Looking forward to The Wailing. I loved The Yellow Sea. Highly recommend. I prefer it over The Chaser. This director makes damn good crime-thrillers.

Eeek. Frank talking and laughing about the Trump tape and admitting that he was “laughing so hard” listening to Trump brag about Tic-Tacs and kissing beautiful women. You know, Billy Bush is about to get fired from NBC just for laughing too.

Like Devin Faraci, Frank might need a podcast lawyer. The COPO might say “Frank is admitting to laughing so hard while listening to Trump describe sexual assault”. Oh man, I hope Frank is on the podcast this week.

Frank, your lawyer should advise you to put on a bright red V-neck sweater and apologize for laughing and then admit to never getting pussy. The COPO will accept.

Sean, there’s already a series where a drunk solves mysteries, it’s called THE THIN MAN.

No comments on the HORRIBLE CG at the end of The Magnificent Seven??

The crosses in the last shot, the grass, everything was CG for some reason. Wait till you revisit on Baby Blue yer gonna barf. Also super nit picky but the film was titled both The Magnificent Seven in the opening credits and then in the end The Magnificent 7…that shit makes me crazy!

To the Letterboxd Police :
According to the commandments is Jay allowed to rate his VS-porn-blurays if he is only half paying attention while furiously jerking off?

It’s just “locker room” talk. Kinda like how naked bros towel-whipping each other’s tushies is just “locker room” antics. Rat tails forever!

http://ezinearticles.com/?Be-King-Of-The-Towel-Fight:-Master-The-Towel-Whip-(AKA-The-Rat-Tail)&id=5817084

This is exactly correct.

Sean, every one I know thinks Trump is far from ideal (most think he is an idiot), but people are not supporting him because they think they have to vote republican, they are supporting him because they think Hillary is way worse. We have no good choice. Politics is the worst.

I guess I really do need to watch Hillary’s America then.

Love ya, Frankie, but you can be a world class dope sometimes.

If I remember correctly, this episode was all about the Frank narrative. Emily Blunt’s performance is “garbage” (sexist). Frank “hates Antoine Fuqua” (racist). Even the last junk mail actually calls out Frank on his Trump-like, privileged white male transgressions. This episode seems almost scripted!

Actually, Film Junk’s podcast lawyer will clarify that the show is in fact scripted and that Frank’s persona is of the typical privileged white doughy male just for entertainment. The COPO needs to know that there is no record of Frank’s transgressions. No misogyny. No white privilege ignorance that could be misconstrued as racism. Frankie “loves the broads and the blacks”.

All kidding aside, this is way more fun than responding to Mamo and their self-admitted white privilege and Matt Gamble’s white knight/SJW ramblings. It’s no fun when the adversary concedes before the game even starts. That’s why Frankie’s the best. He’s the new Reed Farrington punching bag. And don’t get me started on Film Junk & Reed Farrington..aka the Fez of the group. At least, the show mostly evolved out of it.

It’s just the Clinton Derangement Syndrome talking. Nobody, literally nobody in the history of Earth, has taken more published or broadcast axe-grinding-for-ratings-and-book-sales shit than she has. Some of it sticks, sure — I believe she’s corrupt in the usual ways. But never forget, while Bill was the original official target of the hair-on-fire industry, many within it not-so-secretly admired his philandering. No such luck for Hillary, who became Enemy #1 for all time when it became clear she wasn’t going to help bring him down.

Which one of these guys is the snort-laugher?

I mean George W. Bush was a war criminal, so I think the country can take the hit. What baffles me is how anyone in their right mind could trust Trump with Nuclear access codes, especially over a career-politician that has proven herself capable and poised on the world stage.

On the food question…how about Looper. If JGL and Bruce Willis would’ve been eating their big plates of steak and eggs (rare and scrambled) they might have not have gotten into such a tense disagreement in that diner scene. Instead the food just sat there while they argued…and well, it doesn’t end well for the poor uneaten food. It was hard to concentrate on their important discussion while their delicious breakfasts just sat there.

Wonder what the other junkers think – getting to be time for a Vinegar Syndrome premium pod?

You guys throw around 5 stars waaaaay too easily. A 5/5 is a 10/10 which is a 100%, which implies an absolutely perfect masterpiece that has no flaws. When whoever described the wailing didn’t even sound like he loved it. Come on guys

Well, I guess there are two issues here really. One is the idea that a 5/5 should be an absolute perfect masterpiece that only comes around once every few years. That’s a personal thing and I don’t agree with that. I think a 5/5 is a movie that is among the best in its genre and does what it sets out to do perfectly, perhaps while innovating or doing something unique as well. It doesn’t mean it is 100% without flaw. I don’t know if I think any movie is 100% without flaw. I can assure you that The Wailing was still one of our favourite movies of the year as I believe both Jay and I had it on our top 10 lists for 2016.

The other issue is that our praise or criticism of a movie during a discussion doesn’t always match the ratings we give. That’s a tough one. Sometimes the conversation just goes where it goes and we lose perspective on how it sounds. We don’t plan out our reviews ahead of time and in most cases we don’t even have notes. We are much more interested in the casual conversation than attempting to be film critics (which we clearly are not). Ultimately all we can do is try to be open about our own biases and the ridiculousness of rating movies in the first place. Hope that helps a little bit.