Jonah Hill's Mid90s

Stumbled across this and liked it. It wasn't desperately "are you SHOCKED, Mr. and Mrs. America?" like Kids, which was a huge plus. The one thing that kinda disturbed me was that I didn't realize until afterward that the main kid was supposed to be 13 — he looked about 10 to me, so to watch him kissing an older teenage girl was disturbing. But the hanging-out stuff was good, the mom and older brother were very good, and overall I felt like it was a realistic portrayal of teenagers I've known. I'm both glad I saw it and glad it was free.

Watched them both again last week; Eighth Grade I liked more second time around, Mid90s held up fine. I agree: Hill clearly borrows from all those directors, but he's not nearly so grim. The best thing about it, I think, is the way it plays off Stevie's relationship with his brother against his friendship with the skate crew, especially Ray. When they're all there at the hospital, and his mother invites Ray in to see Stevie, that's a great moment.

And it's funny: "You Sheryl Crow-looking motherfucker."

This fulfilled my expectations p much

The slow-mo watermelon man party walkthru was v derivative of scorcese and pta but it was also v satisfying

Fine. Will watch tonight.

I'd have to do a mental checklist of every last character, but one thing I really liked about Mid90s is exemplified by the scene with the security guard where I lifted the Sheryl Crow line. It would have been easy to caricature the guard, make him look foolish. But he gets in some great lines, gives it out as good as he gets. I found that everyone in the film was treated well by Hill; even Lucas Hedges is more complicated than he appears initially.

I thought this movie was decent (if not a whole lot better than that), but I definitely prefer it to any of Larry Clark's hysterical teen exploitation pics.

The slow-mo watermelon man party walkthru was v derivative of scorcese and pta but it was also v satisfying

Forgot about this. Kept waiting for it to turn into the Schoolly D song that samples that track and was shocked when it turned out to be the real thing.

so this mo'fucker doesn't know what boundaries are, does he

Least surprising Hollywood dbag

really not looking forward to "boundaries" becoming the new 'grooming' in terms of misuse/abuse

he always seemed like a choad, so sorta unsurprising

I pretty much think a lot of people use therapy speak to manipulate others. It’s just another kind of hierarchy-forming jargon.

cant believe that leo dicaprios bessie mate etc etc

i remember in the media tour for this film how he kept patting himself on the back for the courageous decision to have the characters use era-appropriate slurs

He’s a typical Brentwood dickhead

I pretty much think a lot of people use therapy speak to manipulate others. It’s just another kind of hierarchy-forming jargon.

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i think it boils down to intent. some people use therapy speak to 'win' their relationship, to shut the other person down and gain power over them. it's probably more widespread than people realize.

that said, almost every friend I know has been in some form of toxic or abusive relationship, so it has its place. but I have one friend who I love dearly, who is a caring mother, and one of the most supportive people I had in my camp the last three years. but she also uses "gaslighting" like sugar packets in iced tea. a mutual friend of ours moved out of state without meeting up with her as previously agreed, and it was admittedly a dick move on his behalf, but within days of it happening, words like "shutting down", "narcissist" and "gaslighting" came out, and I was like...this was someone who you adored a mere month ago, and they were insensitive in the way they handled the situation, but this one slight has you now talking about them as if they're a monster.

or what this article says: https://jezebel.com/jonah-hill-sarah-brady-texts-therapy-speak-1850621501

like - misunderstandings don't always live in the extreme spectrum of things. treating misunderstandings like a major event every time just creates unnecessary impasses.

Lol at this chud hiring the lawyer for Bill Cosby and Danny Masterson. Good look, guy!

jfc

how quickly the fruits of therapy unravel when you were only using them for public vanity purposes to begin with

Every time I've read an interview with this guy I'm shocked at how much of a preening narcissistic fuck he is.

Jesus dude also represented Brett Ratner and Chris Brown

Gah. It is so easy to not hire Cosby's lawyer.

one would have thought that he would have created a personal line that he would not cross in terms of the ethics of the lawyers he hires.

one might call it

a boundary

Zoomcast on the music in New Waterford Girl (Canadian film), The Squid and the Whale, and Mid90s:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpM8ZmBsONo

Some of my gaffes in these are priceless. In this one I mix up Jesse Eisenberg and Jim Eisenreich, the '80s/'90s baseball player who had Tourette's.