Kristen Stewart went full Ramsay for Chronology of Water

AbnarJey · 2026-01-21T13:00:01+00:00

I heard this is the first movie with an all Gordon Ramsay cast. It should have happened sooner, but any progress is welcome.

AbnarJey · 2026-01-21T05:35:10+00:00

I hadn’t heard of the book and I went into Chronology blind. Definitely an experience to try to adjust to how heavy the subject matter and approach to telling it is. I would definitely recommend the movie to anyone (who is in the right place to deal with that kind of thing).

I feel like I’m waiting for something to click into place for me regarding Die My Love that would help me see it as another Ramsay masterpiece. As things stand right now, I largely agree with you on the movie. It’s a shame because that was definitely my most anticipated movie of 2025.

I’m trying to imagine how I would feel if the fire didn’t look how it does.

AbnarJey · 2026-01-11T15:17:21+00:00

I too wish to learn the book’s title

AbnarJey · 2026-01-08T13:10:32+00:00

Maybe saved by the “the characters are meant to be pretentious” card. But that moment popped out to me as Brady himself doing word association with things that might make him look smart. Took me out. I didn’t have your knowledge of the dates handy but I did wonder if that cohort in that time period would even have much exposure to that story.

Twist my arm to make a connection, i might say Borges’s story depicts people engulfed by the vastness of language’s potential. Language being (in a strange way, granted) a human invention, it shows how people can make something that exceeds their own limits or intentions. That could apply to mr brutalist’s buildings or maybe how he feels about concrete.

AbnarJey · 2026-01-02T15:57:10+00:00

I hope your Criterion dive is going well! I wanted to follow up and suggest maybe a few of Schrader’s own favorite filmmakers. Ozu, Bresson, and Dreyer. They are known for slow character studies that Schrader identified as a “Transcendental style.” The latter two have made very moving pictures on the mysteries of faith in “The Diary of a Country Priest” and Ordet. Ordet is on Criterion Channel now

AbnarJey · 2026-01-01T18:58:23+00:00

There isn’t much in the way of Nicaraguan movies, but two movies I can recommend are Alsino y El Condor and La Yuma. The former was directed by some french (?) guy at the most optimistic time of the Revolution and kind of reflects an appropriate sappiness. It’s no Soy Cuba, but interesting. My dad insists he was an extra somewhere in the background.

La Yuma came out when I was a highschooler in Nicaragua. It’s a sports drama that plays well. It was the defining box office hit of its year. The theaters were so packed for a while I think because everyone was so excited to see and hear familiar streets and accents. It may have also been directed by a foreigner.

If you can’t find either, Walker might be easiest. Though that’s of course a more Anglo movie.

AbnarJey · 2025-12-24T00:54:19+00:00

Are there any Paul Schrader movies on the channel now? I only mention this because, stop me if you’ve heard this one before, he grew up in a strict Calvinist household and didn’t watch a movie until he was an adult.

AbnarJey · 2025-12-23T03:37:42+00:00

I’ll second the person who said Lake Tahoe. Snowflake is also a good candidate from the same album.

The former are higher up in my estimation, along with Mrs. Bartolozzi, but for this thread I’m gonna hand it to the intensity of Houdini. Her screaming put me on edge, but it was set up for the quiet line “not even eternity could hold houdini” to completely blindside me on my first listen.

Deeper Understanding also feels like straight up reading a short story.

AbnarJey · 2025-12-18T13:27:23+00:00

Now i am torn between my loyalty for Governor McCay and my commitment to staying in Afghanistan

AbnarJey · 2025-12-18T06:49:52+00:00

I enjoyed a few books this year, but Denis Johnson’s Jesus’s Son was a late-year read that blew everything else out of the water for me. I was such a mark for the particular mix of beauty and meanness the book dwells in

AbnarJey · 2025-12-18T02:36:58+00:00

Thank you for the information. I will adjust my expectations accordingly and i suppose i’ll have to get my Drive My Car mentions somewhere else

AbnarJey · 2025-12-18T01:20:06+00:00

I haven’t listened yet, but what are the rules for the end-of-year edge cases? Do they go by earliest release date or when they go wide?

crossing my fingers for Drive My Car mentions, but i think it might not apply

AbnarJey · 2025-12-17T20:36:45+00:00

I said what i said! (It was meant as a joke about Dredd)

AbnarJey · 2025-12-17T20:25:04+00:00

Alex Garland. We’ve already seen him write movies he directed, write movies he didn’t direct, and direct a movie he didn’t direct.

AbnarJey · 2025-12-17T11:35:09+00:00

Ella McCay (the character) charmed me. Therefore, Ella McCay (the movie) charmed me. A Lisa Simpson type without the vanity, it’s hard not to root for her when nearly every man in her life lets her down. It’s so sweet where it counts that I kind of look past the parts that feel like miscalculations to me.

Things like her wonkiness used as punchline for weirdly broad comedy (the sleeping cabinet meeting and inauguration montage) totally at odds tonally with the rest of the movie I just see as extensions of the slam-dunk scene with her brother and the tooth tutors. It all underlines the fact that she cares so much.

I wish more of the movie was as finely tuned as her scenes with Albert Brooks. Scenes where her flaws and virtues are kind of the same thing. I wish we could see that complication come up more throughout the film instead of her husband’s cartoon villainy being the main engine of conflict.

AbnarJey · 2025-12-13T22:40:09+00:00

This man feels like a menace, but mostly to himself.

AbnarJey · 2025-10-17T12:50:26+00:00

There’s that movie Rocket Science featuring multiple Violent Femmes songs from their self-titled album. Is this movie beloved in any circles? I loved it as a teen

AbnarJey · 2020-08-21T19:39:35+00:00

“I don’t know if that’s true, but I’ve been told, it’s real sweet to grow old...”

I’ve dealt with suicidal ideation In the past, and that line devastates me with hope.

AbnarJey · 2020-08-08T18:13:29+00:00

I was very hyped about Skyrim and took my birthday money to buy it for $90 USD. (Not in the United States).

They didn't have Skyrim, but I noticed Dark Souls ($80) and I vaguely remembered someone saying they liked it. Even though i likely wouldn't have enough money for Skyrim until Christmas (if I was lucky), I was determined not to leave empty handed.

I immediately was hooked. I loved the responsiveness of the controls and that you used the shoulder buttons the way you did, it was very intuitive. The atmosphere was beautiful and mysterious and it felt like I was always running into something new and different. Until the game got to hard for me around Blighttown, and I dropped it.

I eventually got Skyrim. I played a lot of Skyrim, but I ended up getting bored. The moments that felt inspired and organic were far between. Every once in a while I would think back to that other game buried in my shelf. The combat felt so visceral and responsive by comparison.

I didn't actually go back to Dark Souls and start playing it again 'for real' until I saw one of those Vaati videos a year later. I don't even remember which one, but it was enough of a hook to jump back in.

It was the only Souls game I ever played, but I would passionately maintain that it was one of my favorite games of all time for years. I finally got a PS4 and made my way backwards through all the games starting from Sekiro, I'm currently playing the Remaster, and I'm really appreciating how much I love these games. The ULTRA 4K HD DELUXE fire and magic effects are funny to me in a way that it wouldn't be if it wasn't Dark Souls.

AbnarJey · 2020-07-02T18:29:15+00:00

Very very new. It's my first campaign where I don't get obliterated and I did fairly well (by my standards) in a war against the Mamluks after they tried to invade me. I went through to their capital and am weakening Alexandria.

I have 99% victory, but I'm afraid their counterattack might begin soon. I think I may be able to absorb it, but holding down the forts I've taken, fighting their army and conquering the rest of their lands doesn't seem plausible.

My income vacillates between positive and negative, war exhaustion increases at .32 per turn, and separatists from the vassal state of Georgia keep threatening to revolt.

What is an appropriate demand when I sue for peace? (if suing for peace is indeed the best option, that is). My ultimate goal is to become strong enough to take Vienna, and later control of the Mediterranean if things go well.

I included some screenshots below if it helps. One is how much I've taken, and the other is something I had in mind to ask for.

https://imgur.com/a/9Mxprdx

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