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ALYSSA LIMPERIS comes to the studio to become The Boys’ moms.

roger stone and memes is a genuine masterpiece

Hmm here's my quick Oscars for these first 50 films Best Actress - Jodie Foster Silence of the Lambs Best Actor - Charlie Chaplin City Lights Best Director - Stanley Kubrick 2001 Best Screenplay - Billy Wilder / Raymond Chandler Double Indemnity Best Picture - 2001 here's my personal ranking of the first 50, though I do fiddle with the rankings a lot so it's ever-changing https://letterboxd.com/almostaghost/list/my-unspooled-afi-list-order/

The first rule of CrossFit is to tell everyone you CrossFit

I just finished and while I agree with what most of you have said, I have to defend the modern bits. First of all, I don’t feel like there was ever supposed to be a direct correlation between Nina and Sita’s stories. I actually feel like tenuous connection between the two stories is reflected in the jittery animation of the Nina sections and how they contrast with the sleek, hard-lined, gloss of the Sita sections. The idea isn’t that their stories directly parallel so much as the themes of feeling out of control of your own life after a nasty breakup is timeless and how we can find comfort in storytelling. So while I enjoyed the three narrators and I LOVED the Sita parts, I don’t feel like they would work as well without the modern context. As charming as the narrators were, they were really just an exposition dump. And as wonderful as the Sita portions were, you would have had to add dialogue to propel the story which would have spoiled the effect. I don’t feel like Nina was being egotistical. She was finding strength and comfort and wanted to share that with her audience. She wasn’t comparing herself to Sita any more than I compare myself to Frodo when I read Lord of the Rings. You don’t have to literally carry a ring to a necromancer’s evil volcano to relate to the feeling of being forced to carry a burden. It only matters how we interpret the message for ourselves and apply it to our own lives. And if it grants us some measure of solace or wisdom or whatever then that’s absolutely valid.

I also have kept my rankings in stone since I started doing them. Though if we went again from the beginning, they might be different! https://boxd.it/1YEKo

For better or worse, I do no shuffling of my list. Once I place something, it's set in stone! https://letterboxd.com/bleary/list/unspooled-afi-top-100-personal-rankings/

Here’s my Top 50 (Well, 52 since I went ahead and watched Modern Times and The Gold Rush) https://boxd.it/1PHoC I should point point out, this is what my list looks like today. I tend to shuffle things around quite a bit.

the grass is greener

Yes! It would make a bit more sense if they broke up because of rumors of infidelity or something to tie it more to it. It' more like hearing Beowulf and you be like "Cool, hey I went to a forest once. I might have saw a deer. It was cool."

The funniest thing about Hashtag Song Goals is that there was absolutely no reason it needed to be two people, and their awkward attempts at singing in unison might have been even better than the actual lyrics.

Haiku about this episode: Wrong number, Right laugh