Tell me this isn’t art
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anyone going to see ‘good luck, have fun, don’t die’ this weekend? going tomorrow night. trailer looks fun
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I really want to see it but I wont be able to this weekend
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ok I take it all back, AI is based
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Not the point!
I’ve seen Breathless and Cleo now. They both hit for me. Like a number of forms, French New Wave is clearly operating on its own wavelength and does require a bit of acclimation to vibe with, but it wears well.
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https://x.com/WongUpdates/status/2022344717892276416?s=20
the ai guys have gone off the deep end. there’s no way anyone would actually pay money watch this slop
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Yep. Tonight’s the night I’m gonna give Audition a shot.
Then for a double feature it’ll be The Carpenter’s Son in what I assume will be an instant Nic Cage classic.
Both on Kanopy.
Okay sure, this movie goes places by the end, but the first 90 minutes is boring as shit.
Tell Tarantino he got it wrong AGAIN.
The Carpenter’s Son (2025)
A remote village in Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their son Jesus are targeted by supernatural forces.
I expected hilarious slop, but this is a great movie and a remarkable performance by Nicolas Cage. It is a legit alternate take on the story of Christ as a kind of low-key supernatural thriller. One of the most honest depictions of the insanity of believing in the supernatural. Joseph had no idea what he was getting into.
The surprise is that it’s well shot, well written, well acted. This has ambition and depth. Based on the apocryphal gospel of Thomas. Stars Noah Jupe (Hamnet) as Jesus.
Comes in at a crisp 90 minutes. See this one.
3.5/5
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How did you see this? Rented?
Kanopy. Huge catalog accessible with a library card.
thought this was alright but didn’t enjoy it as much as the rest of you (every scene with the main couple was great, but the rest of the movie with the mystery etc I couldn’t really get into)
funny how just after the end of prohibition they had movies that were basically commercials for alcoholism (they do make it look very fun!)
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Listening to the Rewatchables ep on Airplane. During “picking nits”, Bill Hader and Simmons riff on how a 33 year old Robert Hayes, in 1980, is hard to buy as a war vet and question what war he was even in, before Hader suggests it was probably WWII, which goes unchallenged by Simmons.
Then during “unanswerable questions” Simmons sincerely asks if they had inflatable pilots in 1980.
I listened to a few decent eps lately that had me questioning if I’ve been too hard on Simmons - and then I hear this shit. Turns out no, I have not been too hard on him.
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Hard to think that there tons of Vietnam vets under 30.
I had brothers that grad high school in 71 and 74 and both drew good numbers. Lots of classmates had older siblings that served. I grad in 83.
It’s obviously a war with the country that contains Macho Grande.
Isnt the idea that he is a war veteran as much of a farce as anything else in the movie? I always thought him being a young veteran with no chronologicaly near wars was just another joke in the movie.
Maybe I’m being leveled, but Airplane! came out in 1980, and the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
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1975 minus na-na-nineteen is 1956 plus 33 = 1986, he could have been in Vietnam.