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It's a little genre-savvy but I'd say it reminded me more of the Wachowski's Speed Racer than anything MCU: it's sincere to the point that crosses hardcore into corny, and meta in its relationship with the real world.
October 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It's a little genre-savvy but I'd say it reminded me more of the Wachowski's Speed Racer than anything MCU: it's sincere to the point that crosses hardcore into corny, and meta in its relationship with the real world.
-Superhero movie because it's both sensitive and mean spirited in the way that his first two films are, and does have a detached relationship with violence and accidedntal murder played for gags which is more at home with his roots but with the sheen of his superhero stuff. It's my fave of his lol
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
-Superhero movie because it's both sensitive and mean spirited in the way that his first two films are, and does have a detached relationship with violence and accidedntal murder played for gags which is more at home with his roots but with the sheen of his superhero stuff. It's my fave of his lol
The thing with his Suicide Squad is whilst I think it's very emotionally impactful with the trauma bonding and I love the characters and the blunt commentary on American imperialism...
It's also Gunn's attempt to make a 100 million troma movie, which works for me as a Troma fan but makes it an odd-
It's also Gunn's attempt to make a 100 million troma movie, which works for me as a Troma fan but makes it an odd-
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The thing with his Suicide Squad is whilst I think it's very emotionally impactful with the trauma bonding and I love the characters and the blunt commentary on American imperialism...
It's also Gunn's attempt to make a 100 million troma movie, which works for me as a Troma fan but makes it an odd-
It's also Gunn's attempt to make a 100 million troma movie, which works for me as a Troma fan but makes it an odd-
Not *planning* to make it, but being smart and aware enough that if you have a Mike Flanagan script you make a damn movie out of that and having the Challengers team behind a Sargeant Rock movie, only not working out cause WB had tax issues and Luca was busy's just *so* real. Guy likes movies!
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Not *planning* to make it, but being smart and aware enough that if you have a Mike Flanagan script you make a damn movie out of that and having the Challengers team behind a Sargeant Rock movie, only not working out cause WB had tax issues and Luca was busy's just *so* real. Guy likes movies!
A lot - he writes his needle drops into his scripts, which is highly unconventional but you can't knock the taste
October 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A lot - he writes his needle drops into his scripts, which is highly unconventional but you can't knock the taste
I meant *this*, the joke being how opposed to their modern 'brand' it is!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusk_(2...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusk_(2...
September 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I meant *this*, the joke being how opposed to their modern 'brand' it is!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusk_(2...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusk_(2...
Can't wait for the pretentious bound screenplay for... *checks notes* ...Tusk?
September 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Can't wait for the pretentious bound screenplay for... *checks notes* ...Tusk?
I think writing off everything as a24's a bit reductive because of this: they're a distributor. They sometimes put out good movies. They sometimes put out bad ones. By buying into it as a vision or a voice you buy into the lie the distributor sells you to make it a brand.
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I think writing off everything as a24's a bit reductive because of this: they're a distributor. They sometimes put out good movies. They sometimes put out bad ones. By buying into it as a vision or a voice you buy into the lie the distributor sells you to make it a brand.
I have a friend that said 'I'm showing [this person] a24 movies for the first time so they know movies are still good', and it bugged me. Bro, you wouldn't say 'showing someone a Warner Bros film so they know they're still good.' The distributor's not the filmmaker.
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I have a friend that said 'I'm showing [this person] a24 movies for the first time so they know movies are still good', and it bugged me. Bro, you wouldn't say 'showing someone a Warner Bros film so they know they're still good.' The distributor's not the filmmaker.
...Longlegs was a Neon release. I think assuming that all 'kinda arty horror movies but not actual art horror' are an a24 release is just playing into their brand, and why said brand sucks for horror filmmakers since Hereditary - the voice is that of the studio, and they get the credit.
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
...Longlegs was a Neon release. I think assuming that all 'kinda arty horror movies but not actual art horror' are an a24 release is just playing into their brand, and why said brand sucks for horror filmmakers since Hereditary - the voice is that of the studio, and they get the credit.
You'd probably know him if you look him up, he's in...a LOT of stuff
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You'd probably know him if you look him up, he's in...a LOT of stuff
I remember reading Shadow of the Sith, and I can't explain how bizzarely happy I was that *that* was the answer!
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I remember reading Shadow of the Sith, and I can't explain how bizzarely happy I was that *that* was the answer!
Trying to equate that as being microcosmic of sacrificing another life for your own. It's a weird quirk, but it works.
Except with Holes. Holes does not work. Partly cause it's just adaptationally insane and mostly because it's all of Kelly's crazy with none of his substance.
Except with Holes. Holes does not work. Partly cause it's just adaptationally insane and mostly because it's all of Kelly's crazy with none of his substance.
August 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Trying to equate that as being microcosmic of sacrificing another life for your own. It's a weird quirk, but it works.
Except with Holes. Holes does not work. Partly cause it's just adaptationally insane and mostly because it's all of Kelly's crazy with none of his substance.
Except with Holes. Holes does not work. Partly cause it's just adaptationally insane and mostly because it's all of Kelly's crazy with none of his substance.
It's *in* Domino, but done more subtlely and solely via Tom Waits in a single scene. I think it's just an obsession of his that works in his finished films *because* the apocalyptic elements are built into Donnie's mental health issues, Southland Tales' plot revolves around it and The Box is
August 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It's *in* Domino, but done more subtlely and solely via Tom Waits in a single scene. I think it's just an obsession of his that works in his finished films *because* the apocalyptic elements are built into Donnie's mental health issues, Southland Tales' plot revolves around it and The Box is
No? He said he was gonna follow the lore and timeline, just not use characters from the games because he can't improve on them, which I think makes sense.
August 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
No? He said he was gonna follow the lore and timeline, just not use characters from the games because he can't improve on them, which I think makes sense.
(It’s basically as much of a spiritual Hot Rod sequel as a Naked Gun movie.)
August 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
(It’s basically as much of a spiritual Hot Rod sequel as a Naked Gun movie.)
It's great because whilst it shares a lotta the originals sense of humour it's co-written and directed by Aliva Shaffer (with uncredited work by Jorma) so it ends up with a lot of that Lonely Island surrealism that really makes it stick out as its own thing and is extremely funny.
August 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
It's great because whilst it shares a lotta the originals sense of humour it's co-written and directed by Aliva Shaffer (with uncredited work by Jorma) so it ends up with a lot of that Lonely Island surrealism that really makes it stick out as its own thing and is extremely funny.
To the point where Slott, America's most dedicated Whovian, writing a mid F4 run seems almost unbelievable, like surely this is what he should've been prepping his whole career for?
July 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
To the point where Slott, America's most dedicated Whovian, writing a mid F4 run seems almost unbelievable, like surely this is what he should've been prepping his whole career for?
No, he hasn't!
(Wish there was a less curt roundabout 'here's all the details' way of going how he hasn't got in trouble, but like, he wasn't lol)
(Wish there was a less curt roundabout 'here's all the details' way of going how he hasn't got in trouble, but like, he wasn't lol)
July 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
No, he hasn't!
(Wish there was a less curt roundabout 'here's all the details' way of going how he hasn't got in trouble, but like, he wasn't lol)
(Wish there was a less curt roundabout 'here's all the details' way of going how he hasn't got in trouble, but like, he wasn't lol)
Who was cuter, Superman or Krypto?
July 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Who was cuter, Superman or Krypto?
This speaks to a part of my soul I'm ashamed to admit to
June 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This speaks to a part of my soul I'm ashamed to admit to
I agree with Rogen, but honestly I like the parent stuff because, especially for Michelle Williams, there's, to me, this feeling of her despair and struggles encroaching into the movie and into Sammy's reality, I think it's neat and appropriately thorny!
June 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I agree with Rogen, but honestly I like the parent stuff because, especially for Michelle Williams, there's, to me, this feeling of her despair and struggles encroaching into the movie and into Sammy's reality, I think it's neat and appropriately thorny!
He then followed it up with The Fablemans, one of the most self-critical autobios I've ever seen and *another* late period masterpiece
I feel like his 2010s were up and down but his 2020s?? Spielberg's cooking
I feel like his 2010s were up and down but his 2020s?? Spielberg's cooking
June 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
He then followed it up with The Fablemans, one of the most self-critical autobios I've ever seen and *another* late period masterpiece
I feel like his 2010s were up and down but his 2020s?? Spielberg's cooking
I feel like his 2010s were up and down but his 2020s?? Spielberg's cooking
I will say I do prefer earlier mostly on location 'we can't afford to frame it like this, move the camera' Wes and the mix of it with handheld camerawork on Life Aquatic but idk...it's just kinda disingenuous to say all his movies look the same and that's how he budgets well lol
June 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I will say I do prefer earlier mostly on location 'we can't afford to frame it like this, move the camera' Wes and the mix of it with handheld camerawork on Life Aquatic but idk...it's just kinda disingenuous to say all his movies look the same and that's how he budgets well lol
...There's stylistic touchstones with the symmetry and whip pans and neat diorama frames, but they do have unique vis that makes out their unique themes and approach - Asteroid City uses heavy overhead lights, an alien puppet and sets for showing it's all a play and real life in b+w and on location
June 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
...There's stylistic touchstones with the symmetry and whip pans and neat diorama frames, but they do have unique vis that makes out their unique themes and approach - Asteroid City uses heavy overhead lights, an alien puppet and sets for showing it's all a play and real life in b+w and on location