-I like how they foreshadowed how much of this movie was going to be Gladiator 2 fighting different types of animals by introducing him mid-argument with a chicken.
-My seventy year old mom who is a pure formalist fan of stand-up comedy to the extent that she has no interest in a comedian’s political motivations, or point of view, or jokes, or the substance of what they’re saying at all, and I believe mostly responds to the subtle musical tones…
There’s a sequence in the beginning of this where Gosling has quit being a stuntman and become a depressed valet who eats burritos all the time and has totally let himself go and has long hair and a scraggly beard and they open this sequence with Gosling taking his shirt off revealing that he has the body of a centipede whose family is about to stage an intervention to get it to stop doing sit-ups as the camera glides over…
Not to sound like my long-term nemesis, the once popular but probably now completely forgotten tweet that was like, “The Golden Girls ad-libbed everything on their show. Betty White was going full method. She didn’t even know there was film in the cameras,” but this sort of has the vibe of a very loose episode of Curb. Some of it is v funny–the gigantic restaurant menus is a good joke–and I thought the scene where Carol Kane gives her like…
Just deleted a whole thing where I was trying to explain the mechanics in how drawing and / or reading comics is a complex experience to unpack and is basically indistinguishable from magic, and of course, I was coming across like if Grant Morrison had a sad adult son who was still blogging on Livejournal because no one had told him yet that it wasn’t still 2006. So I’ll just say that this show felt to me like one of…
