or good on them!!!
07.03.2026 09:16
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or good on them!!!
damn them!!!
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I was home sick from school, watching the Challenger liftoff alone in my living room while my mom made me oatmeal.
I'll never forget that moment.
40 years and it still hurts.
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Agreed. The comparison is apt. It's an alarm. We need to leverage history.
I'm also fine to call out folks using the Holocaust analogy who have said nothing about antisemitism, reposted pro-Hamas talking points, spread blood libel, and claim "antizionism is not antisemitism."
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i like this plan
i was thinking about the godfather movies but we didn’t discuss them
also HAL would be a real jokester and the film would end with
HAL9000 will return in 2002: The Next Chapter
that would be horrible but i do think some filmmakers get more freedom to explore and i would hope Kubrick would be one of those.
but if a filmmaker of lesser stature tried to make that film, they’d make it a fun action adventure and call it 2001: The Journey Begins.
loved it
been binging Columbo and it’s so good!
he - and we LOVED Sinners - it's one of the rare films he asked to see again (and we all had to dress up in period outfits to watch it)
this slightly blew up so I'll clarify - it's not about ambiguous endings, more that the story feels incomplete or the stakes are so low even when someone saves the world, because any character who dies can just come back to life, and so many endings are really about setting up the next in a series.
love old movies and trying to instill a love for all kinds of movies into the kid, that said there are still some pretty bad old movies, I just appreciated his perspective on it.
granted not everything is "a Wallace Beery wrestling picture" but there is definitely a trend that movies end with no stakes... we just expect fan favorite characters to come back even if they died.
I watch a lot of movies and there definitely is a trend...
we LOVE Sinners, is that bad?
i love a good story world but I also watch films for a contained story, I appreciate that he noticed it and is calling it out. not that he doesn't enjoy many open-ended films - we absolutely love Rogue One but by definition that film intentionally leads into ANH
so much so that you’re like “wait, what?”
He’s perceptive for sure!
they take work to tie it all together, but a lot less to world build
that said, i’ll write or direct any sequel any time they want!
that’s exactly what he was talking about
“older movies just felt more satisfying”
i’m like… let’s get to watching some more, kid!
omg that takes me back! written by my NYU friend Ehren Kruger (who later wrote The Ring) … very cool film. and no, that is not what he’s talking about although it is open ended for the bad guys, it’s over for the hero. I think his point was more about larger stakes than intentional ambiguity.
