Zach
@zherring
Woof, such a bummer. Idk what it was about Succession format that worked for Armstrong & Co (Peepshow also an all-timer) but found The Menu similarly cringe and the Mountainhead trailer did nothing for me. I was gonna give it a shot but WoM from friends has been savage.
5 replies
1 recast
2 reactions
Purp🇵🇸
@purp
Its biggest problem is that its satire with zero nuance. Its shot really well, and the acting is really good, but boy is all the fucking nuance sucked clean out of it, its so heavyhanded
1 reply
0 recast
2 reactions
Zach
@zherring
yeah its the whatchamacallit, the Crighton Effect? I squirm the same way when any expert comes on to talk blockchain.
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
Purp🇵🇸
@purp
Lol theres a part where Steve Carell starts going on about someone being a deaccelerationist and I was like OK bet this is it for me. It was ok for what it was, but will probably age well and be pretty nose on in 5 years
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
Zach
@zherring
Astute, time flattens it all the nuance out and it'll probably be accurate to what we remember in 5 years. I'm trying to remember some other movie I saw that aged like that 🤔 ... Similar thing tho. Unrealistic for the time, but an accurate sketch when all was said and done.
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction