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symbolic posted:just finished watching it, god drat what a movie. i hadn't actually seen it before, just been wanting to for a while since it's #2 on my list of PTA films to check out and i figured more people would've seen TWWB already. i'm really bad at analyzing or talking about movies but gonna try my best, haven't read anything spoilered so far so i could come to my own conclusions first yeah it's good
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my favorite scene is the one with laura dern b/c she's a loving angel and if we crossed paths i would hold my breath so as not to befoul the air around her
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I got the tude now posted:my favorite scene is the one with laura dern b/c she's a loving angel and if we crossed paths i would hold my breath so as not to befoul the air around her 
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it's just that simple
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i watched these mandy - 5/5 gamera: guardian of the universe - 3.5/5 hana-bi - 4/5 speed racer - 3/5 crank 2 - 2.5/5 high noon - 4/5 forbidden zone - 2/5 memories of murder - 4.5/5 november - 4/5 secret of nimh - 3.5/5 synecdoche, ny - 4.5/5 streets of fire - 2/5 rocky - 5/5 collateral - 4.5/5 the fifth element - 3.5/5 charley varrick - 3/5
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I'm mostly echoing the other folks here's love for the movie. Amazing performances and it looks amazing, even the simpler scenes are shot with love and care. While Pheonix and PSH are great I want to shout out Amy Adams too. Loved that shot of Freddie running across the farmland when he's accused of poisoning the old man and also the shot of Freddie between the two house as he leaves Doris's house when he tells her he's shipping out and she should take her trip. The pig gently caress scene and Laura Dern scenes also rule. "We are not animals" *passing note that reads, "do you want to gently caress?"*
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shoutout to whoever did the lighting, amazing stuff
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trying to jack off posted:shoutout to whoever did the lighting, amazing stuff thanks man wasnt a big deal really
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starbarry clock posted:thanks man wasnt a big deal really gently caress you
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trying to jack off posted:gently caress you lol ermm alright then *backs away slowly* few more days until the next movie  kind of makes me wish we picked two movies every week but that pace might kill some people
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starbarry clock posted:lol ermm alright then *backs away slowly*
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Rewatched it today. Definitely top career performances from Hoffman and Phoenix. I agree that Dodd is absolutely fascinated by Freddie's wildness, I think it's because he is honestly a total rejection of Dodd's own claim that 'Man is not an animal', acting feral from time to time. Also unlike the rest of the cult, he doesn't have any loyalty to The Cause as a religion but only to Dodd himself and thus keeps by his side and defends him even though he isn't receptive to the brainwashing techniques applied to him at all.
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the master ruled. psh was really one of a kind.
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Gone Fashing posted:the master ruled. psh was really one of a kind. Miss seeing him in new movies fr
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scariest mission impossible villain hands down.
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just finished. I'll try to remember to come back and do a proper review once some of my more abstract feelings solidify into something I can put into words, but here's a few scattered thoughts on things that particularly stood out to me, I don't know if any of these are really spoilers but I'll tag the whole thing in case anyone hasn't seen it yet and wants to go in blind: 1. I like that Freddie clearly does not believe or even remotely care about the actual philosophy/spiritualism of The Cause, but is still so completely under The Master's spell that he'll assault anyone criticizing the beliefs that he does not subscribe to or have any interest in. 2. Lots of really beautiful or striking shots, and I particularly liked the scene where the two jail cells are symmetrically splitting the screen in half, one with Freddie mindlessly raging and smashing things and one with The Master standing still and silent and dignified. Going to be thinking about that one a lot. There's a few shots like that where the scene is split in half, like when the exterior of the yacht is on the left side and the ocean on the right, or Freddie sprawled out on the ship's tower taking up the bottom half of the screen while all the other sailors far below on the deck throwing stuff at him take up the top half, and it was very visually arresting every time. 3. The Master's own codependency on Freddie is really interesting to me and I can't quite place it--obviously he's fascinated by someone who's like his complete antithesis and acts entirely on id instead of being stuck in this performance of a leading role, but is there more to it, does he want to fix Freddie to prove his ideas that man is more than an animal, or is he just fascinated with Freddie as he is and bringing him into the organization is just a reason to have him around? 4. I love how effective the first scene is at establishing Freddie's character and just how off and isolated he is, going from making the other sailors laugh at his antics with the sand woman to weirding them all and shuffling away awkwardly to jerk off after getting too into it. Good pick, a lot to think about before writing a proper review. Will be chewing on this one for a while, I think.
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Punished Chuck posted:
I absolutely think it's a mix of both, I can definitely see Dodd being enamored of Freddie's madness but also wanting to cure it. Also another later rumination. Freddie getting called on the theater with a phone was a really weird scene and unexplainable (how the gently caress Dodd knew where he was? Why would the theater staff bring him the phone?) and, thinking about it, I remembered how Freddie said his mother was in the 'Looney Bin' and how we see some of his hallucinations or thoughts like the naked women in a party, I honestly wonder how much of the movie was actually imagined by him, especially that phone call in specific.
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yeah, I had the same thought, the scene that really made me think it was when dodd is making Freddie walk back and forth feeling the wall and the window. was freddie in a house, being watched by the members of the cult, or was he in a cell, getting frustrated at how he could escape, hearing and seeing everyone else enjoy themselves outside?
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after watching it a second time, i'm not sure the title refers to dodd despite multiple people calling him the master. peggy is the biggest deviation from the scientology tale aside from freddie himself, being so dominating of dodd privately and even wielding power over freddie during his conditioning. this occurred to me in new york when they're in the hotel room in nyc and she says, "never defend, always attack" which is a well known quote from L Ron and still the bedrock of scientology PR today. i don't think it's intended to be a complete subversion of the charismatic cult leader that dodd is based on but tied with some pretty homosexual urges from dodd helps to show that he's not the master of himself or the people around him, the people who follow are just weak enough to follow a weak man
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We have rolled for the next pick and trying to jack off is the lucky winner! please PM me your movie pick and i will post it tomorrow.
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i literally watched this movie on the weekend so now i can make everyone else watch it lol
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Our next film... MALCOLM dir. by Nadia Tess  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wffDBsSgS5Q quote:Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. Malcolm, with Frank's help, turns to a life of crime. The deadline for this film is July 31.
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Malcolm is legally available in the US thanks to archive.org https://archive.org/details/malcolm-1986
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STONE COLD 64 posted:Malcolm is legally available in the US thanks to archive.org lets go
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Keep picking movies with short titles so I can add both to the thread subject
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since its 2 movies always on a weekly rotation you could prob save characters by just listing them in order. the first ones always gonna rotate out on the next monday and the second is gonna rotate a week after
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STONE COLD 64 posted:Malcolm is legally available in the US thanks to archive.org lol this sounds kick rear end im excited got some shizz going on this week but maybe sunday ill hop on this
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:lets go
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herculon posted:Keep picking movies with short titles so I can add both to the thread subject adding the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford to my picklist
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This sounds awesome
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Australian movie lets loving go
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Fungah! posted:adding the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford to my picklist If the person after you picks Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, I will buy this website just to permaban them
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Fargield posted:Australian movie lets loving go i bet on the adventures of priscilla queen of the desert and lost happy that i did though because ive seen that and not malcolm
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STONE COLD 64 posted:Our next film... this looks hella neat
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Fungah! posted:adding the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford to my picklist i almost made this joke but then iwas like, 'wait maybe i should pick that'
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STONE COLD 64 posted:Our next film... never seen it, looks fun
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I got the tude now posted:i almost made this joke but then iwas like, 'wait maybe i should pick that' lol yeah
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herculon posted:If the person after you picks Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, I will buy this website just to permaban them good pull
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