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Elemental 2023

★½ Watched 06 Sep 2023

Pixar anthropomorphized morality lesson at an absolute endpoint. So fully exists as metaphor that it begs the question why it even took this approach at all. You know what everyone knows about? Fire. Water. Everyone knows that stuff. Might as well have been about poop and pee.
Terms of Endearment 1983

★★★★½ Rewatched 06 Nov 2023 1

[with commentary | with director James L. Brooks, co-producer Penney Finkelman Cox and production designer Polly Platt]
“It was so important that it be a comedy. The word ‘cancer’ then was just — you couldn’t imagine. It was just a word that nobody wanted to say or deal with at that time. It was a bizarre goal. But it was because the picture had to be a comedy to work.”
I interviewed James L. Brooks.

The Room 2003

★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Aug 2016 6

On an eleventh watch, I realize that Lisa and Claudette talking about breast cancer means that this film technically passes the Bechdel test.
Also, masterpiece.
Far Far Away Idol 2004

½ Rewatched 22 Sep 2016 13

My family went to a house party in 2005. While all the parents drank and chatted downstairs, all the kids were up in the playroom, shooting Nerf guns and watching Shrek 2. When the credits rolled, the host's kids popped into the bonus features and queued up this motherfucker. After every character performed their song, we were asked to vote on who should win. I put up my hand for Donkey's passionate performance of "Disco Inferno," but, of course, Prince…