@Gnomemaster7@soggycinnamons Backrooms feel like it's trying to bridge the gap between "arthouse" horror and "commercial" horror and I don't think it threads the needle as well as it needs to, which is why it's not a home run imo.
@Gnomemaster7@soggycinnamons I don't see a trade off when it comes to Obsession. It has the scares and the symbolism. Is it surface level? I suppose, but it's surface level in the way I'd expect from a pulpy, popcorn horror film. In that way, it's comparable to Elm Street.
@PINNLAND_EMPIRE I think the reason no one dies in Rebel Ridge is because he wanted the lead character to survive and couldn't figure out a way to do that while having him kill cops. Which is fair. Let's be real, the moment he kills a cop, he's fucked. No way he survives the film believably.
In that case, are you willing to pay a modest trillionaire & billionaire tax to pay for checks to working families?
We could start with the modest $3000 check @BernieSanders and I have proposed for families under $150,000?
@OfSkittlez@ContraPoints Because Kasparian is on her Jimmy Dore shit. She disproportionately punches left while being endlessly charitable to the right.
AOC is flawed and should be criticized, but it's funny to me how Kasparian will never bring that same energy to someone like Tucker Carlson.
@chazharris@mouseabolition Get ready for eight Tarantino fanboys to reply saying "He didn't work with Paul Dano, so it's different". I saw that comment over a dozen times yesterday.
@LoverNotArguer@thatdaffyduck 1. Because the use of the word in that scene is contrived.
2. Because Tarantino is an atrocious actor and if you're going to cast a speaking role like that, you should cast a legitimate actor.
3. Why cast himself in THAT role? He could've picked any other role. Why THAT one?
@PINNLAND_EMPIRE Saying a filmmaker isn't racist because they like Blaxploitation is like saying a filmmaker isn't a misogynist because they like women in prison movies.
I'm not saying he is racist, but you get my meaning.
@PINNLAND_EMPIRE@menonfilmpod If there's one thing I learned from reading his atrocious book, it's that it only responds to the aesthetics of something. He doesn't understand it. Not really.
But I suppose his movies do a good enough job of illustrating that.
@MovieKessler Honestly, I think you could say the same for Indy going back to Temple of Doom. The Indy we were introduced to in Raiders would not have been willing to put up with Willie and Short Round for very long.