no offense intended but I absolutely needed subtitles for the English parts too, the way those words just all ran together...
navigating the American Healthcare System turning into that Interstellar scene was chef's kiss
almost teared up at the last joke while listening at work, don't relate to all of it but way too much of it hit too close to home
printing out porn with dial-up internet (and subsequently hiding it) was 2REAL4ME
i dug the movie but i have absolutely no idea how anyone who didn't at least somewhat follow this story would understand it and all the memes and internet culture/jokes in addition to the financial side of it
not revolutionary but i'm here just for Sandra Oh and Awkwafina
as i grow older i increasingly relate to what if/lost loves/unrequited/missed connections romantic dramas and i don't like these feels one bit
only complaint is the captions were small and white which made it SO difficult to read 30% of the time
lol why does this have a trakt entry
wait that was Marshawn Lynch?!?
Everyone Else: Thoughtful Film Discourse
Me: Paul Mescal licking Andrew Scott's spunk off his chest > Barry Keoghan drinking Jacob Elordi's bathwater
You choose to sit on the sidelines because you're afraid.
Because your pride makes your head explode before it can come up with a little germ of an idea.
And now you wake up and you're 40 and you need someone to blame and you're the one to blame.
You're petrified by your own fucking standards and your fear of failure.
This is the truth.
You're smart. I know you know I'm right.
I SEE TOO MUCH OF MYSELF IN THIS AND I DON'T LIKE IT ONE BIT
Wasn't expecting to see King Kong try to force Godzilla to deepthroat a tree but here we are
Blue Ivy repeatedly insisting against dropping Diva from the setlist in the way kids talk when they get hyped up about something only for Beyoncé to hit her with Blue I appreciate your opinion [Narrator: She did not.] but you need to dial it down a few notches
homegirl could've jumped AND pulled main dude down instead of just pushing him
gd that live rendition of Love to Love You Baby was horny af
Almodóvar really said I'm gonna tease the audience with the prospect of seeing Pedro Pascal's cock for 2 minutes and call it art
i've watched a lot more movies since this one but I'll still randomly think of this every now and then
it just captured that aimless early-twentysomething living in a small town suburban vibe
Karl the studio engineer/producer being roped into being their wolf-to-human translator for press events and adlibbing his way through scores and scores of Eurovision interviews is the unsung hero
(vince mcmahon meme template)
Mise-en-scène of the tanks and trucks stopping in front of him
underwater cinematography
better girl power scene than Avengers: Endgame
throwing a landmine at a Nazi and it literally exploding in his face
decently enjoyable but the plot holes could've been easily fixed if the Korean language thing was revealed as a prank by his friend and the girl who was legitimately into him but also had a penchant for playing practical jokes and the short ends with the real date starting
BBC's really gonna make a 2-hour documentary about ethnic tensions b/t muslims and hindus in India w/o so much as a footnote mention of UK's role in the Pakistan-India partition based on ethnic/religious lines? :eyes:
the movie having to specify with on-screen text that Hannah Montana was a kids show on Disney channel made me feeling 100000 years old
have never hit the thumbs down button so fast after watching something on Netflix
every once in a while you come across a movie or show that feels like it was precision-engineered in a laboratory to be the antithesis of what you enjoy
I really really enjoyed this movie (if enjoy is the right word to use)
A late-December release with a murderer's row of actresses tackling a weighty, heavy topic that's essentially just characters talking to each other sounds like Oscar bait to the nth degree, but it manages to be eminently watchable with a sub-2-hour-runtime and without feeling Very Important
This could've sagged under its own sense of self-importance or come across as highfalutin preaching but it never does. It could've just boiled down to men bad, religion bad, women good ra ra sisterhood and it doesn't, nor does it resort to triumphantlism in women made a decision together and now they're united and unstoppable against the world (another would-be awards contender mining similar ground, She Said, also mostly side-stepped this, focusing on the nuts and bolts of tracking down a story and piecing it together bit by bit). One of my favorite things to watch is when a group of (usually marginalized) people seemingly all united in one goal are shown to be almost tearing apart at the seams, all agreeing on the goal but when talking about the means on achieving the goal are fractious, with the group almost threatened to be consumed by fighting each other rather than against their common enemy (see: French movie BPM about ACT UP and who gets a say and how big a say in the group's activism; Germany's And Tomorrow the Entire World where a group of anti-fascist activists squabble over how far to push their fight against fascism; and at least the early episodes of the miniseries Mrs. America about the effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in America and the prioritization (or lack of) of women of color and LGBTQ in the movement). The women here very clearly do not all share the same feelings but argue and disagree and quote Biblical passages at each other and swing back and forth between wanting things to change, imagining life without the constant threat of violence, then withdrawing from that imagined life when it the cost is giving up the only life they've known for the unknown and the lack of security that entails vs the lack of security in their current situation.
It deals with its heavy topic, philosophizes, moralizes, but also manages to squeeze in a recurring joke about 2 horses named Ruth and Sheryl, a budding romance sub-plot, and 2 excellent jokes ("I'm sorry, I think I'm dying" & "Oh fuck it off!" "I think it's just fuck off")
I've seen a lot of criticisms about the dialogue and how the women talk to each other but I've also seen a very good rebuttal in that, while they are illiterate, they've been raised on Biblical passages and sermons and have memorized many of them by heart thereby informing how they speak
Excellent performances all around, no surprise there, both from the name actresses along with faces that may not be immediately recognizable to most. Claire Foy finally, finally getting a part that lives up to her talents after The Crown. Frances McDormand basically just makes a cameo appearance, likely more involved in producing it and just popping in for an appearance to help sell the movie (though even that brief appearance has her marking an x on a sheet of paper in the most Frances McDormand-character way possible).
I've also seen a ton of complaints about the color-grading, about it being almost black-and-white, about it looking cheap made-for-television...did not bother me at all. Did not even realize it was an issue until looking up comments online. I was too entranced by the actresses (plus a lot of it takes place at night albeit people also complained it was too dimly-lit) to care.
Music was lovely (by Hildur Guðnadóttir of Joker and Chernobyl fame). Hair-braiding was lovely. Costuming was nice. Editing was wonderful and made what could've felt like a filmed stage play feel a bit livelier and cinematic. There was no need to show any violence or gore and there are just enough quick snippets of the immediate consequences to turn the audience's stomachs and drive home the repeated, regular violations these women endure
originally broadcast on the BBC as 3 1-hour episodes
oh, another movie about a character with some degree of psychosis spending the two-hour runtime having life rain indignities down upon them pushing them to the edge
Would I'd've preferred the ending to be 20 minutes shorter/more tightly edited? Yes
Would I'd've cut a single frame from the turtle thief B-plot? Absolument non
Johnny Flynn went from this to a show called Scrotal Recall (i loved both)