Recent content by gnarlygninja

Trying to picture a rakshasa using the "wrong" hand to push up glasses actually gave me a headache lmao

That's awkward hand placement for pushing up glasses.

I don't know, they wear a lot of white and that would stain

I'm not sure I'd go so far in this direction either. Noah Baumbach puts a lot of those into dialogue, and those movies generally work for me.

Dialogue not feeling natural is imo a criticism that gets painted with too broad a brush. There are definitely movies/shows where it's a sign of bad writing (usually the ones where it doesn't seem like the writers were aware of it) but there's nothing wrong with choosing otherwise. Aaron...

God, even though I knew the line was coming it was still enough to make me roll my eyes hard enough to make my head hurt! I found it a few years ago going through Academy Award nominees, and while I enjoyed it, I have known far too many people who never got over being told they were smart in...

I'm not sure what the connection between 100 and a ton is, but we don't have the same internet if you think a streaming series needs a good story to be successful. I agree that those books don't have one though, I opened my post by saying they were awful.

I have a friend who spent a lot of the 2010s arguing with me/other friends/randos online that this is gatekeeping. There's a line in the 1990 movie Metropolitan that it always reminded me of. One character is telling a guy she's interested in about her favorite book (I think it's Little...

I think those books are awful but they're very popular with the (relatively) young Gen X and with Millennials who are into fantasy, there are a ton of people under 50 who still read them.

Sandwich shop near me had a new offering called The Carrot. Roast carrots, Monterey Jack, and kimchi on ciabatta put on the plancha. It was good, but they need to use a stinkier kimchi imo.

I may need to revise my thoughts about horror novels, my cat reminded me (by trying to eat them) that I actually like T. Kingfisher's horror books. Although even with those I do usually like the build up more than when the monsters are actually running around.

It was actually completely unintentional, I didn't realize they were by the same author until the cashier at Barnes & Noble pointed it out. But yeah, I had planned on skipping that one lmao. I might give My Heart Is A Chainsaw a read at some point just because I love the title. I'm interested...

I think this applies to an awful lot of internet theories about movies or books, they rarely survive contact with whatever they're about. I'm having a hard time imagining a person watching Wall-E, looking at the humans, and going 'yeah that looks like paradise to me'.

Does it count as a theory if Peoples says they both take place in the same universe?

I read The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter this week. The former is a very good example of a book that's not bad but is very much not my cup of tea, I can see how a person who is very into slasher movies would enjoy it. The chase scene at the end probably was suspenseful enough...