Mina Davis writer, whiskey drinker, funny third thing.
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Countries I've watched at least 3+ movies from this year so far:
South Korea: 93
USA: 79
Japan: 53
Hong Kong: 48
India: 43
France: 35
UK: 30
Italy: 7
Germany: 7
Philippines: 7
Brazil: 5
Canada: 5
China: 5
Kazakhstan: 4
USSR: 4
Indonesia: 3
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First time since 2022 India won't be #1 at year's end, which wasn't an intentional choice but I have also hit a point where a lot of the Indian stuff I'm currently most excited to see is difficult/impossible to find in English, which is probably the main driver of the shift.
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My hot take is that his best movies are usually the ones he writes with Chung Seo-kyung (Handmaiden, Thirst, Decision to Leave, Lady Vengeance) and his others are often largely chum for chuddy film bro types.
Nick Feldman retweeted
jensen huang (nvidia ceo) finding out his fling alice huang has been a chinese intelligence asset this whole time
My Spectre take is that it's very nearly the best Craig Bond picture for about ninety minutes, which are then unfortunately followed by probably the single worst hour in the entire franchise.
(Falls apart right about when they get off the train)
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I mostly agree with this and have made an adjacent observation before:
Connery (and most other Bonds) are James Bond because it's the best job in the world and they'd never want to do anything else.
Cragi's Bond is Bond because he doesn't know how to do anything else.
(Not that the Craig version actually fixes any of those problems, anyhow. It somehow does worse by its women than either Dalton or Craig, and arguably worse than Lazenby or Connery, too, though it probably still falls short of the cartoonish misogyny of the Moore pictures)
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There's like forty reasons this is a bad idea but the funniest one is that Brosnan has made roughly that movie like five or six times since he stopped being Bond and it's never any good.
I don't know why James Bond producers are auditioning anyone at all when Pierce Brosnan returning to the role is the absolute perfect idea. Have him come out of retirement because MI6 needs a veteran's expertise for a mission that no amateur 007 could ever accomplish. Brosnan still looks handsome as hell and the film would easily make a billion dollars to see perhaps the greatest actor to ever play Bond do it again.
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"Didn't Thing About It For Very Long" Best Actress Alive Lineage
Dietrich, '30-'39
Stanwyck, '40-'45
Hayworth, '46-'47
Stanwyck, '48-'56
Rehman, '57-'66
Deneuve, '67-'69
Kaji, '70-'76
Sridevi, '76-'94
Abril, '95-'01
Do-yeon, '02-'26
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Plenty of actresses I just haven't seen enough of who probably deserve a run (Nargis, Choi Eun-hee, etc.), and plenty who probably deserve a quickie run in there somewhere I couldn't be arsed to pinpoint (Ingrid Bergman, Sophie Marceau), but I think that's a decent general list.
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Really fun watching everyone discover Jeon Do-yeon this week.
For my money, she's been the best actress on the planet since about 2002 or so, so y'all have a lot of great performances to look forward to if you've not yet explored her back catalogue.
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It's not just watch more movies, it's watch different kinds of movies. Check out Bollywood. Roll the dice on that Spanish director you've never heard of. See some directors who don't share your ethnic, cultural, or gender background. Brave that genre you rarely like just in case.
cinephile oomfs is the secret to developing taste just watching more movies?? what do you like about movies.. or look for ig... & how much does your impression of the film depend on the visuals vs the writing/pacing? would u consider acting as part of the former or the latter
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