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MJS

MJS

@themovievampire.bsky.social

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I’m a film buff who runs a modest movie review blog called The Movie Vampire. https://letterboxd.com/TheMovieVampire

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MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 1h

People remember at least one scene from the 2005 Dwayne Johnson vehicle Doom.

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MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 6h

Then the real "chef's kiss" of the experience is finding out the damn thing was directed by a member of the Sackler family and thinking "wow, this negative take holds up more than I ever could have imagined" (3/3)

Top of the poster for the film The Lottery with the subtitle "A Film by Madelein Sackler" under the title.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 6h

You then click on that review and think something like "oh yeah, that shitty charter school documentary" man, glad I didn't vouch for that thing. (2/3)
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A ★½ review of The Lottery (2010)

The film that is likely to go down as “that other 2010 film about charter schools,” this is being completely overshadowed by the higher profile documentary on the same subject, Waiting for Superman. I...

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 6h

One of the fun things about having a very old @letterboxd.social account is that every once in a while someone will hit "like" on a review you wrote over a decade ago and remind you that the movie in question even exists (1/3)

Someone liked "your" [my] *1/2 review of "The Lottery"

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 18h

People keep positing the new Frankenstein as an allegory for AI, which makes some sense in the sense that it's about a scientist creating a monster without taking responsibility for it, but Del Toro has denied this and he's right to do so because unlike "the monster," AI deserves no sympathy.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 1d

It's the Fox Business Channel, so he's probably trying to appeal directly to Wall Street donors.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 1d

Does this guy (and his advisers) really think this is the way to win in a super blue city who's core identity is rooted in multiculturalism... or is he just running to impress Trump at this point?

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 1d

And maybe people don't want someone "locked into a killer instinct" to be senators?

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 1d

Not at all. Both "Kiss Me" and the "There She Goes" cover were both plainly hits. The La's on the other hand...

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 1d

Just, like, not wanting to drop their guard or take their foot off the gas.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 2d

Broadcast Fox

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 2d

Would be like a Soviet diplomat responding to Reagan's Star Wars missile defense system and daydreaming that it was named after some advanced astronomical concept and not the lightsaber movie.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 2d

What I find ironic about all this is that even if the English was perfect, this tweet is still stupid given that the "wolf warrior" moniker has nothing to do with Aesop and everything to do with a dumb Chinese action movie.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 3d

The one major exception to this pattern occurred in 1979 when we got both Herzog's Nosferatu and the Frank Langella's Dracula and three wasn't really a single Frankenstein counterpart for either of them. WTF is up with that, it drives some OCD part of my brain crazy. Both movies made money! (2/2)

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 3d

Normally when there's a Dracula adaptation a Frankenstein adaptation shortly follows, a pattern/tradition going back to the original Universal versions and continuing to this day with Del Toro's Frankenstein following Eggar's Nosferatu... (1/2)

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not sure if there's anyone left on Twitter (I refuse to use that other name) wit the slightest bit of common sense but, if there are this would be a good time to gently convince them to get over their sunk-cost fallacy existence in that place.

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

Dan of the FEAR💀 @downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d

Brace for another wave of x refuges

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 4d

It will annoy audiences looking for The Boss to kick ass on the stage through, and I'm not sure that the approach they took instead is strong enough to overcome that.

It's a movie for a very narrow audience of people who want something more than a basic biopic but don't demand something Oscarworthy

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 4d

I think I liked Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, didn't love it, but it's a mostly dignified take on a rock star experiencing depression despite ostensibly being at the top of his game.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 4d

Going to guess a lot of these commenters don't even know the primary isn't for a year.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 5d

Counter-point: while that may not be "new ground" for you and me the vast majority of normie news readers still think the media has a "liberal bias" and pushing back on that notion by pointing out often that the media writ large holds Trump to an infinitely lower standard is very needed.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 5d

It's because he has the reputation of being a huge liar so they're never quite sure it's confusion or bullshitting when he says something nonsensical.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 5d

Renal Family is fine. Perfectly decent little movie if you need something to bring your parents to this fall. If successful with award bodies it will probably be the year's "Award Season Villain" but more in a "CODA" or "Belfast" way than in a "Don't Look Up" or "Emilia Perez" way.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 6d

Bank Robber: "Tons of other people made withdrawals from that bank!"

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 6d

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is pretty cool. The story is pretty damn familiar at this point, but it's done with style. Have a couple of quibbles with the Jacob Elordi makeup job, but I'm not really sure why. Probably starts stronger than it ends.

MJS @themovievampire.bsky.social · 6d

People whining about inflation during the Biden years by posting DoorDash receipts for things they could have walked a block to buy and being shocked at how expensive it is. The retort being "maybe don't hire a taxi to get a burrito." Then people show up to say that retort is ableist.