Maximalist Epic Dude
@Maximalistepic
You may know me from my (former) Star Wars Instagram page. I love movies a lot. Andor sweep.
Favorite First Watches of June 2025 Repo Man (1984) 28 Years Later (2025) Mississippi Masala (1991) Strange Days (1995)




Most people don’t want art — they want emotional validation dressed as cinema. They say they love film, but avoid anything that challenges their sense of time, narrative, or moral stability.
What’s your most PRETENTIOUS opinion?
Hard to think of a better on-location shoot for TV, blows my mind this was a network show on ABC
Rewatching Lost this is the greatest show of all time
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Rewatching Lost this is the greatest show of all time
Rewatching Lost this is the greatest show of all time
Completely unironically, godlike parenting. These things are like $15 at most and you can easily find DVDs at a thrift store. And that's assuming you don't wanna burn them yourself.
Doing a rewatch of Lost, it’s time we talk more about how Giacchino’s best musical work is on this show
The human race is about to be so much dumber than we ever thought possible
Teenagers in the 2010's writing an essay without Chat GPT
It’s 2017 and they’re saying Tom will finally become a proper Spider-Man for the first time It’s 2021 and they’re saying Tom will finally become a proper Spider-Man for the first time It’s 2025 and they’re saying Tom will finally become a proper Spider-Man for the first time
Kevin Feige says Peter Parker is dealing with 'street-level crime' in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' 🕸️ "As sad as it is that Peter is forgotten by everyone in his life, we are seeing for the first time him being a proper Spider-Man. Him being by himself, dedicated to saving the…
King (and his wife Amy Madigan is the queen) of refusing to clap for Elia Kazan
Kinda reminds me about how you’d never know it but Ed Harris is one of the most sneakily woke actors out there
realized my problem with modern interviewing, especially in this context where everything needs to go viral, is that the interviewer is far more concerned with getting themselves over than showing any interest in the film or talent. They're all the center of their own universe
Pedro Pascal on if he is the capital ‘D’ Daddy of the MCU. enough with the daddy questions 😫
A genocide is not a "mistake". Providing the weapons to commit this genocide is not a "mistake". The US is directly complicit in this evil.
"In Gaza today, a Catholic Church was struck by an Israeli shell. What is the president's reaction?" Press Sec: "It was not a positive reaction. He called PM Netanyahu this morning to address it. It was a mistake by the Israelis to hit that Catholic Church."
These box sets of lesser known titles from around the globe represents some of the most important work that both Criterion and Scorsese are doing.
MARTIN SCORSESE'S WORLD CINEMA PROJECT ❤️ Coming to @criterionchannl in August! bit.ly/4f5WEGT
Engaging in art is productive don’t let anyone make you feel differently
phone addiction got so bad that watching a movie feels productive
According to right wingers, if I think this is bad or wrong I’m engaging in something called “toxic empathy”
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, or a veteran, or that I identified who I was. They ignored everything I said, and they just they broke my window and they dragged me out. I let them know that I was a veteran and I wasn't doing anything…
I miss the 2001-2006 golden age of home video, when the medium of DVD was so popular that the likes of Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman were forced at gunpoint to participate in bonus features.
How is this not a bigger story? A young Palestinian man arrived at an airport and never came out.
🚨NEW: A Palestinian teen from the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been missing for 9 days after being detained at Bush Airport in Houston, Texas—with no explanation, despite arriving on a valid U.S. visa. Local ABC affiliate KTRK reports that Muhanad Alshrouf landed July 5 to…
literally nothing more embarrassing than an old letterboxd review