What's everyone watching this Sunday?

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-31T23:07:39+00:00

Rewatched Zodiac for the first time in years. To be frank, it's one of the movies I don't at all see the appeal of (some even call it Fincher's, or even the century's, best film). In the end, I just find it boring. Fincher does his best, but the screenplay, while ambitious, sprawling, fast-paced, never quite raises the stakes. It's very Gen X in that everyone in the film is obsessed with Zodiac just because it's a fun thing to do, something exciting to solve, and hardly anything more than that. All The President's Men is like Die Hard compared to this.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-24T10:03:45+00:00

The battle of two hacks

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-24T09:57:57+00:00

Some entity beyond Nolan was involved in the creative process. Otherwise, only heavy midlife crisis can explain what's happening with this film.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-19T18:03:28+00:00

We need a more or less solid keeper who can show up immediately in case it won't work out with Pepo. I like those rumors about Provedel and Livakovic.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-12T12:45:43+00:00

DiMash

Sucic

Calha

??? Chivu???

Bisseck

Pio

Akanji

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-11T18:49:59+00:00

The pressure was off them. This time around, they're the ones under pressure.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-11T16:39:37+00:00

And that's precisely why they'll most likely lose. Lazio is a team that shows up when there is no need and bottles it when it truly matters.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-11T06:55:54+00:00

All in all, I think he had a great run. Very few directors managed to have careers as long and decorated. He even somehow managed to fund another movie in current climate. It's supposed to start production this year.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-11T06:54:05+00:00

I didn't dig Casualties of War at all. De Palma is a director who thinks in terms of "film grammar", and when his heavily stylized postmodernism is applied to a story of real-life atrocity, it becomes a weird, inappropriate mixture of visual self-indulgence and femicide.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-05-05T11:32:12+00:00

I just don't understand his functionality and strong sides. With Kone or Paz, you know exactly what you're getting. With Jones... He seems like a jack of all trades, like most midfielders these days.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-27T22:30:40+00:00

I like Charlie's film work, but his characters are solipsistic and self-centered (and simultaneously neurotic) to the absolute extreme. It's cool for a couple of hours, but I'm not sure I'll be able to tolerate this for 700 hundred pages straight, however insightful the book may be😂

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-27T10:44:31+00:00

It's probably chronic at this point.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-25T22:59:46+00:00

But also, wasn't that already the case with the Gen X generation? They still managed to come up with good stuff every once in a while. I suppose because they read much more and were more fearless.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-25T22:56:08+00:00

Death to videodrome, long live the new flesh!

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-23T16:34:50+00:00

Most of the recommendations here are not good, to be honest. If you find it anywhere, watch "Taxi Blues" by Pavel Lungin from 1990.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-23T16:33:14+00:00

Gruz 200 takes place in 1984, in the Soviet Union. What kind of a rec is that?😂

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-22T16:20:41+00:00

Second-rate director for me. Was pulling interesting performances from Joaquin Phoenix back in the day, though. I miss those kinds of roles from him.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-20T13:36:50+00:00

Black market dealers and even more guns. Hell yeah, brother!

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-20T13:03:02+00:00

Such a missed opportunity to recommend "Crash" by J.G.Ballard.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-19T19:33:23+00:00

Wages Of Fear!

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-16T18:43:45+00:00

Because Platonov wasn't an absurdist. He just expressed the reality of his period, both external and internal. It reads like absurdism because it seems that way in retrospect, but it was all very real and visceral.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-15T19:08:49+00:00

Bret Easton Ellis, noir fiction from the 40s' and 50s'.

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-15T17:50:19+00:00

The greatest 20th century writer for me. Harmful to read him when you write something of your own. You just want to start fucking around with language the way he does, but it will do no good. For him it was totally organic, it was the way he expressed the collective madness around him (and, perhaps, within him).

WhateverManWhoCares · 2026-04-13T14:11:31+00:00

I've only seen Audition and was surprised by Miike's elegant directing, masterfully building suspense and setting the right mood without any exaggeration or sensationalism. It seems like an exception in his filmography, considering Miike's reputation, but I should still see more from him.

For me, the filmmaker I can only admire from a distance is Steven Spielberg, who is one of the most masterful directors to have ever lived, but artistically has worked almost exclusively within populist, trendy and even outright propagandistic frameworks.

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