The jump in quality between this and his last film is honestly disgusting lmao. I hated Lolita so much it made me not wanna watch any movies for a couple days, this was a good cleanser.

The length is probably my biggest gripe. I mean (from what I can recall) most scenes were pretty useful to the story, but at certain points it felt like so much setup that I just wanted to see the payoff already.

Thank you! It honestly felt wrong that I haven't already. I have a huge gap in 50s and 60s film, so this is mostly an excuse to finally start filling that in

My lawyers have informed me that the past tense of birth does not mean being born

Important to note that this was Kubrick's first film that he didn't produce himself and subsequently his first film with an actual budget. It really does show, the presentation has been greatly improved from Killer's Kiss, although it does lack some of the visual flair that film gave.

*(2/13) oops, an edit feature would be swell haha

IMMA POST IT ALL SEPARATELY (since I don't know how much bluesky likes putting comments on feeds)

The cute

a girl's gotta get those groceries simple as that

if you could pin messages this would be pinned lmao, they should get on adding that feature