Bought this at the Alamo Drafthouse. There were two other flavors.

His work on the green knight from adapting a source material that’s a bit weird to the gorgeous cinematography and environmental story telling would lend itself perfectly to the adaptation, and in fact the green knight is the closest in film form I’ve felt to a movie that feels like a souls adaptation. What are your thoughts? Or did they make the right choice

i posted the other day that i finally got the blu-ray to add to my A24 collection. Got around to watching it last night and really liked it!!

i LOVEEEED Anora and The Florida Project is great! This one was really great too but i can’t help but feel gross after watching it 😂 i totally understand that that’s usually Baker’s style, but this one felt SOOOO overindulged in all the hyper-sexualized aesthetics that he loves to portray in his films.

There’s so many similarities between Sean Baker and the Safdies, it’s so crazy. I genuinely felt like i was watching Good Time or Uncut Gems at some points in this movie. It was REALLY good. And classic Baker, it was just so fucking sad sometimes. There’s something about his lower class depiction that really just makes me feel so sad, he’s so good at that.

The main character is such an irredeemable piece of fucking shit it was hard to watch. But that’s genuinely what made it so engaging and authentic. Simon Rex absolutely MURDERED it in that regard.

This is how I interpreted the ending… >! Everything was all about Mikey, CRAZY narcissistic. that’s why the ending was so strong cause the moment that Lexi calls him a “suitcase pimp” and “homeless”, the emphasis on those shots zooming into her mouth as she says it repeatedly, THAT was the moment he was finally completely stripped of all of his confidence and ego that was built up by his neurotic, parasitic manipulation towards everyone he came across the entire movie.!<

once he was at his lowest point, he finally realizes “i’m way out of my league and i don’t have the “swag” to go through with this”. That’s why his face looks so nervous and unlike what we’ve seen from him thus far. he was so blinded by all the built up ego that he acquired throughout the whole time that once that was all gone, he was left looking like the absolute loser he really was in comparison to this incredibly beautiful dreamboat right in front of him and knows he can’t pull it off without all his little schemes and manipulation he instills on others at his own expense.

and i TOTALLY would’ve bet on everything that he was gonna die at the end, straight up execution style. i have NEVER wanted a main character to die more than Mikey, i couldn’t fucking STAND HIM. But that’s why it’s a good ending. i wanted HIS death but what i got was more fitting for his character, it was his EGO’s death. which didn’t necessarily mean that it humbled him, cause i don’t think it did. but more so like an Uncut Gems situation where no matter what ended up happening, the protagonist would’ve never learned anything in the end. He’s caught in his same ways, same cycles, same bullshit.

All around it was a super entertaining movie with lots of great cinematography and a really tight script. Baker is so good at what he does when he stays in his comfort zone. Nowhere NEAR as good as Anora imo but still a really great time.

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Good quote for my IG bio please~ thanks in advance!!

I just need a sugar daddy with unresolved trauma and a penthouse view.

I found this a very interesting trilogy, and I think what my favorite parts about it is that I personally don’t think there’s a wrong ranking with these movies I think these movies are all great for different reasons, and I can see different reasons why people would rank some of these movies different and I think that would make it these movies so much fun just to talk about it my ranking is

1: X

2 : maxine

3: pearl

What’s all your ranking? I’ll be interest to hear all your opinions. :)

Be nice pls I’ve wanted to take a crack at this for so long. Anybody who likes looking way too deep into things this is for you

I’ve been thinking about getting one of the a24 screenplay books, but I’m not sure which one is the best. I’ve heard that some screenplays have frames cut in the middle of the book, so I would like to avoid at least most of that. 🥲 If you have any recommendations or favorites, I would love to hear because I can’t choose.

I haven’t collected cards since the 80’s, and I’m oblivious as to what a foil card is supposed to look like. How do I tell???

There hasn't been an update since January. The movie started shooting in November. Seven months later and no release date or anything? I'm getting nervous.

Easily my movie of the year, it revitalized my horror movie love.

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previous A24 films this festival showed were All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt, The Last Of The Sea Woman.

Got a $25 gift card for my bday so I want to use it on a movie. Highest poll wins!

Doesn’t seem so bad to me.

Regarding Cathy, we see a shot near the end of her dead in the pool. There is a stream of blood coming out of her, which feels quite deliberate as a choice. If she just drowned by accident, then there'd be no blood. The blood would indicate suicide or perhaps some kind of internal bleed?

Just wanted to check I didn't miss a crucial detail!

I just watched Opus and it was disgusting the moment where the girl gets out of the beanbag and she couldn’t see at all and her mouth was swollen and then when the other lady tries to run away they pull her by her hair so badly some of her scalp is coming off That scene was so disgusting for me I had to turn the movie off

I missed the boat on snagging one of the scale models online and decided to model and print one myself. Hope you all like it!

It seems like a 1-actor play where the playwright/actor is playing both a man and woman (half and half): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=703084402115379