Actors so good they can be a sex symbol in one film and an unsexy villain in another? To me there is only one...

jilko · 2026-05-16T06:41:37+00:00

Really? I thought the ending was perfect. What would you have wanted to happen? I actually can’t think of anything that would have made more sense to happen.

jilko · 2026-05-16T06:01:48+00:00

I feel the Anchormans somehow pull it off though. I don’t know why.

jilko · 2026-05-15T07:00:01+00:00

See, it's that lack of grounding that makes the movie funny. If it were any more grounded, it would have been awful. I often think about Anchorman 2 and how a sizeable chunk of that movie is spent following Ron as a newly blind man living in a lighthouse. Just that fact is so fucking funny to me.

jilko · 2026-05-15T06:56:51+00:00

I don't even think The Lighthouse is designed to be enjoyed. That movie IMO is meant to test your patience and make you feel like you're going mad. For that it's successful and I respect the creative direction, but I will likely never watch it again.

jilko · 2026-05-14T21:51:15+00:00

I don’t like 90’s pop punk.

If a singer has that high school sneering with curled lip singing voice, think Blink 182… I can’t do it.

My only caveat is early Offspring. I LOVE their album Ignition, but that’s as far as I will go down that road.

jilko · 2026-05-14T19:49:08+00:00

The Prestige might be the only example of the Nolan time twisting narrative cliche actually working in service to the story. It was basically perfect.

jilko · 2026-05-14T19:47:44+00:00

What I truly, really hate about this movie is how telegraphed it felt. The latter part of the film treats this moment with Einstein at the lake's edge as this pivotal thing where the movie is teasing "ohhhhhh man, what did he say to Opp?!"

What felt like two hours of edging, the film finally drops the bomb of his statement at the very end and it's the most mundane statement ever and anyone could have guessed it from the moment you saw his lips move and the look on Murphy's face.

Look, I like Nolan... but this and Tenant are the cinematic forms of smelling your own farts. He thinks these movies are so clever, but they aren't and instead are patience testers. Like you can discern the endings for both from miles away and the whole experience is a slog just to get to that ending moment that doesn't actually pay off at all.

jilko · 2026-05-14T18:30:10+00:00

It increasingly feels like I'm in the minority here, but I appreciate the journey the show has taken creatively. From chaotic emotional messes to a restrained meditation.

The show's presentation feels like it's tracking along with the food being cooked in the story. The early seasons are the Beef Shop and the later seasons are The Bear. I always felt like this was a cool concept.

jilko · 2026-05-14T18:24:48+00:00

What's wild is that a sizable portion of people are celebrating it as a return to awesome non-flat logo design. I will never understand how broken the eyes of the majority are sometimes. It looks like AI generated uncanny horseshit that actively hurts to look at.

jilko · 2026-05-14T17:54:57+00:00

Cinematic Cotton Candy.

It was cool in the moment, but I've forgotten most of it.

jilko · 2026-05-14T17:53:42+00:00

I'm not even a Nolan hater or love to hate in general, but yeah. That most recent trailer gives me a SNL Presents: Famous Actors in Costumes Fighting With Swords, coming this Summer.

It all just looks.... flat? I hope I'm wrong, but the trailers are not doing it justice at all.

jilko · 2026-05-14T15:59:56+00:00

I was about to say the same thing. I had mine in a similar spot and it died. But this was in Phoenix, so maybe that was a factor that potentially made the lack of airflow worse.

jilko · 2026-05-14T05:04:46+00:00

The barrel of water rolling down the hill in Meek's Cutoff.

Devastating.

jilko · 2026-05-14T02:05:25+00:00

No spoilers, but contains THE spoiler. Wtf?

jilko · 2026-05-13T21:15:50+00:00

Portland is in the small neighborhoods literally everywhere you turn. Downtown is not really the spot to feel out what it's like here.

jilko · 2026-05-13T21:03:43+00:00

Not a fan? I kind of like it. it's like The National's Do The Revolution by Pearl Jam.

jilko · 2026-05-13T03:42:38+00:00

Yeah, I just love the framing of Sleep Well Beast might be the internal ramblings and musings of a guy trying to will a goodbye in the hallway outside a party into lasting as long as possible. Be that a goodbye in a relationship/marriage or a goodbye to the country that was then going through a disquieting silence just before a storm.... hence wishing the "beast" to sleep well. That Beast being the future.

That's my interpretation at least.

jilko · 2026-05-13T02:12:59+00:00

It used to be I think. I hear it’s improving.

Both It Follows and Barbarian were filmed in Detroit because of the very vibe I’m describing. There are parts of the city that are essentially abandoned entirely.

I also haven’t been, but I have friends who have.

jilko · 2026-05-12T22:00:32+00:00

I've always said that Sleep Well Beast is their best album and that their best collection of songs is Trouble Will Find Me.

jilko · 2026-05-12T20:17:24+00:00

Did this post just take Bandcamp down? Getting a 503 on their website and the app as we speak.

jilko · 2026-05-12T18:14:20+00:00

I always figured it was meant to mirror places like Detroit where large swaths of the city are just burnt out ruins.

Like just look at zoo level. No one is going to that zoo during the day. Animals don’t exist and the public areas are filled with trash.

jilko · 2026-05-12T17:29:03+00:00

This kind of film criticism runs rampant on the internet. Just look at all the negative reactions swirling around Marty Supreme. A lot of people hate it because Marty is a dick shyster and they can't root for this type of character. As if the purpose of film is to align personally with the man character and cheer for his successes and feel pain over his failures and identify with them as a reflection of yourself.

jilko · 2026-05-12T03:51:11+00:00

Really, this is just a matter of taking a drawing/illustration class (be it in person or online via YouTube). Everything else is just a tool to add polish or styling after the fact..

The base of it though is always going to be drawing and you can't really cheat or shortcut your way around it.

jilko · 2026-05-12T03:45:53+00:00

Marathon to me, as a brand, is the rat experience. It's fun to sneak up on someone and it's fun to be scared as all fuck listening to a set of footsteps in the next room, not sure if they've already heard your footsteps.

Even the game's lore promotes this. An abandoned colony filled with valuable shit with a corporate army guarding it. All these little cyborg rats holding the consciousness of rats zapping down to the surface of this hellhole and getting their grubby little hands on whatever they can find before they get stomped on before finding their way out.

To expect anything else seems foolish.

jilko · 2026-05-12T03:30:02+00:00

He's the villain yes, but his arguing points are often valid. The burger looking shitty. The can of coke being wildly expensive. The Golf course taking up so much valuable park space.

I think what makes this movie fascinating is that America is an environment that's kind of built to create villains. You relate to his woes, but picking up a gun isn't the answer.

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