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Manhunt anyone? Somehow they made the Lincoln assassination boring

i saw the trailer & whoever theyve got playing Abe looked hilariously short, like the hat was doing all the work

what's funny is hamish linklater is playing him and he's 6'4"

they needed to get shorter actors for the other roles

xpost "I've seen the Better Angels of Our Nature. In fact, I met one them in a cave and brought him back here."

Yes Hamish brings some levity to AL and the protagonist is very good but somehow the pacing feels like molasses

I’m just going to pretend 10 or so minutes from the Monsieur Spade finale don’t exist. Loved
it otherwise though it could have used a couple more episodes for coherency’s sake.

Only seen the first few so far...but I just watched The Maltese Falcon again. Still delivers.

Halo and The Expanse totally helped me clean and price tons of cool singles at night this past week and I would like to thank them. It's hard for me to work at night now that I don't drink or smoke anymore. Those things used to help me forget that I had already worked all day. I need some sort of inspiration. Spartans and Belter Gumshoes definitely do the trick.

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i put on the kelly reichardt sculptor movie in honor of you guys but i dunno...is this like an ambient trance movie? like one of those warhol movies about tedium? the tedium of late capitalism? michelle williams is such a weird muse. she's so bland. oh wait now i get it. she's not weird at all if the movie is about the blandless of peak oil. i keep checking how much time has gone by. i've started reading the wall street journal. in honor of late oil. jack daniels did really well during the pandemic. now...the hangover. the negative interest-rate experiment has ended with a thud. Ghost of Microsoft Stalks Apple as DOJ Takes Its Shot. It turns out that feeling lonely isn't just about being alone. i hate the landlord who won't fix the water. i hope her show goes shitty.

oh thank god judd hirsch...

that janitor is such an asshole. watching her brother eat spaghetti is like death. wait this movie is about depression. i think all american indie movies are about depression. during peak oil. wait is she adopted?

i couldn't get through that movie (showing up), it was exceptionally tedious and I like her films.

she shouldn't have invited that custodian to her opening. he's a dick. that movie was depressing. i didn't even recognize amanda plummer. how do you put amanda plummer in your movie and make her unrecognizable? you might as well put her in a gorilla suit. that movie should have been about amanda plummer. every american movie should be about amanda plummer.

and those sculptures...??? i couldn't really tell if they were supposed to be terrible or not??? it was hard to tell. andre 3000 as kiln master though...what a weird time we live in.

Just read in the latest Sight & Sound that movie didn't even get a theatrical release in the UK! Tough times for auteur cinema.

"In a gorilla suit" of course the ideal way to enjoy all our greatest actors.

i did appreciate that the director followed Chekhov's law: if you show a pigeon in the 1st act you have to use the pigeon in the 3rd act.

I don't know why we're talking about a Kelly Reichardt movie in this thread, but I think the sculptures were supposed to be mediocre! She's not a genius artist who's being beaten down by her circumstances, she's just an average person trying to have a creative life.

The stunt casting of Conor McGregor in Road House is idk, he walks around with this weird gait like an NPC, they gave him way too much to do, it's so very bad.

Road House definitely strays into so bad it's good territory. Looked like they just gave McGregor a large bowl of cocaine and pushed him out on set. It's almost impressive how terrible he is.

And it's absolutely all over the place tonally. It might have been half decent if they'd stuck with the fun almost comedy vibe they went with early on but alas.

The stunt casting of Conor McGregor in Road House is idk, he walks around with this weird gait like an NPC, they gave him way too much to do, it's so very bad.

Seriously, if you told me he was inserted via motion capture CGI I'd believe it.

"I don't know why we're talking about a Kelly Reichardt movie in this thread"

because i watched it on Hulu.

Road House?

Kelly Reichardt's Road House would be something else!

half an hour of food prep. filling the bar. 20 minutes of the bouncer's cardio workout at the gym. then we would be ready to rumble.

I'm like the 10th person in the thread to say so, but Scavengers Reign was amazing. I wouldn't have minded a few more chill moments amidst the scary predators and body horror but it's a show that will absolutely stick with me. they left some hooks at the end for season 2 (not that it has been renewed yet) and I'm curious to know what else they can do, given how many ideas they jam-packed into season 1

yeah, just an incredible show. i never thought i'd describe a cartoon as "harrowing" but it is. There's something about the art style that turned me off at first.. it felt kind of idk flat, indie comic-like. i can't stand all that adventure time shit. but i'm glad i stuck with it, the art is actually amazing. there's still a very subtle clunkiness to it compared with say, ghibli stuff, but it would be frankly churlish to complain. so many jaw-dropping moments.

I wonder what their budget was relative to Invincible -- the latter's animation feels extremely cheap by comparison, flatness and clunkiness notwithstanding.

my 18 year old did not dig the first episode of scavengers reign. i thought we could watch it together. he didn't think the creature stuff was that amazing. i'm gonna go back to it though. i liked it.

it gets way crazier than you think it’s gonna

i can imagine! it starts out pretty crazy.

i loved the imagination of it. i think he was just thinking it was going to be cliche earthers stuck on a planet stuff.

there's this really terrible ridley scott series of crashed robots raising a human messiah that's simultaneously cliched and awful but also off-the-wall bonkers that it goes places imagination couldn't even imagine.

there's this really terrible ridley scott series of crashed robots raising a human messiah that's simultaneously cliched and awful but also off-the-wall bonkers that it goes places imagination couldn't even imagine.

I thought Scavengers Reign was mostly boring, since it's pretty plot-light. The last two episodes were great, though.

it's so funny to me that there are two Raised by Wolves shows and one's a Ridley Scott sci fi thing and the other's a Caitlin Moran thing

i watched some episodes of Tandem. good-looking divorced french cops at the seaside solving crimes. its breezy. its good to have go-to breezy murder shows.

There's something about the art style that turned me off at first.. it felt kind of idk flat, indie comic-like. i can't stand all that adventure time shit. but i'm glad i stuck with it, the art is actually amazing. there's still a very subtle clunkiness to it compared with say, ghibli stuff, but it would be frankly churlish to complain.

Yeah the flat drawings and blocky colors reminded me of old cartoons - Johnny Quest, maybe some classic anime. like those old cartoons, the characters don't always look consistent at every angle, it's kinda awkward. it took an episode for me to get into the aesthetic but it really makes the show stand apart from other animated shows

the show is apparently based on a short film they did (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TRzemJbUsw) and the characters look really inconsistent in that first iteration, though the style of the show is there from the beginning. I can't always tell how much of the aesthetic is the animators' limitations and how much is planned

It reminded me most of Fantastic Planet, though looking back on it the art styles couldn't be more different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgCxCZNkQ9E

Is there a name for this kind of flat-o-scoped style?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfQbm8Wk2vU

didn't watch it but the flatness and style seems to have a fair amount of Moebius influence.

Haha, an aside I guess, but I love Joel Haver's clips. Especially the gaming ones.

The Moebius influence seemed huge to me, enjoyed the series but it was maybe a couple of episodes too long.

I was ignorant of the existence of Moebius until you all mentioned him (despite having seen several films he worked on). I spent the last hour enjoying some of his comics - yeah seems like a big influence on the style of this show

many xps.

I really loved Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up, it was an interesting view of a small arts community in Portland. I like that nothing much happened, it was just a week in the life of a frustrated artist dealing with family and a job and with an artist/frenemy/landlord friend.

It seemed like all of the events in the film gently lead to her greater understanding of her family and to an opening up of her relationship with her friend. What's not to like about that?

And fwiw I also liked the sculptures shown in the film! They are works from Cynthia Lahti

an artist trying to put on a show through those difficulties is something I can empathize with

There is a diversion where you’re led to believe it’s maybe about her slightly more successful graduate school enemy/friend showing her up with their competing shows opening in the same week

But it’s ultimately more about just showing up yourself in life, anchoring yourself and being honorable - for your work, your family, your friends, and even for a pigeon injured by your cat.

I thought Michelle Williams was mesmerizing in the role

I've seen every Kelly Reichardt film since River of Grass and have loved them all especially Meek's Cutoff, Certain Women, First Cow but this film

...I think is my favorite

we can agree to disagree and live together in peace despite our differences and that is what makes us advanced democratic human neighbors. god bless.

Any talk of Blue Eye Samurai (hard one to search for here!)?

So impressed by the first half of the season. As beautifully written and researched as it is animated... The last five minutes of episode four just had me gipped, moved, devastated and thrilled. Really great.