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Thinking about promoting The Tree of Life into my will-then-be Top 12. I’ve seen it about seven times and… wow. Last time a film like this came out was 2001: A Space Odyssey in ’68, and that’s my favorite film.

Also didn’t like Meek’s Cutoff as much as everyone else, even though I thought Wendy & Lucy was pretty good. I think the director should do more period work, though, since her modern stuff is fairly plodding.

Tabloid was crazy. I usually have a hard time for Morris documentaries with regards to what is the truth, etc., but since this one was so wacky it didn’t really matter. Also makes me weary of Mitt Romney being Mormon and the probable GOP frontrunner. And I knew you’d like this because of the motion graphics!

While I still haven’t seen The Ides of March (big Clooney-as-director fan except, uh, Leatherheads), I think my top three are The Tree of Life, Contagion, and Moneyball. Yeah, a bit on the Hollywood side, but I am the Hollywood correspondent, so why not?

Speaking for myself, about half of my likes are given out because I’m in either one of two moods:
1. I want to stay/get on someone’s good side with the absolute minimum possible expenditure of effort, or
2. The person that liked my photo is cute. In which case, I like theirs right back (everyone silently e-flirts, get over it).

Nobody cares about “criticality” when it’s combined with networking; the fear of burning bridges tends to win out, and whatever “critical discourse” is had winds up happening in person, or over private message.

God.

The first Sherlock was unreasonably good. Will definitely catch the second… sometime. Agreed about The Thing, but I think the most horrific remake in the history of cinema is Straw Dogs. Don’t fuck with Peckinpah. Next thing you’ll know it’ll be goddamn Taxi Driver.

Videodrome remake? Fuck that. I need to start making a hit list for whoever greenlit these things. Reboots for franchises less than a decade old are bad enough, as are additions to long-dead series (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, etc. etc.).

Quite ironic: lady walks in theatre a little late, sits, flares up with a relentless whooping cough, and then simultaneously, on-screen, the film fades in from black with a j (audio) cut of coughing. Whooping cough on-screen and off-screen. Throughout the flick, she would cough and the audience was a little aprehensive and perturbed. Talk about diagetic and non-diagetic coughing. Now that’s what I call 3D.

The score had some fat synths hits.

Just like you guaranteed, I washed my hands immediately after the film+credits — I dropped my pen under my chair — my hand sloooped into some goop and I was like, YUKKY, wash my hands, GWEN PAL virus.

Trailers: new Sherlock Holmes is a must see (the first one was remarkable). Remaking The Thing is an abomination. Shameless remake after remake. What’s next? Suspiria? Oh, wait, that’s happening.

(And who the F does Ehren Kruger [writer, Transformers 3] think he is? I cannot believe he has the audacity to even attempt remaking Videodrome. NO WAY, JOSE. F off and jump off a building.)

…love how we hijacked the thread on our own site with a discussion of fonts.

And oh yeah, I started using Futura for the credits on my MNKINO shorts.

My sister has a print journalism degree, and she really hates that I always used sans serif because of readability blah blah etc.

Acropolis
Akzidenz-Grotesk
Avant-Garde
Courier New
DIN
Frutiger
Futura
Georgia
Monaco
News Gothic
OCR B
Swiss 721
Times New
Trade Gothic
Univers
Whitney

I need more serifs on my go-to list.