Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/01/2025100% Nosferatu-pilled. Best movie of the year 030
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Rewatching Slumdog Millionaire. It's difficult to believe that this won Best Picture until you see what it was up against. The Writers Strike's impact lingers, perhaps. 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Don't feel guilty when you shit turds. Turds don't believe in heaven, so they're going to hell. Just stay out of Hell, stupid. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Polishing off tonight with The Holdovers (my 6th-ish watch) . A perfect movie that keeps getting better on every viewing. As good as movies get. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 11/12/2024If i had to nail down in one word why movies (at their average best) are better than TV shows (at their average best), that word would be: COLOURS 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 11/12/2024When food is good it goes to Heaven (pee) and when it's bad it goes to Hell (poo) 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Movies are the medium of the Gods. A collision of all art forms unified for the sole purpose of a single-sitting experience. All movies are miracles, but really good ones require many art forms working at their peak in harmony to delivery a particular aesthetic and emotional impact. 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I'm back on my bullshit (rewatching Conclave). It's so good, for what it is. What it needed was a final act twist revealing that someone had murdered the previous pope. If they could have pulled that off, it would have been immortal. But it's satisfactorily resolved none the less. Good movie! 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I spent a week off of social media, which is something I haven't been able to do since who knows when. Bluesky is like nicotine gum. It's enough to get your fix without having it ruin things. Turns out it is possible to spend multiple days without thinking about Elon Musk. 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I gave Joker: Folie a Deux another shot. Folks, this movie is amazing. Best looking movie of the year by a wide margin. Phoenix's best performance since The Master. It doesn't need to hit on any universal truth since it's such a personal statement from it's flawed but sincere artist. 110
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/20241408 would be a top 10 movie this year, a top 30 movie any time in the last 10 years, and a Stephen King Classic for anybody whose heard of a top 30 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Movies used to have John Cusack in them. 010
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Horror movies used to have Samuel L. Jackson saying things like "please, don't do this" in them. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/20241408 is no masterpiece but goes to show what is accomplish-able when you give a horror movie a budget and stars. Budget + stars + premise = money 130
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/2024back in 2007 you could make 1408, a dumb beautiful movie that is cheap and fun and has John Cusack and made money. Now we cant make that movie for reasons that make so sense to me. , 020
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Just rewatched Unforgiven. An astounding movie emboldened by meta-textual considerations relating to Eastwood's iconography. Not my first time. What stood out to me was how Hackman's earnest though immoral attempt to keep order in his town was more interesting than anything Eastwood attempted. 010
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/2024every liberal calling for pragmatism is a plant. Pragmatism is code for Losing. Pragmatism is code for Losing even when you Win. Pragmatism is code for blaming progressives when they lose. Pragmatism isn't pragmatic. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Boomers spent their entire lives making every decision using the reasoning that "thats for the next generation to figure out." Now that next generation has come theyre saying it's our fault we cant get ahead. They sabotaged us! We should be legally allowed to burgle them. That would be fair 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/2024*Me after getting my 26th follower thinking "I am about to become the most important person in history. i will speak a truth so bold and undeniable that i will unite the world in prosperity"* *my skeets*: Trump is bad 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Conservatism is a sewage system for broken people to pour their useless nihilism into. Rebranding cruelty as inevitability and social sabotage as freedom. They're a scourge and I'm tired of pretending that they're not. 120
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Been rewatching the Pirates trilogy. 1st one is a rock-solid hoot. 2 and 3 get sillier and sillier with each passing minute, but they make up for it by being jaw-droppingly gorgeous and amongst the most impressive productions ever made. It's amazing how good expensive movies used to look. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024 Cherish the people who reach out to you, because at the end of it all, they are all that you are 010
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Wicked, despite being terrible as a movie and a masterpiece of a musical; is effective as a cultural weapon because everything that makes it insufferable lib bullshit came out the Bush era. It’s anti-racism predates Trump. It can’t be called a woke response. 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Elemental (2023): nothing matters except whether or not the romance works. Its an impressive production but the romance doesnt work. Simple as that. Swing and a miss 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Im trying to wash out the dirty taste of The Apprentice (2024) with Elemental (2023)but this movie is somehow even more racist? 200
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The Apprentice (2024): It was a worthwhile exercise to try to explore what any of these asshole might consider relationships, but none of them can muster even that. Maybe that's what wealth is. Bored people saying worthless things to bored people who cannot be impacted by anything that is ever said. 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The Apprentice (2024): It's cathartic to see someone spell out exactly what Trump does in plain sight in a methodical way, but at the end of the day, is it anything? Neither of the subjects have much of an arc. They're both broken, worthless people from the get go, and (spoilers) don't improve. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I just hope every dad makes at last once joke every hour, on the hour. Non-dads too. Dads and non-Dads alike should tell one joke per hour. If you cant think of one, all the better. Bad jokes keep the good ones better and make this terrible planet worth living on. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I've decided to watch The Apprentice (2024) because I'm addicted to being angry. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Conclave would be the 2nd best Best Picture winner in 5 years for me, and it's the 5th best film I've seen so far this year and it's also not that great. Politically, it's got that Argo-sweet-spot where it's well enough made to be conventionally entertaining, but has some sense of "importance" to it 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The final twist in Conclave is exactly the type of empty bozo profundity that could win it Best Picture, and I mean it in the most positive of ways 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The problem with anything usually comes down to some mercurial bullshit that means nothing yet means everything. Like, a ticket to furiosa should cost 15 dollars, one to conclave should be 10 and venom 3 should be 5. its hard to make a law to that effect but im pretty sure thats correct. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024One more thing about Conclave. Fiennes, Rossellini, Tucci and Lithgow have all been circulated as possible Oscar nominees. I think the only actor to have made an impression strong enough to warrant such talk is Sergio Castellitto as Tedesco. The guy was undeniable while onscreen. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I shall continue to post about Conclave until I have either become the champion of this website or until the movie ends (49 minutes) 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The reason why I think Conclave will win Best Picture is because I keep talking about it like it's this fun pulpy bullshit thats easy to enjoy, and the non-movie people I talk to talk about it like it's Schindler's List. Like this is as serious as movies get. 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Sometimes the premise and setting of a movie is so strong that all its other problems fade away. Conclave is such a fun movie and the main complaint I have with it is that I just wish it could have been, you know, better. I wish the lighting was brighter, the colours more bold, the twist better. 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 30/11/2024COWORKER: any weekend plans? ME: ooh, I've got a few tricks up my sleeve but I'll never tell. (I plan on rewatching Conclave) 000
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 24/11/2024It’s kind of incredible that they managed to make a bad movie out of Wicked. It’s like making a bad pizza out of pepperoni and mozzarella. 100
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 23/11/2024poos are refugees from their true home, the ass 010
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I enjoyed Wicked, the musical, as much as anybody else but it's always nagged at me that all of this lore is clearly, plainly, canonically and intentionally established as a fantasy world that a little girl dreamed up and does not actually exist in any shape or form outside of that dream. 110
Octopus from Citizen Kane @grovernixon69.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I like the song Joy to the World by Three Dog Night because the first verse is about how he likes to get drunk with frogs, the second verse is about how much he loves pussy, and the chorus is about wanting fish to be happy. Good song! 020
