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I've seen the Master but it's been a couple years. Haven't seen the Immigrant or Certain Women yet.

 

Talk that talk boi

Eastwood a master

 

Letters From Iwo Jima is easily better than Million Dollar Baby though

 

A.O. Scott has been in the bag for Million Dollar Baby forever so I wasn't surprised

Eastwood has so many good ones this century that I can't really be too bothered

 

Neill Blomkamp Talks “Unbelievably Painful” Failure Of ‘Chappie,’ Says It "Hurt Several Parts Of My Career"
I find this kind of stuff fascinating

 

Never saw Chappie or Elysium but I remember enjoying D9

 

Both movies were god awful. Awful on a new level. Chappie might be the worst movie i've seen in a long long time.

 

*whispers*
That's Chappie!

 

Lol

 

I never saw Chappie but casting Die Antwoord as the leads in a major motion picture kinda seems like a misstep.

 

It's my fault I'm a millennial and rarely watch older movies

 

The reason there are lists of the best movies of this century is that there are endless "Greatest Films of All Time" that do not consider newer movies, written by people in their fifties who are generationally presdisposed to be overly nostalgic to older films.

 

I have been going through the "They Shoot Pictures Don't They" list of the greatest films of all time. I am in the high thirties and the newest film so far is Raging Bull in 1980. That is generational bias.

 

It also has to do with the person that compiles that list. They said this year was the first year they gave more/equal weight to newer films.

"First-off, I have removed the 'stood-the-test-of-time' formula. This formula disadvantaged films released within ten years of the poll or ballot they were listed in. After many years of adopting this approach, I finally concluded, during 2016, that this was unfair. As a result, many recent films have deservedly charged their way up this year's 1,000 Greatest Filmslisting. Some of these films include There Will Be Blood (2007), Caché(2005), The Tree of Life (2011), Tropical Malady (2004), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)."

 

Yes, and even with that, There Will Be Blood is in the 180's.

Part of it makes sense, since no one wants to say that the greatest film of all time is something they saw a month ago, but it is still a generational thing. The Sight and Sound film poll is fascinating, and since it is only done every ten years you can see some seismic shifts. Major films like Citizen Kane and Vertigo did not even make the list when they were first eligible, and Vertigo has consistently climbed since the 1982 poll to make it all the way to the top. I wonder how long until "newer" films like Raging Bull or Pulp Fiction make progress. As film gets older and older as an artform, we risk an unbreakable consensus.

 

I would watch like all of these
21 Super-Queer Movie Ideas That Should Probably Become Reality

 

Love it.

 

Went and bought a bunch of books tonight at Barnes and Noble and found they were willing to sell me a book that hadn't actually been released yet but they had just gotten in today.

 

Late, but I fluctuate between There Will Be Blood and Punch Drunk Love for my favorite Anderson. Although, I have a bit of a bias as I grew up with seven sisters who, to this day, will sometimes call me "gayboy" haha, the movie is my fuckin life story.

 

Did you ever end up seeing Song to Song?

 

Not yet. It is supposed to come out for home release next month though.

 

Tom Cruise: A Star in Slow-Motion Career Meltdown

This perfectly captures how I feel about Tom Cruise right now. He needs to do another Jerry Maguire or something.

 

!!!!!!!!!!

 

Oh hell yeah