^^Adum’s first reaction to seeing Nathan in the trailer btw

Seeing lots of people annoyed with their audiences’ laughter at Nathan’s presence on screen, especially in the first half of the movie. I personally thought those moments were purposefully funny, and the film later settles into a tone that still allows for laughter.

Seems like the people who didn’t catch the humor of Nathan’s weird cadence aren’t familiar with his work.

This movie did not go at all as I thought and I really didn’t have many expectations.

To me, the strangest thing is the part no one’s talking about. That she doesn’t water down her story to a more defensible position. She doesn’t say that she built a better blood tester than anyone else on the market and that she exaggerated it to get rich investors. She and her boyfriend genuinely act as though she did build the end-all, ultimate, doctor-replacing blood tester and that just no one gets it.

There’s actually a scene in which someone who works for them begins to make that point. That they overpromised but still delivered an impressive medical device that will eventually become the machine she talked about. But when he makes this argument, the boyfriend storms in to shut the interview down. I have no idea why, it was the only convincing argument that made her look slightly good.

Wild documentary. Please give me your thoughts on this movie because I can’t stop thinking about it.

Even the voices are similar!

https://reddit.com/link/1x6um3m/video/adpma8q7govh1/player

With two time Oscar winner director!! This is beautiful

It has been so long since I last drew it, maybe it changed since? A new manestyle, perhaps? And I don't remember which hoof is white.

IDK man I'm bored and I wanna doodle horse-men with movie opinions. Gotta practise drawing horses anyway because I'm in a perpetual state of knight obsession.

You Can See Everything having a longer runtime than the Odyssey was not on my bingo card. What is this movie?!?! I’m much more excited than I already was.

Don’t know the best and most appropriate way to get this news to Adum but wanted him to know since he exposed me to them in the first place

I lowkey wish Aslan was a tiger just for the memes this sub would make.

Oscars 2027 ceremony or Adum and Pals Oscars 2026?

Place your bets below

Thinking of Adum 🦁

Sorry, this is definitely annoying, cause this is obviously from the Animal Crossing soundtrack. I’ve been searching for a while, but because there are literally hundreds of songs, I’ve unfortunately haven’t been able to find it, so I figured asking here would be quicker.

Adum has shared his love for the music video Fantasy by DyE, directed by Jérémie Périn of Mars Express fame. I'm curious what some of your favorite music videos directed by film directors are? For instance, Turn Down for What directed by The Daniels is a fun one featuring both directors as actors.

My personal favorite has to be Treat Me Like Your Mother by the Dead Weather, directed by Jonathan Glazer. In the music video world he is probably better known for the Virtual Insantity video by Jamiroquai, but I always loved the simplicity of Treat Me Like Your Mother. Any fun ones you guys like?

Near the end of the season, a massive student walk-out descends into a full-scale riot where the police are called, and the prom is nearly cancelled, but ultimately allowed to go on.

I was yearning for Sue Snell to jump up on a car with a megaphone to tell everyone that they Live In A Society

based nic cage

(sorry for the long post and the somewhat pretentious title, but I have been thinking about this since yesterday, and wanted to put my thoughts here so I can exorcise them. If this violates the rules or whatever, please remove).

Recently, I discovered this arthouse-adjacent theater in my city, which is like 30 minutes by foot. So, yesterday, I went there for the first time for a screening of Everybody Knows (2018) dir. Asghar Farhadi. Now, while the screen and the seating were actually kinda subpar compared to my local chain theater, the vibes were - and I don't say this lightly - FUCKING IMMACULATE.

The theater itself is situated in an old restored church. The seating is surrounded on both sides by greek-style nude statues, and on the walls beyond those statues, hanged large colorful murals. Above the statues, between the murals, were 6 HUGE wall-mounted fans, 3 on each side, to ensure proper air circulation — and while they were not quiet, they were clearly intentionally designed and spaced in such a way that their noise would blend in with the background. A minute after they had been turned on, I had already forgotten they were even there. All of that gave this place some type of je ne sais quoi that made just being there vaguely enjoyable.

The film started, and I discovered another immense joy that I hadn't considered: the audience. They were diverse of age; some young, some old, one of them even concerningly old, but they all had one thing in common — they had come to this niche arthouse theater that's actually in a restored church, to watch a screening of a 2018 film with 60k views on letterboxd. They were all - at least to some extent - cinephiles. And they knew to follow theater etiquette.

The theater was packed full, but it was so silent. No one photographed the title screen and blinded the audience with their flash. Heck, there wasn't a phone to be found in sight. Very few of them had popcorn or any snacks, and those who did, knew not to munch loudly. No one whispered to their friends. When one person had to leave, they did so very discretely. And, get this, they didn't do an intermission during this 2 hour and 15 minutes film (even a less than 90 minute film will typically have an intermission here, I know, its awful).

The film gripped me hard in a way films rarely and I enjoyed it thoroughly from beginning to end. Its the kind of gripping where you forget that your bladder is full. When the credits rolled and the light came on, I actually looked around and had to gather where I was for like 3 seconds — which is an awesome feeling that I hadn't felt literally since I was a child. So, having just had this really amazing experience, I naturally walked out of the theater, hungry as all hell, bladder full, and had a mini-existential crisis during the 30 minute walk home.

Was it really the film that I enjoyed, or the theater? Or, to put it another way, even if the film is good, just how much did this experience elevate it? One of the things I enjoyed most about the film is the sound design — would my kinda shitty flatscreen that I watch most films on have done it justice? How many films have I watched were hindered by the fact that I can't afford a better TV or a better sound system?

Even beyond that my flat screen, my local chain theater has different sizes of halls, some are better, some worse. One of them has an absolutely humongous screen (not IMAX, just really big screen) and amazing sound. Another has really low sound/speakers. Recently, I watched Digger on that really big screen in an empty hall, and it became my third fave film of the year. But it was only there for 2 days, before it was moved to a shittier screen (no one was watching it). Would it have been my third fave of the year if I had gotten around to seeing it 2 days later?

And even beyond just me, how does that affect discussions surrounding art, and in particular, film? Have the people that have seen Zone of Interest at home really experienced the same film as those that saw it in a theater? What about Oppenheimer? What about The Odyssey, and how the people who will see it at home will have it at a completely different aspect ratio than standard or IMAX? People will always have different personal experiences with a film, but sometimes I wonder—

At last, I had arrived to my apartment. I rush to the bathroom and have a really humongous piss.

Sometimes I wonder, how much of film discussion is people having different experiences to the same stimulus due to personal taste versus people having different experiences due to coming in contact with fundamentally different stimuli.