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RDJ Doom should have this exact accent.

I could've used one more Floridian existential nightmare comedy from him before he started this post-cinema phase.

I have a feeling Phillips is going to follow through with his intention for the first one to

This is just purely based on vibes and not on the ages of the actors or even characters, but The Big Chill feels like it’s thoroughly a Boomer movie and anything Brat Pack or Hughes feels like it’s bridging the Boomer/Gen X divide.

He even does the devil’s horns gesture. There’s definitely some Shadows in its DNA, but it’s way more of a gory action comedy than a vampire parody so they’re not really comparable. I think its biggest weakness (besides some of the casting) is it can’t decide if it’s a comedy about Dracula running a toxic workplace or if its John Wick with Monsters, and since it can’t commit to one idea both aspects don’t totally click. But (and I can’t stress this enough) if one of your issues with the Wick fight scenes is that not enough human bodies explode, then this is the movie for you.

I watched Renfield last night. It was fun; the biggest issue is that Awkafina is miscast, although she does an admirable job. Nicolas Hoult mostly makes their scenes together work. Cage is wonderful. He could’ve easily gone funnier or more menacing, but he deftly calibrated his performance to the material. I watched it yesterday and I’m still thinking about how Cage’s final line of dialogue is exactly the same as in Longlegs.

I’m picturing Pete Seeger putting on the Iron Monger suit to cut the power during Dylan’s electric set at Newport.

As a Dylan fanatic, I think that looks fine. I know that’s the most commercial version of his story they can sell to a wide audience, but it’s the least interesting portion of his career to me. If you’re curious about the early days up to the motorcycle crash/retreat from the public, Scorsese’s No Direction Home doc is perfect. Like Log said, they’ll never do a better narrative feature about him than I’m Not There.

@Dolfan in NYC One thing to think about is what kind of insurance payments you want to be making on top of the car payments. Dealerships typically require full coverage to lease or for an extended warranty, so if you’re looking to save money by just getting liability those options would be out.

Imagining a screening where someone is kicked out for shouting that the movie is a ripoff of The Batman.

They had it at one of my local AMCs. I didn’t even realize that was the version I was seeing until I was handed the program booklet at the box office. It’s the suburbs, not a major market, so I don’t know how it ended up there or how many prints were circulating the country.

@Curt McGirt I was talking with the people I saw Longlegs with about a follow-up, and the obvious answer to me is

I haven’t revisited The Fall in a long time, but it’s gorgeous and the framing device of the story is brilliant. It’s almost a certainty that there will never be a movie that shoots in that many real exotic locations ever again, even outside of a studio system, so it is something special.

Longlegs is a well-crafted love letter to 90s thrillers. Of the period pieces made about the decade so far, it‘s the most personally evocative to me of how the 90s felt. Cage lives up to the William Castle-esque promotion around his performance, but Maika Monroe is undeniably the standout. It’s a very specific performance that’s incredibly endearing. The screenplay needed some tinkering; it reminded me of Peele’s Us in the sense that it simultaneously provides too much exposition about what’s happening while not actually giving us enough information. It should’ve either been a bit more grounded or gone full Lynchian nightmare. Certainly worth a watch for the performances and the atmosphere, and it’s a blast in a packed theater.

They hate gender affirming care because they think it’s child abuse, but committing elder abuse and senior fraud? Oh hell yeah.

It’s Phillips and Phoenix trying to entertain themselves while taking career-best salaries they couldn’t turn down. I think they figured worst case scenario is it bombs and no one bothers them about doing another sequel.

Some may laugh, but if every one of the people he believes streamed Rebel Moon existed and donated a dollar…

WB making a billions dollars by doing Sucker Punch with the Joker is going to be so funny for a variety of reasons.

TK extending the olive branch by allowing Punk one more Bret tribute on AEW television.

Yeah the lighter thing was like it’s own dramatic beat in the match just from our vantage point. The ref passed the lighter and paper to Krule like a full five minutes before the spot, although I guess it may have gone that long because they were vamping while they got the backup lighter.

I don’t know if it was visible on the stream, but before the bell Connelly tugged on the chain and it stiffed Demus in the nose. After that it felt like Demus knew what was up and he was ready to go to hell with Mad Dog.

Adam Priest is built like a brick shithouse. I totally see the Noble/Dynamite Kid comparisons, but he also had an old school southern heel FTR thing going on. Thatcher was also in incredible shape. To quote 30 Rock, his back is like a barrel of snakes.

My brother was confused about why The Suplex Assassin Alex Kane from Suplex Island only threw like two suplexes, but Colby’s back seemed absolutely fucked from the second he got in the ring. It was a really good match anyway, but it was the right call to build it around the headlock bit.

This was how I felt about everything on the show. Even the tags that veered into being spotfests were full of slapdash intensity instead of dance routines to set the moves ups.

My cheeks hurt from smiling and laughing for 3+ hours straight. Also had a near-miss with the trash can during Demus/Connelly, so I guess I was somewhere near @The Comedian. It was the beer and blood section for the remainder of the show. My brother and I were happy to get to see Colby wrestle 25 years after we watched his dad tear down an armory with Devon Storm at one of our first indie shows. The experience of the dog collar match followed by everyone then somehow being more horrified by the gnarly stuff in Thatcher/Makabe was a thing of beauty. Krule is an absolute unit, and I was about as freaked out by him making eye contact with me tonight as I would’ve been if I’d had a face-to-face with Kane as a child (Mag Dog Connelly is still somehow more terrifying.) I’m intrigued by what the Gresham match will look like. I kind of regret not picking up a signed White Mike glossy 8x10. It was a lovely event with a hot crowd full of great energy. To the extent that I knew his tastes, to me the entire card screamed Dean.