https://twitter.com/HosteenCholo/status/1683655276686348288?s=20
Well now I’m interested. I watch a ton of Japanese movies, don’t think I’ve ever actually seen the Ainu people depicted.
I won’t see Oppenheimer for a while, if ever, so this will have to do for now.
It’s not bad. Einstein is supposed to have said Oppenheimer was a fool for not taking his advice to walk away from the security clearance mess before the hearing. In his place, I think I would have done as Einstein suggested but it still seems like the old man was being a little unfair. Oppenheimer was just not that good with people and politics, and I can certainly empathize.
Went and caught the late showing of Barbie; figured a 10:15 p.m. Tuesday show was safe for crowd purposes. Crowd was indeed entirely non-annoying.
It’s a pretty good movie. Could have used a sharper editing pen at times - felt like it could have easily been 15 minutes shorter - but many of the jokes landed for me and it’s a very interesting piece by Greta Gerwig. Probably not as strong for me as Little Women or Lady Bird, but then again it was necessarily much more visionary than putting on the latest adaptation of Little Women. I did spend the first 10 minutes or so trying not to let horror creep in, because I was having to fight off a thought of, “Uhh, is there a chance this is just going to be terrible?” And then an obvious gear-shift moment happens, and I was immediately at ease and knew I was almost certainly safe from hating it.
It did feature a line that personally eviscerated me harder than any line I’ve ever seen in any movie. I’m pretty sure I put my hand over my mouth in horror and had a physical reaction like if I had just watched a football player take a way-too-dangerous hit. And then I spent the next five minutes being distracted thinking about it. But it was an objectively funny line all the same.
Those who’ve seen it will know that I’m referring to
“Just tell him you’ve never seen The Godfather and ask if he’ll watch it with you and explain it to you.”
Snap-reaction is that the movie is a 7/10.
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Yup, I laughed out loud at that line.
and the candle has burned a hole in the floor
Ty for this review I am crossing my fingers I can afford to see soon while it’s on a big screen. I am disabled and poor so watch stuff in the isolation of my apartment when it’s free or I have a trial subscription somewhere, but this one def sounds like it’s worth going to the theater when there’s $10 to burn 
Every review for Oppenheimer has spoiled the entire movie and yet left me feeling like nothing was spoiled. Even the critics who gushed about it had nothing to say about what Nolan adds to a fairly standard biopic that makes it worth seeing as a big screen story vs catching it at home or just skipping it altogether. You really got to be into the subject matter and Nolan’s movies as their own worthy product, sort of like how I’ll watch every Hellraiser movie at least once, even if never again.
And I’m sorry, but Nolan hasn’t made a truly GREAT movie since The Prestige.
Yeah, I don’t get out to the theater a ton these days just from personal preference, but I sprung for an AMC theater subscription that’s $20/month and allows up to three movies a week without any upcharge for things like IMAX (or in the case of last night’s Barbie showing, Dolby Cinema, which apparently would have made for a $20 ticket all by itself without a subscription), so I’ll see as much as I’m interested in during the next month and then just cancel before I get billed again.
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I miss Moviepass.
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I was out after Singin’ in the Rain didn’t show up in the 50s
ETA: No Kubrick? GTFO!
If you gave me the knowledge that there were two Tarantino movies on the list and told me to guess which two, it probably would have taken me 20-30 guesses before I came up with that combo.
I enjoyed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but, uhh, that’s liking it a little too much.
If anyone looks at that list (I haven’t) and says “yup, that all looks right”, it hasn’t done its job.
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Also there’s Godfather Part II but not the original. Nonsense. But LFS’s post is true.
Havent checked yet, but gotta be Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds, right?
Hot Fuzz not being on the 2000s list is just wrong
List some more combos. I’ll tell you when you are right.
It’s just some random dudes personal favorites and he clearly left off standard picks just to be controversial as that is the only way posting on the remnant of Time magazine is going to get any clicks.
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Already checked. Thought Jackie Brown might be on there, but to have that and NOT Pulp Fiction is
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