Bro, is Karen 93 years old??
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A note, however, on the ending and the message.
While I appreciate the message of grace for even those we might find undeserving, this is a movie, and I had no trouble thinking that character deserved no such grace.
I also am sort of perplexed by Blanc’s reaction to knowing she took the poison. He just lets her die??? Even if you know it would take a miracle to save her, wouldn’t you call 911 anyway? I mean then you get the question of whether GOD will show this dying woman the same grace by saving her life or welcoming her into heaven.
You watched Glass Onion more than once?
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Yes.
Booooooooo! Bah humbug.
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His wife is a poker room cocktail waitress at the Mirage.
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I belong to a secret sorority whose sisters have pledged to watch anything with Kathryn Hahn in it at least three times. It is our form of prayer at the altar.
Also Glass Onion was a good movie.
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So you’ve watched The Studio three times
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It’s a bold swing at realism, I’ll give you that.
I wonder what the writer would think if you worked through the first 30 pages like this and sent them to him with the subject line “You’re welcome.”
Only once but I’d gladly watch it again.
Shiva Baby was amazing.
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That script needs a coroner to pronounce it dead, not a doctor to try to heal such an effed up patient.
Yeah.
And it’s really only funny if he’s a troll. If he’s a real person (as he appears to be) then it’s cruel.
Okay today’s road to hell averted.
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Rachel Sennot is going places. I Love LA is incredible imo
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If this teaser trailer is any indication, we can abandon all hope that Avengers Doomsday will be any good.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MCUTheories/comments/1pnc6rq/someone_just_fucking_leaked_it_as_always_dont/
The Things You Kill (2025)
Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, Ali, a university professor, coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.
Well that was a nice surprise. This is a Turkish-language character study that’s psychologically intense and straddles the line of a thriller.
One reviewer described this as Turkey’s answer to David Lynch. I have not seen Lost Highway, but the director drew heavily from it. And while The Things You Kill is not NEARLY as surreal as a Lynch movie, I would actually equate the experience most like Mulholland Drive. It also made me think of Enemy by Denis Villeneuve.
The director at times plays fast and loose with reality. Subtle shifts in details occur, and we are left wondering what is objective and what is a manifestation of this man’s obsession.
I found a nice explanation of what literally vs figuratively happened, but even that is just one interpretation. It’s a fun movie to think about.
This is available on VOD to rent or buy, or you can watch it free on Hoopla.
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I ran Seven Samurai back. Resounding rewatch success, clicked WAY better for me the second go-around. I think it zoomed all the way up to maybe now being my #2 Kurosawa after High and Low. This was such a successful revisit that it left me unable to understand why it wouldn’t have landed the first time. The only guess I can come up with is that I was overwhelmed by the number of plot threads and just lost the string at some point and kind of disengaged? I don’t really know. Fantastic stuff though.
I still think Harakiri is probably the better film, but it’s way closer than I was previously giving it credit for. I think this is the best Toshiro Mifune performance I’ve seen, and obviously I’ve seen a fair number since he’s so prolific in the Kurosawa catalog.
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Remember, the more movies you watch the better you get at watching movies.
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Rewatched Batman Returns (1992) for the first time since the 90s and it’s so much more fun than I remembered. Honestly I think it’s a camp masterpiece, just non-stop goofy shit flying at you, and somehow it keeps getting more and more absurd. Every character feels like they’re just barely keeping it together, especially Micheal Keaton, who channels a lot more Adam West energy than I appreciated at the time. Christopher Walken is in this movie wearing a Beethoven wig and he is usually not the goofiest thing in the scene, that’s how zany this gets.
Also, looks great. Maybe the end of the golden age of miniature props and practical effects.
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