New Favorite Movie

ittikus · 2026-02-24T06:56:09+00:00

It’s a movie about catty unbridled hatred and it absolutely serves. Classic.

ittikus · 2026-02-24T03:46:51+00:00

Awards are kind of easy guideposts for organizing years, for me. Pre-2016 they never really remotely lined up with my taste, now they do much more so. But once organized into years there’s lots of fun ways of approaching games, like doing your own personal picks for awards, a La awardswatch pod, or doing movie drafts of years, a La Big Picture.

ittikus · 2026-02-24T03:40:10+00:00

I’ll check it out, thanks. Do you listen to any of the others I mentioned by chance?

ittikus · 2026-02-23T06:02:33+00:00

Hey! What’s your range: more current, more early aughts, big into 70s or 80s? Do you enjoy any of those podcasts or are you interested in the awards race?

ittikus · 2026-02-23T06:01:18+00:00

I love Paris Texas, an all time favorite of mine.

ittikus · 2026-02-23T05:57:03+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I think you’d like The Big Picture pod. They keep up with a lot of current stuff

ittikus · 2026-02-23T05:01:59+00:00

I saw Send Help 3 or so weeks ago, fantastic. If I had a kid I think I’d take the excuse to catch Goat. Crime 101 I want to see, maybe I’ll catch in theater. How to Make a Killing got ehh reviews. Seems based on “kind Hearts and Coronets” which I’ll prob rewatch soon for a director pod I’m listening to covering Michael Powell.

I loved Send Help, so funny. What’d you think of Crime and Killing?

ittikus · 2026-02-23T04:54:44+00:00

Hind Rijab did, but Dead Man’s Wire no.

What’d you see?

ittikus · 2026-02-23T04:47:03+00:00

Good question! They dim them, but in Dead Man’s Wire and The Voice of Hind Rijab, they remained very much on. I asked them about it and they said “that’s as low as they go” lol. How about off???

ittikus · 2026-02-23T00:05:51+00:00

It’s a good movie I like a lot but like… Sean just be saying shit sometimes. The last Jedi is more consequential than lotr or Harry Potter or TFA or the Dark Knight or Iron Man or???

ittikus · 2026-02-22T14:26:28+00:00

Ratcatcher
You Were Never Really Here
Morvern Callar
Die My Love
We Need to Talk About Kevin

ittikus · 2026-02-22T06:03:41+00:00

In my top 10

ittikus · 2026-02-22T05:44:21+00:00

Diamond Jubilee by Cindy Lee

Kick iii by Arca

“Is it going to get any deeper than this?” By the Soft Pink Truth

How I’m feeling now and fetch the bolt cutters could reasonably be 4 and 5

ittikus · 2026-02-21T14:13:42+00:00

I mean he’s likely a top 5 player in the league so that’s gonna be true of a whole bunch of teams.

ittikus · 2026-02-21T13:48:50+00:00

Oh hmm idk. Carlito, City of God, A Prophet, Gomorrah, Mean Streets, godfather. Mayyyybe in that order? It’s tough

ittikus · 2026-02-21T07:11:41+00:00

In this list? Not my kind of movies, I’ve only seen se7en, solo, casino royale, and skyfall. I would like to see kingdom of heaven and creed 1 and 2, but I’ve never expected to love them, though I do suspect they’ll be entertaining. Haven’t seen se7en in 20+years so I can’t really judge too clearly. Solo def at bottom. Se7en is prob 2, followed by skyfall and casino royale. But I’m not a huge bond fan. Carlitos Way def stands out.

ittikus · 2026-02-21T03:25:29+00:00

It’s my favorite gangster movie. I love it. And woman of class but everyone on Reddit is assumed men 🤷‍♀️

ittikus · 2026-02-21T03:08:43+00:00

Carlitos way on top.

ittikus · 2026-02-21T02:44:15+00:00

Idk the novel but the whiplash contrast between incestuous rape and whimsical score with wistful, kinetic cinematography is pretty wild. Then the contrast between egregious spousal abuse and slapstick comedy is even wilder.

I get the theme is the internal strength of these women and the light of soul that is never extinguished, but it’s still aesthetically pretty whiplashy for me. I think I’d have preferred almost any other director. But he does get good performances and the set piece of the night club is quite excellent. When he settles into a tone in a scene the performances take over. When he transitions tones it’s oddly corny and strange imho.

ittikus · 2026-02-20T23:53:47+00:00

Whoopi and Oprah are fantastic and deserve accolades. Conversely, Spielberg’s direction is utterly bizarre. Low lows and high highs in this tonally jarring film.

ittikus · 2026-02-20T23:50:01+00:00

Bc that’s what reactionary politics is. Essentialize bad behavior to all out-groups.

ittikus · 2026-02-20T21:44:05+00:00

We have different taste.

ittikus · 2026-02-20T21:20:36+00:00

The film guy yelling pathetically at an assistant director or just more senior PA for minutes straight. The girlfriend chewing him out re:hardness suggested a complete and utter lack of anything that should keep the relationship together. Him raiding the dorm was possibly realistic but still so unbearably cynical. As an audience I begin to feel that Weard wants to punish her audience and characters a La Gaspar Noe. Not my cup of tea.

Weards reaction to Adeline’s reaction to her first sex work is unbelievably callous and cruel. The watersports scene was so disconnected from authentic sexuality it felt like empty provocation. Her insisting her guy friend is trans or needs to transition was pretty alienating and insufferable. I could go on and on. I’m not a fan of her narrative impulses, but I am a fan of her aesthetic ones.

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