#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Nine — September Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 274, for a total of 2236 movies.
* Have started Stanley Kubrick.
* Coming up on some real long ones.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Eight — August EditionFrom 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 238, for a total of 2200 movies.* Next director: Bob Fosse.
* But first: Another three 1954 Best Picture nominees.
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Uhh, no strong feelings leading me towards any guess, so let’s longshot it and say “Him.”
Leaving now. #275, or #2237.
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Riz Ahmed plays an intermediary between people who start a whistleblow and then decide to not blow up their life about it, helping them negotiate, and keeping them safe from, say, private security operations who may want them dead.
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#276, or #2238, 1956 Best Picture nominee and racist garbage “The King and I.”
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Anyway, time to get my Conj on, leaving now to go see --
#277, or #2239, 2025's "The Conjuring: Last Rites."
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(And introducing: Inexplicably Tall Annabelle.)
A solid, enjoyably familiar Conj picture, even if it's maybe a little too married to both formula and reality to quite get to be the big epic finale it clearly wants to be.
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#278, or #2240, 2011's "Green Lantern."
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Though a bunch of sci-fi nonsense in the opening narration is rarely a good sign.
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"The ring. It chose you."
Would love to know the criteria for this selection.
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"The ring never makes a mistake."
"This time it did."
*sighs in abyss/death & rebirth*
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"We must forge a yellow ring."
a yellow ring, to harness the yellow power of fear, which turned Clancy Brown into Parallax? and you say you're not a bad guy, Mr [squints at evil notes] Sinestro?
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#279, or #2241, 2013 documentary “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden.”
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The inclusion of the complete “Empress of Floreana” short starring the Baroness a welcome surprise.
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#280, or #2242, 1956 Best Picture nominee "Giant."
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"We really stole Texas, didn't we?"
reading any halfway accurate history book can only ever radicalise a person
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"Down here, making a fuss over these people. You're a Texan now."
Texans don't treat the staff like they're people, got it.
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Mind, my relationship to the concept of marriage is neutral at the best of times -- you can shave the religious and person-owning angles off it to make it palatable to modern society, but that doesn't mean I'm suddenly into it.
Obviously part of this is growing up queer and, even with marriage equality legalised in 2001, never quite having felt like it was an idea that wanted much to do with me.
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The sister has left a wee parcel of land to James Dean, which the family are only too happy to take off his hands, except he'd much rather keep it.
Which I'm sure everyone will be very cool about.
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"Money isn't all, you know, Jett."
"Not when you got it."
not when you got it
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"One of these days I'm gonna run that Jett right out of this country."
meanwhile Jett has, naturally, found oil
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And once you've made the trip, you'll wanna talk through some of its history, pros, cons, you'll definitely want to ride it and see somebody else ride it, taking it from its stable to its transport will take some time.
And it's not a gift horse, so you'll definitely wanna look in its mouth.
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#281, or #2243, the 2025 live-action “Lilo & Stitch.”
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Genuinely pointless, valueless art. A movie made for people for who Disney is a big part of their identity, but not for anyone with an actual personality. Just watch the original.
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#282, or #2244, 1988's "Grave of the Fireflies."
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Wherever there's war it happens to children and I may never understand how any war survives even a fraction of a second of that knowledge.
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#283, or #2245, 2000's "X-Men."
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Magneto in Auschwitz. Wonder how the MCU'll deal with how much additional time has passed.
Rogue in Mississippi. A good choice to shift so much focus to her, as powers go it's pretty clean dramatically, easy to parse for a 2000 mainstream audience.
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"I saved your life!"
"No, you didn't!"
yeah, no, I can confidently say he would be alive (if perhaps not well) entirely regardless of Rogue's actions in that bar
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We see the inside of his RV and it's a shithole full of trash and laundry.
"Suddenly my life doesn't look that bad."
and /she/ doesn't even /have/ an RV
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"So, what kind of a name is Rogue?"
"I don't know, what kind of a name is Wolverine?"
"My name's Logan."
"Marie."
I've always liked how much in Marvel everyone is just kind of normal people who happen to have powers, more than being these gods who happen to also have civilian identities.
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"Bye, Kitty."
I understand and respect the shift to Rogue, but I do miss Kitty in these.
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haha, Scotty with his glasses and his little cardigan, hands behind his back, he looks like such a tool
that's ol' Scotty Summers alright
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"What do they call you, Wheels?"
good dig, good joke
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"...what the children have affectionately called the X-Men."
chuck, please, you for sure did that yourself
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"Well, some of these so-called children possess more than ten times the destructive force of any handgun."
nice dehumanisation you've got there, but also, robert, they're people
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"Where the hell are we?"
oh, don't worry, you won't be awake for the second act this is about to fly into
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"So, couldn't wait to get my shirt off again, huh?"
james
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"Whatever you're about to do to me, you'll make me right."
what, you don't think the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants knocked you out and abducted you for a civil conversation?
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Love how much the emphasis in this one is on just throwing these characters into a Situation. A few origin stories are briefly explored, but mostly it’s just, they interact with each other, they engage with the Situation.
When Surf Dracula shows up, you’re gonna see him surf.
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Am I having any real problems with this or am I just having fun? The latter, I think.
Though for its zippy pacing, it sure has taken half the picture's runtime for anything to really actually get moving.
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"His helmet was somehow designed to block my telepathy."
I just don't buy that they have this whole relationship and the helmet is new. Or newish.
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"I was afraid that if I went to hospital they'd..."
"...treat you like a mutant?"
bazinga.
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"What would you prefer, yellow spandex?"
actually, I think in 2000 going all-in on yellow spandex would've looked silly
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They're on Liberty Island for the third act, because that's where the Brotherhood plan to use the mutation machine to mutate all the world leaders who are there for an event. Which, honestly, not a bad plan!
Though do all the world leaders usually gather on small islands that're hard to get off of in an emergency?
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"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else."
the final iteratation of a running gag that all previous iterations were cut of, but still a pretty good, iconic line
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"Hey, it's me."
"Prove it."
"You're a dick."
"...Okay."
that's it, that's their whole thing
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is it gay to play chess with your best frenemy in his plastic prison
it's at least as gay as whatever Scott and Logan have going on
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#284, or #2246, 1960's "Spartacus."
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and so is my wife!
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"In the last century before the birth of the new faith called Christianity, which was destined to overthrow the pagan tyranny of Rome and bring about a new society, the Roman Republic stood at the very center of the civilised world."
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.
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"What's your name, slave?"
"Spartacus."
why, what a coincidence
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"One day I shall cleanse this Rome which my fathers bequeathed me. I shall restore all the traditions that made her great."
*checks his head for a red hat*
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"We can't just be a gang of drunken raiders!"
"What else can we be!"
"Gladiators!"
James Cameron writing a dollar sign after the title of Ridley Scott's 2000 film
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"Do you realise nobody can ever sell you again?"
/This/ is a /gorgeous/ moment.
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"There, boy, is Rome. The might, the majesty, the terror of Rome. There is the power that bestrides the known world like a colossus. No man can withstand Rome. No nation can withstand her."
you're not being subtle, Dalton Trumbo (affectionate)
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"I think they call him... Spartacus."
Extremely common name, as I understand it.
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"What did he look like?"
you ever see Michael Douglas? like that, but for the 50s and 60s
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"The terrible penalty of crucifixion has been set aside on the single condition that you identify the body or the living person of the slave called Spartacus!"
it's the guy who looks like Michael Douglas
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"I'm Spartacus!"
"I'm Spartacus!"
"I'm Spartacus!"
the way they don't let him say it
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"Antoninus?"
oh him you recognise
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"Why did you love him?!"
not being like you helped
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"We were tens of thousands who said no. That was the wonder of it."
so Rome is the HUAC and Team Spartacus is Hollywood's Communists, right
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"Oh, Spartacus."
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#285, or #2247, 2025 Netflix doc “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish.”
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#286, or #2248, 2007’s “The Man from Earth.”
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And indeed, after proposing it as a hypothetical, John Oldman (geddit) has just dropped that he had a chance to sail with Columbus but turned it down because of the risk of falling off the Earth.
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"Do you really think you're a caveman?"
The friend group are really stuck on the caveman thing, but I don't think he thinks he's a caveman, and it's not what he's claiming to be -- he claims to be just like anyone else, just with a much longer history than you'd think from looking at him.
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"Our friend is either a cavemen, a liar, or a nut."
or a terrific prankster
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"The objective referent of a clock is another clock."
Inventor of clock an absolute madman, creator of second clock the real genius.
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"I bet at least one of us is your direct descendent."
Well, not Tony Todd, not her he was flirting with, not the guy who just left, so I'm gonna say it's John Billingsley, just because he's the one who brought it up.
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"Are you religious, John?"
"I don't follow a known religion, no."
"Never?"
"Long ago I did, like most people. Some just never get over it."
It just stops being a relevant question after a while.
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"We should skip this one."
he WAS Jesus!
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"One dissident against Rome? Rome won."
knew it
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"This is blasphemy."
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"When did you begin to believe you were Jesus?"
"When did you begin to believe you were a psychiatrist?"
bazinga.
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"Wait, wait, wait, Boston?"
oh, it is the guy who left
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#287, or #2249, 1962 Stanley Kubrick picture "Lolita."
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"Are you Quilty?"
"No, I'm Spartacus. Have you come to free the slaves or something?"
pfft
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"Culturally, we're a very advanced group, with lots of good Anglo-Dutch and Anglo-Scotch stock, and we're very progressive, intellectually."
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"You're going to take my Queen?"
*jims at the camera*
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"I wouldn't care if your maternal grandfather turned out to be a Turk, but if I ever found out you didn't believe in God, I think I would commit suicide."
extremely normal shit to say
I'm starting to see where the daughter gets it.
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"Those... notes you found are /fragments/ of a /novel/ I'm writing!"
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"Charlotte? There's a man on the line who says you've been hit by a car!"
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"I'm afraid she's dead."
everything's coming up roses for the worst man you've ever met
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"Be great for two normal guys like us to get together and talk about world events and such, in a normal way."
just normal men
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"Good evening, Dr Humbert."
Chris Hansen?
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"You and I, what are we?"
just innocent men
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Those things do continue to mean things also.
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#288, or #2250, 1956's "Around the World in 80 Days."
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"Do you have a nice little position for a gentleman's gentleman, sir?"
"...For /you/?"
oh, right, racism
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"When science finally conquers the air, it may be feasible to circle the globe in 80 /hours/."
preposterous
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So far this has taken every opportunity it's encountered to be racist and all those cameos really suck the air out of it, too.
Nice aerial photography, though.
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"Why aren't they speaking French?"
"Because we are in Spain, master."
ain't no rule says the spanish can't speak french
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"This is the end of the line."
"The end of the line?"
"There's still 50 miles of track to be laid between here and Allahabad."
"But the London newspapers announced the opening of this line throughout!"
"That must've been the Daily Telegraph. You never would've read that in the Times!"
the Telegraph's lousy reputation covers the globe
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they're taking the train to Westworld, I think
Passepartout is now Passepar-rootin-tootin'.
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"I still can't believe Fogg robbed the Bank of England."
[I pull off my bald cap and look straight into the camera]
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"The real culprit was apprehended in Brighton."
oh righton
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"It's Saturday!"
you don't satur-say
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"I only know that Phileas Fogg is the most punctual man alive."
"Well, gentleman, here I am."
right on time
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#289, or #2251, 1902's "Le Voyage dans la Lune," or, "A Trip to the Moon,"
as contained entirely inside 1956's "Around the World in 80 Days."
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#290, or #2252, 2010's "Inception."
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May never understand, though, why the cultural reaction to "Inception" at the time was for everyone to talk constantly about how confusing and impossible to understand this is when, like, it's genuinely constantly explaining itself over and over, restating its rules, its goals, to the point that the dialogue only occasionally actually does anything else.
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If you know what I mean.
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#291, or #2253, 2004's "13 Going on 30."
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"I don't /wanna/ be beautiful in my own way."
she of course looks like a perfectly normal 13-year old
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"I wanna be 30! I wanna be 30 and flirty and thriving!"
i'm thirty-four am i supposed to want to be flirty-four also
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"Jenna's a little hung-over today."
she's giving less hung-over and more actively high
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"If you were given a do-over on one thing in your life, what would it be?"
easy, telling the internet exactly how i'd do crimes the other day
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"the class of nineteen hundred and ninety one"
yearbook written by the joker
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"Remember, they're both a candy /and/ a gum."
wait, this is a real candy. gum in disguise. a good metaphor for the premise.
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"Manhattan. Sparkle Magazine on Park Avenue."
by oizys lucy you monster
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Someone *not* breaking off their wedding for a *13-year old* in a *30-year old body*? 🔁
That's like the exact opposite of an anime plot.
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I have seen Big, and yeah, that's my though too.
People don't seem to make as big a deal out of it in Big as they do for Blank Check. But I think in Blank Check she's just being nice at the end, even if it is awkward, it's not just fine with a full on relationship like in Big.
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"We're gonne be late!"
"For what?"
"You'll see!"
for the happy ending, duh
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#292, or #2254, 2022's "Confess, Fletch."
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#293, or #2255, 2003's "X2."
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"Mutants."
they're here, get used to it, etcetera
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The X-Men chilling at the museum.
Bobby literally.
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"Or worse, the President could issue a state of emergency, and place every mutant in the country under arrest."
*charles xavier voice* which would be legal so of course we'd all have to go to jail
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"Don't lecture me about war. This already is a war."
oh, right, 9/11 has now happened
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"Your bike needs gas."
"Then fill her up."
Marsden still perfectly cast as New X-Men era Scott, like, he's probably pretty good at his position in the team and the school, but whenever Logan's in the room, all that's left of Scott is a tool who mistakenly thinks he's the protagonist.
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"So, you and Rogue, huh."
"Yeah. I mean, it's not what you think, I'd like it to be, but--"
we get it, bobby, you're each other's beards
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"I call it a neural inhibitor. It keeps /you/ out of /here/."
between movies there must be dozens of dickheads just like this who fail just by not being immune to the protagonists' main powersets
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"Too much iron in your blood."
so is the iron that's in blood actually the actual metal or do we just call it that, I was never clear on this
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"So, when did you first know you were a... a..."
i'd say the protest signs were a real clue that i was an allegory for marginalisation, mother
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"Put the knives DOWN!"
"I /can't/."
small town cops are always so dumb in movies
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"Stryker's at Alkali Lake."
the very clearly abandoned military installation that we know for sure is totally abandoned because Logan took *squints at his step counter* two steps through the front door?
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"So, they say you're the bad guy."
"Is that what they say?"
pyro shut the fuck up challenge 2k3
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"You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different."
me to every queer mutual
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"...Holy shit."
local sharp man very turned on by encounter with non-local sharp lady
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"Good-bye, Charles."
the subtitles are right, Erik /would/ say the hyphen in goodbye
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"You don't wanna go that way. Trust me."
the gang and a bunch of kids reaction shot-looking left and then right like they're in a murder mystery comedy
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"Wait, where's Jean?"
"She's outside."
gotta set up Dark Phoenix somehow
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a big part of why Spock's death and resurrection in the second and third "Star Trek" films have the impact they do is at that point you've /known/ Spock for /nearly twenty years/. you can't generate that with just two films.
(see also the RDJ Iron Man. he got time to build that performance, have that cultural position)
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"We're here to stay, Mr President. The next move is yours."
given "The Last Stand," maybe the President should've made a different move
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#294, or #2256, 2025's "Caught Stealing."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •An enjoyably chaotic crime flick that makes a real case for an enjoyably chaotic life of crime also being very, very miserably sad to live. Great cast, who all really fill in the fairly broad stock characters and make them feel really lived in. Good cat.
Didn't appreciate the completely unironic, undeconstructed, uncritical fridging. What is this, 1998.
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#295, or #2257, 1964's "Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
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Opening crawl: "It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurence of such events as are depicted in this film."
ah, so, totally possible but they say they wouldn't, got it
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"We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we have to, do we?"
but what if we do want to, appears to be General Ripper's perspective
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"War is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
average american fake news believer
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oh, yes. I remember this. Every once in a while I hear some weird (terrible) take on news and they inevitably bring up memories of this movie.
It is pretty good satire
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"I agree with you, it's great to be fine. Now then, Dimitri, you know how we've aaalways talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. ... The bomb, Dimitri. ... The /hydrogen/ bomb."
just explaining a lil oopsie to the ussr
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"Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?"
"Well, it did occur to me, Jack."
"Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation, fluoridation of water?"
oh my god he's a gods-damned facebook uncle
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"It is designed to explode if any attempt is ever made to un-trigger it!"
foolproof
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"Dr Strangelove, do we have anything in the works like that?"
dr who?
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"I'm gonna guess what the code is--"
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"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."
let me just go scream into a pillow for a few minutes
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I'm gonna go take out the trash and maybe stare into the distance for a bit.
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#296, or #2258, 1995's "Toy Story."
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But also, it's "Toy Story," and I'm 34, so a nostalgic "this is fun" beats my ungenerous read. It's fun! It's "Toy Story"!
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Sure, you can see every pixel on any texture the camera gets too close to, they're a lot better at some materials than they are at others, and the picture's ambitions re: facial expressions far exceed its technical ability re: facial expressions.
(Maybe never look at Bo Peep's mouth.)
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Lot of classics screenings lately, leaving now to go see one of those I've always wanted to see on the big screen --
#297, or #2259, 1965's "The Sound of Music."
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So did I have a good time seeing this on the big screen with a full room? Obviously I did. It's "The Sound of Music", who doesn't have a good time with "The Sound of Music".
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(If you're anti-antifascism, what does that make you? Oh, right.)
Kill all Nazis. (And fuck Rolf specifically.)
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It's more like a pan than it's like a pot, since you heat food by direct surface contact with the wok, but it's something in between.
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I think we should call woks non-homogenous mass cooking devices, to differentiate them from the homogenous mass cooking devices known as pots, and pans which is more of a separate individual units cooking device.
Quite catchy too.
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#298, or #2260, 2023's "Kill."
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"Aren't you dying to be with me?"
"Why do I need to die to be with you?"
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These [I briefly consider my choice of words] bandits don't seem to be targeting anything specific, they're just Beagle Boys "hand me your phone and jewelry"-ing it.
Unfortunately for the bandits, they're on the same train as Amrit, who the poster and score tell us is A Badass.
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"They will have to pay for this!"
"He was our uncle, after all!"
I don't think I've got a single of my many uncles who I'd do crimes with. They'd just hold me back.
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"But your lifeline is longer."
inaccurate actually
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"Why did you kill my dad!! Why did you kill my dad!!"
he literally started it but okay
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Sometimes I just like an incredible amount of violence in a movie.
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#299, or #2261, 2025’s “Honey Don’t!”
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I just about buy her as a cop at all, but this specific cop character really needed to be played by somebody a lot more believably grizzled for me to believe her turn in the third act.
Also really could've used a "the detective explains what all happened here" scene.
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#300, or #2262, 1968's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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The willingness to sit with something, show you something, the willingness to be silent, to just spend time with people on their own, just breathing.
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Does it make sense? Does it have to?
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#301, or #2263, 2025’s “My Dinner with Skinner,” a feature-length “Steamed Hams”/“My Dinner with Andre” parody.
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Maybe falls apart a little when it actually has to do “Steamed Hams.”
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#302, or #2264, 1989's "Patlabor: The Movie."
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they shilled out for the frames on this baby
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"Don't you think he looks like a bad guy, too?"
hm yeah the OVA's labors (this is what they call the mechas that are mostly used for manual labour in this world) mostly just looked like fairly neutral construction equipment, this thing looks like it's gonna get a sword in the third act, if you know what I mean
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An evil-coded Labor? A new operating system?
"This has all the signs of turning into a politcal quagmire."
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Robots and mechas (Labors) mostly exist in this world to do manual labour, but because they also get abused for Crime Purposes, the Tokyo PD has a Labors-based crime department, who also use Labors in their duties.
Doesn't feel like anyone really uses them for anything else, though I suppose we don't use combine harvesters for much, either.
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"E. Hoba? Hm, sounds like Jehova."
a Labor about to hand me a magazine about its lord and saviour
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"All the corridors are full of Labors!!"
labor zombie invasion
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"Birds..."
birds
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"I did it..."
the battle against closed source software has been won by the cute girl with a shotgun side o7
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"I've been doing nothing I shouldn't, sir."
legally speaking, true
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A lot, as they* say, going on here.
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"Are you now or have you ever been a homosexual?"
well only recreationally
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"And viddy films I would."
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"He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice!"
they've made him a liberal
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"I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard, but I did not snuff it."
tiny tim, who did NOT snuff it,
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The writer certainly seemed to think so.
"The book I am best known for (...) is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: (...) it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence.
The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me until I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation"
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@kurt The film has relatively little space for any kind of redemption -- he gets reset, his reset is celebrated, his true nature is clearly the ultraviolent one. It ends at, really, "boys will be boys."
But showing him a little older, maturing a little, that creates a lot of space for nuance. Did some of it stick after all? Is this just what becoming an adult does? Has the orange ripened or is some of it still clockwork?
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#304, or #2266, 2025's "One Battle After Another."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Great flick. Nearly three hours long, but never feels like it, because you're just constantly in perpetual forward peril, you're always with them, you're always in the car, you're always on the run, for every alienating mirage-generating highway hill, for every tumble down the side of a building. Such a clear view of the modern world.
(I, too, would forget those codes, dude.)
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* "MM"
* "Thumbs up."
so if that's not 2000's "Gladiator," I'm a penguin.
Leaving now. #305, or #2267.
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Great flick.
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#306, or #2268, 2010's "Tron: Legacy."
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he's been uploaded to the tron matrix
Yeah, I'm gonna say very sincere.
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"This isn't happening."
it's surely barely clear to you what this even is
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"He actually did it. I'm on the Grid."
tron /is/ the exact opposite of living off the grid, I'll grant you
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*points at the CGI suit they just put him in* Like that, yeah.
Oh, now it's physical, whatever.
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a third Jeff Bridges has hit the Grid
an un-de-aged one, at least
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"This is mine."
jeff bridges is telling me this bridge is jeff bridge's bridge
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Deeply flawed film that insists on jumpscaring you with a de-aged Jeff Bridges several times, but like, as a vibes piece, as a light and sound show, this thing kinda honks?
Not when anyone has a conversation, you understand, but the rest of the time, yeah.
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@hashraydamon The recent status quo of Krakoa as mutant nation similarly deals with it well, too, I thought.
(Do love the Morrison era, though, obviously.)
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