A Boy Named Seo

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*** spoiler stuff *** I just watched it, too. This feels decidedly cowardly to say, but I can see merits of both the glowing and damning reviews of this movie. It was visually cool to look at (maybe a little heavy-handed with the wide-angle and fisheye stuff). Emma Stone was incredible (and Ruffalo's English accent was incredibly hilarious). I think the messages of female empowerment and sexual autonomy and telling "polite society" to **** off all landed pretty well, but it was still also a movie about a literal woman with a baby brain created by a man with the intention of being the property of a man. Even Dafoe's character laments he can't **** her because he's a eunuch, and seemed bummed that he found his weird-ass paternal instinct, which resulted in predictably terrible "paternal" decisions. I kept wondering how many degrees removed from Weird Science this movie was and I'm still not sure I know. You have to trust a lot in the intent of the writer and the message of female sexual empowerment to be delivered. Cause without that, IMO it veers into Kelly LeBrock Frankenstein territory. Am I way off on that? But I still think it was very good art and it got people debating, so that's good?

Uni Watch has it. --> https://uni-watch.com/2024/03/12/keith-hernandez-forgets-key-element-of-mets-uniform-which-he-wore/ Yeah look at the Keith pics. In one shot, the number starts under the "e" in Mets, very centered, and in the next one it's under the "t". Nowadays it starts at the "s" and is way the hell over on the ribs. I wonder why it's pushed so far over?

I finally got a Google alert for my guy Kellum Clark and it was this hilarious moment with a foggy-brained Keith and our own pop star José Iglesias

Metirish mentioned this one in a separate thread. I watched it last night and ooh boy it was great. [YOUTUBE]kA244xewjcI[/YOUTUBE]

The Dream Team analogy is pretty good. I vote for Dan Aykroyd as the Cristian Laettner of the WATW Dream Team.

Watched it and absolutely loved it. Stevie's moments were my favorites. The one JCL mentioned with the hilariously out-of-place Dylan was incredible. I also loved when at about 6am and everyone is running on fumes, Stevie decides it would be a great idea if they re-wrote some lines in Swahili even though Ethiopians don't speak Swahili. They messed around with it for a bit to placate him, but Waylon was like '**** this I'm out'. I couldn't get over the fact that they got everyone to show up late at night after an awards ceremony and stay all night and into the morning, with Al Jarreau seemingly the only one who was really ****ed up. I'm sure ego played no small part in it, FOMO before FOMO was a thing, or just not wanting to be the star who wasn't there. That they got all the phone calls to everyone done, the demos adorably packaged and sent everywhere via FedEx so the performers knew the song, and the the damn thing recorded in less than 24 hours with all those people was insane.

This doc makes me want to buy netflix for a month

Good call. A film-head friend of mine even called it "Payne's Wes Anderson movie" and that felt accurate. But not insulting, the aesthetics were beautiful.

Currently streaming all over but free on Peacock. Paul Giamatti plays a teacher at a Massachusetts boarding school who has to take care of the rich kids who can't go home over the 1970 winter break. Highly recommend. [YOUTUBE]AhKLpJmHhIg[/YOUTUBE]

This keeps getting recommended to me. I'll check out the trailer.

DiComo had a blurb about him a couple days ago and says his time might be coming:

I've already set a google alert for this dude, so I may as well share any good stuff that pops up. He's the 2-way guy the Mets drafted in the 3rd round of the 2023 draft out of Oklahoma State. And I love that the Mets were like, "Do your thing, bro. Hit, pitch, whatever," and he got a handful of games between rookie ball and St. Lucie where he did both. So far (strictly as a right-handed hitting DH), he's gone .125/.375/.313 (.688) in just 24 plate appearances (but he did hit a bomb with St. Lucie). On the mound, the righty appeared twice and went 3.1 IP, with a hit, a run, 2 walks and 2 Ks. Fun! A review of his season just dropped today and here's the highlights (link: https://www.si.com/mlb/mets/news/nolan-mclean-new-york-mets-prospect-wraps-review-2023-matt9) Found an interview with him talking about being a baby Met. It basically confirmed I adopted the best player ever hands down. He apparently loves THE DARK KNIGHT and calls the movie a "masterpiece" and Heath Ledger's performance one of the "greatest cinematic acts that could ever be put together" (scroll to 4:32). He even does a Bane impression at 5:30, wow I love this guy. At 6:08 he waxes about his love for "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Ric Flair and the Rock and even goes for a Ric Flair "WOOOOOO!" right about the 7-minute mark. How do I buy a McLean jersey. [YOUTUBE]Fg9BeLhIJzw[/YOUTUBE]

They should've left the acronym METS and gone with "Motivate" "Envision" "Strength" "Trust" or some ****.

The Mets last pick in the 2023 draft already got his first promotion. Kellum put up a cool .885 OPS in the rookie league for the affiliate whose name I just learned is the ridiculous Florida Complex League Mets. Thankfully he plays now for the single A St. Lucie Mets, which sounds like a real baseball team.

I missed this - my dude signed officially. Dig that strange, corporatized Mets logo behind him. Someone alert Paul Lukas NOW!!!! [TWEET] [/TWEET]

Saw it at the 70mm IMAX last night. It was LOUD, I feel like I just walked out of a Dinosaur Jr. concert. Ears were ringing, but it wasn't from the dialogue, which was sometimes hard to make out over the rumbling and crackling, which is pretty constant. That was big, bombastic movie (pun yall). Great performances, and a bunch of Oscar noms coming, I'm sure. *** spoiler spoiler spoiler *** I will say the third act ended up feeling like a bit of a restart after the bomb is built and the war is over and the focus shifts to the politics and back-stabbing behind revoking Oppenheimer's clearance. I think the movie regained most of that momentum and I liked getting that chapter of his story told, but it probably could've been an award-winning two-hour summer blockbuster just the same if it ended with him conflicted and miserable after WWII ends. Around New Mexico, there have been lots of people displeased that the movie neglected to talk about the families who lived near the Trinity site who were given no hints at all what was happening and of course were ravaged by cancer and other health problems. I don't think they needed to include that to make you realize the best interests of innocents and civilians were never at the forefront of the government's plans, but one shot of a confused farmer when the bomb went off could've at least reminded people that the Trinity site wasn't Mars or anything, people lived there. TL:DR long, loud, great, not perfect flick.

First, I don't think I can ever go to a theatre again where every patron is not someone I know or a friend of someone I know. Highly underrated experience. (no spoilers below, but some plot stuff is mentioned) There was a self-awareness in the writing that was clever but also had to be there to pull this movie off. Some people historically loved the Barbie dolls, saying they showed little girls that a woman having all these big careers was a possibility. Others hated the line, saying Barbie set impossible beauty standards for young girls and set feminism back decades instead of pushing it forward. Both these concepts were embraced by the writers which allowed them to build a Barbie-land run by empowered, representative women (with a Black president and all female supreme court) and where the men (the Kens) were happy accessories, with the Margot Robbie-played Barbie character thinking that sexism ended when the Barbie doll was created. It's ridiculous and pretty funny at the same time, and when Ken realizes in the "real world" that men are more powerful than women, he tries to build a Barbie-land patriarchy which is also ridiculous and funny. That apparently angered some people. Ted Cruz called the movie communist propaganda, FOX ran a piece calling it "anti-man" and - everyone please sit down for this - apparently one of the Barbie's was played by a trans actor. Yes, friends, Barbie is woke. *gasp* But the movie pokes at gender norms and the patriarchy as much as it pokes at Barbie and Ken and whole concept of the doll line. It makes a point but makes fun of itself in the process. The visuals in Barbie-land were really cool and the music (Lizzo, especially) was perfect for this movie. I do think there could easily be 10 more Barbie movies and they'd probably all make a ****-load of money. I'm currently at 3 or 3.5 pink hearts. TL;DR - Barbie is fun but it's not Citizen Kane or anything. Rent out a theatre, put on some pink and go watch it with friends and only friends.

As long as you have no shirt on underneath

I couldn't remember what the Oppenheimer was in that song. It's a road! Killer track. It'll be on repeat in my head all day.

It's the same one David Bowie wore in Labrynth.

How many nukes did you give it, @metirish?

Didn't know that about the IMAX 70mm. Might as well, right?

In that same piece I read today that I mentioned to FK, there was a talking Barbie and a talking GI Joe on the market at the same. Some lil wise guys switched the voice boxes so GI Joe was the one saying "Math is hard" and Barbie was yelling "Eat lead, Cobra!" lololol

The real "real" Ken (I learned only today) went through numerous iterations including a 70s version that had leisure suite and detachable sideburns (!!!) but the first (or early '61 Ken) had blond felt (!!!!!) hair, red swim trunks and this pink over jacket thing that he wore without an undershirt because ****in' A Ken. Judging by the director, stars and especially the soundtrack, I think baby boomers are the demo they're least trying to court. The friend who rented the theatre is in her 30s but would be a Barbie girl in any era. It's just very much her ****. But having not seen it, I think they're courting millennials and definitely late gen alphas who probably don't play with dolls but watch a million tiktok videos on destroying the patriarchy. I'm sure they're going to try to sell a zillion dollars worth of merch and make sequels if this one makes as much as it's gonna make.