Schizopolis is my bullet-proof number one.
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I think Thirteen is getting an increasingly bad rap as Twelve's reputation (deservedly) grows, and I can't abide by that. I agree with everything you said, and add that it contains both Matt Damon wearing an absurd prosthetic nose and Casey Affleck wearing an absurd mustache and starting a riot at a Mexican…
1. Schizopolis
2. Solaris (I just finished rewatching it, and it finally made the jump from third-place to second)
3. The Informant!
4. The Limey
5. Out of Sight
6. Che
7. King of the Hill
8. And Everything is Going Fine
9. sex, lies, and videotape
10. Behind the Candelabra
11. Ocean's Eleven
12. Traffic
13. Magic Mike XXL (shut…
I see no reason why Bubble wouldn't count.
Mistress America.
I like them both because they take such wildly different approaches to the same basic idea, but yeah, XXL expels the deadweight and has Joe Manganiello ejaculating with a water bottle.
I've read most of the Soderbergh rankings that have come out and:
Have you seen Paterson? He's low-key incredible in that.
I like this one more than the Indiewire one, although the Solaris placement is egregious. Both criminally underrate his actual best movie, Schizopolis, and overrate his worst, Erin Brockovich (fight me), but at least this one recognizes his second best movie, The Informant!.
Since I'm keeping a closer tab on this league than any of the other players combined, I'll let digifreak and Tereglith know that digi's Critical Darling, Lean on Pete, isn't coming out until next year.
Everybody in that movie rules, but I especially love Nicky Katt as the knucklehead hitman. The big scene of him mindlessly riffing on people on a film set is a gem.
Tell him I'm fucking comiiiinnngggggggggggg!
I bought this t-shirt today, because my brand must continue.
His run from Out of Sight to Solaris (maybe even stretching back to Schizopolis) is absolute insanity.
The Underneath is honestly really good right up until the ending, which is the one part of the movie that really suggests Soderbergh's apparent on-set indifference. The sequence with Peter Gallagher in the hospital is one of the best things Soderbergh's ever done.
Yeah, other than the kind of fascinatingly dysfunctional Big Eyes, everything he's made after Sweeney Todd is bad in dispiriting, unfunny ways. If they thought The BFG was a wet fart to end the Spielberg miniseries on, the Miss Peregrine episode is gonna be even rougher.
Now that Blank Check is confirmed to be doing Tim Burton after Kathryn Bigelow, I'm counting down the weeks until I finally get to hear Griffin explain why he likes Big Eyes so much in greater detail.
The Nolan miniseries has been a pretty interesting comedown from the Spielberg miniseries (my favorite thing they've done), which was almost all them operating at full-capacity, while this often feels like listening to two people losing their minds in real time (and occasionally dragging others down with them, as with…
I do agree on the unfortunate lack of guests this miniseries (which is almost certainly due to the Kafkaesque nightmare that is Griffin's scheduling), but I will say that Alex Ross Perry is one of my favorite guests they've ever had on the show.