I mean! Insufferable for me, personally. I think there’s a lot to be said for comedy being one of the hardest of genres to watch if you don’t connect with it. I can enjoy a terrible horror film or even a saccharine romance but if I’m not on the same wavelength as a comedy movie I just have to grit my teeth through it.…

Hey that’s a fairly reasonable hill to die on! I apologize, I was a bit harsh on it, as I said in a comment above. I think O Brother has some astounding moments and vignettes (literal vignettes being the reason I adore Buster Scruggs which I guess does in fact have a similar tone/purpose) but overall I guess it just…

Yeah, upon reflection I think insufferable might be better reserved for Raising Arizona. I’ll admit that parts of O Brother were fantastic (The KKK rally, the Siren song), and that its outsized period piece tone likely helped them in crafting the similar Buster Scruggs (which is a favorite of mine) but gosh Raising…

I’d count the Coen brothers in my top 3 of all-time favorite directors any day of the week but I bounced off O Brother super hard. Particularly the humor just did not land with me at all, which hasn’t happened for me with any other Coen movie bar Raising Arizona. I think I laughed more at Inside Llewyn Davis. Maybe…

That’s just the incredible thing about Toy Story. As Tom pointed it out, on its ‘first CGI feature’ credentials alone it is an absolute landmark, but that they knocked it out of the god damn ballpark as a tour-de-force of character, cinematography and story is still to my eyes unbelievable.

I wouldn’t hesitate to say…

I think you have a fair point that the conversation has derailed to that point but that wasn’t my intention. I wondered what the grievances are - not hoping to discredit or ignore them - because on the surface (watching the films), if we’re talking strictly in terms of PoC representation, it seemed to me (disclaimer:…

I’m assuming that’s partially directed at my comment (and others). I don’t think most people are saying he’s wrong or that Finn in TLJ is good (I personally hated the casino scenes) but that it seems incongruous that Johnson and TLJ should shoulder the blame when it’s at least an iota better than RoS on the points…

I wonder his exact grievances with The Last Jedi. If anything I thought Johnson gave nuance to Poe (hotshot flyboy to dangerous arrogance to balanced leader) and Finn (being too foolhardy and self-sacrificing in trying to save others), while introducing Rose in the first place.

It was Abrams’ RoS that blatantly and…

I think I’d seen Jurassic Park a good 5 times as a kid, then fast forward maybe 10 years when it was re-released and I went to the theater for the 3D anniversary edition for a bit of a lark. Everyone in the cinema was chatty and bubbly (presumably because most had seen it before) but when the T-Rex scene kicked into…

Ahh I’m late to the comments! But GOD DAMN do I love this film, and here are two small reasons why:

ECONOMY OF LOCATION: I love that the film walks through all its major locations and then flips them later for action/horror: The safety of the car becomes a deathtrap, the fence once protected but now it electrifies, the…

Wow yeah! Why did I not include the 1964 Olympics in my original post. Yeah, to reiterate, AKIRA is basically a very loose encapsulation of Japan from 1945-1964, substituting all the events above into 1988-2020 (Tokyo 1964 = Tokyo 2020).

Err, yeah, I mean you can definitely draw new comparisons as AKIRA being about the future of the world but the film is absolutely not shy about its pretext being the bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, the American Occupation (and the Japanese government’s collusion in keeping secret any wrongdoings), and the failure of…

Yeah. I’ve seen it a good ten times and everytime I’m just utterly absorbed from start to finish. It’s one of the most visceral movies of all time. 

The head banging sends chills up my spine to this day (that and the glimpse of Grandma in the study)! Don’t get me wrong. I very much enjoyed both films, I suppose I’m being smug myself and just find it a little odd that they are held up as the poster children of modern horror (I suppose there aren’t many…

Phew, thank you. The Witch is a beautiful period piece, well acted and directed and extremely atmospheric, but I don’t see it as a horror movie so much as a arthouse-leaning family drama with smatterings of supernatural elements.

After 200 hours spread across 3 years, I’ve finally finished Breath of the Wild. I don’t know how to feel, I suppose the journey was of course, more than any other game, more important than the destination. But I do feel sort of hollow, like Hyrule has suddenly become empty (I got all 120 shrines, did all the…

Hey, you know, as insignificant as it feels stacked up to its predecessors, I really liked Toy Story 4. I had to see it twice because the projector borked three quarters through the first time, and yet I didn’t feel it ponderous the second time at all.

You’re right, as I reread it I can see that I misintepreted it (especially since it was screen time rather than social media).

I’m most likely going to be on the wrong side of history but I feel it’s equally dismissive to say that social media should just be accepted as the way things are. I’m not even out of my twenties and I find that barring the benefit of instant messaging (which exists in multiple other forms) and perhaps event…

A mix of Fallout 3 and Fallout Shelter. The former of which I have never played before, as I’ve only dived into NV and 4 before. It’s surprisingly good, and legitimately scary/unsettling at times, at least compared to 4. It’s also comforting to be given more than one choice in any given situation. I was honestly…