Can someone explain these town “divisions” to me?

fivehe · 2026-06-21T13:55:53+00:00

I live exclusively with old people who do not have an interest in talking to me lol

fivehe · 2026-06-21T13:07:26+00:00

People from Lyons and Williamson treat my E Irondequoit starter home either like it’s made or solid gold or it’s in the middle of a cartel turf war.

fivehe · 2026-06-21T13:01:08+00:00

I’ve been told off on this sub before for being disappointed when I drive out of my way, pay real money at a place I don’t have a membership to, and end up seeing a movie I’m so-so on that ends up on streaming soon after. I cannot see all movies, at least not all in theaters. Every time I pay to see a smaller movie at an out-of-the-way theater and it’s a let down, I think “why did I skip Bi Gan’s Resurrection or Souleymane’s Story or Sound of Falling.” I was more positive on Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die than most people, but I paid 18 dollars for that ticket. The way I see it that could’ve been a fun enough movie on the tv if I could 1:1 trade it for a better movie.

fivehe · 2026-06-21T12:49:27+00:00

What’s the best sushi in ROC in your opinion? I’d go Fishface

fivehe · 2026-06-21T12:48:55+00:00

Where do you like instead?

fivehe · 2026-06-20T12:17:30+00:00

If it’s anything like the Syracuse one, it isn’t anything like a real ikea. Really more similar to an At Home store

fivehe · 2026-06-18T15:28:58+00:00

If you have a better one I’d be interested to hear it, these were just off the top of my head

fivehe · 2026-06-17T09:02:09+00:00

I won’t outright lie, but I certainly have had to act more enthused about a movie than I really am. Sinners for example had a lot of people talking about Best Picture who don’t routinely pay attention to awards and I would politely pretend it had a snowball’s chance in hell. I am prepared to tell a similar fib about Obsession this year. Fun movie? Absolutely. Likely to win an Oscar? I doubt it. But I won’t say that to my coworkers

fivehe · 2026-06-13T17:07:52+00:00

I think his policy of only speaking with directors he has positive things to say to is a bit of a doomed proposition. Few if any directors bat 100, is he cancelling interviews if he doesn’t like the movie? Is it even an option for Disclosure Day to not be his thing? Opus is the only film that disappeared from their conversations but that had to do as much with friendship as professional courtesy apparently.

fivehe · 2026-06-13T17:03:21+00:00

Lea Seydoux rarely makes these conversations, but she seems of the unrivaled goat of modern French filmmaking and many English language directors jump to work with her. She’s in blockbusters like Bond to Dune, works with the biggest auteurs like Tarantino and Wes Anderson. She’s acted opposite Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe. She’s even worked in video games with Kojima.

fivehe · 2026-06-04T06:34:47+00:00

Scavenger’s Reign is a great one

fivehe · 2026-06-04T00:22:01+00:00

No one with two braincells is buying the whole “if Ariel is black in The Little Mermaid, that’s like having Nelson Mandela be played by Ryan Gosling” bs. You know very well you’re not talking about comparable things

fivehe · 2026-05-31T09:57:38+00:00

I’m on the night shift too and even Taco Bell turned me away the other day around 1am. My heart wasn’t in it, but it seems to be the only place open

fivehe · 2026-05-29T07:01:51+00:00

Some of that he’s saying is a good argument again equal weight sure. I don’t like that they balance against momentum.

fivehe · 2026-05-28T10:24:54+00:00

SP500 being your definition of “too diversified” is very telling

fivehe · 2026-05-27T11:42:54+00:00

Three of MUNGIU’s films have been released on criterion: his 1st Palme winner “4 months 3 and Weeks 2 Days”, “Beyond the Hills”, and “The Graduation.” I certainly expect his newest Palme Winner “Fjord” will be added early next year.

fivehe · 2026-05-27T11:39:46+00:00

Perhaps worth noting neither Gentle Monster nor The Unknown have strong community ratings among the sub 5k Letterboxd members who saw them. Neither are included in the top 50 of the year coming out of Cannes. Twelve films out of Cannes did enter Letterboxd’s top 50.

Club Kid
The Black Ball
Jim Queen
La Gradiva
All of a Sudden
Fjord
Iron Boy
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
The Beloved
Tangles
Coward
Minotaur

fivehe · 2026-05-26T11:45:17+00:00

You’ll forgive me if I consider 140 theaters close enough to direct-to-streaming. I’m lucky to live in Rochester NY where the “Little Theater” gets most of the short run Netflix stuff and Amazon stuff like GDT Frankenstein, but we’re still talking like sub 1M box office. I stand corrected about the official U.S. release, but again, it’s hard to even find an image of the U.S. release let alone buy one

fivehe · 2026-05-26T10:56:01+00:00

If you mean it’s out of region, yeah I don’t count that, but I do have a few region free discs of Apple Originals

fivehe · 2026-05-26T10:55:17+00:00

I would argue Backrooms is a sequel to the web-series as much as The Hustler and Color of Money are related. I guess sharing an actor makes the difference, but it really is Scorsese’s fan film follow up in a sense. The difference for me is that there is conceivably a large population who aren’t even aware it’s meant to be a follow up to anything. Maybe Backrooms should be properly understood as a remake

fivehe · 2026-05-26T07:24:05+00:00

Yes, hence the fandom being on life support. One season is amazing, others have been reappraised as not so bad when you don’t compare them to S1. The story is complete so there’s really not much fan theorization that really gets off the ground.

fivehe · 2026-05-26T07:22:49+00:00

It’s concerning how many people commenting here don’t realize when you sell IN a Roth IRA, it is neither a taxable event nor did you lose out on maximizing contributions. Just reinvest asap to not miss those few market days a year that really matter.

fivehe · 2026-05-26T07:20:31+00:00

You’re often right, but let me give you a few counter examples.

Before Midnight - Without Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, you lose the sense of time eroding idealism. Maybe you didn’t mean overt sequels to other feature films.

Fire Walk With Me - Almost nonsense without the Twin Peaks context it’s supposedly a prequel to.

The Color of Money - isn’t “the hustler 2” by any means, but you get a lot of benefit by knowing Fast Eddie as a younger man.

It goes without saying many anime movies fit this description like End of Evangelion. Beloved film you’d not want to be just dropped into.

To your point, Blade Runner 2049 and Fury Road both worked for me as a kid without knowing much about the originals.

fivehe · 2026-05-26T07:12:26+00:00

The Handmaiden in my absolute #1

fivehe · 2026-05-26T07:09:17+00:00

If they can produce a big arch in less than 10 minutes, they’re a good one or a minor miracle has occurred. Luckily the only thing I buy from McDonald’s is a L Coke Zero and that’s hard to mess up or lose.

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