#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Ten — October Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 306, for a total of 2268 movies.
* Wrapping up Stanley Kubrick.
* Not a bad month to do Henry Selick in.
* Probably some horror.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Nine — September EditionFrom 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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#307, or #2269, 1975 Stanley Kubrick film "Barry Lyndon."
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"Gentlemen, cock your pistols."
gentlemen, phallus your penis stand-ins
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"Mightn't I be allowed to keep my horse?"
"I should like to oblige you, but with people like us, we must be able to travel faster than our clients."
oh this is /funny/
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third duel in less than 40 minutes
a boxing one, but still
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"His intention was to make for Holland, almost the only neutral country in Europe in those times."
barry lyndon looks for an eierbal
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"Sprechen sie English."
not made it here yet then
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"What was your name?"
"Lieutenant Fakenham."
fakenham
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"Chevalier... Though I can not say how... I believe you have cheated me."
du-el! du-el!
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so,
he got recruited into the Prussian police
the Prussian police went, you're an Irish liar and a cheat, you should go undercover with this Irish liar and cheat
but then he immediately fesses up and goes both undercover with the other Irish liar and cheat and teams up with him
good ol' red barrold
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Part One: "By What Means Redmond Barry Acquired the Style and Title of Barry Lyndon"
Part Two: "Containing an Account of the Misfortunes and Disasters Which Befell Barry Lyndon"
sowing haha yes, reaping what the fuck, etcetera
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hard to get a read on ol' Barold Lyndo at this point. first hour or so he read like a dipshit shit dips to, but it /is/ starting to feel like there's more of a deliberate scheming to it.
but he is still also a dipshit
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by and large I think Barry is just a dipshit constantly falling upwards ass-first
but when he actually /tries/ to finagle his way up he gets punished for it
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"Epilogue. It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarrelled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now."
fucking hell
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Maybe I should've waited another nine years to watch this? It's --
#308, or #2270, 1985's "2010: The Year We Make Contact."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Everyone I've ever seen say they kinda like this has disclaimed it with "but you have to try to totally ignore that it's a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey."
Anyway, this opens with a recap of and stills from "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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Oh, Russian Helen Mirren.
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Helen Mir.
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don't like that there's sound in space now.
kubrick's willingness to indulge in silence made huge swathes of 2001 tremendously powerful, which the director of "Timecop" does not seem to grasp
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"The same thing happened to me the first time I did this."
"When have you done this before?"
"Never!"
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"Hello, Betty."
hello dave
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you know how "Doctor Sleep" in its third act essentially physically travels to "The Shining."
this is like that, except this doesn't really have that much of its own to say.
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2001: how and why did HAL go mad. several plausible options. maybe HAL--
2010: it's because he was told to lie
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"Have we considered [HAL']s reaction?"
the past few years of LLM nonsense have made me incapable of considering a computer's pretend feelings, I think
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#309, or #2271, "Mobile Suit Gundam F91."
#gundam
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But for all that F91 is just as much meant to be a Gundam for the 90s, it immediately feels really stuck in 80s shoulder pads and bomber jackets.
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"This is my younger sister, then?"
not a Char, but their dad probably is
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"Wow, look how much of our town is on fire!!"
said with the exact same tone of voice with which I said "wow, they really cleaned that abandoned shithole on the corner up" driving through my home town the other day
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"Your father is waiting for you."
[he turns around, it's a guy in all purple and wearing a metal mask]
*leo-points* it's the Char
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"You're Dr Arno's kid?"
of the Cosmo Babylonia Arnos?
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Hard to tell what's meant to be "Gundam for the 90s" here -- what we've got here is a lot of the archetypes of the original three shows, in a scenario not unlike 0080, but in UC 0123. I'm enjoying it, but does it feel particularly fresh?
(Even without subtitles I could see 0083 has fresh archetypes, and starts at a base instead of with a kid living his life.)
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"Your son may be a Newtype, ma'am."
you can tell from how autistic he's being about the gundam
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"You've been a very naughty girl! Children shouldn't harbour suspicions about what adults do!"
weewoo weewoo calling the cops on Iron Mask
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"This is only the beginning."
cut to credits
lmao, called and missed a shot alright
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It's paced like a compilation film and doesn't really do anything new in a major way, but you know, Tomino on his usual bullshit is still very watchable, so as a kick-off to 90s Gundam goes, not a bad start.
(But as a road not taken by the franchise, I'm also glad it's not a longer road, and am ready for something fresher.) #gundam
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It’s the movie my brother keeps calling “not Paddington, I know it’s not called Paddington,” leaving now to go see —
#310, or #2272, 2025’s “Eddington.”
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I think this does a terrific job depicting something very specific about the world of early 2020. Even if I probably disagree with Mr Aster about how annoying we each think some of the types of character from that time are, I think he does a terrific job accurately capturing a heightened version of a time we all lived through.
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Once I tuned in to the picture’s wavelength, I found a lot of it really funny. Great performances anchor pathetic behaviour that might be unwatchably sad from real people.
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We enter now into the demilitarised zone between “what the fuck was that” and “hahaha fuck yes.”
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On the other hand, the picture going /so/ hard on an antifa terrorist attack staged by people who fly in on a private jet, it kind of fully, and I mean /fully/, surrenders the idea that it might have something meaningful to say about the world we live in.
You thought 2025’s “Eddington” had something to say about, say, how conspiracy theories can infect a home? Tough shit, I guess the conspiracy theorist mom was right.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •All of this adds up to a rough, often frustrating watch that it /is/ hard to deny is incredibly well made.
I guess it’s only fitting that a movie that so relentlessly refuses to pick a clean side comes so clearly in two halves.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Will half metal apparel do? No? Well, alright then, it's --
#311, or #2273, 1987 Stanley Kubrick film "Full Metal Jacket."
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oh, oop
there he goes
rest in the literal shitters, dickhead
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"Me so horny," etcetera.
Oh, this is what's to blame for all that, huh.
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"You a photographer?"
oh, it's Adam Baldwin, who called me a feminazi on Twitter once. he plays this guy exactly as dimwitted as he comes across online.
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this is well made but I hate being in the middle of it
at least it's only two hours long and I'm two thirds of the way through
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war is hell etcetera etcetera
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It's the members only screening, which means free snack and drink, which makes the question of whether to bother seeing this very easy, leaving now to go see --
#312, or #2274, 2025's "Roofman."
(Of the New England Roofmans?)
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Objectively, on paper, the guy is an asshole — yeah, he’s nice to the people he robs, tells them to put their coats on before he makes them get in the walk-in freezer, but that’s still armed robbery and involuntary restriction of free movement, and neither of his two families are actually better off for living in his wake — but the Channing Tatum performance does a lot of work to make that guy a watchable, likeable goofball.
(I probably wouldn’t wanna hang out with the real guy.)
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Interesting structural thing of spending two hours getting to know him, and most of that time getting to know the employees of the Toys R Us — and then when he finally interacts with more than just Kirsten Dunst, to have them see him as nothing more than the asshole he is. There’s something interesting there, even if this just grazes it.
Nothing much to remark upon, nothing much to pick apart. A perfectly solid picture.
(45 years, America is such a fucking shithole.)
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Time now to take a short walk to go see --
#313, or #2275, 2025's "The Long Walk."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •My brother did not believe me when I told him this was 110 minutes of boys walking. Dear reader, it was 110 minutes of boys walking. Pretty good!
Or, at least, as good, I think, as an adaptation of the Bachman novel in 2025 is gonna get. I understand, respect, and think I might like the changed ending, though ultimately I do think it means I prefer the book over the film.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The vibe is not that I'll enjoy the new Kathryn Bigelow picture, but I gotta see it eventually anyway and who knows how long it'll play, so alright, leaving now to go see --
#314, or #2276, 2025's "A House of Dynamite."
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It’s tense, it’s well-made, but each section is just… already pretty complete, and the second and third never really escalate or provide meaningful additional information, while doubling up on quite a lot. Every act has a guy who’s scared, somebody who makes a call to somebody who they’re worried about, etcetera.
If you watch this and there’s a power cut right after the first act, I’d honestly say you’re good.
A polite three stars.
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#315, or #2277, 1999 Stanley Kubrick picture "Eyes Wide Shut."
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"Alice. I /happen/ to be a /doctor/."
uh huh yeah definitely just a coincidental detail about your life and not the exact thing about you that provides you access to the exact things you want, got it
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"Lou Nathanson just died."
who nathanson?
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"I love you."
ma'am this is a death bed
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"What's the big mystery?"
"Hey man, I just play the piano."
"Nick, man, is there something I'm missing here?"
"I play blindfolded."
because the orgy noises don't give a thing away, I'm sure
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"This is my New York State Medical Board card."
bill over here flashing his medical license like it's his fbi badge, he really does use his profession as his main way into the entire world around him, even when the world is actively unimpressed
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"May I have the password, please?"
"Fidelio."
"That's right, sir. That is the password... for admittance. But may I ask, what is the password for the house?"
ruh-roh raggy
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"Was it the second password? Is that what gave me away?"
"Yes, finally. But not because you didn't know it. It's because there was no second password."
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ultimately all he is to them is useful. he gets invited to the parties because he and his wife are hot and he can help when a girl overdoes, but he's not allowed to ascend to their level.
he'll always have to flash his medical license. the vibe is not that Ziegler even has to tell people who he is.
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#316, or #2278, 2005's "Batman Begins."
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I was never that big on these. Some of that is that I was an idiot — this one wants you to take it seriously, but it’s also pretty silly when it wants to be and nowhere near as dark and/or gritty as I might once have told you with confidence that I thought it was — but it’s also just that it doesn’t quite emphasise the elements I like about the Bat-Man.
(His detective work here is limited to yelling at people and using one nightvision periscope gadget to scope out the Narrows.)
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(Given how often he falls off and into things, are we sure his fear is of bats and not of heights, canyons, pits? Maybe he should dress like a well and call himself the Pitmaster.)
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#317, or #2279, 1993 Henry Selick film "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
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I always read him to be like, "I'm a nice guy"-self insert for someone who IRL is probably the bad definition of "nice guy"
not sure if this is Tim Burton or otherwise, haven't heard enough about him to project on him that hard, but
I've definitely felt this way about characters before
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oh god that's true. Edward Scissorhands is the only one of those I haven't seen, but yeah
The latter two I chalked up to also projecting that onto Depp
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Tim Burton I think is closer to a Jughead "I'm weird" type of guy than to the grosser Depp version of it, though, to be fair.
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god dammit I was just thinking that as I was walking back out of the kitchen from making breakfast.
And yeah, sure. There's a version of "no ethical consumption under capitalism" that applies to everyone in hollywood, really.
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@The_T "Where does the word Easter come from?"
"Well, it's celebrated in the East of the year."
"The East of the--"
"From the year's perspective, of course."
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that's not quite true but it's not far off
Apparently "East" comes from Proto-Germanic "Aust", meaning dawn; the sun rises in the east
And possibly Easter comes from the goddess Eastermonað, which they gave to their name of the month of April.
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"It should belong to anyone / not anyone in fact but me"
this went from "I enjoy this thing I've recently learned about" to "and so I should culturally appropriate the everdying fuck out of it" in like zero seconds.
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"What's this?"
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Guesses: “The Smashing Machine” or “After the Hunt,” both of which are from companies that do Sneak Preview and both of which are out in America already.
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A famous but distracted writer hires a talented but unsuccessful impressionist to pretend to be him on the phone.
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#319, or #2281, 1996 Henry Selick film "James and the Giant Peach."
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My position on Roald Dahl is he's a dead dingaling whose work reflects an unpleasantness inherent to Britishness, which we as a society should strive to leave behind us.
> the unpleasantness or the britishness
A case to be made for both.
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"How do you know my name?"
"I know more than just your name!"
This guy is either a vagrant murderman or a wizard. Or both, people contain multitudes.
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"A peach!"
james' aunts and the regular-size peach
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"We're going to New York City!"
ah the days when a giant peach would leave for new york every other week
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"You mean to tell me this /thing/ is a /peach/."
me and the boys down at the station we all reckoned it was a butt
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#320, or #2282, 1956 Best Picture nominee "The Ten Commandments."
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* I'm not a big religion person, it all just doesn't really have that much to do with me.
* The actual ten commandments could maybe stand to be edited down a little.
* I understand this is an American Easter TV classic, please understand that I do not and can not share your nostalgia.
So far it does seem very earnest, which is a thing I like.
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"Your name will live when the Pyramids are dust."
easy thing to say two centuries later
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"Are you a master builder, or a master butcher?"
this guy has big why not both energy
(COME IIINNN~, hashtag a master builder)
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"He gave them [...] one day in seven to rest."
Moses put that graphic design is my passion-ass flyer about respecting the Sabbath or else into my mailbox?
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By which I guess I mean, this is so far less a story about the Ten Commandments and the distribution thereof and more one about a guy who in the future will get given the Ten Commandments and told to arrange the distribution thereof, or whatever it is that happens.
Would Surf Dracula's life be enhanced by hitting da waves? If it came up, he might say yes. But nobody's even talking about burning bushes.
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"First I have a call to make on the Master Builder."
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"Let the name of Moses be struck from every book and tablet. Stricken from all pylons and obelisks. Stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of... Moses... be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory fo men... for all time."
I'm gonna say total mission failure on this one, chief.
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"From where I send him, there is no return."
the lobby when there's a line that you can't possibly get through before the end of intermission
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"Into the blistering wilderness of Shur, the man who walked with kings now walks alone."
and where there was only one set of footsteps, that's when you were told to fuck off and die alone, my son
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I imagine the Christian sentiment here is probably that Moses /had/ to go through these things, be persecuted, exiled, be driven to the absolute brink, to be able to do the next bit. The whole persecution-is-good thing.
But what I see is more, you know, if I'd been wandering around the desert for yonks, and then told you a burning bush gave me these rocks with rules on 'em, would you believe me, or tell me I was hallucinating?
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"But for me there is no peace of spirit until I hear the word of God from God himself."
he's gonna go see a bush about some rocks
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"Look at his face."
"He has seen God."
Surf Dracula has signed up for a class.
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(I'm gonna go do some groceries real quick, be right back.)
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"It is spun on the wheels of the gods. It is called silk."
royalty used to be so easily impressable
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So, Mo's proof that he's speaking on behalf of a so-called God is a parlour trick that two guys in Rameses' court are also easily able to do.
That's all you got?
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The Ten Commandments, the Seven Plagues of Egypt, are we counting down to the Two Tablets?
EDIT: Wait, no, it's ten plagues, also, and the Ten Commandments haven't actually come up yet.
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"But how can we fight chariots?"
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"This is work for a butcher, not a pharaoh."
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It's hard to deny the picture is a tremendous cinematic achievement. The money is on the screen and it's on the screen for absolute yonks. But I can’t separate it from the fact that, well, I think it’s evil.
Oh well.
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#321, or #2283, 2025 Dutch comedy “Straf.”
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Things escalate. There’s a dognapping.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I know nothing about this except that it's notorious and that Justin McElroy has seen it at least seven times, it's --
#322, or #2284, 2001 Henry Selick picture "Monkeybone."
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"And then, all at once, there he was -- Monkeybone!"
monkeybone is his erect penis? alright. one of those kinds of movies, got it.
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"Well, that's our pilot! And the good news is, the Comedy Channel has picked us up with an order for six episodes!"
nah, this is the kind of thing that gets a pilot made, that everyone insists is terrific, but that doesn't get picked up
and then when it's un-lost media'd twenty years later, we all go, yeah, makes sense
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You know how they shut down that "Revenge of the Nerds" remake in 2006 because they started filming it and after two weeks realised absolutely none of it still made sense in the world of today?
What I'm saying is, wild that this is a finished film that came out.
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"I'm Steve. Steve King."
"Stephen King?"
stephen king?
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Is this good? No. Is it bad? Also no. Is it anything at all? I'm not convinced.
And yet. And yet.
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"I went through hell to get that exit pass. And who gets to use it? /Cujo/."
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"We don't want to hurt you! We just want your organs!"
not entirely sure where we stand culturally on Chris Kattan but he's electric as this runaway organ donor
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"Thank you, Death."
"I like you! I'll take the South Park guys instead!"
should-a done it
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Look, I don't want this to sound like I'm defending 2001's "Monkeybone," a bad movie that's a genuine mess, and ill-advised on most levels.
But it's a work of art, gloriously obscene, and will probably end up being my favourite Henry Selick flick.
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I wonder what a director's cut could do for "Monkeybone."
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#323, or #2285, 2006's "X-Men: The Last Stand."
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* Looks, frankly, better than a lot of modern de-aging.
* Still looks weird, though.
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Anyway, The Problem:
Dark Phoenix Saga as a story in the comics works because when it happens, you, as a reader, care about who Jean has been and currently is, about how you've seen her grow, and how it's scary to see her change in this way. At that point, Jean has been around for nearly two decades.
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But how much time do we actually spend with Jean in the movies before she dies? These movies are very Logan-centric, so even what we do get of Jean is very much from his POV -- in the first one, a lot of it is action, in the second, a lot of it is an inexplicable affair with Logan.
Based just on the films, /do/ you care about Jean?
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"Is it true? They can cure us?"
"Yes, Rogue, it appears to be true."
"No, Professor, they can't cure us. You want to know why, because there's nothing to cure. Nothing's wrong with you. Or any of us, for that matter."
Much has been said about this scene and all of it is accurate.
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"Warren! No!!"
you will believe a twink can fly
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"What do they call you?"
"Juggernaut."
"Can't imagine why."
because of his massive jugs?
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"You're not one of us any more."
Magneto, you could stand to be nicer.
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"You need to tell me what happened to Scott."
oh, right, rip to Scotty
that should be a bigger deal than it is, but it's another case of, how much time /have/ we spent with him?
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When the core emotional arc of the picture is one you /can't/ care about, it becomes hard to care about any of it at all.
Do I care that Scott is dead? I should, right?
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"I wanna be able to touch people, Logan."
Finally, an emotional arc I can care about. And it only takes 55 minutes of this 1h40m motion picture to really start.
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"I can manipulate the metal in this, but you, you can do anything you can think of."
Jean's powerset really fully includes Erik's, huh.
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"Traitors to their own cause..."
The X-Men could perhaps have taken the fight to the Brotherhood /after/ they finish demolishing the Alcatraz cure lab, hashtag Magneto Is Right.
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"I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"
i don't think movies like this should be fandom self-aware in this way
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"You would die for them?"
"No. Not for them. For you. For you."
See, good bits here and there. Jackman really nails this.
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"Hello, Moira."
this post-credits scene is no good and clearly doesn't actually happen
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You know people like this one the least, but I feel like it's the one I remember most of?
It's got the cure, it's got Magneto taking Alcatraz, it's got rogue getting white hair. Dark Phoenix. That angel losing his wings.
One? It's presumably mostly about the X-Men just being X-Men, Wolverine getting settled in. Mystique kidnaps a senator? Magneto in a plastic prison.
Two? Not a clue.
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@kurt X2 sort of lands at, okay, a lot of this is totally fine, but yeah, it's not particularly iconic, is it. But this has a lot of good bits in it!
Kitty vs Juggernaut, Jean with the cars in the prologue, Logan taking Jean out kinda rocks, Quill hugging Dr Rao to kill her.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It’s the movie that gave the most boring person you know a Halloween costume for at least five consecutive years, leaving now to go see —
#324, or #2286, 2008’s “The Dark Knight.”
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in reply to Sky, Cozy Goth Prince of Cats • • •@skysailor @anke I mean, intentionality be damned, I fiddle with the brightness settings in VLC for maybe 6 out of 10 movies I watch at home?
(Not an option in the cinema, though, obviously.)
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...is what I'd say if I didn't intuit that you're probably referring to the habit of many movies of making the damn movie impossible to see by making everything too damn dark.
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But also the movies are too dark thing, one hundred percent. What am I, a bat?
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#325, or #2287, 1936’s “Murder at Glen Athol.”
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#326, or #2288, 1985's "The Return of the Living Dead."
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"Did you see that movie, Night of the Living Dead?"
"Yeah, yeah, that's the one where the corpses start eating the people, right? Sure, what about it?"
"Did you know that movie was based on a true case?"
the picture's position inside the wider meta-franchise clearly established, time for some silly exposition
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"We gotta call the cops!"
"[...] Do you know what they'd do to this company??"
the ideal way to resolve this is clearly to fully incinerate and salt a 100m perimetre around the building, you're gonna be lucky if it's without you inside, what do you mean, the reputation of your company
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"Christ, it ain't dyin'!"
"I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!"
"It worked in the movie!"
"Well, it ain't workin' now, Frank!"
"You mean the movie lied?!"
"Oh, Jesus."
classic not-your-daddy's-zombies scene
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Frank got attacked by the cold storage corpse, but there's no sign a bite made a difference or anything like that -- instead, it's all about that he and the kid inhaled the gas from the canister at the start.
This is a lot closer to what "Community"'s zombie episode is parodying than "Night" is.
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"Brains!"
not even a lumbering craving for brains, just, hey, there's brains here I could eat, yum
(This is, if I recall correctly, the first time zombies explicitly go for the brain.)
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"I wouldn't worry about the fire, the rain is taking care of that now."
ah jeez
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Noting that I'm saying this in the context of having seen all the Romeros, one of the better followups to "Night."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •@kurt "Zombi 2" is a sequel to "Zombi," which is to "Dawn" what "Power Rangers" is to "Super Sentai."
A season of "Power Rangers" structurally can't, I think, be a sequel to a season of "Super Sentai."
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Leaving now. #327, or #2289.
Filing one (1) guess: Hoping for "Bugonia," because that's one that would be: Funny to spring on the Sneak Preview crowd.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •For a few years now my contrarian hot take has been that this is the best of these three movies, let’s walk through a storm to find out if that take holds up, leaving now to go see —
#328, or #2290, 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises.”
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I used to say this was my favourite one of these because it did more of the things I want from a Bat-Man movie. Revisiting it now, 2200+ movies since I last saw it, that take doesn’t hold up. It’s actually "Batman Begins" that gets closest to all that.
But this one is still my favourite of the three, because it’s where the Christopher Nolan who made "Memento" hands the series over to the Christopher Nolan who made "Inception", and who is about to make "Interstellar."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Opening sequence obviously slaps, but it also never stops giving you cool sequences that rule.
I kind of think a dozen actors could’ve done a great Bane here, but Tom Hardy is a /really great Bane/.
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Also the opening sequence is incredible.
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But the Tom Hardy Bane we got /rules/.
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#329, or #2291, 2025's "Bugonia."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Hm, grim! Funny, though. But in that Yorgos Lanthimos way.
Think this might be one I need to sit with for a few days to let my thoughts settle, but regardless of where I land on it exactly, good movie, well made, great central performances.
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Anyway, leaving now to go see —
#330, or #2292, 2025’s “Black Phone 2.”
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#331, or #2293, 2022's "Wendell & Wild."
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Every Selick film except "Monkeybone" sort of surrenders itself to a source material or influential producer's aesthetic. "Nightmare" is a Tim Burton thing, "Peach" is Dahl, "Coraline" is a Gaiman confession, and all three of those are aesthetics I'm not necessarily... that interested in.
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The way this is his only modern film so far and it's, like. It's punk and Black and queer and very specifically so.
Does make me feel like the ways I didn't click with his other films are largely on those films' auteur-influenced aesthetics, and not on Selick so much.
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#332, or #2294, 1936's "The Walking Dead."
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"Just my luck, my insurance ran out yesterday!"
one day before your retirement, a week before your 100th birthday, mere hours before the wedding
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They've shown up to explain he didn't do it, but not in time -- he's been executekilled to death.
Conveniently, though, the couple are scientists working on exactly this kind of thing, so now they're trying to unexecutekill him... to life!
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"He's alive. He will live."
well it's no "IT'S ALIIIVE!" but alright
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"RIP, what does that mean?"
"Rest in peace."
"It's a good idea, we'll use it."
was "RIP" ever *new*??
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#333, or #2295, 1982's "Koyaanisqatsi."
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* 86-minute video poem. No dialogue, just images and a Philip Glass score.
* Title means "life out of balance," a theme it tries to sell you on by juxtaposing footage of nature with footage of life in cities etc.
* Title fun to say.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •> if blank check jumped off a bridge etc
well they're not likely to cover the experience of jumping off a bridge in a way I can log on letterboxd are they
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Here's the thing. A lot to be said for, yes, a lot of industrialisation and technology is bad. Certainly the nuclear bomb, on screen now, not a fan of it. Skyscrapers, I dunno if we need those. We could stand to take our time with travel instead of flying everywhere.
But technology also means that, say, the world is my oyster as far as making friends goes, so, you know, machines bad versus infinite potential for connection, the jury's not out in /my/ house.
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Every light on the sped-up highway is at least one life, at least one person who was born and lived and has probably died by now, at least one somebody who had friends and family and hobbies and liked doing things and had opinions about cats, and every single one of those lives is driving home and coming home and being home and having dinner and conking out on the couch.
And who knows, maybe they have passengers.
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eos, yeah, okay, I really disagree with the idea that what this was showing me was "life in turmoil," "life out of balance," "life disintegrating," or "a state of life that calls for another way of living."
does the picture want us all to return to farm life? is this all not life beautifully persevering?
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@targea_caramar *googles* Oh, like the Bijlmer. See, there's a layer to that kind of thing that's lost on me because I don't know the specific place, the context, but it does translate.
*considers* Yeah, I think I get that from it.
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And we're not even counting all the movies where someone jumps off a bridge onto a truck that happens to be carrying a load of pillows, particularly soft trash, mattresses, or all sorts.
The Bridge (2006)
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I was gonna say, they're rarely from the POV of the jumper, but no, I did watch that happen somewhere recently, though I forget where.
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* Dit hebben we vorig jaar dubbel gedraaid... (We played this double last year...)
* Met driedubbel kijken we wel uit... (We'll watch out for a third time...)
So I’m as sure as I’ve ever been what the Mystery Classic is, which is to say, leaving now to probably go see 1988’s “Beetlejuice.”
#334, or #2296.
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I said the other day I was kind of over Tim Burton, that he was never really my jam to begin with, and that I was in no hurry to revisit his aesthetic sensibilities, but here I did again enjoy his usual bullshit.
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Aged a little unpleasantly, but still, fun, enjoyed it.
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#335, or #2297, 1988's "Powaqqatsi."
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(I liked "Koyaanisqatsi" a lot but disagreed with its theme.)
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#336, or #2298, 2025 Guillermo del Toro picture “Frankenstein.”
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Doesn't beat out my fondness for the Cumberbatch/Miller play as my favourite "Frankenstein" -- though I confess I've not seen that many -- because ultimately this one is just a little messier and more cluttered than it really ought-a be, but still, does a damn good job at it.
Isaac good, Elordi unbelievably good. And looks gorgeous.
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(I only saw the Cumberbatch as the Creature version, but I scrolled through enough of the Miller Creature version that, like, I don't think I /could/ have a clear favourite of the two.)
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#337, or #2299, 2002's "Naqoyqatsi."
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this must've seemed novel at the time
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money. sports fans. soldiers with flags. ticker tape military parades. sports fans. wall street guys crab bucketing. money. casinos. pills. credit card. oil sheiks.
*jims at the camera* love of money, the turning of life into a game to play, bad? who can say. (godfrey reggio can)
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#338, or #2300, 2025's "Don't Trip."
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"Have you ever seen me suppress a marginalised artist's voice before?"
"No, no, I--"
"No you haven't."
not a bad joke
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"What are you gonna do [to sell your script]?"
"I gotta be more aggressive."
*jims at the camera*
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Having had no success selling his script to this hot shot producer over the phone, Dev has decided to try and befriend the producer's dirtbag artist son. Genuinely heinous vibes--
"I mean, the vibes are weird."
At least it's intentional.
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the guy playing him kinda nails it, but the picture could stand to lean into it a little more, focus in in the editing on how this guy is the flick's monster
if he's not the monster, uhh, that's a bigger problem
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"It's like Deadpool meets Die Hard but it's set in a children's hospital. It's called Encryption."
sounds like a classic Sneak Preview dogshitter, honestly
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hey it's fred melamed
love fred melamed
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