#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter One — January Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
Major projects this year:
* Still catching up on movie podcasts.
* Really wanna go through a bunch of letterboxd watchlist.
* What if I watched... all of these? letterboxd.com/jacob/list/clos…
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#1963, or #1, 1945's "The Bells of St Mary's."
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"They took him away? Where?"
"Shady Rest."
the horror of Shady Rest
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"You're gonna hear the shortest speech you ever heard. This is a holiday, take the day off!"
Father O'Malley rules, actually?
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I understand how and why this and "Going My Way" get nominated for Best Picture -- there's something of a War on, people are looking for stories that don't just remind them of the newsreels. And at that point I might just dismiss it and move on.
But there's a pleasant subversive streak to this.
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"You try to hit me."
Nun Fighter II: The Habit Warriors
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"Oh, you're a very fortunate man, Mr Bogardus. This will live long after you're dust!"
they're actively pressuring this old man with a bad heart into giving his fancy new office building to the Catholic church
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Now Mr Bogardus' doctor is advising him to take it easy and maybe do some charity.
What kind of a doggone racket.
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"If that spirit is dampened, it would have a depressing effect and could delay her recovery."
you're a DOCTOR, how do you NOT TELL HER
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#1964, or #2, 2024's "De Jackpot."
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(You know, maybe I should.)
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Bad movie, never watch this, but I dunno, I laughed quite a lot.
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I'm so used to American films, where if they say "fuck" twice it's considered obscenity and this is just swears and dildos and quite a lot of sex talk all over the place? It's rated 6???
...Honestly, this explains a lot about the kids I've worked with.
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#1965, or #3, 2021's "The Humans."
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Beanie Feldstein has recently moved into this slightly decrepit Chinatown apartment and her family are giving her shit for how rubbish it is. Honestly, by movie standards this isn't that decrepit.
Amy Schumer is her I wanna say sister, Steven Yeun her partner, June Squibb her grandma, and her parents are played by Jayne Houdyshell and Richard Jenkins.
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"I hate that you live two blocks from where two towers got blown up."
wow, okay, right through the door with it
I feel like 9/11 is not an every day occurrence, even in New York.
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"Don't you think it should cost less to stay alive?"
you're tellin' me, old man who was just talking about having a lake house built
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"I was at the Dunkin' Donuts across the street, because the observation deck didn't open until nine."
oh, shit
yeah, he's allowed to be a little yikes about the location
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"In our family, we don't have that kind of depression."
"Yeah, we just have a sort of stoic sadness."
I've known families like that. Our shit is more like, we're too stubborn to let shit get us down.
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#1966, or #4, 1976's "Mikey and Nicky."
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"And even if somebody wants to kill you, that doesn't mean you're gonna die."
if it did I'd have so many victims
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micholas and nicholas
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"You give that to me in 30 seconds or I'll kill ya!!"
grabbing and throwing a man around a bit famously a great way to get him to move as fast as you want
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"It's very hard to talk to a dead person, I-- I have nothing in common."
boy, this guy, he'd hate bein' dead
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jesus, that's what you fade to credits on
the 70s were somethin' else
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#1967, or #5, 2025's "We Live In Time."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Incredibly well-made, the nonlinear structure carrying you along a river of emotion, and though it occasionally tries to drown you, you're always in good hands with Pugh and ol' Wet-Eyes Garfield.
Impossible not to fall completely in love with both of them. (Go. Try.)
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Solid ol' tearjerker, everyone really kind of overqualified for the assignment.
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#1968, or #6, 1911's "L'inferno," or "Dante's Inferno," the first-ever feature length Italian motion picture.
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Intertitle: "Dante's way is barred by three wild beasts: A panther symbolizing Avarice, a lion symbolizing Pride, and a she wolf symbolizing Lust."
the lion is gay, got it, carry on
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Intertitles make clear what each scene is depicting, but there's never any real sense of why we're watching any of this. That separation from any kind of real structure means this really feels like a travelogue documentary?
"And here is where they keep the carnal sinners."
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Intertitle: "The Poets' entrance to the city of Dis is barred by a horde of evil spirits."
cancelled by the Dis course, you say
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So far it's mostly the Italian countryside with the occasional basic set, and I'm still really impressed by the sheer fucking scale of this?
Like, just down the road, the French have just about figured out 3-minute shorts where a guy in a static shot gets his head cut off, or where somebody appears out of nowhere, or a Little Guy shows up.
Meanwhile the Italians are like, oh, yeah, Hell Itself? We can do that.
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"The Poets leave Hell."
I would simply leave Hell, yeah.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Gorgeous and impressive.
They do kind of fucking pull it off, don't they.
Not sure if I'd recommend this to anyone if they're not already into this kind of thing, and if you are, you'll just feel yourself drawn to this eventually, anyway, I think. But this is great, it's all really very powerful stuff.
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#1969, or #7, 1989's "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier."
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"All I have."
well they've got to be somebody's empty holes, I guess
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what's nice about these is how much each movie is like catching up with old pals
it's just nice to see 'em, nice to see what they're up to
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"I've always known, I'll die alone."
if anything was ever Jim Kirk's superpower it was his friendships
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"Well, gentlemen, it appears shore leave has been cancelled."
Jim would-a hated smartphones, I think.
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"What's the matter, Jim?"
"I miss my old chair."
constant refits, they've surely got it in storage somewhere
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"He reminds me of one I knew in my youth."
this sure is the Spock who never brought up Michael
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"Spock!"
"Hold your horse, Captain!"
Spock is so much funnier than he gets credit for from Jim and Leonard
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"I ought-a knock you on your goddamned ass!"
"If you think it would help."
spockkkkk
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"You mean he's your brother-brother? You made that up."
This man would not mention Michael at gunpoint.
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"Sybok has simply put us in touch with feelings we've always been afraid to express."
he's already got something in the water supply, clearly
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"I hide no pain."
he hides /some/ pain
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"I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain!!"
what I'm getting here is Starfleet could stand to invest in some serious mandatory therapy, and that Sybok whole deal is mostly just sort of a party trick
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"Is this the voice of... God?"
"One voice... many faces."
just a big incorporeal thing that knows how to follow your lead and put words in the right order
(this is how I describe ChatGPT)
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"What does God need with a starship?"
Whole thing instantly falls apart, doesn't it.
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"Jim, you don't ask the Almighty for his ID."
No, okay, but you do actually. You do actually need proof. Right now he's just a big face what shoots lightning bolts.
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"Do you doubt me?"
"I doubt any God who inflicts pain for his own pleasure."
*looks at McCoy, looks at the Old Testament*
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"I thought I was going to die."
"Not possible. You were never alone."
;__; spock
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"I lost a brother once. I was lucky, I got him back."
;______; jim
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"I was wrong."
for all that, like, every single one of his co-stars has over the years had good reason to hate him, this one really does feel like Bill trying his best to do right by his pals
dunno if he nails it, but he tries, in his way, I feel like
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I'm always gonna have a good time catching up with my good pals the crew of the Enterprise.
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#1970, or #8, 2025's "Queer."
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(Whenever Jason Schwartzman wasn't on screen I was asking, where's Jason Schwartzman?)
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#1971, or #9, 1945 Best Picture nominee "Spellbound."
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well this has aged either surprisingly well or like a turd in milk, no in-betweens on this one
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"I killed my father..."
"No, you didn't kill your father, that is a misconception that has taken hold of you."
well how do YOU know
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Meanwhile Bergman's new colleague slash flirty friend Dr Edwardes has been having weird freakouts, and his signature in a signed book doesn't match the one on a note--
"Edwardes is dead. I killed him."
Well.
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"All analysts have to be psychoanalysed by other analysts before they start practicing."
but who analysed the first analyst
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"What kind of an analyst is who wants to cure psychosis by taking people skating, or to a bowling alley?"
apple tv plus presents "Shrinking"
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woah
can Salvador Dalí just design every dream sequence
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oh my god they literally draw glasses on a picture of her to crack finding her
maybe Siegel and Shuster were on to something
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I still say she didn't need to go quite that hard, though.
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#1972, or #10, 2018's "The Package."
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"This knife is so sharp, it can cut /piss/."
uh oh
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"Somebody needs to find the... penis."
this is a real vibe shift from watching Hays Code era pictures, I gotta tell ya
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They went up to a ranger station hoping to refill the ice in the cooler, but the only thing at the ranger station was a snake. Scared, they drop the cooler, the dick falls out, the snake bites it. After some debate, Sean offers to be the one to suck the snake venom out of the dick.
This is all only a little homophobic.
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"Say night-night to the Danish Girl."
cramming a last-minute transphobic joke in there for no reason, sigh
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#1973, or #11, probably the oldest movie I'll ever see properly on a big screen, 1922's "Nosferatu."
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The oldest movie I've seen in theaters was Back to the Future 1, they re-ran it for it's anniversary or something.
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The oldest I'd seen in a theatre before now was probably "Jaws"? Or "Touch of Evil" if movie night at art school counts.
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(And as a film about a plague, shockingly timely and relatable.)
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Great adaptation, though. Really nails all the good bits, makes sensible choices, and deftly adapts it to the German setting.
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#1974, or #12, 1944 Best Picture nominee (in 1946, because it took that long for it to come out in America,) "Henry V."
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you can imagine somebody in 1944 Britain wondering how they did that, and somebody in 1946 America not realising that's not actually what London looks like in 1946
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actually, "framing an adaptation of a play as a performed play inside the adaptation" was a common device in those old Mickey comics where he and friends starred in an adaptation of a play
they should do more of those
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is this real, is this a real thing they did in Shakespeare times
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"What treasure, uncle?"
"Tennis balls, my liege."
I'm reading Hank the Fifth's reaction to this as meaning the gift of some orbs to smash is an insult.
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"...and the scene is now transported, gentles, to Southampton."
And so we fade to Southampton, with lavish, elaborate sets and more extras than were in the audience in the Globe.
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"And if your father's highness do not, in grant of all demands at large, sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty, he'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it."
they'll stab France so hard they'll have to build a tomb for the Louvre, perhaps in the form of, say, a pyramid
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Hank the Fifth: "I would be so willing to shoot the messenger. Just so you know."
The Messenger: "uh yeah I'll pass it on"
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me, ten years ago: shakespeare. who gives a shit.
me, today: the soliloquies as voiceovers over closeups? preposterous.
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"Let me speak proudly. Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched with rainy marching in this painful field."
my gayness is so often besmirched by rainy marching in this painful field also
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"We call it... Agincourt."
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#1975, or #13, 1991's "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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"Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party."
I think you'd have to throw Jim a retirement *intervention*, frankly.
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Praxis, moon of Qo'nos, has been destroyed, and the Klingon Empire has been diagnosed with terminal final-film-in-the-series-itis.
I guess this is the one where they make peace with the Federation.
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"This is Kronos One."
David Warner brings a compellingly weird energy to the Klingon vibe.
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"You've not experienced Shakespeare until you've read him in the original Klingon."
Henry V with all the real shithead behaviour put back in.
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"We need breathing room."
"Earth, Hitler, 1938."
lmao jim
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"Torpedo bay, did we fire those torpedoes?"
klingon ship damaged after happening to be in same location as torpedoes that became propelled in their direction
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who the fuck are these 60s-ass helmet bastards
I don't see it being the Klingons themselves, so it's probably somebody from Starfleet. But would they just wear Enterprise suits to do this?
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"Don't let it end this way."
alright hold the credits
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Okay, yeah, a scene in the galley /is/ weird, in the context of that never having been a thing on Kirk's Enterprise.
But still, some people do just like to cook, maybe these folks are taking a class.
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appreciate Kirk examining his uncritically held prejudices about Klingons
what makes Roddenberry's future what it is isn't that we're all perfect chums but that we're willing to learn and change and adapt to the needs of others
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"If shoe /fits/..."
"Mr Chekov..."
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"I can't believe I kissed you!"
"Must have been your lifelong ambition!"
just two Shatners caught on camera, no script
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"Couldn't you have waited two seconds! He was about to explain the whole thing!"
i mean obviously *spins wheel* Q and Scotty did it
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"First rule of assassination. Kill the assassins."
assassinators all the way down
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"You have to shoot."
it /was/ Valeris
not that I'm feeling particularly clever about it, I just know what stories are shaped like, but still, nailed it
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"Where is the peace conference? Where is the peace conference?!"
alright nolan batman calm down
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"Then we're dead."
"I've been dead before."
BALLER LINE, SPOCK
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"Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet."
some 1991-ass concerns on open display here
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"Nice to see you in action one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care."
and they finally get the tears outta me
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"Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •it was never gonna beat "Voyage Home" as my favourite, but this is as respectable as a final outing is gonna get, even if I do wish it had some more of the light character work going on I liked from "Final Frontier"
but where that was a fun visit with old pals, here it's nice to get to see them go out on top.
weird to still have had an unseen adventure with this crew. I'll miss 'em like nothin' else.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •103 years between them for the world, 3 days between them for me, leaving now to go see --
#1976, or #14, 2024's "Nosferatu."
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And yet.
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Maybe, as I'm thinking about it, it's that it doesn't really have anything to /say/.
I get why people like this, I really do. But it's "Nosferatu" for the sake of "Nosferatu."
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#1977, or #15, 2025's "A Real Pain."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I remember putting this on once and, for one of the few times in my life, turning it off.
(This was years ago, before I started counting, you understand.)
But Blank Check have covered it and thus so must I, starting and concluding Joseph Gordon-Levitt's feature directorial filmography at the same time, it's --
#1978, or #16, 2013's "Don Jon."
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there /is/ something here, I think, but the baseline of this man, this porn-brained pick-up artist, he's just so unpleasant to be around
and it's more than an hour before any kind of meaningful change sets in
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#1979, or #17, 2022's "Butcher's Crossing."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"Maybe you could send me out with one of your hunting parties, sir."
that line of thinking is how you end up returning, having changed, kid
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"A hunt like this happens once in a lifetime."
if it happened four times a year you wouldn't put it in a movie
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A sure thing, that will net participants more money than they know what to do with.
in 2022 this guy would sell you crypto
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"Why /fear/ God?"
"You don't know? Oh, you'll see."
god the fastest speed stat in the game and a chainsaw, he'll fuck you up
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it's not crypto, actually, because crypto is just a scam -- buffalo hunting is a relatively legitimate way of making money that, if you do it poorly, will eventually run out and go extinct
this guy would eagerly participate in causing a financial crisis
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"I'm fucking sick of buffalo meat."
should-a thought about that before you went to go live in the Nothing But Buffalo Store for multiple seasons
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"Do buffalo ever go crazy?"
they must just buffalose their mind sometimes
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"Where is everybody?"
it's almost like the bottom's fallen outta the buffalo hide market
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"Ain't you looked around you? The bottom's dropped out of the whole market! The hide business is finished for good!"
smart people have been saying this
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#1980, or #18, 2018 screenlife thriller "Searching."
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"What is a 'tumbler'?"
look just be glad she's not on 4chan
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"Six days ago she made an outgoing transaction of $2500 to... Venmo."
John Cho really selling that he's never heard of Venmo.
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"Sir, I don't have to tell you anything."
that's exactly what people who don't have anything to hide say-- oh, he was at a Justin Bieber concert and he's a teenage boy in 2017, yeah, sure
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"fish_n_chips"?
yeah, she got catfished
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The other day my mom asked me, if I've got a picture and a general direction, what's the fastest way to find where this is on Google Street View?
My first answer was, ask me when I'm not inside a movie theatre, but then when I got home it took me exactly four streets. I'm not bad at it.
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Alright, close enough to the endgame that I'm filing a guess.
Derek Ellis Sixty-Nine Sixty-Nine is fish_n_chips and Detective Vick is covering for him for some reason. (Second son?)
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...There's an email in his inbox that reads:
Title: My Theory
Contents: It's obvious what happened: Your daughter was catfished by this Fish_N_Chips character - who is no doubt the son of
the sender is a "Sev Ohanian," who co-wrote and produced this
i nailed it
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"David, we got him. His name is Randy Cartoff."
uh huh
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"Especially Rosemary, I have never seen somebody so investigated in a case."
*jims at the camera*
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#1981, or #19, 2022's "Slumberland."
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"But that's not true."
there you go
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That strip plays with the form, doesn't really have much of a narrative running through it, and is, honestly, weird, even by today's standards.
And yet here we are.
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*watchlists it anyway*
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Ten minutes in this kid has lost her dad at sea and has to learn to deal with the grief of that loss while also figuring out how to live with her uncle.
Wonder whether an adventure with Jason Momoa will impart some wisdom that will help her on that journey.
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she's in the bed, I repeat, she's in the bed
and the bed has breached containment
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in her dream, her bed has taken her back to the lighthouse where she lived with her dad
here she's found not her dad, but Jason Momoa, dressed like if his Minecraft Movie character was a cartoon hobo from Wonderland
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he's catching flies with chopsticks and eating them. the flies, not the chopsticks
most of the way to Lobo, too, this
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It's not that a Netflix Original blockbuster-type picture can't depict the types of worlds Winsor McCay would depict -- if anything, I'd say it's easier than ever to put the vivid imaginary worlds of McCay's strip on screen.
But that's the problem -- even the best possible version of this is going to be quickly-produced CGI that would look like sludge even if Netflix didn't compress it so much it looks even worse.
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They've gone into the dreamworld -- she went to sleep inside her dream, you see -- so now they're in somebody else's dream.
This was definitely pitched as Inception meets /something/.
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Dancers made of butterflies might be a great visual, but it's too noisy so Netflix's compression just crunches the fuck out of it. Looks like shit.
And now there's an energy cloud. Truly playing the hits.
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so Momoa used to play in Slumberland with Nemo's dad Peter. Momoa's name is Flip. Nemo's boring uncle, Peter's brother, is called Philip.
perhaps the boring adult will also learn how to be a complete person by rejoining with the more playful side of himself he left behind when he grew up because *looks up from the template* that's how these fucking go
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the places we spend real time in are narrow rooms, small sets
the more visually interesting locations remain unexplored, unexamined, flat digital visuals behind actors to who the greenscreen was a coworker
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"You're dressed like Flip. I don't understand."
yeah we're, what, an hour and fifteen in? *checks* an hour and ten, yeah, that's where you play this beat, next you bring him into Slumberland for the third act
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •In a way, 2022's "Slumberland" perfectly captures one specific thing about dreams -- it was simply not /made/ to be remembered.
Soulless, lifeless trash. Sludge devoid of all meaning. Kyle Chandler alright in it.
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#1982, or #20, 2023's "When You Finish Saving the World."
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Wolfhard -- who's called Ziggy, because that's what his parents are like -- has the politics of a quasi-sentient twig, they begin and end at "the world would be a better place if everyone just chilled out and listened to music."
The girl he has a crush on goes to commie art shows where people introduce themselves as reluctant members of the patriarchy.
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As I understand it, this is based on Eisenberg's own youth, with him being Ziggy -- and it's adapted from an Audible audio drama set closer to when Eisenberg was this age, instead of in the modern day.
and you can feel it -- the picture pays lip service to things like livestreaming, but then the commie art show feels like they walk into 1973.
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the kid is from the 2020s, the girl's commie art show is from the 1970s, the mom drives to her job at a 1990s woman's shelter, and the kid's slang is from
"Tera lift!"
the fucking 2??0s.
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it's all pretty thin, but Eisenberg delivers the emotional core of it pretty well
though his closeness to that core means he can't see why moving it to the present day unmoors it the way it does
but, i mean, 88 minutes. doesn't outstay its welcome.
(but also "A Real Pain" is way better.)
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This time twelve months ago we were already on our second Sneak Preview of the year, leaving now for the first one of 2025.
#1983, or #21.
(Sneak Preview is, they show you a movie that isn't out yet. You don't know which one until it starts.)
Filing my guesses: "Flight Risk" is out tomorrow. "A Complete Unknown" has been out other places for a bit.
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#1984, or #22, 1946 Best Picture winner "The Best Years of Our Lives."
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Yeah, in the end the picture's solution to the problem of what to do about all these men coming back riddled with PTSD, unsuited for a civilisation that has got used to doing without them, is that if they just find a good girl and a good job, and figure out when to shut the fuck up, America will sure keep on tickin'.
(And by gosh I think that sucks shit.)
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#1985, or #23, 1995's "Seven," "Se7en," or, "SeSevenen."
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Good movie.
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#1986, or #24, 2025's "Star Trek: Section 31."
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"Starfleet does not DO assassinations."
people starfleet would prefer to become dead just sometimes happen to end up that way when section 31 is around
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"I am out of phase with you, and you are out of phase with me. I am, however, in phase with your case."
a real phase case
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"You could have made something beautiful with your reign. Instead, you chose to build this."
me, age 6, when people didn't follow the lego instructions
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"So I built a weapon to end all threats."
to surpass metal gear, got it
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"Our little mole has been very busy."
look, it's not Georgiou, it's not the pre-existing Starfleet character, I don't buy that it's Sam Richardson, so it's either the hunk without a personality, or the bug-in-a-robot with too much personality they've made a whole thing of telling you is small enough he can jump into and easily damage technology
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yeah, it /is/ all a little thin, isn't it, and I wish it had a little more of a point, a little more of something to /say/, besides "we have Michelle Yeoh under contract at the exact moment she's become a globally beloved Oscar winner."
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I just wish it was... better.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Leaving now to catch my 10:15am flight to --
#1987, or #25, 2025's "Flight Risk."
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but once the picture gets into the plane, it settles down comfortably into a pretty watchable mode of nonsense? Still very much nonsense, though.
(Also, uh, it's a weird amount more about Wahlberg threatening to do unspeakable sex things to Topher Grace than you'd think.)
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#1988, or #26, 1991's "Boyz n the Hood."
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"And that is why we celebrate Thanksgiving, in order to commemorate the unity between the Indians-- Excuse me, Native Americans, and the settlers."
oh I see it's fairy tale hour in class
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"Gotta [rake] all these leaves, who he think you is, Kunta Kinte?"
trees, man
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Compelling portrait of a difficult world of lives.
(Might never have put this on on my own, because it doesn't really feel like my lane -- so, thanks, as frequently, to Blank Check for continuing to drive my viewing habits to more interesting places.)
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#1989, or #27, 2001's "The Grey Zone."
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The picture is about prisoners in Auschwitz who get assigned the task of disposing of the bodies of other prisoners.
Not one where my usual strats work, is it.
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"Our group is happy to remain here?"
"Happy?"
well relatively speaking
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"Will I be killed?"
"You want to be killed?"
something to be said for it in his position
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Where something like "Schindler's List" is about, in a sense, looking away, not at tragedy itself but to tragedies prevented in its wake, this is about looking at the tragedy at its darkest. Extremely grim, extremely harrowing.
Hard to feel like anything I could say adds something to anything.
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#1990, or #28!
Best case: "A Complete Unknown."
Worst case: "Marked Men."
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Anyway. Sneak Preview was 2025's "Companion."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Trying not to fall into clichés, but I'm sleepy, so Good For Her Cinematic Universe etcetera. Enjoyed this.
(Knew exactly -- exactly -- how it was gonna end from the moment they walk into the house.)
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#1991, or #29, 2005's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith."
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the sign in this boxing gym says, amongst other things that are not allowed, "NO FOUL LANGUAGES," plural.
so romance languages only, por favor
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"There was a struggle over the material. This little tea sandwich of a man."
boy this dialogue does not feel like it was written for Jolie
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#1992, or #30, 1997 German film "Bandits."
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"What about a full house?"
"That's cheating."
"No, it's bluffing."
see that's why I never liked the idea of poker
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"These women deserve a chance. In fact, it's our duty to reintegrate them, back into society."
oops
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the police are too busy looking for two escaped men to look for the Bandits (this is the name of the four's band)
they're actively annoyed the news isn't showing their pictures or even talking about them
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they've gone on TV to give an exclusive interview and play some songs
a record exec finds himself intrigued
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"When you're dead, you get eaten by worms. I don't want to be eaten. I want to burn."
a good argument for a lot of things
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"It's my first time in Germany, I just wanted to see the sights."
An American tourist who speaks the language? They've abductnapped a Bigfoot!
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"Hey, aren't you the Bandits?"
"...Uh, yeah."
"Can I get your autographs?"
luigi should-a done this
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"Marie?"
oh shit
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Excellent movie other people should watch.
Thanks again to @anke for the recommendation. :)
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#1993, or #31, 1946 Best Picture nominee "The Yearling."
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It's 1878, somewhere deep in Florida, and we're introduced to a family -- their son, Jody, his mom, Ora, and the patriarch, former soldier Ezra "Penny" Baxter.
Boy, you gotta hope he, uh, fought for the right side.
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oh I got it backwards?
however it is you get a real bear to act this distressed on camera, it surely can't be up to modern standards-- oh, yikes
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"Clouds are really just the backs of angels."
Jody's best pal is terminally ill cartoon Victorian urchin Fodderwing, who constantly says shit like this because I guess he has to be fine with how short his life is gonna be.
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"He's dead."
that's a wrap on Fodderwing, who will now return to his home planet of the streets of smog-filled London
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a lot of time spent here on how relieved everyone is how much less disabled Fodderwing'll be in heaven, a thing that doesn't exist and so neither does he
gross
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this fuckin sucks, man
it's always either slow as dirt or miserable
you can see why this had a certain effect on contemporary audiences, but it's such a message picture, and that message, "life is hard, suffering is healthy, we must always be tough" is so toxic by modern standards
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Jody doesn't like when people move away, so sure is glad to have his friend Flag the fawn.
Unfortunately the picture has remembered deer are herbivores, and Flag the fawn has got into their crops, which clearly puts a real countdown on Flag's life expectancy, even though they could just build a fence or a pen or something.
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"That deer has got to go!"
harry and the hendersons voice, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here
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"And don't you never come back!!"
local boy forgets "following you home" easy feat for local fawn
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