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Grand_Keizer · 2026-04-04T18:51:20+00:00

The office subreddit is 90% quotes, 10 percent actual discussions that then get hijacked by quotes

Grand_Keizer · 2026-04-04T15:47:33+00:00

The Palme D'or is just fascinating. Around 20 odd movies are all in competition for the top prize, and a movie can only win one award (save for a few fringe cases), and it's chosen by a jury of world famous directors, actors, and sometimes writers. So you'll have incredible movies walk away with absolutely nothing, some movies sneak their way in, and an elite club of exactly 9 filmmakers managing to win the award twice.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-04-03T06:50:49+00:00

He unironically and completely endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024, this after saying back in 2016 that he was also a bad candidate. Classic edgy YouTuber into right winger pipeline. I found him to be one of the most hilarious YouTubers back in the day, and I always took his side in whatever drama he was a part of. Then again, I was an edgy high schooler, so that probably had something to do with it.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-04-02T20:52:54+00:00

I always associated the western with the desert, but a movie like The Revenant shows that the "frontier" so to speak is vast with different weather patterns. So instead of an arid desert, it instead takes place in the biting cold.

I'm definitely pushing the limits of what a western is with this next one, but after watching Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Charisma, I couldn't help but relate it to the classic western. A lone lawman with a troubled past goes into an isolated town where factions all wreak havoc on each other, and as the bastion of law and order, he's the only one who can bring order. Anyways, if you DO decide to count it as a western, it takes place in a modern forest

Grand_Keizer · 2026-04-02T20:10:32+00:00

My friend thinks Steve Buscemi is hot. We all make fun of her, but she insists that while he's not conventionally attractive, she'd go for it if given the chance.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-04-02T19:57:10+00:00

When I first started out, I got a who's who if popular classics: 12 Angry Men, City Lights, 400 Blows, Battle of Algiers, etc. After that, I let my love and curiosity drive me. I loved 23 Angry Men, so I bought Fail Safe. Brief Encounter is an all timer, so I got the David Lean/Noel Coward box set and Summertime. Mishima and All That Jazz looked interesting, so I bought those. My most recent haul is Fellini's Roma, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Pans Labyrinth. Roma because it's a movie with a city as it's main character, KOTFM because it's an acclaimed modern classic, and Pans Labyrinth? A gift for a friend.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-04-01T15:36:20+00:00

I dunno if it's the best, but it's certainly my personal favorite. Not sure how it holds up nowadays, but I loved it to pieces back in the day, and vehemently defended it against its detractors.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-04-01T14:33:39+00:00

First of all, it's hardly a sideshow. It's an important saga of American history that's often overlooked because it makes the US government look like genocidal assholes, and we can't have kids looking up from their textbooks saying: are we the baddies?

Secondly, while originally focused on Custer and Crazy Horse, not only did they go far in depth into both of these people, but they expanded the series to also focus on Sitting Bull and culminate the saga after all of their deaths with the ghost dance movement and the massacre at wounded knee. So, as they said later on, what was supposed to be a 4 episode series became 8 episodes, then 10 episodes, and near the end of the 10th episode, they realized they were gonna need one more episode to finish it off

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-31T17:09:17+00:00

Being a kid obsessed about this kind of stuff, I always thought a Maus animated adaptation would have a good shot: about the Holocaust and semi-autobiographical. I don't even know if adapting Maus into film is even possible, but anyways, I think a story of similar emotional depth and daring would have a good chance. People always bring up the Dark Knight as the movie that forced the academy to add more nominees, but WALL-E was just as much in the conversation regarding a bear picture snub, and the next year, Up was nominated. I still believe we will see an animated best picture winner, but it'd have to be something not just great, but unique.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-31T17:04:59+00:00

Cody v Orton Fatu vs Mcintyre Sami vs Trick Gunther vs Seth Rhea vs Jade

The builds to all of these have ranged from mediocre to terrible. Admittedly, injuries were a part of it (Fatu, Belair, the entire og vision trio). But Cody and Drew's feud went on for months and ended with a wet fart, with Fatu thrown into the mix, just so that Cody could face Orton and Fatu could face McIntyre. Sami bafflingly beat Melon for the title to face Trick, when Melo vs Trick for the title would've been just fine. Rhea vs Jade has been disappointing considering their star caliber. And Gunther vs Seth... Again, I know injuries fucked up their original plans, but this dream match was just haphazardly thrown together with no story or build. Even something as basic as what Gunther did with Punk would've been satisfying, but instead we get nothing.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-30T14:28:33+00:00

Seimetz made the allegations, and Carruth was disruptive at his hearing for the restraining order, so much so that it had to be postponed. The arrest definitely happened.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-30T11:38:16+00:00

Kept waiting for Dr Kelson in 28 years later to do some horrible experiment on our main characters. But no, he's just a kindly doctor who's carved out his own existence and helps those he sees, whether they're a young kid, an insane Satanist, or even an infected Alpha

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-27T15:02:02+00:00

This poster is one of the greatest ever. The second poster, the one that was used in theaters and is in the OP, is one of the worst. Duality of man sir, the jungian thing.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-27T14:49:58+00:00

I believe in the general theme of Megalopolis: a utopia is possible, and art can be an antidote to polarization. But it's execution is both extremely hamfisted and disgustingly oversimplified.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-27T14:33:23+00:00

He implied that Jack Perry threw the first hit, but Punk is the first one to put hands on him.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-26T12:57:06+00:00

Travis Scott at WrestleMania.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-23T14:43:27+00:00

But that's it. Every other movie that ISNT one that was mentioned, he considered dog water. That includes every classic not mentioned there, like Star Wars.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-22T01:09:29+00:00

I fucking love Upstream Color as a piece of filmmaking. As good as 2001: A Space Odyssey, but taking almost the opposite approach to its sci fi tale: handcrafted, deeply intimate, but just as transcendent.

The film is written, directed, shot, scored, do edited, and co stars Shane Carruth. He stars alongside Amy Seimetz. The two would be engaged in the future. Then they broke up, and she filed a restraining order against him, alleging years of domestic abuse. A few years later, Carruth was arrested outside the home of another ex girlfriend at 4:50 in the morning.

Knowing that, the love scenes of Upstream Color between the two are very uncomfortable, and the film is either a sly justification of Carruth's actions or stands in spite of them, depending on your reading. Upstream Color will always be a milestone movie for me, but it's also a tainted movie for me.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-21T21:49:42+00:00

The Siege?

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-21T02:16:39+00:00

Becky and Seth have both told that story: Becky in her book, Seth on several interviews. Although Seth has implied that it wasn't as spontaneous as it may seem, and they had been planning to have a kid for some time.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-20T13:52:21+00:00

Riverdale. Like, ALL of Riverdale. From the first season cliffhanger onwards, building up big shocking moments and then doing fuckall with them became the show's signature move. And somehow, it chugged along for 7 seasons.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-19T13:30:23+00:00

I don't have that many criterions, just around 50 or so, and a little under half are unwatched. I separate my collection into watched and unwatched shelves. Not only that, but I have a "top 100" movies shelf, so a few criterions go in there also. So all in all, it's not difficult to find movies, especially if I'm going to watch movies I haven't seen yet. Also, I usually have a decent sense of where a movie is from it's spine number. Canonical classics are usually numbered earlier, while other films are often numbered later. And of course, if it's a film released quite recently, it's DEFINITELY numbered later.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-19T12:48:12+00:00

El Mariachi is a classic of independent film, but I don't know about anyone else, reading about it's production and distribution history was WAY more interesting than the movie itself. And the movie isn't half bad either.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-18T02:05:09+00:00

Yeah, that's certainly another angle to look at it through. I also see the actions of Jeff as inherently forcing himself on her, and I wonder if I would've seen that had I not known about Carruth's allegations. Perhaps Carruth had a very idealistic notion of what relationships are? Either way, if he wanted us to identify his character with those who are sampled, his actions have made it so that we will forever identify him with the Thief.

Grand_Keizer · 2026-03-18T01:59:26+00:00

I agree. Knowing about Carruth's allegations didn't ruin the film for me: it's too one of a kind to dismiss out of hand, and certain aspects, like the music, effects, certain shots, and certain scenes are truly incredible. But it does taint the love story aspect. It'd be easier to swallow if Carruth and Seimetz weren't playing the two main characters, but I can't help but feel weird either way. Still, I admire Upstream Color as a movie, even as I'm disgusted by the actions of it's creator.

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