Man I love Dune and it is a book and series of books that means a lot to me but like…. the book's take on the Fremen is detailed and intricate, but it's not ultimately less Orientalist than the movie's (or than Lawrence of Arabia's, which it cribs from pretty liberally) and the Fremen culture of the book goes on to…

Gonna bring up Ordet again- the key is that a miracle should be fucking terrifying, a direct intrusion of the divine into a world where we can barely handle the idea

that sentence doesn't support your claim, nor does napster or mtv have anything to do with the phenomenon being described

I remember when Crank That Soulja Boy seemed both super irritating and bafflingly stupid to me- now it seems legitimately catchy and kind of cute. I wonder if that's the result of nearly ten more years of music training my ears, or just that thing where something being shoved down your throat always seems far more…

That's a good way to look at it- it took me a long time to come around on FWIM, but I think once you think of it as this sort of parallel universe Lynch movie that occupies a similar space to Twin Peaks rather than The Twin Peaks Movie, it becomes actually really good and worthwhile. So maybe the upcoming series will…

I have less of a dread that this is going to screw things up than I do about Twin Peaks- there's no real continuity to Pee Wee, so I don't really have to integrate it into what I already know, and it's on the whole a more consistent thing than Twin Peaks was.

One of my friends has a two year old for whom Pee Wee's Playhouse is _the_ show, the way Dora or Blue's Clues or whatever is for others- they've probably watched every episode literally dozens of times, and it's the treat he gets to help him calm down for bed at night. Which is, really, deeply weird, because for him,…

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I'm saying he enjoys both killing and the position of power being a killer puts him in- he is absolutely taking sadistic pleasure in the do you feel lucky scene, and it's a killer's pleasure. I might not be explaining myself as well as I would like here lol.

I clarified above, but I meant murdering people in a very specific context, where he can feel self righteous about it- but like, the Death Wish series (where that is way more explicit) is definitely the child of this one.

Do you think he couldn't have reloaded with the greatest of ease in his stroll over there? He enjoyed that exchange, and enjoyed the dominance of it. I'm not saying that he's being represented as a kill crazed murderer- but that he's a dude who is right on the border of it, and enjoys both violence and the power that…

The point Kael makes that I found really compelling is that Harry is defined by GOD DAMMIT does he want to murder as many people as he possibly can- like, the do you feel lucky scene is as engaged as he gets for a good chunk of the movie, and it represents him just dying for the guy to reach for the gun so he can…

Magnum Force was pretty clearly trying to compensate for the ridiculous ugliness of Dirty Harry but like… Kael wasn't wrong. John Milius is a literal irl fascist, and pretty much everything that is as Milius-y as Dirty Harry's actual plot is going to have a lot of fascism in it.

Seriously, if you lost your mom as a kid, Tree of Life can be nigh physically painful to watch- it is like taking a physical trip in to the parts of your emotional makeup that you have a hard time looking at

Nah, I'm more or less right there with you- I liked Thin Red Line, I guess, but it's my least favorite of the Malicks I've seen (although I haven't watched To the Wonder yet, and Knight of Cups hasn't been released here.) I'd say probably Tree of Life, then Badlands, then The New World, then Days of Heaven, with a…

Tree of Life made me break down weeping openly in public, so just in case anyone is wondering, you absolutely can connect profoundly (and like… painfully) to a latter day Malick work

What on earth? MGS V is like… the most fun game I've played in like five years?

Black Flag is also set in something of a target rich environment for people who legitimately deserve death- whatever the politics of killing regular guards or whatever, it's a legitimately good point that the vilification of piracy happened in a place full of brutal colonialism and outright slave plantations, and I…

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M. Hulot's Holiday didn't work for me the first time I saw it- it's not a movie to watch if you are sleepy at all- but Mon Oncle is just beautiful, and the places where you anticipate the jokes are often the best ones (particularly since one of Tati's favorite moves is to set up a joke very blatantly and then either…