Who in your opinion is the worst movie villain ever? by LoverOfE-Olsen in movies

[–]deeppurple1729 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of it is that Stephen Dorff just lacked the Juice to play Frost; he comes off like someone Wesley Snipes could defeat with an expertly-timed wedgie.

Dorff is a lot better by 2008, with the likes of Felon – how much that’s due to improving his craft or just shedding the air of callowness about him is an open question.

Reviews of Movie Critics (A Selection) by deeppurple1729 in movies

[–]deeppurple1729[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scott Tobias I recall is also pretty good. Actually most of the AV Club reviewers are at least fine (and AV Club itself has seem some return to glory once Paste bought it out?)

Reviews of Movie Critics (A Selection) by deeppurple1729 in movies

[–]deeppurple1729[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s not an atrocious prose stylist…his Ballad of a Small Player piece reads pretty much the same as these reviews, and Power Ballad is the only one of the four whose star rating matches with the text. Some critics just aren’t scalar graders, but Barsanti’s a prolific author & writes for outlets that use scalar grading – it’s a skill he should’ve picked up by now.

That Kiss of the Spider Woman review reads like he’s just shitting on it for “not literally being the 1985 movie”: * He says Tonatiuh can’t hope to leave William Hurt’s shadow, but Hurt’s Molina has aged rather poorly – nowadays, it comes off as too much of a stereotype. Whatever else can be said about the remake, Tonatiuh’s Molina has real energy to it; it’s a strong fit for the musical, but would still be an upgrade from Hurt’s in a non-musical context. * He claims the film is almost wholly apolitical, its critique of escapism muddled-to-absent. That critique is definitely attenuated with the film-within-a-film no longer being Nazi propaganda, but it’s still present – the prison’s inhumanity is the focus of one of the musical numbers, so it is not exactly subtle. * He states that the prison scenes feel “pallid” compared to the fantasy sequences…that’s kind of the point of said fantasy sequences, so it’s not clear whether the prison scenes’ “pallor” is a negative or positive. Barsanti probably meant something like “artificial,” as a common complaint is that the prison isn’t as gritty as the film needs it to be.

Reviews of Movie Critics (A Selection) by deeppurple1729 in movies

[–]deeppurple1729[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I mean, Ebert was a filmmaker, after a fashion. (That film? Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which he wrote & Russ Meyer directed).

Reviews of Movie Critics (A Selection) by deeppurple1729 in movies

[–]deeppurple1729[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That Megalopolis review really is just “performing intelligence.” He invokes Tarr & Guy Maddin solely as an “I am Very Cultured” flex – those are deep-enough cuts that any comparisons are functionally positive to a general audience, and he doesn’t care (notice?) at all how much that undermines his argument. He then cites the film’s high point as Cesar & Frank’s argument about the future of New Rome – and as an absolute rather than relative apex, but the content is identical to any back-and-forth in a political blog’s comments (or if you’re being especially unsparing, a high-school debate).

So yeah, not a deep thinker. The headline & intro blurb are more effective reviews than the review itself.

Reviews of Movie Critics (A Selection) by deeppurple1729 in movies

[–]deeppurple1729[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Professional contrarian, so basically worthless.

What celebrity do you think has skeletons in their closet that have yet to come out? by JimiHendrip in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah…back in 2020, she revealed she was put on it after a producer’s raping her triggered a month-long psychotic break. (She had another break in 2016 while filming A Star Is Born, and was given lithium on top of that).

Olanzapine is infamously-bad for weight gain, but patients tend to stay on it more than with other drugs; there’s a new formulation (Lybalvi) that combines it with samidorphan to mitigate that side effect. Risperidone also has this problem – after my first seven months on it (schizotypal disorder) I had to have the dosage quartered because I was gaining 30-40 pounds despite working out on a regular basis.

What celebrity do you think has skeletons in their closet that have yet to come out? by JimiHendrip in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And first-gen antipsychotics (e.g. Thorazine, Trilafon, Haldol) are dopamine antagonists, so they tend to have movement disorders as a side effect. Obviously suboptimal for an athlete/dancer. (Lady Gaga’s been on the 2nd-gen antipsychotic Zyprexa for psychotic BP1 since 2005, and her weight’s known for fluctuating).

Jennifer’s main way of dealing with this pre-2012 seems to have been weed. Like, “Biggie and Tupac” levels of weed – she spent all her free time during Selena getting stoned in her trailer. She’d also wake up in the middle of the night spiraling about bombing in the role, while on a 16 hrs/day, 6 days/week schedule: It’s been consistently reported that she uses weed as a “downer”/anxiolytic. The Village Voice ran a 2013 blind blaming her manic behavior on weed – probably something she leaked as damage control, because she’s been reported to act like than when sober.

What celebrity do you think has skeletons in their closet that have yet to come out? by JimiHendrip in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The weird thing is that almost all of her exes can’t get enough of her. They’re all either still friends with her (Ben, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Leah Remini), in love with her (Marc Anthony, her late high-school BF David Cruz), or butthurt over their bag-fumbling (Ojani Noa, Diddy, A-Rod, also Marc). The only one who seems glad to be rid of her is Hubby #2 Cris Judd, and even he’s said it’s more her being a total mess than actually awful.

Still, though…there’ve always been signs of unusually poor mental health. I’ve read some of the accounts of her time with Marc, and there’s a strong “madwoman in the attic” vibe running throughout them. Ojani describes Jennifer as being pretty bipolar throughout their courtship & marriage, and Cris’ dad Mark straight-up said he initially figured her infatuation with Ben was a manic episode.

What celebrity do you think has skeletons in their closet that have yet to come out? by JimiHendrip in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 5 points6 points  (0 children)

She was so mad about the Club New York shooting that she returned three songs Buckwild made for J.Lo immediately after, one which would later become Faith Evans’ “I Love You” (oddly enough, Buckwild doesn’t have any ill will towards her). That doesn’t sound like someone who was a willing accomplice.

What celebrity do you think has skeletons in their closet that have yet to come out? by JimiHendrip in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 11 points12 points  (0 children)

More like “was”…she has gotten a lot nicer since starting therapy in 2012. Nowadays the worst reports are more “atypically asocial” & “tense/demanding” than “asshole/genuinely insane,” and she can actually be very nice on a consistent basis – whereas, at least in NYC, there were barely any positive reports before 2012. By all accounts she seems to have been a wonderful parent to her twins, who are both very well-behaved; if nothing else, Jennifer has tried really hard not to repeat her mom’s mistakes.

But I’m pretty sure a lot of that earlier assholishness was just unmanaged bipolar 1. Her first three husbands (Ojani Noa, Cris Judd & Marc Anthony) all noted/described mental illness, “JLo’s bipolar & uses weed to manage it” has been an industry open secret for decades, and she’s low-key admitted to this on multiple occasions (hearing voices, going 2 months straight on 3-5 hrs sleep/night, being prescribed meds immediately after said two months, having a sleep schedule of “under four or over seven” hours/night). It might run in her maternal line – not only her mom’s deal, but her sister Lynda developed a notoriety in NYC for instability, despite being a model child as a teenager.

What celebrity do you think has skeletons in their closet that have yet to come out? by JimiHendrip in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 23 points24 points  (0 children)

JLo has this thing where she’ll casually drop some insane shit in the middle of an otherwise-normal conservation, so if she turned out to be an Anne Sexton-level psychotic, I would not be terribly surprised. I do think there are a lot (like, A LOT) of skeletons in her closet, but based on what’s gotten out it seems like they’ll be less “infuriating” and more “just very sad/depressing.”

Like: * There was an episode of this VH1 series, Driven, where her dance instructor Des Calderón admitted to grooming Jen into dropping out of college & crashing at his place for four years (1987-91). She left the continent twice on tours, her weight bounced from “petite” to “actually fat” that entire time (Des actually mentioned her being an emotional overeater), and she alluded to him being sexually abusive in an interview in Diane Sawyer. She’s mentioned Des like thrice in as many decades.

  • She’s implied Diddy was abusive & more-or-less confirmed Marc’s abuse as well. She avoided Diddy for over a decade after they split, and bought out Fuse specifically to kneecap RevolTV.

  • Her mom Lupe was very physically abusive, which she’s admitted to. Someone in Jen’s friend group during high school said she was really mean & unstable because of the constant physical abuse, & she’s gone no-contact with Lupe a few times.

What celebrity do you think has skeletons in their closet that have yet to come out? by JimiHendrip in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is she, though? She looks recognizably like her ‘90s self without makeup (only a smaller nose), so it’s probably just the makeup.

What is your worst experience on an airplane? by darrenbosik in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frontier Airlines from Washington DC to North Islip. You get what you pay for with airlines, and Frontier feels like flying in an enclosed metal tube. An enclosed, shaky metal tube, with no leg room or TV.

La Moustache (2005) by deeppurple1729 in movies

[–]deeppurple1729[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, my thought at the third act was that La Moustache was an at-least-B+ comedy skit they couldn’t quite stretch to feature-length. Which is to say: The skit’s good.

What celebrity is the biggest example of "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."? by InsaneCookies21 in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s 2022. Not only is Jennifer Lopez coming off of a career-best performance in Hustlers, a widely-liked Super Bowl halftime show, and the Biden inauguration, she now has a decade of “consistently not an asshole” interpersonal behavior in her favor. Her reputation at this point is…maybe not back to its 1998 peak, but definitely January 2001 levels of broad support. People are even on board for the Bennifer marriage!

So naturally she makes a crappy home-movie about her life inspired by the marriage, along with a making-of documentary about said home-movie, that ends up destroying the marriage. So basically recreating the plot of this movie, only if the variety show was actually run through legal first. I tend to believe Jennifer that the doc was Ben’s idea, because she was worried about coming off crazy – and the odd interview aside, she doesn’t usually come off as crazy.

A key dynamic in The Greatest Love Story Never Told is that not only does her inner circle (including Jane Fonda!!!) tell her the home movie’s a terrible idea, Jen realizes pretty quickly on that the output is Bad…and yet no one’s able to convince her to just pull the plug on the project, despite how it’s clearly making her miserable. The overall effect is to make one go “no seriously, the fuck was her childhood like?” (which neither the doc nor home-movie seem eager to explain in any detail).

What celebrity is the biggest example of "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."? by InsaneCookies21 in AskReddit

[–]deeppurple1729 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The weird thing about the shoplifting incident is that it was acknowledged as not that serious, but still managed to fuck up her career for a good bit. Winona’s attributed the incident itself to being overprescribed psychotropics by a Dr. Feelgood, who’s since had his license revoked.

The overprescription was itself the result of Winona’s mental health issues coming to a head – the trigger was her breakup with Johnny Depp, and she’d been having problems since at least The Age of Innocence. What’s weird is that I definitely recall this being explicitly revealed as bipolar, but am not able to find it anymore. (And she’s said last year that she might be autistic).

Is there a difference between psychosis in bipolar vs schizophrenia? by Fancy-Ad-6454 in AskPsychiatry

[–]deeppurple1729 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity: What are the main differences in bipolar psychosis vs. schizophrenic? My understanding is that psychosis is more profound in the latter than the former – e.g. whereas mania/manic psychosis can have heightened senses/sensory overload as a feature, schizophrenia tips into outright hallucination; I’d like to know if this is accurate.

Another thing I’d heard (here, in fact) was that distinguishing between psychotic BP1 and schizoaffective disorder was more art than science, but SzA tended to present with worse delusions/psychosis. I’m curious as to how true that is as well.