some incredible marginalia in my force awakens dvd
i remember nothing of this film other than Rufus Sewell as the villain and I'm definitely not selectively remembering to make my own point
hitting the big "except for Nolan" button (although I still think this choice was absolute freak behaviour)
look I'm a staunch defender of "use the best form for what you're doing" but I think there's a lot of unpack in 1) the grounding of this trend as "growing out of romance" and 2) the fact that so many books now read like screenplays, and 1st person by nature avoids that
slate.com/culture/2026...
building a working theory that the villains of Kevin Reynolds films (Guy Pearce, Alan Rickman etc) have far better shelf lives because they are actually acting (as opposed to the Caveizels/Costners)
I ended up cutting it but originally there were 3 whole minutes in the Artemis Fowl pod about how its opening titles used a fuckass default font (Tratatello) which doesn't match the film's tone but DOES look like it belongs in this Count of Monte Cristo, only this film did a bespoke title treatment
it’s slipped quite a bit for me in comparison with the more recent French version and with Caveizel going insane but there’s no denying Guy Pearce was serving weapons grade cunt with this one.
anyway suck it streaming services your manufactured scarcity is no match for a hard-drive I’ve had since high school
look i know this is painfully on brand but what do you mean?
oh no you misheard - I'm into Cryptid Currency. Bigfoot owes me 50 bucks.
Megalopolis.
"oh look at me, I'm Ben McKenzie, I was in the OC and then I got a degree in economics and crypto is a scam but no one was doing anything about it so I made a documentary also I’m married to Morena Baccarin" man good for you
I understand the temptation is to make the character very cool, calculating and manipulative but let’s be real this is a biblically accurate Count of Monte Cristo
MELBOURNE PPL: i am hosting film trivia pls come it’ll be unreasonably hard.
www.classiccinemas.com.au/movies/south...
full warning I am in my reading era so expect more Monte Cristo posting but last time I read this book it was on a now-defunct ereader so I am doing permanent damage to my shoulder hauling this brick around.
forgot that the Count textually survives on 300calories and pills made of equal parts opium and hash no wonder the revenge took so long my man was not mentally present for about 600 pages.
Look I get it was a different time but surely there was a way to write in a portrait of young Mercedes that wasn’t Albert going “hey check out this super hot picture of my mum I keep in my bedroom. it is the only painting I have in my bedroom.”
honestly it’s a combination of script and direction both being sauceless but there was an almost watchable scene that was clearly just Irons riffing on a skeleton scene.
ok he is slightly more than present now but he is clearly giving them one take.
Jeremy Irons is…present.
Ok I am giving this show a second chance and I shouldn’t have. Kinda incredible to take such a rich text and make it feel thin. Direction is weirdly soap coded. They’re calling it “The Castle D’If”. Sticking around to see whatever the fuck Jeremy Irons is up to but probably not any further.
it’s important to remember that when I say Dumas wanted to open the Count of Monte Cristo with the Roman Carnival, that means he wanted chapter 3 to be “Albert tries to hit it with a gangster’s wife and gets kidnapped by a femboy while dressed as a clown.”
happy anniversary to one of the most consequential texts I’ve ever sent
rewatching the end of Challengers and hitting the fuckin wall. I need this movie for every sport imaginable. no I do not want to watch heated rivalry I want to become the sherrin coming off Tayla Harris's boot.
went into a fugue state and wrote a pilot in a week so now it’s time for the fun part - not looking at it for at least a month to find out if it’s garbage.
happy international women's day
happy international women's day
happy international women's day
international women’s day
happy international women's day
