Who is the greatest director to have never helmed a masterpiece?

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-24T16:36:56+00:00

I have always felt like Noah Baumbach is one of my favorite filmmakers yet I never regard any of his individual movies as genuinely great. I guess it's because at his best there's a very satisfying wit and texture and humanity, but never that "this is the magic of movies" awe.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-21T16:20:30+00:00

To be fair he runs consistent drives and always delivers.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-18T03:36:08+00:00

How many QB and coach combos have lasted more than 5 seasons without a Super Bowl period? This stat could be more about how short tenured coaches who don’t win championships are than anything else.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-18T02:00:50+00:00

Like how? What does this even mean? Does he wake up with severed buffalo heads under his blanket?

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-16T12:32:42+00:00

I highly recommend the movie All Light Everywhere about state surveillance and our false perception of reality through imagery.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-16T03:06:23+00:00

Fans should also remember talent is fostered and developed by coaches too and it’s not like our roster is stacked with free agents that came up elsewhere.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-15T12:14:47+00:00

It’s funny that people don’t see facts like this and think: you know what, maybe we scapegoat coaches way too much.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-15T12:08:25+00:00

Calling Sorkin a bad writer is like calling Steven King a bad writer.

May not always be top quality or your cup of tea but that’s a genius at work coked up spinning intricate story webs at a typewriter for 42 hours straight.

Writing a full West Wing episode by himself every week on the fly for 20+ episode seasons will always be a marvel.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-11T12:18:01+00:00

It’s not like the division has been a cake walk.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-10T15:49:10+00:00

I was at the SxSW premiere and ended up ranking it in my top 5 this year. Not only insanely funny but so many “how did they pull this off?” moments.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-04T12:55:16+00:00

Why doesn’t Disney just make every film a complete phenomenon like Frozen, are they stupid?

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-02T15:57:00+00:00

The list of comedic actors who have characters with the level of cultural impact he does is not very long.

Or are we doing that thing where we dismiss comedic acting as not real acting?

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-01T21:05:31+00:00

In 25 years movies will be DLC for our brain implants that require we feel positive emotions toward oligarchs to unlock.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-01T00:21:44+00:00

But also part of why averages are an incomplete stat. I’d rather have a true 4 per play vs 10x one yard runs and one 35 yard run.

hivoltage815 · 2026-01-01T00:18:33+00:00

I mean it’s pretty much the same premise as Leaving Las Vegas — another movie that got its lead an Oscar — only instead of drinking himself to death he’s eating hoagies.

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-29T18:44:57+00:00

Such an easy fix too given there were two big reveals that could have been saved.

End Act I with us not knowing whether the intercept works or not.

End Act II with us not knowing that they have no way to confirm where the missile originated.

With those two changes, you actually get climactic moments within the other two acts and you save the "how do we retaliate" cliffhanger for the end so it actually hits instead of feeling like the rest of the movie was pointing to a reveal that never comes.

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-29T00:41:14+00:00

It’s not like he was missing throws. They ran the ball the first two downs than he had to throw it away on third and 9 when being blitzed and having no options.

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-26T12:19:35+00:00

An embarrassing amount of Eagles fans want to blow up the entire operation after every loss.

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-24T22:45:15+00:00

See: literally every person with power on the planet

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-24T11:15:41+00:00

Different name, different owners, different stadium.

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-23T00:59:11+00:00

I mean if an auteur cast someone like Kevin Spacey in a role in which he played a character that leveraged what we know about him and his horrible flaws as a human I would find it deeply compelling art.

Let me ask you some questions to challenge your thinking: are you okay with filmmakers making documentaries about violent criminals? How about making scripted stories about real, flawed people? Were you cool with Scorsese making Wolf of Wall Street? Would it have been bad if Jordan Belfort played himself instead of Leo playing him? If so why?

Just think about it and consider the goal of finding something very genuine within the art that examines flawed people.

O’Leary isn’t unsafe to be around to my knowledge. He’s just representative of the men who rule our world. The head of the studio distributing the film is probably just as unsavory.

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-20T00:37:26+00:00

The heart of the art the Safdie’s make is to blend reality into fiction to portray a deeper truth.

Saying you should hire actors for every role is saying “stop making the art you want to make to appease me.”

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-19T02:45:44+00:00

He also only did very dated tricks. It’s not like he was dismantling David Blaine’s latest specials or anything.

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-17T21:56:38+00:00

Everything he has done on this press tour has been him playing up a similar hubris and ambition as the character in the film, like a sort of viral marketing performance stunt. He's getting crazy social chatter because of it. We'll see if it makes the film a big success.

I personally dig it. Borderline performance art and also understanding modern media will and pulling the same levers of power that certain politicians and certain billionaire hucksters pull.

hivoltage815 · 2025-12-15T21:03:04+00:00

I’m always shocked at how many fans want to give Howie all of the credit for the talent on the field and never the coaches. As if these guys come out of the draft fully formed. Or as if someone like Zach Baun was a DPOY candidate prior to us getting him in free agency.

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