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twiststreet · 1 year

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Maybe it’s just that I’m looking forward to the new Ben Affleck movie-- I just got a good feeling about that one-- and maybe I’m just a dumb guy who’s too tired to imagine a better world, anymore, but I find this response by tweet-slingers to this micro-trend kind of irritating because I just like that they’re making grown up movies. “Oh no there’s a trend where they make movies for grown ups where”-- I’m going! I’m fully going. I don’t care what the trend is about. Fuck!

We just had 20 years of the worst nerds being swaddled in diapers-- I’m just not going to be angry that Ben Affleck is pivoting from being visibly suicidal in underoos to trying again. Movies for grown ups that aren’t horror movies. Movies for grown ups that aren’t Ti West’s X and being like “hey remember Texas Chainsaw” retread shit. I’m all in! I’m desperate for exactly that! I don’t understand the lack of desperation out there, I guess.

Plus-- if you want to tell stories about America, that justify movie theaters, American business is a pretty valid topic? People spend most of their lives at work. American business and the products they create are, you know, parts of our lives. These movies all have pretty easy to understand high concepts-- people like true-ish stories-- it’s not hard to explain what Air is about. And this fits what a segment of Hollywood movies kind of are supposed to be which is ... if the last decade in special effect nonsense crowding everything out has taught me anything at least, it’s how “feel good, weightless bullshit for people to see on a Saturday night and not walk out of a theater bummed about” has a ton of merit-- all the mid-90′s Julia Roberts bangers et al. that got thrown away in the rush to celebrate nonsense-for-twerps.

It’s not like it’s some entirely inexplicable thing, like-- not like the way it was in the 90′s, when suddenly the trend was “the 1970′s, huh?” (But even that trend got us Boogie Nights and Dazed and Confused and... every trend has winners, is the other thing). Five of these movies comin out at the same time is weird, but there were, like, 3 movies that came out about comets hitting the Earth one year-- that’s just a thing that happens.

I don’t think it’s the same thing as when people were like “if you’re sick of superhero movies, go watch original movies like Jon Carter of Mars.” I just don’t think it’s the same because it’s not trying to service the same audience. I like also on that some level people are out there saying “why don’t we make a run at adult dramedies.” If they’re going through the door that’s open for them, and this is the door...

I know some people like to complain about everything (me), but... You know: I just got a good feeling about that Air, more than anything. All the math on that one just seems correct to me, plus Affleck’s been killing it lately on smaller movies like the Way Way Back or he’s the only good thing in that lousy Tender Bar movie but he’s pretty darn good in that. Air seems kind of neat especially after that dueling movie Affleck-Damon tried to talk people into, whatever that was. Fuckin’ dueling? I have debts, financial debts, I can’t be caring about dueling, Matt Damon, come on.

The weirdest and most dishonest response to Air to me are people going “isn’t Michael Jordan a more important story than the shoe, why didn’t they tell his story” but I would 1000% not go to a Michael Jordan biopic. I have seen a biopic before-- they’re the most boring movies on Earth-- everyone knows Jordan’s story already because he was a global icon so there’s no drama there whatsoever-- plus, there’s not an actor who’s right to play Michael Jordan, given that’s a pretty peculiar person on top of the athleticism. Jordan, I wouldn’t even watch the trailer...??

(There’s also one’s about that weirdo who tried to steal all the credit for Flamin Hot Cheetos-- that one’s doing that creep’s version of the story, though, where he’s some Hero-- the fact they made that a movie makes me uncomfortable. I don’t want to know anything about that one...)

#I Love Ranting About Things No-one Normal Cares About... :(

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elixpierce · 4 months

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✦ MICHAEL B. JORDAN, CIS MAN, HE/HIM ✦ ELIJAH PIERCE the THIRTY- FIVE year old has been in the QZ for FOUR YEARS. The LOOK OUT is/are said to be DEDICATED and WORKAHOLIC but I guess we’ll find out for ourselves.

BIO: (tw: death mention )

Elijah was born and partially raised in Houston, Texas. He is the oldest of the Pierce children.

He was fifteen when the outbreak took place, and he can still remember the day it all went to shit for him and his family; it's a day that plagues his nightmares almost every night and deprives him of most of his sleep.

Him and his sister were separated from their parents only a year after the outbreak took place, taken by a group of raiders in hopes of being able to train them up to be part of their gang. Despite how often his younger sister tried to remind him of the warmth they once held in their lives, Elijah turned colder with every day they spent in training.

He adapted to the ways of his raider gang family more than his sister could and eventually it led to her running away from the camp. He couldn't' blame her, although he wished she would've at least informed him of what she had planned. After a month of being held captive by the people who at this point had practically raised him, having to convince them that he had no idea where his sister had gone, he eventually was deemed innocent of her 'wrong' doings.

One day they were getting ready to raid a town, they needed a new place to settle in, and it was on this day that Elijah's life changed forever. He was told the town was mostly made of middle-aged citizens who seemed clueless enough, and he went ahead with the mission with simply this knowledge. It wasn't until they were already inside with the place half ablaze that Elijah realized he had been lied to. Families were being torn apart, kids hiding in fear, elderly shoved to the ground, and it all gave him flashbacks of when it happened to his family. He helped as many as he could to escape that day and then left in the middle of the night in search of a new way of living.

He came across the Dallas QZ four years ago and has since been enjoying his more peaceful life. He hasn't told anyone of his past for fear of them wanting to kick him out or not trusting him anymore. Not that he could blame anyone for that reaction, he would probably have the same one had it been someone else in his shoes. At the moment, around the QZ, he is known as a hardworking individual who has a good sense of humor.

He likes to make people laugh as much as possible, enjoys his drinks at the bar as any other person in the QZ, and takes his job as one of the lookouts very seriously. While he is on the clock chances are you probably can't distract him much, unless you're someone working alongside him.

sexuality:

he is undecided what his sexuality is. he's never been truly interested in a guy, but he has been curious on what kissing one would be like. he hasn't taken that step because all of that is new to him and he is very nervous when it comes to it, if only because he has no idea what he's doing. when it comes to women, he can be either way. sometimes he is outgoing and other times he is a bit shy to approach them.

relationship status:

he's single, but he says he's married to his job.

connections:

ride or dies

drinking buddies:

casual hook-up:

enemies:

ex of sorts: ex fling, ex partner, ex friend, etc!

#dallasintro #tw: death mention

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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With their new majority, House Republicans are planning to take on “woke capitalism.”

“Republicans and their longtime corporate allies are going through a messy breakup as companies’ equality and climate goals run headlong into a G.O.P. movement exploiting social and cultural issues to fire up conservatives,” Bloomberg reports. “Most directly in the G.O.P. cross hairs is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is under pressure from the likely House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to replace its leadership after the nation’s biggest business lobby backed some Democratic candidates.”

I wrote last year about this notion of “woke capitalism” and the degree to which I think this “conflict” is little more than a performance meant to sell an illusion of serious disagreement between owners of capital and the Republican Party. As I wrote then, “the entire Republican Party is united in support of an anti-labor politics that puts ordinary workers at the mercy of capital.” Republicans don’t have a problem with corporate speech or corporate prerogatives as a matter of principle; they have a problem with them as a matter of narrow partisan politics.

That the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, railed this week against the “raw exercise of monopolistic power” by Apple, for example, has much more to do with the cultural politics of Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, than any real interest in the power of government to regulate markets and curb abuse. (In fact, DeSantis argued in his book, “Dreams From Our Founding Fathers,” that the Constitution was designed to “prevent the redistribution of wealth through the political process” and stop any popular effort to “undermine the rights of property.”)

Nonetheless, there is something of substance behind this facade of conflict. It is true that the largest players in the corporate world, compelled to seek profit by the competitive pressures of the market, have mostly ceased catering to the particular tastes and preferences of the more conservative and reactionary parts of the American public. To borrow from and paraphrase the basketball legend Michael Jordan: Queer families buy shoes, too.

Republicans have discovered, to their apparent chagrin, that their total devotion to the interests of concentrated, corporate capital does not buy them support for a cultural agenda that sometimes cuts against those very same interests.

Here it’s worth noting, as the sociologist Melinda Cooper has argued, that what we’re seeing in this cultural dispute is something of a conflict between two different segments of capital. What’s at stake in the “growing militancy” of the right wing of the Republican Party, Cooper writes, “is less an alliance of the small against the big than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.” It is the patriarchal and dynastic capitalism of Donald Trump against the more impersonal and managerial capitalism of, for example, Mitt Romney.

To the extent that cultural reactionaries within the Republican Party have been caught unaware by the friction between their interests and those of the more powerful part of the capitalist class, they would do well to take a lesson from one of the boogeymen of conservative rhetoric and ideology: Karl Marx.

Throughout his work, Marx emphasized the revolutionary character of capitalism in its relation to existing social arrangements. It annihilates the “old social organization” that fetters and keeps down “the new forces and new passions” that spring up in the “bosom of society.” It decomposes the old society from “top to bottom.” It “drives beyond national barriers and prejudices” as well as “all traditional, confined, complacent, encrusted satisfactions of present needs, and reproduction of old ways of life.”

Or, as Marx observed in one of his most famous passages, the “bourgeois epoch” is distinguished by the “uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions.” Under capitalism, “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at least compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”

In context, Marx is writing about precapitalist social and economic arrangements, like feudalism. But I think you can understand this dynamic as a general tendency under capitalism as well. The interests and demands of capital are sometimes in sync with traditional hierarchies. There are even two competing impulses within the larger system: a drive to dissolve and erode the barriers between wage earners until they form a single, undifferentiated mass and a drive to preserve and reinforce those same barriers to divide workers and stymie the development of class consciousness on their part.

But that’s a subject for another day and a different column.

For now, I’ll simply say that the problem of “woke capitalism” for social and political conservatives is the problem of capitalism for anyone who hopes to preserve anything in the face of the ceaseless drive of capital to dominate the entire society.

You could restrain the power of capital by strengthening the power of labor to act for itself, in its own interests. But as conservatives are well aware, the prerogatives of workers can also undermine received hierarchies and traditional social arrangements. The working class, after all, is not just one thing, and what it seeks to preserve — its autonomy, its independence, its own ways of living — does not often jibe with the interests of reactionaries.

Conservatives, if their policy priorities are any indication, want to both unleash the free market and reserve a space for hierarchy and domination. But this will not happen on its own. The state must be brought to bear, not to restrain capital per se but to make it as subordinate as possible to the political right’s preferred social agenda. Play within those restraints, goes the bargain, and you can do whatever you want. Put differently, the right doesn’t have a problem with capitalism; it has a problem with who appears to be in charge of it.

There is even a clear strategy at work. If you can stamp out alternative ways of being, if you can weaken labor to the point of desperation, then perhaps you can force people back into traditional families and traditional households. But no matter how hard you try, you cannot stop the dynamic movement of society. It will churn and churn and churn, until eventually the dam breaks.

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bobsliquorstore · 1 year

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New Age of Sneaker Heads

In a land before the time of the hypebeast era, you were able to stop by your local sneaker shop to purchase the new release of Michael Jordan’s signature shoe the “Air Jordan” without hardly having issues. Sneaker collecting was an affordable thing to do, waking up the day of a shoe release knowing you will definitely get a pair. The internet age changed the sneaker culture forever.

Today's sneaker collecting has changed for the worst, for the consumer at least. You are lucky if you are able to buy sneakers at retail before the resellers get their hands on it. With a “lottery system” you have to win in order to buy the sneakers, what kind of lottery is that?! Resellers usually buy up the shoes in store and online for retail and resell it above the retail price. Forget about going online to purchase the sneakers, resellers create computer bots that buy up the shoes moments after the release!

(DJ Khaled with his ridiculous sneaker collection.)

The global sneaker resale market is estimated to be worth around $6 billion by the end of 2025. It is a good time to be in the resell business. A lot of fortunes have been created on reselling sneakers. Some brands and stores limit the amount of the same shoe you can buy, to prevent resellers easily buying up a whole release. It's not as easy for the reseller to buy a whole release, but they still find ways to get the supply they need.

Bots have been an ongoing problem with online releases with high demand. Bots are coded to immediately buy merchandise online, down to seconds of a release. The government has been trying to regulate the bots problem by sending warning letters to people using the bots to purchase things for resale; with no drastic changes to the bot problem.

Sneaker companies build up hype by creating a scarcity of supply. The low supply of the shoes makes the shoes very valuable to the reseller market. The resellers build the hype around brands by the price tag they put on it. Today there are platforms like GOAT, StockX SNKRS, and the old faithful eBay, where you can find sneakers on the resell market. These platforms attract hundreds of millions of visitors a year to pay reseller prices. StockX single handedly facilitated 37 million transactions in a year.

(The godfathers of the sneaker culture, Run DMC.)

Early pioneers like Run DMC and Michael Jordan paved the way for the hype of the sneaker culture. Air Jordan sneakers and hip hop are biggest contributors to the rise of sneaker collecting. Nike executed marketing genius by implying to consumers that the Air Jordan shoes will help you soar in the air like Michael Jordan. Young minority kids from the inner city would buy these shoes to emulate their favorite athletes and rappers. Over time, the sneaker culture crossed over into pop culture; edging out minorities who created the sneaker culture.

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(The first Air Jordan commercial that appeared on televisions across America.)

As the sneaker industry attracted a broader audience, minorities have been pushed out due to the higher price tag that retailers and resellers put on it. What used to be an affordable hobby for black and brown kids became a hobby exclusively for consumers with deep pockets. The sneaker culture has been gentrified, abandoning the black kids that created the sneaker market. With the soaring price tags of shoes, the more dangerous it is to own a pair.

(An early article about the dangers of owning Air Jordans that Sports Illustrated released on May 14th, 1990.)

The hype around the popular sneakers have made it dangerous to own a pair. In the 90's, America had it's first glimpse of how dangerous it can be. Articles started to spread about robberies and murders over the highly coveted Air Jordan sneakers in Chicago. With the high ticket price on the hypebeast sneakers, they are valued like jewelry. Many innocent civilians lost their lives over a pair of sneakers as the years go by. In 2015, it was estimated that 1,200 people die in sneaker related incidents every year!

Even though the sneaker industry has its dark side, there’s also a bright side to it. With the crossover into pop culture, the sneaker culture has been a way that people from different cultural backgrounds to connect through shoes. People meet at conventions, camp outs, boutiques, forums, social media; all in the love of sneakers. Some collectors meet their best of friends at one of these meet ups to buy, sell, or trade sneakers. The sneaker culture has brought people together like collecting baseball cards.

(A glimpse of what a Sneaker Convention looks like in Toronto, Canada.)

Times have changed but the essentials to sneaker collecting are still there. Going to great extents to find places that sell the rare sneakers is what the sneaker culture is all about, even going to resellers is part of the game. Sneaker collecting has been embedded into popular culture, creating a bigger market for sneakers. A broader audience brings the good and bad with it. Though sneaker collecting changed a lot, sneaker collecting is not going anywhere any time soon.

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fashionbooksmilano · 1 year

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From Soul to Sole

The Adidas Sneakers of Jacques Chassaing

Jacques Chassaing, Foreword by Peter Moore

Rizzoli, New York 2022, 304 pages, Hardcover, 23.42 x 3.3 x 27.2 cm, ISBN: 978-0-8478-7265-7

euro 59,00

email if you want to buy :[email protected]

The definitive book on the creations, career, and legacy of one of the world’s greatest sneaker designers. Often called the father of modern running and basketball sneakers, Jacques Chassaing has shaped and influenced sports and street fashion like few designers ever will. For the first time, Chassaing reveals the story behind the forty-year career of a pioneering designer who has continually pushed boundaries and led the creation of many of the world’s most beloved sneakers. Chassaing thrills and provokes readers with his life experiences, taking them on a journey of continual evolution and revolution. We learn about those who have inspired him and meet those he has inspired. We discover what drove his design philosophy and the process behind some of the greatest sneakers and sports technology ever created: the Forum, Rivalry, Lendl, Edberg, ZX series, Predator, EQT line, Torsion, and his Porsche Design collabs, to name but a few. And we see how Chassaing’s designs have impacted modern culture and won a place on the feet and in the hearts of millions of people. This book features stories about and contributions from athletes, celebrities, and designers who have worked with and been influenced by Chassaing and his work, including Michael Jordan, Stefan Edberg, Patrick Ewing, Run DMC, Gary Aspden, Paul Gaudio, and many more.

Art directed by Peter Moore, designer of the Nike Air Jordan 1 and creator of the adidas Originals line, From Soul to Sole is a story, a statement, an experience, and a celebration of a life and career that is still impacting how we think about sneakers and street fashion design today. Jacques Chassaing is one of the most respected and admired sports shoe designers in the world.

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 1 year

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AIR (2023)

Starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Chris Tucker, Chris Messina, Viola Davis, Marlon Wayans, Matthew Maher, Julius Tennon, Damian Young, Tom Papa, Joel Gretsch, Gustaf Skarsgård, Barbara Sukowa, Jessica Green, Dan Bucatinsky, Michael O’Neill, Asanté Deshon, Billy Smith, Al Madrigal, Jackson Damon, Gabrielle Bourne and Jay Mohr.

Screenplay by Alex Convery.

Directed by Ben Affleck.

Distributed by Amazon Studios. 112 minutes. Rated R.

Who would have thought it? A movie that is essentially about a big business making shoes would turn out to be pretty damned terrific.

Air takes place in some weird alternate universe – specifically the year 1984 – in which Nike is a pathetic also-ran sneaker company that can’t get people to return their calls. Dwarfed in the athletic shoe biz by their competitors, the hip street-smart brand Adidas and the traditional favorite Converse, the number three brand decided to throw caution to the wind and do anything it took to hitch its wagon to an upcoming basketball star.

That star was Michael Jordan.

Of course, this was when Michael Jordan was pretty much an unknown quantity. Sure, he was a member of a college championship team, and he was drafted that year number three in the NBA draft. However, many players with similar backgrounds have crashed and burned before. In fact, most of the time that is what happens. (Fun trivia fact: the two players drafted above Jordan that year were Akeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie. Olajuwon became a very good player, although not Michael Jordan good. But who even remembers Sam Bowie?)

However, at the time, Jordan was something of an unknown quantity. But one man saw him as a game-changer – Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon), a scout for Nike who had a gut feeling that this young player could be an all-time great. (It is to the film’s credit that it acknowledges that Vaccaro had similar feelings about prior players which turned out to not work out so well.)

The problem is, young Jordan thinks – as everyone else does – that Nike is not a real force in the market and doesn’t even want to meet with them. So how can Vacarro get him to take them seriously? By going to his mother.

Deloris Jordan (Viola Davis) was really the one running things, it seems. (Smartly, young Michael is mostly shown from afar or from behind in the film, but never really focused on and not talking until the very end.) Despite the breach of etiquette in bypassing Jordan’s agent (played by a wonderfully profane Chris Messina) to speak with the mother, Vacarro is at least able to charm her enough to get a seat at the negotiating table. However, she is a smart, driven woman and they will have to win her and her son over with their product and their offer.

Therefore, Vacarro gets the boss (Ben Affleck) and his marketing team (Jason Bateman, Chris Tucker, Matthew Maher) together to make the ultimate basketball shoe and an offer which would stand out against the competition.

It’s all pretty gripping stuff, even though it is essentially a movie about a multi-national conglomerate handling a contract negotiation. A contract negotiation in which everyone in the audience knows basically how it all worked out….

However, that is underestimating the charms of Air, to reduce it to its most basic level. It is a charming character study, a look at dreamers trying their one big shot at the brass ring.

Plus it is a wonderful piece of nostalgia, knowing and accurately capturing the feel of the world in 1984. It has a terrific soundtrack, too. (One slight complaint, the opening credits song – “Money For Nothing” by Dire Straits – came out a year after the action of the story took place. The rest of the music seems to be right on the money, though.)

Air is smart, funny, and way better than you would expect it to be. Just like Mike.

Jay S. Jacobs

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#Air #2023 #Movie Reviews #Matt Damon #Ben Affleck #Jay S. Jacobs

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chwedout · 1 year

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✨films i watched for the first time in 2022 that i think everyone should watch at least once in their lifetime✨

favourites are listed in bold

After Yang (2021, dir. Kogonada)

Aftersun (2022, dir. Charlotte Wells)

Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000, dir. Bong Joon-ho)

The Batman (2022, dir. Matt Reeves)

Belfast (2021, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

Broker (2022, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, dir. Halina Reijn)

Bones and All (2022, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

CODA (2021, dir. Siân Heder)

Crimson Peak (2015, dir. Guillermo del Toro)

Decision to Leave (2022, dir. Park Chan-wook)

Drive (2011, dir. Nicholas Winding Refn)

Drive My Car (2021, dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

Enemy (2013, dir. Denis Villeneueve)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022, dir. Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan)

The French Dispatch (2021, dir. Wes Anderson)

Forgotten (2017, dir. Jang Hang-jun)

Glass Onion (2022, dir. Rian Johnson)

The Handmaiden (2016, dir. Park Chan-wook)

High Life (2018, dir. Claire Denis)

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

The Hunt (2012, dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

Lean on Pete (2017, Andrew Haigh)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021, dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp)

Men (2022, dir. Alex Garland)

Midnight (2021, dir. Kwon Oh-seung)

Moonrise Kingdom (2012, dir. Wes Anderson)

My Neighbor Totoro (1988, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

A Most Violent Year (2014, dir. J.C. Chandor)

Nope (2022, dir. Jordan Peele)

The Northman (2022, dir. Robert Eggers)

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019, dir. Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz)

Pearl (2022, dir. Ti West)

Princess Mononoke (1997, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010, dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi)

See How They Run (2022, dir. Tom George)

Shoplifters (2018, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Silenced (2011, dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk)

Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larraín)

Spirited Away (2001, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

Tangerine (2015, dir. Sean Baker)

Titane (2021, dir. Julia Ducournau)

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, dir. Joel Coen)

Turning Red (2022, dir. Domee Shi)

Waves (2019, dir. Trey Edward Shults)

West Side Story (2021, dir. Steven Spielberg)

Whisper of the Heart (1995, dir. Yoshifumi Kondō)

The Wonder (2022, dir. Sebastián Lelio)

The Worst Person in the World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier)

X (2022, dir. Ti West)

You Won’t Be Alone (2022, dir. Goran Stovlevski)

2021 version

#annual list is outttt <3 #if anyone ends up watching a movie on here bc of me pls lmk i would love to know ur thoughts #spiderstingle #spiderstingles annual film list

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kevrocksicehouse · 1 year

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Air.

D: Ben Affleck (2023).

The best thing about Air, the story of how Nike landed Michael Jordan as spokesman for what became the “Air Jordan” line of basketball shoes, is its lack of pomposity. There’s barely a whiff of a Great Moment in History or the Triumph of an Underdog. Instead, it’s the story of a wild hunch, and the many hurdles it takes to play it through, each more precarious than the last until faith is rewarded. It’s ultimately about the satisfaction of being right.

Of course, like so many nonfiction stories that satisfaction is a rigged game. At one point Nike talent scout Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) makes the point that his certainty that third pick in the NBA, Michael Jordan will be the greatest player of all time is shared only with his mother Deloris (Viola Davis), and I couldn’t help but think “Yeah, and everybody who bought a ticket to the movie.” But Affleck (who plays Nike head Phil Knight as a visionary-flake) working off Alex Convery’s Aaron Sorkin-worthy screenplay, pulls off the kind of balancing act between suspense and inevitability that Ron Howard managed with Apollo 13 and Spielberg with Lincoln, highlighting the many ways the deal could have gone sideways. Nike was mostly a running shoe company, and had less money, clout and access than its rivals Converse and Adidas. Vaccaro had to sell an idea of putting Nike’s entire basketball promo budget behind one NBA rookie just to match the bigger boys. Damon wisely plays his insight not as an obsession than as a mental itch he can’t scratch (combined with a gambler’s love of playing a longshot) even as he has to convince his bosses (Jason Bateman alternating faith and dyspepsia), Jordan’s agent (a hilariously profane Chris Messina) and Deloris (whom Davis plays as a shrewd world-weary shark). Damon and Davis’s two scenes together are both an acting showcase for both the least and most theatrical great actors, and a nifty side-stepping of the film’s “So what?” problem (as to how an endorsement deal can be worth a whole movie). The importance of Jordan (played by Damian Delano Young as an untouchable icon in long shots with little dialogue) being a symbol of ADEQUATELY COMPENSATED greatness is put across not as self-interested cynicism so much as simple common sense. That the film closes with Affleck and Damon (who jump-started their careers with the longshot hit Good Will Hunting) sharing a congratulatory moment doesn’t seem gratuitous. They earned it.

#air #ben affleck #matt damon #nike #air jordan #review #kevrock

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anotherrevue · 11 months

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Gameday at the Movies

I once met someone who had no interest in sports at all, and yet one of his favourite movies was Chak De India. It took me years to really wrap my head around it. How can you love a sports movie that much, but have no interest in the real life equivalent? To me, sports fandom is so intrinsic to loving sports movies that I had a tough time separating the two. And, to be honest, being a sports fan, if you look past the numbers and win/loss column, is all about the story and the drama: friendships, rivalries, heroics, tragedies, legacies, all of it. What you get in a movie, you get in real life sports, but messier.

And athletics is one of the few parts of our culture that is still holding on to some of its magic. Every time Dame Lillard throws up a gamewinner from the logo, an arena goes quiet, coiled to explode. When Andy Murray went on his miracle run at the 2023 Australian Open, everyone and their mothers had their fingers crossed, hoping against hope. When Argentina won the World Cup, I watched my relatives (who are, to be clear, not Argentinian) weep with joy.

But getting into sports, getting so emotionally connected to a game in the first place, that’s tough, especially if you didn’t grow up watching it on TV or playing. There are a million rules for you to learn, while fans and analysts alike are constantly volleying stats at you like they’re decrees from god: usage rates, efficiency, value over replacement and every other forced metric is seemingly unimpeachable. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good stat, but for me as a fan, stats do not give or take away meaning or value from performances or narratives. Is Diana Taurasi the most efficient player in the WNBA? No, but that doesn’t matter to me because she represents something more intangible and everlasting: greatness.

Hell, even the basic starting point of picking a team or player to support is tough if you don’t have a home town team or athlete to turn to. You have to be careful – you might, for example, end up on the Mayweather bandwagon for a couple years before you realize that Pretty Boy Floyd might be the most successful poseur in the history of boxing. And once you do end up on a side, you might discover that the fanbase of which you’re now a part has a belligerent online faction that irritates you at every turn (a very merry fuck you to all Laker fan forums).

There is that great Nora Ephron line, “You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.” And to some extent, if you play or love sports growing up, you don’t just want to be a pro athlete. You want to be in the movie. I never thought I could be Michael Jordan, but I definitely wished I could be Calvin in Like Mike, with the miracle shoes from the basketball gods. Movies take the everyday magic of sports and package it into 2 easily digestible hours, so how can you not love it?

Plenty of ways, it turns out. You’ll see plenty of jock writers lament the death of their precious genre and that, I think, is just panic. The sports documentary has had a major resurgence in recent years, sparked, no doubt, by the popularity of ESPN’s 30 for 30 series (Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the Knicks is among my favourite films all time) and The Last Dance. But when it comes to dramatized features, in the last 20 years, there have been maybe five great sports films (we’ll get to that in a minute) and a diminishing number of attempts (with one subgenre being the exception – we’ll get to that too).

But I think there are a couple obvious reasons for that. First and foremost, they cost a little too much, and it’s not like people are rushing to theatres to watch a movie about tennis or football or the other football. Plus, like with most genres that are so laden with stereotypes and set narrative beats, audiences tend to have a “seen one, seen them all” mentality towards sports flicks.

And then there is the sense that everything has been gamified, from movies to governance to your daily news of choice. Politics seems to be more "my team, your team” than ever before, and reporting on TV has devolved mostly to talking heads with the loosest grasp on the facts giving hot takes – which is entertaining and only mildly annoying when Stephen A. Smith does it about the NBA, and horrifyingly glib when NDTV does it about life/death situations.

But one of the more insidious ways that sports has permeated a non-sports part of my life is at work. I feel like, for our parents’ generation, the pitch was “your office is like a family”. You watch movies and TV from the mid-to-late 90s when they were entering the workforce, and they’re constantly pitching you this idea that work is a family, one for all and all for one. It’s gross and saccharine, and although it’s blatantly dishonest, the evolution since then has not been much better.

The workplace now is nominally modeled after sports. I think it comes from the transposability of sports-related wisdom to any sort of group effort. “Take one for the team” or “don’t drop the ball” or “that’s a slam dunk” (which, don’t believe the hype, very hard to do) are all things I hear regularly. To be microscopically one-to-one about it, there is the idea that you all come together to work and execute a plan as a fully enmeshed unit that will beat all the other teams competing against you to reach the same goal. At a glance, it might track, but if you have any experience being on a sports team or even spend an extra second thinking about the implications, it’s absolute horseshit.

Within a team, there isn’t a strict sense of hierarchy and the style of play is crafted around the strengths of the players. That’s not translated into work culture at all, especially within corporations. A worker, regardless of their skills and/or talent, is slotted into place depending on what the company needs. In all honesty, my workplace, like most corporate workplaces that I’m familiar with, is modelled after a factory line. You get your corner of the product to work on, do your job, pass it on to the next person in the line. And if someone fucks up in that line, the shit always flows down the hierarchy. If you don’t do your work or don’t do it on time, that’s a loss. But, especially on the middle and lower rungs of a corporation, there is no work equivalent to winning. You just do what is required of you and maintain the status quo. And that idea of beating the competition in the marketplace at all costs? Studies in the field have posited that maybe, just maybe, it’s not a sustainable model for businesses. Which makes sense. Sports teams, even the greatest dynasties of all time, are build for immediate success. Few of them are successful for more than two years, so why would that be any different for businesses built on the same ethos?

Yet, despite all this, despite the sickening conflation of work and play, despite the declining interest of filmmakers and studios, once in a while, we still get sports movies that hit home. So, beyond making sure that the technical and story aspects of the movies are solid, what makes those select few successful?

You have to cast right. This is the biggest issue with sports movies. If the actor can’t convincingly look like they play the sport at a high level, the movie is pretty much dead in a ditch to me. Even outside the arena, athletes carry themselves with the confidence that they are in control of every minute motion made by any part of their body. This confidence is often referred to as swagger, but let’s call it jock credibility.

For example, in High School Musical, I totally believe Corbin Bleu’s Chad is a two-sport athlete, but it’s way tougher buying that a local community college would be interested in Troy Bolton, much less UC Berkeley. Zac Efron can spin the ball on his finger but that does not buoy his ghastly dribbling skills. One of the big flaws of High School Musical is choosing basketball as his sport. Basketball requires so much basic technical skill to qualify for an elite level that it requires someone who is actually excellent at the sport (Sanaa Lathan in Love and Basketball) or a generally athletic actor and some extremely creative editing (Wesley Snipes in White Men Can’t Jump).

This is why picking the right sport is crucial. Almost every great sports movie has a significant chunk of gameplay, so it’s always best if the sport allows the actors to easily fake competence. This is, for example, why there are very few great tennis films (a pure swing in tennis or golf is impossible to fake), while baseball (an objectively easier sport to pick up) has one of the best movie rosters.

The other secret sauce to cinematic sports is making sure the audience can identify the players. Again, it almost doesn’t need to be said, but film is a visual medium, and the best movies show the actors’ reactions, body language or expressions, so that the audience is inherently more likely to connect to the characters. This is also why individual (boxing) and individualistic (running) sports tend to be more successful than large team sports (American football).

The final key to a great sports movie – and this is entirely my own theory and thereby is likely to be complete nonsense – is stats. I know I just railed against the inadequacies of using stats in sports, but I think that if you can quantify the effort and contribution of each player in a sport, it makes it easier to portray it in a movie. In these sports, because it’s easier to see the importance of every player and every action, the filmmakers have a much easier job of setting up stakes in a way that even a novice to the sport could understand. Again, baseball comes to mind (it is after all the original Moneyball sport) but the example on the other side is football (as in soccer, not hand-egg). I think I might get yelled at for this one so let’s just start there.

Football is the least stats friendly of the major sports, because it’s such a fluid sport where the players’ contributions are so interwoven that it’s hard to quantify what an individual player means to a team – and indeed the importance of any single character to a narrative about football.

Quick aside: In Bend It Like Beckham, both Keira Knightley and (especially) Parminder Nagra have unimpeachable levels of jock credibility, which is what sells it to me as a sports movie, even if the amount of football depicted is a bit sparse.

What I find amusing is that the other nearly impossible to adapt sport, tennis, has the opposite issue of football. It’s very easy to relate to the player, but it’s unbelievably hard to fake being good at tennis (see: 2004's Wimbledon – or don’t). There are very few good tennis movies.

I don’t know if I can overstate how in the pocket I am for any basketball movie. To me, there are 5 great basketball movies, but there will seem to be one glaring omission, a pretender that everyone loves to bring up: Hoosiers. The gameplay in Hoosiers is awful, Gene Hackman (an actor I love) looks legitimately afraid of getting bonked in the head by a ball and the message is hacky and plays on racial prejudice. Plenty of movies have done the tough new coach concept better since then (Coach Carter, The Way Back, Hurricane Season). We certainly don’t need Hoosiers any more.

I’m not much of a baseball fan, but baseball is the best screen sport for the same reasons that I think the real life version is quite dull. The games go on forever, it is a relatively unshowy sport (in terms of athletic feats) and there is enough time between each ball to have dialogue, make stressful decisions and build tension. Baseball is a poetic sport, the pounding thump of the ball against a glove, the crack of the bat when it connects, a runner sliding through the dirt to get to base. Movies about the great American pastime often tend to be similarly long, with a soothing energy and a quick (if quiet) wit.

To be fair, all of the above this can be said about cricket as well, so why have there been so few attempts at making a great cricket movie? I think the big difference is, where baseball gives the teams the opportunity for a back-and-forth in scoring, cricket is structured in a way that each team only has one chance to score, making it harder to show realistically dramatic shifts in momentum.

And more than any other sport, cricket and baseball are easiest for a newcomer to keep up with: there’s a ball, you gotta hit it. What’s confusing about that?

With cycling and track sports, there is something that fascinates filmmakers. It might be a yearning for the near-total sense of control over one’s own achievements and failures that a track athlete might feel, which is antithetical to the inherently collaborative nature of moviemaking. Or maybe it’s a sense of kinship with the singular focus of the athletes and their constant tinkering with the most minute aspects of their craft that attracts legendary script doctors (Robert Towne) and detail-obsessed directors (Michael Mann). Whatever the reason, track movies tend to be philosophical and often pure meditations on determination and willpower.

Pugilism. The sweet science. I started to obsessively watch boxing movies after I read Budd Schulberg's book Ringside. At the end of the book, he included an essay on the best boxing films in which he broke down the artistry in faking a fight for the silver screen. That really seeded itself in my brain and sprouted into such slightly unhinged takes as "Creed is the best Rocky movie" or "Ali examines the complicated public, personal and interior life of an iconic boxer better than Raging Bull". The stakes in a fight are clear and most actors relish the chance to get into absurd shape and take their shirt off, so the pugilistic picture show will likely never die.

Sidebar: Million Dollar Baby is often listed as one of the best fight movies and it likely is, but I watched it once a long time ago and it was one of the most thoroughly soul-crushing movie watching experiences of my life. I haven't been able to rewatch it since.

Field hockey is a rare movie sport for the same reasons as football, and even though Chak De India towers over most of the sports movie heap, it is not in general a cinematic sport. Ice hockey on the other hand is a much more dynamic game because it has some element of fight sport ingrained into it. And as much as I love Paul Newman's beautiful, soulful, sparkling blue eyes…

Sorry, what was I saying? Oh yeah, Goon has snatched the title of best ice hockey movie from Slap Shot, because it's basically what if Rocky wanted to be in a team sport.

There are of course other sports that have received the silver screen treatment: American football (lots of okay movies but honestly none as good as the TV show Friday Night Lights), golf (Tin Cup, starring the movie king of sports Kevin Costner), racing (the impeccable Ford v. Ferrari) and so on and so on. Hell, one of my favourite movies of all time period is The Color of Money, and while that’s only half about shooting pool, it gives the audience, in parts, the ecstatic highs and the rock bottoms of a great sports story.

But I think the subgenre that is the undisputed king of the sports movie right now is management. Like most non-traditional movements in modern sports, this starts with Moneyball. Is there a greater sports movie with less gameplay than Moneyball? No. Is there a sports movie that makes me choke up as reliably? Also no. It's filled with peeks into the behaviour of athletes, the superstitions and the motivations, the behind-the-scenes drama. One of the very few perfect films in my book. And while that's the peak of the management movie, there are some really strong movies in this category, from aspirational stories (Hustle) to morality tales (The Damned United) to weird experimental movies about the possible future of athlete management (High Flying Bird).

Odd to close this with management, but that’s where we’re at, with sports movies to sports fandom. Everyone on the internet thinks they can manage or coach a team better than most professional managers or coaches, and movies are here to tell them, “Hey, maybe not.” As usual, I side with the movies.

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there are moments that make him think with sudden, devastating clarity: you are going to remember this for the rest of your life. some of these moments might be watching michael jordan walk out onto the court on june fourteenth, nineteen ninety-eight; being a pallbearer at his father's funeral; getting his acceptance letter to harvard, the big red h in the top right hand corner; scoring his first home run. this is one of those moments.

incredibly on theme, wonderful tonight is playing. he isn't sure if it's intentional or not, if he saw it on the playlist and decided on it for that reason, or if it was just coincidence -- but he watches claire pad across the room in front of him in her underwear, fixing her earring in place, stopping at the foot of the bed and hum lowly about the dress laid across it.

he hasn't seen it on her, just neatly hung up on the back of a door and then again on the small rack her stylist had brought in and now, across the bed. he probably shouldn't be here but nobody knows she isn't dressed yet, and he's her chief of staff. he watches her for a moment, watches her decide something or maybe it's just the gears turning he can see, and slip on the dress. it's white. he doesn't think too hard about the way his stomach drops just a fraction and thinks you are going to remember this for the rest of your life.

would you? she asks, turning so that her back is in his direction. and of course he stands, in two strides stood behind her, dragging the zip up. he lets himself be greedy here; pressed as close as he can get, mouth dropped to her shoulder but not actually kissing her yet, palms smoothed down her sides when the dress is secured. we're going to be late, she laughs and he tells her i don't care but they leave together and walk down together and just before they part ways at the bottom of the stairs, he says low, in her ear with his mouth just brushing the shell of her ear and no more, you look stunning madam president.

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Air Jordan: Most Valuable Sneaker

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Here's a list of the top 20 shoe brands in the world, along with details explaining their popularity and status:

1. **Nike** - Known for innovative technology and top-tier athlete endorsements, Nike dominates global sportswear and is synonymous with performance and style.

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These brands have established themselves through a combination of quality, innovation, cultural relevance, and strong branding strategies. Whether for sports, fashion, or everyday wear, they have successfully created products that resonate with consumers around the globe.

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The Development of Red Nike Shoes: From Timeless to Contemporary

The bold red tone of Nike footwear has ended up being an instantly recognizable symbol in the worlds of sports, fashion, and culture. From the initial layouts that specified the brand's very early years to the cutting-edge designs that now reign supreme in the sneaker globe, the progression of red Nike shoes unravels a fascinating story of creative thinking, panache, and superior performance.

The creation of Nike: Welcoming the Color Red

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The Nike Cortez, with its vibrant red swoosh versus a white or red top, rapidly became a favorite among joggers. Its lightweight style and comfortable fit made it a staple on the track and the streets alike.

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In 1985, Nike joined basketball symbol Michael Jordan to introduce the Air Jordan I. This footwear, understood for its mix of black and red colors called "Reproduced," changed the normal style of basketball footwear and triggered a significant craze in pop culture.

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