Blood Simple is definitely his greatest role, but I also really enjoyed his small role in Raising Arizona as “machine shop ear-bender”, we’ve all known someone like that at work. I think I might have even been that guy on occasion.

the need to bring that movie up in any conversation about Ghostbusters only amplifies the “doth protest too much” of that discourse. like...let it go already.

to be clear, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters was terrible. It had nothing to do with the casting (all very funny actresses) and everything to do with the slipshod CGI, even more slipshod humor, and general lack of fun.

I may be in the minority but I hope this doesn’t lean too heavily into the gore. I’m sure it will, because of the director, and this trailer, and the buzz around some sort of scene that’s apparently more gruesome than ever before or something.

Looks like Ryan Gosling is acting very much in his The Nice Guys range, and that’s always welcome.

That’s the second generic pop song cover in the second trailer.

I thought of that after I posted, but it’s her first day, they haven’t met, and she’s in the background with no lines, so it’d still be jarring for her to burst out laughing out of nowhere (as far as he knew).

Demme didn’t intervene on Glaudini’s behalf

This, admittedly, is not completely fair, but every time I hear one of these after-the-fact stories, I can’t help but think “how brave of this person to sit on the story right up until that celebrity becomes radioactive enough that I can share it with no risk.”

“Hey Ted, do you wanna, like, say something here?”

Seems to me it would be easier to change the range of offences that make the list than to try to convince the public that being on the list isn’t always bad.

I think it was his manager or publicist that thought the cameo was beneath him initially, and Cena pushed to do the cameo.

Unfortunately, sometimes you actually do need a real legal and political education to understand things.

I think that calling out movie length is reasonable. There are stories that absolutely need more than 1.5-2 hours to be told well, but I think there’s a run-time inflation kind of thing happening now, where directors see that someone else has blown past 120 minutes, and think to themselves that their story deserves at…

Oppenheimer took on a similarly shameful moment in American history but didn’t actually show it on screen.

“Why did Killers Of The Flower Moon leave the Oscars empty-handed?”

Oppenheimer was an excellent long movie, that didn’t feel long.

The author’s pissy attitude about a joke about Killers of the Flower Moon being long is dumb and self-defeating. Particularly his grouchiness that we need to devote more time to movies about the “long, painful trail of genocide that runs throughout the world.”

I still think his score for Superman might be the pinnacle of his work. I also realize we don’t look at it in the same way, but honestly, shouldn’t John Williams be considered one of the greatest composers of all-time? Like, I’m saying, doesn’t he deserve to be put in the conversation with Beethoven and Mozart and the…

The only issues with his plan are: