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On 10/2/2021 at 3:51 PM, SeanC said:
As far as the trailer goes, it's very heavily skewing toward conveying a vibe rather than story or characters, so it's hard for me to say much about it. But given the director, I'll being seeing it regardless.
Same here. And it turns out the trailer gave me almost no hint of what the movie was going to be, other than the vibe. And it contained quite a few scenes that aren't in the movie at all.
But suffice to say, this is not a movie about two schoolmates finding love.
On 9/28/2021 at 12:21 PM, blackwing said:I know that Philip Seymour Hoffman was a favourite of Paul Thomas Anderson, so apparently Anderson cast Hoffman's son as the lead, in his first movie role ever. Kid doesn't seem to have it. I'm sure he will make an OK career getting cast in Anderson movies, so I guess the connection helps, but still.
He was very very good, and Alana Haim even more so. And it was the first movie for both of them.
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4 hours ago, theatremouse said:
It was a little cringey when Collins was talking about no actors' marriages lasting and turned to Tucci...
Are you talking about the part where his first marriage didn't last because his wife died?
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17 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
I certainly agree with Larry about the fence law, but even if it got repealed, it was a law when this whole mess started, so I don't know how that would solve Larry's problem with the show.
This has bugged me because I'm not sure about retroactivity of a repeal. For example, if people were fined under that ordinance would they get their money back after it's repealed? I wouldn't think so, but I don't know.
But this isn't a fine--he's being sued in civil court. And if he's being sued for negligence for not having a fence, perhaps the fact that the fence requirement was repealed could be used as evidence that his actions weren't negligent.
That said, I'm not sure he was noncompliant anyway, since Santa Monica's ordinance says "The swimming pool or spa, or the entire parcel on which it is located, shall be walled or fenced from the street or from adjacent properties." I would find it hard to believe you can access Larry David's back yard without going through a gate (or through the house).
http://www.qcode.us/codes/santamonica/view.php?topic=9-3-9_21-9_21_160&frames=on
But speaking of going through the house to get to the pool, Phoenix requires both external and internal barriers, and if the house itself is part of the internal barrier (i.e., there isn't a fence that completely surrounds the pool itself), the doors that lead directly to the pool have to be self-closing and self-latching. There's an exception to the internal barrier requirement for pools permitted before 1990 if everyone in the house is over 6 years old, and latches have to be a certain height (in Santa Monica, too), so it's all about protecting children.
https://www.phoenix.gov/housingsite/Pages/inspectionsD_031194.aspx
Which might be another defense in a civil suit for negligence--the harm was not done to the people the ordinance was intended to protect.
Then again, this is a teevee show and not a documentary.
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I'd say it was a middling show, which means it was stellar compared to talk shows in the U.S. I did enjoy the knowledgeable critiques of the big red chair stories, and I always enjoy Romesh Ranganathan, even though the only reason I know he even exists is from seeing him on this show.
Lil Nas X wasn't there--it was a singer named Joy something who, to judge from the blurring, has a bare-breasted photo of herself on her album cover. And I'm glad she didn't have on the usual short tight dress women wear on these shows, because the way she sat down would have had the show pulled from the airwaves. Most women dress inappropriately for sitting along, and she pulled off an outfit that works for both sitting and performing. Good work, Joy, whoever you are.
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On 12/18/2021 at 7:53 PM, BusyOctober said:
facial tattoos just make me squirm. I do not like them!
Me neither. But I've turned those lemons into lemonade for me, by thinking, "Thank you for branding yourself for my convenience."
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On 12/20/2021 at 3:32 PM, Blakeston said:
Speaking of money, I honestly thought the vase would be worth a lot more, considering how much money the Greenes throw around, and how Jeff described the cost as astronomical. $10,000 is astronomical for most of us, but not for the people in Larry's social circles.
$10,000 tchotchkes add up.
I continue to be entranced by Larry's walk. The hands in the pockets are crucial, and possibly because of skinnier pant legs these days, I've noticed he's bow-legged.
Usually when we see him walking, he's shot from his knees up (there's actually a term for this--plan américain; thank you, film class in college). But there was a scene (I think walking into the antique store) where you could see his feet and he was putting them in front of each other, like models on a catwalk. I wonder if that has something to do with it.
Plus he has a slight backward lean, reminiscent of R. Crumb's Keep on Truckin' guy, that I think exudes casual confidence.
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On 12/22/2021 at 4:49 PM, Bastet said:
I'm still undecided how I feel about the song, and I overall liked it, but this I unequivocally disliked. Amateur hour.
I think it made more of an impression on me because I was thinking, "I know this song, but not this song," so I was listening carefully and then I realized it was "Shiny Happy People" by R.E.M., and then I realized I was for possibly the first time ever understanding the lyrics of an R.E.M. song (I'm from the "Radio Free Europe" days), and then I noticed they were matching images up to individual words. It was all too much.
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1 minute ago, shapeshifter said:
Wait. So you thought they were asking how well you were getting along with your sister or whoever? LOL
Actually, I thought they were asking about the quality of the conversation, and that you were using it correctly--1 star if your sister was irritating, 5 stars if it was a good conversation. I didn't realize it was subversive until you said it. Seriously.
I guess it says a lot about how I feel about Facebook and its data collection practices.
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Yeah, I noticed that, but since it didn't go anywhere, I didn't think it rose to gaslighting.
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On 11/18/2021 at 4:05 PM, shapeshifter said:
At the end of each conversation, a screen pops up and asks about the quality of my call/conversation. ....
It's obviously asking about the technical quality of the call
Actually, it never occurred to me it was asking about the technical quality of the call, and was appalled that Facebook was collecting such data. Not surprised, of course, because it's Facebook.
But yeah, technical quality must be what they mean. For now, anyway.
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I was going to ask, "Did she at least use the term correctly?" But then I read the Snopes article and she didn't. Sigh. She was asking Desi if he was cheating on her, and he said he wasn't. She said, "When you stay out all night, you're on the boat playing cards?" He says yes. That's lying. It's not gaslighting.
Further down in the article, it says there was an episode of I Love Lucy where "Arnaz plays an elaborate prank on Ball, convincing her that she had not, in fact, met the French actor Charles Boyer, in a Paris restaurant." That's gaslighting.
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On 12/23/2021 at 6:12 AM, MissAlmond said:
But TCM Remembers has always done that coordination with song lyrics.
I didn't know that. I don't like it because it seems lazy. Or, more accurately, it seems like something I would do because I don't have an artistic bone in my body.
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7 hours ago, Bookish Jen said:
Well, that's a bummer. I turn 55 in March, and that's when senior citizen discounts start at some places. I hope I can get them.
Unfortunately for you, movie theaters are usually 60 (AMC, Regal) or 62 (Cinemark). I've seen some art houses hold firm at 65.
If I were 55, I'd buy my ticket from a person at the box office and show vaccination status on a flip phone, and say, "One for X Movie," and leave it up to them to determine how decrepit you seem. But remember the warning "Watch out what you ask for" if you're trying to wahoo your way into a senior discount; they don't mean to hurt your feelings.
7 hours ago, Bookish Jen said:One of my favorite movie theaters opened up after being closed due to Covid and some refurbishing. Unfortunately, they haven't been showing movies I actually want to see. I hope that changes in the new year.
I've been loving going to the show during the pandemic. I had the foresight to write down the number of people who were in the theater when I went. Since theaters reopened in August 2020, I've been to 25 shows where I was the only one in the theater.
That's almost half of all the shows I went to, and the vast majority of the rest had either 2, 3, or 4 other people.
The most crowded "regular" movies were Nightmare Alley on opening day (7 others), and the first Monday of The French Dispatch, in the evening (9 others). When I went back a couple of days later to an earlier matinee of The French Dispatch, there were 2 people there. That's more like it.
The biggest crowd was for a one-time-only showing of Bo Burnham: Inside, where there were 15 people in an enormous theater.
Admittedly, early in the reopening they were showing "old" movies, but I loved seeing some Clint Eastwood westerns on the big screen. And my private screenings did include current releases like Nobody, News of the World, Ammonite, Judas and the Black Messiah.
And now we have...yesterday. I went to see the 3-hour Japanese film Drive My Car at the Music Box in Chicago. Holy hell. It was in the smaller theater, which holds I'd guess 75 people and it was at least half full. And these are regular seats, not recliners that are spaced way apart, so we were close.
Normally I'd turn around and leave, but I'd driven two hours to get there, and it's showing only once a day and this was a Tuesday at 4:15 and I doubt other screenings are going to be less populated. So I pulled out a second mask, made a semi-burka with my muffler, was glad don't mind sitting in the front row and therefore didn't have anyone next to me (although there were people in every other seat even in the front row, and there were people two feet from the back of my head), and hoped for the best.
And as if that wasn't enough, when my movie ended, the other movie showing was also ending, and the lobby (tiny, because it's an historic single-screen theater) was mobbed. They had shown It's a Wonderful Life in the main theater, which has to have like 700 seats, and there were hundreds of people there, and it was preceded by singing Christmas carols. Do we still have super spreader events? Although it was probably safer than our little theater, if you calculate cubic feet per person.
I know my having private screenings wasn't a sustainable business model for the theaters, but dang.
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5 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
Awww, I really like that they used clips of some actors when they were younger and then older, like Dean Stockwell.
Me, too.
Anybody have a clue why there was neon glassblowing?
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8 hours ago, GussieK said:
Adding to my previous post. I hope someone else watches this
Okay this made me snort, coming after the savaging of the movie in your first post.
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I thought it was treacly. And even though it was a maudlin version, I question the use of a song called "Shiny Happy People," although there is one line about putting something in the ground, so that fits.
Demerits for obviousness, when it cuts to George Segal laughing when the song lyrics say "laughing," and cutting to Michael K. Williams starting to weep when the lyrics say "cry."
And what's with the neon glass blowing?
I hope unpopular opinions are okay here. 😀
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Well this takes the cake. I went to an independent theater today and showed my vaccination card on my flip phone (the kid checking it loved it), and when I turned to buy my ticket, the girl asked if I was a senior and I said I was, and she rang up my ticket and there was no discount. So I got insulted AND didn't get a discount.
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On 11/27/2021 at 7:06 AM, Browncoat said:
I suppose it's more difficult with the masking situation, and they're just going by my salt-and-pepper hair, but I've had that since my early 30s. They gave me the discount twice in the last week.
I'm sure it's the hair, and the masks cover up features that might rebut the hair.
I'm 64. I've been carded twice at Costco for using senior hours, and just the other day the clerk at Walgreens pushed back when I asked for the senior discount even though the age there is FIFTY. So I'd say I'm not someone who is automatically assumed to be eligible for a senior discount.
But well before I was 60 I noticed that I was automatically getting the senior discount at the local art house when I'd go for my weekday early afternoon matinees. I think it was because it was all old people going to some obscure movie that young people wouldn't be interested in, and they assumed I was just one of them.
Also, these days, if you buy a ticket in person and not in advance or at a kiosk, they probably assume you're old no matter what you look like. 😀
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On 12/18/2021 at 3:56 AM, AngieBee1 said:
He said, "I've always hated you."
Harsh!
I'm not a fan of cruelty at all so at the beginning, with the guy and the chicken, I was wondering why in the world I'd decided to see it, especially because carnies give me the creeps in all situations. But it got much more tolerable, and I'm glad I stuck it out.
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41 minutes ago, Bastet said:
The 20th anniversary special premiered a while back (looking it up: Nov. 2019, apparently), so it must have been re-aired as part of the fundraising drive.
As I was typing that there were fundraising appeals in it, it occurred to me that it was an older episode, and I usually verify stuff like that before posting. But I find ATK almost impenetrable when it comes to figuring out the episodes, and apparently chose to ignore the possibility.
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The anniversary show was used as a promotion, so it was 1-1/2 hours long, with fundraising pleas interspersed.
There was some behind-the-scenes stuff that I thought was really interesting.
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11 hours ago, Gemma Violet said:
I'm 65 years old and consider myself pretty up-to-date on pop culture, but I've never in my life heard the song Christmas Shoes. (If it's a country song, that explains it, as I never listen to country music.)
I'd never heard of it (64 and most definitely not up-to-date on pop culture), but I watched the Patton Oswalt thing posted upthread, and he said it's by a Christian group called New Song (which led into his saying they'll forever be living in an Abbot and Costello routine: "We have a new song." "By who?" "New Song." "Exactly." "What?" "Oh, fuck this.").
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Did y'all watch the 20th anniversary show? There was a hilarious scene from back when Bridget made pizza and pushed it in the oven and it slid down the back of the oven. I'd say the look on her face was priceless, but you couldn't actually see her face because of the camera angle, but you knew what her face looked like as she stood there with her mouth open. I laughed so hard Mr. Outlier had to come see what was so funny.
All in all, Bridget came off really likable throughout the show. Everybody, actually, but Bridget is a lot of fun.
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10 hours ago, Spunkygal said:
I have never been to Arkansas and have wanted to go to the Crystal Bridges Museum (a brainchild of Alice Walton’s) for many years after hearing people rave about it. The museum did not disappoint. The architecture and setting of the museum alone were just as impressive as the art. I would definitely go back.
Not me. The museum guards acted like Walmart greeters, roaming around and chatting everybody up. Then I saw a teenager lean on a big painting--he extended his arm and put his hand on the painting and leaned his body weight on it. I was standing nearby, as was a guard (who was asking me what I thought about the architectural model I was looking at), and there was a staff person at the entrance desk right there, too. I blurted out, "Don't touch the art!" without even thinking. The employees did nothing, and the kid's family gave me a dirty look.
That convinced me that a free museum in Arkansas might not be a great idea.
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Can I move in? Buildings, sets and filming locations that take your breath away
in Everything Else Movies
I want to live in one of the bungalows in Swing Shift. If I like all the neighbors.