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Reading Giovani’s Room bothered me when I was a kid
I know this is going to be crazy
Reading Giovani’s Room bothered me when I was a kid
I know this is going to be crazy
‘Eddington’ (dir. by Ari Aster) | Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone | A24
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Reading Giovani’s Room bothered me when I was a kid
I know this is going to be crazy
choc_cardigan
Squad
This looks like the type of movie fukkery that's been missing from the game.
Have we ever seen a run like Pedro’s.
Not necessarily quality but quantity….this nikka is legitimately in everything.
Not necessarily quality but quantity….this nikka is legitimately in everything.
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
I have an idea for a movie-
And I known an actor who should be in it!
And I known an actor who should be in it!
Loved it the most when the film keyed in on the political rivalry and boiling tension between Joaquin and Pedro’s characters. That shyt was gripping. It does some things later on that lost me completely and particularly in the last act.
Aster does black comedy really well though. This was the most I’ve ever laughed in a film from him. He was on some Coen Bros type shyt here. Either subtle shots like Pedro hoarding rolls of toilet paper or something as loud as Joaquin navigating his way through protest chaos with a fukkin’ gimbal in his hand. These moments conjured up some surreal memories from the pandemic, some I’m witnessing even now in 2025 sadly, but Ari’s style of humor made what was a cold-hearted, cynical take on the world more digestible to me.
It wasn’t the politics that was the problem for me here. TSC fam would get the comp, but this felt like the equivalent of watching a wrestling match that’s teetering on the edge of being a classic, only to end in a DQ. The DQ to me was Ari sniffing his own farts in that last hour and while I appreciate his swings in filmmaking, I can’t help but feel as if he is simultaneously drowning creatively ever since Hereditary and Midsommar.
Aster does black comedy really well though. This was the most I’ve ever laughed in a film from him. He was on some Coen Bros type shyt here. Either subtle shots like Pedro hoarding rolls of toilet paper or something as loud as Joaquin navigating his way through protest chaos with a fukkin’ gimbal in his hand. These moments conjured up some surreal memories from the pandemic, some I’m witnessing even now in 2025 sadly, but Ari’s style of humor made what was a cold-hearted, cynical take on the world more digestible to me.
The way Pedro got clapped. 
Scenes like this are dope af but nerve-wracking at the same time because I always wonder if the film will either rise to the occasion onwards or crumble apart.
With Eddington, I thought it was the latter. It feels so contradictory to say the story lost edge as soon as gunfire is introduced, but it really did for me. Pedro played a confident a$$hole well enough to be the perfect foil to Joaquin and just like that, he’s gone. Nobody else could step up. Not even the over-the-top “Antifa” terrorist attacks.
Scenes like this are dope af but nerve-wracking at the same time because I always wonder if the film will either rise to the occasion onwards or crumble apart.
With Eddington, I thought it was the latter. It feels so contradictory to say the story lost edge as soon as gunfire is introduced, but it really did for me. Pedro played a confident a$$hole well enough to be the perfect foil to Joaquin and just like that, he’s gone. Nobody else could step up. Not even the over-the-top “Antifa” terrorist attacks.
It wasn’t the politics that was the problem for me here. TSC fam would get the comp, but this felt like the equivalent of watching a wrestling match that’s teetering on the edge of being a classic, only to end in a DQ. The DQ to me was Ari sniffing his own farts in that last hour and while I appreciate his swings in filmmaking, I can’t help but feel as if he is simultaneously drowning creatively ever since Hereditary and Midsommar.
Jefe Blanco
All Star
Crazy to say but Pascal is not present enough here. The movie is at its best when Pascal is butting heads with Phoenix in the opening act. There’s some decent laughs before this turns into a soulless caricature of right wing foolishness. It’s like a horrible SNL skit stretched out to two and a half hours.
Bigly disappointing.
Bigly disappointing.
Black Excellence
All Star
Loved it the most when the film keyed in on the political rivalry and boiling tension between Joaquin and Pedro’s characters. That shyt was gripping. It does some things later on that lost me completely and particularly in the last act.
Aster does black comedy really well though. This was the most I’ve ever laughed in a film from him. He was on some Coen Bros type shyt here. Either subtle shots like Pedro hoarding rolls of toilet paper or something as loud as Joaquin navigating his way through protest chaos with a fukkin’ gimbal in his hand. These moments conjured up some surreal memories from the pandemic, some I’m witnessing even now in 2025 sadly, but Ari’s style of humor made what was a cold-hearted, cynical take on the world more digestible to me.
The way Pedro got clapped.
Scenes like this are dope af but nerve-wracking at the same time because I always wonder if the film will either rise to the occasion onwards or crumble apart.
With Eddington, I thought it was the latter. It feels so contradictory to say the story lost edge as soon as gunfire is introduced, but it really did for me. Pedro played a confident a$$hole well enough to be the perfect foil to Joaquin and just like that, he’s gone. Nobody else could step up. Not even the over-the-top “Antifa” terrorist attacks.
If wasn’t the politics that was the problem for me here. TSC fam would get the comp, but this felt like the equivalent of watching a wrestling match that’s teetering on the edge of being a classic, only to end in a DQ. The DQ to me was Ari sniffing his own farts in that last hour and while I appreciate his swings in filmmaking, I can’t help but feel as if he is simultaneously drowning creatively ever since Hereditary and Midsommar.
The first half is some of the most fun I’ve had for a film in a very long time. The humor was very subtle and ironical, entire theater was cracking.
The second half was brilliant to me because it was a showcase of “how do you balance a deliberate slower pace and a semi-left field plot line while maintaining an interest for the casuals and movie lovers to enjoy.”
And that’s really what I took from the entirety of this. Ari is trying to make a film that allows him to flex his creativity while simultaneously making something visually appealing for multiple audiences. The issues you highlight are concerns but it didn’t bother me, I thought he succeeded especially with how everything stayed central to the story. I also give kudos to:
-how consistent the pacing was
-the acting
-the secondary characters
Ari has always been great at establishing lesser characters to have significant to the story but this might been his best usage. The Indian officer, the white guilt boy, his mother in law, very sublime.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
I'm saying. this dude is literally getting ALL the jobs. plus he's gonna be playing mando again in the new movie.
Seeing this now...didnt realize this shyt 2.5 hours
But it is trippy revisiting 2020...seems like decades ago...and not 5 years ago.
I thought stone would be sheriff's daughter...not wife 
But she did look kinda
But it is trippy revisiting 2020...seems like decades ago...and not 5 years ago.
I thought stone would be sheriff's daughter...not wife But she did look kinda
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Piff Perkins
Veteran
Saw it last night, thought it was spectacular. Felt like it perfectly nailed not just the covid era but what came afterward. The paranoia, the way people's minds get destroyed going down a rabbit hole of extremism that's one click away. I've seen people crying about the BLM stuff but I thought it was perfect. So much of the activism we saw was driven by public perception and social currency. The way people, especially white people, morph from one movement to another based entirely on what they want - whether it's to impress a cute chick or gain attention or whatever else.
I agree that the second half felt VERY Coen-esque. Didn't know Aster had those action chops but he nailed it. I also sensed a heavy PTA influence, especially with the homeless man.
This feels like a definitive film of our era. The only other film I can think of that gave me that same feeling was First Reformed, in terms of just nailing what's going on right now.
I agree that the second half felt VERY Coen-esque. Didn't know Aster had those action chops but he nailed it. I also sensed a heavy PTA influence, especially with the homeless man.
This feels like a definitive film of our era. The only other film I can think of that gave me that same feeling was First Reformed, in terms of just nailing what's going on right now.
they did the breh dirty 
brian turning into kyle rittenhouse
brian turning into kyle rittenhouse
The Realist Perspective
Superstar
Phenomenal. The beginning was a bit slow but I think that was a masterful way of introducing us to and getting us attached to the characters.
I would say it’s a hair too long, but other than that it was a phenomenal think piece of WTF exactly happened in 2020? Crazy times, I forgot what it was like. But this brought it all back, I was living it all over again.
I love Ari yo.
@Lootpack please watch it again. There are a lot of intricacies in this film.
I would say it’s a hair too long, but other than that it was a phenomenal think piece of WTF exactly happened in 2020? Crazy times, I forgot what it was like. But this brought it all back, I was living it all over again.
I love Ari yo.
@Lootpack please watch it again. There are a lot of intricacies in this film.
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