Who else does it like Lana, though? I’m not her biggest fan, but I can’t think of anyone else who has as recognizable a spin on this aesthetic.

Norman Fucking Rockwell is the first time she had genuine critical adoration, what are you talking about?

You say this like Lana hasn’t been critically dismissed her entire career up until NFR. What changed, aside from her finally making a record that critics understood? 

I dunno, I think Born to Die, Ultraviolence, Norman Fucking Rockwell, and this one are all quite good.

It’s really not. Extremely enjoyable and consistently hysterical show that can only be faulted for maybe being too heart-on-sleeve.

It’s a wonderful show. As with most series, the first few episodes are rocky, but when it clicks in the last quarter of S1 it becomes consistently hysterical. 

Damn, bad take

This is such a weird and bitter attitude. Why would you think the well has run dry after a single 80 minute movie 15 years ago that directly responded to the culture around it? Seems like that’s something that could be gone back to forever. 

Someone doesn’t remember the scene of him singing the national anthem at the rodeo. Hearing him say “we support your war of terror” to a cheering crowd of Texan Bush-era patriots wouldn’t be far removed from dunking on Trump people today. 

Considering the article notes it’s “Cohen playing Borat playing Cohen,” it sounds like they had the Borat character assume a disguise and use that to get at people. I’m also completely positive it fooled most people they tried. 

You should revisit Borat. It’s still very funny, and especially dark with hindsight.

I dunno man, your comment is so off base it makes me wonder if you’ve watched past season 2. 

Taking the Janitor as an incel might mean you missed all of Kaufman’s pleading to treat the elderly as human beings, often with long and unfulfilled lives that result in a messy whole, rather than just creepy old nuisances.

The theater scenes were a break in the loneliness; they were joyous because it’s literally a community experiencing art together. The Janitor felt alive and fulfilled watching Oklahoma! every year, like Jake rattles off early in the movie.

There’s not really a plot here either. It’s a long audio-visual essay with a story draped over it. The ending works as a concluding tone, but there isn’t a lot of narrative closure.

Surprised how many people here are trying to dig into the narrative of the movie. The whole film read to me like Charlie Kaufman using a thing plot as a metaphor, a process for bouncing ideas back and forth, sometimes following strange and personal tangents like critical film theory before drifting back to the main…

Well, it wasn’t a janitor writing this story, it was Charlie Kaufman. Your mileage will vary on how fun or interesting a premise it is, but the movie is very clearly Kaufman-as-artist having a conversation with himself. The plot is just a thin excuse to have that conversation, and fully breaks down whenever characters…

Commentariat gone full rat mode. You hate to see it.

It says first album in 14 years.

I saw my first GBV shown a few months ago and all this is true but also goddamn were they fun. Didn’t matter than I only knew 20 of the 50 songs they played they all sounded great.