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No accounting for taste, but Adaptation and Doubt are my two favorite Streep movies and performances
i'll give you 3 chances to name a good Meryl Streep movie since 2000 and i'll be shocked if you can get to 2
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Also let’s not pretend The Devil Wears Prada, Little Women, and Fantastic Mr Fox are not good movies.
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Apr 13
Finally getting my dad to watch MARGIN CALL and he (correctly) hit this move when Jeremy Irons walked into the movie
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Apr 13
And again when Stanley Tucci re-enters the movie in the back half in his scene with Paul Bettany
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Apr 13
I live 1800 miles from my parents so I don’t get to watch movies with them that much. When I do it’s such a treat that it’s usually good for a half- or even a full-star bump on Letterboxd for my viewing experience.
But idk I think MARGIN CALL may be a five-bagger regardless.
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I had a podcast with my friends where we watched every Best Picture nom from a given year. 1975, 2007, 1948, 1985, 1997, 1944, 1963, 2010, 1979, 1939, and 2015.
By FAR the biggest surprise was ALL THAT JAZZ. Couldn’t believe how good it was vs how little I’d heard about it.
Apr 8
you gotta lay off the booze joe! ex the amphetamines! you gotta stop screwing around daddy!
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This experience also gave me my first watches of Barry Lyndon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Red Shoes, Stagecoach, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — which are all great but I knew I’d like them.
Wasn’t expecting All That Jazz to come in off the top rope like that.
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Not “most” so much as “quintessential” but sound off on what I should add
Apr 6
What’s the most LA movie ever?
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Mar 24
if there was a “magically become a girl” button, probably a solid 25% of men would press it
Of that 25%, 95% of them are basically still fine with living as a man and don’t experience any noticeable gender dysphoria even though they would press the button immediately
The issue with “egg cracking” and convincing people to transition is that, because of the nature of transitioning, that 5% dysphoria rate turns into effectively 100%
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Mar 22
Marty’s first movie shot by Michael Ballhaus, a collaboration that spanned 20 years and six movies. You see the kernels of Goodfellas’ visual style here.
decided to finally watch AFTER HOURS, wondering how much it'll feel like a typical Scorsese movie
the opening shot of AFTER HOURS:
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Mar 16
Recently realized when I think of MBJ in Sinners I’m almost exclusively thinking of Smoke, and in my head somehow Stack was somebody else entirely. I know that’s dumb but I guess I haven’t truly wrapped my head around how good his (whole) performance is and I’ve seen it 4 times.
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“This is the first Oscar win and 14th nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson” is a patently ludicrous sentence. FINALLY
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Mar 16
congrats to PTA but this is clearly a make-up win for Boogie Nights and Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood and The Master and Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza and probably also some of those Haim videos too why not
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My favorite acting moment Leo does in OBAA is when he's trying really hard not to panic that Lockjaw's going to bust down his door any second, and his first instinct is to take another hit from his joint. It's my favorite thing he's done since the Quaaludes scene from Wolf.
Watched One Battle After Another again tonight.
I think Leo should win for this scene.
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How quickly the target shifts
Mar 5
Kristi Noem made the job about her, her hair, her makeup, her outfits, her vanity. It was a giant distraction from the mission.
She did the same sh*t as governor of South Dakota. Once the cameras turned on she forgot about the people and went on a personal PR mission. Not cute.
Good riddance and hide your dogs.
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Since this clip first made the rounds in October I’ve wondered what’s going on in Leo’s neck here, and now it’s all I see in the clip.
Is that a vein? Is he ok?
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l’ve started going to more rep screenings and seeing which movies are
consistently selling out theaters years after release is giving me new perspective on which movies are Actually Important and endure from a given year.
By this metric NOPE is definitely THE movie of 2022.
Mar 3
did you know NOPE wasn’t nominated for Best Picture?? That’s crazyyyy they nominated women talking over NOPE….
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Feb 26
Looks like my donation to the ol’ alma mater is instead going to Planned Parenthood the next few years.
Feb 26
BREAKING: Professor Susan Ostermann has decided not to move forward as director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Keough School dean Mary Gallagher announced in an email. The decision came after mounting criticism for Ostermann’s abortion rights advocacy.
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Feb 16
It made movies an event. Going to blockbuster and picking something out and getting snacks, then bringing it home to watch together. That was What We Were Doing that night (almost always as a family, which was nice).
With streaming, movies aren’t events. They’re background.
I get that everyone is drunk on nostalgia 24/7 now, but going to Blockbuster video was absolutely not a better experience than what we have now. I was there. You can't lie to me.
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