Not a "good" movie, but interesting as a psychological profile of a specific strand of suburban teenage white boy power fantasies and sexual impulses that animate today's Silicon Valley CEOs and right-wing podcasters.
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Captain America: Brave New World 2025
It's late stage Marvel. You already know if you are into this sort of thing. It wasn't offensively bad as Marvel's worst: (e.g. Secret Invasion), but it didn't also have a single meaningful character beat. No one cares about these characters, they don't spend enough time making us care about Sam Wilson as a person, the politics of the movie are incomprehensible and counter to Sam's previously established moral courage, and none of the villains' motivations make any sense.
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Stranger Than Paradise 1984
In the first scene of the movie, Eva strides through a rundown section of New York City playing Screamin' Jay Hawkins. She knows exactly who she is - a feat for someone at any age.
It's a sort of mission statement for Stranger Than Paradise, and for Jim Jarmusch as a director. There's an unapologetic comfort in being direct, in its single takes, its shabby realism, its watchful silences.
Stranger Than Paradise is also a movie about assimilation, about the…
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A Real Pain 2024
In my note on Garden State, I described it as a low-stakes movie where people hang out and have conversations - except the characters are boring and have nothing to say.
A Real Pain demonstrates how enjoyable the same premise can be when the characters *are* interesting and do have things to say.
Some similarities between A Real Pain and Garden State:
- Bookended by scenes in airports/planes
- Lead characters who have recently lost their maternal figure
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