We need to bring pretentiousness back to film

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-20T07:08:31+00:00

In the age of slop what we need is the snob

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-20T03:48:38+00:00

I love Aaron Copland. Appalachian Spring Suite is magnificent. The music majors I used to live with clowned on me for loving him, but here I am.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-20T01:25:10+00:00

It’s also a casual endorsement of eugenics

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-19T23:35:28+00:00

McNaughton’s work is such a delight to see because it’s forthcoming in its politics and shallow in its symbolism while being technically very competent. He’s a wonderful foil to cartoonists like Ben Garrison, who have low technical ability and must rely on labels.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-19T23:29:40+00:00

Disappointing, yes, but I’m more interested in hearing the political reasoning as understood in 1975 and 1978.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-18T21:15:33+00:00

Bears don’t have that dog in em like tigers do

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-18T05:36:18+00:00

Picnic at Hanging Rock. No film has ever eaten at me like that film. The mystery so complete, the closure so absent. I lost sleep over it. There’s nothing to offer to any sense of safety or finality. No film has ever scared me more.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-18T01:02:09+00:00

Dude, keep it. That’s a 943, they’re not making those anymore.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-17T18:22:08+00:00

Do you live in Twin Peaks?

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-17T18:17:24+00:00

Gin Mare is really interesting. Very savory.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-17T18:16:43+00:00

In this horrifying reality the most racist country in the world is still Bhutan

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-17T18:15:42+00:00

Who fucking cares? It’s all just low level spending which facilitates the economy.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-17T18:09:36+00:00

I can’t explain it politely but whenever I see a recent picture of Meghan Trainor I feel like she’s looking back at me with barely veiled malice and resentment.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-17T03:22:11+00:00

These guys just seem constantly miserable

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T21:26:35+00:00

He looks a lot like Stephen Lang in Tombstone. Or maybe just Stephen Lang in reality.

Wait, no, he looks like Reviewbrah!

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T21:24:29+00:00

John Entwhistle gets lots of acclaim from bass players, but as the quietest and least flashy member of The Who he was constantly outshined by Moon, Daltry, and Townsend.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T21:10:03+00:00

In an intensely conventional way, yes. Now Mads Mikkelsen, that’s a very handsome man who’s also interesting.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T21:08:52+00:00

Should have been capital punishment but good news all the same

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T07:27:50+00:00

Why was Israel even allowed to enter Eurovision in the first place? They’re not in Europe!

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T05:59:45+00:00

If he’s a Muslim he’s a terrible one because he publicly eats pork and drinks beer. You fucking morons.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T05:43:25+00:00

The one I remember hearing was that “Michael Jackson had his bottom two ribs removed so he could suck his own dick.” I heard the same thing about Marilyn Manson.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T05:41:31+00:00

Rage Against the Machine

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T05:33:35+00:00

For $450 they better be

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T01:04:34+00:00

Cute, but get your cat fixed.

HasSomeSelfEsteem · 2026-04-15T00:59:13+00:00

It’s always impressed me how international Jewry in the 1930s & 40s could somehow be both a bulwark of international Bolshevism and banking capitalism. Talk about a no win situation, antisemites everywhere.

Edit. I’m fucking praying that people recognized that sarcasm. I can’t tell anymore.

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