I love that when I read a review and halfway through start thinking 'damn, I am just enjoying reading this, even if it's a movie I didn't know about and will never see' it's about 90% odds it will turn out to be an IV piece

i find the prequels physically hard to look at, at this point- lucas's use of entirely cgi sets lent itself to what might be the most wildly ugly scenery of pretty much any movie series i've ever seen, and they get worse as they go. the fights mostly don't work (although the three way one in phantom menace almost…

it's kind of hard for something to be empowering if the person who wore it felt forced into it

I'm genuinely confused. The election featured in Our Brand is Crisis is the 2002 election, in which Lozada was supported by Carville et al. As the wikipedia link I posted shows, in that election, Evo came in second (closely followed by Villa.)

Evo beat Villa in that and the following election? https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

it seems worth noting that like…. the dude they got elected in this fell apart within six months and this whole thing fits better into a long range and extremely ugly cycle of America suppressing leftism in south and central America (the candidate they were fighting against is popular actual socialist and native…

If you're on the fence about Churchill, I suggest you look up the (aptly named) Operation Unthinkable plan that got him booted the fuck out of office immediately after the war

'or' implies that there's a difference

apparently if you scuzz leonardo dicaprio up enough he turns into john c reilly

Mari, you're a brontosaurus. Do you exist? Do you feel like you're probably pretty real at this point?

You're presenting the flow of the statement misleadingly with your ellipsis- "Billie Jean is not my lover. She's just a girl who thinks that I am the one- but the kid is not my son" makes perfect sense- the 'but' is in contrast to Billie Jean's assertion.

Wait, who is the previous one?

Public Enemies, he's great in it

'Gu cruise' is so much less uncomfortable when you see written down

Sadie Doyle's wild years

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this is a good show but i will never get used to hearing their voices and seeing them at the same time

The movie is almost literally six or so great setpieces with maybe 10 minutes of business in between, of course people focus on the setpieces

If you literally wanted to encode every piece of information in a 35mm frame, it would be something on the order of 8k, I believe; 2k can only perfectly reproduce like, 8mm. That doesn't really reflect how accurately the film itself is capturing the thing you point the camera at, though.

Yeah, Manchurian Candidate is ultimately almost more racist than it is anti-communist- the brainwashing sequences seem premised on the same kind of paranoiac 'what are they getting up to over there' terror about the Chinese in Korea that would later become fairly common about the Vietcong and the Russians during…