was originally the characters ending up during the 1700s and they were stuck there, but the studio demanded a more crowd pleasing ending and this is what Mitchell came up with.

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  6. Comment on ‘It finally feels like we’re back in 2019’: US movie theater owners rejoice over $4 billion summer. Can the fall keep the momentum? in ~movies

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    Yeah. Overall attendance was below 2018. Because, while 2019 had many billion dollar hits, there weren’t a lot of mid budget hits like the year before. But after the pandemic 2019 became the...

    Yeah. Overall attendance was below 2018. Because, while 2019 had many billion dollar hits, there weren’t a lot of mid budget hits like the year before.

    But after the pandemic 2019 became the aspirational benchmark.

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  7. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Loved The Invite I thought it was such a funny Woody Allen-esque film. I saw The Apprentice in early 2025, I think after Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong were nominated for Oscar's. I liked it...

    Loved The Invite I thought it was such a funny Woody Allen-esque film.

    I saw The Apprentice in early 2025, I think after Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong were nominated for Oscar's.

    I liked it more than most people did at the time. I love that it looks like it was shot on old video tapes. I love the sex party sequence, which I think is one of the few moments that humanizes Trump. An aspect I thought was underrated was Maria Bakalova, she was great.

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  8. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Also I did some Cannes watching: Two Xavier Dolan films: Mommy (2014) and The Death and Life of John F Donovan (2018). Technically Donovan is not a Cannes film, but Dolan didn't have Donovan at...

    Also I did some Cannes watching:

    Two Xavier Dolan films: Mommy (2014) and The Death and Life of John F Donovan (2018). Technically Donovan is not a Cannes film, but Dolan didn't have Donovan at Cannes but that's cause he was unhappy with the film and tried to salvage it many times.

    Dolan is a guy I think I would have liked as a teenager. I mean, I was a teenager when his films were releasing. He was in his 20s as his films released, so most of his reputation was that he was this very young guy making films that Cannes gave awards to. I also knew that he directed the Hello music video for Adele. And I believe he's really good friends with her.

    In hindsight people have re-evaluated his films in a negative way.

    I liked both of these films. Mommy I remember was acclaimed at the time but Donovan was panned. I don't think Donovan is great, but I think there's really good stuff in it. He re-worked that film a lot and even cut out Jessica Chastain's role, I think that was his biggest mistake. He shaped the story around the least interesting character. This is about a gay actor telling a story of another gay actor who killed himself after he was outed. I think that's too many layer, and the focus should have been on the actor who killed himself (who is played by Kit Harrington). Chastain's character was a gossip journalist looking into Harrington's life. That is a much more interesting intro to the film as opposed to the, flashback structure it currently has.

    Mommy really works well though.

    Both films are melodramas. Big speeches, shouting. They're both beautiful looking films, especially Donovan which also has an incredible score.

    I like Dolan's usage of pop music. I feel like, based on the stuff I've written, if I was a director I would also have similar uses of pop songs. When Obsession first came out, lots of "film critics" said that it didn't use "cool" enough music. I'm sure that would be lodged at Dolan. But, I'm a basic pop bitch, so that's where my tastes lie.

    I also saw The Assassin (2015). I was recalling an article I read that said Xavier Dolan prevented Carol by Todd Haynes from winning the Palme at Cannes. Which ended up resulting in Dheephan winning which was directed by the Emilia Perez guy. I was reading the comments on that and the consensus was that either Son of Saul or The Assassin should have won Palme instead. Son of Saul isn't streaming anywhere so I only watched this.

    I thought it was super boring. I think the primary thing here is that it looks so pretty. It's more about mood and atmosphere, than it is about story or characters. I think the characters are a little hard to follow. And you get the general gist of the themes just by watching the visuals. But it's so slow. Like they'll leave a character's face up on screen for like 10 minutes. Like, that's what we're dealing with.

    There was once a time where I pretended to like films like this to appear smart. But those days are long gone. I need story, I need characters, and I need to be entertained.

    It is really a gorgeous movie though. I would love to see a, I suppose, middle brow movie that looks like it.

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  10. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Pre fall-fests 2027 Golden Globes predictions Drama The Odyssey Fjord The Black Ball Behemoth! Ink Sense and Sensibility Comedy Digger Wild Horse Nine Project Hail Mary Obsession The Debut The...

    Pre fall-fests 2027 Golden Globes predictions

    Drama

    1. The Odyssey
    2. Fjord
    3. The Black Ball
    4. Behemoth!
    5. Ink
    6. Sense and Sensibility

    Comedy

    1. Digger
    2. Wild Horse Nine
    3. Project Hail Mary
    4. Obsession
    5. The Debut
    6. The Invite

    Director

    1. Christopher Nolan - The Odyssey
    2. Cristian Mingu - Fjord
    3. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi - The Black Ball
    4. Martin McDonagh - Wild Horse Nine
    5. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Digger
    6. Olivia Wilde - The Invite

    Screenplay

    1. Wild Horse Nine
    2. The Black Ball
    3. Fjord
    4. Behemoth!
    5. Obsession
    6. The Debut

    Lead Actor - Drama

    1. Matt Damon - The Odyssey
    2. Sebastian Stan - Fjord
    3. Pedro Pascal - Behemoth!
    4. Jack O'Connell - Ink
    5. Robert Pattinson - Primetime
    6. Andrew Scott - Elsinore

    Lead Actress - Drama

    1. Renate Reinsve - Fjord
    2. Daisy Edgar Jones - Sense and Sensibility
    3. Ruth Madeley - Being Heumann
    4. Virginia Efira - All of a Sudden
    5. Mikey Madison - The Social Reckoning
    6. Sandra Huller - Fatherland

    Lead Actor - Comedy

    1. Tom Cruise - Digger
    2. Ryan Gosling - Project Hail Mary
    3. John Malkovich - Wild Horse Nine
    4. Sam Rockwell - Wild Horse Nine
    5. Dominic Sessa - Tony
    6. Seth Rogen - The Invite

    Lead Actress - Comedy

    1. Inde Navarette - Obsession
    2. Julianne Moore - The Debut
    3. Zendaya - The Drama
    4. Olivia Wilde - The Invite
    5. Keke Palmer - I Love Boosters
    6. Charli XCX - Erupcja (idk)

    Supporting Actor

    1. John Goodman - Digger
    2. Guy Pearce - Ink
    3. John Leguizamo - The Odyssey
    4. Robert Pattinson - The Odyssey
    5. Paul Giammati - The Debut
    6. Jeremy Strong - The Social Reckoning

    Supporting Actress

    1. Penelope Cruz - The Black Ball
    2. Anne Hathaway - The Odyssey
    3. Sandra Huller - Digger
    4. Halle Bailey - The Debut
    5. Olivia Wilde - Behemoth!
    6. Mariana di Girolamo - Wild Horse Nine

    Globes have been going more artsy lately, so would not be surprised if All of a Sudden makes drama over Sense and Sensibility.

    Might be going overboard with giving Wilde three individual nominations, but this is her comeback year after all (and they're going to want a woman in the directing category). Just like how Pattinson is having a banner year, so I'm giving him two individual nominations.

    Pretty sure Inde is winning here at the very least. Yes in Comedy, Get Out and The Substance were in the comedy category and it is a funny movie. She's probably going to lead the regionals.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    First episode of Lanterns came out. I don’t watch a ton of TV anymore, Task was the last TV show I fully watched. Outside of limited series though I don’t tend to start anything new. I liked it a...

    First episode of Lanterns came out. I don’t watch a ton of TV anymore, Task was the last TV show I fully watched. Outside of limited series though I don’t tend to start anything new.

    I liked it a lot. I haven’t seen True Detective but I can see the inspo that had on this.

    It still does have a lot of humor as Gunn-DC has had thus far. But it’s not as in your face as it was in Supergirl or Superman.

    It has such a cool grounded look to it.

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  13. Comment on KPop Demon Hunters Criterion Collection release in ~movies

  14. Comment on KPop Demon Hunters Criterion Collection release in ~movies

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    Full list of Criterion releases this fall GDT’s Frankenstein is the other Netflix film that’s releasing through Criterion. Some people have taken issue with KPop, just like they did Wall-E. I...

    Full list of Criterion releases this fall

    GDT’s Frankenstein is the other Netflix film that’s releasing through Criterion.

    Some people have taken issue with KPop, just like they did Wall-E. I don’t like KPop but doing stuff like this makes them money for them to keep doing the work on all the other art house stuff they do. It’s like how their Criterion Closet videos went from being three times a year (if that) to being part of press junkets.

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  15. Comment on Hayden Panettiere dies at 36 in ~movies

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    Yeah I was reading on her life in light of this and it’s incredibly tragic

    Yeah I was reading on her life in light of this and it’s incredibly tragic

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  16. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    No offense like, there’s really no space for any moderate right winged thinking. For example, saying tumblerina is barely allowed now and five years ago when I first joined you’d probably get tons...

    No offense like, there’s really no space for any moderate right winged thinking. For example, saying tumblerina is barely allowed now and five years ago when I first joined you’d probably get tons a reports and maybe even a temp ban.

    I’ve been temp banned before, lots of people have been temp banned.

    I also find it irritating when people go “woke could mean lots of stuff” but give you the specific definition that most people use and just do arbitrary separations.

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  18. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    The End of Oak Street David Robert Mitchell directed It Follows and hasn’t made a film since 2019’s Under the Silver Lake. Technically that premiered at Cannes 2018 but had to go through re-edits...

    The End of Oak Street

    David Robert Mitchell directed It Follows and hasn’t made a film since 2019’s Under the Silver Lake. Technically that premiered at Cannes 2018 but had to go through re-edits before it sold since it got a negative reception. I loved It Follows at the time and was mixed on Silver Lake.

    This is coming to us from Warner Bros because Michael De Luca was a producer on Silver Lake and is friends with Mitchell. The only caveat Mitchell had was that the film had to be commercial.

    And it largely is that. It’s funny that his commercial film got significantly better reviews than his attempt at an artsy thing.

    It’s basically an homage to Spielberg and those 80s/90s types of films. Like how ten years ago we got a lot of that like Stranger Things and It. So in a way this feels out of step with the current era of nostalgia.

    It’s really good. It’s really entertaining and fun. It looks incredible, the CGI looks good and they use miniatures. The story and characters are simple and fall into typical archetypes we’ve seen. But it’s effective. The main couple are going through a divorce, which is a Spielberg-ism.

    The craft on display is undeniable.

    Anne Hathaway looks really good.

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  20. Comment on Avengers: Doomsday | Special look in ~movies

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    Spoiler. Obviously there’s questions about it being legit, but the plots for Endgame and No Way Home leaked in a similar manner. Some details might be wrong, but the overall plot and structure has...

    Spoiler. Obviously there’s questions about it being legit, but the plots for Endgame and No Way Home leaked in a similar manner. Some details might be wrong, but the overall plot and structure has been consistent enough that that’s likely what we’re gonna see.

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