Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have

[BurtReynolds]

I generally hate these Hollywood hagiographies. They are so fake.

[BurtReynolds]

And formulaic.

[Jorge]

I think this one is trying to be "fake"

[tree_]

I think this one is trying to be "fake"

You mean like in a sorta I’m Not There kinda way?

[Jorge]

Or like in a Spencer kind of way

Using a real story as a sort of canvas to explore themes and ideas

[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.

[The Argonaut]

Top Gun: Maverick is actually much more Mission Impossible 7 than it is Top Gun 2

[Jorge]

That Brad Pitt Bullet Train movie looks absolutely terrible. The trailer looks like it's trying so goddamn hard to be a Shane Black movie

[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.

[Malloy]

i find it difficult to accept that the guy who directed The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford -- a film with a final act that literally dramatizes the problems of (auto)biographical representation -- would be making hagiography. we don't need to invoke other films, like Spencer, as desirable alternatives to what burt criticizes. dominik is already on record.

a big part of what makes hollywood biopics so insufferably dull is historical pedantry, of which a critique centered on authenticity (whether it has to do with accents or otherwise) is just a part

[Malloy]

hagiography is a necessarily uncritical mode. dominik's first historical drama featured an auto-critique at its center. maybe dominik has changed since then, but i doubt it. anyways. i'm mostly jazzed about Blonde. wish it hadn't been produced by netflix, which has an overwhelmingly bad track record of producing great movies.

[The Argonaut]

I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).

[spike]

What are there, like 40 good movies?

[Malloy]

I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).

i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.

spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?

[Ello Sailor]

Buster is mostly gold.

"Meal Ticket" and "The Mortal Remains" were average. The rest is top shelf.

[The Argonaut]

I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).

i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.

spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?

Give us the narrative of your relationship with Kaufman. Were you ever interested?

[Malloy]

I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).

i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.

spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?

Give us the narrative of your relationship with Kaufman. Were you ever interested?

former kaufman fanboy. i don't know that my relationship to his movies is necessarily complicated enough to merit a narrative account. the fairest way to put it is this: my boredom with myself has grown proportionally to my impatience with self-reflexivity & neuroses

[spike]

I trust Andrew Dominik.

And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).

i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.

spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?

I don’t even know.

[The Argonaut]

Have you seen Top Gun: Maverick yet?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Have you seen I, Robot yet?