zaphod
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supposedly this is the video stream from seconds before the shooting. you can see a laser sight settle on his chest before the camera switches views. https://gyazo.com/d60f99b02ee1cf041c6733cdaa0b9877
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that's just a shot of him at night school
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nah fuck him
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mojave it's like neil breen watched the justin theroux parts of mulholland drive and read camus and decided to make a movie about those two things. i have no idea why this exists, how it got made, why mark wahlberg is in it, why the two central characters end every sentence with the word "brother", going so far as to call a little dog "brother". i don't know if this is supposed to be satire, parody, serious, arty...i'm totally lost. excruciating. if some film nerd tells you a24 is the only good thing about movies anymore, show him this and ruin his day.
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he's been fired
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Sorry yeah I mean the uae
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Because Dubai is such a perfect example of an Islamic country
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why?
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kill myself?
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all is forgiven
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hostiles I don’t like Scott coopers movies and this one is no exception. pretty interesting performance from bale and a lot of talented actors (wed studi, Timothee chalamet) are wasted on another solemn, dreary morality tale. it isn’t even historically accurate. by 1892 the Comanche had all but been wiped out and driven to reservations, especially in Colorado. And a number of army men were sympathetic to the plight of the indigenous people despite doing a job that destroyed them. This movie also has very poor optics. The entire story focuses on the inner turmoil of a white officer, and the native characters are relegated to background roles where they barely speak. There is some respect to the language and I liked that they didn’t overdo the stoic tribesman trope, but even bales character arc is unbelievable and doesn’t make any internal sense. Big waste of time, too bad because there’s endless material to mine for a movie about this period where both sides are given their due. Read “the earth is weeping” if you want a good overview of the Indian wars that’s also way more absorbing and dramatic than this.
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the rover this was very impressive. pearce gives his strongest performance, all simmering ptsd and rage until it finally boils over in the last scenes into something redemptive and cathartic. but it's so incredibly nuanced. pattinson is a bit more over the top, sputtering out his lines, twitching, somewhere between disabled and maybe a little mentally ill, but he still drew a lot of sympathy. the movie exists in everything not said, but its minimalism isn't a put on because of how strong the performances are. a viewer doesn't need any explanation of what has happened in this society because it could easily take place in africa or southeast asia today. the point is these people are all victims of their circumstances, and pearce, while a self admitted murderer, seems to be shouldering a metaphorical burden for everyone else in the movie. i was extremely moved by his last scene with pattinson, when he starts to well up in front of the old man, finding release in his empty gaze.
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i don't get the praise for this at all. it's pretty terrible.
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what crawled up your ass
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the leftovers was both completely hilarious and retarded and also one of the greatest tv shows ever.
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let's all hold our breath until the ep is released
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this bumps in the whip
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reading vineland. after spending time in asheville, nc, this book is speaking to me as a certain elderly hippie, harsh light of day comedown experience that also exists in the background of inherent vice. i also believe this is underrated in pynchon's bibliography and might even be his most fully realized novel in terms of having three dimensional characters and a kind of emotional clarity that isn't present in the early post modern works or his later infinitely dense stuff like against the day. also the prose here approaches realism which is always a plus for me, and it's relatively short. anyway, a gem.
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insane
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oh cool the worst part of breaking bad
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a man would have to put his soul at hazard. he would have to say, okay, i'll listen to a low quality rip.
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this is quite good
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb0TQIduLbg
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unsettling
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game recognizes game
