Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie

But where is the universe where we can just like stuff?

A wise man once said be the universe you want to see in the world.

It's Kenough

Best Ken

Yes the bullshit about who does and does not get nominated for the Barbie movie (which I loved unreservedly) is bad. But where is the universe where we can just like stuff? I mean, like it for itself instead of ranking it relative to other stuff?

― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin),

You can take the Oscars as seriously as you want, man. Most people take it as seriously as a basketball game.

Maybe less. College sports fans are nuts.

best beloved kenson

Yes the bullshit about who does and does not get nominated for the Barbie movie (which I loved unreservedly) is bad. But where is the universe where we can just like stuff? I mean, like it for itself instead of ranking it relative to other stuff?

― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin)

stuff sucks, things are way better than stuff

B-b-but if we stopped ranking and comparing things, nerds on reddit wouldn't be able to point to data metrics to prove they have better taste than someone else.

I prefer people who don't need data metrics to know they have better taste than anyone else

Rank those examples of taste.

To be clear, I would be perfectly happy with getting rid of all data around films and the like - no meta scores and IMDB ratings.

Whoa now, this is anarchy

If only to spare us redditor AssEater1969 spewing invective about how he has superior tastes to all because his ten favorite films average a 4.3 on Letterboxd and 9.1 on IMdB.

b-b-but then how would we know that "Yesterday" was a pile of?

Although, to be fair, I did come to that opinion before I saw any revies/ratings....

reviews, obv.

Suddenly
I'm not half the man I used to be
My new movie got a 2.3

Greta & Margot,

While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. 

You’re both so much more than Kenough.#HillaryBarbie

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 24, 2024

just came to post that

today she truly became President

https://c.tenor.com/Z5vDuJZVVFkAAAAC/tenor.gif

christ

think margot robbie hard done by and gosling shouldn't be near it but dont think director or best supporting actress really merited any more or less attention for nomination than any other comedy ever

WARNING: Meteorologists are currently debating whether California is about to get hit by something that they've been dreading for a long time: A series of storms that will drop multiple feet of rain over a few weeks.

They're not certain (yet), but it is entirely possible that…

— Danielle Langlois (@DanielleLangWa) January 24, 2024

Whoops, that's completely the wrong tweet linked. Meant to do:

Stephen Spielberg and friends reacting to Jaws being nominated for Best Picture while being snubbed for Best Director pic.twitter.com/vzF1cWEyxD

— Arthouse Shawn Levy (@firagawalkwthme) January 24, 2024

i spent several minutes trying to think of the metaphor you were trying to convey with that tweet, lol

Wait tell me more about this storm

Margot Robbie snub has invoked biblical vengeance on California

yeah seriously we should be discussing it somewhere, gonna be rough on the West coast

Had to Google and yes, it is Joe Spinell wearing the Jaws T-shirt with Spielberg!

I spent several minutes debating whether I should move to Nevada.

Gerwig and Robbie are both nominated for Oscars (screenplay and best picture).

“Everyone is talking about Margot Robbie, I’m trying to get people to Mar-GO to the polls” https://t.co/coOtbx6DvE pic.twitter.com/lV8kRWVOKA

— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) January 24, 2024

Hillary…. delete your account

Yeah, gret-a clue!

You already Margo Robbie-d me of my time thinking about that dumb tweet!

Make America Great A-Ken

Margot Robbie produced, and Greta Gerwig directed, a movie that made a billion dollars. And it wasn't Gerwig's first hit movie; Lady Bird made $80 million on a $10 million budget, and Little Women made $220 million on a $40 million budget. From an industry POV, they're both set for life.

Gerwig cashing in her chips and favors and goodwill by making two "Chronicles of Narnia" movies for Netflix.

I was going to snark at her for that, but on second thought no it's fine. That's success in her business and she's welcome to it. Hollywood needs more women and minorities at the top end.

would ye have said the same when ye heard she was making a barbie movie for mattel?

i think shes more than proven she can work wonders with what doesnt seem promising material and tbh id include little women in that

She's basically batting 1000%, that's for sure. I suppose if I'd already proven myself on several different fronts that a huge adaptation of a beloved epic children's fantasy series would be just the challenge.

i’m so glad there’s video of this i absolutely needed to hear him say it https://t.co/Z8WVVAzCfa pic.twitter.com/g0sorz68cT

— laura 🦠 (@ecto_fun) February 23, 2024

So, someone who was literally born in Germany during the Second World War believes that watching a movie about a girls' toy is traumatizing.

That's, um, quite special.

Klaus Kinough

I think Herr Herzog was speaking more in keeping with a certain theological concept, where Hell is an eternal exclusion from a knowledge of God and consequently condemned to meaningless vacuity for all time. Under the broad umbrella of this concept there can be be a nearly infinite number of visions of pure Hell.

Or maybe he was just improvising. Hard to say.

this is pretty much how he describes everything lol

People's interest in Werner Herzog's opinions is baffling to me. The guy directed, like, three movies I like, all more than 40 years old at this point. I'd be much more interested in Greta Gerwig's opinion of Nosferatu than Herzog's opinion of Barbie.

he's hilarious but you would have to be extremely, um, credulous to take his opinions literally

Herzog likes to clown. He wants to be entertaining more than he wants to be 'correct'. Give him an audience and he'll happily adapt his opinions to gratify this inclination. You're just asking him for something he doesn't care to give. Not a problem when you think about it.

Yeah, I don't get why anyone's getting bent out of shape over his comment. He makes hyperbolic comments like this all the time partly as a joke - it's never meant to be taken that literally.

I've got reservations about his work, but his documentaries are usually better than his narrative films - he's been less prolific of late, but the burst of activity he's had in the 21st century has been consistently excellent with nearly all of it is documentary work. Above all though, Aguirre is a towering masterpiece, and I think the consensus has been spot-on in crowning it as his greatest film. Fitzcarraldo is pretty good, but I actually prefer Les Blank's Burden of Dreams where you see how Herzog is the real megalomaniac.

FWIW, Errol Morris did a great Q&A for Gates of Heaven (screened at a Tom Buddy tribute last year), and they asked him why he wasn't at the shoe-eating that was memorably captured on film. Herzog famously claimed he would eat his shoe if Morris finished that film, and Morris said he never remembered Herzog ever making that promise, adding, "you know it's one of Werner's tales...or as I'd like to call them, LIES."