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  1. That's so cool. Definitely going to an IMAX showing now.
  2. Super excited about this one. I see that they shot an IMAX version - I might try to catch that one.
  3. The scene with Carrie Coon's speech had me tearing up; as a 40-something woman myself I found it very touching and relatable. Their storyline was the best developed (of this season) and the resolution made the most sense to me. Belinda's going to have to learn how to launder money real quick. That spa she talked about opening with Pornchai could've helped. Did it not occur to Lochlan to clean out the blender before making something in it? I realize that no one in that family has probably ever cleaned anything themselves, but you still wouldn't want to leave gunk on the bottom before making a fresh smoothie, right? I loled at Piper's "the food was vegetarian but I could tell it wasn't organic" and Victoria's facial expressions during the entire speech.
  4. There has been discussion of an all-stars season. Not super serious discussion, but a nonzero chance.
  5. So, Rick has spent his whole life going after this guy who supposedly murdered his dad (and going off just his mom's word, at that), and he couldn't be bothered to watch a single Sritala movie before going to her house? Or just look up a list of them so he could name one? Or come up with a storyline for the fake movie he and Frank are trying to sell her on? Agree with whoever said Tim has done nothing the last few episodes - all he's done is mope around and fantasize about killing his family. There's so much great talent on this show but the writers have been kind of lazy this season, IMO. They've especially done Walton Goggins and Jason Isaacs a disservice with their storylines.
  6. My guess is that he was talking about all of Gemma's innies - remember, he was into at least one of them.
  7. Britt Lower confirmed that it's Helly.
  8. There are going to be so, so many gifs of Milchik dancing with Choreography and Merriment and I cannot wait. I was pissed at Mark at the ending, but his and Helly's behavior tracks with the idea that this season has been the innies' "adolescence." He's not really thinking big picture. Otherwise, great episode and I'm glad Brienne of Tarth got a few hits on Drummond AND saved Emile the goat.
  9. The ring he made Gretchen out of a finger trap. Omg. My middle-school boyfriend would've gotten so, so lucky with that move.
  10. Been on a Bong Joon-Ho kick lately and this is now one of my favorites of his films. Funny, dark, and twisty. The actress who plays the mother is famous in Korean film for playing the archetypical mother, which is relevant for reasons you'll see.
  11. austingirl

    Novocaine

    Jack Quaid's face is a really perfect blend of both his parents. Meg Ryan from the nose up, with Dennis Quaid's smile. And speaking of nepo babies, it took me a sec to figure this one out, but once I got there I was mad it took me so long.
  12. You know what she's thinking.
  13. Right; I was just responding to the guy who said she was a caricature of Austin like the family was a caricature of Duke and UNC grads.
  14. It was really cute when she got him to cave and go on the boat because she brought out the fake tears.
  15. I'm glad they're finally pulling things back together. I had to double check that there are 10 episodes this season, because the last words Mark said tonight were "she's alive", which were the last words he spoke in the S1 finale. They gave us a big clue as to where they are physically located - they said Ms. Huang was being sent to a school in Svalbard, and she was traveling by shuttle. If she's not getting off the shuttle and onto a plane, then Kier is somewhere relatively close to the farthest northern city in Norway.
  16. Nah, that kid looks just like his dad. I've lived in Austin for 25 years, and if they hadn't said she was from Austin, I never would've gotten that. She's not even trying to have a bad accent. She could be a generic rich white lady from anywhere. Usually when people stereotype Austin, they go with the liberal hippie trope.
  17. Can we get back on track? How it started: How it's going:
  18. Ohhhh got it. Yeah, they were definitely hinting at that.
  19. Saw it this weekend. It was fine, but RPatt's voicework is really top notch. I forget that his regular voice is a normal British guy. Anyway, why would people be leaving? Trying to think of something hugely offensive and I'm coming up short...
  20. Well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
  21. I mean, I guess it's like going to a football game vs watching it at home.
  22. Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets.
  23. She was her lactation consultant. Devon had that amazing line about how Cobel committed lactation fraud.
  24. I think this is a big part of it. I haven't gone to a non-Alamo theater in at least a decade because they do a great job of getting rid of many of the things that suck about other theaters - hordes of unaccompanied high-schoolers, people on their phones, people talking, etc. The pre-shows aren't commercials but montages of interesting footage that somehow relates to the film. And put me in the pro-trailer club - I love seeing glimpses of what's coming up and getting excited about what to see next. That said, it's still expensive, especially if you're eating and drinking. These days, I tend to ration my movie-going to stuff that seems made to watch on a big screen or with a big group, or things that my kids want to see. Anything else I stream. As they've gotten older, movies have stayed the thing that we all still love, so when one of them asks if we can go see something in the the theater, it's usually an easy yes. And I still love going to the movies by myself. If I find myself with a day off from work and nothing else to do, that's usually where I end up. The last component, and what I think Sean Baker was really getting at, is that we miss the community aspect of movie-going when we watch at home, and that community aspect is worth more than we think. I think about this often as I sit at my house with everyone in the same room, but on their individual laptops watching stuff by themselves with their Airpods in. The movies are one of the few experiences left where you really have to all focus on the same thing at the same time. I'm extremely introverted, and if left to my own devices, I could easily get lost in my own head, my own books, my own computer, forever, with nary a word spoken to someone else. And while that's honestly the dream, I don't think it's the best thing for me, or society in general. Anyway, that ended up being a lot longer than I planned. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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