goddamn you, take my like and get out
goddamn you, take my like and get out
this is the one problem i have with the film, as well. the satirical comedy elements and the dark horrorshow hellscape elements are both done masterfully in the film, but sometimes they create a pretty jarring shuffling of tone. it robs stuff that should be incredibly disturbing, like Bob’s death, of some of its…
and not to say that queer folks are above having sickening and reprehensible views (obviously), but i think anyone even lightly familiar with Chuck Pahalniuk as a person, let alone a gay man, would find the idea that he endorsed these takes on Fight Club downright laughable.
What’s frustrating about Starship Troopers is that the fucking critics didn’t get it, either. One of THE most misunderstood and underrated films in modern history. How could the same critics who rightfully called RoboCop a masterpiece turn around a few years later and not see that it’s the same themes and stories…
Goodfellas is another one in this micro-genre of ‘you’re missing this satirical film’s point/how does any of what’s portrayed look glamorous and cool to you?’ it’s baffling. Henry Hill massacred innocent people and defrauded others and lost everything to addiction and infidelity, and in the end everything he claimed…
Satire is hard if you’re a stupid, unreflective kind of person. The same types who will fall for a laughably-transparent grift from snake oil salesmen like Trump are gonna see whatever they want to see on the surface of such a film and look no deeper.
Agreed. I’ll grant they may not be the most fun characters to hang out with, thanks to their pretty thankless (and ultimately fruitless) role as the ostensible obstacle trying to save their spouses from descending into true barbarism, but at least in Skyler’s case the only thing you can question her for on the subject…
Funny enough, like I commented elsewhere here, I think what makes Scarface work as a great ‘crime doesn’t pay’ film is how unusually direct and unironic it is with that message. You’d have to have suffered a prefrontal lobe catastrophe to find anything about Tony’s life glamorous or romantic, or to see him as anything…
christ, dudebros and The Wolf Of Wall Street. so fucking cringey. Seems people have been misunderstanding Marty’s work a long time.
that’s the effective thing about the character, and it’s a reason why the less-intelligent among us misunderstand Tyler as some sort of savior. he’s a grifter selling the Narrator exactly what he knows the Narrator wants to hear. He starts off reasonable (and correct!) enough on subjects that prove to be essential to…
‘Scarface’ is one of the greatest (partially because it IS so straightforward about it) ‘crime doesn’t pay’ films ever made. The amount of folks who see Tony Montana as a fucking hero make me want commit seppeku. ‘Missing the point entirely’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.
the entire concept of ‘shared human experience’ seems fairly lost on people of every conceivable stripe these days, and it doesn’t bode well for our future
i was worried it would taint my affection for Justin Vernon but Vernon’s been very clear about having long since jumped ship from the sinking SS Kanye barge.
i mean, thankfully, he hasn’t made anything truly inspired since Yeezus.
Acting as if mental illness or trauma should give someone a pass for abhorrent behavior is just as dangerous to those dealing with those issues as any other sort of stigmatization. The assumption that ‘artists’ are all just ‘like this’ is beyond offensive to THIS mentally ill artist and the millions of others like me…
There’s millions of artists out there, many of whom struggle daily with mental illness and trauma, that aren’t antisemites, thank you very much.
If Scorcese had centered the story directly on the Osage, told it entirely from their perspective, everyone would be saying he had no right to do so as a white person and it would be beyond offensive to think he could. There’s no pleasing everyone.
Magnolia
despite my issues with Scientology and the man personally, i think ‘Magnolia’ should’ve really dismissed the idea that he plays one role
‘making you’