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Happy New Year, I declare 2024 to be The Year Of The Movie!
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Data Graham posted:How many other movies/stories follow this pattern? Do any subvert it (like by showing how a quixotic quest just ends up nearly destroying the person's life and that's a good thing because other people's lives actually do have meaning and value too, not just the solipsistic protagonist's)? I'm sure I could think of some (lol yeah there's Don Quixote) The TV show The Dropout from a couple of years ago was a fun take on this kind of story. It's a dramatization of the Elizabeth Holmes story so there's a lot of stuff early on with Holmes being a scrappy underdog in the biotech industry fighting against the more experienced people telling her she can't make her dream a reality, only in this case those people telling her to give up on her dreams were absolutely correct and she was making a product that didn't work at all and was a huge scam. Zodiac is a good movie about obsession as well.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:55
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null_pointer posted:Silly question, probably the wrong place for it, feel free to kick me out if needed, etc ... John Goodman in Barton Fink.
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Jan 4, 2024 02:06
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Robert Prosky in Thief is also a good one.
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Jan 4, 2024 02:16
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Anybody see any good movies lately? The most recent movie I saw was The Boy and the Heron. I would rank it lower in comparison to the other Miyazaki movies I've seen but it gave me a lot to think about. There are several ways to read the film that all feel like compelling arguments and it's been really interesting to see what people take away from it.
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Jan 9, 2024 17:10
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FreudianSlippers posted:The list is a work in progress and open to suggestions. -Does the movie have a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 in at least one shot?
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Jan 13, 2024 01:50
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I think Highlander would lose something without Lambert in the lead. He comes across as weird and kind of spooky in a way that I don't think 80's Kurt Russell would.
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Jan 17, 2024 22:01
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I just finished watching Barry (really good btw) and am probably going to watch Reacher next because after four seasons of dark comedy about the soul killing nature of violence I would honestly love to just watch a great big man destroy some bad guys.
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Jan 18, 2024 22:05
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i thought the big shift the last season of Barry took was a huge miscalculation but the first three and a half or so seasons were so good I thought it was interesting to see the ways that Barry manipulated his son into seeing him as he wanted to be seen by others, but it was not great for the pacing and it resulted in some of the side characters like Gene having a bit of a rushed ending. All the stuff with him getting framed felt like it was two or three episodes of plot crammed into the back half of an episode. therattle posted:Yeah, Barry was good. We are about to watch the last episode of Fargo S5. My tasteful cousin also highly recommended A Spy Among Friends, which is really excellent. Extremely good writing. If you enjoyed Tinker Tailor it’ll be right up your alley. Will add this to the watch list for sure. Flying Zamboni fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Jan 18, 2024 22:21
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Yeah I liked the actual final episode, and that moment specifically, a lot.
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Jan 18, 2024 23:02
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I will NEVER be sick of Patrick Wilson.
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Jan 25, 2024 19:06
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What's the oldest age an actor was cast to play a regular high school student completely unironically? Ben Platt was around 27 when they would have been filming Dear Evan Hansen and while I'm sure there are older people who have played high schoolers he definitely looks like he's the oldest.
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Jan 26, 2024 13:21
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Smokey and the Forklift Certified Bandit
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Jan 29, 2024 02:09
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oh god oh gently caress posted:For the love of god tell me who the real agent argyle is It's Special Agent Hitler from the Kingsman movies and that's how it all ties together.
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Jan 31, 2024 22:25
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Cruise's strongest performances are the ones that take advantage of the fact that underneath his surface level charm he's an undeniably weird and off putting guy. He's fun in stuff like the MI movies or Last Samurai but he really shines when he's playing some kind of weird creep like in Magnolia, Interview with the Vampire, Eyes Wide Shut, or Collateral.
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Feb 8, 2024 17:42
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:the nepo baby thing isn't gonna get really fun until a generation or two from now when everyone in hollywood starts showing signs of inbreeding In 2095 everyone will be talking about which actors have that classic "Skarsgard jaw" or "Hemsworth nose."
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Feb 10, 2024 19:09
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Gripweed posted:Watching She Devil. Movies from the 50s are wild. The patient is a young unmarried woman and the doctor is a man in a position of authority over so I guess he’s basically her dad? Or, like, owns her a little bit? If you want to see an older movie that's actively commenting on that kind of stuff the original Cat People from the 40's is great.
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Feb 17, 2024 00:25
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Mr Hootington posted:I found this channel: https://youtube.com/@newcastleafterdark405?si=6OD1sv9-rsyx43Ob I watched The Blood on Satan's Claw on this channel a couple of years ago and it was definitely easy enough to skip right through the relatively few segments with the hosts. They have some good stuff on there.
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Feb 27, 2024 01:17
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A beekeeper would never endanger his bees by placing them in a heated combat scenario and any combat training they may give to the bees would only be for a worst case situation where they had to defend themselves. They respect the bees too much to knowingly put them in harms way and in that way Jason Statham as The Beekeeper is a true embodiment of the beekeeper spirit.
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Mar 4, 2024 23:15
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Gripweed posted:It got me thinking, what is the best song created to be a diegetic song with in the world of a movie? Outer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSwO-k-RqNA Space!
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Mar 6, 2024 14:09
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Jay Rust posted:What always bothered me about this scene was, why does Adam driver have a guitar? He doesn’t touch it during the song It's funnier that way.
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Mar 6, 2024 14:34
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RBA Starblade posted:I hate that song. It's loving awful and was written about a lady that turned him down when he asked her out and she thought he was huge weirdo for writing a song about her lol.
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Mar 15, 2024 16:52
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The Onion's best video stuff was in 2012 with the incredible trio of Sex House, Lake Dredge Appraisal, and Porkin' Across America.
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Mar 16, 2024 23:32
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Happy St. Patrick's day CD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ysg3uJPstk
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Mar 17, 2024 13:35
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Good luck, glad it's been going over so well! Love that Gústi!
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Mar 24, 2024 21:20
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Viggo Mortenson in The Prophecy is up there for me for movie Satans. I don't typically find the devil scary in movies but Mortenson manages to come across as pretty spooky. For a more fun loving Lucifer I like Tom Waits in Doctor Parnassus. As for a couple of actors who I think would do a good job in the role: Jake Gyllenhaal or Stephen Root.
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Apr 5, 2024 00:29
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Jay Rust posted:Do you guys ever watch movies in several sittings? I just found out a friend does this regularly and it sounds insane On rare occasions I'll have to split up watching a movie between two nights. I'm not free to start watching a movie until 830 most nights (and I'm usually up at 530 on weekdays) so anything over 2 hours can risk getting split up if I start getting too tired. I don't like to do it but ultimately it's better than trying to finish a movie while I'm mostly asleep.
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Apr 8, 2024 22:01
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The potion seller knows the strength of his own potions and was only being responsible by not selling them to the knight. If the knight had just trusted the potion seller's expertise from the start instead of being stubborn he would have avoided going through such emotional turmoil!
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Apr 18, 2024 15:19
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Chris James 2 posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1785302969103061132?t=S1KmpMA_-cyugSSxWVEDjg&s=19 First they complain when he's a full working day's amount of time late and then they get upset when he tries to make up for the lost time by peeing in bottles on the set! Some people are impossible to please!
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Apr 30, 2024 17:12
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All the sex scenes are in TV shows now.
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May 3, 2024 16:02
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:https://x.com/WillSloanEsq/status/1786825517208846767 Citizen Kane's the big one I can think of.
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May 5, 2024 18:51
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RIP. May his funeral be a fast and thrifty production. It's what he would have wanted.
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May 12, 2024 12:40
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Buried in the finest chipboard coffin painted to look like mahogany as long you just keep it in the background, and can be reused for at least 6 more funerals he's planning. Strapping the coffin to the roof of a car and rushing to the nearest funeral home right after the last service of the day ends so that they can get set up before the staff have had the chance to clear out the floral arrangements.
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May 12, 2024 17:17
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