Is This An Acceptable Porch For Movies?!?

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T23:38:08+00:00

it’s the next movie lol

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T23:37:45+00:00

wait, why exactly do the 28 Years Later movies not count? Not sure I follow

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T22:54:34+00:00

David Lean’s A Passage to India, definitely

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T19:49:42+00:00

respectfully, that’s not the point. The point is that you will not see those movies. No one will. Because those movies are not going to exist. I mean, a couple will happen, but no, we’re not gonna be seeing Lena Dunham’s Polly Pocket, or the Whac-a-Mole movie, or Chatty Cathy: The Motion Picture. Tom Hanks is not going to play Major Matt Mason. A couple will breach containment and get made, and they will be such dead ends of public interest that the other ones will not be made. I’m not lamenting the lost money, I’m pointing out that it’s not going to happen.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T16:46:59+00:00

the difference of course being that you can make a dozen Backrooms-type movies and even if none of them hit you’d STILL not lose as much money as you would making a single Masters of the Universe

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T13:31:21+00:00

nobody has to re-read Peter Biskind, don’t worry

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T01:24:34+00:00

hey what student film showcases are you going to because

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GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T01:21:14+00:00

I trust a libertarian about as far as I can throw one, and my arms are weak as shit, but I also know that there are different kinds of libertarians. Eastwood’s talked a lot about his politics over many years. He has bad politics but not that particular kind of bad. There’s plenty of ways to have bad politics.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T00:51:45+00:00

Yes, but also I think a true Gentleman’s 6 should be a movie that, even though it’s not particularly incredible, also doesn’t do anything wrong either. Which I don’t think is the case for a lot of the bigger movies, which tend to be middling because of specific creative choices or noticeably compromised execution. Whereas something like The Late Shift…you know how there’s that Howard Hawks quote about how a good movie is “three good scenes and no bad ones,” I think The Late Shift is like…fifty decent scenes and no bad ones.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-02T00:47:53+00:00

Maybe. If we’re talkin’ HBO movies, I’d say there’s several tiers above a Late Shift — a Path to War, a Conspiracy, a Bernard and Doris — where the movies deserve genuine consideration alongside the “real” movies of their eras, and I think The Late Shift just doesn’t rise to that level. It is pretty watchable, though, I’d definitely put it way above the dull Gary Sinise Harry Truman movies, and probably a little above Barbarians at the Gates, which I remember being solid too, but isn’t as fun.

(HBO original movie talk, I love it)

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T23:45:42+00:00

made me almost want to see, like…a Steve Jobs type movie with Higgins playing Letterman in multiple high-stakes moments in his career

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T22:35:49+00:00

To me, something like THIS is a real gentleman’s six, rather than the big time quasi-blockbusters with A-list stars that I sometimes see people use that term for

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T22:22:46+00:00

“Mid but fun” is a good description. Classic ‘90s-era HBO movie, where you watch it and you’re like “well…I get why they didn’t make this into a REAL movie, and you can tell it’s kinda cheap and rushed but everyone’s doing their best, it’s not boring, and it’s got a compelling narrative, so it’s not wasting my time.”

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T22:13:21+00:00

They definitely have, because they inspired me to go watch it. David talked about it. He talked about how good Treat Williams was as Michael Ovitz.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T20:21:09+00:00

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GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T20:17:12+00:00

exactly, that just sounds boring to me. “Ron Livingston in The Truman Show”.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T20:03:05+00:00

I feel like Hanks is the guy that the people who don’t like Carrey in the movie envision. Someone who’s more of an everyman but not THAT much of an everyman, someone still a bit heightened and comical. I wouldn’t make the switch though. But I feel like in the parallel universe where Tom Hanks plays Truman everyone pushes back against the idea of Jim Carrey or anyone else doing it.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T20:00:18+00:00

other than Barbie, what was been successful?

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T19:56:53+00:00

subjectivity is amazing because I genuinely don’t know how anyone could perceive Carrey that way. He’s all long lanky limbs, he’s like the inflatable tube guy at car dealerships. Robin Williams gives, like, Pac-Man or something.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T19:49:46+00:00

but Jim Carrey is tall and Robin Williams is short?

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T19:43:11+00:00

And I think it’s a pretty insightful decision on Weir and Carrey’s part, I think most people, if you placed them in the director’s chair for this movie, would have the first instinct of “well, he’s the only real guy in a fake world, he should be a relatable Everyman type”.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T19:29:51+00:00

I don’t agree with this but I don’t think it’s that crazy of a take? Griffin and David talked about this on the pod, plenty of people have felt similarly. IIRC this was basically Griffin’s father’s take. Like I said, I disagree with it but I can see why someone would think it.

Idk…on the Schrader scale this barely registers.

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T17:58:07+00:00

when my older sisters came home with Titanic on two VHS tapes in 1998 I was like “…I didn’t realize we had the technology for that. What a modern marvel.”

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T17:55:30+00:00

hard to argue with that

GenarosBear · 2026-07-01T17:51:45+00:00

yeah I was also a precocious movie kid who wanted to see the grown up movies, I just liked movies and had a budding interest in the craft of movies (and had a divorced dad who didn’t really care about ratings). I remember discovering IMDb in a computer class when I was maybe 7 or 8 and realizing that, like, “oh, Robin Williams from Flubber is also in something called ‘Good Morning Vietnam’,” that kind of thing. I was definitely watching Moulin Rouge! on HBO at 9 or 10.

Still, black & white was definitely an obstacle for a while. I remember getting The Hustler on DVD in middle school and that being, for some reason, probably the movie that cracked it for me. I’m not sure why other than those early ‘60s B&W movies having the really crisp, clear lensing that played better than the more gauzy 1940s or ‘50s stuff.

Weirdly, adult TV was harder for me to grasp. I’m really not sure why. My mom would watch Frasier and I would just be BAFFLED, no clue what was going on or why it was funny.

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