This cast looks pretty great, and I really am enjoying and looking forward to Eggers’s continued commitment to telling really interesting stories involving stinky-lookin’ people. Ethan Hawke, I should not have been surprised given his work in both The Good Lord Bird *and* Reality Bites, looks to fit naturally in this…

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His favorite bands are person, woman, man, camera, tv.

Jimmy’s a Saló, or The 120 Days of Sodom kind of guy.

You know his 2021 Wrapped is all Springsteen and Hamilton.

I just found the gorilla and the koala to be annoying/unappealing characters, and there they are front and center, so the movie and the audience suffer.

I imagine that’s the face I’d also make when I shit my pants upon getting $500M.

Props to Seyfried if she can even go through one scene without busting out laughing while doing Holmes’s low voice.

That’s actually the last time I saw her in anything and where I found myself thinking she wasn’t very good. A matter of taste, I suppose.

I think the Prepon trajectory might be a result of her being not a very good actress. Topher Grace, on the other hand, I actually really like and am a little disappointed that he’s not doing better. Do people find him annoying or something?

Can we at least agree that neither Anthony Hopkins nor Catherine Zeta-Jones is Hispanic?

That’s one of the first things I think of when I see this guy’s face, that and how he bragged on Howard Stern about being Mandy Moore’s first. And those leather bracelets. Maybe I should have just watched That ‘70s Show.

This does look really interesting, especially with a woman nearing 60 years old at the center of it all.  And I love the return of Quan/Short Round in front of the camera!

I’d prefer Erotic Mermaid Dafoe.

It makes me think of the (non-finale) runaway-train scene from Spider-Man 2, which is clearly full of CGI, but much more wisely used.  I totally recognize how I was being manipulated in the end, too, with the passengers taking care of Spidey, but I fall for it every time.  Let’s have more of that.

With all that green in the background, I was a little disappointed that he wasn’t going to sing one of Elphaba’s bangers.

They obviously got a good deal on those flowers, so she had to use ALL OF THEM.

The Handmaiden was really great.

I’m gonna imagine De Armas’s character gets angry because Affleck’s character gets to have a side thing with Rachel Blanchard while she gets Tracy Letts.

I saw it last night, and while imperfect it’s pretty amazing, and an amazing feat considering it’s ‘messing’ with a beloved version from 1961. If critics didn’t like it, you could just as easily say critics didn’t like it because of whatever reason: Spielberg’s a pop artist, critics prefer to shit on rather than…