They made rent impossibly expensive in order to kill off the Slacker archetype. Slacker mindset was too powerful. The HR Karens, the rise and grind lifestyle couches, the "go to therapy" cultists, the type A execs, none could withstand the withering critique of the slacker
Fast food was disappointing.
I was so excited to try American fast food after watching tons of YouTube reviews.
But man, In-N-Out was such a letdown. The fries tasted like cardboard, and the whole experience was just meh.
I give it a 2/10.
A Texas mom allegedly gave her son a mixed drink of lemon, salt and vinegar in an effort to prevent bullies at school from stealing the drink from her child. A child who drank the mixed beverage was hospitalized.
the thing about bradley cooper is that he's really an exceptional actor and should've won best actor for this (especially over rami malek for bohemian rhapsody like are you insane)
this is why creating a completely siloed away ecosystem for “children’s entertainment” has been disastrous. if the entire concept of watching an old movie with your parents as a kid and being enraptured by it is foreign to you I’m sad to say that your head is full of ants
Academy Award winner actor Nicolas Cage is, in fact, a good actor, and his ironic popularity came from an irony-poisoned population that couldn’t understand his completely unironic and fully engaged performances any other way
Nicolas Cage IS a bad actor. That's where his ironic popularity came from on the internet all those years ago. He's like the movie "The Room" in human form. People like him because he's bad.
imo Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon are to 2023 what There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were to 2007—big, serious movies that are both so obviously the best of the year that it doesn’t really matter which one you pick as number one
Barbie is well-designed but not very impressively directed or shot; fittingly, it was nominated for Production Design and Costumes but not Direction or Cinematography. It’s like awards are meant to be for specific things or something
this tweet is going to self-destruct shortly but a lot of BARBIE doesn't look much better –– the opening musical number is all simple setups of wides and mediums with a couple push-ins, IE how music videos are shot. I adore Gerwig, but it's her least impressively directed movie.
Mark Ruffalo says an unnamed actor told him certain directors wouldn’t work with him because of his Marvel association. He then revealed that Paul Thomas Anderson was allegedly one of them, according to the actor.
we take Paul Thomas Anderson for granted imo. Every one of his movies could be reasonably defended as the best of their year of release and yet it still feels like he gets underrated.
@meanunclejack
I found myself doing this when I was in the south over the summer with every sweet old Tennessee woman and good ol boy I met, it was great
“Taxman” is the funniest Beatles song because it perfectly distills that “hey what the hell” feeling every teenager has when they get their first paycheck but it’s written deep into the careers of four grown men
There were 35 new release movies I absolutely adored in 2023, but these are my eleven favorite because, fuck you Film Twitter, I couldn’t just pick ten.
Saw "The Zone of Interest" in the cinema yesterday. Question: when two empty beds were shown, why were they made up in the Anglo-American way, with blanket, folded-over sheet and rectangular pillow, and not the German way, with square white duvet and pillow and no blanket?
@SamtheNightOwl
all it takes is a problematic relationship with alcohol, whatever form that (or the solution to it) takes. imo anyone who suggests they have an alcohol problem probably does, in some way
The problem isn’t that all the hippies became Reaganites, the problem is that most young people in the late 60s weren’t hippies. Young voters did not break against Nixon even then.
I feel like the narrative about all hippies/New Left activists becoming Reaganites is just a coping mechanism to explain why these people we agree with on everything were so unsuccessful. Like there’s no way it could’ve gone so badly if they weren’t just frauds from the jump.
the simple man would chuckle and say, “make Tom Cruise a Navi.”
the wise man would breathe deeply, and say, “make Tom Cruise the new human villain and put him in a mech suit.”
I feel like Americans constantly forget or just don't know that Cowboy Bebop has Zero of the cultural juggernaut or "anime classic" status over there that it does over here. It's like if another country picked a random 2 season American 90s sitcom to obsess over decades later.
"Quentin will insert extracts from films from the 1970s. And he will also make his own versions of films from that era."
Paul Schrader offers new insight into Quentin Tarantino's 'The Movie Critic':
sorry to keep harping on this but if your reaction to any depictions of human sexuality is such uncontrolled horniness that you basically want to ban it is you that has the problem, not the work
@TheTumboy
I think the point of the movie is that it’s ambiguous! It’s about the stories we tell ourselves to keep going, not the absolute truth, and the whole point is that Daniel decides that she’s innocent so she is, for all intents and purposes.
As an artist, listening back to a song you recorded or reading something you wrote or watching something you shot and it’s been long enough that you don’t fully associate yourself with making it so you get that “whoa this rules” moment is one of the best feelings in the world.
Francesca Scorsese says her father, Martin Scorsese, sometimes watches his films as though he’s never seen them before:
“Something will happen and he’ll be like, ‘Ha! That’s great.’ And I’m like, ‘You literally made this.’”
@Srirachachau
It’s his quoted reason there that’s killer. Jared Harris respectfully declining taking over his father’s role could be totally salvageable from a PR perspective, but going on to say “Also why even do this?” is so bad lol
People so fundamentally misunderstand Christopher Nolan. Nolan is a romantic––he likes to feel, he likes to create experiences. His movies aren't puzzle-boxes––to the extent that they feel like them, it's in service of creating the FEELING of a puzzle. He's deeply sentimental.
Christopher Nolan says TENET is "not all comprehensible" but you're "slightly missing the point" if you think his movies are just puzzles to be solved.
“If you are experiencing my film, then you are getting it. I feel like where people have experienced frustrations with my
somewhere in Texas there’s gotta be an excitable South Asian guy and a snarky deadpan glasses guy that worked with Mike Judge in the 80s and I hope they’re doing well
Paul Giamatti is appealing to a certain type of sad range of young to 30 something men that are terrified they’ll turn out like a Paul Giamatti character, but can also see the comfort in it. He is the platonic ideal face of depression for this man
There was definitely an open secret element to Harvey in particular but I think it’s important to remember that they were famously known for being massive assholes long, long before the real nasty stuff came out. People knew they were bad but not how bad.
"Gosh, up until now I thought Monsters Inc. was a documentary on the Weinsteins."
Great joke, but this is a massive reminder that everyone in Hollywood knew about the Weinsteins.
@PoorOldRoloTony
This rules because he was not asked to do it. He was just like “I think this guy is fat” and gained the weight and showed up and Peter Jackson was like “???”
@johncardillo
@AriCohn
if you see this as, presumably, a sexualized image, I’m pretty sure that says a lot more about your relationship with your dad than the Bidens
A related phenomenon is the number of baby boomers who were also kinda square retconning themselves into having been part of the counterculture we now see as vital. There just weren’t that many!
its been said before but it is kind of unfortunate how Giancarlo Esposito has been very heavily typecast since Breaking Bad. seems like he's always being cast as Gus-Type roles
@BrandyLJensen
It’s good actually because the usage dates have always been about peak salability not about safety. They have no way of determining when your food will go bad because you’ll store it however at home, just the date by which it will likely be less fresh. “Sell by” is more honest!
the movie business is about making movies, which are an art form. making money in art is always a gamble. if a studio head is this risk-averse then they're in the wrong business. da movies ain't for the soft at heart, take your goofy ass back to wall street
@whoistyger
Right, but it’s fictionalized. Inside Llewyn Davis was heavily inspired by Dave Von Ronk but it’s the fictionalization that gives it freedom to really have the juice
@matthiasellis
Most actors are not intellectuals or even aesthetes but when you see actors like this you remember how amazing they can be when they are
this would––and I cannot express this enough––be absolutely catastrophic for the public reputation of what very easily could actually be the best film of 2023.
starting to feel like there's a non-zero chance The Zone of Interest could pull off the wildest upset in Oscar history and win Best Picture. i'm trash at predicting awards/not delusional enough to think it *will* happen, but with the odds at +5000 i'd bet a few dollars. anyway.
Rob Reiner did the following films in succession: Stand By Me. Princess Bride. When Harry Met Sally. Misery. A Few Good Men. There is no better 5 movie run.
@PetreRaleigh
honestly I just don’t answer the phone if I don’t know who’s calling and am not expecting a call. Even if (especially if) it says something like Amazon—I figure if it’s important they’ll email me
Of course, it’s nice everyone noting how wonderful and happy she looks.
But it’s hard not to see her and think that, in a just world, this should be her State Dinner in the 8th year of her presidency.