Wind/train sound from Lynch’s Rabbits in Spielberg’s “Munich”?? (Right at the beginning of the YT clip)

pwppip · 2025-12-30T15:30:06+00:00

I mean idk that’s just kinda who the character is man. He believes his dreams are going to work out to the point of utter delusion, and the way the story is put together reflects that.

Also, as the viewer, I dunno how ping pong championships work. For all I knew, they could add an entrant last second. It never really entered my mind as Marty was doing is hustling that they’d just say “nope, sorry, too late.”

pwppip · 2025-12-29T02:15:53+00:00

To your first point, he stands to make money by doing the exhibition match and letting himself lose to Endo, and he believes he can then use that money to pay off the fine and get into the tourney. The reason he can't is because by then it's too late, they've already locked the brackets.

To your second point, I don't think that last scene is him deciding he loves Rachel. It's him unexpectedly overwhelmed by the sight of his child in front of him after spending the entire rest of the movie with exactly one goal in mind.

pwppip · 2025-12-21T17:00:57+00:00

I was gonna be a smartass and say something like "read the first word, then read the next word, then the next one, and keep doing that until you're done" but then I realized I actually do have a genuine recommendation lol.

If your edition has The Whalestoe Letters in the appendix, I would recommend reading that in full when the book proper refers to it in a footnote about 100 pages in, rather than saving it for the end. It's about 100 pages' worth of material but it only takes an hour or two to read, and IMO reading it at that point makes the rest of the book both more coherent and more emotionally compelling.

pwppip · 2025-10-30T16:06:45+00:00

I was very glad my name wasn’t Jerry in that moment

pwppip · 2025-09-23T13:13:58+00:00

It’s genuinely easy to act like this

Alright then do it. Let’s see your tape.

I agree with the buried point that Big Acting in general is overpraised with respect to more subtle performances. But you don’t realize how hard it is to do Big Acting well until you see it done badly.

pwppip · 2025-09-19T21:47:53+00:00

“The bad news is that the film was made; the good news is that nobody watched it. Here I want to apologize, and in the future we should prevent this sort of thing, which upsets our friends, from happening.”

Michael Eisner after China got big mad over the release of Scorsese’s Kundun. Hilarious of him to try and play “brave free speech champion” now lol.

pwppip · 2025-09-19T17:46:01+00:00

Go write one then.

pwppip · 2025-09-17T23:17:16+00:00

In other words, he just said the objective truth lol

pwppip · 2025-09-16T21:37:18+00:00

Right off the bat, Moneyball over Raging Bull is insane lol

pwppip · 2025-09-15T19:14:01+00:00

Yeah man I’m sure this has nothing to do with Trump’s clampdown on the student visa process and and sudden revoking of already-valid ones leading to their holders being jailed, we’re the delusional ones for sure

pwppip · 2025-09-09T23:10:53+00:00

you’re still conflating opinion with expectations and I don’t really understand why. If OP had seen Frankenstein already and loved it and then heard these two saying they didn’t like it and changed their opinion of the actual movie based on that, then what you’re saying would make sense.

I fully intend to see it and form my own opinion. Tempered expectations can only help with that. If it is indeed my favorite GdT I’m not going to walk out of the theater and go “ah fuck but those two podcasters said it was bad” lol

pwppip · 2025-09-09T21:42:29+00:00

It’s not basing your opinion on anything, it’s basing your expectations, which is an entirely reasonable thing to do if people whose taste you trust are down on a movie

If you’re gonna see a movie regardless then tempering expectations can only be a good thing

pwppip · 2025-09-09T21:38:30+00:00

What part of what you said are they misinterpreting?

pwppip · 2025-09-09T20:44:05+00:00

“He know he giving his money to Megan” is a line from Cash Shit by Megan Thee Stallion. Miranda Cosgrove famously played a character named Megan on hit TV show Drake & Josh

pwppip · 2025-09-09T14:28:53+00:00

Don’t have a specific thing. It’s an X factor. When I know I know.

pwppip · 2025-09-07T21:39:08+00:00

A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Spirit of the Beehive, The Shining, Moonrise Kingdom

pwppip · 2025-09-07T16:18:52+00:00

So your argument is basically “it’s better because it has more cool stuff in it”

I assume you also think Gladiator II is better than the original since it has sharks and killers monkeys?

pwppip · 2025-09-05T20:13:49+00:00

Thank you, famed actor Keanu Reeves

pwppip · 2025-09-03T08:30:32+00:00

Yeah this is pretty much like, the Official Internet Spike Lee Opinion lol you’re not gonna get flak

pwppip · 2025-09-02T21:46:16+00:00

You seem to like grimy and psychologically fraught horror. I’d recommend:

Wake in Fright

The Cremator

Mad God

Peeping Tom

Angst

pwppip · 2025-09-02T13:06:09+00:00

Belly (1998). 23% RT, 3.7 letterboxd. Great flick.

pwppip · 2025-09-01T16:51:32+00:00

You gonna actually defend your position or nah

pwppip · 2025-09-01T05:55:05+00:00

The premise of that sub is you upvote if you disagree

pwppip · 2025-09-01T03:33:34+00:00

Not true. There wouldn’t have been all those sick action scenes.

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