I think my sub 5 movies would be the most interesting things on my list. Let me think about this for a bit.Quoting StuSmallz (view post)
I think my sub 5 movies would be the most interesting things on my list. Let me think about this for a bit.Quoting StuSmallz (view post)
I wouldn't say these films are more (or less) representative of their respective ratings than any other film I've given the same rating, but Spielberg seems like a useful case study because his career is long and uneven enough to cover the full spectrum all by himself:Quoting StuSmallz (view post)
Spicy: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Warm: Jaws
Mild: Catch Me If You Can
Cold: Munich
Frozen: The Terminal
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
How's everyone's Christmas been?
Not too bad...good food. Browns shirt, Ein shirt, Shang-Chi comic shirt (I'll take any comic shirts)...my sister gave me a throw blanket covered in corgis. I'm up to my tits in corg-life and it rocks.
Having a feast day tomorrow, and Christmas with the family proper in a couple weeks. Got a nice gift card to our favorite expensive restaurant from my folks, and Scarette signed me up for the Metallica vinyl club again.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
A.I. hurts my soul like few other films can.Quoting baby doll (view post)
It is an emotional horror show.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Absolute Zero/Heat-Death of the Universe: 1941Quoting baby doll (view post)
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
Happy New Year everybody!
Is a movie labeled by where its shot, or by who the director is?
What I mean is, if a Korean director shoots a movie in China, is it considered a Korean film (because it would have all the director's choices) or a Chinese film? [obviously this sounds like a silly question, but its a set up to another]
Probably where the money came from to fund it, IMO.Quoting Skitch (view post)
Yes, E is right. It's all about who funds it.
If Wong Kar Wai makes a movie with an all Chinese cast, all done in Mandarin, and it takes place in China, but it is funded 100% by France, it's a French movie.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I'm not disagreeing....but that's so weird.
Wow. Just, wow. Some little shit pulled the fire drill at my daughter's school today, forcing the entire school out of the building to stand outside in the six degree below zero Fahrenheit weather for 5+ minutes while they called the Fire Dept and cleared the drill.
Is it wrong for a grown man to want to punch a 13 year old in the face?
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Nope!Quoting bac0n (view post)
Yes, kids should learn how to deal with freezing cold sometimes.Quoting bac0n (view post)
...I'm gonna assume you're being tongue in cheek here and move along.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Whoever did it is probably the same type of asshole that would call in a bomb threat to get out of a test in college.
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
Who me or Skitch? I think we were both just trying to be funny. Mine was at 10 pm on a Saturday night so probably had drunk some alcohol by then as well. No, you should never punch a 13 year old in the face - but I think bac0n was over-reacting. "stand outside in the six degree below zero Fahrenheit weather for 5+ minutes" doesn't sound like a big deal to me.Quoting bac0n (view post)
No you shouldn't punch a teenager in the face, but wanting to I'm good with. Queue up Bill Burr "No reason".
In the midst of moving (which is fun as always), tired, then neighbor cunt (I don't use this term loosely) fires up her giant truck with custom super loud mufflers and lets it idle for 45 min (this is routine) and magically the motivation to pack faster returns!
Last edited by Skitch; 01-13-2022 at 08:40 PM.
No worries, Yxlyx, I figured you were being silly, ergo my response. But those little punks were forcing my kids to stand out in the extreme cold without their coats or hats or any winter clothes at all for close to ten minutes. Another five minutes and we're talking frostbite. I can't abide that shit.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Update: After loud ass truck idled for an hour, they decided, fuck it, and turned it off. I believe these fuckers single handled lowered property values.
Its really shocking how good the cgi is in Iron Man. That came out in 2008, there is no excuse for shitty cgi in 2022.
Sometimes, when things are going really shittily (yes, that's an adverb), life will out of nowhere throw you a bone. Case in point, I was dealing with a huge kerfuffle at work today, mostly of my own doing, and low and behold, news comes down the pipe that the Apple streaming service is planning a Godzilla series based on the current Monsterverse.
Ahhhh. serenity.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Got my booster yesterday. Last night it felt like an evil wizard cast a spell on me. My face and head were hot and throbbing with pain, rest of my body had the chills, I was in and out of sleep, and I had some terrifically weird dreams. Feeling better today though, but that was bizarre.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer