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SeanC

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  1. My ranking:

    1. The Swan
    2. Poison
    3. The Rat Catcher
    4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

    The first three are all interesting tonal departures from Anderson's typical aesthetic. At the same time, I thought The Swan made a particularly good case for the distanced narrative style he chose to employ, because I don't know that most people would be interested to watch a more naturalistic rendering of that story.

  2. On 9/5/2023 at 3:13 PM, ShadowHunter said:

    As far as the music goes I am fine with them not having any of his music but it is weird. Elvis and Me has his music in it. Oh right Elvis is on this resurgence right now thanks to the movie and we didn't have twitter in the 80s when the miniseries aired to call him out on. 

    No, the difference is that in the 1980s the Presley family (i.e., Priscilla) still controlled Elvis Presley Enterprises, whereas now they have only a small minority stake, so this is a bunch of businessmen with no personal connection to Elvis issuing these statements.

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  3. On 8/18/2023 at 12:18 PM, Artsda said:

    The brothers should both be done with Belly and choose their relationship. They are brothers and family. Her bouncing between them has already caused enough between them and she's  still doing it.  

    I do not understand why some people think Belly should immediately know which of them she prefers, especially since the circumstances are constantly fluctuating as well. It's not her fault that both of them are interested in her and she likes both of them.

    On 8/18/2023 at 12:18 PM, Artsda said:

    See you Fourth of July is sad to say to your brother. Essentially no relationship but holidays now. 

    Huh? He said he'd see them then because he's focusing on the move out to California (which seems like it's happening pretty rapidly, incidentally, but whatever).

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  4. 10 hours ago, chrisrose said:

    But Belly's the clueless one here. :P I know she's not the source of *all* the conflict between Conrad and Jeremiah, but she's certainly not helping, bouncing back and forth between them. Make a choice and stick to it, fer cryin' out loud. Stop playing with people's feelings.

    She's not "playing with people's feelings". She has feelings for both of them, and they change depending on the circumstances, obviously including how they act toward her. She did actively choose Conrad, then that ended, and now they're both very obviously broadcasting their interest in her again.

    I have never understood why so many people act like she is the only one who has agency in this.

    9 hours ago, tired and hungry said:

    Also Steven is a total a**.. First you break her heart then when she finally moves on, you decide for yourself that the new guy "isnt right for her" and start making moves on her to win her back?

    Huh? Steven has never dated Taylor previously. 

  5. 2 hours ago, Kiki620 said:

    Another glossed over detail.  You're telling me you have access to that amazing beach house and you never go and just let your estranged half-sister act like it's completely 100% hers?  

    Julia, from what we’ve seen, doesn’t like Cousins Beach. She seems to associate it primarily with unhappy family times, given that they’re estranged.

  6. That's two episodes in a row that deploy a fairly modest hangout premise to fill out the hour. I like that whole vibe.

    I like getting Jeremiah's POV (also, heh, the clips from last season highlight how much some of the actors have changed in a fairly short time).

  7. 14 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

    The New York Times article is so pretentious. No one is writing a similar article about, say, the Flash. 

    Why is that a surprise? By basically all accounts there is a massive difference in artistry and quality between the two, and Gerwig is one of the most acclaimed young(ish) auteurs of the past decade.

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  8. 1 hour ago, LennieBriscoe said:

    I doubt there are any theaters with a double-feature, same-room-viewing, of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer." Seeing both movies in one day in different screening rooms is not a "double feature." 

    It is in the modern parlance, since there are no classic double features anymore.

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  9. On 7/14/2023 at 7:14 PM, Artsda said:

    As someone who is an aunt to 2 nephews, not even recognizing Jeremiah was wow.  How horrible an aunt and family member especially after losing their mom, that's when an aunt should step up.

    With the reference to them being half-siblings, based on their relative ages, I'd say that their father ditched Julia's mother for Susannah's, hence them not being close at all.

    On 7/14/2023 at 7:14 PM, Artsda said:

    Wouldn't the boys get their mothers half?

    Not if it was held in joint tenancy (presumably left to them as such by the aforementioned father). In that case, whichever of the sisters outlived the other would inherit the whole thing.

    2 hours ago, tired and hungry said:

    I don't really care whom she picks or which brother is "right" for her tbh it's just that she plays with everyone's feelings too much and I have a feeling it's going to happen again in S2.

    That seems rather unfair to me, particularly given that she is the youngest person involved in this triangle and has the least relationship experience. She's not playing with anyone, she has feelings for both of them and circumstances (including the boys' own actions) have made it a messy situation.

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  10. 5 hours ago, ursula said:

    I'm just confused why he isn't short. 

    Napoleon was not actually short, he was of average height for the period. The notion that he was tiny was a caricature created by British cartoonists during the Napoleonic Wars that has stuck around ever since.

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  11. 3 hours ago, millennium said:

    I know the promoters want us to believe Barbie is a must-see "event," but the last movie to be hyped like this was The Flash (btw, Is Michael Keaton's Batman in Barbie?)

    I don't see any similarities between this and the marketing for The Flash; the latter never generated much actual excitement anywhere.

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  12. 9 minutes ago, BooBear said:

    Such as...What was with that elaborate ruse so Ethan could talk to Kittridge at the start?

    As Ethan said, he wanted to investigate what Kittridge and the rest of the intelligence bosses were talking about with respect to the key, as at that point he knew very little about what was going on.

    9 minutes ago, BooBear said:

    Why did the AI seem to want to fridge someone to hurt Ethan? That isn't like a computer to want to be vindictive.

    Also explained (speculated, but it's logical enough) by Luther: the Entity wants to make sure that if Ethan defeats Gabriel, he will kill him, which will prevent Gabriel from potentially disclosing any of the secrets that he knows.

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  13. 2 hours ago, Anduin said:

    But for those who do know about Napoleon's career, which battle is that towards the end? With the cannons firing into the ice and all.

    That is a famous, if oft-contested, anecdote from the Battle of Austerlitz (also called the Battle of the Three Emperors), where Napoleon defeated the larger combined armies of the Russian Tsar and the Emperor of Austria. Typically considered his masterpiece battle.

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  14. Sir Ridley Scott is somehow still able to get studios to give him enormous sums to fund historical epics despite audiences having mostly (sadly) deserted that genre in the past decade or so. We should all be thankful for his salesmanship.

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  15. I was eager to see this, though also approached with some trepidation, since this has probably been the most lauded film of the first half of 2023, so it'd be disappointing if I didn't like it.

    Not a problem, as it turned out. I thought this was some beautiful filmmaking. And I appreciate that Song, unlike a lot of Canadian directors who head south for their careers, keeps some of the CanCon in her work.

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  16. Spoiler

    Mutt dies in Vietnam. 10/10, no notes.

    Disney and Lucasfilm were apparently under the impression that they had a Mad Max: Fury Road-style critical smash blockbuster on their hands, which was a major misjudgment based on the response at Cannes; but that is not to say that Dial of Destiny is bad. I enjoyed it, and you could make the case for it against at least one prior entry. Fans of the series will probably find a lot to enjoy here as well.

    Notably, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Helena is the best foil Dr. Jones has had since Karen Allen in the original Raiders of the Lost Ark. The story is overall well-paced, makes good use of its 1969 setting, and, unusually for the sort of legacy sequel that has become very familiar over the past ten years or so it is not suffocated in callbacks to previous films.

    At the same time, the obvious must be stated: James Mangold is not Steven Spielberg, and this is noticeable, in particular, any time the action starts to rev up. Mangold is a very good director in his own right, a better director than (say) any of the people who have been tasked with keeping the Terminator franchise running after James Cameron, and he has made at least a few films that I would rate higher than at least half of Spielberg's Indiana Jones films. But you still miss Spielberg's camera, and the digital look that already started in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is obviously even more pronounced here.

    All that said, when assessing this series as a whole: Raiders of the Lost Ark was cinematic lightning in a bottle, a true classic. Every subsequent entry, setting aside nostalgia goggles, has not approached that level. Dial of Destiny is not a great film, but I think it sits comfortably enough in the canon and serves as an amiable ending for Indy. Say a 3.5 out of 5, probably a shade generous, but good fun.

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  17. I was surprised to discover there wasn't already a thread about this. I'd have assumed I had created one back when the trailer came out.

    The midcentury Americana setting (plus some prominent teen characters) reminds me a bit of Moonrise Kingdom, which isn't a bad thing at all since that's one of the best films of the 2010s. In this case, the theme seems to be a lot of emphasis on the search for meaning/answers in life, so we're getting a bit existential here, as well as Anderson's using framing devices to create layers of storytelling (as he's done before, most notably in The Grand Budapest Hotel).

    Among returning members of Wes' company of players, Jason Schwartzman gets his first true lead role from Anderson since Rushmore launched his career, albeit with a very different sort of character. Jeffrey Wright also has a lot of fun with a more purely silly supporting role in comparison to The French Dispatch.

    Newcomers to Wes World include a very charming Maya Hawke and America's dad, Tom Hanks, who fits in really well in a very slightly atypical sort of casting for him.

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  18. 35 minutes ago, Trini said:

    I've heard of Brosnahan but I'm not familiar with either actor; so I'm pretty neutral on this casting news.

    This is a clip of Corenswet (from the Ryan Murphy alternate history series Hollywood from a couple of years ago) that people have been circulating since the casting rumours started:

     

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