I saw this first in Spanish, and even in a language I wasn’t quite fluent in, I thought it might be a little over-the-top. I worried I misunderstood “It is not dangerous to confuse children with angels” and awaited watching it in English, thinking the line would somehow be less overwrought. It wasn’t.

Personal Shopper was fun and also maddening. I loved its angry ghost sequence, but Stewart texting, going through airport security, and clothes shopping with the realistic non-expression all of us, not just her, often wear... it was tough.

Thank you. That makes it make more sense.

It’s difficult to imagine a world without the Holy Triumvirate of She’s All That, Wild Wild West, and Stigmata.

The Boys: This got better as it unrolled, but I did fast forward when I wasn’t interested in a plot or point, as I am wont to do with everything (attention span decayed by the internet, not specific to this show). The point I was least interested in was parodying Zach Snyder, whose movies are already self-parodies,…

And Machete?

I think so. They are sitting in a restaurant observing a woman walking by and are so excited by her looks they get out and chase her down. All I remember is Tucker peppering his dialogue with lyric and song references. I think he says “That girl is mine!” and “Chamo!” (or however you say that exclamation noise)

Liking good and bad reviews of Under the Silver Lake on Letterboxd: I keep doing this. I found the movie probably not good but I keep reading more and more reviews of it, each are wildly different from the next. Is it misogynist or a a critique of a character with misogyny? Is it a grab bag of half-assed references or …

It’s like you saw this place from the outside of itself and the cognitive dissonance created the stall

Curses, you beat me to it

I used to visit the site of Joel Veitch, rathergood. I liked his simple fun animations. Here is the one that started the spongemonkeys I think—before they sang about Quiznos, they were singing about the moon:

Escape from New York: Not my favorite Carpenter, but I like the downbeat nature of the ending. Was shocked as a youngster at all the sympathetic characters, SPOILERS, getting systematically eliminated on the bridge. Felt for the Duke of New York, thought there should have been a scene where his followers were blown…

The sacred words!

It seems like the trailer presupposes that if Alfred is Michael Caine, then young Alfred is Get Carter. Makes sense to me.

Kerry Washington got naked briefly in Django Unchained, but ordinarily Tarantino doesn’t have nudity in his films.

I was surprised when looking at his imdb around his death how few things I had seen him in: felt he had been around forever, had been in everything. I guess this is due to the fact that me and my family used to watch Huff.

I have similar feelings towards the two different backlashes connected by the “subverting expectations” meme. I like the GoT backlash because it encourages writing analysis and character development. People complain, but they’re talking about why the storytelling doesn’t work when the production is good, and also why…

Good point. The only way to change them is to create publicity which hurts their bottom line, which I think this is an attempt at.

Lizabeth Scott or Patsy Kelly

I still haven’t clicked on that Game of Thrones petition, but the message boarders/freefolkers who made it say they intended it as a criticism of the series, not a serious attempt to make HBO spend $100 million dollars again. They have since redirected their efforts to fundraising for Emilia Clarke’s brain charity,…