Plutonis posted:

Sure, wanna go.

MacheteZombie posted:

Can I pick obscure Shot on Video movies or do I need to stick to stuff more easily available?

STONE COLD 64 posted:

For now we don't really have any guidelines on what kind of movies should or should not be watched, beyond they are reasonably easy to find.

copy posted:

getting my hunter license so i can access the forbidden zones where the cool movies are

STONE COLD 64 posted:

maybe we can do a little tracker where people post their Watched lists after they watch and post their review while the movie is still active

Punished Chuck posted:

Made it through Enter the Dragon and the following hour after it ends without making Kung fu poses and sound effects at your pets or furniture, etc.

copy posted:

idk if it was the movie or just me last night but it felt incredibly straight forward but im really struggling to put it together for some reason

Sub-Actuality posted:

Last time I saw this was when it came out in 2012, I really liked it back then too but I feel like I kind of absorbed it differently this time.

I always love Jonny Greenwood's scores, he's really good at this sort of fever dream vibe and feeling of inevitability. Fits really well with this kind of story where the main character seems to get swept up into things and doesn't have a lot of agency.

Cinematography is amazing, some really great shots like the tracking shot where he's eyeing the party on the yacht in the background before he sneaks on, and that high angle shot on the warship that was in all the trailers. I love the staging in this shot so much, it's gorgeous



Seeing it a second time I picked up on some things I had missed too, I remember it being kind of disorienting the first time through. I remember thinking that Freddy was kind of a powerless character, but this time I realized that he kind of (unintentionally) kills the cult's foothold in America. Dodd has painted himself into a corner, he's surrounded by people who have bought into his bullshit so thoroughly that they behave like unemotional robots and he's realized he hates it. He's bored and restless, he feels trapped by the rules of the cult but he's the one who created them, so there's no way out without completely destroying the image he's built. He talks a lot about being rational and above the crowd, how laughter is an animal noise, etc., but when he's around Freddy he devolves completely. He's fascinated and envious of how impulsive and wild Freddy is, and it rubs off on him. He starts to get sloppy & careless, he starts having emotional outbursts and drinking Freddy's boat fuel booze. So he's distracted and probably drunk while he finishes his second book, and starts to make big obvious mistakes and poo poo starts falling apart.

Anyway I love this movie, everybody in it is amazing and it's insane that nobody won an oscar for it. 5/5 vhs tapes

Jenny Agutter posted:

Interesting interpretation, I read that part revealed by Laura Dern as him deliberately trying to make his philosophy have more mainstream appeal. His misjudgment was in how fervently his acolytes actually believe in his quack science

Sub-Actuality posted:

yeah I was just thinking about this specific part too. I'm assuming it's probably their version of RPF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_Project_Force but I like that it's left ambiguous

that's a good point too, I hadn't noticed that but I think you're right

I got the tude now posted:

my pick will finally prove my intellectual superiority over everyone here

Nostradingus posted:

I like when he farted, and later threatened to fart on someone's face. It's like poetry, it rhymes.

Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

finished the master. crazy good. love how freddy and the master are just crazy codependent on each other, and they both end up worse for it.


i think the idea of freddy as an unwanting animal is a lil off. i think he wants more from life, which is mostly centered on the idea of doris to him. but hes so unwilling and even incapable of change that even admitting this was a struggle, let alone actually taking meaningful steps. i think this is why he was initially drawn to the master. the master is an authority figure thats actually interesting to him, and interested in him. and the initial sessions even where hes egging the master on to do more. he really believed that whatever the master was cooking up could change him. he wastes so much time on this idea and his behavior is constantly flipping between denial at this and trying to make it work, and anger when he realizes it actually wont do anything.

i think the worst part is he eventually did build up the courage on his own, when he sped off into the desert. but he found out all the time hed spent dicking around meant that the thing he obsessed over, the person he made his ideal of normalcy, is gone now. and then at that point i think he just totally gives up. its pretty sad. i think at that point he is more like just an animal, but its because he had something human and lost it. thats how i feel.

MacheteZombie posted:

herculon posted:

Keep picking movies with short titles so I can add both to the thread subject

I got the tude now posted:

i almost made this joke but then iwas like, 'wait maybe i should pick that'

symbolic posted:

grateful they covered all the bases with this one

MacheteZombie posted:

Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

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

trying to jack off posted:

my friends dad made the leather hot air balloon for young einstein

trying to jack off posted:

also its in the credits but people might miss it, malcolm is inspired by nadia tass' brother who had died a few years earlier. i really found the movie a lot more genuine with how people treat malcolm than something like forrest gump or i am sam

elf help book posted:

weird is better than scary

I got the tude now posted:

whew just wrapp[ed up all five seasons. he sure is a curmudgeon! XD

symbolic posted:

teh sword of d00m

trying to jack off posted:

it happened again

copy posted:

dandadan is p drat good, this week was decent too

Punished Chuck posted:

https://youtu.be/0ylWpKEiqtA

ddinkins posted:

I wasn't familiar with The Kids in the Hall before watching The Wrong Guy but I still enjoyed myself anyway. Nice little black comedy. The running gag of the investigator being impressed with the air duct escape was pretty funny. Good quotes, too. "To the broccoli field, Jedidiah, and hurry." and "I fell on my keys!" I'd watch it again for sure