Ross W Berman IV (Philosopher Pirate)
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Should probably start the big movie thread of 2025📽️
We did it, folks
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We did it, folks
Making mac n cheese for Friendsgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Making mac n cheese for Friendsgiving
[watching Woodstock make slice after slice of buttered toast]
“That little bird must’ve worked on the line. He’s lived a whole lifetime, man.”
“That little bird must’ve worked on the line. He’s lived a whole lifetime, man.”
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
[watching Woodstock make slice after slice of buttered toast]
“That little bird must’ve worked on the line. He’s lived a whole lifetime, man.”
“That little bird must’ve worked on the line. He’s lived a whole lifetime, man.”
"How many times do you get to turn 35?...11?"
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"How many times do you get to turn 35?...11?"
Really great. A little antiseptic and thin but it sticks the landing.
Realizing this is my last movie of 34 and feeling the unceasing pull of time and age and how it all passes by so quickly. Our existence is not even a blink of an eye in the grand cosmic scheme of the universe.
Anyway, now seated.
Anyway, now seated.
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Really great. A little antiseptic and thin but it sticks the landing.
Realizing this is my last movie of 34 and feeling the unceasing pull of time and age and how it all passes by so quickly. Our existence is not even a blink of an eye in the grand cosmic scheme of the universe.
Anyway, now seated.
Anyway, now seated.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Realizing this is my last movie of 34 and feeling the unceasing pull of time and age and how it all passes by so quickly. Our existence is not even a blink of an eye in the grand cosmic scheme of the universe.
Anyway, now seated.
Anyway, now seated.
I have a brain parasite that won't stop writing Spongebob Big Guy Pants Ok versions of Train Dreams
[Nick Cave “Train Dreams” voice]
I've been having these crazy dreams
Spongebob Big Guy Pants Ok
I saw a starfish with only one eye
He tripped as he ran for the boat
I've been having these crazy dreams
Spongebob Big Guy Pants Ok
I saw a starfish with only one eye
He tripped as he ran for the boat
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I have a brain parasite that won't stop writing Spongebob Big Guy Pants Ok versions of Train Dreams
[Nick Cave “Train Dreams” voice]
I've been having these crazy dreams
Spongebob Big Guy Pants Ok
I saw a starfish with only one eye
He tripped as he ran for the boat
I've been having these crazy dreams
Spongebob Big Guy Pants Ok
I saw a starfish with only one eye
He tripped as he ran for the boat
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
[Nick Cave “Train Dreams” voice]
I've been having these crazy dreams
Spongebob Big Guy Pants Ok
I saw a starfish with only one eye
He tripped as he ran for the boat
I've been having these crazy dreams
Spongebob Big Guy Pants Ok
I saw a starfish with only one eye
He tripped as he ran for the boat
I'm still stuck on this line because "I've seen a boy who was a dog, he became a man who forgot to die" would be a great line *if* the film hadn't literally shown us the main character seeing a boy with the face of a dog just minutes earlier.
That issue sums up the whole movie.
That issue sums up the whole movie.
It’s basically AI Bob Dylan lyrics
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'm still stuck on this line because "I've seen a boy who was a dog, he became a man who forgot to die" would be a great line *if* the film hadn't literally shown us the main character seeing a boy with the face of a dog just minutes earlier.
That issue sums up the whole movie.
That issue sums up the whole movie.
“Guy who dreams of trains.
Got the railroad in his head.
He’s gonna have these train dreams
Until he’s good and dead
He’s a logger in the woods
Yeah he laid down the track
He’s looking for his family
But they’re not coming back”
Got the railroad in his head.
He’s gonna have these train dreams
Until he’s good and dead
He’s a logger in the woods
Yeah he laid down the track
He’s looking for his family
But they’re not coming back”
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
“Guy who dreams of trains.
Got the railroad in his head.
He’s gonna have these train dreams
Until he’s good and dead
He’s a logger in the woods
Yeah he laid down the track
He’s looking for his family
But they’re not coming back”
Got the railroad in his head.
He’s gonna have these train dreams
Until he’s good and dead
He’s a logger in the woods
Yeah he laid down the track
He’s looking for his family
But they’re not coming back”
Every line of dialogue in this is either passages from the book or lines like “The way I see it, a man with a life is like a dog with a bone. He’s gotta chew all the way through it before he buries it in the yard”
I can kinda see why this works. It’s basically Baby’s First Terrence Malick, but without any of Malick’s trademark Philosopher Poet gusto.
My ★★★ review of Train Dreams: boxd.it/bP3iCl
My ★★★ review of Train Dreams: boxd.it/bP3iCl
A ★★★ review of Train Dreams (2025)
“Ain't gonna gamble I ain't gonna steal Gonna find some good woman And make a good deal 'Cause you can't never tell Which way the axe gon' fall I may wind up rich I may have nothing at all” -George “W...
boxd.it
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Every line of dialogue in this is either passages from the book or lines like “The way I see it, a man with a life is like a dog with a bone. He’s gotta chew all the way through it before he buries it in the yard”
Now watching
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Now watching
Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and trust in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, Charlie Brown? A contract, in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a "moral and ethical principal" is, Chuck?
Forget it Charlie Brown, it’s Chinatown
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and trust in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, Charlie Brown? A contract, in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a "moral and ethical principal" is, Chuck?
I don’t want Dr. Mark Greene to start getting headaches
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I don’t want Dr. Mark Greene to start getting headaches
I forgot that Sally Field arrives exactly like this in her first ER episode
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I forgot that Sally Field arrives exactly like this in her first ER episode
Blue Moon (2025, Linklater)
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Blue Moon (2025, Linklater)
You know what time it is
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
You know what time it is
Jay Kelly/Blue Moon double feature would rule
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Jay Kelly/Blue Moon double feature would rule
I do love that the big finale song of Wicked is “I don’t actually know if you’ve made me a better person, now that i think about it.”
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I do love that the big finale song of Wicked is “I don’t actually know if you’ve made me a better person, now that i think about it.”
The Oscar clip is gonna be Clooney going “Clark Gable 😃 Jay Kelly 😕 Cary Grant😃 Jay Kelly😕” in the bathroom mirror.
A person’s life is ultimately the sum and consequences of their choices, so what even is “a life” when you’ve spent 35 formative years shielded from the consequences of those choices?
My ★★★★★ review of Jay Kelly: boxd.it/bNXJhX
My ★★★★★ review of Jay Kelly: boxd.it/bNXJhX
A ★★★★★ review of Jay Kelly (2025)
“So I pretend I'm doing all I can And hope someday you'll find it in your heart To understand Why I'm not around And forgive me for not being in your life” -The Ataris “Wonka: ‘Don’t forget what happe...
boxd.it
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The Oscar clip is gonna be Clooney going “Clark Gable 😃 Jay Kelly 😕 Cary Grant😃 Jay Kelly😕” in the bathroom mirror.
Oh my GOD
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Oh my GOD
I actually met Jay Kelly 20 years ago at the Tribeca Film Festival and he gave me a free shirt. Nice guy, gonna show up and support him.
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I actually met Jay Kelly 20 years ago at the Tribeca Film Festival and he gave me a free shirt. Nice guy, gonna show up and support him.
