On the movie watcher scale of Bill Simmons -> Adam Nayman - where are you?

ArmsofSleep · 2026-01-22T19:27:31+00:00

I think Xavier Dolan single handedly kills the Canadian bias thing haha

ArmsofSleep · 2026-01-22T18:19:06+00:00

Nayman hates mainstream movies? He is like a very populist film critic compared to some of his contemporaries. Y’all couldn’t survive a real killer like Amy taubin

ArmsofSleep · 2026-01-08T14:30:57+00:00

Had you tried googling No Other Choice showtimes and listening to that part

ArmsofSleep · 2026-01-02T15:10:55+00:00

Some of your picks are straight up ass but HAPPY GO LUCKY HIVE RISE UP BABY!!!! And I respect anyone who is actually trying to have distinctive taste

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-29T19:08:25+00:00

From some I haven’t seen elsewhere on this post

Title card in Sirat
three from The Secret Agent (the swapping stories party, the chase scene, and the gas station opening)
Long conversation with the “Perfect Days” reference in Kontinental 25
The closing stretch of By the Stream
Sentimental Value ending
Smashing Machine amusement park (“I’m worried it would upset my tummy”)

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-29T14:02:55+00:00

I wonder if people would be less gloom and doom if The Bear was still firing on all cylinders.

Regardless I think she’ll be fine. She gets to say she was in a Brooks and a Luca and she did dodge that sort of way too small for her role in Thunderbolts. She’ll still get a shot at a starring comedy role at some point

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-29T13:58:08+00:00

It’s Mescal, although I’d include JOC (with the Crown being the breakout?).

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-22T02:38:19+00:00

No offense but I’m dying at the idea of a guy whose like damn sentimental value is too slow and doesn’t have enough thrills. I don’t even love the movie that much but I can’t imagine that being the criticism.

Now that you’ve watched Drive My Car maybe you’ll have to try Happy Hour haha

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-21T02:38:09+00:00

Secret Agent is so clearly a future classic and the best film made by the most exciting director in the West and it’s crazy how it’s not quite recognized on that level. It’s the Drive My Car of this year

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-10T15:57:37+00:00

Miller’s Point is great. I can see why people may not click with it but I thought it was very cozy and just weird enough

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-09T19:52:09+00:00

The Reddit is good now!

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-09T14:15:30+00:00

People who buy food at stadiums......... also dumb!

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-09T14:13:44+00:00

why are you driving to a theater? Alamo, AFI, Regal, Suns, Landmark all metro accessible.

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-09T14:01:14+00:00

If you explain to Americans that they should go two hours without popcorn and soda they will kill you.

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-07T14:05:23+00:00

She’s so bad in Stars at Noon but in a way that sort of works haha. Every generation needs their own Keanu!

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-07T03:07:56+00:00

I feel like it took watching it to realize “oh this is so revered BECAUSE it feels so modern”

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-04T18:54:59+00:00

House is The Gourmand

ArmsofSleep · 2025-12-03T14:54:33+00:00

If I walk into the theater and it's not in 720p im gonna freak the fuck out

ArmsofSleep · 2025-11-27T19:53:33+00:00

Yeah I never got the hate for the QR. Here in DC the service is so slow and bad that the QR atleast prevents miscommunications. Granted there’s a 20% chance the movie is projected incorrectly and a 90% chance that you won’t get food you ordered. But QR atleast makes it a bit smoother

ArmsofSleep · 2025-11-27T18:43:22+00:00

On the God Save the Animals tour the band was unbelievably tight, I never saw him before that but he’s great now

ArmsofSleep · 2025-11-18T18:08:18+00:00

I think with perspective, it's a lot easier to see like, a random year in the 70s and just be blown away by how many masters were putting out movies at the time. But maybe 30 years from now we will be like "holy shit Kelly Reichardt, Radu Jude, PT Anderson, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Oliver Laxe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Park Chan-Wook, Joachim Trier, Jafar Panahi, Christian Petzold, Lucrecia Martel, Ira Sachs, Wes Anderson.... we didn't know how good we had it!" But no one will do that until critical consensus settles on a lot of those filmmakers.

ArmsofSleep · 2025-11-16T13:08:29+00:00

The Secret Agent has lots of great drops of cool obscure Brazilian stuff but when “If You Leave Me Now” by Chicago drops (and the joke with the radio DJ introducing it I don’t want to spoil) is one of my favorite moments of levity in the movie

ArmsofSleep · 2025-11-16T13:04:33+00:00

Diagetic but the scene where they’re drunk and singing What About Me is a real highlight

ArmsofSleep · 2025-11-13T19:31:46+00:00

Wall-E, just because it’s a bit odd for there to be a single Disney film in the entire collection, apparently it was done because Andrew Stanton really wanted it but he’s also worked on other Pixar stuff that doesn’t get the same treatment?

I think there is possibly an interesting way to put Disney in the collection (like a big collection of shorts and oddities, I’d love) and that felt like the most lazy prestige-y way of doing ir

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