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Joss Whedon recommended Magnolia (1999) in Movies (curated)

 
Magnolia (1999)
Magnolia (1999)
1999 | Drama
9.3 (3 Ratings)
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"We’re back to opera, we haven’t left it — because Magnolia. If you think about the moment Keanu wakes up as a battery, the moment Lana Turner loses it in traffic and is in this insane hysteria of flashing lights that is completely unrealistic, and then you look at the moment where it’s raining frogs. I saw it, and was like, “Is this going to be one of those movies that I don’t like where he looks down on every one?” I think Alexander Payne and Todd Solondz are super talented, but sometimes I don’t want to sit through their movies because the bile is just unbearable. I didn’t really know PT Anderson’s work that well, or what was going to happen. And then, it turns out he loves people so hard that it rains frogs. There is actual opera in this one. Oh, and BT-dubs, there is a musical number. The license and the observation and the amount that he went for it. The craft and his ability to sustain that much — any one of these movies could have fallen into a puddle of pretension, but the mastery behind them meant that they never could. Jason Robards, who happens to be in two of the movies on this list, him actually dying of actual cancer playing a guy dying of cancer, giving that speech. And Tom Cruise giving the best performance he’ll ever give. It just felt so achingly, weirdly logical to me."

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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken (2017) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020  
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken (2017)
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken (2017)
2017 | Documentary
8
7.5 (2 Ratings)
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Absolutely hysterical, through sheer commitment and idiosyncrasy achieves the once impossible task of turning 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘐𝘯𝘤. into a comedy. I do have a few gripes, one of which being that - since this is objectively more 'professionally-made' than most of his other works, it sort of lacks some of that personal quality which made a lot of Spurlock's docs so distinctive. But overall that's such a minor quibble because this is still just as eccentric. Also gets a bit deceptive towards the end, though even then the base claims it sets out to make are still objectively correct so not a huge issue. Certainly not the first film to tackle this subject and won't be the last either, but it's definitely the most enjoyable - still ripe with enlightening information (if not nearly as much as the first) and insane charisma. I find it endlessly intriguing to see Spurlock create this morbid pitch-black comedy/doc hybrid that acts as this absurd birthing video showing him help raise the monster (faux-healthy fast food hysteria) that he helped create. Also the parody restaurant he makes at the end is hilarious. For anyone else I'd say this "imagine (company)... but honest!" filmmaking is an easy target that sort of has no meaning anymore but naturally Morgan delivers the goods with his ever-watchable personality and trademark filmmaking so here it seems admittedly different. Really good. Better than Where in the 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘖𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘉𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯? and 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦, not as good as 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘥 or the original 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘔𝘦.