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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 year

Alright X-ers, come find me in the good place. See you on the other side!

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

Stellan Skarsgård giving perhaps the best answer to the ubiquitous "what do you think about superhero movies" question;

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 year

The way that Disney has convinced so many terminally online people that consuming their product isn't just progressive, but a moral good, should be studied in a lab.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

Here's your daily reminder that the ending of TÁR isn't what Todd Field thinks is the worst thing that could happen to Lydia Tár, it's about the worst thing Lydia Tár thinks could happen to Lydia Tár.

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Mattie Lucas

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9 months

Shocking! MAESTRO completely ignores Leonard Bernstein's tutelage of Lydia Tár. Bradley Cooper should be ashamed of this whitewashing of history. Tell the whole truth, Bradley!

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

The "auteurs are narcissistic rage monsters" for not liking superhero movies lady everyone keeps retweeting thinks Rome is hoax. Yes, Rome. The whole thing. Hard to take her beef with auteurs seriously if she thinks "Rome bros" are also a thing that exist.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

9 months

It's wild looking at images like this and comparing them with the murky gray aesthetic that is so rampant in modern Hollywood films. We used to be a proper country, etc.

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9 months

man technicolor fucked

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 years

Academy members don’t know what film editing is.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 month

As someone who grew up watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and still holds affection for both, it's been fascinating to watch their respective career trajectories, with Colbert shamelessly carrying water for the DNC, and Stewart losing favor for calling them on their BS.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

6 months

Remember that time Damien Chazelle made a movie about a grieving father trying to fill the void in his life by throwing everything he had at going to the moon, and a bunch of bozos got mad because he didn't show the precise moment he planted the American flag?

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Mattie Lucas

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3 years

Watching A QUIET PLACE PART II and thinking about how if this were real and anyone tried to keep people quiet so the aliens wouldn't eat them, anti-maskers would absolutely be standing in the middle of the street yelling as loud as they could because "you can't silence me."

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

Ok WTF...

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 years

I love FROZEN II, but I’m so happy that MISSING LINK won. It’s the only nominee that’s not a sequel or a remake and I hope it inspires more people to seek it out. #GoldenGlobes

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

The people in that audience watching her conduct at the end of the film are not the punchline and it's bizarre to me to see people still acting like the film is looking down on them and their country. This is all about who Lydia is and what she thinks she's above.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

Here's the full interview in The Guardian. Good stuff!

Stellan Skarsgård: ‘My tips for fatherhood? Don’t lie. Even about Santa Claus’

The Swedish actor best known for his collaborations with Lars von Trier – as well as Marvel movies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Mamma Mia! – answers your questions about Lars von Trier, porn and...

www.theguardian.com

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Mattie Lucas

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7 months

The wildest thing about watching so many people get upset about Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech, is realizing just how many people are content with being the woman on the left, when they could be the one on the right.

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

Either of these women would make fantastic Beat Actress winners this year. They don't see themselves as rivals and I wish Twitter would stop treating them like they are.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

@vertigay314 Nothing rules up puritan Twitter more than being right (which you are). If he's thinking every stage kiss is accompanied by feelings of real lust to the point he considers it infedelidy, that's creepy! And the problem here is him. Period.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

Y'all I think we can get her on board with Birds Aren't Real but like...unironically.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

11 months

It's so weird to me that so much of the anti-sex scene discourse stems from "sex scenes are awkward to watch with my parents" which should tell you exactly where this is coming from and why it should be ignored.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

9 months

Leftist publications start hiring real film critics challenge.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

Her being "brought down a peg" is completely relative to who and what she thinks she's better than.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

4 years

Andy Ngo is a fascist, my dude.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 year

My favorite part of this take is that DUNE II already had that window blocked off and THE MARVELS delayed into it. DUNE isn't "taking" anything from Marvel. It was there first.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 year

Don't make me defend Tom Cruise, but "single-handedly?"

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

6 months

I watched William Friedken's SORCERER for the first time last night on the @criterionchannl ...

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 years

It is possible to love Disney and also acknowledge that they are a massive, multi-billion dollar corporation that makes problematic decisions, puts profits over people, and is coming dangerously close to monopolizing cinema. Always speak out and hold them accountable.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

I'm losing my mind.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 month

Right now I think John Oliver is probably doing this sort of thing better than anyone. Other leftists make fun of him but I don't think there's anyone out there truly identifying systemic issues better than him, even if he isn't directly offering socialist solutions.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

Then wtf was Goosebumps? Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? Are You Afraid of the Dark? Stop using the term "gr**ming" to describe things it was never meant to describe. You're just helping reactionaries at this point.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

@misterminsoo Such a wild conspiracy when there are actual women of color in Hollywood who passed for white at that time like Merle Oberon that could be studied.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

I stg if "Rome isn't real" lady is my last hit tweet before Twitter implodes...

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

4 months

Here's @Variety casually misgendering Emma D'Arcy in a story about how they got misgendered on the red carpet. Do better, Variety.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 month

I think Colbert is a genuinely good guy. But it really feels like the guy who stood next to George W. Bush and read him to filth is gone. I get that the Late Show gig necessitates this to maintain favor with high profile guests, but his edges have really been sanded off.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

@JuanTequila2 Yep - she's being controlled by the music rather than the other way around. When she prided herself on controlling time.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

That moment in the new SHAZAM trailer where he says "I just through a truck at a dragon! I love my life!" pretty much sums up everything that bothers me about modern blockbusters.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

@RasberryRazz It's a guild rule thing since he collaborated with different people on separate drafts, so each writing pair gets their own credit. It looks weird but makes sense.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

I love that THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH is basically a modern German Expressionist film. The spirits of Murnau, Lang, and Wiene seem to be hanging over every frame.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

@Kemloten1 I just don't read that scene that way. It feels like a set up for the audience and your own views are going to determine how you react there. That's the scene that really reveals her as an abuser - she's bullying that student. The film is not on her side in that scene.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 month

But seeing Colbert host a political comedy show that's essentially predicated on Republicans bad/Democrats good is kind of depressing because it just seems so bland and safe.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

I need leftist publications to hire more media savvy writers...

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 months

Turning Oscar predictions into a year round industry that frames the entire artform as a horse race defined by a single yearly awards show has done more harm to film criticism than any personal anecdote in a review ever has.

Will Sloan

@WillSloanEsq

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I dunno, call me old fashioned but I think it was more fun when it was Roger Ebert dropping hyperbolic, often hilariously wrong takes from the Cannes Film Festival instead of, I dunno, “Oscar Buzz Larry” or whatever other goofballs are over there now.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

There is absolutely no reason to make Jamie Lee Curtis of all people an awards season villain.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 year

This is *profoundly* missing the point. I'm not talking about DUNE. Y'all can shit on DUNE all you want, that has nothing to do with this weird corporate stanning.

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

@paulbarrow1 Yep that's the one. A lot of folks asking about why she takes the assignment so seriously and that's it. Her ego won't allow her to see herself as anything but the mythical Lydia Tár. But she's completely neutered by the metronome. She is no longer in control.

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Mattie Lucas

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3 years

@6demonbagg @Caulimovirus @TheChewDefense It's a pseudonym that was used by several Tribune writers. So not even an actual person and they got "Top Critic."

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 years

@Glenn__Kenny

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 year

@GuyLodge Spelling women "womxn" or any other variation like that is such a red flag.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

When you find out someone on Film Twitter is straight...

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Mattie Lucas

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1 year

@jessehawken I know there's a lot of petty in-fighting on the left, but I do think liberals tend to get very easily distracted by small potatoes incrementalism because they've convinced themselves that simple bare minimum "inclusion" without real justice is the answer to everything.

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Mattie Lucas

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5 years

Eisenstein is rolling in his grave.

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Mattie Lucas

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4 months

@mattxiv My favorite part is where he says he shouldn't play women's sports because he's a biological male so he would just beat them naturally...."

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

7 years

Got my @KamalaHarris #teamkamala sticker in the mail today!

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

9 months

I see Lydia Tár denialists have found my post. Your lies will never win! Hollywood has tried to hide the truth from us for far too long.

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

...whut?

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Mattie Lucas

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1 year

@Gaylaxian This isn't about DUNE.

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Mattie Lucas

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1 year

@RasberryRazz I don't understand the pushback. Like even if they're not your cup of tea they're still worth analyzing and understanding, even if it's to understand what you DON'T want to do. The incuriosity is staggering.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

People are losing their damn minds over lists that are meant to reflect nothing other than two critics' personal opinions and it's deeply weird.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

Mel fucking Gibson has a new movie coming out NEXT WEEK. For the love of god...

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2 years

Hollywood will let actual pieces of shit slide forever, but wring its hands over the most inconsequential nonsense

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Mattie Lucas

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1 year

Ehhh gonna limit those comments to people I follow now. I'm not trying to start a fight about DUNE in the comments. DUNE being problematic or not isn't really what this is about.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

This is one reason why it infuriates to me when people try to erase this aspect of the Holocaust. The queer people in the camps didn't get liberated - they got re-imprisoned, because the Allies decided that was one aspect of Hitler's atrocities they were OK with.

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@OwenJHurcum

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The queer people that were sent to Nazi Concentration Camps but survived until the Allies liberation of the Camps were re-imprisoned because it was still considered a crime in West Germany. That particular law not being fully repealed until 1994.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 years

DisTwitter: “Your employer doesn’t owe you anything!” When are these trash bloggers going to stop pretending to be liberals? A multi-billion dollar corporation can afford both main entrance passes AND Disney+ subscriptions. One is worth $60 a year, the other worth thousands.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

EEAAO was in my top ten of the year but I can't remember the last time I saw a movie produce such wildly obnoxious takes from both its fans and its detractors. All of y'all need to chill.

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

@suspiraserhead Ok but PARASITE called...

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

SOUL and WOLFWALKERS are both great films, and rooting for one of them does not have to come at the expense of the other.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

The fact that "Drive it Like You Stole It" from SING STREET wasn't nominated for Best Original Song will forever be a blot on the Academy's blot-filled record.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 years

@rianjohnson A studio rep actually tried to convince me of the same thing at my press screening when I told them how impressive it was that it was made to look like once single take. 😂 I just smiled and nodded and went about my day.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

It's so funny to me how THE POWER OF THE DOG makes the most boring people on this app apoplectic with rage.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

Right on cue...

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 years

Every idiot on Twitter has at least one other idiot who will defend them.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

7 months

Looking back, I'm not sure we're going to see a 2023 film more eerily descriptive of our current moment than THE ZONE OF INTEREST - and how people are reacting to its filmmaker's POV has become a kind of litmus test that can't be unseen.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

Kids like scary things! When I was a kid I was fascinated by the horror section in the movie rental places. I loved the Universal Monsters. I'd devour stories about ghosts and cryptids from the library. Let kids be kids and don't make it weird.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

9 months

Why are leftist publications so bad at this? You have a great opportunity yo examine cinema from a leftist lens but it's almost always this kind of shit instead.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 years

There are actually people in my mentions right now defending this guy which just goes to show that I could tweet “the sky is blue” and some cishet white dude would reply “well actually the blue in the sky is just the reflection of the oceans...”

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

4 years

@momochora_ @crawdadMcCray @dc224 @shutupmikeginn “Babe look...LOOK! That’s STAN LEE babe!” “K.” *returns to phone game* I’m sure they’re still together and in a loving, deeply committed relationship.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 months

What is wrong with this guy?

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

1 month

@AjMurray21 Colbert consistently makes it clear whose side he's on, while you still get the feeling that Stewart is truly exasperated by the charade of the whole corrupt system in way that doesn't feel like mealy mouthed centrism.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

The anti-sex in movies crusaders act like they're coming from a progressive place, but it's just giving off weird western-trad Handmaid's Tale vibes and it's so unsettling seeing how quickly y'all fall in line with fascist adjacent thinking.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

5 months

In retrospect, the Academy nominating DRIVE MY CAR for Best Picture is probably one of the coolest things they've ever done.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

Increased access to film festival is a good thing. Full stop. Gate keeping and exclusivity are inherently classist and privileged and I can't believe this is even being debated.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

Rewatched THE PIANO last night for the first time in maybe 20 years and just marveled at how one of the greatest film scores of all time did not get nominated for an Oscar.

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Mattie Lucas

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7 months

Emma was great but my heart breaks for Lily Gladstone. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON going home completely empty handed feels wrong. #Oscars

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

@ComplexCut Exactly. I think there are som very uncharitable reads of it going around but depiction doesn't equal endorsement and I think the POV is getting grossly misread.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

2 years

I used to love awards season. Now so much of it is the most insufferable people on the internet making mediocre movies their entire personality for a few months and insisting supporting their chosen fave is somehow a moral imperative.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

9 months

"I saw 5 movies this year and only 3 of them were good. What a shit year for movies!"

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

My daughter is 3 - she doesn't watch "horror" but she loves things like Disney's Haunted Mansion. She will point at the ghosts and tell them they don't scare her. It helps her feel brave.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

9 months

The article itself is even more embarrassing. Talking about all the movies they haven't seen because they haven't opened near them yet so they can't comment on whether or not they're good - THEN WHY ARE YOU WRITING THIS? Why should we listen to you?

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Mattie Lucas

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4 years

@momochora_ @crawdadMcCray @dc224 @shutupmikeginn I had that almost that exact same experience with INFINITY WAR, except the girl was playing a game on on her phone the whole time and the boyfriend kept trying to explain who everyone was but she clearly didn’t care.

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

I think that's one reason why I appreciated AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER so much. It's so sincere and doesn't feel like it's embarrassed by itself, and doesn't feel the need to create this ironic distance between the audience and the action.

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Mattie Lucas

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@IxnayMatryoshka Yeah that's the tragedy of it. We see one person escape and one resign to suffocation - continuing to apologize for simply taking up space. It's heart wrenching.

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

3 years

Film scores I've loved this year - SPENCER, THE FRENCH DISPATCH, THE GREEN KNIGHT, PASSING, THE LAST DUEL, DUNE, ETERNALS, FEAR STREET, LAND, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, NO TIME TO DIE. What are some of your favorites?

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Mattie Lucas

@cinemattie

4 years

"WhErE's My NaZi RePrEsEnTaTiOn?"

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Mattie Lucas

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1 year

@Gaylaxian Ok.

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

The OP is talking about a horror themed Fortnight skin, just for context. Like come on...

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5 years

@MattieJane_005 That Minnie-Van driving by like...

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Mattie Lucas

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3 years

Awards pundits getting mad at critics for awarding smaller non-English films like DRIVE MY CAR is always so funny to me. Like why does this bother them so much?

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Mattie Lucas

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7 years

@ava I’ve never been a football fan, but I’m a fan of Kap’s!

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Mattie Lucas

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2 years

"People saying that words are violence has caused actual violence and that shows that words aren't really violence." Real galaxy brained shit from B*ri W*iss, here.

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Mattie Lucas

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@sedderaside