The "tortured genius" meme is corrosive and vile, but not because there's no such thing. For the same reason, the television program ALONE is one of the most valuable singular cultural artifacts of the last decade -- people will do astonishing things to themselves, if you give them a framework within which those things are rewarded. Our innate sense of purpose and mission is so much stronger than our ability to realistically self-evaluate and calculate risk. Human beings will try…
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Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire 2023
Indulges, or wallows, in all the things I like least about Snyder movies. Most infuriatingly: he just doesn't care about details. Vibes-only filmmaking, just characters pointing their faces at each other and reciting (internally contradictory) speeches, then slugging it out.
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Married by Christmas 2016
An even more boring and lifeless one of these movies than the average, leavened by a, and I know this sounds impossible and deranged, but a genuinely transfixing, moving, ethereal performance by the lead actress. I've never seen Jes Macallan on screen for a single frame outside of this movie (and I reiterate that this movie is dogshit), but after seeing this I don't know why she's not an Aniston-level star. She's so natural, so comfortable in her character. She's…
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