Buffalo 66, Bringing Out the Dead, Rear Window…

  • @[email protected]
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    SCOTT!

    PIL-GRIM!

    Edgar Wright is amongst my favorite directors, and the first half of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is my favorite movie ever. Fuck, I had to take a film class with one of the world’s oddest professor in college before I could properly explain why I love the movie so much.

    Each time I watch it I notice a little something more. I’ve lowkey been thinking about making a fan-cut with the deleted scenes and everything.

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      That movie is so hot. And I’ve met plenty of young women in the BDSM community who use submission as a mechanism to cope with trauma and fear. Its a better BDSM story than 50 Shades of Grey, that’s for zure.

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      715 days ago

      I do know about its existence, but the description doesn’t sound like I’d like it. In the queue, lemme try.

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          I watched idiocracy at home a year or 2 after it came out, and I hated it because i felt like it beat you over the head with the message, like yeah I get it, I don’t need to watch an hour more of this!

          …then I rewatched it after our handling of covid and January 6 insurrection… Thought to myself “yep… Thats how the future plays out…”

          If you watched it now for the first time? In 2025? Fucking hell. I hate this timeline.

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            One can only hope we end up with a president like Camacho. Dudes an idiot, but at least he put in the effort to help his constituents by finding the smartest dude he could and have him solve their problems.

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            315 days ago

            Sounds like it aged like wine.

            It came out when I was busy getting started in life after school. So a lot of what came out in that period didn’t feel “genuine” at the time.

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      Brazil is wild, always weird how little screen time De Niro gets, but how much presence he has in the movie!

      I guess I 2nd that 3rd point.

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        I’m committed to a Tuttle costume before I die. But I’ve yet to find an occasion where I think a single person would recognize me.

  • Bahnd Rollard
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    Hot Fuzz

    Every watch you notice new little details. This film is the (modenr) textbook example of Checkov’s gun.

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    I don’t think I did 10 times, but Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sure offered something new every time I watched it.

    God that movie was subtle.

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      515 days ago

      Looks good! On my list. You ever watched Das Leben der Anderen?

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        I have not and I think that is called “The Lives of Others” in the states.

        Is it similar to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

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          They are both terrific movies bit quite different I’d say. TTSS is much more about the intrigue/double-crossing/spy stuff, whereas The Lives of Others is more of a character study.

          As an aside, the BBC series of TTSS with Alec Guiness is still the best and any fan of the movie/book who hasn’t seen it should remedy that ASAP.

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          I’m not sure as I haven’t watched TTSS yet. It’s on my list now but sounds like it is in the same ballpark.

          The Lives of Others indeed, it’s a movie about divided Germany with a dark atmosphere, which does deserve multiple viewings. Great stuff.

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      415 days ago

      I love Rear Window and Psycho, have had those 10+ times. I haven’t seen a lot of his movies tho, so maybe I should get a bag of chips and load some of them up, for they seem unlikely to disappoint me.

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        “Family Plot” gets little love from the critics, which is a shame.

        Funny, scary, and full of twists.

        • CrazyHorseOP
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          Never heard about it before, seems right up my alley.

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    The Netflix TV show Dark. Holy hell. I missed SO much the first time. If you haven’t seen this show do yourself a favor and watch it, the amount of detail is crazy, and the casting is top notch. Watch it in German with English subtitles though, the English dubbing is really, really horrendous.

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      I watched a bit of Dark when it came out, will look into its status as I’m not inclined to watch (NF) shows that slowly die. Not sure if that’s what happened here.

      What is interesting tho, is that I have Paper Moon (1973) scheduled to watch tomorrow night. Never seen it before.

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        Hah, I randomdly picked this screen name, never seen paper moon either! Just looked it up, seems Interesting, added it to the queue.

        Dark had a planned ending, it was 3 seasons and then done.

      • SanguinePar
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        Nah, Dark has a proper, satisfying ending, they didn’t just abandon it. Definitely worth watching.

  • Tanis Nikana
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    I’ve passed through Everything Everywhere All At Once approximately eighty times now, because on every single viewing, I’m discovering one or two tiny fragments of interrelationship that I’ve never seen before.

    It’s a marvelous, marvelous movie.

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      I’m one of the few that hated that movie. Started strong, got weird in a fun funny way, got weirder to the point where I’m in just to see where it’s going, then idk it just lost me and I was out

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      Meticulous, yes. Methodical. Educated. They were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and infighting. And there were days, good days, when by anyone’s judgment, they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn’t even be considered new. Except maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed, and made of it something more.

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          Geologic time periods tend to be very, very long. So if something is new in the geologic sense, it could still be thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of years old.

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            Right, that was my first thought. But what is it that he’s suggesting is only new geologically? Time travel tech?

    • Jay
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      915 days ago

      I’ve watched that probably a dozen times just for my favorite part… “Alright, I AM the messiah…”

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        The thing is, a lot of the humor in that movie is like not that funny when you first see it, but then a couple days later out of nowhere you suddenly think: “He has a wife, you know…” And you’re like: why did I think that? Oh yeah it’s from the Life of Brian! That was hilarious!

        “Blessed be the Cheesemakers…?”

        “All I said was: that halibut was good enough for Jehovah!”

        “Worse? How could I be making it any worse?”

        “you are ALL INDIVIDUALS!!!”

        “He’s not the messiah! He’s a very naughty boy!”

        fml I’m dead…

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          The thing is, a lot of the humor in that movie is like not that funny when you first see it, but then a couple days later out of nowhere…

          You know I felt the same way about The Big Lebowski. First time I watched it? Meh. But I kept remembering the quotes (granted the internet helped with that). So I watch it again and it’s suddenly a totally new experience, like I’m finally on the inside understanding all the inside jokes.

        • Jay
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          When I was a teen I loved all their stuff, including the shows… but I get what you mean. Numerous times I’ve tried introducing it to friends only to be met with blank stares because they didn’t quite understand the comedy of it. Sucks to be them.

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        Mine is, “but you are the Messiah my lord and I should know I’ve followed a few”.

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    Silence of the Lambs.

    It’s my favorite movie. So well done. Every set is a work of art, with so many tiny details added. Pause at any point when it’s panning through Buffalo Bill’s basement, and you can see a dozen different things that tell you about him.

    All of the scenes lead into each other perfectly. Hannibal tells her Bill is probably on the hunt for his next victim, then it cuts to Catherine Martin driving home, singing to the radio and loving her life.

    The scenes where people are “studying” each other has the actors looking directly into the camera, so you feel the discomfort of being stared at.

    Clarice spends most of the movie being towered over or being fixated on my intimidating men. You can really see it impacting her as she tries not to show it.

    I have to make myself shut up when I watch it with someone new, because I have something to say about every frame of the movie. 10/10