Here I go crying to a cover of The Eagles again! C’est La vie! Turns out movies are pretty cool! :)
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Popeye 1980
What a strange artifact from a time before Hollywood discovered the formula to turn their intellectual property into perfectly safe box office successes. Also had no clue Robert Altman directed this. Feels less like a cartoon and more like an Altman movie than a Popeye movie probably should. The tone is weird, the characters are weird, it’s fun!
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
Our lives are full of existential questions and theories that many feel, if true, deem life pointless. This movie wrestling with those questions and coming to the simple conclusion that, no matter what happens to be true, our lives still matter, is lovely. The few scattered moments where everything makes sense make all the failing and flailing in between worth it. And the fact that the movie manages to get there with more laughs, better action and grander scale than any modern blockbuster is testament to what filmmaking in the theatrical sphere can be and how carelessly most movies are often made.
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Bo Burnham: Inside 2021
Since distancing himself from YouTube, I’ve had an ever-increasing sense that Bo Burnham no longer finds the comedy parts of his comedy specials funny. Some may argue that that’s the point and that Bo uses comedy solely as a vehicle for the thematics and messaging of his work, but I’d argue that the audience is still supposed to find most of Make Happy and even parts of this funny, even if Bo doesn’t. And for me that’s the biggest failure of…
