Aaron Hammond
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Aaron Hammond
@aaronhammond88.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Alright, let’s do this:
The Top 60 New-To-Me Films for 2024.
The Top 60 New-To-Me Films for 2024.
Watching BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS for the first time since it came out. Their most cynical, death-shrouded work. In retrospect it feels like it’s from artists who know they might be at the end of the line.
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Watching BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS for the first time since it came out. Their most cynical, death-shrouded work. In retrospect it feels like it’s from artists who know they might be at the end of the line.
Part of me still wants to go see RUNNING MAN, I still defend Wright’s less-liked work (I like SOHO so sue me) but it’s hard to work up enthusiasm for him in “We have Paul Verhoeven at home” mode. Also it sounds like it might’ve been a hatchet job behind-the-scenes
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Part of me still wants to go see RUNNING MAN, I still defend Wright’s less-liked work (I like SOHO so sue me) but it’s hard to work up enthusiasm for him in “We have Paul Verhoeven at home” mode. Also it sounds like it might’ve been a hatchet job behind-the-scenes
Found out today that allegedly Criterion is working on Scorsese’s CAPE FEAR, which fucking rules because that Universal blu is horribly washed-out
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Found out today that allegedly Criterion is working on Scorsese’s CAPE FEAR, which fucking rules because that Universal blu is horribly washed-out
I told one of my Gen Z co-workers that this book was a masterpiece and they gave me a look like they were about to call the cops on me. I found it deeply amusing
People have been misinterpreting Lolita since it came out and Nabokov was like "you're absolutely wrong; I wrote this to create a trap that you fell into and you should reflect on why you were so gullible about a monster."
![INTERVIEWER
He does [names him]. A third critic has said that you “diminish” your characters “to the point where they become ciphers in a cosmic farce.” I disagree; Humbert, while comic, retains a touching and insistent quality—that of the spoiled artist.
NABOKOV
I would put it differently: Humbert Humbert is a vain and cruel wretch who manages to appear “touching.” That epithet, in its true, tear-iridized sense, can only apply to my poor little girl. Besides, how can I “diminish” to the level of ciphers, et cetera, characters that I have invented myself? One can “diminish” a biographee, but not an eidolon.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sajwk2kma5oeryy6odgweciz/bafkreibqwlfwj2jyd3apcdb22rbcxsvxpnw36ryqpgqwyu3kc4cn2rbkxm@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I told one of my Gen Z co-workers that this book was a masterpiece and they gave me a look like they were about to call the cops on me. I found it deeply amusing
Masterpiece. Anyone tries to tell you otherwise, rend them asunder
Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula Is Genuinely Great
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Masterpiece. Anyone tries to tell you otherwise, rend them asunder
I love this movie so much. There’s a direct line from this to CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON, old pain and new passions dancing around each other
About to watch a Dude's Rock Classic...that's right it's time to crack open the SENSE AND SENSIBILITY 4K
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I love this movie so much. There’s a direct line from this to CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON, old pain and new passions dancing around each other
About to watch a Dude's Rock Classic...that's right it's time to crack open the SENSE AND SENSIBILITY 4K
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 AM
About to watch a Dude's Rock Classic...that's right it's time to crack open the SENSE AND SENSIBILITY 4K
This is quite good so far, even if Sayles mastery of dialects makes it so you have to reread the dialogue to make it out, the Scottish brogues are as thick as a haggis dinner.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is quite good so far, even if Sayles mastery of dialects makes it so you have to reread the dialogue to make it out, the Scottish brogues are as thick as a haggis dinner.
Spielberg
who is the person plausibly in the Epstein emails who you would be saddest to discover in the Epstein emails?
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Spielberg
About to watch TWILIGHT.
No, not *that* one.
No, not *that* one, either.
It’s the Hungarian one.
No, not *that* one.
No, not *that* one, either.
It’s the Hungarian one.
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
About to watch TWILIGHT.
No, not *that* one.
No, not *that* one, either.
It’s the Hungarian one.
No, not *that* one.
No, not *that* one, either.
It’s the Hungarian one.
Ah those sickly greens in the trailer for the new Verbinski, how I’ve missed them
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Ah those sickly greens in the trailer for the new Verbinski, how I’ve missed them
The way anything related to AVATAR makes some people start foaming at the mouth in rage always amuses me. No one is making you watch them!
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The way anything related to AVATAR makes some people start foaming at the mouth in rage always amuses me. No one is making you watch them!
Simpsons S6
Mad Men S5
Buffy S2
Angel S5
Slings and Arrows S3
The Wire S4
Futurama S3
Lost S4
Sopranos S5
Arrested Development S2
Breaking Bad S3
Mad Men S5
Buffy S2
Angel S5
Slings and Arrows S3
The Wire S4
Futurama S3
Lost S4
Sopranos S5
Arrested Development S2
Breaking Bad S3
Name your fav season of TV
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Simpsons S6
Mad Men S5
Buffy S2
Angel S5
Slings and Arrows S3
The Wire S4
Futurama S3
Lost S4
Sopranos S5
Arrested Development S2
Breaking Bad S3
Mad Men S5
Buffy S2
Angel S5
Slings and Arrows S3
The Wire S4
Futurama S3
Lost S4
Sopranos S5
Arrested Development S2
Breaking Bad S3
I’m sure this will be a popular answer but reading Michael Chabon’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY for the first time in college was one of the greatest experiences of my life. If you believe the adage like I do that great art is about everything that book is a prime example.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’m sure this will be a popular answer but reading Michael Chabon’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY for the first time in college was one of the greatest experiences of my life. If you believe the adage like I do that great art is about everything that book is a prime example.
Wilbon became an over-it curmudgeon 15 years ago, pay no mind
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Wilbon became an over-it curmudgeon 15 years ago, pay no mind
Always excited to read John Sayles
November 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Always excited to read John Sayles
The James Bond reboot underscoring how fucking literal-minded people have become about art. “How did he come back from the dead?” This is a series where a Korean man got plastic surgery to make himself white! That same movie had *another* villain with diamond blood! Who gives a shit?!
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The James Bond reboot underscoring how fucking literal-minded people have become about art. “How did he come back from the dead?” This is a series where a Korean man got plastic surgery to make himself white! That same movie had *another* villain with diamond blood! Who gives a shit?!
Man I hope what I've heard about the ending of a movie coming out this week isn't true
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Man I hope what I've heard about the ending of a movie coming out this week isn't true
One of the absolute greats, astounding range. THE HUMAN CONDITION in particular is titanic.
hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
One of the absolute greats, astounding range. THE HUMAN CONDITION in particular is titanic.
BONES AND ALL: Guadagnino treats the grisly cannibal element with utmost sincerity, as a result every emotional crescendo and performance (Russell and Chalamet are extraordinary) hits with shocking grace; a beautiful, deeply melancholic road movie that I loved. I hope people come back around to it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
BONES AND ALL: Guadagnino treats the grisly cannibal element with utmost sincerity, as a result every emotional crescendo and performance (Russell and Chalamet are extraordinary) hits with shocking grace; a beautiful, deeply melancholic road movie that I loved. I hope people come back around to it.
About to finally watch BONES AND ALL
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
About to finally watch BONES AND ALL
Man the MNF game is really good this week, sure wish I could watch it
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Man the MNF game is really good this week, sure wish I could watch it
A BIGGER SPLASH: A pas de quatre that finds Guadagnino scaling back the stylistic flourishes and letting the ensemble consisting of four wildly different acting styles bounce off each other (Dakota Johnson I think is MVP here) with aplomb; who give it its combustibility more than the script.
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A BIGGER SPLASH: A pas de quatre that finds Guadagnino scaling back the stylistic flourishes and letting the ensemble consisting of four wildly different acting styles bounce off each other (Dakota Johnson I think is MVP here) with aplomb; who give it its combustibility more than the script.
Now watching: A BIGGER SPLASH
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Now watching: A BIGGER SPLASH