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I will definitely make time for one of these movies. I’m sure my ex-brother-in-law will make time for the other.

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Feb 3, 2022Liked by Scott Tobias

> intellectually curious and emotionally promiscuous find their way. But Trier wonders, “What if they never do?”

Me love that idea. Me always enjoy endings where directionless character not get life together but can start to see ahead to time where they might — Frances Ha is favorite from recent years. But it rare to have movie that not give you any hint that someone will eventually straighten things out. Inside Llewyn Davis only example me can think of, so this movie in good company.

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This movie has a lot of integrity on that and other fronts.

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Hey Keith (and/or Scott if you have thoughts), glad to hear the new Jackass is worthwhile. Have you seen the previous three movies & if so, what did you think of them? How does this new one compare?

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I am no Jackass-spert. I remember checking in on the show occasionally but I didn't watch any of the movies until prepping for this review. Watched the first and I plan to fill in the blanks. Compared to the first this has (somewhat) higher production values but the spirit is much the same. And there are callbacks to classic gags. If you like what's come before, you'll like it. (It also has almost certainly has the most full-frontal male nudity that's ever been in an R-rated movie, so there's some escalation there.)

Here's what I always think of when I think of JACKASS: Conan O'Brien once had Knoxville and David Bowie on on the same night, inspiring Bowie to tell Knoxville, "I _adore_ JACKASS" in that elegant delivery he had later in his career. "I _adore_ JACKASS."

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I watched Trier's "Thelma" recently as it was leaving Criterion. An amazing filmmaker, the first scene is close to perfection.

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Feb 3, 2022·edited Feb 3, 2022

Question for Keith/Scott/Commenters: If like other European relationship drama/comedy festival hits FORCE MAJURE and TONI ERDMANN TWPITW gets targeted for an ill fated American remake, who would you like to see take on the Julie role?

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I know Dakota Johnson’s name has come up. There’s definitely a physical resemblance. She’s great, but for some reason she doesn’t quite feel right for it for me.

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It's a tough one for me because the age of the character is so critical to the story, you really couldn't go too far outside of 28 - 33 which narrows the field quite a bit.

For example Greta Gerwig could have knocked this out of the park circa FRANCES HA, but casting her now feels like it would get you a very different film.

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After spending an hour of my workday looking at IMDB for actresses in the right age range, two interesting choices could be Alia Shawkat or Emma Roberts.

(To save you couple of seconds, the search is here: https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1987-01-01,1993-12-31&gender=female)

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I was wondering how do you feel about chapters 10-12? For me personally there wasn't enough build-up for whole Aksel reveal (in fact I was surprised to see him again in chapter 9 again), and the ending was somewhat difficult to connect to (however beautifully acted it was) and felt flat.

I think it took away the focus from Julie a bit too much, which I understand the purpose of, but it was as almost the whole thing is suddenly being told from Aksel's perspective, who wasn't as developed character as Julie.

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