Tweets o' the Week
Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 3:18PM 
Clash of the twitter threads. I recently started muting words on twitter on subjects I just had no interest in hearing about anymore and in some cases never did despite the rest of the world's inexplicably insatiable interest (my timeline is blessedly "Kardashian" free - you should try it! I'm missing nothing) and I've been so much happier.
Twitter is still a colossal time sucker in some ways but it keeps the pop culture conversation lively and my favorite thing about it is hearing smart people say amusing things that I didn't think to say - that I felt but never put into words (like the first tweet below). Anyway, here are a dozen or so tweets that amused or edified. Just because it's fun to share them.
Really enjoyed A Most Violent Year. First film I've seen in ages where guns are actually treated as guns i.e. INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS.
— Catherine Bray (@catherinebray) November 21, 2014
Okay but why aren't there Pitch Perfect action figures?
— Lucy Knisley (@LucyKnisley) November 21, 2014
will julianne moore and sally kirkland both starring in movies about dementia lead to vote-splitting
— Mayukh Sen (@ericbrohmer) November 21, 2014
More after the jump including Viola Davis, Janis Joplin biopic, Matthias Schoenaerts, Selma, and the greatest title card of all time...
Somewhere Jenna Maroney is having a rage stroke over the news of this Amy Adams/Janis Joplin biopic.
— Andrew Kendall (@DepartedAviator) November 22, 2014
#HTGAWM hahaha @sergiowastaken just said i am ithe marshmallow to her sweet potatoe! @violadavis pic.twitter.com/v5Od5AMSk0
— Marcia Gay Harden (@Beloving2) November 21, 2014
After the disappointing box office for The Aunt May Legacy, both Sally Field and Dame Judi Dench will be replaced by Matt Damon.
— Clay Renfroe (@ClayRenfroe) November 11, 2014
Arguably the greatest title credit of all time. pic.twitter.com/HqV6aQwONH
— William Goodchild (@filmchild) November 10, 2014
Can't stop thinking about SELMA. Because people marched and died for a right 62.7% of American voters didn't bother to exercise 2 weeks ago
— James Rocchi (@jamesrocchi) November 15, 2014
My sexiest man alive. Take that @peoplemag pic.twitter.com/GAFJgxdEWi
— Murtada (@ME_Says) November 19, 2014
Also I was supposed to tell you that #HappyChristmas is out now on DVD. I think it's illegal to not love @AnnaKendrick47 and she's in it, so
— Melanie Lynskey (@melanielynskey) November 21, 2014
Still haven't seen a HUNGER GAMES or TWILIGHT movie in its entirety. And yet I am alive.
— Bill Chambers (@flmfrkcentral) November 19, 2014
It adds something to the experience if you imagine each tweet being whispered into the ear of a dead person by a creepy undertaker
— Musky Lozenge (@LostCatDog) November 22, 2014
Hathaway is a fucking great actress. She totally sold that preposterous love speech. In her hands it was sublime. #Interstellar
— Murtada (@ME_Says) November 14, 2014Amazing RT @empiremagazine Get jealous: http://t.co/amuiZOwIH6 #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy
pic.twitter.com/7skfgA2dLk
— Alex Billington (@firstshowing) November 19, 2014I miss Bunheads.
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) November 18, 2014David Fincher's 26 essential films are a great mix of art and pop. How many have you seen? pic.twitter.com/96RnaU27Fm
— The Black List (@theblcklst) November 14, 2014Hathaway is a fucking great actress. She totally sold that preposterous love speech. In her hands it was sublime. #Interstellar
— Murtada (@ME_Says) November 14, 2014
Reader Comments (9)
@ Murtada, re: Matthias - 100% agree. And I'm more complete for having that image in my life.
That's not really a "mix" of art and pop on Fincher's list, unless The Black List has an interesting notion about what constitutes an "art" film. I'd call almost every one of those movies (including Zelig and Citizen Kane) a popular entertainment. Only two of them, Days of Heaven and 8 1/2, are "art" films.
On Hathaway: no, she didn't. No Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Juliette Binoche, Giulietta Masina, not even Gena Fucking Rowlands could have prevented me from cringe in that scene. Ugh.
(Hathaway is great actress, yes, but that was way too much)
Hmmmmmmmmmmm..............I think Some Like it Hot trumps at least half the films on Fincher's list, if not all. And only three non-US films and only one of those non-English. That is some seriously limited film appreciation.
I'm 100% with Murtada and Mike re Hathaway and that love speech. I already liked her as an actress but the fact that she could do that with those words (and I say this as a pretty massive Interstellar- but not so much Nolan-fan): a tour de force.
I was coming in here to say exactly what Paul outlaw said; I scanned thru the list over and over once I saw their line about "art and pop" trying to figure out where all the art movies were supposed to be and those two were the only ones that stood out. It's a perfectly fine list of movies, I love pretty much everything on there, but they're projecting their worship for Fincher into something this isn't.
I really didn't like Interstellar but Anne was my favorite part, and I too think she sold that drivel-y love speech better than anybody had any right being able to do. That's what the movie was for me - varying levels of actors fighting to sell unsellable dialogue and situations; she fared best, and injected some honest longing and heart into it.
Mayukh Sen -- LOL
I'm with Jason on Hathaway in Insterstellar, but no one seems to be wanting to have that conversation. It's all Chastain all the time. And this is definitely not the outstanding performance of hers this year, not by a longshot.
Fincher's list is super-boring. I love a lot of those movies, but there's zero idiosyncrasy. A greatest movies ever list should tell people as much about your personality as about what you think the greatest films ever are. Fincher's list tells me almost nothing. I guess Zelig and The Year of Living Dangerously are a little offbeat, but only kinda.
Of course I say this as someone that would put The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, The Muppet Movie, and Paprika on my list, which is to some extent conscious posturing.