a movie or tv show being dubbed completely ruins it for me. give me subtitles all the time. the mouth movements not matching the words is so distracting!!!
when the entire conceit of a movie can be undermined by basic hunting safety, that's probably a bad movie. two hours of angst that didn't need to happen only to resolve with a park ranger still not following basic safety and getting shot is incredibly tedious and just telegraphs a total lack of knowledge of the subject. anyway, wear blaze orange in the woods when hunting!!
sometimes (often) i look at reviews of something and am just baffled by the positive response. the book i just finished had adults laughing off the very clear, not at all joking threats by a powerful child witch against the main character, which was questionable enough until you find out they also buried the body of their benefactor in the garden and have been lying the whole time about it. sure, they claim it was an aneurysm that killed her, but we have no proof! the whole book i'm just thinking, "girl, run!" but she stays with them?? permanently?? and this is a happily ever after??? these characters are deeply concerning and it is extremely disproportionate to hide a body and just everything else these adults did if you're afraid of the found family having to split up like holy shit. and everyone reviewing it loves it???
it impresses me how people can see multiple movies in a day at a film festival. if i see just one that is emotionally heavy, i don't have any more emotional bandwidth to take in another story that entire day.
i only see a movie in 70mm every couple of years, but when i do i always wish it were the standard.
my lazy headcanon for the birds is that it's all orchestrated by the crows because they're big mad at the townspeople. i know there are other, more nuanced interpretations, but i like the idea of some crows being so fed up they convince a bunch of other birds to do coordinated attacks to really stick it to the humans. this was probably made before we knew that crows can hold grudges and share those grudges with friends and family for generations, so probably not quite what hitchcock had in mind, but it does make the movie a bit funnier if you watch it with the assumption the crows are behind it all. they really hated those kids! corvids are fun, and i hope to be friends with some one day.
sometimes reading a cozy novel as a way to drift to sleep works out for me, and sometimes i wind up crying into my pillow because the last chapter of we'll prescribe you a cat is absolutely heartbreaking. i did not sign up for that! (p.s.: hey, therapist or pcp, can you prescribe me a cat?! this book is proof that it solves all problems!)
527 albums into the 1,001 project and there is way more '90s brit pop/rock on the list than i ever would have guessed. it's getting repetitive!
there is never enough time for all the things i want to do, but is the real issue that i don't allow myself enough time to do them?
the 1,001 project for music is so interesting. i've discovered a good number of really good albums i've never heard of, which is great. new-to-me bands/artists to explore! but it has also really clarified what i don't like in music, which is making even approaching listening to an album that falls into those categories really difficult. like, morrissey (and by extension the smiths) and elvis costello can just shut up already, please. but they have so many albums on the list!
the influence of elmore leonard in quentin tarantino's early films is very apparent, and i think that's why i like them so much more than the later films. the dialogue and conversations are the most interesting part, just like in a leonard novel. →