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the holdovers

the timing of me watching this movie at this moment in my life was right :-) i enjoyed the deliberate slowness of this movie, and the way the emotions felt very real - never in your face or all at once, but slowly appearing and disappearing and emerging again. I laughed out loud at parts (like genuinely belly laughed!) and also cried. so so glad Da’Vine Joy Randolph got her flowers for her beautiful performance, and honestly Paul Giamatti was robbed ‼️ Dominic Sessa also really blew me away. I really can’t believe it was his film debut

@nicolefar

Mar 25, 2024

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House of Games, 1987, directed by David Mamet

In an earlier draft I sent Tyler 87 different movies so this is my favourite of those 87 movies. House of Games is a perfect movie about confidence art, which really is the same as visual art. My dad was a con artist, so I like this nonviolent way to revisit my childhood. Joe Mantegna (I smoked a joint with Mantegna in 1994 on the set of a film I was working on) and Lindsay Crouse are perfect, the writing is perfect, tight as a fucking trampoline like all Mamet stuff but not as sweary and unnecessarily verbose as his other stuff.I like seeing anything where smart people get played by people they think they’re smarter than. I like confidence art (The Grifters also v good) because (at least ideally), the victims are just idiots who want an easy buck, not fundamentally vulnerable, although that clearly happens also, and really this likely isn’t an accurate take on con-art but just some romantic reimagining on my part. Also Ricky Jay was one of the greatest character actors of all time.

@brad-phillips

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Mar 29, 2022

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Kino korner - blackberry

This movie perfectly scratched the useless niche-information quadrant of my brain. Right above where the lobotomy scraped the feeling out of my frontal lobe. This was really good dude! Like, not my favourite rise-and-fall business biopic, but a really solid entry into that world of movies. Best way I can describe this movie is “The Social Network: An Amazon Prime Original Movie”. Like it’s good, it ain’t winning any Oscars, but if I saw this on TV I’d be like “aw hell yeah dude this movie’s great!” It’s so interesting how this monolithic company which once controlled 45% of the smartphone market essentially shat the bed so hard the bed snapped in half, folded in on itself, and flattened the shitter like a pancake. Part of it was corporate greed, for sure, but a fair whack was just bad luck. Imagine having the biggest status symbol in the world, only for some turtle-neck wearing dickhead to turn around and say “nah I’d win” and completely body you in the span of an hour. If that sounds like your cup of tea, watch this movie. The plot moves at a good clip, and it kinda reminded me of Steve Jobs, using three distinct periods in the companies history as the backdrop for each act. I will say that the start and end were easily the more interesting parts. At the start we’re watching a bunch of sweaty nerds crack the code of innovation, montages and needle drops galore. In the end we’re watching a multi-national corporation in a desperate attempt to sink its teeth into anything that’ll bleed, even if that means feasting on their own flesh. The middle is more about the slow corruption, the way that lofty ideals start to fall apart in the face of adversity and the desire to be the best. It’s interesting, thematically and narratively speaking, but the real meat and potatoes are those opening and closing acts. *puts on beret* This movie is a sound critique of capitalism, BUT NOT FOR THE REASON YOU THINK DEAR READER! Yes, this is about a company that started in humble origins and means only to blow up and become perverted by sweet sweet money, but it’s more than that. When a late-stage capitalist structure defines business success as “profit line goes up”, anything less than resounding profit is concerning if not fatal. What starts as a homegrown effort ends up outsourced, quality abandoned for quantity, SUPPLY AND DEMAND BUY BUY SELL. And hey, we all know this. You been to McDonalds recently? Big Mac my ass, that shits a Medium Mac AT BEST. I digress. While that factor is certainly touched on here, I also think it shines a light on the sort of person that world attracts. It takes a special kinda of bastard to run a BlackBerry, and those bastards all share a vice in pride (not the sucking-and-fucking fun kind either). You combine this personality type that needs to control, to dominate, to be the big swinging dick, with an unforgiving system that reduces accomplishment to “does the line go up?”, and you end up with a company that changes the world and implodes within a decade. Hmmm maybe the system is flawed… nah, me want Big Mac. Stand out performance from Glenn Howerton, he is after all a Five Star Man. There was a feeling here that he’d just play Dennis from Sunny, only now in a suit, but his performance had subtle differences. Explosive, abusive, untethered, but doing a much better job of keeping the lid on. Jay Baruchel also did a very commendable job, taking a character from a weak-chinned autistic-coded savant who can’t hold eye contact for the duration of a swift fart, all the way up to a frazzled, desperate businessman grasping at straws to keep his kingdom from sinking into the sea. Final Rating - 3.5/5 Stars Watch this if you like - The Social Network, Steve Jobs, The Founder, The Big Short have you seen this movie? what did you think? let’s talk about it

@baileymakes

Jan 17, 2025

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bye bye

I've been trying to leave instagram for years. Rather for me it's a question of addiction. Especially because of my obsession with reels. But instagram remains for me the easiest way and to expand my creative reach. I've started photography as of last year and have gotten stupidly invested. And I'd never be where I am now without specifically using instagram. What ive done to limit instagram is simply to have a friend put a parental control on my phone with a limit of 45min a day. Works pretty well.

@Itsgoingin

Feb 22, 2025