one of the most beautiful movies i've seen

It's so clear, I can almost see the stars.

So... the new Disney movie, Wicked, has a new toy line and merchandising associated with it... on the back of those toys is printed a link to a pornographic website.

well that makes it a lot more interesting to me, because the trailer looks about as special as a Saturday morning cartoon from the 90s.

Please provide url. Quickly.

It’s literally wicked.com

Gilbert

Surprisingly, a moving film about Gilbert Gottfried, his wife and children, and his family. It's made before his death, so there's the added level of ennui to his story. He is portrayed as quirky, as expected, but lovable, especially when he talks about his wife and children and his wife talks about him.



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Ohhhhh...I'm gonna cry watching that. I love Gilbert

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Gottfried

Coolio. It could have been a lot worse 😂

You can say that about most things or happenings. I could be in Italy right now stuck in a traffic jam, or in New York City trying to cross the street during rush hour, or on a leaky ferry boat headed to Catania. Or in London trying to get a cab. If life wasn’t an adventure, you’d die of boredom.

Is Terrence Fletcher really a villain? Partially? If the writer's intentions were to portray him as a bad man, I disagree with the writer's idea of bad. Fletcher has an upside. Even if he goes over the edge, there are some good qualities in there.

I don't think he is about good or bad, I think he is about being driven. He is also an archetype of a person who understands accomplishment.

This is all subjective. When I try to guess an artist's intentions, I am invariably wrong.

In support of Nosferatu... A24 and IMAX Present: The Lighthouse, tonight only.

Just watched Odd Man Out, a 1947 film by Carol Reed. I'd never heard of this before, but it seems to be held in very high regard by film people, and I can see why. It's excellent in every way. I'll be thinking it through, turning it over and around up and down in my head for the next few days. I tend to do with really good movies.

I especially liked the use of selected verses from 1 Corinthians 13!

This new 4k uhd Carol Reed restoration was just released this week in Europe... my copy should be here any day.

The Lighthouse in iMax was ****ing amazing...

Hell yeah.

If I'm thirsty, I don't want you to bring me a glass of water. I want you to sympathize. I want you to say, "Gloria, I, too, know what it feels like to be thirsty. I, too, have had a dry mouth." I want you to connect with me through sharing and understanding the concept of dry-mouthedness.

i've lived that so many times - this is why we'll never have a female president

only unrealistic part of that scene is a woman wearing such a top while in bed

women AMIRITE

Damn ye!
Let Neptune strike ye dead Winslow!
HAAARK!

Hark Triton, hark!

Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury!

Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til’ ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more...

only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye...

A bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself...

forgotten to any man...
to any time...
forgotten to any god or devil...
forgotten even to the sea...
for any stuff for part of Winslow...
even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!

Saturday Night, the SNL flick, is probably my feel-good film of the year. The whole thing just worked great for me. Even at its cheesiest. Chekhov’s Kaufman was such a great moment!

Also watched My Old Ass, which was really good as well. Don’t know much about it aside from Aubrey Plaza, but she’s barely in it. It’s very funny and very sweet.

Also saw a movie that flew under the radar called Dinner In America and it was awesome! Sort of a SLC Punk meets Napoleon Dynamite, but more of its own thing. Came out in 2020, I believe. Heard about from watching a video about Strange Darling as it shares the same male lead. It’s starting to gain a pretty loyal fan base. Not something I would usually enjoy as much as I did, but it’s “dark” and vulgar often enough to offset some of its cheesiness.

Speaking of Repo Man, I drove past the local theater two day ago. Guess what's playing? Yup.

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As with The Florida Project, I think I'd find it hard to explain why Anora is such a good film. A description of the plot doesn't sound too interesting. The genius is how Sean Baker finds the common humanity in his characters, making them relatable even though I personally don't know anyone like them. The performances are uniformly excellent, funny and oddly heartwarming.

Another genius stroke was how the large amounts of nudity and sex in the early stages of the film set the stage for a moment of intimacy. The blatant eroticism is emotionless and unarousing, while the relatively decorous final scene is full of feeling.