At least her breakout film was full Aussie. I was thinking Margot Robbie, especially comedically. Youd think the Barbie movie or even her SNL appearance could have worked it in
He played T. E. Lawrence in that film by Werner Herzog that I never got around to seeing (QUEEN OF THE DESERT). But, yeah, I can't think of anything else. Was he British in TENET? I can't remember. (Or anything else from that movie.)
“These days, rich finance guys wear the stupidest-looking vests and quarter zips you can imagine.” As someone with family still in Virginia and who’s governor pioneered that look, Vance is right
I recognize exactly what face Julianne Moore is making here. When you're straining to push out a hard shit, that's the face at the exact moment it breaches and you relax.
All I see with that 28 Years Later poster is my kids climbing on top of yet another dangerous thing. "Dammit get down from there! If you fall and break your leg on a skull you won't get any sympathy from me!"
- I'm here for the Top Gun Maverick director doing Cars Go Fast with Brad Pitt, even though I got burned by Ferrari (God, that movie was boring as shit). Did you guys see his co-star, Damson Idris, at the Met Gala? That is a movie star reveal.
- Re: accents - hearing Melanie Lynskey on the red carpet/in interviews is always an "oh yeah, she's Kiwi" moment. I feel like this is going to happen for Aaron Pierre.
- I'm SO pumped for 28 Years Later and MILDLY annoyed they skipped from Weeks to Years. I know it's been 23 years since the original and 18 since the sequel, but where are Months?!?!
- Oh, I saw the trailer for Echo Valley last week and assumed it was a limited series. Score!
- I will say Walk Or Die in the same cadence as South Park's Vote Or Die song until the movie comes out. Also, I enjoy that Francis Lawrence became the dystopia/post-apocalypse guy after I Am Legend and four Hunger Games movies.
- I remember kind of liking the first Old Guard. That was a 2020 release, so if I watched it again, it would be like a brand-new movie. True of most movies I saw that year.
Ferrari seemed like such an unforced error. You think "Michael Mann car movie starring Adam Driver" would be such a lay up, but no. The sound mix was awful (at least on my screener DVD, which also didn't have subtitles), and the cars were all the same fucking color. I'm sorry, I know that was probably historically accurate or whatever but if I can't tell the fucking cars in the car race apart that's a problem.
The Long Walk is one of those movies I would have probably watched pre-having a kid. Read the short story and enjoyed it (one of King's best as Bachman). My wife has straight up told me that she doesn't want to watch any movies or TV shows where kids are in danger or get hurt as it upsets her.
For me, it's not so much that I'm picturing something bad happen to my kid and getting upset about that -- it's more that those kinds of shows make me feel tense/anxious in a way that isn't cathartic (or doesn't have the potential for cathartic release after the plot's resolution). With how little time we get to consume entertainment now, I'm not looking for a show or movie that will add that kind of stress to my life.
Not sure if any of the other new-ish (or veteran) parents here feel the same? I may just be a wimp! Does this uncomfortableness fade as your kids get older?
Relatedly, I have a harder time enjoying The Simpsons the odd time I put it on, because so much of the humour was in Homer being an objectively terrible husband and father.
It's kinda wild to think about how much time Homer spent at Moe's with three kids at home (maybe this was a more acceptable practice in the late 80s/early90s when the character was developed).
I mean, I'm not looking for realism in my 30-minute adult cartoon shows, but it's something I notice now when I watch older episodes. Maybe I need to go watch 'Lisa the Greek' and see if I cry at the end?
Full disclosure that I didn't even notice the faces on The Conjuring poster until you mentioned them. Weak brained. If the top one is a face, it's Adam Pearson.
Does anyone else have the same problem as me where I can't tell the difference between The Conjuring and all of the other Blumhouse one-word titles? Even right now, I was going to list some of them but 1) can't remember their names and 2) don't know which is which.
This is the bane of my existence in the Box Office Game. There were, like, fifteen Paranormal Activities. I don't know what the fuck the subtitle of the fourth one was.
The Conjuring, Insidious, Sinister, Oculus, etc.* They're all the same movie in my head, and I have to Google it every time if I'm trying to remember which is which. Even then, I'm never 100% sure I'm referring to/thinking of the correct one.
*I absolutely had to Google all those titles again because my brain simply will not remember them. Same with Rachel McAdams, Amy Adams, Jessica Chastain, and Bryce Dallas Howard. I cannot tell them apart.
Samesies - When he said face on the left, I was like On the left? Where the fuck is the face on the ri... oh. Immediately made the poster worse. The abstract Demon head was cool on its own.
I think that, for GenX kids, The Buttoneer screwed everyone up. The Buttoneer was (is?) a real thing, that let you add buttons to clothes, I guess, and the ad for it ran endlessly on late-night TV. Wasn't 'til I was an adult that I realized it was a play on an existing word.
I have a pet theory that the person who discovered that Charlize Theron can do action star is Brandon Flowers from The Killers, because she was all action-y in the very campy music video for Crossfire, and then the next thing I know I was wacking it to Atomic Blonde, I mean watching Atomic Blonde.
Toni Collette might be in the conversation for getting to have an Australian accent the least
At least her breakout film was full Aussie. I was thinking Margot Robbie, especially comedically. Youd think the Barbie movie or even her SNL appearance could have worked it in
I can't think of any Robert Pattinson movie (besides Harry Potter) where he was British.
He played T. E. Lawrence in that film by Werner Herzog that I never got around to seeing (QUEEN OF THE DESERT). But, yeah, I can't think of anything else. Was he British in TENET? I can't remember. (Or anything else from that movie.)
Somehow, I never heard of Queen of the Desert. And I completely forgot Tenet existed, since I never did get around seeing it.
Marvel explaining the asterisk has strong "OK, fine, we'll go back to being HBO Max" vibes to it.
“These days, rich finance guys wear the stupidest-looking vests and quarter zips you can imagine.” As someone with family still in Virginia and who’s governor pioneered that look, Vance is right
I recognize exactly what face Julianne Moore is making here. When you're straining to push out a hard shit, that's the face at the exact moment it breaches and you relax.
I saw Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney and my mind raced to a Boogie Nights sequel.
Which one wears the prosthetic?
All I see with that 28 Years Later poster is my kids climbing on top of yet another dangerous thing. "Dammit get down from there! If you fall and break your leg on a skull you won't get any sympathy from me!"
- I'm here for the Top Gun Maverick director doing Cars Go Fast with Brad Pitt, even though I got burned by Ferrari (God, that movie was boring as shit). Did you guys see his co-star, Damson Idris, at the Met Gala? That is a movie star reveal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVHYyuGIhQc
- Re: accents - hearing Melanie Lynskey on the red carpet/in interviews is always an "oh yeah, she's Kiwi" moment. I feel like this is going to happen for Aaron Pierre.
- I'm SO pumped for 28 Years Later and MILDLY annoyed they skipped from Weeks to Years. I know it's been 23 years since the original and 18 since the sequel, but where are Months?!?!
- Oh, I saw the trailer for Echo Valley last week and assumed it was a limited series. Score!
- I will say Walk Or Die in the same cadence as South Park's Vote Or Die song until the movie comes out. Also, I enjoy that Francis Lawrence became the dystopia/post-apocalypse guy after I Am Legend and four Hunger Games movies.
- I remember kind of liking the first Old Guard. That was a 2020 release, so if I watched it again, it would be like a brand-new movie. True of most movies I saw that year.
Ferrari seemed like such an unforced error. You think "Michael Mann car movie starring Adam Driver" would be such a lay up, but no. The sound mix was awful (at least on my screener DVD, which also didn't have subtitles), and the cars were all the same fucking color. I'm sorry, I know that was probably historically accurate or whatever but if I can't tell the fucking cars in the car race apart that's a problem.
You see, what they needed was a a Michael CAR man movie starring Adam Driver. There's your problem right there.
The Long Walk is one of those movies I would have probably watched pre-having a kid. Read the short story and enjoyed it (one of King's best as Bachman). My wife has straight up told me that she doesn't want to watch any movies or TV shows where kids are in danger or get hurt as it upsets her.
For me, it's not so much that I'm picturing something bad happen to my kid and getting upset about that -- it's more that those kinds of shows make me feel tense/anxious in a way that isn't cathartic (or doesn't have the potential for cathartic release after the plot's resolution). With how little time we get to consume entertainment now, I'm not looking for a show or movie that will add that kind of stress to my life.
Not sure if any of the other new-ish (or veteran) parents here feel the same? I may just be a wimp! Does this uncomfortableness fade as your kids get older?
When I became a parent I couldn't bear to watch horror movies for a while. Enough horrors in my imagination already, thanks.
It did fade after a while. I'm back to enjoying horror, but I'm still catching up on everything I missed from the early 2010s.
Relatedly, I have a harder time enjoying The Simpsons the odd time I put it on, because so much of the humour was in Homer being an objectively terrible husband and father.
Not me, it makes it better. Every time Bart gets abused I start muttering "yeah, fuck him up, Homer"
It's kinda wild to think about how much time Homer spent at Moe's with three kids at home (maybe this was a more acceptable practice in the late 80s/early90s when the character was developed).
I mean, I'm not looking for realism in my 30-minute adult cartoon shows, but it's something I notice now when I watch older episodes. Maybe I need to go watch 'Lisa the Greek' and see if I cry at the end?
The Simpsons was always *intended* as a dysfunctional family -- I don't think it's that being a kid-strangling boozer was seen as acceptable.
Full disclosure that I didn't even notice the faces on The Conjuring poster until you mentioned them. Weak brained. If the top one is a face, it's Adam Pearson.
Does anyone else have the same problem as me where I can't tell the difference between The Conjuring and all of the other Blumhouse one-word titles? Even right now, I was going to list some of them but 1) can't remember their names and 2) don't know which is which.
This is the bane of my existence in the Box Office Game. There were, like, fifteen Paranormal Activities. I don't know what the fuck the subtitle of the fourth one was.
Dude, YES. I HATE when they do franchises in there. Got fucked by that James Bond one the other day.
The Conjuring, Insidious, Sinister, Oculus, etc.* They're all the same movie in my head, and I have to Google it every time if I'm trying to remember which is which. Even then, I'm never 100% sure I'm referring to/thinking of the correct one.
*I absolutely had to Google all those titles again because my brain simply will not remember them. Same with Rachel McAdams, Amy Adams, Jessica Chastain, and Bryce Dallas Howard. I cannot tell them apart.
Samesies - When he said face on the left, I was like On the left? Where the fuck is the face on the ri... oh. Immediately made the poster worse. The abstract Demon head was cool on its own.
Did no one tell Marvel about "new Coke."
People loved the original, they're gonna love the new version!!
I think that, for GenX kids, The Buttoneer screwed everyone up. The Buttoneer was (is?) a real thing, that let you add buttons to clothes, I guess, and the ad for it ran endlessly on late-night TV. Wasn't 'til I was an adult that I realized it was a play on an existing word.
Vincenzo, the only way I can describe what Julianne Moore is doing is as “Sydney Sweeney face”
I have a pet theory that the person who discovered that Charlize Theron can do action star is Brandon Flowers from The Killers, because she was all action-y in the very campy music video for Crossfire, and then the next thing I know I was wacking it to Atomic Blonde, I mean watching Atomic Blonde.
Is HIGH IN THE CLOUDS part of the Rocky Raccooniverse?
I thought the Long Walk was a Walking Dead spin-off at first glance.
Maybe I have brain damage from kids shows, but Gabby's Dollhouse is comparatively fine.
how can someone have that much hair?