Yeah, mine is too

Tho I do think that this vision could've worked had it been structured better. When they're in the carriage it genuinely feels like a "Ellen, I need you to distract Kang" sorta moment and it just feels really odd and silly.

Liked Nosferatu better on a rewatch but I think there's a genuine case to be made that his commitment to accuracy was a hindrance; the characters spend much of the plot grappling with there being no 𝘰𝘯𝘦 way to kill Orlok so resort to the one constant. Makes for a clumsy script

Still, I stand by my point.

Because it puts a dent into the idea that this character is anything other than a joke to the writers. Sure, life is multifaceted and whatnot, but the quote feels forced.

Sure, I just think if that was Weiner's point he shouldn't have it be the follow up to a Weekend At Bernie's joke

Mad Men is on the whole a show that often and heavy-handedly forces and insists on depth and meaning where there absolutely is none.

I hate the "She's an astronaut" quote from Mad Men. Just so undeservedly schmaltzy and self-important for a character that was brought in as Don's secretary to keep his dick in his pants b/c she was so old and ugly. Especially considering the joke they make of her death prior.

This is the biggest problem with Geese in my opinion. Cameron sounds so self-conscious that I just cannot get into it. He's vying for vulnerability but too afraid to be cringe — and that approach is just diametrically opposed when you're trying to making "good" art.

—that gives away the emptiness of it all. You can't be vulnerable and too cool for school at the same time.

There's no imagery, there's no soul. Radiohead drew words out of a hat and still managed to imbue some semblance of meaning into it, while Geese has the most stripped away lyrics with a voice that is desperately trying to convince you that they're deep but with a nonchalance—

Cameron is both paying homage to bands like Radiohead and Wolf Parade but at the same time he's too afraid to go as far as those bands did. Instead his voice bounces back and forth like he's wavering between taking an actual stance on his own sound. It never crosses over pastiche.

Geese is a pastiche of the rock bands of yore except only their safest and most milquetoast parts — the pseudo Thom Yorke voice reads to me as a feigned attempt at vulnerability that clashes with the impersonal lyrics. Nothing feels genuine or real at all.

It's been a problem since The Northman and I'm guessing it's gonna be the case for Werwulf (ATJ speaking middle english sends a shudder down my spine). Eggers can never nail down a good combination of hollywood actors that fit his vibe but are also really good.

One of Eggers' biggest faults is that he populates his films with equally great and awful actors. Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson along with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin is really just a nasty combination. The strengths of the former only highlight the faults of the latter.

I'd never have kids but if I did they better not look even a little bit like me. Walking around with a big Goliath skull, talmbout some huge schnozz and a neanderthal brow. No thank you!

OBAA is really only interesting to me through a purely technical lense, that being it's editing and pacing (which is masterful). All else struck me as awkward and hollow on my first watch and still does. PTA is always this 🤏 close to making a film I love but rarely does.

Megan Thee Stallion opening a tacky fast food chain

Don't like when people describe a change in the arts as "punk rock" because it breaks with the old. That's literally just called a change in art movements and has been happening since the dawn of time, dude.

The game's approach of not treating either character as innocent or exempt from consequence only ends up as passing judgement because it, by virtue of Abby's story, answers the ambiguity of TLOU1 with a resounding "Joel was clearly wrong", which is a lot less interesting imo.

Also, killing Joel makes sense from a gameplay perspective (he can't just be Ellie's companion throughout), it just sucks that it came at the cost of a lame revenge story and turning the protagonist into an emotional husk. Can't be overstated just how boring she becomes.

The most interesting part about TLOU2 is that Ellie is forced to posthumously forgive Joel, a choice she was never able to make, and moreso than his death she's grieving being robbed of the ability to make that choice. But the game never does anything with that for it's 80 hours.

MAGA doesn't care about getting any of the improvements they voted for because it's a petiness-driven online movement. As long as Trump is beating down they're satisfied because they, by association, vicariously get to boast of "winning" online even tho they're obtaining nothing.

Anybody check up on that Superman actor who joined ICE lately? Wonder what he's up to after all this.

Read a book recently that felt like this. I'd get a kinda cringe reaction thinking back on certain parts as if they were my own lived experiences, and then I'd be like: "oh, right!" Never felt anything like it.

It's an exercise in excess, y'know? Like just how much shit can you cram into a film and have it still be comprehensive? The new Avengers film is just gonna look like this:

The whole death of cinema angle does suck tho

Ngl I do have sort of schadenfreude fascination with the MCU as a concept. I havent seen anything post Endgame, but the idea of a multimedia franchise collapsing under the weight of continually one-upping itself through hype and creative inbreeding does make for a neat experiment

The height of American capitalist opulence is 50 different fast food chains. What Greenland would actually need is universities for higher education; right now all Greenlanders have to move to Denmark to get one which is a hassle. But alas, there's nothing Americans respect less than colleges... 😔

People with basic taste in films love changing the posters of their letterboxd top 4s to either the japanese versions or the ugliest minimalist photoshop you've ever seen to ward off pattern recognition and make it look... well, not so basic