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Murray Mintz's avatar

I just published a short review of Traumnovelle (2024), based on the same source material. To get a taste of the new movie, imagine Kubrick adding a remote-controlled vibrator sequence

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<He apparently didn’t have time to learn his lines, and so throughout the movie repeats everybody else’s.>>

Blame Meissner. Everyone should.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

Okay, I'll try it:

This is all YOUR FAULT, Sandy!

Saaaay, that *did* feel good...

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Carl Salonen's avatar

Did it make YOU feel good?

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise are a happily married Manhattan couple>>

*snerf*

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Carl Salonen's avatar

<<This is so people who just rented the movie to see her naked don’t have to waste their time watching the next 158 minutes>>

Thus the business model for PornHub was invented.

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Scott Clevenger's avatar

Yep. We basically have the PornHub business model to blame for the wan sexlessness of 21st century films.

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Carl Salonen's avatar

Why buy the cow when the milk is free? Or something like that. I never kept that saying straight. Might have been a bull, come to think of it.

And apologies to anyone who felt that was sexist.

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