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When De Palma is working well, he uses his influences productively- like Blow Out has a lot of Hitchcockian touches, but it feels like a De Palma movie, he's fully integrated everything into his style. I think in the Untouchables it comes off more like he's bored and is looking for stuff to make a story that bored

ha ha it is funny when he humiliates his teacher for having facial hair after she is nice to him, a merry jest

i couldn't figure out if that was a jeff beck joke or an odelay beck joke

i mean the canterbury tales has one story that is literally a dozens-of-pages fart joke, mideval people were uh earthy

this is a weird no true scotsman argument, his accomplishments as mayor of burlington don't count because they were a long time ago and his accomplishments as senator don't count because they're not vermont specific. what exactly is he supposed to do here

Because trying to use an interview in which sanders said it was probably worth running dems who were soft on guns and abortion in west virginia to prove that sanders himself is soft on abortion and therefore a bad politician is so stupid as to be of dubious intellectual honesty, and using that argument to report on

every day i pray that scorsese's coked up mania expiated itself on 45 hour movie binges and that he never did anything horrific

I mean. Sadly, where we are now represents an improvement- I feel like in the 70s, that whole escapade would have been an amusing behind the scenes presented in an epk as fun times for all involved. Now, we're at least at the 'he did it' and 'that's pretty fucked up' steps- we just need to add 'any kind of

park chan-wook's housemaid goes in a, uh, different direction lmao

i bet there is a worthiwhile performance to be gotten out of her but if wanted to see her sleepwalk half nude through a movie i could watch 'every other thing she's in'

didn't marv also die in the first movie

hey, some of them aren't strippers

Ah yes, when have jacked bald guys ever steered us wrong

i'm a straight dude and i'm still pretty into byung-hun lee

a hot karl is a theoretical, scatological sex act

dropping big ole scare quotes around """""trans"""" is still some shit

so where do y'all think i can get a werewolf merkin sporran

I hated Birdman, but actually kind of liked The Revenant- it was too self serious, but in that one Iñárritu didn't manage to be overbearing enough to ruin the compelling material and performances and shit