Danny Bowes @bybowes Twitter profile

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Danny Bowes

@bybowes

4 years

man it fuckin rocks that every individual studio is starting their own streaming service, pulling their movies from availability anywhere else, and then not putting up anything from before, like, 2010 on their own shitty platform, this is what I always dreamed of

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Danny Bowes

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5 years

The rituals from MIDSOMMAR

SB Nation

@SBNation

5 years

What should the Super Bowl halftime show be if it wasn't a concert?

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

The thing about nepotism in entertainment is, some of the jobs are specifically for hot people, and who better than the progeny of two hot people, it's just math; on the other hand, being a good writer takes more than being the son of a guy who decapitates people with helicopters

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Danny Bowes

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6 years

Step 1: don't buy one

Mental Floss

@mental_floss

6 years

How to Prevent Your Alexa Device From Recording Your Private Conversations—

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

Ridley Scott's like 200 years old, he shoots film at the speed of light, and he talks shit at full volume, he has won

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

Probably the biggest effect Succession had on me: a while back I wrote a first draft of a horror short about a "Method" actor who insisted on actually dying to do an authentic death scene and the last words he heard were "we blew the take" or something, and I stuck it in a drawer

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

Ready for the "this was the most realistic depiction of depression I've ever seen, I'm catatonic right now, that was literal trauma" era of comedy to be done

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3 years

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Danny Bowes

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9 years

America, where a cop shoots a guy in the back and plants a weapon on him *on video* and we're like "Is he gonna get convicted....?"

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Continually astonishing how many people mistakenly or lazily say something transphobic, get criticized for it, and rather than say "hey my bad I'll try to fix that" make transphobia their entire personality, and eventually their whole life; Rowling, Linehan, Chappelle....

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

non-spoiler Better Call Saul observation: it really is something when a show takes a perceived weakness (you basically know how a lot of it is going to end) and, instead of it being a liability, turns that into excruciating suspense

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Cinema priorities: 1. Style 2. Vibes (arguably 1a, arguably arguably flippable with 1) 3. Character 501. Having a point 18418. Plot

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

Obviously not the key point here but look at PTA attaining canonical One Of The Boys status

Cinephilia & Beyond

@CCinephilia

1 year

Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson have organized an emergency call to David Zaslav that will take place today to advocate for saving one of the greatest brands in cinephilia, TCM.

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Daniel Kaluuya can move his eyebrow an inch and bam there's a page of subtext

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

no one in a movie has fucked in at least five years and there's twenty posts a day like "SEX SCENES: THREAT OR MENACE"

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

blows my mind that these movies used to be in color

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

how the fuck do you make a best 50 rom-coms list without like 35 of them being from the 30s

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

The Oscars: "Why don't people watch the Oscars?" Also the Oscars: "You know what the problem is with our show about movies? Movies"

Variety

@Variety

3 years

The eight #Oscars categories that will be awarded off the air are... - Documentary short - Film editing - Makeup and hairstyling - Original score - Production design - Animated short - Live action short - Sound

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

So many of the bad movie takes on here are the result of thinking plot is the only thing of value

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

Hollywood accounting's greatest masterpiece

DiscussingFilm

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3 years

Despite earning $911M worldwide on a budget of $55M, ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ didn’t make a profit and actually made a $51M loss. (Source: Deadline)

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

Hulu is vigorously hiding the fact that they have Benedetta but apparently they have Benedetta

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Danny Bowes

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5 years

This is most assuredly not the point but imagine a Scorsese theme park.

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1 year

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Cruise/Mann obviously one of the great star-director one night stands, probably the best, but what are some others

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Danny Bowes

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5 years

I think the real reason Scorsese pisses people off is he gets to have his cake and eat it too. He makes these wildly entertaining movies that are also deep, rich texts. Spiritual, reflective but where shit also blows up and people get owned. He gets to be a gangster and a priest.

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

They really did invent movie cameras on the off chance Tony Leung would exist someday, huh

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Danny Bowes

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7 years

The apology, as a form, is not in its golden age

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

You know you're about to see some shit when Tim Robinson is the straight man in the sketch

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

points were made but I would watch the other 119 minutes of this movie

Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@NataliaAntonova

3 years

I have died now RIP me

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

detecting some subtle indicators

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Danny Bowes

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11 years

Polite reminder for straight people who say "who cares" when someone comes out: such gestures are addressed to lonely queer kids. not you.

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

Anthropologically it's kind of interesting what people who have never seen a movie think movies are like

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Danny Bowes

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4 months

Al Pacino claiming to have never done cocaine is a gift because now I'm picturing him with a notepad, hovering inches away from the faces of people doing cocaine so he can study their gestures; you may not find this image funny but it's doing the job for me, pal

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2 years

The idea of defending any of these desiccated husks is even more mysterious than their self-inflicted reputational damage, and indicative of the same poisonous inability to admit being wrong

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Danny Bowes

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5 years

Ray Romano's current character actor phase has yielded consistently outstanding work

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Danny Bowes

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2 months

For no reason in particular thinking of the scene near the end of Inside Llewyn Davis where (spoiler alert) Llewyn's already going through enough and he's walking out of the club and then there's that actual Bob drop that's actually Bob and it just punches Llewyn in the nuts

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Danny Bowes

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6 years

share the plot of your favorite movie in a 2500 word essay that also includes rigorous formal analysis, historical context, and acknowledgement of your personal circumstances that may influence your reaction to it

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Key difference between watching Jackie Chan almost die and watching Tom Cruise almost die: with Jackie it's like "no! Jackie!" but with Tom it's like "I shall miss you, but now you proceed to Valhalla"

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

I have a great idea for the movie business: let's take all those charming actors people like and--bear with me on this, it's a little wild--make better shit for them to be in

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

Just thought about David Lynch as John Ford, man The Fablemans was good, wasn't it

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

Collateral still rules, more writers need to stop being cowards and embrace coincidence and heightened reality, that's right, *heightened reality*, only chumps call shit "unrealistic"

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

Now I don't think I can finish the story, and it really is all because of Jeremy Strong, and the affection for Actor Brain I have solely because of him

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Watching NATIONAL TREASURE for the first time (?) and it was a stroke of genius to build an adventure picture around watching Nicolas Cage think

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Danny Bowes

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8 years

Not going to be believe there's a new Frank Ocean album until it's released, with a notarized certificate of authenticity attached.

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Danny Bowes

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4 years

*shaking twitter like a snow globe til different discourse happens*

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Danny Bowes

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7 years

journalists who get "he was a good kid" quotes from friends and neighbors of nazi terrorists kinda need to follow up with "well, confronted with this evidence that he's a massive pile of shit, what's your revised take?"

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Danny Bowes

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4 years

the only problem with DC statehood is that Marvel is going to want statehood next

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Danny Bowes

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7 years

all the crossover ads are a reminder that like five corporations own everything on the planet

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Danny Bowes

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6 months

What makes this so funny is that the only thing in focus in this shot is Steven Seagal

☦️Jacob🇷🇺Charite☦️ Иагов

@jaccocharite

6 months

Steven Seagal visited the victims of the terrorist attack at Crocus in the center of Pirogov, the Ministry of Health told RIA Novosti. He thanked the doctors for their work and wished the patients recovery.

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5 months

@not_a_heather what is this "be cool" business, that's when the lacerating self-recrimination is supposed to happen

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

WEST SIDE STORY (2021) rules and this isn't meant to minimize all the other ways in which it does but good God Janusz is wilding the fuck out

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

It's nice that the people who make SUCCESSION know exactly why it's good and how to continue making it good

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6 years

the reporter who asked Northam to moonwalk can never pay for another drink again, if journalism is to have any connection to its traditions

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1 year

Suspicion confirmed, longtime mutual went Twitter Blue

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Danny Bowes

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3 months

Top 5 Aspects Of Michael Mann 5. Night shots 4. Stoicism 3. Architecture 2. "I'm talkin to an empty telephone, because there is a dead man on the other end of this fuckin line" 1. Recontextualization of wildly disreputable music

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Danny Bowes

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5 years

One thing I've always loved about Scorsese is his tendency to use a maybe-imperfect take because there's something beautiful in it (one camera bump in CASINO when Stone's *killing* it, one in WOWS where Reiner almost blows the take but he's glowing with joy, etc etc)

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

real, spectacular, etc

josh tenet

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2 years

what the hell. is this real?

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4 months

@coopercooperco this may be that oft-rumored liminal state between over and so back

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

Watching Burn After Reading, this is probably the third or fourth time I've thought "this would be a funny second half of a Michael Clayton double bill"

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Danny Bowes

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7 months

what's your cultural red flag that's entirely an overreaction on your part and/or acting like your one bad ex is every person on earth

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

This is the best answer I've heard to this question

KiLBJJ ⁵ ²³

@KiLBJJ

1 year

NAHHH Anfernee Simons is wild no way he answered that question😭😭

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Danny Bowes

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4 years

I think it's safe to say that the writing economy where the main thing rewarded is the ability to make people angry has resulted in a lot of bad writing and a lot of rich bad writers

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Watching Home Alone, this thing really is set up cleanly and efficiently

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Danny Bowes

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4 years

Hi, I'm rich and white, but I identify as upper middle class and I don't see color. Anyway, the greatest crime in human history is asking me to interrogate anything I've ever thought or said. Thank you for your time.

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Danny Bowes

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5 years

I can see now why everyone's apparently already watched ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD like twelve times, it really does seem like one of the all-time hall of fame hangout movies

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Danny Bowes

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6 years

the four kinds of cinephiles: --seen too few movies --seen too many movies --seen just the right number of movies --never seen a movie, to preserve their purity of judgment

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

We need a list of movies that should never be remade and it needs to be enforced by mysterious and deadly cloaked beings with unnerving eyes

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Danny Bowes

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6 years

what if "mature content" meant that the characters acted responsibly and drew on well-considered life experience to make informed decisions

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Danny Bowes

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1 year

Rewatching Uncut Gems, it occurs to me that every problem The Idol is having could have been fixed by calling it Everybody's Workin For The Weeknd

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4 years

Kind of in awe that Little Richard outlived both Bowie and Prince, neither of whom would have been who they were without him

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Probably the most misunderstood I've ever been on this website was back in the day when I advanced a theory that Paul Dano getting his ass beat meant it was a good movie. People thought I disliked Paul Dano. This is not the case. I respect that he's willing to sacrifice for art.

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Danny Bowes

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3 months

@benschwartz_ @letterboxd whole thing, sadly

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Danny Bowes

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7 years

In honor of Nicole Kidman's birthday, here is a list of her best roles: 1) all

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6 months

@thomas_violence the ai was trained on that chaucer twitter account

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3 years

"A QUIET PLACE PART II" is some asleep at the wheel shit, either call it A QUIETER PLACE or ANOTHER QUIET PLACE or fuck off

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Danny Bowes

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4 years

One thing I periodically yearn for is the decadent/washed phases of artists who died before they could actually have them. Examples: Jimi Hendrix's insane, impenetrable 70s prog records, Bruce Lee's studio-busting 1981 film where he's the first guy to do kung fu in space, etc

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

Enact a reign of terror unprecedented in our or any time

DriftyFilm

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3 years

you wake up as the head of WB, what do you do?

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6 years

That audio clip *really* says "gif"

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

There's definitely a longform piece in how significantly Neil Patrick Harris is cast in things: Starship Troopers, the Harold & Kumar trilogy, Gone Girl, M4trix....

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

the problem with movies now is that they're dumb and boring and they used to be dumb and fucking awesome

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

RIP Pele, who on top of being unambiguously the greatest footballer of his generation, both successfully got Americans to care about soccer in the 70s and stole a movie from Michael Caine, Sly Stallone, and Max von Sydow

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Cinematography: when a computer makes a thing look shiny Editing: when they make the movie shorter Writing: when they tell you who the good guys and bad guys are, in a monologue that begins with the words "you just don't get it, do you"

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

The easiest vow I've ever taken is to never watch a second of an ostensible comedy that gets *positive* reviews like that

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: on the short list for best color film ever

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2 years

The paradox of modern popular cinema: all the shit's for babies, but none of it's anything you can take an actual child to

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Danny Bowes

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10 years

How do you explain Michael Sam to your kids? "Well, you see, a pass rushing specialist plays on passing downs and tries to sack the QB...."

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Danny Bowes

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3 years

NIGHT MOVES rocks, very strong contender for Most 70s Movie

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3 years

"yeah, Joss, this is good stuff, say this in the piece"

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1 year

It must suck to clearly love horror movies but be really bad at making them

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8 years

90% of the room: "Migos....?" 90% of the TL: "MIGOS!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Danny Bowes

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9 years

Sports riots: ok, blow off some steam Pumpkin riots: awww Peaceful protests for human rights: hey, what the fuck is this send in the army

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

@isaacfeldberg They should do it on purpose as a bit

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4 years

RIP Ennio Morricone, the god

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

Free advice: if you think you're better at movies than Howard Hawks? no

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3 years

Now I can't ever see this movie, what if this is true, what would that mean for me

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Danny Bowes

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10 months

Holding out for this format

retroist

@retroist

10 months

Watch Planes, Trains & Automobiles as it was meant to be watched…

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Danny Bowes

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7 years

Fuck Donald Trump, fuck his entire worthless family, fuck everyone sucking up to him out of fear/self-interest, fuck them where they breathe

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1 year

I don't know whether it's just that I really like Men In Black, maybe it has to do with understanding the issues at hand, who's to say, but the fact that movie studios can fuck a guy over who wrote a movie that good that stacked paper that high just doesn't sit right, man

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1 year

The studios ARE losing money, just as they say. My recent Men in Black profit statement proves that the film, though having generated over $595 million in revenue, has actually *cost* Sony over $598 million. SO close, too: off by just .02%/yr. *They* should be picketing *us.*

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Danny Bowes

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2 years

@willmenaker I always remember the look on his face after they get back from Italy and they're driving by the nuclear waste factory or whatever Jersey shit and it cuts to the most blissfully happy reaction shot I've ever seen

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Danny Bowes

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4 years

man HAIL, CAESAR! fucking kicks ass

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