i thought john candy was the polka king of the midwest or is that the joke

This s*** gets your blood pumping like

Which episode are you on?

wobble de wobble wop
wobble robin

Still one of the strangest media phenomenons of the last couple decades

caught up

Matrix sequel rewatch
Much more impressed
Good attempt at trying to continue the lore

hell yeah

Nilufer Yanya is my new favorite female artist

This list is a great way to weed out fake rap fans

biggie and kanye the only two in my top 5

Prodigy
Doom
SpaceGhostPurrp
Earl
Ghostface Killah

Outkast
Rocky
Future

the two other spots are tough to pick tho, it would be between Ghostface, Push, Zay, Curren$y, Gibbs, Earl or Vince idk

Who the other 3?

Unranked

Lupe
Lauryn Hill
Chuck D
Yasiin
Rakim

OutKast should be on that list too imo

lupe fiasco
mf doom
lauryn hill
ghostface
prodigy
Outkast
AZ

@Elric @twinkletoez Gold Experience might just be top 5 Prince

Nadal 🐐

tbh after one viewing I'd say it's one of his very best films. It's as if he has been adressing my reservations regarding his characters and just totally outdid himself here. I think that in the past his characters usually bordered on psychological platitudes and stereotypes which then receive more depth than usual but the way they've received depth it often felt already a bit clicheed too. However, with Phantom Thread and especially this film I can see nothing of that anymore. The ambivalences and ambiguities are far more nuanced and dare I say virtuous. He's reaching Bergman levels of character writing (he's my goat when it comes to this) but without the pessimism. In fact, it's neither optimistic or pessimistic. He also often opted for that "snapshot of life"-aspect but I've often felt (esp. Magnolia and Boogie Nights which loses me every time the fall aspect of that rise-and-fall story comes into play) that it ended up being a bit trite at times because it found an easy way out. Here it's interwoven in a very dynamic and complex relationship with an ending that is somehow fitting (I'll get to that).

His direction of actors is as fantastic as usual and the way he creates spatial locations reminded me a bit of Wilder, Welles and Ophuls. My least favorite moments in say There Will Be Blood or The Master used to be his montages which weren't able to capitalize on this strength of his. Also, the lighting here is awe-inspiring.

Also, the film is funny as hell. The scenes with Penn, Waits and Cooper were glorious.

As for the ending, I've recently rewatched The Apartment for the first time in years and Wilder found an ingenious way of subverting that "passionately running for your love"-trope when Shirley MacLaine runs to Lemmon's apartment and hears that loud noise which she assumes was Lemmon killing himself. It absolutely broke the stereotype but even then found a way to not end in an equally clicheed pessimistic ending. In Licorice Pizza th ending falls prey to that trope a bit too much and I find the resolution with Alana saying I love you, Gary not as open as I hoped it would be. Then again, we as viewers can think for themselves and assume what might happen in the future.

I've seen people comparing it to Linklater but imo this is miles better than anything I've seen by him.

I definitely don't see exactly what his characters represent as fast and transparently as you do so it didn't bother me with his middle period (don't stan the first 3 tho they're great) but I think I know what you mean about the characters being able to develop more organically and exist without having to trudge around any easily recognizable and heavy themes with them.

The spatial locations thing has been reminding me of Sternbergs mise en scene ever since the New Years scene from Phantom Thread so many layers of emotional and literal commotion. The scene where he's walking around the gym selling waterbeds gave it to me this time, before the scene ended it what I figure it must be a Hitchcock homage in the mistaken identity scene.

Need a rewatch before I comment on the ending again because my girlfriend distracted me right at the finale and I kind of didn't realize it was happening also just the general structure and alot of things didn't quite sink in because I was so immersed in the experience cause of the lsd

Lupe
Ghostface and Raekwon
Lauryn
Thugger
Mos Def
Both Kast

Yeah surprised Andre wasn't on there at least

Half of Wu Tang would be applicable

Outkast obv

Rakim or Pusha