Salò Hal

we got old but we got good and we did all we said we would // he/him

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

I tracked down this old Figure It Out contestant and asked him about the best minute in television history https://t.co/dgSxaOoSUp

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

Legally, you have to be a piece of shit to play in Arcade Fire

[elvis depressedly @_devojka_]

isolated and ostracized for much of the year, I owe a world of gratitude to the handful of people - many of you strangers! - that have listened to me. Validated me. Supported me. And understood why I am inclined to speak publicly. To tell my story. To not succumb to erasure. ♥️

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

I don’t actually feel this way but I want to feel unique so I’m writing a sentence nobody has ever written before: I don’t like The 1975’s music but this Matty Healy guy seems cool and smart.

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

Around the time Chev Chelios flipped a car onto an escalator and rode it up, my friend and I looked at each other like we were in heaven

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

Seeing Crank in the theater, opening night, expecting it to just be a fun action movie, is a moviegoing highlight for me. It was like somebody took Natural Born Killers’ perfect editing and had fun, rather than sit around all smug

[One Less Than Perfect Shot @LessShot]

CRANK (2006)
Cinematography by Adam Biddle
Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor
Submitted by @TracyCyanne

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

This was a complicated one to review. Because I know I don't think it's good, but I don't know how aware the movie was that it was making LibsofTikTok-style propaganda. Basically, it starts a little clever and then either becomes what it was satirizing or lets the mask slip

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

@AustinKimmell After everything went down, I remember multiple people who worked on the show saying the creator was so into publicity he didn’t actually work on the thing that much and everybody else did the work. Excited for everything they do

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

Watching some (later) Clarence with my kid and remembered the creator got booted. Looked to see what happened since— the timeline is:
2014: Fired and replaced for sexual assault
2021: Posts a 2 paragraph apology on blogspot
2022: Arrested for shoplifting Nerf guns from Ross

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

The show is still great. A lot of people did cool work here. 1.75 year old is eating apple slices and spitting chunks out onto himself.

[L., MA @leslieleeiii]

"I was the first person I knew to get COVID and I haven’t actually recovered completely. I have yet to finish a song four years later. I’ve been to a neurologist, I’ve had all sorts of tests." - Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

In some ways, it's also Wonka (and the Tim Burton one) existing after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You're returning to this world, but people mainly loved it for Gene Wilder's super specific energy. Swapping in dudes like Depp and Chalamet misses the appeal completely.

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

Incredible to still be using "flashbacks to a dead girlfriend w/ bedsheets and drapes" in 2024. I do think it's smart to shift aesthetics from goth/industrial to Soundcloud rap, given that's the new(ish (about a decade late)) youth culture that fetishizes death.

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

It's sort of the same idea as the Mr. and Mrs. Smith TV show (which I haven't seen and may be good)-- people didn't see the Liman movie because they heard it was good, they saw it because the stars had a hugely famous affair. You can't recreate that buzz by redoing the story.

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

@KenParille Ah! Totally misunderstood.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

ghoulish. evil. despicable. this country is evil

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

3. Does the movie avoid the sketches altogether? Are we told these people have launched a groundbreaking TV show we never see?

The first two options are, I think, instant failures. The third option gets criticized for the rest of time. I can't imagine a fourth.

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

Here's the interesting thing about this uninteresting movie: SNL was not funny in 1975. I know, it was never funny, it was at its funniest whenever you were 14, etc. But old SNL is truly about as slow and obvious as sketch comedy gets. Three options, all fascinating (to me):

[nora @coppolacinema]

not to be dramatic but the snl 1975 cast might be one of the greatest things to ever happen to me

[Salò Hal @alexcrudolph]

2. Jason Reitman, writer of cut-ups like Labor Day and Men, Women & Children, writes new sketches for his script. He pulls an Aaron Sorkin and tries to live out a fantasy where he's part of the SNL writers' room? That's maybe worse for the movie but makes sense with his ego.