good luck enclosing THIS horse

BuzzBallz suffer from the same issue as protein bars: once the Part That Tastes Terrible gets above a certain threshold percentage of the makeup, it doesn't really matter what flavor you try to disguise it with. (Unless it's chocolate, and even that only gets so far)

god they're all awful

oh right I forgot about Silence of the Lambs (which I am finally going to see later this month!), but still

"No comic book film has won, although three have been nominated: Skippy (1931), Black Panther (2018), and Joker (2019)."

One of those is great, one of those is "the fuck is something like THAT doing on this list rubbing shoulders with Black Panther", and then there's Skippy

still amused that the One Battle After Another climax features the highway that is the same one I take to my math classes, but like a hundred miles and many wild elevation changes away to the east

interesting, I had somehow never even heard of SteelBooks (which are less good for transparency -- callback! -- but seem really cool)

seeing Jessie Buckley accepting the award made me realize that -- for all I've enjoyed her in so much TV and film -- I had no idea what she actually looked like. or at least what her hair actually looked like

Timothee Chalamet is gonna be having a post-Oscars soak in his bathtub, thinking about what could have been, only to have it go crashing through the floor like in Marty Supreme

I always wish we could know just how close the Oscar votes were or weren't. One Battle After Another was very well done and ofc a good fit for These Times (impressive given the age of the source material), but I gave the edge to Sinners and was hoping it would get some points on the board for horror

Rendered snake stompin' around!!

What if in 20 years an actor named LeBron B. James comes along and people spend weeks arguing about whether him or Michael B. Jordan made better films

11th/12th century vore poetry confirmed

me scrolling through assorted furry art: hmm that's really weird and detailed veiny arm musculature, oh wait nm that's a big dick

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

I was mildly intrigued by a preview for the AI documentary, but I am not going to sit in a theater (or anywhere) and watch Musk and Altman's stupid faces saying stupid words. At this point I do not need to hear anything they have to say

I'm just imagining an inflatable bounce castle but full of sharp objects

"Needed more F-bombs"

that part in The Queen where she sees the beheaded stag hanging there and is like, hmm, maybe I should soften my distant hauteur and try not to figuratively end up like that

it was pretty close to being a serious verisimilitude problem, like, the source of this guy's trouble is actually just that he's really bad at math

Pi had a medical consultant, a Go consultant, and a Judaism consultant, but it really needed a math consultant to avoid stuff like Max describing the golden ratio as theta, or saying "admit it, you've probably tried writing down every 216 digit number!"

This is in the spoilers for Pi (1998) but I love how it looks like spoilers for the nature of reality

always thinking they were made of glass or had swallowed a tiny delicate glass piano or whatever. I mean, you get some PERSONALITIES there man

Aronofsky was like "that was fun, but what if... *multiple* people trapped in miserable spirals of ideal-chasing self-destruction" 🤔

Soar on, Aron Of Sky, we groundlings were never meant to understand your great works

the message of π (1998) was "don't do number theory"

well, not that anything anyone was doing in this film really resembled number theory or any math. It checked all the expected boxes of "tortured mathematician as seen by John ℚ. Public." P. much a more watchable precursor to Requiem For A Dream

We did a 3.14 mile walk to the theater to see π at 3:14, and saw at least π (actually at least π²) lizards, including this very brave one

continuous vs. discrete mathematicians

After Drew Gooden's video on sports reporting, I just can't unsee it -- just listened to some local sports radio on my way home and it was a guy ranting about what happened off the field, or what didn't happen on the field that he thought should have. Nothing about, like, details of a sports game?

I have a good guess as to which you mean

When the protagonists of a vampire movie don't use crosses and prayers and the like to protect themselves, yep, you notice.

Apart from some pacing issues here and there, I thought Sinners was great. It went places that I wasn't expecting it to go. I'd be very happy to see it win Best Picture.

What this month feels like to me... 🌚🐊💦

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