... _I_ don't like metacritic...*kicks a rock*
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
Obama prob not crazy about The Report either
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
i'd sooner get a beer with Metacritic
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
I admit Morbs may have seen better days, but he's still not to be had for the price of a cocktail - like a salted peanut.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
i'm at my peak right this minute i'll have you know
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
Reminder that PWB faps to an Obama speech in the pilot― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Sunday, December 29, 2019 6:00 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Sunday, December 29, 2019 6:00 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Also, the opening scene of Booksmart pans around Beanie Feldstein's bedroom, which has a photo of Michelle on the wall.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 December 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
until I reread that in the quote, my mind somehow interpolated PWB as JLG and I thought Simon was saying that Godard jerks it to Obama speeches in The Image Book, which I haven't seen... but seemed possible!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
nah, JLG has it out for muslims
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 30 December 2019 05:20 (four years ago) link
well see
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link
Godard has never had it out for Muslims. if anything, he has an Israel problem...The Image Book is an enormously empathetic and heartfelt film. "moral fault was merged with state crimes"Its critique of the Middle East "lacking a territory," a place to express themselves outside of throwing bombs, this is of course a naive reductionbecause when Godard says "if you ask me I will always be on the side of those who throw bombs," he sounds like the radical chic blowhard he was in '68-'72. But this film is more humble and open than any of that stuff. it's not a didactic film, it's 84 minutes inside the mind of a man at the end of his life. and he admits he knows nothing, all he has left is hope, "a necessary utopia." it's so beautiful
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 December 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
I only made it through like 14 minutes of The Image Book, presumably because I'm a huge dumbass
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
devvv had a good comment on letterboxd about Image Book, m/l it works as a pure light and sound show. I mean obviously ymmv but I think the pure flow of the film's images and sounds itself is what makes it so beautiful, compared to Ici et Ailleurs or Numero Deux, much more programmatic and willfully difficult films. I haven't read Finnegans Wake but it feels like the only proper comparison.
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 December 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
ok who is PWB
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
phoebe waller bridge, creator of fleabag
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHVoeo5K0s
reading the NYT's Year in Culture wrapup yesterday, i have never felt so alienated from everything
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Obama probably didn't even recognize Jello Biafra in The Last Black Man in San Francisco pathetic.— ℑ 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲 (@NickPinkerton) December 29, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
I don't count for much but I put an end-of-decade detrius together.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 30 December 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure i ever heard of Only the Young, but the library has it so i'll give it a go.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Yay! It's short and sweet.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 30 December 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
Walter Chaw's year-end list is always a great read, no matter how seriously you can take a list that includes Terminator: Dark Fate and The Kid Who Would Be King but no Uncut Gems or Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2020/01/the-50-best-films-of-2019-by-walter-chaw.html
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 2 January 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
I've seen a number of serious critics who dislike the latter two
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
however, his #1 "group" includes Her Smell, High Life, and ye gods, An Elephant Sitting Still, plus the Tarantella, so you can't do much worse than that.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
for a long film I thought An Elephant Sitting Still was mesmerizing
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
the quietness and overwhelming grayness and emptiness of tone, long hypnotic circling tracking shots, shunning of the most violent elements of the story, specific blurring or highlighting of background images, grim determination of characters, subtly hopeful ending - it was all so hypnotic and beautiful
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
I disagree in every particular; found it just overwhelmingly dreary
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
I can see not liking it but thought it was so unusual
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
wouldn't have thought that such a constantly moving camera could be that subduing, but it really drew me in
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:40 (four years ago) link
honestly gun to my head you could erase every Tarantino movie except Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and I would feel a mild sadness but it would be an easy choice
Don't trash movies you haven't seen
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 January 2020 05:17 (four years ago) link
Get rid of Jackie Brown over my dead body.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
Elephant Sitting Still was one of those movies I will never watch again but it was definitely a memorable experience.
― ryan, Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:59 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah wtf
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
Miami critics: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/miami-film-awards-2019-local-film-experts-pick-their-favorites-of-the-year-and-decade-11396761
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
I said gun to my head!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Won't someone out there help flappy bird?!
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
i'm not trashing it, i'm trashing HIM. He's an immoral person and artist who is getting no more cultural oxygen from me.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
Jackie Brown was the last good thing i saw from him, and it is overrated.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
you guys ready to die for some movies huh
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
hidden decade gems
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6738-hidden-gems-of-the-2010s
Ari Aster otm
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
wow i gotta see the homesman
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
helluva blurb
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
it's the better version of MM: Fury Road
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
Lol, Morbs absolutely otm.
― Frederik B, Friday, 3 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
It's fine.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
Wow, would not have expected a Tommy Lee Jones western to have tons of overcranked, reckless in-camera stuntwork F/X but sure let's give it a try!
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
the most deeply affecting western since Unforgiven
you lost me immediately by not acknowledging meek's cutoff
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
not having it is the virtue, honeybunch
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
Cool, good luck selling fans of MM:FR on it then.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
the commonality: transporting traumatized women through the desert
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link