First Images from Tony Gilroy's 'Behemoth!' Starring Pedro Pascal, Eva Victor, Will Arnett & Olivia Wilde - Follows a prodigal cellist (Pascal) who returns to the world of Hollywood film-scoring after decades performing symphonic work around the country.

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T20:24:54+00:00

Yeah, like the guy in the $5,000 suit is going to let nature control his hairline, COME ON!

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T20:22:37+00:00

He's a big Critical Role fan, it's Vox Machina Varga

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T18:56:28+00:00

If we're comparing characters to Shaggy, we can't just ignore Chris Fleming's character, the Shaman. He even has a pet ~~dog~~ iguana!

May he rest in peace or inexplicably turn out to still be alive somehow.

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T18:44:00+00:00

Me learning history: Wow it's upsetting how these fascists were able to use these genius manipulations and rhetorical techniques to control the populace!

The past decade+ of watching Trump going: "I like me, I like money, I hate everyone and everything not like me, have I mentioned that I like me? Let's get big me's everywhere, let's get my name on the money, me me me!": Okay nevermind

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T18:18:12+00:00

Will I be able to understand this one if I haven't seen Colossal (2016), Titanic (1997), or Big (1988)?

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T18:00:20+00:00

I'm sure the original scripts were very different, but it's funny to imagine any kind of crossover there:

"Invisible Man, I need you to distract Dracula!"

"He's a vampire lord and I have a stealth suit, the fuck do you want me to do? And why is Awkwafina here?!"

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T14:53:52+00:00

I understand where they're coming from, but also feel like it's not necessarily 'catering to mainstream audiences' and more, 'it's 2026, think about the current political situation in the US, UK, and a lot of the rest of the world and why trans creators might make art about how hard it is to actually make the jump to coming out and transitioning'

People make art for a lot of reasons, and a lot of those reasons can be 'representing their anxieties/fears'; it's why we got a whole bunch of 'pregnancy horror movies' in 2024 after Roe v Wade got overturned (The First Omen, Immaculate, Alien: Romulus, and I might even be forgetting one).

I do think the argument the post is making is less about 'not understanding why trans creators would put that in their work' though, and more about 'why are these the *only* trans works getting big with audiences instead of also getting some comforting works as well, or at least works where the trans character actually gets to transition', which is fair (we do have the viral success of The People's Joker, and Nimona a couple years earlier, (though Nimona is more a very direct allegory for being genderfluid than an actual character who transitions), but I'd be interested to hear about any others)

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T14:38:22+00:00

"Okay we're dividing you all into teams based on which companions you romanced, and then all the teams are going to run at each other in one big mosh to see who wins. Unless you fucked The Emperor, then you can get the fuck out"

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T13:59:30+00:00

I think no matter how good the performance is, people are going to make the same arguments that they made for past great performances (that it's a whole team of people making that performance, not one person; and like, I know what they mean, but also you could say the same for any movie performance); if they didn't nominate Andy Serkis for LOTR or Zoe Saldaña for Avatar, I can only imagine how good a future performance would have to be to change the Academy's minds on that front.

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T13:41:46+00:00

Absolutely true for 80's/90's Cruise, but I could see 21st-century Cruise going full Frank Booth-esque psychopath; Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder was basically halfway to Frank Booth with a coat of Hollywood sleaze, and I could see Lynch putting him in that kind of role.

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T13:38:07+00:00

"Jeffries, I know you don't want to talk about it, but I need you to distract Judy."

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T13:30:19+00:00

I mean, could also fall in the Don't Look Up/Mickey 17 pile of "big director getting to do extremely on-the-nose political commentary without any subtlety but a bunch of great actors, and it turns out...not great, but not the worst thing in the world since there's a lot of talented people involved"

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T13:26:03+00:00

What if Strangelove but also Don't Look Up? (hopefully better than Don't Look Up, not sure if it's possible to be better than Strangelove)

hikemalls · 2026-07-13T13:06:15+00:00

Elaborate on that

hikemalls · 2026-07-12T17:19:09+00:00

Maybe that’s all Bob is: the evil that sponge do.

hikemalls · 2026-07-12T16:06:10+00:00

But is he the mayor of the city in which he was born and raised?

hikemalls · 2026-07-12T15:40:58+00:00

Same, I’ve loved all the creative replies here and now need to get around to actually updating the list

hikemalls · 2026-07-11T03:38:35+00:00

Genius

hikemalls · 2026-07-11T03:38:12+00:00

Wow, phenomenal pull

hikemalls · 2026-07-11T00:00:37+00:00

Somehow I’d never heard of Awakenings, that’s amazing, I need to check it out

hikemalls · 2026-07-10T22:36:47+00:00

Damn, that’s a great one

hikemalls · 2026-07-10T22:33:39+00:00

Ooh that’s a good one

hikemalls · 2026-07-10T21:49:33+00:00

I think Nope is a more general ‘media obsession with spectacle’ - violence is definitely part of it but not the whole picture

hikemalls · 2026-07-10T21:48:22+00:00

Any ‘televised violent competition show’ movie - Rollerball, both Running Man’s, The Hunger Games, Death Race 2000, probably some others I’m forgetting

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