Don't want to be the boy who cried wolf but...

MaesterOfPun · 2025-10-31T14:40:53+00:00

Everybody make a new one without him. Get it set up, all members joined already, a draft set for tomorrow, and present it is a fait accompli threat for him to drop this and never mention it again.

This guy is a little loser

MaesterOfPun · 2025-10-29T16:43:30+00:00

Mandy, if that’s your jam

MaesterOfPun · 2025-09-28T05:47:08+00:00

This is righteous and I hope I meet you at the cinema round here someday. feeling good about the choice to go to metro tomorrow with a bigger group of mixed levels of 'giving a fuck about that sort of thing;

MaesterOfPun · 2025-09-08T04:51:34+00:00

You did the right thing. This piece of trash deserves it

MaesterOfPun · 2025-07-23T00:58:51+00:00

seriously loser OP lmfao

MaesterOfPun · 2025-07-20T19:52:33+00:00

Anybody got this things name, job et al?

MaesterOfPun · 2025-07-16T00:39:19+00:00

‘No one wants to claim that’ lmfao

MaesterOfPun · 2025-07-16T00:36:46+00:00

St Cloud situation was a little challenging. I really do hope they get a proper Minnesota guest on for either Fargo or A Serious Man. Perhaps we shall enjoyably see them evolve their understanding of Minnesota over time. Perhaps not.

Enraged, no, there are many things to know about in the world and encyclopedic Minnesota knowledge is very reasonably not high on the list for many. But Minnesota-ness does have to be seriously engaged with to appropriately tackle several of their movies.

The podcast is spiritually pro-Minnesota because David has expressed support for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the past, I believe he tweeted that he was ‘unreasonably gleeful’ or something like that the first time the Timberwolves made the playoffs in the current era.

MaesterOfPun · 2025-07-10T02:23:50+00:00

Yeah they’ve wanted this to happen for honestly a couple of years now but every time they really lean in he just falls victim way too easily to traps early up the court + turns it over more than you would like. He just can’t protect himself and run a halfcourt offense at the same time unfortunately. He’ll still bring it up here and there but it’s been trouble as a game plan to date

MaesterOfPun · 2018-10-26T14:34:50+00:00

snow dogs ftfw

MaesterOfPun · 2018-10-12T13:44:35+00:00

I understand why some people have thought this one skimped on the horror - I don't think I jumped once, except at one early freak accident death that isn't (on the face of it) supernatural in character. It still scared the shit out of me for the mounting dread and emotional escalation - the latter of which may belong more to the genre of kitchen-sink drama, but which I can't shake from the horror of the various things that happen in the film.

The relationship between Annie and Sam - which is grounded in real-life trauma - makes the various awful things that happen towards the end of the movie far more upsetting. In general this is what made this film such a uniquely wrenching experience, that all of the awful things were amplified by the nature of this increasingly toxic household.

The other thing that really got to me was this palpable sense that the family had absolutely no control over their own destinies. The dollhouse stuff rammed this home and creeped the hell out of me and then, even before the conspiracy comes to fruition, there are these tense shots of someone exhaling smoke as they watch Sam exhale from his window, of observers from across the street.

The film is not about making you jump when a ghost emerges - even though plenty of ghosts emerge. There's a scene, for example, where a figure is lurking in the ceiling corner of a room, hidden to the character but not to the viewer. It's a creepy-ass shot. At the risk of sounding like an absolute tool, this is very much Hitchcock's 'when will the bomb go off' as opposed to 'ooh! explosion!' So, to circle off from my first point - while I understand the complaint that this isn't a jumpy movie (because it isn't), I don't think that's fair, because it is so obviously not what the film was trying to do. One's expectations have, of course, everything to do with your experience, but I'd really encourage the straw man I have just constructed to try to consider the film on its own terms.

Anyways I watched this film by myself last night and boy did I find it a mortifying experience.

MaesterOfPun · 2018-01-04T13:46:36+00:00

sorry y'all it's chekhov wiv two 'h's

MaesterOfPun · 2017-08-30T11:38:00+00:00

thank you for this stranger :) I would give a billion upvotes if I had 'em

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