Movies that caused financial loss to Paramount Pictures in 2023:
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One
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Thinking about Leo’s performance in Killers this morning. Such an impressively stupid guy. Like, just an illiterate buffoon. Probably the dumbest guy in Scorsese’s filmography which is saying a lot
The QTs are very strange. This is a very thoughtful take that is discussing what the film is and what it’s doing. Cote isn’t saying it’s good or bad, just offering what he thinks it’s goals are when it comes to race and the limits inherent in its design
Ok so this is what I asked Fincher about. I was wondering if they collaborated at all and he said “Well I just send scenes to Steven and he re-edits them on his own time and I think they’re way better” He was so nonchalant about it. Does Soderbergh just do this all the time lol
Christopher Nolan says “if you buy a 4K UHD it’s on your shelf it’s yours, no company is going to break into your house & take it from you.”
“That’s never really the case with digital distribution, you’re relying on the continued health of the supplier.”
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It’s so telling that in this revisionist cinephilia culture no one gives a shit about Tim Burton. The Wachowskis, Mann and M. Night fell out of respectability because they chased their interests and audiences/critics weren’t bold enough to follow. Burton just sold out lol
What’s terrifying about seeing people praise CGI Luke is that it encourages a future where one of the greatest tools of visual storytelling, the human face is ignored . PTA and Barry Jenkins are the best American director today for many reasons but key among them is their 1/2
M. Night is so fucking blessed. He’s going to make a tight low to mid budget movie with great actors each year and his worst film will be vindicated by maybe not being the worst possible adaptation of ATLA
I really loved when Scorsese dipped into the Osage’s spiritualism. It’s something that as a white man, he can’t fully grasp but as a Catholic he can respect on a profound level
I think Oppenheimer is the perfect evil twin to Interstellar. Nolan’s love of science is so clear in both films. Interstellar is about love powering our innovation. Oppenheimer is about how science led by personal and political lack of empathy for other human beings will doom us
Only thing I’ll say re: May December is that involving Fualaau probably would have been a bad idea and it would make the film a direct adaptation of his story which it isn’t.
But also Fualaau is entitled to however he feels and his comments shouldn’t be viewed as a “take”
Watched some of this out of curiosity and I just can’t stand YouTube film people anymore. When people talk about the death of film criticism, they severely overlook YouTube becoming the dominant sphere of cultural commentary.
Not getting the comparisons between Nope and Asteroid City at all. I adore both films but unless I was missing something Asteroid City isn’t really concerned with the racist history of cinema and how it shaped the American consciousness lol
Am once again thinking this morning about Lucas should self finance an original sci fi film like Coppola did. I mean he could do with far less risk to himself than Francis lmao
Planning to rewatch this back to back with Tenenbaums to see which one is Wes’s best but beyond the overall films this is probably the most poignant, quietly cathartic moment he’s ever put to the screen
we’ve done twitter and tumblr but i’m curious to know what’s a letterboxd review that you can cite like the back of your hand. this review genuinely made me think film spelled backwards was milf for the longest time
"Quentin will insert extracts from films from the 1970s. And he will also make his own versions of films from that era."
Paul Schrader offers new insight into Quentin Tarantino's 'The Movie Critic':
Not related to Elwes (who knocks it out of the fucking park) but I think the digital cinematography is superb. Maybe distinct color is less noticeable but it fits thematic ideas so so perfectly. Tactile and smooth
PTA comes to the same conclusion that Kubrick did in Eyes Wide Shut about the inherent toxicity between men and women built on the western world’s colonial order but Anderson, always an empathist and romantic sees the beauty of their love even as it destroys them
“Ethan, there’s only one way we can defeat the Entity: By deceiving it into thinking you are someone else. With the estrogen stolen from the hospital, you can attain enough T girl swag to save us”
There’s a critic on here who said that she wasn’t really that interested in “Is movie good, is movie bad” criticism and was more interested in just dissecting what the film is doing. I think it’s an admirable approach and online discourse can easily make us too short sighted.
"Aquaman 2" is targeting a soft $35-40 million in its four-day debut (including Monday’s Christmas Day), which could make it the latest catastrophe in a terrible year for superhero movies.
By comparison, "The Flash" had a three-day $55 million debut.
Also him being an idiot is pretty essential for both the DeNiro and Gladstone performances to work off of. Really fascinating how the film makes a guy with nothing to him at all interesting
Christopher Nolan says he didn’t want to judge Oppenheimer in his film.
“That seemed a pointless exercise. That’s more the stuff of documentary, or political theory, or history of science. This is a story that you experience with him.”
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Rewatched some of Spider-Man 2 a few nights ago (perfect film) and my favorite joke doesn’t get enough love online. The way Simmons delivers this absurd detail so nonchalantly sends me into a fit
Incredible film. Great scene. But seeing the intercutting to Atwell and Ilsa Faust again reminds me that I don’t like how the female roles operate in this one. Ilsa dies so Atwell can be the new female lead of the series like there can only be one that Ethan must pick.
Only thing I’ll add to the Variety list discourse is that Asteroid City is by far the most Wes has tweaked his formalism in quite some time. The accusation that it’s doubling down on his motifs is a lazy one. He’s taking them in new directions
I think I’m so attached to Paul’s films because they view love as both a healing and destructive enzyme in lonely longing people. These things don’t contradict each other but exist on the same thematic and emotional plane. Love and pain, sometimes one and the same
Ngl this is pretty easy to do if you understand how to engage with art in a nuanced way that allows you to see a work’s brilliance that also understands the artist’s sins