OOOOOOOH I DISAGREE.
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Well, if you’re asking what I mean by bad, that might be a clue to how someone might be able to read the article.
I don’t know, part of me thinks that some filmmakers might do well to take more cues from music videos in terms of imagination and energy. For as many music videos are generic or half-assed, there are so many that are conceptually strong, beautifully executed, and as thrilling as a great musical number in a great…
The closer of La La Land, too, is a big emotional moment for me. I feel like in the backlash, it got tagged as an empty feel-good musical even though it’s melancholy and full of regret!
He was so messed up by his dad and never really had a childhood; I thought there was at least a possibility that it really was all innocent, that he was just stunted and strange and wanted friends who were childlike.
Yeah, the fawning over her hair now that it is long, as if her growing long hair was always some kind of goal and it “shows” those people who criticized her texture, makes me uncomfortable. It seems obvious that people are a little more comfortable with her hair because as tightly textured hair gets longer and a…
THIS. I understand everyone taking in the karmic retribution of it all, but having naturally long hair as ‘goals’ is an unfortunate obsession in the African American community. Many fall short and think less of themselves for it, because of family members being assholes with vocal ‘concerns’ and classmates having shit…
Her hair is beautiful...and it was beautiful when it was shorter, too.
Eleanor I think is very acutely aware of her sexual orientation. She likes hot people in general.
Yeah, I have to agree. At this point, memory wiping feels like a cheap trick. There are other ways to create dramatic irony, and I’m not a fan of one that’s this contrived.
Can I admit that Jason’s ridiculous pizza scene made me cry and the romance montage didn’t? You got how much that idiot values Chidi’s friendship.
This one was a B for me. The more this show repeats the Eternal Sunshine-esque Eleanor-and-Chidi-fall-in-love-then-lose-their-memories-then-find-their-way-back-to-each-other arc, the less emotionally invested I am. Bringing Simone back reminded me that I actually liked Chidi and Simone together a lot, and while I…
She’s not really demanding that the characters be “likable”, just they seem more like ordinary people who have jobs & do work like everyone else.
I’m not sure that she followed most of her own rules in a way that everyone is going to see. The main character tries to hide her job from everyone and is shamed when people find out. Her customers are all creepy and most are dangerous. None of the women are very likable and are obsessed with fame and greed, not the…
I didn’t read the whole essay, but both the clients we see in Cam are dirt bags (in different ways). I guess there are plenty of other people who are just usernames onscreen who don’t do anything bad (as far as we know), but they’re just sort of background noise.
Too bad If Beale Street could talk wasn’t a hit I would have liked to have seen another adaptation of a James Baldwin novel like Giovanni’s Room. Speaking of black authors when are we going to get a adaptation of The Invisible Man.
It’s easily Jenkins’s least brilliant film so far. “Medicine For Melancholy” was something new and fresh and had a lot to say about modern American cities and gentrification and romance and race. It almost had too many great ideas vying for the viewer’s attention, but it was never anything but brilliant. “Moonlight”…
Haha, I thought the same thing while watching it, almost from the beginning. That part where she hypes herself to go out the sliding door into the pool party had me hyperventilating.
It was never going to happen but I wish Into the Spider Verse had scored a Screenplay nomination. There’s genuine structural cleverness and thematic and character depth in that movie. Also, what does Emily Blunt have to do to win over Oscar voters? She was the best part of both A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns.…