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Out: Sean Baker creeping on women with little power/status . In: Brady Corbet injecting millions of American and UK dollars into the Hungarian economy to make his midsterpiece đ«Ąđ«Ąđ«Ą.
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@questionableway Highbrow cinema is way more accessible than highbrow lit. The most difficult movies (e.g., Satantango, Shoah, Histoire(s) du Cinema) are ultimately very easy to get through compared to, say, James Joyce.
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Spielberg movies still look exactly like this lol. And then show me another 2012 movie that looks like Lincoln.
Sometimes I look at Lincoln, a movie that came out maybe a decade ago, and I lament that major movies just aren't allowed to look like this anymore.
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John Ford made a good movie a year for fifty years. If you need this long for a freaking Batman movie something is wrong.
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@SipOfKoKo Like is money tight or is $200/month nothing because it literally canât be both lol.
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I just⊠people know that a decade of sub 2% inflation and sub 4% mortgages wasnât some normal thing we were entitled to forever, right?.
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This is *so* hacky I know, I know, butâ . DeLillo novel shit.
Looks like a random AI slop site based in Illinois, aided by social media, has coaxed hundreds of people on to the main street of Dublin for a Halloween parade that was never happening.
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@brethamilton @hottwinklawyer You people just think you shouldnât have to pay for anything đ.
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@decoyrobot To my knowledge he didnât have the same kind of personal connection to Lynch as these three.
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@NielsHoven @kanwisher Pains me to say this as the only member of my family whoâs not a doctor but itâs the AMA people should be mad at.
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@questionableway I also think enough people are into highbrow cinema that thereâs some social pressure to push your boundaries. Which is awesome tbc. But reading is just so dead that outside groups of grad students youâre probably not going to feel left out if you havenât read X great book.
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People know that Obamacare outlawed preexisting condition exclusions right?.
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@agraybee People in liberal societies are tired of having to pretend to tolerate shit regressive societies do.
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We honestly should pay hot girls to do pro-nuclear posts.
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I guess I just think too damn highly of people because I am continually amazed by their inability to think about the consequences of any decision. Weâre talking about a three hour indie drama. How were they supposed to raise the money without famous people attached?.
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I think itâs fine for bit players who are stripping and lap dancing on camera to want an intimacy coordinator. Especially when the director is clearly a fetish guy lol. Like cmon folks.
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I donât think that Brandon Taylor Intermezzo review is THAT bad but itâs definitely funny to have a whole section about how someoneâs grammar is bad based on your own misunderstanding of grammar.
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I think people are upset about The Brutalist AI stuff because for the last two years theyâve made being able to instantly spot AI a core part of their identity and now it turns out something they praised used a little bit of AI.
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Idk whatâs gonna happen obviously but to people saying âI donât remember it being this bad last timeâ: you have partly memory-holed the worst year of our lives. And like thatâs completely understandable! But seriously, just think about 2020 for a second lol.
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@decoyrobot This all just boils down to they gave Anderson $25m in 2007 dollars and Corbet just $10m in 2024 dollars. For months everyone was like wow how did they do all that for $10m?? I guess nobody wants to know how the sausage is made.
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I think Eggers sucks but cmon. Itâs a screenplay. The point of writing a screenplay isnât to write a screenplay. Itâs to make a movie.
âhe kisses her. deeply.â is some 15-year old tumblr writing what.
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Probably true. That said, Dasha of course lol.
The key is marrying a man who says âwhatâ when you ask this.
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Except for Tintin, the last fifteen Spielberg movies have looked like this!.
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THATâS what they used AI for on The Brutalist? Some posters that appear in two shots? Iâm sorry but if youâre incensed over this youâre in for a rough rest of the century lol.
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@ok_post_guy Iâve had very educated people tell me professors donât have free speech bc they got in professional hot water for praising Mangione. Like 90% of people are terminally stupid.
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@constans 1. Three quarters of a million dollars is not âalmost a million dollars.â Maybe if people werenât innumerate theyâd have more money lol. 2. Being in the NICU is not âlying in bed.â If it were me Iâd be a little more grateful they SAVED MY KIDâS LIFE.
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And Iâm still seeing complaints about the Covid checks! What planet are people living on??.
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Will people please be normal about that site lol.
donât be that person who gives like Mulholland Drive or Eraserhead 4.5 stars on letterboxd. have shame.
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No. The parents of the smartest and most popular guys in my school did, though. They were never allowed to read Harry Potter! One went to Cornell and became an engineer, one to Notre Dame and became a doctor, and one to Boston College and became a lawyer. Structure works lol.
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There simply has to be a way to say crazy homeless guys donât deserve to be killed without pretending that being threatened by one is just part of being a grown up like going to work and paying taxes. Or without saying they werenât in fact crazy and threatening people.
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â âThe Masterâ is a fitting title considering that Paul Thomas Anderson is a masterful filmmakerâ - rando standing too close to me in the Music Box line.
when i saw the brutalist the guy behind me asked his friends "is the director of this someone we like?" and said "fuuuuck offfff" when they mentioned vox lux. later he started telling them about "this movie janine dilberg that was in a square aspect ratio" (it was jeanne dielman).
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I got three large on Iron Mike cmon baby.
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Why are people so weird about the movie diary app.
people need to stop doing their quippy one liner letterboxd reviews. we peaked with âthis happened to my buddy ericâ weâll never top that. give it up.
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Frankly it has held up as one of the more interesting features in a weak year.
remember alex garland's civil war lol.
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Wrong. They need to do the dumbest possible overreaction so guys like me who spend a lot of time tracking Oscars shit can have a nice time lol.
I donât think the Oscars can really do anything other than release a statement saying Karla SofĂa GascĂłnâs tweets donât align with their values and then just ignore her during the broadcast. Sheâs not winning and if the film does wins, politely ask (or pray) she doesnât speak.
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Watched Donnie Darko for the first time in like fifteen years. Superb movie.
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Itâs going to play like a thousand screens in three weeks.
It would be nice if the drama for adults and by adults was available to watch anywhere, but NY and LA.
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People not having heard of or read the Odyssey isnât the story. We already knew schools sucked. The story is millions of people are going to read it because of Christopher Nolan.
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The pre-Gladiator Dolby ad showcased Wicked and I gotta say I thought the footage looked fine. I think people are overreacting.
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I think millennials should wait to see how their iPad kids turn out before casting stones at Gen X parents.
No offense to anyone I know over the age of like. 43, but I think this is correct.
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@LittleMammith Idg how their position is any different from âdonât politicize mass shootingsâ.
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This is the left wing version of believing everything Fox says about crime in SF, Chicago, etc.
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@FilmBart Theyâre doing it with the shittiest TV imaginable, too. When David Chase took two years he came back with Sopranos season 6.
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If this woman is supposed to have a big nose then I think people need to delete Instagram.
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I take back what I said Musk getting his way is possibly the worst part of the election. This guy is not good.
That is 1000% a Nazi salute being given behind the presidential podium on Inauguration Day (also MLK day) by the richest person on the planet. That moment will live in infamy.
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I think itâs more that ATJ and Qualley are legit great actors and Sweeney is at best solid.
i think that what holds her back from achieving the status of other young actresses like anya taylor joy or margaret qualley, let's say, is how fragile she is in her identity. you don't have to prove that you're hot to the men who degrade you if you're 'caught' looking imperfect.
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@dissproportion This is one of those things where you start to realize just how dang libertarian most American "leftists" actually are.
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Bc Ringerverse podcasters I'd take a bullet for talk about it twice a week lol.
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âmany such casesâ.
the smell phd lady is flying a little too close to the sun now. many such cases. another internet cycle coming to a close lol.
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Americans stop being racist against Asians challenge level impossible.
If we adopted Asian grindset as our national ethos American cultural dominance throughout the world would immediately end. Almost nobody raised by a "tiger mom" is making good movies, music, writing well, etc. The computers are fast enough, we need art.
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@constans âHOAâ has become such a bogeyman that I think there are a lot of people out there who have never owned (and likely will never own) a home who have incredibly strong (and incredibly incorrect) feelings about them.
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I love his work but frankly I blame Tom Cruise a bit. Ten years of âEVERYTHING IS REAL AND IN CAMERAâ propaganda probably helped distort how people conceive of film images.
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I mean. I feel like you shouldn't throw a $60k wedding unless either (1) you're inviting a critical mass of people you know will splash out or (2) $60k is an insignificant sum of money for you.
Ok wait $60k for a 270 person wedding is actually completely reasonable if not a downright bargain? And the attendees only gifted them $11 on average? Iâm the #1 wedding hater and this is the first story where Iâm completely on the coupleâs side.
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Got some pre-bed Thanksgiving leftovers and folksâthis is the greatest country on earth.
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People who say eating out is more economical than eating on go on the pay no mind list. You've done insane lifestyle creep if you think you can't buy a tasty meal's worth of ingredients for less than takeout. As Bane said, victory has defeated you!.
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Clearly nobody wants a lecture about Covid but it is always very startling to me how little people learned from itâuntil I remember that most people are repressing the hell out of it constantly lol.
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Brady Corbet thrusting his Oscar into the air and simply saying ârelease the hostagesâ before leaving the stage.
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Four hydrogen bombs one coughing baby. Goes to show how strong Emilia Perez hype is lol.
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@coopercooperco Yup which is of course why Trump gets a pass on inflation. But the broader point being I think the best economy in history simply broke peopleâs brains, and I wouldnât be surprised to see jarring electoral swings every time an administration fails to live up to it (so every time).
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I think itâs simply a generation and class divide. Itâs just catnip to well-off Gen X and up the way Challengers is to 30 year olds. And then people who are actually old (65+) are probably patting themselves on the back for liking a trans thing.
So seriously, what is the deal with this? I can't ever recall a bigger discrepancy between both critical and audience reception and awards-circuit acclaim. Is Netflix threatening voters' families??.
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@decoyrobot âTheyâre taking peopleâs jobs!â What jobs? They only raised $10m. Itâs not like they had some huge discretionary fund and decided to skimp out.
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Seriously what are we doing to our beautiful kings.
.@mulaney says his substance abuse issues were there in his comedy from the beginning, if anybody happened to look: âI very much tried to tell everyone.â. đ:
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Iâve been listening to Robbie Williams all week. Pretty good! Weâre gonna see the movie.
I don't understand why so many Americans want Better Man to flop so badly. So what if you don't know who Robbie Williams is? Should that even matter? That just means you get to learn his story through this movie!. You're choosing to ignore all the praise it's getting out of spite.
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If I ever become a judge I am straight up not reading filings set in garamond. It looks like shit on screens you pseuds. Even TNR is much more legible.
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@dissproportion The idea that social cost is always a subordinate concern to individual wants and needs. Or the idea that if the market were accessible directly by patients that would solve anything, as if insurers donât create economies of scale that benefit us all.
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People love to get mad at this guy for stupid reasons.
I have to imagine that if I liked NICKEL BOYS enough to recommend it to someone else, I probably wouldn't pirate and distribute an underperforming film now in a crucial wide release after landing the nomination for Best Picture â but sure, this is also a choice
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Idg why this is supposed to be depressing.
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Iâm gonna cry lol. We did it, Joe.
The King of Physical Media reveals all. #TracyLetts #MovieNight.
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I also prefer living in the city but going to the store in the burbs is not a big deal.
Nothing sold urbanism harder for me growing up in suburban LA than when you just needed one thing (like trash bags), but needed to drive 10 min and be bored waiting at lights to get it. This meme can literally convert people:
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Are you people blind? Babylon sucked. I know people want there to be a millennial PTA but it just ainât happening.
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A great many people are too into movies imo. The only thing that matters is the finished product on screen.
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@jpcsuka @questionableway Yeah I get the sense that a lot of people just donât like activities that lack a social component. Nobody reading used to bother me and now Iâm like eh, whatever, I like being alone for a couple hours a day.
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This is going to be the best looking one of these in 30 years what are you talking about. âGareth Edwards Jurassic Parkâ is like the ideal version of a 2020s summer movie.
Never-before-seen levels of washed incoming.
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For a while it looked like Trump was going to win and also maybe something about refrigerated trucks storing bodies in New York???.
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Guy whoâs bummed itâs not Blue Thunder.
Christopher Nolanâs next film âThe Odysseyâ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology. The film brings Homerâs foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026.
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So it turns out people who went to Harvard really are better. Good to know lol.
Private high school in New York, went to Harvard, surprised the plebs would cheer for Luigi Mangione
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Elite campaign work.
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The Odyssey is going to chart on Amazon. Watch Ulysses get a little bump from all the new Homerbros. Nolan has probably got a tighter grip on the public than any filmmaker ever.
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If I were super successful and bought my children all sorts of fancy opportunities Iâd write them out of the will if they pulled a stunt like this.
Barack Obama Reveals Malia Dropped Surname Off Latest Short Film's Credits
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@FilmBart Mikey Madison a Heavenâs Gate head? Damn might have to start rooting for her again.
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Whatâs Anora even supposed to be about? That being a stripper is a hard life? That rich people suck? I cannot believe such a nothing movie has drummed up so much praise and attention.
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The dissonance is wild. Is it simply âWe are the party of College Degree Havers so any immigrant who might compete with them is Bad and anyone who will merely mow their lawn is Goodâ?.
Senator Sanders is right. We must stand against worker exploitation in all forms, be it American workers, workers overseas, or immigrant workers here in America. The ruling class wants cheap labor and will game any system to secure it.
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Iâm mad at John Mulaney but for a different reason (betraying us dweebs and getting Chad surgery).
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Itâs pretty funny that the Academy is giving Villeneuve the Nolan treatment. Yâall just figured out you were wrong about Nolan all along! You donât have to do this again!.
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On one hand I disagree on the other I probably would trade the film for a Joanna Newsom Inherent Vice audiobook. So.
PTA's worst film and a deficient take on a great novel.
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If I were elected President the first couple weeks thereâd be all sorts of leaked memos about acceptable typefaces and formatting in government documents.
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Elves are getting bigger.
my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 82
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