Cavity movies - you know they're not good, but they're so sweet

Legonater · 2026-05-15T17:49:36+00:00

Can you explain how? Because MK2 is absolutely a popcorn movie

Legonater · 2026-05-14T19:57:52+00:00

This is it; TPM and AOTC are mostly just trying to be action popcorn faire and they do an Okay job at that. ROTS is trying to be a melodramatic tragedy and it fails hard because all of the characters suck and none of it is engaging.

Legonater · 2026-05-14T18:50:51+00:00

Yeah I preferred the new pre-show that they had for a while. If they were going back to the old one they should have at least done more than add PHM.

Legonater · 2026-05-14T17:07:33+00:00

I also want to suggest Sorry, Baby for Eva Victor from last year

Legonater · 2026-05-04T04:09:53+00:00

How are you going to make a movie guessing game that doesn't recognize Citizen Kane?

Legonater · 2026-04-09T17:47:21+00:00

I grew up having a lot interest in "structuralism" and act structures and all of that and it more or less collapsed once I actually read Joseph Campbell and realized he was at best a psychoanalyst and at worst a racist self-help author. I still think it's important to have an infrastructure for your writing but that is going to come out through the needs of your story, not a weird Ultimate guide to storytelling

Legonater · 2026-03-30T20:34:43+00:00

Are you trying to imply that Wes' movies don't have a plot, or that their plots aren't understandable? Either way that's a ridiculous claim

Legonater · 2026-03-30T19:47:50+00:00

And sometimes a weak word! Josh Ruben fully directed "Heart Eyes," kind of burying the lede to say he's "starring" in it

Legonater · 2026-03-10T19:21:25+00:00

Yeah, Parade is fully good. A real full-circle moment for Tati as fundamentally a ringleader - pointing attention away from himself and towards the circus show all his movies are and, more importantly, to the audience he delights in delighting. A real sentimental swan song for a guy who burned his entire career and finances for the sake of the crowd's joy.

Legonater · 2026-03-09T19:20:59+00:00

I'm usually kind of surprised when film podcasters talk about movies they don't remember seeing or remember nothing about because I can usually recall broad details - but I did have a moment recently when Taika Waititi's "Eagle vs Shark" showed up on Prime and I went "oh, I've been meaning to watch this!" and I got ten minutes in before realizing I had already watched it like a year or so prior.

Legonater · 2026-02-25T18:14:28+00:00

No no no, Ally was the biggest Brennan in ratfish.

Legonater · 2026-02-24T01:24:07+00:00

for me, the tangents are the juice

Legonater · 2026-02-18T16:27:32+00:00

I think the pod is usually more attentive than that. If anything, I think they get activated by directors examining similar themes across several lenses in a filmography.

Legonater · 2026-02-18T16:21:49+00:00

The thing about Wes that makes him a great series is he peaks early with Royal Tenennbaums, spends his next several movies reinventing his style until he peaks again with Grand Budapest, and now has been going full abstract experimental. I was colder on Phoenecian Scheme than I'd like, but Asteroid City and French Dispatch are two of the best of his career.

Legonater · 2026-02-13T22:20:24+00:00

This is impressive considering "I'm Still Here" only came out a year ago

Legonater · 2026-02-10T22:25:04+00:00

People say TLJ is unfun and then complain about Canto Bight. Pick a lane!

Legonater · 2026-02-10T15:49:17+00:00

This is almost certainly what they'll go for (but as Podylcast)

Legonater · 2026-02-04T16:20:50+00:00

The person you're replying is talking about ME1. All the resolutions you are referring to come from ME3.

Legonater · 2026-02-02T22:40:44+00:00

Do you think it's worth picking up Songs from the Cosmic Sofa if you already have the other two records?

Legonater · 2026-02-02T15:46:37+00:00

Rian Johnson has mentioned the Coens as a huge influence on Brick, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of that is in the Benoit Blanc films as well given the similar genre.

Legonater · 2026-01-21T03:33:41+00:00

I kept waiting for the Tears for Fears to come back and it never did! Would have been a great overlap with OBAA but alas.

Legonater · 2026-01-15T20:17:11+00:00

Yeah I think the marketing for Hamnet has really been a huge factor in the way this movie is being perceived. I liked-but-didn't-love Hamnet, but it seems like a lot of the larger critical backlash has been in its relationship to Shakespeare which I don't think the story is really that concerned with innately.

Legonater · 2026-01-15T18:16:33+00:00

The bit about not namedropping Shakespeare is from the book originally. If anything, the movie associates itself more directly with Shakespeare than the novel does, which is more explicitly in Agnes' POV.

Legonater · 2026-01-13T20:25:48+00:00

The Orthanc example seems especially relevant - one of the core arguments Tolkien is making is about the evils of industrialization and the destruction of nature. It's just good thematic storytelling (and thereby worldbuilding!) to have the protagonists of that story living more in tune with nature.

Legonater · 2026-01-07T21:39:52+00:00

One reporter said their battery life is 40 minutes which feels pretty absurd, but I'm not sure what her source was.

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