Heat is not about crime. It’s about the scorpion and the frog. The men are incapable of changing from their suicidal paths of alienation. The women are incapable of letting them go. You just didn’t understand it.
people talking about Heat like it’s a Merchant-Ivory literary adaptation because it came out thirty years ago and there aren’t any monsters or aliens in it is so surreal. The snobs have crime movies now.
tom holland vs. tobey maguire is a homoerotic debate. the discussions aren’t even about performances or writing. you just have a crush. love island discourse has greater depth than superhero movies.
the avatar aang movie:
- tagah killed all of team avatar in 5 seconds?
- they’re spamming spirit water now
- zuko, toph, sokka are non-characters
- sokka would never trust tagah. tagah is the air nation’s version of jet
- giant neon slop spirit monsters have ruined this IP
christopher nolan is a great filmmaker, but I don’t know if he is a great director. nolan needs extraordinary plots to make extraordinary movies. scorsese, pta, coen brothers, etc. could turn a story of a man buying groceries into a masterpiece.
Subject-matter experts just criticize to flex their status.
Every inaccuracy becomes a chance to signal that they’re the authority, and that no story should be told without first legitimizing their gatekeeping. Every story has omissions. There’s no value in pointing that out.
Nolan’s Odyssey is so close to being great. Here’s my spoiler review after just having reread Homer’s Odyssey.
First off, the good: the look and feel of the film is incredible. But the greatest accomplishment must be the pacing. Nolan managed to follow the in media res structure, include (most) of the big episodes, without any of it feeling rushed. I particularly like how he combined many scenes (e.g. Calypso, lotus eaters, and Phaeacians) into one.
If he had just avoided these three mistakes this would’ve been legendary:
1. Odysseus is Overly Moralized
2. Deception is Underutilized
3. Racially-Mixed Ithacans Breaks Immersion (it’s not just black Helen of Troy but the mixed White/Black/Indian/Chinese crew of Odysseus that subverts a key premise of the story)
Each of these contributes to a lack of mystery in the film. I elaborate on each of the points below (spoilers).
Christopher Nolan has announced that ‘THE PRESTIGE’ will be re-released in theaters this January for the film's 20th anniversary.
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crenshaw invented intersectionality bc white women excluded her. she leveraged womanhood for common ground so they could humanize her. it was invented to get proximity to whites by distancing from blackness. her legacy are blacks so confused they think pro-democrat = pro-black.