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Yeah. I guess I didn't hate him yet. Because we didn't know who ruined their relationship yet. But his weird oedipal song was grossing me out. I think that's what really made me turn on him.

My thought was we were seeing the end of the relationship then we would see the entire relationship knowing it wasn't a happy ending. When it started going back and forth, I really couldn't figure out what exactly was going on. Had Cinco not told us, I don't know if I would have figured it out. But you bring up an interesting point that it really sets us up to dislike Jeremy immediately. I'm curious what how we'd feel if his story were backward and hers forward. Or if it were just chronological? He'd still be scum but would I have hated him so early?

I'm just really dumb apparently...triple post

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Yeah. When I was watching it, I couldn't figure out why his mom would be so upset she isn't Jewish because I thought Jeremy Jordan wasn't Jewish. I looked it up and he's Jewish on his mother's side only. So, it's doubly confounding because, even in real life, his Jewish mother married gentile AND his character's mother maybe married a gentile.

From what I read on wikipedia, the show is a very different production. The other person generally isn't in the song. That was my main beef with the movie. I didn't realize the time lines were in chronological order. I just thought they were from various points in the relationship alternating between happy and sad. Since Anna was present in all his scenes and he was present in all hers, I didn't really pick up they were his or hers instead of his and hers. Had I picked up on this stuff earlier, I might have liked it more. I think I would have appreciated it more on a second viewing. Except the guy was awful and completely responsible for their entire relationship failing. Had they both been at fault or they both just fell out of love or been equals on some level, I'd have like that a lot more.

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I definitely agree with Double Indemnity feeling a more written. It's quotable but completely unnatural (not that I'm complaining). Sunset Blvd. is just a bit wittier, smarter, faster than real people talking but you can imagine people getting close to it if that makes sense. I think where Sunset really shines isn't the dialogue but the tragedy of Norma Desmond and her relationships with Max. The are other movies that deal with the facing (or not facing it) aging, loss of career, recognition, etc. I hadn't seen this is in a decade at least and I had basically no memory of the first half of the movie outside of the body floating in the pool. I remembered so much about Norma Desmond's life though. That's why I don't see much reason to not include both Double Indemnity and Sunset even though they are same director, same time period and kind of similarish. They're really doing different things in my mind.

NBC puts episodes up on their site the next day.

Since I haven't been able to rewatch Sunset yet, I want to at least back up Amy on What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? because it's great. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis have monumental performances. Alicia Malone is also the best TCM now. She hosted a great series on TCM late last year about early female directors that was really eye opening for me.

I get it though. It certainly seems like the documentaries pushing an agenda outnumber the good ones by a large amount.

It was easier to vow never to move again than give up my video game collection.

Yeah, there was this rush of documentaries in the early 2000s that just grabbed people and people just think that's what documentaries are or should be. It bums me out because great documentaries don't have much bias (or as little as can reasonably expected from people editing down years of footage to a couple hours). There's a world of difference between what Michael Moore or Dinesh D'Souza does and someone like Erroll Morris or the Maysles. Where would documentaries be if, instead of Enron Smartest Guys In The Room and Fahrenheit 9/11 getting audiences, Capturing The Friedmans or Hoop Dreams did?

I absolutely understand this resonating with a female lawyer more than the general populace (not that one needs to be a woman or lawyer for this to affect you). I just really wanted it to dig deeper. I don't even know much about her and felt I knew most everything from the first hour. I was still a complete mess during Won't You Be My Neighbor? despite my problems with it. But I had cried watching most of the clips in the movie on Youtube years ago. So, I don't think it speaks to the power of the movie but just Mr. Rogers himself. Like you, I stil felt unsatisfied.

This for sure. I normally don't agree with all the choices the Oscars make for what gets nominated but I normally find almost all the movies good, worthwhile movies. At least for major awards. This year, I'm not sure what they were thinking with several nominations. It's not that we didn't have great movies. It's not that the great movies were indie darlings flying under the radar (though plenty did). Eighth Grade, If Beale Street Could Talk, First Man, etc. were widely talked about. There's no way Oscar voters didn't get the chance to see them. I wasn't sure how Roma would do since there is the supposed bias against Netflix. But in years past, several Netflix docs have gotten nominations for best documentary. I honestly think Netflix hasn't had a real contender for best picture until this year unless you count Beasts Of No Nation (which I don't). Even though Roma certainly deserves to be up for best picture and best foreign language, I'm kind of bummed it's in both because I just saw Shoplifters and I'm afraid it won't get anything now. I'm really hoping Into The Spider-verse wins. Partly because I'm tired of Disney or Pixar basically owning the category. Partly because it's legit great. I'd be totally fine if it had been up for best picture.

I don't think it's dismissive. I think movie and the characters are incongruent with each other. I've pushed for much sillier, crazier movies for best picture. Even something like District 9 which has sentient aliens interacting with humans on earth is far more out there than Winter Soldier and I was glad it got nominated. But I think it set up a stronger, more consistent universe. But I think we're just going to have to disagree on this.

Then you don't understand my argument about why it's sillier. It still features two men who have died and come back to life. It stars a man who was cryogenically frozen for 60 years and I think that's inherently silly for a movie set in, functionally, the real world.

I agree that "Oscar worthy" is why we have a lot of Oscar "bait". I agree we should have a broader definition but, as good as Black Panther is, I don't think it's in the 10 best movies of the year. I think that's where I'm at but I can't quite remove that nagging thought from my head. My issue with your reasoning for Winter Soldier is "if you take out the Captain America..." He's in there though and we need to take the movie as a whole. The Captain America of it is what makes it seem a little bit sillier than more traditional political thrillers that Winter Soldier is trying to be. I agree with you on arguably the best superhero movies. I'd even add Superman. For me, they just haven't ever cracked my top 10 for the year. As I said earlier, I'm not sure if that's my own personal hangups or not.

I'm curious how much of this is a nebulous idea that superhero movies don't deserve Oscars or aren't "Oscar Worthy." I'm not complaining about The Favourite getting nominated despite not liking it but it's also a more traditional Oscar type movie. I know we covered it on Unspooled but Green Book is Driving Miss Daisy or The Help for 2018. It's kind of enjoyable. The performances are legit good. But it's really just a movie to make white people feel less racist about themselves. I didn't see the round table but I read something about it a couple weeks ago. I guess the family has said their relationship was mostly professional and not a friendship.

For sure. I considered whether or not I should list Black Panther because it is good while Bohemian Rhapsody and Vice are both not good. But is Black Panther better than Sorry To Bother You, Skate Kitchen, Blindspotting, Eighth Grade, First Man, Leave No Trace, Private Life? In my mind, it isn't but opinions and assholes and all that. Crazy Rich Asians is in my personal top 5 but I wouldn't argue it's the best picture of the year. I don't have hulu

I really wanted to watch Minding The Gap. I think it's release was really short here and it's not available to stream anywhere yet.

My issue with RBG is that it's fine and that's it. It doesn't offer any analysis or depth I couldn't get from a wikipedia article. It touches on a lot of stuff but doesn't really examine them much. It's just the headlines of her life. It tells you about her struggle to be taken seriously as a lawyer and judge but it's very surface level. It spends 10 minutes of its run time on memes. I think any of these aspects are worthy of examination and could make a full feature. I have similar issues with Won't You Be My Neighbor in that a lot of it is just clips I had already seen on youtube. But at least it had discussed how Daniel Tiger was Mr. Rogers finding his own voice and how his childhood affected the way he spoke to children and why it was so different from everyone else.

Especially over RBG which is really not particularly good and has no depth on such an important figure. I haven't seen many docs this year. So, I can't really say much about this category yet. I loved Black Panther. It's the best Marvel movie and I legit cried watching it. But it's also wouldn't say it's in the best 10 movies of the year and it definitely didn't do much differently as a film than half the MCU. I love it for cultural reasons but as a movie, it's just good not great.

I'm 100% with you on this. I thought Timothy Bottoms was perfectly fine in the role. I guess maybe he's "flat" or doesn't outwardly show a ton of emotion but I think that is the character. A lot of people don't have big personalities. I think what's unusual with The Last Picture Show is that, unlike a lot of movies about small town life is that it's not focused on the kids like Duane or Jacy who live some Springsteen-esque desire to shake the dust off this one horse town. It's not about the adults who never left and lived stagnant lives never accomplishing their dreams and their reflections on that (even though Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson are here). It's about the teen who isn't going anywhere and maybe doesn't have a lot of dreams. Sonny is the best friend of the main character in most movies.

There is a movie where a victim calls a 911 operator. It's called The Call. The victim is kidnapped by a serial killer and calls from the trunk en route to his murder dungeon. Halle Berry is the 911 operator and she works with the victim to find her location. I can't remember why but Halle Berry has to be the one to save her instead of the police. I remember the first half being okay and the second half being pretty ridiculous.