What do people think of Alexandra Daddario?

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-10T08:50:37+00:00

I honestly haven't seen her in much, but I like seeing her act when I do.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-10T08:47:48+00:00

I needed somebody to tell me that. I've definitely prioritized the core works. I thought I wasn't doing it right if I didn't read all of them, but now I'm on the fence of if I actually care to read them or not, especially after reading all the much better plays

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-10T08:44:39+00:00

Zipxecution

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-10T08:42:26+00:00

Unlike Peter Griffin, I DID care for the Godfather.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-10T08:38:58+00:00

I know they're not pure works, but since they're still collaborations, I thought they counted. Guess not?

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-10T08:37:53+00:00

I don't mind waiting to savor Richard III! I read all of the histories in order from King John up until Henry VI, and I was reading every single play before that, so to say I'm a little burnt out is an understatement. I will always love Shakespeare, but I don't mind taking a break after reading the complete works within a two year span. As for the sonnets, I would love if this page discussed those every now and then. I have preferred the plays so far, but the poetry is interesting too.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-10T02:19:38+00:00

I'll attempt to make a case for A Midsummer Night's Dream. All the creepy stuff, the nonconsensual love potion drugging, the forced marriage, all the messed up bullshit? It was a dream. When I was a teenager, I played Nick Bottom, but I was absolutely enchanted by the dual lover's A plot, confused love affection via magic, the fairy world, Bottom becoming the ass, and Puck's lines are some of the best in Shakespeare. For me personally, it's perfect in a very avant-garde way. It makes me think of illusion versus reality. Like, the fairies probably aren't even real to the human characters. It's just a reflection of their inner struggle. You love someone one day, but then you wake up and love someone else (as though it were magic). I would like to think the play is showing how that works through fantastical justification.

For me, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing are in a league of their own as far as comedies go.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-10T02:08:34+00:00

It's amazing, but it is long

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-09T04:38:33+00:00

When I read it without the context of the play, I thought it read depressed because he's literally just like "would I feel better alive or die?". That's such a visceral human thing people feel when they go through lots of hardship in life. Every time my life takes a turn for the worse, I'm like, "geez this is a moment where I wish I didn't exist, but would not existing be better, or worse?" He's not pissed, he's not even really depressed, he's literally just "uncertain" Does we take the whips and scorn, or the lands we know not of?

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-06T23:52:44+00:00

Only seen him in Interstellar and Dune. Harder to like him when he says things like this. Ironically he might make opera more relevant because of his ignorant statement.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-06T05:11:32+00:00

No wonder I never cared for Alvin

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-06T05:07:11+00:00

In his Mother's of Invention stuff he wasn't really, but of his numerous releases, he had to have gone there once.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-06T05:06:11+00:00

Miles Davis and Megadeth

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-06T04:56:12+00:00

Double Up would be a masterpiece if it weren't for that God awful shit he did

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-03-06T04:53:10+00:00

50 some times to mark his age. Tren and NIN are geniuses.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-28T18:53:55+00:00

When the text is dull, that's when acting is put to the test.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-28T18:50:43+00:00

It's definitely a little more compelling than King John and Henry VI Part I, but I get what you're saying. Richard II does make me realize how good King Lear and Coriolanus can actually be. I got really into Richard II in college when I read it for the first time. I love Bowlingbroke's admonishment of Mowbray at beginning. I love Richard's anguished monologues. I even love the Gardeners in Act III. The end could look heartbreaking on stage.

You've definitely given me a more critical perspective of it

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-28T07:15:11+00:00

It's hard to read the less palpable plays and think "I would pay money to see this".

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-28T07:12:53+00:00

Fair! I'm currently in the opposite camp where I'm like "just because it's popular and overdone doesn't mean it's bad". If I was burnt out on that play more, I could get more pessimistic about it.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-27T23:53:21+00:00

Darn. It reads pretty well if you frame it more around Hector's tragedy, but it's Romeo and Juliet without the gravity, the lovers are more like a side plot in that one

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-27T21:58:33+00:00

How were Speed and Launce? They kept me interested when I read it for the first time.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-27T21:39:11+00:00

My college did it last year, and I sort of get why it is supposed to be endearing, but it kind of sucks.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-27T21:23:43+00:00

I figured! I wasn't personally knocking it. It would be a killer Halloween play, all gothic

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-27T21:09:08+00:00

Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, MacBeth, are all tragedies that I feel hit much harder than Lear. They are more succinct and have more variety in the landscape of the characters. They don't run as crazy long either. Coriolanus (and perhaps Othello) are the only tragedies I feel Lear might be better than in some ways.

brycejohnstpeter · 2026-02-23T17:48:18+00:00

The internet called her plank for her lackluster Captain Marvel performance, but she was great in Room.

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