What movies are you watching?

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i think those guys going to prision marks the ¨there is an escape¨. I loved how sincere it was with the boyfriend being a shitty guy. The overall good guy is almost as dangerous as the fucking rapist. I loved that. And i also loved the ending

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her death was unexpected and it also made a lot of sense. The guy is a rapist and a killer and at the same time those guys cant seem to understand what they are

[VinylGuy]

Kid90 kinda fucked me up.

dying to see it

[Mickey]

yeah, i think those guys going to prision marks the ¨there is an escape¨. I loved how sincere it was with the boyfriend being a shitty guy. The overall good guy is almost as dangerous as the fucking rapist. I loved that. And i also loved the ending

Spoiler: show

her death was unexpected and it also made a lot of sense. The guy is a rapist and a killer and at the same time those guys cant seem to understand what they are

I hate using the spoiler tag so I'll just say this has HUGE SPOILER ALERTS:

This is exactly what I mean when I said the fact that it's a revenge fantasy and still ends the way it does is hugely important. The movie has set up that basically every man is bad, or rather that the logic of male violence is so baked into our society that even a vigilante with nothing to lose isn't able to survive it. So yeah, exactly, Bo Burnham is just as bad as the rapist. So what's the escape? How do you make the good guys actually good? Are you going to send all the men to prison? Remember they are only going be held accountable after they literally murder someone who knew in advance that she might be murdered. Which is to say that on the formal level this is a deeply, deeply cynical movie about gendered violence. I fucking loved it and I think it's crazy smart, and we can debate about whether that cynicism tempers its feminist politics or not (I'm kind of claiming it does insofar as its more diagnostic than anything, but I don't know that I really care too much). But I have a hard time seeing a reasonable argument for the idea this movie projects any kind of escape hatch from the kind of violence it wants to stage.

[Mickey]

Promising Young Woman reminds me a lot of Nightcrawler but with better direction.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i think those guys going to prision marks the ¨there is an escape¨. I loved how sincere it was with the boyfriend being a shitty guy. The overall good guy is almost as dangerous as the fucking rapist. I loved that. And i also loved the ending

Spoiler: show

her death was unexpected and it also made a lot of sense. The guy is a rapist and a killer and at the same time those guys cant seem to understand what they are

I hate using the spoiler tag so I'll just say this has HUGE SPOILER ALERTS:

This is exactly what I mean when I said the fact that it's a revenge fantasy and still ends the way it does is hugely important. The movie has set up that basically every man is bad, or rather that the logic of male violence is so baked into our society that even a vigilante with nothing to lose isn't able to survive it. So yeah, exactly, Bo Burnham is just as bad as the rapist. So what's the escape? How do you make the good guys actually good? Are you going to send all the men to prison? Remember they are only going be held accountable after they literally murder someone who knew in advance that she might be murdered. Which is to say that on the formal level this is a deeply, deeply cynical movie about gendered violence. I fucking loved it and I think it's crazy smart, and we can debate about whether that cynicism tempers its feminist politics or not (I'm kind of claiming it does insofar as its more diagnostic than anything, but I don't know that I really care too much). But I have a hard time seeing a reasonable argument for the idea this movie projects any kind of escape hatch from the kind of violence it wants to stage.

Well, your take is interesting. I didnt see it as every man is bad at all. Her father seems super cool. Alfred Molina´s character has regrets about the mistake he made. Also, the movie shows just how fucking crazy she is. How much of an asshole the principal was about everything. I dont think its only pointing out men.

And yes, i loved that the good ¨ adorkable¨ boyfriend was an asshole.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[doug rr]

Kid90 kinda fucked me up.

go on...

[epilogue]

Kid90 kinda fucked me up.

go on...

Did you see it?

[JuanHamm]

I watched Howls moving castle with my neice and nephew last night. What a beautiful movie.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I watched Howls moving castle with my neice and nephew last night. What a beautiful movie.

it’s not near the top of my Miyazaki list, but it is very good

[lennytheweedwhacker]

the nice guys...gosling and crowe worked well together and there were a lot of funny moments, but the middle section was bogged down a bit by some of the plot elements...finished pretty strong though

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

the nice guys...gosling and crowe worked well together and there were a lot of funny moments, but the middle section was bogged down a bit by some of the plot elements...finished pretty strong though

Which RMers would you cast in a buddy cop movie

ruddo - the straight man who goes by the book religiously due to his military past
soma - the new hotshot on the force known for his killer tan and chess-like prowess for always knowing the next move
argo - the love interest
b - the villain, drunk on power
knee tunes - the hard *ss captain
wease - voice-over narration
daft twat - the dwarf right hand muscle for b

[JuanHamm]

I watched Howls moving castle with my neice and nephew last night. What a beautiful movie.

it’s not near the top of my Miyazaki list, but it is very good

It's the first Miyazaki movie I've seen and I'm definitely interested in seeing more.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I watched Howls moving castle with my neice and nephew last night. What a beautiful movie.

it’s not near the top of my Miyazaki list, but it is very good

It's the first Miyazaki movie I've seen and I'm definitely interested in seeing more.

for me it doesn't get any better than spirited away...one of my favorite movies period

i watched them all a few years ago (a few were re-watches), and made a ranking list here

i don't feel like searching for it now but if you're interested you can search

have a great day

[lennytheweedwhacker]

the nice guys...gosling and crowe worked well together and there were a lot of funny moments, but the middle section was bogged down a bit by some of the plot elements...finished pretty strong though

Which RMers would you cast in a buddy cop movie

ruddo - the straight man who goes by the book religiously due to his military past
soma - the new hotshot on the force known for his killer tan and chess-like prowess for always knowing the next move
argo - the love interest
b - the villain, drunk on power
knee tunes - the hard *ss captain
wease - voice-over narration
daft twat - the dwarf right hand muscle for b

Argo the love interest needs a mysterious past

he beat AIDS

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Bammer]

the nice guys...gosling and crowe worked well together and there were a lot of funny moments, but the middle section was bogged down a bit by some of the plot elements...finished pretty strong though

Which RMers would you cast in a buddy cop movie

ruddo - the straight man who goes by the book religiously due to his military past
soma - the new hotshot on the force known for his killer tan and chess-like prowess for always knowing the next move
argo - the love interest
b - the villain, drunk on power
knee tunes - the hard *ss captain
wease - voice-over narration
daft twat - the dwarf right hand muscle for b

Argo the love interest needs a mysterious past

he beat AIDS

The DONATE button at the top of the RM website needs to be re-routed to a GoFundMe for this movie.

[wease]

I could handle voice-over narration.