RIP Burt I Gordon, the Notorious B.I.G., prolific director of B movies such as Earth vs Spider and The Amazing Colossal Man. His work was rediscovered by MST3kās Frank Conniff; true cinephiles know:
https://twitter.com/nytimesarts/status/1633603290071187456?s=46&t=6KwCLZ-MgqFodL6jxLj6Nw
heh I only became aware of who Walter Chaw was when he was ranting at ppl who didnāt like eeaao on twitter. I forgot the details (not sure if it was at the same moment when one of the Daniels had to make a post to ask their aggressive fanbase to ābe kindā) but it didnāt make him look good at allā¦ Skimming the review you linked in your article, he also appears to have a good side too though 
Lol I hear you I just donāt pay attention to Twitter like that. Twitter is designed to make people lose their minds.
I like his reviews and what he did for Alamo and Colorado. Feedback there shows heās cool even if heās a work in progress.
ETA
Walter: āAfter [Everything Everywhere All At Once], I started donating a few bucks every time JK Rowling said something horrible. I can clap back and sheāll never read it, but my followers will read it, and they love me. Instead of that, Iām just going to give $5 to a trans charity every time she says something [awful].ā
could be good
Ill be honest, I would have enjoyed the premise of this movie a lot more if I stopped the trailer at the 1 minute mark and approached it as Evans being a kinda creepy dude and not realizing it and then getting the twist in theaters
Thatās just vague enough to convince me to give this the Barbarian treatment. Not watching a trailer or reading anything else, just gonna watch it.
For Bad Arnold>Good Arnold by a little. T2 was so well executed. But still think T1 edges out for scene after scene of wtf.
70 min into EEAAO and Iām ready to turn it off 
Not at all what i was expecting and itās doing nothing for me.
Finished the last BP nominee last night. My rankings:
- The Fablemans - Just absolutely dreadful. Iām not one of those people who complains that much about the stereotypical Oscar bait trope of āmovies about moviesā. But the entirety of this movie is just boring as hell or full of characters doing completely unrealistic things. As I said earlier, itās a total vanity project from one of the last people on Earth who needs one.
- Top Gun Maverick - Just like the first one, itās full of unlikable characters that Iām apparently supposed to root for. Since I didnāt like the original, I didnāt have any of those nostalgic feelings that others had. It really felt like rah rah America boomer porn.
- Triangle of Sadness - Parasite already did this, and did it much better. The first part was totally unnecessary and the ending was stupid. Itās a shame because this had potential, but outside of a pretty solid half hour about halfway through the movie, it missed the mark for me completely.
- The Banshees of Inisherin - Maybe I just donāt appreciate allegories for the Irish Civil War. This just dragged for me. There just wasnāt enough here for a 2 hour movie. Maybe I would have liked this more as a short film.
- All Quiet on the Western Front - For the second straight year, we have a remake of a previous BP winner. It was almost a century ago and this one is in German, so Iām more forgiving of this one. But the original is still better, many due to the fact that the ending is far inferior.
- TĆ”r - Still not sure what to think of this one. The director should be pelted with tomatoes for what he did for the first 30 minutes of the film. I donāt want to see 5 minutes of credits and I donāt want to hear what amounts to an in depth Wikipedia article about conductors Iāve never heard of. Credit for the ambition of the film and Cate Blanchett is great, but Iāll stop there in terms of major praise.
- Avatar The Way of Water - The script is pretty thin (itās basically the first movie with some relatively minor changes). But you know what to expect and it delivers. Thereās more to a movie than visual effects, and Iām not sure that should have been enough to land it on the BP nomination list, but in terms of pure enjoyment, I have to put it here.
- Elvis - It took awhile to get used to Baz Luhrmannās directorial shtick, but once I did, I could just sit back and be mesmerized by an unbelievable performance from Austin Butler. It was so good I could mostly ignore whatever the fuck that was from Tom Hanks.
- Women Talking - The title is definitely truth in advertising. Itās a very dialogue heavy movie (honestly this could have been a play with almost no changes). There are some plot holes that bothered me, but the intense philosophical discussions were enough for me to mostly ignore those. Watching this reminded me of One Night In Miami, though this wasnāt quite as good. Iām seeing people compare this to 12 Angry Men. I really need to see that.
- Everything Everywhere All At Once - I know this is going to win BP, and it definitely deserves it in an absolute garbage year for nominees. Itās a very good movie. But Iāll stop short of calling it āgreatā. It tries way too hard as if itās trying to be Rick and Morty: The Movie. It wants to be deeper than it is. That sounds like a lot of complaining for my #1 pick, but Iām really just pushing back on a lot of the overdone praise itās getting.
So yeah, this was an absolute horrendous lineup of BP nominees, probably the worst since they expanded the list (itās definitely either this or 2017). RRR is better than all of these movies. Argentina, 1985 is better than all of these movies.
So, yeah, good luck to EEAAO at the Oscars on Sunday. Iāll mostly be watching for the Naatu Naatu performance.
holy shit, like today you need to see it.
I mean, you watched The Fablemans instead of 12 Angry Men.
Just watched this yesterday. Incredible movie, incredible performances, incredible script that speaks to the modern struggle most women face when asking men to be accountable for the violent impact of their behavior.
As much as it is described as a movie of heads talking, the filmmaking elevates the movie far beyond what I imagined as a kind of stage play. There are incredibly inventive shots and staging that accomplish in a single take what Michael Bay still canāt do with 1k quick cuts.
There was one brief moment in the early part that I thought was foreshadowing a kind of Coen brothers ending where the roof would collapse on all of the men, thus freeing the women through a quirk of fate at the very moment they were prepared to take control of that destiny.
But thatās not what happens. The ending is powerful in its realism.
Iām gonna keep championing this movie. I could watch it over and over and over.
And write about it over and over LOL.
I dunno if Iād go with ārealismā.
Because it seemed a little unrealistically hopeful. Thatās not a criticism; I think it was the correct decision to end the film that way.
BTW, if people do want to see Women Talking on Amazon Prime, itās apparently only on there for 5 days and today is Day 3. It leaves on Sunday.
Not sure what you mean. I didnāt think the ending was hopeful beyond feeling proud that they left.
Itās hard to leave that kind of thing, and the stuff that comes afterward might be the hardest part.
I saw it more like the ending of The Graduate.
The book and Netflix series Unorthodox can be seen as a view into what they face afterward. And thatās just one person.
The women in Women Talking are basically every woman in their entire community. I imagine they faced hell on earth from the men left behind. The movieās question is whether that fight is worth whatever wrath might come afterward. Staying requires each woman to place themselves and their children in the path of violence. At least leaving is a step toward peace.
Got surprised by a light but well done romantic comedy called About Fate. Great plane movie. Seatmate watched it after me and also was very positive.