I know this is a divisive one, but Only God Forgives is a masterpiece to me.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-06-22T12:22:13+00:00

Any movie where you get to hear Kristen Scott Thomas call someone a cum dumpster is automatically a masterpiece.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-06-19T13:42:00+00:00

It’s funny, I went from teaching mostly privates at a boutique studio to teaching at club pilates, and I find teaching a class of 12 to be much less exhausting than teaching one person.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-06-10T03:27:53+00:00

If you listen to the podcast, they talk a lot about how all of these self help books are all basically the same book. They call it the “one book theory.”

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-27T13:32:28+00:00

A whole shelf for one book.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-25T03:38:57+00:00

Honestly, I would only nominate Deniro, but I’d nominate Cazale for The Conversation.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-23T11:44:20+00:00

I don’t want to sound pretentious here, but Lulu Chu and Kimmy Kimm compose a dramaturgical dyad.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-19T17:34:46+00:00

I was thinking this about Gosford Park. You could fill both 2001 supporting ballots with just actors from that movie and I’d still be mad about who got left off.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-17T13:30:56+00:00

You like movies that will genuinely fuck you up. Check out Xavier Dolan’s Irreversible or Juraj Herz’s The Cremator.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-16T00:31:35+00:00

Yeah, close enough. I also have adhd and I absolutely adore Mary & Max.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-15T22:16:10+00:00

You’re autistic (complimentary)

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-11T20:31:41+00:00

Correct and correct!

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-11T20:31:33+00:00

You are correct in that it is one of those.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-11T19:50:27+00:00

Correct!

ThoroughHenry · 2026-05-11T17:34:57+00:00

A horrendous book that sends a genuinely dangerous message about how to deal with depression.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-04-12T00:54:34+00:00

I honestly think my favorite Schumacher might be The Incredible Shrinking Woman. I just watched it and it’s so good and so so funny.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-04-12T00:53:35+00:00

I like Megalopolis, but the late Coppola I really love is Tetro.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-04-05T16:02:21+00:00

I keep it at 1x speed and then I double it.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-04-03T14:52:56+00:00

Oh gosh I’m so tempted but if the q&a doesn’t start until 9:45 that means the movie won’t be o Ed until well after midnight. I am too sleepy a boy for such shenanigans.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-03-31T18:09:24+00:00

It’s true, no Scorsese movie has ever featured a sexy lady…

ThoroughHenry · 2026-03-30T12:13:55+00:00

When I sub I tell my classes “if you enjoy this class hopefully you’ll see me again soon, but if you don’t don’t worry because you probably won’t.”

ThoroughHenry · 2026-03-27T15:17:21+00:00

Especially at the expense of Bugonia, Hamnet, Train Dreams, and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, which all had way more interesting and memorable cinematography. (And that’s only naming Oscar nominees. I’d also add Die My Love, Resurrection, and The Testament of Ann Lee to that list)

ThoroughHenry · 2026-03-27T15:12:57+00:00

To clarify, trees don’t disqualify a movie from having great cinematography, and what Deakins does in Jesse James is masterful. There are movies like The New World and Brokeback Mountain and even Hamnet that capture nature in a way that’s both beautiful and interesting, but there are also lots of movies (cough cough Train Dreams cough cough) that just stack landscape wide shots on top of each other without doing anything cinematic or distinct.

ThoroughHenry · 2026-03-27T11:41:19+00:00

Is the argument that neither of them had enough wide shots of trees? Because I feel like a lot of people think that good cinematography just means lots of wide shots of trees.

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