Austin Shinn

I need to write on Iris

I hope it’s good for fans but I can’t express how much it enrages me. I can’t get a good romcom to save my life but there’s a horror movie about love? I feel like my nose is being rubbed in my fate

Her urgency is what sells it. She really isn’t afraid to go absurd.

I love both but Companion is the warm fuzzy

Seriously she’s giving this insane comic performance that feels so delightful at every second. She’s never flat. Always manic. Just love it

It really is a pure good guy wins movie and Thatcher is a rare great.

Why is it such a comfort movie? I just feel so at peace watching it. And why is the answer really just that Iris is the best heroine in years

Like here’s the thing. He won’t make any jokes. It’ll all be straightforward. But the man has the greatest voice ever. Think of the names he has to read.

And in that rich velvet voice.

The first year there will be a compilation of every single announcer clip at the Oscars. My god how beautiful this will be.

One person said he hoped we all lost our jobs. It’s been that kind of mood today. So if I seem weirdly down…yeah.

And I’ve had multiple people at work threaten me today. Like you need to know that’s been the day I’ve had. Multiple people have screamed at me.

Ahhhh well the adult one is ART. One of the classics of the genre

Anyway I suspect a lot of people rightly muted me today. That’s fine. I feel better for having vented.

Yes there is. By George Gipe. It’s genius

Now I’m feeling like I should audition! I have a good voice! So sorry you’re here

I wonder if I would be this sour if Smile hadn’t upset me that bad. Like I feel like it gave me a symbol of everything I hate. But is it any more embittering than Thor: Love and Thunder? Any more hurtful? Not really. It’s just the easy one to hate because it morally upset me.

And it’s not like anyone cares or can help or both. You’ve tried to give recommendations. But what hope is there? I give up.

And I used to love movies. More than anything. The movie theater was my safe space. And I never got it back after COVID. Every now and then I get a Sinners or even Companion. But mostly I feel lost. I’m so sad today. So seeing a cruel mockery of what I love hurts. Like I’m really alone.

I’m tired of being this sad and angry. But good god. I can’t even get a movie on the level of Wimbledon right now. The last big studio romcom starred an actress with the energy of a drunk dairy cow. But I can’t escape hearing about another movie sure to churn my stomach.

That’s the thing. It’s too zany. It’s off. It’s a bizarre episode.

I hope that you read this and understand why I’m having a complete collapse. It’s not just that they make so few movies for me. It’s that they aren’t good when they do. And yet the opposite I have to hear so much about every single day!

I hate this episode so much. I hate this premise.

But you know why it was good? It wasn’t made for streaming. It actually was theatrical in the uk. When I look at a movie like Love at First Sight or People We Meet on Vacation all I can think is it’s a second screen film. It’s not made for actual attention. So no wonder it just cheats

Rye Lane is a model of what I’m talking about wanting. It’s a nonstop barrier after barrier after barrier comedy. And it is hysterical. David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah are so opposite but at the same time appealing. And it’s a pretty movie. But there’s a script. (I own a copy!)?

So today when I’m hearing how great Obsession will be, I’m sickeningly jealous because I have to take a film like this as all I can get. And it enrages me. It breaks my heart that I have to settle when I want to love a movie!!!

After such a strong opening that really hit, I really did realize I was watching a script I would quit writing at that exact moment because I would know there needed to be a plot. But modern romcoms really are just scenery porn.

This is the bar for my genre right now and it highlights the problem. We have forgotten that a romantic comedy is more than just pretty dresses and allusions to art and best friends saying funny things. A great romantic comedy is pure obstacles that must be more than “he doesn’t want to commit.”

What follows from there is a staggering release of tension. They meet up and don’t really get along and there’s no reason for us to want them to get together and the movie just runs so violently out of the charm it opened with.

Like how many movies have used this idea? Serendipity is the classic. This could have been a modern one. How does this movie execute the hunt? She…overhears at her father’s wedding details of a memorial that match the wedding he was attending. And this happens 35 minutes in.