Tweetweek: "Eighth Grade" Causes All the Feelings...
Friday, July 27, 2018 at 12:07PM Let's begin with a perpetually relevant tweet
yes, keep going, maybe you can post the entire fucking plot of the movie before it opens on friday, I believe in you
— Danny Bowes (@bybowes) July 24, 2018
And don't you love it when one celebrity says something on twitter and another turns it into a funny joke with a reply?!
Ansel, I’ve been sitting in this restaurant for 45 minutes already.
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) July 26, 2018
AFTER THE JUMP sound advice from RuPaul, a funny joke about the Thor franchise, Jeff Goldblum statue, and much more in a curated sampling of good tweets for you that ends with a ton of thoughts on Eighth Grade because the movie is a modern miracle. Go see it!...
thor, thor the dark world and thor ragnarok pic.twitter.com/idx6aUshmJ
— esme (@thorqiull) July 21, 2018
"Hm. So that's Brenton Thwaites, huh?" - me, seeing my seventh Brenton Thwaites film
— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) July 25, 2018
I have three moods. pic.twitter.com/55KyvVIS9z
— Lauren Pokedoff (@LaurenPokedoff) July 24, 2018
This has been A Week. pic.twitter.com/jSLqBFGs85
— Sasha James (@ThatSashaJames) July 26, 2018
Straight White Men but actually it’s just me talking about Armie Hammer for 90 minutes
— E. Alex Jung (@e_alexjung) July 22, 2018
What no one tells you about being an adult is that there’s just.... always dishes. So many dishes.
— kimothy jomothy 🇲🇽🔮🧜🏽♀️ (@sportsbruja) July 18, 2018
The artists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should. Jeff Goldblum pops up in London to celebrate 25 years of #JurassicPark 🦕🦖 pic.twitter.com/FWRk7m6gnK
— The Playlist 🎬 (@ThePlaylist) July 18, 2018
Speaking of Paltrow's acting career, eternal shoutout to THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, the rare film to feature either career-best or near-career-best work by *five* major actors.
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) July 25, 2018
Love yourself. Cheap toilet paper is not a bargain. pic.twitter.com/SonMH2Tiko
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) July 21, 2018
AND EIGHT GRADE MANIA
Guys I just started THINKING about a scene from Eighth Grade and started crying all over again, dear lord
— Kat Angus (@katangus) July 26, 2018
EIGHTH GRADE is so good. It’s like Bo Burnham was granted 3 wishes from a genie and one was to perfectly channel the inner life of a 13-year-old girl. His other wish was to cast the most natural child actress ever to play the part. 3rd wish? Get Josh Hamilton to play the dad.
— Max Weiss (@maxthegirl) July 26, 2018
SKYSCRAPER:
— Jon Negroni (@JonNegroni) July 14, 2018
Extreme violence, scores of innocent people get mowed down by gunfire more than once, relentless peril
RATED PG-13!
EIGHTH GRADE:
Young girl experiences authentic middle school hardships, no nudity, limited profanity and sexual content.
RATED R!
EIGHTH GRADE resolves itself too tidily, but feels skin-crawlingly accurate most of the time. Three and six years from now, I will be that super-earnest well-intentioned cool-dad type and I apologize in advance to my daughters for failing to alleviate their anxiety. I tried.
— Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) July 26, 2018
Eighth Grade is very authentic and relatable except for that part where she makes a PHONE CALL lol what was that about @boburnham
— Cole Rogers (@ColeLRogers) July 21, 2018
Had to decide between seeing Mamma Mia! and Eighth Grade tonight— chose Eighth Grade, only to sit directly behind Amanda Seyfried at the Angelika. MAMMA MIA IS ALWAYS WATCHING!!!!
— Colin (@colxburke) July 25, 2018
My beloved 11 year old cousin signed up for Instagram the day after I saw EIGHTH GRADE and it feels like somebody I loved booked a Georgia river rafting trip the day after I watched DELIVERANCE
— Liz Watson (@watsontots) July 18, 2018
Hollywood, if you want to make movies about an awkward teen having a hard time in eighth grade, my last name is pronounced "semen." Call me.
— Ben Siemon (@BenjaminJS) July 19, 2018
Eighth Grade is a beautiful, poignant, perfectly made documentary about me, personally, at 13, which I do not remember signing up for.
— Scaachi (@Scaachi) July 23, 2018
Eighth Grade
— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) July 26, 2018
Eighth Grade 2: Ninth Grade
Eighth Grad3: Civil War
Eighth Four
Eighth Grade 5: Ninth Grade 2
Eighth 6rade: Return to Sixth Grade
Seventh Grade
F8 of the Grade
More cities starting tonight pass it on, nationwide next weekend pass it on, eighth grade buddddddyyyyyyyy!!!!! pic.twitter.com/qUztwXPflC
— Bo Burnham (@boburnham) July 26, 2018
Reader Comments (4)
I can't believe "Eighth Grade" is Rated R. MPAA thinks emotional realism is more detrimental to teens than violence.
The fact that EIGHT GRADE is Rated R really is a bummer. And I know I saw this tweet going around, but it was also a thought I had after seeing the film... in that it'd be GREAT if we can drop in on the character/actress every four years. Senior years of HS, senior year of college... BOYHOOD/BEFORE movies-style.
I didn't even noticed that Eighth Grade was Rated R... what the fuck. That movie is HARMLESS. And I mean that in the best way possible.
Eighth Grade is rated R because of their stupid rule that if you say the F word more than once, you're automatically rated R. It's so stupid. Same thing happened with Love is Strange, a movie that has absolutely no other reason to be rated R.
God, that Ripley tweet is just so true. AND they all looked gorgeous. AND they were in fabulous costumes in a fabulous setting. I need to go re-watch that.