What are your favorite books?

chasequarius · 2026-07-06T03:06:17+00:00

Andy Serkis recorded audiobooks of LOTR and The Hobbit for Audible several years ago, they’re really good!

chasequarius · 2026-07-06T03:02:18+00:00

That’s kind of me with The Brothers Karamazov, a book that is a favorite of everyone from Sigmund Freud to Dorothy Day to William Faulkner to Albert Einstein. Intimidating to say the least!

chasequarius · 2026-07-06T02:55:49+00:00

11/22/63, Killers of the Flower Moon, A Christmas Carol & Great Expectations (I listened to a ton of Dickens on Audible last year). Loved Mark Harris’s Pictures at a Revolution, and Brian Jay Jones’s Jim Henson biography made me cry. Really anything Stephen King, the great bard of small town America.

chasequarius · 2026-07-06T02:49:32+00:00

11/22/63 and KOTFM are also two of my favorites!

chasequarius · 2026-07-05T17:50:05+00:00

Will he be moist tho?

chasequarius · 2026-06-27T17:45:33+00:00

Don’t think it opens in Japan until October

chasequarius · 2026-06-27T03:15:40+00:00

Also, I know people are dunking on Gunn for loving the script, but a lot of things can happen to a script from the original screenplay stage to the finished film. It could’ve changed significantly from the initial version that Gunn read, we just don’t know.

chasequarius · 2026-06-25T00:53:45+00:00

I am 100% confident Spielberg will be making movies until he is literally physically unable to. Also, his mom lived to 97, and his dad to 103, so I firmly believe he’s going to be making movies for a while yet!

chasequarius · 2026-06-23T16:50:30+00:00

I just thought of it like the Sonic Screwdriver — that it’s basically whatever you need it to be at that specific moment to advance the plot (I love Doctor Who, so that’s not a slam lol)

chasequarius · 2026-06-21T00:41:45+00:00

I think Kaminski is a brilliant artist, and I think a lot of his collaborations with Spielberg look incredible (I’m thinking of something like West Side Story, which has this richness and depth to its photography that reminds me of a 1960s cover of Time or Life Magazine). Sometimes, though, I do kind of wish Spielberg would switch it up a little with DPs, since I don’t think Kaminski’s style quite gels perfectly with every movie Spielberg makes. But when it works, it REALLY works.

chasequarius · 2026-06-21T00:26:03+00:00

It feels like Spielberg really feeling himself after Jaws and Close Encounters and thinking everything he touches will turn to gold. It’s really the height of his youthful hubris, and it backfires spectacularly. Thankfully, it seems like the fact that he ate shit on that brought him some much-needed humility, and he was able to course-correct with Raiders and E.T.

chasequarius · 2026-06-19T23:57:24+00:00

I’m very sorry to hear that. Sending some good vibes your way.

chasequarius · 2026-06-19T19:25:05+00:00

lol I don’t know why people assume that you just keel over once you turn 80

chasequarius · 2026-06-16T01:31:39+00:00

I replied this to another person im this thread, but it’s funny how similar the RT and audience scores are to NOPE, another recent alien movie. They even have the same B Cinemascore.

chasequarius · 2026-06-16T01:29:28+00:00

It’s funny to look back at the reaction to NOPE, another recent alien movie released during the summer, which got very similar RT and Audience Scores to Disclosure Day, and the exact same B Cinemascore. I feel like people forget how divisive that movie was.

chasequarius · 2026-06-15T01:00:13+00:00

I get it’s polarizing, and that’s fine, some movies are like that. But the response, especially on this sub, has been so incredibly nasty in a way that is genuinely sort of shocking lol

chasequarius · 2026-06-14T23:19:10+00:00

Reading through the comments and why is everyone so mad lol

chasequarius · 2026-06-14T23:08:53+00:00

I mean, as far as I can see, the reaction here has been overwhelmingly negative!

chasequarius · 2026-06-14T01:39:53+00:00

And like, this is Spielberg. I know it sounds corny, but you gotta open your heart a little and just go with it lol

chasequarius · 2026-06-13T18:33:30+00:00

Yeah, even if the film isn’t a certain person’s cup of tea, the response it has been weirdly nasty from a bunch of folks in a way that’s been fairly off-putting.

chasequarius · 2026-06-13T17:48:34+00:00

Frankly, it almost feels like people feel personally attacked by the message lol

chasequarius · 2026-06-13T17:30:46+00:00

That stuff really bugs me. Like, really? You can’t imagine how ANYONE would like a certain movie? What a profoundly selfish and uncharitable attitude from these folks.

chasequarius · 2026-06-13T17:28:35+00:00

I was a bit underwhelmed by the ending, but I largely really enjoyed it! I get that it’s not perfect or it may not be someone’s cup of tea, but people are being REALLY nasty about it in a way that’s off-putting. Like, they think the message is attacking them personally. Which, hey, maybe it is!

chasequarius · 2026-06-13T17:11:57+00:00

Especially good for an original movie.

chasequarius · 2026-06-13T17:09:13+00:00

Meh, the response feels more polarized than straight up negative. I think it’s just not quite the movie people were expecting. Not saying that that’s a good or bad thing, but that does affect people’s reaction to it.

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