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Everyone dies in Vietnam, but only Mutt truly lived in Vietnam
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Mutt put his dog tags on an already dead American soldier and fled to Thailand.
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Mar 30, 2024 18:45
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I rewatched the grand budapest hotel at home. I had a very emotional reaction this viewing, especially towards the end, which kind of snuck up on me. I've always loved the film and consider it wes anderson's masterpiece, but certain choices in blocking and editing awoke a new, profound understanding of themes I didn't pay attention to before, themes I connected to my own life that hit me at the core. there's a very deliberate drawing-attention-to of the artifice of storytelling (obviously, it's wes anderson), but unlike his other films the usage is very specific. scenes end unexpectedly or draw out longer than necessary. plot lines are left conspicuously unresolved or end abruptly with a single line of dialogue. it's like, we the audience are told very explicitly "you are watching a story," even a fairy tale, and then proceeds to intrude upon that tale with the unpredictable cadence of real life. when we get to the narrator's ultimate question, "why did zero keep the hotel?" he answers deliberately, "I kept it for [my wife]. we were happy here... for a little while." this scene is preceded immediately by the scene of their wedding and of his last moments with gustave, in which zero matter-of-factly tells us in narration that his wife, his baby, and his best friend all died off-screen senselessly. like the other 2014 oscar nom'd picture I've rewatched recently, birdman, there is a diagetic awareness of the medium (or at least the medium within the medium), but unlike birdman it's used very sincerely, instead of with sardonic detachment. I think it's used to illustrate how we connect with stories and why we need them, why we need to shape events and people to fit specific molds, when in reality there is very little we can actually control. when zero is saying the grand budapest hotel represents the place where he was happy despite the tragedy in his life, he is really directly talking about the meaning of the film. dunno what possessed me to watch it today but it's an elegant work and I feel a great catharsis today after revisiting it. anyway I can't wait to consume the next piece of content in the star wars franchise!!
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Mar 30, 2024 18:50
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Arc Hammer posted:Mutt died in Vietnam. 
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Mar 30, 2024 18:53
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kalel posted:I rewatched the grand budapest hotel at home. I had a very emotional reaction this viewing, especially towards the end, which kind of snuck up on me. I've always loved the film and consider it wes anderson's masterpiece, but certain choices in blocking and editing awoke a new, profound understanding of themes I didn't pay attention to before, themes I connected to my own life that hit me at the core. there's a very deliberate drawing-attention-to of the artifice of storytelling (obviously, it's wes anderson), but unlike his other films the usage is very specific. scenes end unexpectedly or draw out longer than necessary. plot lines are left conspicuously unresolved or end abruptly with a single line of dialogue. it's like, we the audience are told very explicitly "you are watching a story," even a fairy tale, and then proceeds to intrude upon that tale with the unpredictable cadence of real life. when we get to the narrator's ultimate question, "why did zero keep the hotel?" he answers deliberately, "I kept it for [my wife]. we were happy here... for a little while." this scene is preceded immediately by the scene of their wedding and of his last moments with gustave, in which zero matter-of-factly tells us in narration that his wife, his baby, and his best friend all died off-screen senselessly. like the other 2014 oscar nom'd picture I've rewatched recently, birdman, there is a diagetic awareness of the medium (or at least the medium within the medium), but unlike birdman it's used very sincerely, instead of with sardonic detachment. I think it's used to illustrate how we connect with stories and why we need them, why we need to shape events and people to fit specific molds, when in reality there is very little we can actually control. when zero is saying the grand budapest hotel represents the place where he was happy despite the tragedy in his life, he is really directly talking about the meaning of the film. dunno what possessed me to watch it today but it's an elegant work and I feel a great catharsis today after revisiting it. good news buddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8DT5Q8kzI
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Mar 30, 2024 18:55
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Mutt put his dog tags on an already dead American soldier and fled to Thailand. Then he became the woman he always wanted to be.
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Mar 30, 2024 19:02
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Wes Anderson should have done the Jordon thing and retired after Budapest Hotel.
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Mar 30, 2024 19:15
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colonelwest posted:Then he became the woman he always wanted to be. Many such cases.
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Mar 30, 2024 19:22
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grand budapest broke through the invisible wes anderson barrier that makes it so only people who watch wes anderson movies watch wes anderson movies. idk why. I thought it might have been just, like, he'd finally arrived, this was his stankonia if you will, but nope. french dispatch and asteroid city just did regular wes anderson numbers
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Mar 30, 2024 19:29
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Lol at the hedgehog tank traps on the beach to stop Romans from doing Normandy Landings at Syracuse.
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Mar 30, 2024 19:29
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Congrats on Crystal Skull no longer being the worst Indiana Jones movie. What a giant piece of crap.
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Mar 30, 2024 19:41
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sure okay posted:good news buddy it kind of sucks that for the rest of my life there will be an ever-present risk of ai-generated nonsense entering my line of sight
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Mar 30, 2024 19:42
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That DICK! posted:Do they have to do it for every movie tho Thank you for your service
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Mar 30, 2024 19:54
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kalel posted:it kind of sucks that for the rest of my life there will be an ever-present risk of ai-generated nonsense entering my line of sight Yeah, the time used on creating the prompts could have been spent in mspaint and the result would have been better, no matter the artistic talent of the creator.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:04
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kalel posted:it kind of sucks that for the rest of my life there will be an ever-present risk of ai-generated nonsense entering my line of sight Yeah I used to want to live to a ripe old age, not so much anymore!
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Mar 30, 2024 20:19
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Road House was OK if you don't compare it in any way to the original.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:40
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kalel posted:I rewatched the grand budapest hotel at home. I had a very emotional reaction this viewing, especially towards the end, which kind of snuck up on me. I've always loved the film and consider it wes anderson's masterpiece, but certain choices in blocking and editing awoke a new, profound understanding of themes I didn't pay attention to before, themes I connected to my own life that hit me at the core. there's a very deliberate drawing-attention-to of the artifice of storytelling (obviously, it's wes anderson), but unlike his other films the usage is very specific. scenes end unexpectedly or draw out longer than necessary. plot lines are left conspicuously unresolved or end abruptly with a single line of dialogue. it's like, we the audience are told very explicitly "you are watching a story," even a fairy tale, and then proceeds to intrude upon that tale with the unpredictable cadence of real life. when we get to the narrator's ultimate question, "why did zero keep the hotel?" he answers deliberately, "I kept it for [my wife]. we were happy here... for a little while." this scene is preceded immediately by the scene of their wedding and of his last moments with gustave, in which zero matter-of-factly tells us in narration that his wife, his baby, and his best friend all died off-screen senselessly. like the other 2014 oscar nom'd picture I've rewatched recently, birdman, there is a diagetic awareness of the medium (or at least the medium within the medium), but unlike birdman it's used very sincerely, instead of with sardonic detachment. I think it's used to illustrate how we connect with stories and why we need them, why we need to shape events and people to fit specific molds, when in reality there is very little we can actually control. when zero is saying the grand budapest hotel represents the place where he was happy despite the tragedy in his life, he is really directly talking about the meaning of the film. dunno what possessed me to watch it today but it's an elegant work and I feel a great catharsis today after revisiting it. The Grand Budapest Hotel is an excellent film, good post.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:53
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sharknado slashfic posted:Road House was OK if you don't compare it in any way to the original. That's how I felt about the Robocop remake.
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Mar 30, 2024 21:13
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Yeah GBH is great, it made me fall in love with Wes Anderson films again after getting a little burned out on his style. I’ll still be a Life Aquatic man till the day I die though.
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Mar 30, 2024 21:19
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Outpost22 posted:That's how I felt about the Robocop remake. There's like 2 or 3 specific scenes in that robocop movie that are really good and the rest of the movie is either mediocre or bad
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Mar 30, 2024 21:40
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Godzilla X Kong was like an hour & a half of painfully dull bullshit & then a somewhat cool Godzilla/Kong tag team fight. Not worth watching just for that. Watch Godzilla: Minus One instead.
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Mar 30, 2024 21:58
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godzilla vs kong is dumb fun while godzilla minus one is an actually good movie
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Mar 30, 2024 22:06
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sure okay posted:Andor is bad precisely because its competently made. It has no business being a Star War, but no one was gonna offer Tony Gilroy a budget like Disney was, so we have to settle for the round peg of "a mature sci-fi spy drama" being jammed crudely into the square hole of "the Flash Gordon ripoff IP humanity can't seem to let go of, for some reason." Makes sense! I don't want to watch it because I don't want to see Star Wars be depressing & would rather watch something else. But at some point everything will eventually be Star Wars, so there's gonna be a lot of Star Wars people describe as gritty, grueling, or a slog, then go on to recommend anyway Vim Fuego fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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Mar 30, 2024 22:10
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I just watched Michael Clayton instead of Andor
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Mar 30, 2024 22:30
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i never looked into it but i always assumed michael clayton was like a jason bourne type
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Mar 30, 2024 22:44
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jesus christ it's michael clayton
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kalel posted:I rewatched the grand budapest hotel at home. I had a very emotional reaction this viewing, especially towards the end, which kind of snuck up on me. I've always loved the film and consider it wes anderson's masterpiece, but certain choices in blocking and editing awoke a new, profound understanding of themes I didn't pay attention to before, themes I connected to my own life that hit me at the core. there's a very deliberate drawing-attention-to of the artifice of storytelling (obviously, it's wes anderson), but unlike his other films the usage is very specific. scenes end unexpectedly or draw out longer than necessary. plot lines are left conspicuously unresolved or end abruptly with a single line of dialogue. it's like, we the audience are told very explicitly "you are watching a story," even a fairy tale, and then proceeds to intrude upon that tale with the unpredictable cadence of real life. when we get to the narrator's ultimate question, "why did zero keep the hotel?" he answers deliberately, "I kept it for [my wife]. we were happy here... for a little while." this scene is preceded immediately by the scene of their wedding and of his last moments with gustave, in which zero matter-of-factly tells us in narration that his wife, his baby, and his best friend all died off-screen senselessly. like the other 2014 oscar nom'd picture I've rewatched recently, birdman, there is a diagetic awareness of the medium (or at least the medium within the medium), but unlike birdman it's used very sincerely, instead of with sardonic detachment. I think it's used to illustrate how we connect with stories and why we need them, why we need to shape events and people to fit specific molds, when in reality there is very little we can actually control. when zero is saying the grand budapest hotel represents the place where he was happy despite the tragedy in his life, he is really directly talking about the meaning of the film. dunno what possessed me to watch it today but it's an elegant work and I feel a great catharsis today after revisiting it. Wes is my favorite director. Although I can certainly understand why some people might not like his very particular style, I absolutely do not understand people who act as if his movies are devoid of emotion.
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while I'm in the mode of  ing about movies, I can't stop thinking about mulholland drive, which I saw a few weeks ago for the first time. I had to physically look away during some scenes because I was so mortally terrified
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Mar 30, 2024 22:46
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kalel posted:while I'm in the mode of I'm sorry to be the one to tell you Kalel, but sometimes two moms love each other just as much as a mom and a dad.
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Mar 30, 2024 22:54
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Kingo Ligma posted:I'm sorry to be the one to tell you Kalel, but sometimes two moms love each other just as much as a mom and a dad. 
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Mar 30, 2024 22:58
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mulholland drive is amazing. it really feels like you're watching a movie the whole time
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Vim Fuego posted:Makes sense! I don't want to watch it because I don't want to see Star Wars be depressing & would rather watch something else. But at some point everything will eventually be Star Wars, so there's gonna be a lot of Star Wars people describe as gritty, grueling, or a slog, then go on to recommend anyway There’s some of that but it doesn’t do the needless “dark’n’gritty” just for the sake of it that a lot of shows did after GoT. The darkness feels grounded which makes the positives really stand out. I’d honestly say it’s a more uplifting portrayal of leftist groups uniting despite radical differences and infighting, and communities coming together to change their local circumstances than basically anything where the message is “can’t fix anything unless you
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Mar 30, 2024 23:04
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I don't watch movies to watch movies
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Mar 30, 2024 23:05
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Mulholland Drive may be my favorite Lynch movie, but there's also Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway, so who can say, really
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Mar 30, 2024 23:11
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Andor is fine. I mean, I dunno, I compermentalize the stuff I watch anyway, so something like the original trilogy can co-exist in my head with something more "grounded" as Andor.
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Mar 30, 2024 23:13
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The Elephant Man is the only Lynch movie I’ve seen and is therefore my favorite and least favorite Lynch movie
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Mulholland Drive is about the fantasy of a girlfriend who will dress up like you without acting like it’s weird that you asked.
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Mar 30, 2024 23:33
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TuxedoOrca posted:Andor is fine. stop it. it's all one universe. it's all palpatine's doin'
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Mar 30, 2024 23:50
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:stop it. it's all one universe. it's all palpatine's doin' Somehow, he returned and did it all.
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Endless Trash posted:The Elephant Man is the only Lynch movie I’ve seen and is therefore my favorite and least favorite Lynch movie Have you considered watching more?
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