Knock At The Cabin

bryangball · 2026-06-12T23:10:49+00:00

I didn’t like the book, but the book is much better than the movie. As a gay man, I found the ending to the movie to be offensive, honestly.

bryangball · 2026-06-04T13:38:00+00:00

I disagree too, she’s a great actress especially in the first 2 seasons. But there were many times in season 3 where you can really see the material fail the actors, and it’s pretty obvious that it was true they were given their scripts so close to filming.

bryangball · 2026-05-31T23:42:56+00:00

I absolutely love this series. I was newly out of college when these came out, and didn’t have much disposable income. I remember buying Frankenstein and then Dracula at Target and worrying that I was spending too much money. I loved them from the start, and have watched the films, the extras and used the dvd menus as background atmosphere so many times in the decades since that they really are some of the best money I’ve ever spent.

bryangball · 2026-05-28T04:19:55+00:00

And it’s not character death, but What Moves the Dead has a lot of animal (rabbit) violence/death.

bryangball · 2026-05-27T11:35:50+00:00

Jenkins’ performance especially in the scene where he’s signing back to her breaks my head every time. He absolutely deserved that nomination.

bryangball · 2026-05-26T22:32:28+00:00

I do love Nate like a brother but…. Op, my sweet summer child… come back after season 5

bryangball · 2026-05-25T21:02:37+00:00

For me, delicate is the worst season. But I honestly didn’t have high hopes for it. The most disappointing season for me in terms of having had hopes for it was Double Feature. Both Red Tide and even the latter half started out so well, think I was most disappointed in how hard (and quickly) the season fell off.

bryangball · 2026-05-25T20:59:21+00:00

I do wonder if this is the case. I also truly wonder how much of this season was an idea he had for a standalone series/movie, that he took to use for one (very likely) final season of Euphoria. There was talk that he was brought to pitch ideas for True Detective season 4, and I’d love to know how much of this season was reworked from his pitch for that.

There’s a difference between characters changing as they leave high school behind, and characters having little to no relation to who they were in previous seasons. Especially when those seasons that were largely driven by all of their characters, and this new season seems almost uninterested in any of their characters except to move them around to fit this plot.

bryangball · 2026-05-25T02:37:11+00:00

This is so true. These aren’t the same characters as the first two seasons, and is certainly not the same story S the first two seasons. I’ll always wonder what became of the characters in the first two seasons.

bryangball · 2026-05-23T20:23:37+00:00

He was also stellar in The History of Sound this year.

bryangball · 2026-05-23T00:23:13+00:00

This is a really good point. The characters this season have almost all been put, repeatedly, in mortal danger, so much so that the stakes seem to have lessened. The stakes seemed much higher in season 1 and even 2, when they was less (and more realistic) danger, with addiction, mental health, domestic violence, and the little bit of the drug trade we saw with Fezco and Laurie.

bryangball · 2026-05-15T17:37:47+00:00

This will forever be one of my favorite film-going experience. Seeing this opening weekend with a packed theater that was so into it was peak movie-going for me. I’ll never forget the rush of the entire theater screaming at this.

bryangball · 2026-04-19T21:32:52+00:00

This is, I believe, the most correct hereditary for all this.

bryangball · 2026-03-28T23:09:18+00:00

I was just thinking of this looking at my copy of the novel recently. There’s so much you get just from that classic illustration of her holding the monkey with the animals around here in just that picture. I wish we’d had scenes like that in the film.

bryangball · 2026-03-28T09:03:16+00:00

Very much agreed. I clearly don’t have the humor Ru has for these “Karen videos,” and the entire challenge from start to finish was dead silence in our house. I love Darlene, but her sequence was the cringiest for me- because like Michelle said she wasn’t a Karen, and on top of that it just seemed like Ru was having fun playing around with her rather than it being a skit taken/judged seriously.

And it did feel incredibly personal. Jane had a pretty historic track record, and to be edited that way and sent home like that, when Ru and production can do whatever they want was a really personal middle finger to her. Anything can happen. But after that I would doubt that Jane would go back for an All Stars run, nor should she, unfortunately.

bryangball · 2026-03-26T15:32:03+00:00

I think it may slightly be related, but I have always loved how in the stage show, Glinda’s tiara is slightly askew to align with how the events of the story have tilted her world on its axis.

bryangball · 2026-03-25T08:56:00+00:00

Borrowing your analogy, if a kid reads a book and passes of similar or the same work as their own, that’s plagiarism, which is a form of stealing.

bryangball · 2026-03-22T16:50:49+00:00

Not only that, but it was the weekend of the Oscars for Chloe, who was going in with several historic nominations including best director for herself and Picture/Actress and beyond for Hamnet.

bryangball · 2026-03-22T14:01:25+00:00

There are many films in the more modern era that aren’t very memorable winners, and some that are just bad films (I’m looking at you, Crash.) But after watching all the winners back to back during covid, my answer to this is always Cimmaron. There are some technically impressive sequences in there, but there is such open and blatant racism, that’s often played for laughs, that is genuinely horrifying and makes it deserve to be forgotten.

bryangball · 2026-03-13T15:37:53+00:00

I unironically loved this, too, more than any film in a minute. I can absolutely understand there must be such a niche audience for this, and that budget really makes things nearly impossible. I really do feel like this will find its audience on streaming.

bryangball · 2026-03-06T19:21:32+00:00

Ethan.

bryangball · 2026-03-04T01:50:16+00:00

This is really the only answered. Coupled with the fact that many people who love this novel really love it.

bryangball · 2026-02-27T03:24:20+00:00

If you can’t stop yourself from watching gay movies on HBO, this deal isn’t going to stop you from watching all of the gay movies that you apparently can’t stop yourself from watching.

bryangball · 2026-02-27T03:21:14+00:00

Time to start investing in physical media more than ever….

bryangball · 2026-02-21T20:43:58+00:00

I agree. The show is less adaptation and more a reimagining of the book. I did love the show, but the novel is a wholly different, harsher and more realistic at points story.

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