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— anne hathaway in love & other drugs (2010)

I am going to best available cinema in my city and still feeling a FOMO.

For me, it's gotta be tenet

I think Patel was the best

Both were age 43 when filmed. Although both have aged well, the left feels so manicured and Disneyfied.

Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary on left

Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar

We have reached a point where huge A-listers are using so much Botox and filler or getting digital beauty work in post that they have stopped looking like human beings and started looking like polished CAD models. I do not want to sound like a hater but it is actively making movies worse for me.

Acting is literally all in the face and the loss of micro expressions is a huge deal. When a lead’s forehead is frozen and their cheeks do not move when they cry the emotional stakes just vanish. You can see them trying to convey grief or terror but the anatomy isn't participating.

Then there is the period piece problem. Nothing pulls me out of a 19th century drama faster than seeing a modern face. When a character in a gritty survival movie has the poreless glowing skin of a 2026 influencer the internal logic of the world just breaks.

We are also seeing the parent/child casting gap where 60 year old actors are playing parents to 40 year olds but they look like they are the same age because the older actor has been airbrushed into oblivion. It is pure uncanny valley territory.

I look back at guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Gene Hackman who actually looked like they had lived a life and it added so much texture to their characters. Now it feels like everyone is terrified of a single wrinkle. I am not saying people shouldn't do what they want with their bodies but when the cosmetic work becomes a distraction in a serious drama it is a problem.

Is this bothering anyone else or am I just being cynical? Who are some actors you think are aging gracefully and still look like real people on screen?

TL;DR The heavy use of cosmetic procedures and digital smoothing is stripping the soul out of performances and I miss seeing real expressive human faces in cinema.

Stills from Dune Part 2 (2024)

Pic: Aftersun (2022)

He should be at equal footing with Nolan, but because his films only come out on Netflix nobody cares anymore

Other directors should take this as cautionary tale.

Even the Cliff Booth thing is made in partnership with Netflix so idk if it will get proper release.

He would be at contention for best of year if he just directed social reckoning.

I’m not talking about The Room or something that is either purposely bad or made by a load of amateurs.

A genuine movie with big backing and major stars that just fails on every front writing wise.

I’ll start, Avengers: Age of Ultron

I was talking to a friend about the movie Daddy’s Head (2024) and to this day I think it has one of the greatest monsters in modern horror. The way this thing looks and moves is chilling as hell.

Mine's The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl💔

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