Beyond Meat

They let Mark Ruffalo fuck in this one!

Also an old couple stayed for the first half of the movie and all that that entails (iykyk), but left the minute a character said they were a socialist. Fascinated by that!

Anyway it's really really great.

I adore the shape and structure of this movie.

I'm not sure if a Wes Anderson project has ever delighted me as much as the basketball scene did. Benicio Del Toro is kind of unbelievable, and I can't wait to see what Mia Threapleton does next. Special shoutouts to Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed (who is gorgeous in this movie, by the way; rarely has a man looked so nice cinematically) and Richard Ayoade -- I hope they return in larger roles for future Wes Anderson movies.

I guess my obscure childhood crush on Julie Hagerty is still kicking around????????

The second act here is almost overwhelming in how precisely it's executed by Bogdanovich and his players. At a certain point it stopped feeling like comedy and more like a dance routine that absolutely washed over me but I also loved it. 'Final chase in What's Up, Doc?' levels of meat-and-potatoes filmmaking applied to some of the most bonkers comedy choreography you've ever seen.

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I really wish all the extra bits with Caine weren't stapled on for the movie, but especially the ending! Would love to see a stage production of this.

Do you think the vocal coaches who got Austin Butler off of the Elvis dialect were so goddamn nervous when he said he was going to do a killer Stellan Skarsgård???

New movie impression for "that guy" at parties just dropped!!! (I might be "that guy".)

So unbelievably grateful that Robert Eggers went all in on gothic horror tragedy, and even more thrilled that Bill Skarsgård's nearly-too-much-accent 100% landed and captivated me for every second he spoke.

+ Willem DaFoe/Lily-Rose Depp exorcism scene hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah.