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As an fan of De Palma, Adrian Lyne, Paul Verhoeven, and others, I find it bizarre that a film like Challenger is considered an "erotic thriller"; it's practically sexless, and I'm not referring to it being explicit, but rather how sanitized and safe it is in addressing desire.

I hate these superficial commentary films, the fact people where blown away by this movie genuinely shocks me. People act like this is genius, its cringe

very obvious media literacy - was hoping for more.

that's a lot of talking and not saying much

Nothing will match season 1 it just was special I would say s1 is better than s4

I agree with your assesment of the film. Do your homework, for God's sake, and stop using the pronunciations that the closed captioning provides. It is SEXTANT, an instrument for measuring astronomical angles. It is "Coxun", properly pronounced, not cox swain. It is "Fokesuhl", properly pronounced, not fore castle. It is "looward", properly pronounced, not lee ward. I find your review to be prolix in the extreme.

I assumed them running away to Disney world was a fantasy sequence...wishful thinking. I never believed it was an actual thing that happened.

Show got so awful after Season 2 I called it quits watched the remainder of the series via UA-cam clips. The over exposure of LGBTQ characters, the complete narcissistic nature of the characters etc, it just sucked.

I think it’s hysterical that they have Alex be a steroid user but still have him played by still-unmuscled gigatwink Miles Heizer. Like, man cannot be more than 150lbs in this show

It's an issue when the factions are ambiguous in the other films mentioned we know what the sides stand for and we could follow their history.

I honestly just plain disagree. I think the movie did exactly what it set out to do, and resonated with me in a really meaningful way. I loved the way the story was told, and how the same themes were explored over and over again. Because that is what itd like to have this level of generational trauma and mental illness. I felt very seen, and it felt very real. I liked that it didnt go deeper. It just was, because thats how it is. it was a change of pace from his usual narratives, and honestly I found it super refreshing.

We love love this move ,,,📽📸,,,,,

11:19 elden ring refrence??

My stance is that Benjamin is young and directionless, and Elaine isn't a magic fix to that. He's still figuring out what he wants.

"Pretty good movie" lol really? Just "pretty good"? why not just say "it's okay"? Come on, this film is extraordinary!

Been a hot minute since I’ve seen some UA-cam short films but this one’s actually well made and stylized to fit unlike many I’ve seen before. Kudos, Mr. Williams.🫡

Nice baby hahaha

obscenities get you immediately kicked in football lol

hey we dont know each other but i hope ur doing well and I wanna say that GOD still loves u and wants u to be with him all u must do is trust in Jesus and repent of ur sins. GOD loves u more than u can imagine. ☺️☺️☺️❤🎉❤❤❤❤

I came for tennis and eroticism and I stayed for pickleball slander

It’s as if the director gave some material for artsy reviewers to explain and show their understanding of metaphors vide the fish tank. Nonetheless, the film makes perfect sense without these “ insider” revelations like the big cat pattern of Mrs Robinson’s outfits. Ben is a universal stage in many men’s lives. ❤

We’re gonna see a hell of a lot more of the Justin Kuritzkes and Celine Song taking over Hollywood and I’m here for it, they’re such a breath of fresh air, they make good art and shockingly it also has mainstream appeal and popularity, those two things hardly go together nowadays.

I think this movie is about purpose. Purpose and goals define us. Achieving these goals bring us satisfaction. Throughout life we may come to see our purpose differently, but without achievement, we are lost. The end of the movie is the personification of this thesis. Ben never really defined in his own mind a purpose. Sitting on that bus with Elaine he remains as confused and lost as ever The outcome of the relationship is irrelevant. Ben remains adrift, alienated from life.

what about WLM?

good fuckin thumbnail

Tennis is great precisely because of its aversion to individualism.

The entire Mike is the heart thing was so not earned. He was so mean to Will in S3 bc girls over friends apparently, and he keeps insisting on that. El is absolutely unbearable this season, it's more interesting to see her flashback than anything. Nancy.... Nancy served me one purpose: get Robert Englund face a Nancy that would be trapped in a nightmare-like scenario again. And only it. I guess i would rather she had moved with Jonathan to college and they could both disappear from the show altogether.

I guess the airtight cast is sorely missed: the bigger the cast got, the messier things went. The deaths seemed cheap in season 3. Nothing seemed earned (by the narrative), so it wasn't at all satisfying when they happened.

I don’t know the filmmaker’s intentions but taken on its own the film is an indictment of American journalism. It’s all in the last shot. The last shot is a journalist smiling happily arm-in-arm with soldiers who have just murdered a man in cold blood, a man who was pleading “please don’t let them kill me.” The message of the final shot is clear: to pretend to be impartial is to enable monsters.

I think the iPhone footage references the fact that although they are running away to a fantasy land, like you said reality is still hot on their heels. Despite Disneyland being this magical world of wonder... The iPhone footage shows it for what it is, janky, ordinary, shes not safe. Its a fantastic depiction of a dissociative mental disorder, its like a dream sequence where we can see the limits of that dream...reality encroaching on the dream

You’re the first person I feel gave an accurate review of the show. Thank you

literally watched this, Brooklyn Prince a main standout. Magic is the main thing I associate with lol, tbf I've never visited The States. Hi from England, nice review.

One of the very few films I say multiple times in the theater...

Good job with the thumbnail 😂 But yeah this movie was absolutely incredible

nah pickleball is dope lol

I’m an English teacher, we taught this film to a year 10 class in a comparative study with Rime of the ancient Mariner. It was a fantastic program.

This movie was funny at times but the message is insufferable, like someone saying haha am I the only one who would rather go to McDonalds than a fancy restaurant. Like wow she's eating a cheesburger that's so me!! Rich people are so weird and literally evil! It so blatantly caters to that kind of audience it's disappointing how one note it was. And then the cliche humble sex worker of the people lol

Don't say THE HMS Surprise - it is simply HMS Surprise.

the scene in hereditary where mom is clinging to the wall over Peter's bed made me laugh so much i had to keep replaying the cut. but i couldnt even finish beau is afraid and i tried twice!

This review was fucking excellent.

Post vaccination? Doesn't that rub in 2024?

37:41 it took me this long to remember that hannah ever had anything to do with this story

because govt isn't parasitic riiiiiiiiight

The movie tries so hard to be apolitical when it’s a movie about a fucking civil war in the U.S

Challengers is just a shonen battle anime final arc.

Unpopular opinion: Mike is my favorite character.

I enjoyed the movie and loved the camera work and symbolism. I did think that some of the motivations and behaviors were unrealistic and in fact silly by the end. I think the affair itself is the one part I can buy, and they do a great job setting up the situation and exploring the character arcs for Ben and Mrs. Robinson. I do think they key to understanding the movie is the conversation they have at the hotel - exploring the whole “art” thing and Ben assuming that she thinks her daughter is too good for Ben. I think that Mrs Robinson wanted Ben for herself and was jealous of her daughter being young and having opportunities in a new era.

Personally, I’ve enjoyed every subsequent season more than the last. I had only watched everything one time previously, although sometime after season four I decided to rewatch the entire show with my critic brain firmly turned on. Season two definitely feels like a retread of season one, and when I first watched it I already realized that anyways, but I had actually enjoyed season two more than season one. Even with that bizarre 8th episode. And season 3 ended with that incredibly hard hitting emotional gut punch that actually got me to sob, I pretty much instantly realized hopper wasn’t dead, it didn’t make the letter any less emotionally resonant because his words are incredibly powerful to anyone that has struggled with mental health, and feeling purposeless “Remember the Hurt, the Hurt… is good, it means you’re out of that cave” will resonate with me until the day I die. Each season has consistently kept me on the edge of my seat eagerly awaiting to see what happens next. Despite the fact that they were obviously formulaic I never once felt like they “lost the magic“ because everything is so confidently shot, executed and edited. And then S4 comes around and it’s another entertaining thrill ride just like the rest of them with even more emotional resonance than ever before with max’s running up that hill scene, another bit that resonated incredibly strongly with me, along with the rest of the season just constantly in full swing with stranger things usual strong cinematography, thoughtful composition and editing and storytelling that I just always love more and more than the last time. I’m not someone who gets really angry at criticism or people voicing opinions I don’t agree with, infact I love this type of stuff. I love analyzing media and picking apart what it does well and what it doesn’t do well. Each season of the show has its strengths and weaknesses, season four doesn’t focus on the core cast and instead focuses on other characters, and I’ve seen a lot of people bringing that up as an issue with it but I don’t really see why? The main cast was developed plenty over the course of the first three seasons, sometimes the character is feeling a bit static but I don’t necessarily think that hurts the story overall. I would agree that Mike and Will are weak points of season four, but even then some of Wills scenes strike an emotional chord with me. I don’t relate to his immediate struggle, but I know what it’s like to feel unseen, and how much that can hurt. I just, I don’t really understand why each time a new season of the show comes out there’s a wealth of video essays coming out and pointing out criticisms I would agree with for the most part- but I just don’t feel the same sense of “this show has lost its touch” sentiment that most people seem to want to spread. The storytelling always just feels so incredibly immersive to me and it’s something they seem to be able to consistently pull off which I find to be highly impressive. If the show isn’t hitting the same for you, that’s totally fair and I wouldn’t tell you that you’re wrong for feeling that way. But I honestly just don’t agree. I think it’s consistently solid and hits the mark far more than it misses despite some of its misteps, like hoppers erratic character arc in S3, and Will and Mike feeling highly under utilized and stagnant in S4, and S2 being a retread of S1 (which, I personally still found to be really good but that might just be me)

My main problem with the series is that The Duffer Brothers are too afraid to kill anyone in the main cast and that takes away almost all the tension from the series. They rely too much on their fans for their writing. There's too many characters and I'd rather have seen Steve die than Eddie. Eddie would have been a great replacement for Steve, who could try his best to follow in Steve's footsteps and learn to be a real man. Instead the Duffer brothers chicken out and kill him off to cater to Steve's popularity as a character and now they're pushing him in to be with Nancy while turning Jonathan into a drug addict for zero apparent reason.

I watched this film ONLY knowing about Jessie Plemons having a show stopping scene (no context or anything) - along with the fact that it wouldn't touch on the politics, because my friend was very upset about that fact. Didn't see the trailer or watch any reviews... With all that being said, I was so fucking dissapointed with how much was squandered with its story, opting to settle for a forced and redundant "character journey." What a fucking waste. Plemons wasn't even meant to be in the damn film and he's the best part and touches on something I wish the rest of the film would have explained.