At least I'm glad he stopped the habit of upvoting himself before becoming this version. This new troll-ish attitude (whether he intends to or not) combined with that self-satisfied smugness would have been too depressing.

According to his letterboxd, he rewatched it during last week, probably in order to prepare for the new one. He gave it 1.5/5, so I feel it wasn't about being invested as much as his thought about it being fresh while reviewing the new one.

That's a nice memory you have. Just don't ever rewatch it though.

Yeah, just don't watch its sequel.

That and his Greta Gerwig/Noah Baumbach "wah-white-people-movies-are-all-the-same-wah" thing.

I think Umbridge pretty much sabotages Hogwarts and writes her own rules by that point.

Ha yes! Been reading that and some details seem to come straight out of many Korean TV dramas ("You should've managed your husband better." !!!)

The five Hong films I had seen mostly just evoked more an intellectual response to his structure gambits than any real emotion (although I do like the funny Our Sunhi quite a bit), so I surprised myself by how moved I was by this new one. It seems like his most professional and 'intimate' film to date, with warm…

This role really subverts the gratingly loud types she's usually saddled with, to good effects (not a fan of her other works either). Really funny as well, and Rose Bryne is a god in it.

shhh you're interfering with his brand.

I'm about 18 episodes into season 3 and I think only three or four purely case-of-the-week episodes so far.

Where are you at? I'm now in season 3 which is so ,so great. Halfway through season 2 is touch-and-go for me for a while though, but the Jonathan Nolan-directed episode "Relevance" turned that around for me.

Too bad. I liked Monsters U better than the first Toy Story.

He also watched and liked Cheatin'.

He liked and reviewed Cheatin': https://thedissolve.com/rev…

It, uh, stars Mia Wasikowska, who is also in Stoker.

Not directed by Burton.

Of all complaints against Nolan, many of them rightfully addressed, "too corporate" would be a very new one. I love Carpenter, but I feel like eye-rolling so hard at every point in your paragraph, except the "multi-talented" one.

The story is way sloppier than the first, which clangs with how they are more thematically ambitious this time (how the sorority comes to be is really interesting/involving, but I feel their dynamic should be developed so much more before the feud starts). But that (almost 'progressive') empathy mentioned in the…

Huh, you take that "high standard" sentence of mine seriously.