The Lighthouse not winning for cinematography is pretty much my only big disappointment of the night. 

Jojo Rabbit isn’t the new Life is Beautiful, and it doesn’t have to be. Yes they both use comedy, but the films are doing two different things. Benini was being surreal about the situation. Waititi is being absurdist. If Banini was drawing from the abstract, Waititi was drawing from the literal- They were literally…

I DO love me some physical media, ESPECIALLY the carefully curated Criterion Collection editions. Despite owning a digital copy of The Grand Budapest Hotel, I’ve already pre-ordered the new Criterion edition, because I CAN.

Also it’s frustrating how many critics I’ve seen complain that the main characters don’t have enough depth. There’s tons of character development if you’re paying attention:

“This thing is a monument to its self importance.”

Plus it’s hardly a “subplot.” It’s one scene in the movie. It’s not as if chef Ahab spends the rest of the movie chasing after Sebastian Moby Dick. I like it when movies create lush worlds with lots going on. A true subplot involving chef and Sebastian could surely have gotten tedious, but the one scene, that directly…

Because Star Wars is a metaphor for the Vietnam war when a small, indigenous, lower tech guerrilla force was able to outlast a vastly technologically superior force.
They’re riding horses on a fucking Star Destroyer and you’re already nitpicking. I hope the whole 3rd act is the Resistance getting the Ewoks to join…

There’s a moment toward the end when Richie’s seen carving his deceased friend Eddie’s initial (Pennywise got him) alongside his, implying that Richie might have had feelings for him, but it’s all left unsaid, and somewhat open to interpretation.

A lot of news sites revealed key details about who Mysterio was in the comics. It wasn’t really a spoiler, strictly speaking, but it did give me more information than I would have liked going in. It softened the twist somewhat.

You can read my rant I just posted, but a spoiler is not a plot device and as such has no inherent “power”. But the thing is, I should be able to appreciate a work as I choose. You chose to read the ESB book. Others did not. And that’s okay! Why can’t we just respect each other’s decisions?

To me I feel like what the film’s doing wrt Tate is two things.

I enjoyed it very much. I was surprised at the pacing of it, which was somehow kind of a relief. It’s like he decided to make a Dazed and Confused kind of hang out movie. It’s going to age well. Some things:

A couple points: It is never confirmed that Cliff killed his wife. It’s left up in the air. He’s sitting there with the harpoon gun and his wife is drunk and stumbling to get up as the sound of a wave crashing up against the back of the boat happens. Hard cut. Obviously, Cliff’s story is that he didn’t kill his wife,…

Now in 4D! You can experience the entirety of The Lion King in a single instant, or spread over several days.

Or more accurately, you’ve written several short essays about why Natasha is a bad person based on all the things she’s done, and then one of the shortest essays you’ve written happens to emphasize that she was force sterilized, and then that’s the only part of any of your essays anyone bothers to mention or bring up.…

The Pete’s Dragon remake was stunning in every way. The original may as well not exist at this point.

Yeah, I hear you. I’ve experienced a very small echo of similar behavior from my very Catholic mom towards my atheism. But she sacrificed a lot for me, and so I try to keep things up with her.

Yes, I had a similar experience too. When I finally divulged to my family that I had been molested, my parents were very supportive. However, one of my siblings brushed it off as me being “immature” and I guess somehow deserving of having been molested? Makes absolutely no sense. Still sore about those comments years…

I spend my Saturday afternoons volunteering at Upward Bound at Pace University, an extracurricular program that provides college prep and counseling for low-income, first-generation, college-bound high school students.