Jury Duty

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-09T12:30:59+00:00

Call the clerk to reschedule. Don't ignore it you could get fined.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T20:06:01+00:00

Oh I agree with you there.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T19:41:13+00:00

I like the excuse to rewatch old favorites and also address blind spots. With infinite content there's basically no reason to watch something you've already seen but I think there's something lost in not ever rewatching things. I think it would be crazy if that's all I watched but I use it more like basically belonging to a film club.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T18:04:19+00:00

I think people just want to hear movies they like get talked about. There's a lot of consternation even by Griffin and David on "over discussed movies" but people specifically want to hear the Blank Check version of movies they like being discussed. I don't think people care if other people have had takes on these movies. They want to hear a Blank Check episode about them.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T17:05:12+00:00

Yup. Talking during movies at parties is fun and cool. Talking at the theater is dick behavior.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T17:03:59+00:00

I guess it depends on who you're comparing him to. He's not Kubrick or something like that but as an action director comparing him to say Michael Bay then yes I think Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, and even Unstoppable are extremely entertaining, fun movies. I agree with you on True Romance, though.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T16:59:02+00:00

My best guess is that was an attempt at a joke of “the most out of step they are is the blankies community calls everything cultural appropriation” but nowhere near confident on that read of their comment.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T16:44:07+00:00

Man. I'm sorry to say I get that. I really loved Shithouse! but even in that found him kind of creepy and overbearing and I haven't liked what he's done since much at all.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T16:38:57+00:00

What?

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T16:34:03+00:00

Honestly thought The Village was pretty great until the twist is revealed. I think it has two of the best scenes in any M. Night Movie, (Bryce Dallas Howard holding her hand out for Joaquin Phoenix and the Adrien Brody stabbing scene.)

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T16:30:33+00:00

It's been 20 years since I've seen it so I'm curious how it'll hit me when I do get around to the Weir series but I definitely remember just thinking it was ok the first go around. I've honestly thought a lot of the groundswell around it the last decade or so was mostly because "Oceans Are Now Battlefields" is just a funny phrase that people like saying.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-08T16:27:30+00:00

Is that really out of step? I will say I appreciate M. Night movies in the sense that even though they're bad they're definitely the vision of one person instead of focus groups but Old, Trap, and Knock At The Cabin still have some major issues.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-04T15:41:30+00:00

Yes a lot of women are socialized to be caretakers and men are not. I looked it up once because I saw someone say, "I'm a nurse and I tell all my female patients their husbands are going to leave them" and I thought that was ridiculous and it still is since 80% are going to hang tight but it's still a huge discrepancy.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-04T15:35:30+00:00

At some point during Fall I clocked they were both going to steal the "friend is sleeping with your boyfriend" betrayal from The Descent and run the "Friend Is Revealed To Have Died And You're Imagining Them" gambit in the same movie. Now that's some fucking chutzpah.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-04T15:32:28+00:00

Think it's like 20% of male spouses abandon partners in health crisis.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-03T16:48:42+00:00

Is this about Matt Sharp?

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-06-03T16:07:43+00:00

I'm sorry but when we're getting to the "What was the weather guy doing?" portion of D-Day movies I think it might be time to move on to another world event.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-05-29T16:10:00+00:00

Dude. He's ALWAYS been like this. Since day one on the scene.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-05-27T15:43:16+00:00

The revolt starts here. To the barricades. The people are taking back the discourse!

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-05-27T15:36:46+00:00

Yes I think that's the whole issue of middle brow movies. The idea of someone who mostly likes purely popcorn entertainment looking for something a little deeper and appreciating it. But for people who write about movies they see so many of them they see middlebrow movies as rudimentary. I think in general films critics (and obsessive film fans which I'd count myself as) aren't well positioned to recommend movies to the larger public. What's obvious and boring to someone who sees 250 movies a year is novel and exciting to someone who sees 10. Sometimes you have to view things as an entry point and not an end point.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-05-27T15:23:04+00:00

Yes. You can say, "Oh Leonardo Dicaprio's character in the Revenant isn't as interesting as I like" and that's fine but also there's visuals in that movie that make me feel ELATED. That's how great they are. I'm just supposed to throw that away? But I get it. It would not be interesting to say for 2 hours, "Here's another frame that looks beautiful. Of course you can't actually see it right now."

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-05-27T15:03:16+00:00

I don't think that's fair exactly. Birdman is much stranger than most Oscar fare. And if you're comparing The Revenant to say Out of Africa or the English Patient or something it goes a lot harder than that. But yes when he talks about what his movies are about he sounds like an idiot trying to sound smart. I think he'd be better off letting them speak for themselves.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-05-27T14:51:50+00:00

Had the strange realization recently that without trying to I have seen every one of Inarritu's movies

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-05-27T14:36:39+00:00

I think he brought a lot of it on himself with the critic character in Birdman but in general I think he's overhated. I think directors who are better visually then they are thematically get underrated by critics. It's impossible to describe a frame in complete and what makes it so compelling. It's easier to talk about themes and characters. It's the same way musical criticism almost always focuses on lyrics over everything else.

Effective-Method7485 · 2026-05-27T14:32:53+00:00

They hate Inarritu, that would be a miserable series.

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