I mean, it sure seems moody and stylish. It's just interesting that it's moody and stylish in its own way.

Does it really *look* like it though? There's a grittiness, a dirtiness, to the original that I think the footage shown so far is missing. Only the first two shots after the logos appear capture that Blade Runner feeling, the rest… not so much.

"There’s a precision and sense of cleanliness to the compositions and even the sets in the new trailer that strikes me as slightly off when compared to the original film."

If you read it you'll realize it's kind of cute. It's basically just fans of the original movie feeling torn between nostalgia and concern. Nothing to get too upset about.

I give Dern the edge over Douglas and the Bridges. She's fucking amazing.

*claps*

I was suprised by how much I didn't like this. It's strange how the man responsible for the brilliance that is 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days could do something so contrived and didactic. Romanian New Wave by way of Paul Haggis.

Just today I watched Kekszakallu, an Argentinian film which Ignatiy found boring but I loved (It'll end up being one of my favorite films of the year for sure).

He was terrible in The Spectacular Now, every line reading overdone, every gesture an afectation to the point of being distracting. Sharing the screen with Sheilene Woodley giving a nuanced, honest performance only made him more unbearable.

Not quite. It came out two years ago and got pretty terrible reviews.

I was having breakfast and had to stop halfway through the first song. It's the kind of raw, honest album that makes almost everything else feel artificial. I have rarely — if ever — come across such powerful meditations on grief in art.

Late to the party but I only just saw the film today. I didn't think the character was immersed in ennui at all. She's a girl who, do to a heart malformation, could die at any moment and is therefore terrified of death. This fear has paralized her and left her stuck between life and death, the material and immaterial,…

Witherspoon and Kidman are the architects of the project, actually. They bought the rights to the book, hired Jean Marc Vallee and David E. Kelley and then sold the project to HBO.

Hopefully you'll get inspired to seek some guidance. I wish you the best. :)

What's even more impressive about your list is how, except for TO DIE FOR, you don't even mention her best performances:

I hear ya. Thank God for Mel Gibson.

No need to duck and hide. Shakespeare in Love was by all means the better film. I hate that it is used as a punchline or as the go to example for underserved wins.

The dialogue in particular is painful. I don't watch a lot of television but I have never seen a show be so elevated by it's performers.

Fair point. I wasn't trying to defend the show, just the idea that its subject matter was dated. That being said, maybe it feels dated because the show isn't very good at exploring it.

Is this show merely about the "peccadilloes" of the rich, though? Is it really just going for satire? I don't think it's well written or particularly well directed but I perceive a genuine interest in exploring the social pressure of women to comform to a particular lifestyle — to look, talk and behave a certain way —…