Rewatching Under The Silver Lake rn and I think it’s maybe the most prescient and misunderstood movie of the 2010s. A masterpiece that no one gives its due
Still haven’t seen One Battle tbf, should get to it this week
Not that anyone really cares but I’ve been thinking a lot about the movies that are most representative of the 2020s (while also being good) and I’d say
1. Nope
2. Blackberry
3. Friendship
4. Vengeance
5. It’s Whats Inside
6. The Fablemans
7. Prey
8. Marty Supreme
9. Weapons
10. A Different Man
People acting like comic writers (or any artist in a creative field) need to bat 1.000 to be worthy of praise is maybe my biggest pet peeve
Especially in comics given the nature of the medium and the need to be constantly writing and working to survive. It’s fine to fail sometimes as an artist
I’m yet to watch Frankenstein, but GDT is one of the most interesting directors working today because he makes capital “T” theme movies that are both incredibly obvious and still fairly moving. I think it’s notable that most have fairly distinct favorites from him and most have fairly unique reasons
Love ya too Jeff, sadly we’re Coug basketball fans too…
I don’t ever wanna hear the fans of any other sports team ever complain about their fucking teams to me
23 years of life, 162 games a year, endless pain
We’ll see ya in April
ESPN radio going to ad in the middle of at bats in the bottom of the 13th is fucking insane
I really do think about Moneyball every damn day while working in sports. Just constantly on my mind
Portland is legitimately like a super cozy city with a pretty cute and walkable downtown and we have the president of the United States claiming it’s burning to the ground like this is the Walking Dead. Just insane to hear and think about
Puerto Rico is a part of the US and the attempts to discount it as such are simply racist
Yeah I think something Nope nails is being about something without being some ornate metaphor. And it uses its variety to great effect in terms of setting up a theme without spelling it out
Any list of defining movies of the 2020s or defining scenes from the 2020s or whatever feel absolutely incomplete without Nope
Maybe the most affecting, prescient film of its time that only gets better with age. Haunting and beautiful
I desperately need to do a PTA rewatch but having seen most of his movies only once, the one that has stuck with me the longest is Punch Drunk Love. I think it gets underrated for its simplicity but it is maybe his most simple and beautiful thesis
Inside Man is a top 5 movie in terms of slickness man what an all timer
I feel like Kozinski’s inability to engage with his movies politically or thematically will rear its ugly head much more in something like Miami Vice than it did in F1 or Maverick
All this talk of radical left violence before any evidence that this was some radical lefty is gonna get swept under the rug real quick huh?
I’ll be honest, the publicizing of what were once very fringe right wing beliefs and the obvious multi-corporate effort to turn this whole thing into a big witch hunt is a real worry
Let us not forget two elected democratic officials were murdered not too long ago and it was swept away immediately. As discussion of speech suppression inevitably rises as a result of this, just understand one side is held to impossible standards while the other is held to no standards
The biggest truth about comic fandom is that everyone, generally, loves most what they were reading when they were 10. That’s a big reason we’re getting major new 52 revisionism rn
I liked Superman, but the difference in filmmaking and writing confidence from Gunn between something like The Suicide Squad or Peacemaker and Superman is night and day
These characters, especially DC, are more archetypal than anything. Robert Pattinson’s Batman is not my ideal characterization of a young Bruce, but it’s good and I can accept that. I think we sometimes get so caught up in things meeting our standards instead of meeting art where it is
Comics are a weird thing because so many of the vocal fans are about 10 years behind on the nostalgia cycle (comic creators are going back 25-30 years while fans are looking back 10-15) which is an interesting phenomenon but also makes for frustrating discourse because no one is ever happy
I think that’s my issue with so many people who are upset about the El’s in the new movie. I don’t love it either, I like an immigrant Superman, but we’re clearly on this wave of trying to get back to New 52 “sad boy Superman,” which is valid, but I don’t think it’s essential
You can have favorite elements and obviously cannon in the comics should have a bit more scrutiny because it is an ever evolving thing but Superman is a myth. He’s a sci-fi Moses who tries to do good things. Change what you need to in order to tell your story with the concept
Ik the hardest of hardcore Superman fans will hate this but I do feel like kinda the whole point is “Doomed Planet, Desperate Scientist, Last Hope, Kindly Couple” is really all you need. Are the Kent’s dead? Is there a Supergirl or a Super dog? Is Lex a scientist or a businessman? It’s all trivial
I think it’s both fair to say that Lex and Clark being childhood friends is a great thing that you can mine stories from and also not like some integral part of the cannon that has to be reflected in every adaptation
I feel like the federal government shouldn’t be able to just decide they’re gonna run a city’s public transportation system
I really think some people miss the forest for the trees with how they discuss the new Superman movie (and Superman in adaptation as a whole)
Other smarter people than me have noted this but Trump clearly targeting cities where crime has gone down under more progressive social policies (and that are often run by POC) is not a coincidence
