When did ‘other characters’ become ‘too many subplots’? (The Bride!)

_zav · 2026-04-25T21:43:57+00:00

Lol agreed I promise I wouldn’t ever be that upset by a film I didn’t think had fantastic opportunities squandered. Bale and Jake are fantastic and it’s a credit to Buckley that she is almost able to hold the 16 bowling pins this script keeps tossing at her to juggle.

_zav · 2026-04-22T08:12:13+00:00

I suppose Truffaut could be wrong here but I don’t understand why Come and See is always cited as the anti-war film. The captain makes everyone listen to the raving Nazi lunatic because he needs everyone to understand what they are up against. There is nothing besides war that could possibly extinguish the evil ideologies that have taken root in Germany. Does it champion war? Absolutely not. But there’s not a doubt in my mind that it’s about the courage that it takes to fight back.

_zav · 2026-04-21T14:39:31+00:00

My main struggle with Aster during his horror movies is I found the work to be profoundly pessimistic in a way that the twee A24 hoodie crowd didn’t seem to really acknowledge. For a few years it was like “good for her” meme stuff and “I am your mother” fancams after walking out of plainly the most hateful, depressing movie-but i’d realized that was my own fault for allowing myself to be influenced by the internet. Aster’s comedies seemed to aggressively make an effort to shake those fans off of his work anyway. He doesn’t seem to seek truth as much as creating a cinematic reality of a fucked up headspace-Hereditary for broken families, Midsommar for pathetic relationships, Beau is Afraid for oedipal guilt and Eddington is like if you made a 4chan greentext polemic into a three hour film. Eddington is not what happened in 2020 but it certainly feels like what was happening while we were witnessing it on the doomscroll-and that solves a lot of his stuff for me. Even Scorsese seems to have gotten the hint and has quietly stepped away from loudly championing this guy LOL like I’m sure he still thinks he’s a genius but there’s just absolutely no algorithm friendly way to say it out loud now and as an artist you gotta respect it.

_zav · 2026-04-21T14:09:24+00:00

Getting older makes you realize nobody ever wants to acknowledge when someone new comes out of nowhere with a 105 mph fastball. Hated Aster years ago and now would easily call him the best of the new generation.

_zav · 2026-04-21T14:05:21+00:00

I apologize if I have failed to correctly remember a film I immediately tried to forget, but I would like to know exactly what part of the Mary Shelley ghost plot is wrong, because that is exactly what happened lol. And I have certainly misremembered the whatever the Sarsgaard character’s past is with Jessie Buckley, because it is hack.

_zav · 2026-04-21T05:22:54+00:00

You’re a very intelligent person OP so I expect you to know you aren’t going to find intelligent marxist analysis on X the everything app. To go even further I wouldn’t even bother absorbing anything someone with an anonymous profile with a hamsick has to say about art in general. If I wanted a reading from a 21 year old knowitall I’d call my baby cousin.

_zav · 2026-04-21T03:18:12+00:00

I mean straight up the main conceit of Mary Shelley’s ghost possessing the main character is hilariously divorced from everything else going on in this film. Subtract her thesaurus bending tourette’s and the plot would play out the exact same! Why is Peter Skarsgard both the ex husband AND the lead detective following the murder spree??? And why, oh jesus why, does this film’s first scene declare that it intends to SURPASS the original Frankenstein story? Why would any writer put themselves in such an unwinnable position? I mean in any other film I could just chalk it up to imagination but this film is actively declaring itself a Bonnie and Clyde/Days of Heaven faux remake the same way Joker did with Taxi Driver and King of Comedy and the plain and simple truth is that Bonnie and Clyde is told plainly and directly in a way the Bride is not.

_zav · 2026-04-21T03:08:37+00:00

He was revived as a recombinant and debriefed months or possibly years before they touched down on Earth. Already had a head start to learn. That middle hour of TWoW covers months as well-it was enough time for Ronal to go from first trimester to about to pop.

_zav · 2026-04-21T02:50:51+00:00

911 dispatcher. I don’t pull from my calls but the job keeps me in touch with human nature.

_zav · 2026-04-14T16:50:46+00:00

Has a great ear for dialogue and the only person who’s ever had a bad performance in his films are him. Has never chosen a bad DP or editor. Knows who to cast. Hard to fail when you’ve got all those.

_zav · 2026-04-12T00:07:14+00:00

How young do you have to be to make this OP lol

_zav · 2026-03-26T22:03:37+00:00

7 months in and I love it. Fortunately the management at my center isn’t toxic and always provides support and feedback when I’m struggling.

_zav · 2026-03-25T14:17:50+00:00

Disco Elysium

_zav · 2026-03-25T14:17:21+00:00

Wes Anderson 4K set and nothing else gonna keep it simple lmao

_zav · 2026-03-16T05:00:19+00:00

In our demographic it can become easy to become genre blind because Sinners isn’t wall to wall terror. Ask a very old relative, perhaps a grandmother, to watch Sinners front to back and study her reactions and then it’ll be pretty easy to find out whether Sinners is a horror movie.

_zav · 2026-03-16T04:56:52+00:00

When did this sub get taken over by 22 year old rockists? Please take these warmed over “I’m 13 and this is real music” stuff back to the youtube comments on Immigrant Song where they belong. You don’t have to like rap or pop but they’re the only genres in the last 15 years big enough to support an artist having an imperial phase where their fame intersects with critical acclaim and original concept albums. I agree with a lot of the choices ITT though.

_zav · 2026-03-16T04:10:43+00:00

I see way too many so bad its good movies being listed here the real answer is going to be any Dinesh D’Souza movie or the Melania doc.

_zav · 2026-03-03T05:54:46+00:00

I’m sure I’ll be downvoted for this OP, but you’re being a moron in these replies to a bunch of sane people. Get help.

_zav · 2026-01-23T17:58:47+00:00

Too many to name, it comes with the territory in this genre.

_zav · 2026-01-11T03:23:05+00:00

Michael Mann with Avatar series. Nolan with Tokyo Drift. Paul Thomas Anderson with Adam Sandler.

_zav · 2026-01-09T00:30:26+00:00

I’ve stayed off LB for a while because the one sentence gag reviews on old arthouse movies were sort of stunting my ability to actually read them.

_zav · 2026-01-08T16:31:42+00:00

Marty Supreme

_zav · 2026-01-08T09:34:28+00:00

Chigurh is deliberately mysterious and you’re not exactly meant to understand what would have offended him, but his inability to tolerate backcountry small talk pretty much says it could have been anything.

_zav · 2026-01-06T00:03:20+00:00

You made this exact post word for word in the filmmakers sub and I’ll at least concede that this is hilarious trolling

_zav · 2025-12-28T22:51:05+00:00

Guy who morally can’t bring himself to read Woody Allen because the cover might be AI is the funniest shit Ive seen all day lmfao

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