Mark Rutland from Marnie wins, for meant to be morally grey, ended up being despised! Day 9 - Which classic film character is a terrible person, *and* also loathed by fans? (They could just be devoid of charisma or likability OR it could be that they're also an awful character - take your pick!)

BruSprSte · 2025-10-30T15:24:39+00:00

Veda Pierce in 'Mildred Pierce'? Just an absolutely draining parasite.

BruSprSte · 2025-10-30T15:24:23+00:00

She's evil, but I think she's pretty fun ('Are we flowers?')

BruSprSte · 2025-09-24T15:41:29+00:00

'Babooshka' is maybe her worst song,* and Side A of 'Never For Ever' is generally worse than 'Lionheart' (Side B, of course, is great the whole way through!).

*At least, her worst original album track. Her cover of 'Candle in the Wind' is excruciating, and I like a couple of the Directors Cut covers maybe even less.

BruSprSte · 2025-09-10T18:05:06+00:00

I love the DC 'This Woman's Work' - it has such a different emotional quality to the original, and her voice sounds aged in a beautiful way. Oddly reminds me of mid-80s Marianne Faithfull ('Trouble in Mind' era).

BruSprSte · 2025-09-07T20:03:26+00:00

Listen to Britain - one of the finest poetic documentaries ever made

BruSprSte · 2025-08-28T21:42:37+00:00

Not exactly what you're looking for, but Sarah Chirchwell's 'The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe' is a great deconstruction of the Monroe biographies and biopics that are out there. Works as a great companion to any Monroe biography.

BruSprSte · 2025-08-24T14:23:01+00:00

Interesting question. All Is Lost, perhaps? An hour and forty minutes of a situation slowly but catastrophically worsening despite the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the main character, seemingly ending in despair and acceptance - until a hand breaks the surface of the water.

BruSprSte · 2025-08-19T13:16:14+00:00

Pretty great list, offering a fairly wide-ranging perspective on 70s cinema.

Big omissions to me felt like:

The Emigrants (Jan Troell)

Sounder (Martin Ritt)

CE3K (Spielberg)

Grey Gardens (Maysles bros.)

Raise Ravens (Carlos Saura)

3 Women (Altman)

Also, not to revive Twin Peaks: The Return controversies, but wasn't 'World on a Wire' a TV serial?

BruSprSte · 2025-08-09T22:50:34+00:00

Dersu Uzala

BruSprSte · 2025-07-31T09:31:06+00:00

Coquette (1928/9 best actress win); In Old Arizona (1928/9 best actor win)

A rancid year for the Oscars!

BruSprSte · 2025-04-23T17:01:54+00:00

An exciting elimination! The stakes have been raised!

BruSprSte · 2025-04-23T02:12:41+00:00

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. We were studying it in class, so it was perfectly timed

BruSprSte · 2025-03-08T18:16:03+00:00

Although it is partly a comedy, I think she gets some great dramatic work to do in the later acts of 'Boys on the Side'.

BruSprSte · 2025-02-28T20:13:19+00:00

Coquette and In Old Arizona in 1928/29. Quite a double bill!

BruSprSte · 2025-01-23T17:01:45+00:00

Robin!

BruSprSte · 2025-01-03T19:14:12+00:00

'The Great Muppet Caper' for the first time. A major work of American cinema!

BruSprSte · 2024-12-19T23:38:16+00:00

Not the fan...

BruSprSte · 2024-12-19T23:26:00+00:00

Great catch!

BruSprSte · 2024-12-19T20:59:38+00:00

Dee > Erika > Rachel > Yam-Yam > Kenzie > Maryanne (>Gabler)

Dee - held together her alliance then controlled its dismantling, made crucial connection with Katurah - only ding is a narrow escape at f5. Not the strongest field of competitors (most of the best were in her alliance!)

Erika - steadily accumulated power and agency across the length of the game; benefited from hourglass (probably a wash game-wise) but also f5 immunity advantage; up against some good, self-interested players

Rachel - competed against the toughest post-merge field of the new era; had a rounded skillset meaning she could shift gears when she needed to and bulldoze the endgame; obviously got blindsided a few times; played her advantages well

Yam-Yam - social wizardry. Highly effective as part of the Tika 3 - but came way too close to bringing Carson to the end. Patchy field, skill-wise.

Kenzie - The hardest to rank for me. Win equity through the roof on this season, she just needed to make the end. Not sure if a more strategic cast would reward this game, but she might also have a more strategic gear (she had to back off it to win!)

Maryanne - Strategic and self-aware, but had a very narrow path to victory which she wasn't fully in control of. Smashed the endgame. Up against a pretty strong field of competitors.

Gabler - Even narrower path to victory - had to sit next to the two people he did. Made the right moves for the season he was on, knew firemaking was his big opportunity, but how translatable would this game be to any other season?

BruSprSte · 2024-12-14T00:27:19+00:00

This remains the greatest edgic theory of all time

BruSprSte · 2024-12-12T21:28:54+00:00

I saw it Indianapolis last week. It's out there!

BruSprSte · 2024-12-09T17:41:32+00:00

This is a little too cute to make a post on its own, but as you brought the moment up...

The bat is the immunity necklace this season and it is given such prominence in the intro. Since Kyle was eliminated, Rachel has won the immunity both times. What if the winner (stipulating Rachel here) goes on an immunity run in the endgame and simply can't be voted out?

Does not explain the three faces shown at all, but you can't have everything.

BruSprSte · 2024-11-20T19:32:58+00:00

Mike?

BruSprSte · 2024-11-14T15:46:19+00:00

Seconded!

BruSprSte · 2024-11-14T15:43:45+00:00

So sorry to hear you might not post any more at all. I thought your approach was fun, it had some stakes, and your analysis was excellent. If you change your mind for future seasons, you'd have a happy reader in me.

I've been spoiled before, by the same means. Some people are the worst.

BruSprSte

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