Alex Ross Perry

I was hearing opinions from my old coworkers that in other contexts would be sacrilegious.

Right.

You guys were saying opinions that if I brought to them, they'd be like, who are these fucking dorks?

It's these later movies, Llewyn Davis aside, that I found interesting.

Dire.

Yeah, I'm riding with all of them.

You know what the thing is about Hail Caesar that none of you brought up?

This drives me crazy that no one points this out.

People who supposedly know what movies are.

Every time they go to a different movie in that.

It's set in the 50s.

Then why is there a fucking Esther Williams synchronized swimming movie?

Million Dollar Mermaid was 1952, I will say.

That is like, that's like saying never say never again was, you know.

I believe that's exactly what it's like saying.

It's not presented as like, wow, we're making one more of these.

And it's just crazy to me that this movie that's supposedly steeped in Hollywood history and the fucking, the Ralph Fiennes thing, that is a 30s movie.

He's visiting like a Ruben Mamoulian comedy of manners.

Not really.

These movies from the 30s coexist with these movies from the 50s in this pointless fantasia of nothingness.