Great post. I saw the "Twisters" poster tag line ("Chase. Ride. Survive") which reminded me of what we used to always say about your mom. I'm so sorry.
1. I like how they sort of make it seem like Helen Hunt is in the center of the Twisters poster.
2. No Way Up will be the best film of 2024.
3. I was going to make a joke about Kristen Stewart's beaver teeth but then I thought better of it.
4. Madame Web is going to make Morbius look amazing.
5. I know Wizard of Oz stuff always has a certain look to it because of the artwork with the original books but why does it have to look community theater cheap?
6. I love the amount of Godzilla and King Kong stuff recently but super confused by what is what.
I can't quite put my finger on who Timothée Chalamet reminds me of in that awkward pose... Costanza? A Tim Robinson character? Charles Boyle? He looks like he meant to put his hand on his knee to look cooler, and realized too late that the angle was wrong and he'd have to lean in a stupid looking way, but the photographer wouldn't wait so he quickly settled for "fist on the thigh".
- Wicked was big when I was a high school theater kid, and as such, I've never warmed to it, the memories of the most obnoxious girls singing Defying Gravity stuck in my head. (I, an intellectual, was in the corner, obnoxiously singing songs from The Producers and quoting Will Ferrell SNL sketches with my friend Dave.) I'll see the movie, although it's hilarious that one of the most notorious "great first act, weak second act" musicals of the last 50 years is getting split into two parts.
- So fucking pumped for Twisters, even though it'll probably suck. One of my favorite 90s cable movies.
- Six Feet Under isn't the best HBO show, but it's the best HBO show. I will not explain further.
- Kung Fu Panda 1 is good - it kinda got overshadowed coming out two weeks before WALL*E, so I'm surprised it spawned a franchise. I've seen 2 and 3, but don't remember them, and that's my review.
- A Quiet Place 2 started on day 1, but now we get to see it from Lupita Nyong'o's perspective in NYC, which is different somehow. I did like the first two.
- I think about your vendetta against overly coiffed children every time I see a child in a movie. The kid in Anatomy Of A Fall was like Skyler Gisondo with a mop top.
I think I saw two "big" broadway shows in the three years I lived in New York, which were Avenue Q (incredible) and Wicked, which I don't remember a single solitary second of. I think there was a big backdrop with a tree that was green?
You’d think a poster for tornadoes would play up the debris in the foreground, especially if the actors turned their backs to us. Re: “Bring Him To Me”- where did we land with imperative sentences as movie titles? Im sure the Drafthouse can do a cheeky double feature with this and Kevin Costner’s “Let Him Go”
Against my will, I LOVE the Apes series, but I do still chuckle to myself about how poorly I'm using my limited time on Earth each time the apes are fist fighting on screen.
Your spreadsheet game is weak. Obviously you create a new file-name it something like "FilmFrot"-and then the individual tabs are for each topic. Vince, you may have walked out of that job with the water cooler , but you left the Excel skills behind.
PostScript: Still waiting for late 90s/2000s office drone boob comedy entitled "EXCELlent Rack" with the tagline "Spread Them Sheets"
Great post. I saw the "Twisters" poster tag line ("Chase. Ride. Survive") which reminded me of what we used to always say about your mom. I'm so sorry.
I don't recall a lot of chasing being necessary.
Does no one else see the words "love lies bleeding" and immediately think of the great butt rock classic "Hemorrhage (In my hands)"?
I definitely thought of a song but I couldn't remember what it was called or who sang it.
Which I have unironically sung at karaoke many times.
Coincidence or not, Bolsonaro's followers are called "minions" in Brazil...
Or "bolsominions"
Also: every third or fourth house in Orlando probably has a conservative brazilian living in it.
My non-spreadsheet list of comments:
1. I like how they sort of make it seem like Helen Hunt is in the center of the Twisters poster.
2. No Way Up will be the best film of 2024.
3. I was going to make a joke about Kristen Stewart's beaver teeth but then I thought better of it.
4. Madame Web is going to make Morbius look amazing.
5. I know Wizard of Oz stuff always has a certain look to it because of the artwork with the original books but why does it have to look community theater cheap?
6. I love the amount of Godzilla and King Kong stuff recently but super confused by what is what.
I’m confused by the No Way Up tagline - “Fasten Your Seatbelts”. Wouldn’t you want to unfasten them? Otherwise you’ll drown.
It's like the famous Snakes on a Plane tagline "hold your breath!"
I can't quite put my finger on who Timothée Chalamet reminds me of in that awkward pose... Costanza? A Tim Robinson character? Charles Boyle? He looks like he meant to put his hand on his knee to look cooler, and realized too late that the angle was wrong and he'd have to lean in a stupid looking way, but the photographer wouldn't wait so he quickly settled for "fist on the thigh".
- Wicked was big when I was a high school theater kid, and as such, I've never warmed to it, the memories of the most obnoxious girls singing Defying Gravity stuck in my head. (I, an intellectual, was in the corner, obnoxiously singing songs from The Producers and quoting Will Ferrell SNL sketches with my friend Dave.) I'll see the movie, although it's hilarious that one of the most notorious "great first act, weak second act" musicals of the last 50 years is getting split into two parts.
- So fucking pumped for Twisters, even though it'll probably suck. One of my favorite 90s cable movies.
- Six Feet Under isn't the best HBO show, but it's the best HBO show. I will not explain further.
- Kung Fu Panda 1 is good - it kinda got overshadowed coming out two weeks before WALL*E, so I'm surprised it spawned a franchise. I've seen 2 and 3, but don't remember them, and that's my review.
- A Quiet Place 2 started on day 1, but now we get to see it from Lupita Nyong'o's perspective in NYC, which is different somehow. I did like the first two.
- I think about your vendetta against overly coiffed children every time I see a child in a movie. The kid in Anatomy Of A Fall was like Skyler Gisondo with a mop top.
I think I saw two "big" broadway shows in the three years I lived in New York, which were Avenue Q (incredible) and Wicked, which I don't remember a single solitary second of. I think there was a big backdrop with a tree that was green?
You’d think a poster for tornadoes would play up the debris in the foreground, especially if the actors turned their backs to us. Re: “Bring Him To Me”- where did we land with imperative sentences as movie titles? Im sure the Drafthouse can do a cheeky double feature with this and Kevin Costner’s “Let Him Go”
Against my will, I LOVE the Apes series, but I do still chuckle to myself about how poorly I'm using my limited time on Earth each time the apes are fist fighting on screen.
Pablo Sandoval gave us not only a top tier nickname but also perhaps the greatest sports gif ever, cake-related or otherwise.
Your spreadsheet game is weak. Obviously you create a new file-name it something like "FilmFrot"-and then the individual tabs are for each topic. Vince, you may have walked out of that job with the water cooler , but you left the Excel skills behind.
PostScript: Still waiting for late 90s/2000s office drone boob comedy entitled "EXCELlent Rack" with the tagline "Spread Them Sheets"
Vince, you should show your stepson the Adventures of Pete and Pete if you want a Nickelodeon show that won’t make you homicidal
I felt I needed to watch the new Godzilla show out of respect to the Big Guy but let me tell you - it stinks!