Single-digit penetration in the Tranco top domains list; deployment in North America has actually declined in recent years.

I've lived in both places and I think the narrative is a lot more fair, in terms of day-to-day quality of life for, like, the median resident, about San Francisco than it is about Chicago. The narrative about Chicago basically doesn't connect with anybody's experience here unless they live in places like Lawndale or Englewood. San Francisco's problems are broadly shared by every neighborhood.

This is Twitter science, not reality.

Ok explain to me in Reddit science terms

I don't know what that's supposed to mean, but attribution of IQ to countries is not a thing.

You're looking for story-driven movies and setting the bar at Shawshank, which is IMDB's all-time most popular movie, so that's kind of a tall order.

You're also rattling off three movies that have almost nothing to do with each other. Banshees of Inisherin in particular isn't a crowd-pleasing movie. To stick with Martin McDonagh, check out In Bruges or Three Billboards. I didn't like American Sniper either (it's Temu Hurt Locker), but sticking with Clint Eastwood, check out Gran Torino.

You may very well be! Why?

It's good for a single watch. I don't get how people can rewatch it without groaning non-stop. We get it, he's smarter than the warden and the warden hates him for it, prison sucks, and Morgan Freeman can make even the lamest cliches sound "deep".

The warden does not hate him for being smarter than him? The warden covets him for being smarter than him!

@padjo said it well. Schmaltzy and manipulative. Freeman's folksiness is eye-rollingly clichéd. I cringed throughout the film the first time I tried to watch it, and I haven't lasted more than a few minutes every other time I've tried.

I am very well aware I'm in a minority, though!

Features are in decline and theater releases are doomed; they're in the agonal breathing stage already. But against that you have the rise of series, which arguably a better storytelling medium.

I think you're going to see more and more people saying things like that as the audience gets younger and more people see the antecedents of Pulp Fiction before they see Pulp Fiction itself. There wouldn't be an EEAaO without Pulp Fiction.

Even setting its influence aside, Pulp Fiction is the better movie.

I wouldn't even rate pulp fiction highly on Tarantino's filmography. I tried watching it recently and found it to be incredibly pretentious and overwritten.

It's quintessential-Tarantino, but I don't ever recommend it anymore (start with Django or Reservoir Dogs). Decades ago I shared this movie with college friends — mostly because we enjoyed decadence.

If you've not seen Pulp Fiction by 2026 [0], how can I safely recommend you submit yourself to hours of semi-disconnected robberies, rapes, and deceit? It's a great movie, EEAaO is just better storytelling.

[0] similarly, how does one recommend the acclaimed Deliverance without blushing?

Funnily enough I deeply dislike Django too and think Reservoir Dogs is good but extremely raw and unrefined.

My favourites of his are probably Once upon a time, Jackie Brown and Deathproof, with an honourable mention for Basterds.

=D

Django has low re-watchability (unlike most of Tarantino's work) but incredible acting/twists/cinematography.

Once Upon a Time is too much for me (bottom-tier Tarantino IMHO), but it does have many great actors/scenes (the overall storyline/premise is what I didn't care for).

Haven't seen Deathproof, but Basterds is wonderful storytelling.

Yeah I think Basterds is probably the most undeniably great, even if it's not my favourite. He even calls his shot with the last spoken line being “i think this might be my masterpiece”.

Probably my favourite thing about cinema is how slippery the subjective experience is.

For example I can appreciate a movie I don't really enjoy in a way I can't with music. Also on a rewatch a movie can go from hated to loved, or vice versa, in a way that feels unique to the medium.

>Yeah I think Basterds is probably the most undeniably great [Tarantino film], even if it's not my favourite.

Well-said.

>...on a rewatch [it] can go from hated to loved

I typically don't rewatch movies for at least five years — this is enough time for life experiences to change media interpretations. Yet I listen to the same tracklist of catchy MP3 earworms, on repeat.

Songs are motivational background energy (for me), and skipping a track isn't nearly as hard as bailing out of two hours invested in a cozy full-length film.

> There wouldn't be an EEAaO without Pulp Fiction

How so? This is an intriguing statement and I want to hear more.

>>more people see the antecedents of Pulp Fiction before they see Pulp Fiction itself.

Can he also explain this above statement, please?

Probably this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...

You can only think of 2 notable films since 2022?

* American Fiction

* The Holdovers

* Oppenheimer

* Perfect Days(!)

* Nosferatu

* Conclave

* Challengers

* The Mastermind

I can rattle off more but those seem pretty hard to argue with. All of them are better than EEAAO.

I found Nosferatu to be a snooze fest (watched it in the theater by myself so I could take it all in) but maybe it needs a rewatch.

I thought it did an extremely good job of conjuring a particular place/time, and I find the Nosferatu backstory of being Temu Dracula sort of inherently entertaining.

I just watched "Frankenstein" (by Guillermo del Toro) from last year, and thought it was pretty fantastic.

"Flow" in 2024 was also fantastic.

Just wanted to second "Flow" - undoubtedly one of the best animated movies of all time! Give it a try if you can, you won't regret it.

Make sure to make a place for your cat on the couch too: he or she will probably love it.

It's Children of Men crossed with The Big Lebowski, with Pynchon instead of noir characters. When you get what it's trying to do, it gets better.

I bounced off of it at first, but I bounced (hard) off of Lebowksi as well.

I don't think it's PTA's best film (or that I will come around to that opinion eventually), but it's pretty good.

PTA did not make Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Oof, I got my wires crossed. Nothing I said makes any sense in the context of EEAaO. I was thinking of OBAA. Thanks!

Without commenting on the racial biases of IQ tests (we probably directionally agree), the idea that IQ tests in employment are legally risky is an Internet myth. The companies that offer employment-screening general cognitive tests have logo crawls of giant companies that use them.

They're not unusual because they're legally risky; they're unusual because they don't work well.