#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Four — April Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 98, for a total of 2060 movies.
* I've hit a part of Blank Check where I've seen most of what they're covering, so I really should get back to the watchlist.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Three — March EditionFrom 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 60, for a total of 2022 movies.* 30 per month feels neat, but I also feel like I gotta pick up Da Pace.
* Have been mostly focused on podcast movies.
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#99, or #2061, 1986 slasher "April Fool's Day."
Ultimately I just need something more -- more interesting characters, for one thing -- but as cheapie 80s slashers go, this one's honestly not half bad.
Less about how pranks and misinformation will kill you and more about how you should never, ever trust the rich, but I mean, I'll take it.
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Movie #100 of 2025, or #2062 since I started counting.
I do not know which as yet unreleased movie I'll be seeing, but I like to guess: A24's "Death of a Unicorn" is out later this week.
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I can't imagine a version of myself that would be happy in Las Vegas.
I'm not a city person, right. I'm from Friesland, I live in Groningen, already Amsterdam is too big for me. My whole body rejects me being in Amsterdam. So I think I'd drown in, say, New York. It would just swallow me up. To try to live there, I mean. /Maybe/ I could visit. But Vegas? Why would I ever even be in it for it do /anything/ to me?
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Thirty-six years, we learn, she's been dancing in "Le Razzle Dazzle," Vegas' last showgirl revue.
Can you imagine what 36 years of Vegas would do to a soul? She hasn't become the furniture, she's become the sidewalk.
Most generously, even if once upon a time somebody cared about the tiles they were selecting, having made, delivered, laid, even if anyone ever cared about those choices, no feeling is left towards them today.
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Eddie (Dave Bautista) calls her a legend. The last showgirl.
Are legends usually... happy?
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#101, or #2063, 1948 Best Picture nominee "Johnny Belinda."
EDIT: #2063, not #2062.
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#102, or #2064, 2000's "Pitch Black."
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I suspect diceyness will not get involved in this one.
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Oh, that's because they've got him tied up.
"Is he really that dangerous?"
"Only around humans."
That sells you on who this guy is pretty quickly.
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"I think you should see this."
"...Three suns?"
"Bloody hell."
a real "what if this other sci-fi thing you know about but cooler and made on a smaller budget" approach to all of this.
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* Severe lady captain whose tits and ass the camera constantly focuses on.
* Stuffy Brit.
* Androgynous teenager who immediately decides to idolise the murderman.
* Devout religious family whose every line of dialogue is about either their religion or their pilgrimage.
* Young couple looking for a starter home.
* Cop.
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the titular pitch black survival horror half of all this really picks up from the ehh dystopian sci-fi first half of this
it helps that "total darkness with a few light sources" is an easier sell visually than "breathtaking desert planet."
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Not a masterpiece or nothin', but very watchable for a movie that, if you described it to a normal person, could only ever sound like a stinker. Slow to take off, but the back half is great stuff.
Already in 2000, Vin Diesel really solid at his singular grunting muscle man stylings.
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#103, or #2065, 1948 Best Picture nominee "The Red Shoes."
EDIT: #2065, not #2064.
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"I say, that's yours, too, isn't it?"
"Yes."
my music professor would simply not plagiarise my compositions
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#104, or #2066, 2025's "A Minecraft Movie."
EDIT: #2066, not #2065.
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Many of the individual elements, or building blocks, if you will, of 2025's "A Minecraft Movie" are, really, fine. But they somehow add up to a block house that is much, much less than the sum of its parts.
For a film so determined to communicate you that it's about the power of creativity, an absolute void of story, art, meaning, anything of value.
But the 50 young people sat behind us, and I swear to gog this is true, gave it a standing ovation. So I guess it works for the target demo?
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But if you're my age or just a little older and have kids, they'll love it.
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#105, or #2067, 1998's "The Prince of Egypt."
EDIT: #2067, not #2066.
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"I am that I am."
this could be any burning bush
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"Tell your people, as of today, their workload has been doubled. Thanks to your god. Or is it, thanks... to you?"
Christ, what an asshole.
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some years ago, the local theater in my city made a Danish musical version of that movie, and it was an epic experience.
Especially the part where Moses stands at the red sea (at the edge of the stage) and bids it to part and make way for his people.
And then the floor moves under us, and they had made a huge hidden mechanism that moved the front 6-8 rows to the side, so Moses and his people could escape down through the audience as though we were the sea.
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#106, or #2068, 2025's "Death of a Unicorn."
(Doing lunch first.)
EDIT: #2068, not #2067.
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56-year old Paul Rudd finally old enough to be cast as a dad of a teenager.
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#107, or #2069, 2012's "Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present."
EDIT: #2069, not #2068.
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#108, or #2070, 1948 Best Picture nominee "The Snake Pit."
EDIT: #2070, not #2069.
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#109, or #2071.
EDIT: #2071, not #2070.
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dear reader, it was "White Bird."
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the totally unnecessary framing device connecting it to another inspirational drama about how courageous a child with a disability is,
the reduction of the Holocaust to shallow inspirational one-liners and teachable moments for a privileged bully (in the framing device) to learn something from,
the whole thing is dreck to the core.
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#110, or #2072, 2020 Biosphere 2 doc "Spaceship Earth."
EDIT: #2072, not #2071.
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#111, or #2073, 2025 Black Mirror episode "Common People."
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#112, or #2074, 2025 Black Mirror episode "Bête Noire."
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Which is, I suppose, a theme of this one. She's unsatisfied being empress of the universe because, she says, there's still the real issue in the back of her head, but it's also, isn't it, because she hasn't earned it. In that way I suppose it works?
But, like, no, an episode of television should at least try to earn its ending.
(I do like how big it goes at the end there.)
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#113, or #2075, 2004's "The Chronicles of Riddick"
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"You made three mistakes. First, you took the job. Second, you came light. A four-man crew for me? Fucking insulting. But the worst mistake you made... Empty gun rack."
see, this is why you make three more of these
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bad line read, she says it like it's the true crime genre, not like it's something truly heinous
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which I guess is why last year they filmed a fourth one
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"Necromonger."
"It is the name that convert or kill every last human life."
necromonger
they mong necro
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"Have you met any others?"
"Others like yourself."
"Sister, they don't know what to do with just one of me."
cool as fuck
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"You're not afraid of the dark, are you?"
cool. as. fuck.
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this huge sci-fi setting, Dune-scale shit we're talkin', it feels almost inconceivable that somebody pitched it as the followup to the small and intimate, to the point of feeling claustrophobic, "Pitch Black."
in "Pitch Black," what the characters care about is, like, supplies, their immediate personal safety, getting to a place
here we're 25 minutes in and a whole planet is being necromonged
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"In this 'verse, life is antagonistic to the natural state. Here, humans, in all their various races, are a spontaneous outbreak. An unguided mistake. Our purpose is to correct that mistake."
average instagram anti-masker
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hey it's Karl Urban
hi leonard
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necromongers, necropolis, necrospears, these guys have huge necro rassilon energy
at all times in this necropolis we're one corner away from a seal of rassilon with a big skull on it
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"Where does he come from!! Who are his people!! These are the things I need to know!!"
the antagonist is motivated by complex, nuanced needs and wants and communicates these in a subtle manner
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"Let me guess, five-man crew this time."
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"The name's Kyra now. And I'm a new animal."
of course the androgynous girl-pretending-to-be-a-boy from the first one has to be sexy now
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Riddick is one of those characters who, in-universe, has one of those reputations that you really, really shouldn't fuck with him that nobody who thinks about fucking with him ever actually believes, even though he very consistently lives up to it and leaves no survivors. Always a funny dynamic to me.
Though I suppose a lack of survivors does make it hard for anyone to tell the tale of what doth occur when Riddick is fuck'd with.
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"The odds are good. That you will reach the Underverse."
judi dench just playing a magic eight ball here
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#114, or #2076, 2025 Black Mirror episode "Hotel Reverie."
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But the emotional journey here is great, I like the premise a lot, and its execution is just really solid. And: It's very earnest, and very, very gay. Which is more than enough to get me over myself and to get me to just enjoy the ride.
And then the ride falls apart and that's enjoyable to watch, too.
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#115, or #2077, 2025 Black Mirror episode "Plaything."
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Weak as a sequel to "Bandersnatch" to begin with, and falls apart for me because I just don't believe in "Thronglets" as a thing that exists contemporaneously to "Street Fighter" and "Doom." The pixels are off.
As a depiction of games journalism, though, it's fucking savage.
Incredible that one "Black Mirror" can waste both Will Poulter and Peter Capaldi in two totally separate ways.
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#116, or #2078, 2025 Black Mirror episode "Eulogy."
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what if computer take you on walking tour of your unpleasant memories would that be fucked up or what
Not the most inspired premise, but to focus it so hard on such a profoundly vulnerable Paul Giamatti performance comfortably elevates it to what will probably be my favourite of the season.
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#117, or #2079, 1949 Best Picture nominee "A Letter to Three Wives."
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"There's something odd-looking about you today, George."
"Just that regular ol' two-headed schoolteacher look."
woof, really felt that on the tour of my brother's office yesterday, I actively had to stop my "we're on a field trip" instincts giving every 10-15 year old who wasn't paying attention The Look
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"Dearest Debby, Lora Mae, and Rita.
As you know by now, you'll have to carry on without me from here. It isn't easy to leave a town like our town, to tear myself away from you three dear, dear friends who have meant so much to me."
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"And so I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to take with me a sort of memento. Something to remind me always of the town that was my home, and of my three very dearest friends, whom I want never to forget.
And I won't.
You see, girls, I have run off with one of your husbands.
Addie."
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And they've received and read the letter right as they've said goodbye to their husbands and gone on a riverboat excursion with a group of kids. In the pre-cellular telephone age.
...They're gonna kill each other.
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In the first flashback, we learn First Wive never felt welcome returning to her husband's high society circles after the war
and that everyone kinda sorta expected First Husband to marry Addie
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In this second flashback, we learn Second Wife, who writes for radio soap operas, is disappointed her husband the schoolteacher isn't more ambitious, and her husband the schoolteacher is disappointed Second Wife spends so much time trying to please her boss, who they're having over for dinner, that she forgets his birthday.
Who doesn't forget his birthday? Addie.
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"...Well, I'll see you tonight at the club."
alright, time to find out which husband fucked off with Addie
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"My husband has run away with Addie Ross."
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"Brad didn't run away with Addie Ross. I did."
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tbh I'm not even a teacher and I do that
I'm just very good at Judging
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#118, or #2080, 2025 Black Mirror episode "USS Callister: Into Infinity."
what if they made a sequel to one we were all pretty hot on when it came out nearly a decade ago that we now barely remember would that be fucked up or what
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It's also yet another dip into the by now well-trodden basement dweller creative genius / scumbag money guy conflict -- they can't ALL be Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, Chuck. (It's also a bit Omelas again.)
Genuinely not a bad entry, and of all of them this season it deserves the prestige 90-minute runtime, but I suspect it'll play better when somebody binges the whole run rather than with years between them.
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#119, or #2081, 2013's "Riddick."
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"Between the fourth and fifth rib. That's where I usually go."
he's a practical man, that Richard B. Riddick
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"Something like that?"
way too low, silly assassin
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"Maybe I went and did the worst crime of all... I got civilised."
i dunno I feel like I can think of worse crimes to have went and did
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so, huge success, because these dingdongs are the fucking worst.
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#120, or #2082.
(Guess: "Black Bag." Universal/Focus, came and went in the US already, out here soon, could use the buzz.)
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A fucking /rough/ time at the movies!
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We never learn the locals' names. They're dehumanised, largely unseen, unspecific, unidentified assailants. The ghouls, of course, volunteered to be there. Because they're American soldiers in 2006 Ramadi, Iraq, and the picture is a 90-minute recreation of the memories of one of those soldiers' perspective on a single moment in the Iraq War.
This is, of course, extreme, violent hyper-propaganda.
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Director Alex Garland and primary source memory provider Ray Mendoza insist the picture is merely "an exercise in trying to recreate a sequence of events as accurately as possible."
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The idea that there is neutrality here is preposterous. It might be the most biased movie ever made since Hitler gave Leni Riefenstahl a camera and pointed her at the 1934 Nazi Party Congress.
Its idea of neutrality is derived entirely from the idea that all it's innocently doing is portraying this one guy's memories accurately.
(Is the way Frodo writes about his journey through Mordor neutral if you're Shelob? Or does Frodo, perhaps, have a Take?)
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#121, or #2083, 2022's "My Old School."
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#122, or #2084, 2025's "Drop."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Solid, contained little thriller! Knows when to escalate, never drags anything out too long, and always smart and ridiculous exactly when you want it to be.
Enjoyed it!
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#123, or #2085, 1949 Best Picture nominee "The Heiress."
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and that she should really be getting on the scene and look for a husband to grant her 30k a year (in 1849 money!!) to, though her father doesn't think she's much of a catch, and has called her "mediocre" (just say it's a skill issue)
by which he of course means she seems like a fairly normal person
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"You thought that any clever, handsome man would be as bored of me as you are."
ah she finally gets to be an angry adult
this is why you cast Olivia de Havilland
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"I had to see you, Catherine."
oh no, the fuckboy is back and he has a moustache now
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"He came back with the same lies. The same silly phrases."
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and lo the people did run through the aisles cheering Olivia de Havilland's name
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"Of course I can be so cruel. I have been taught by /masters/."
kill him
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#124, or #2086, 1988 Martin Scorsese picture "The Last Temptation of Christ."
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I always say the closest thing I have is that I consider stories, the act of telling a story and making people care about it, to be the closest thing we have to magic.
And, of course, what is religion if not people telling stories?
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"Rome condemns him. And all the gods of Rome condemn him."
really? we've checked in with all of them? you've asked Eos, for who there were no temples, what to make of this guy, and she said, yeah, pistols at dawn?
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Hadn't really connected the dots of "Jesus is a carpenter" and "somebody's gotta make the crosses for the crucifixions" before.
It's a very earthly occupation for a son of god, that also directly ties into his mythological aspect.
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"God can save your soul."
jesus, they were talking to sex workers like this two thousand years ago?
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"She broke Moses' law."
*leo-points* like in prince of egypt
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"I didn't say kill! I said love! I said love!"
the modern conservative movement, born at this very sermon
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"He sounds like the Messiah."
"No."
it's really a rebuking of the American idea of a strong, macho Jesus -- Dafoe is quiet, considered, full of doubt, and the things we're told are wrong and not of his teachings are all away from that, contrary to that, reflecting perversions maintained to this day
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"This is my heart. Take it."
really getting a headstart on the christmas heart-giving
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"Kill him! He's a magician!"
most normal reaction to David Blaine
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"Didn't they tell you? I'm the saint of blasphemy! I didn't come here to bring peace, I came to bring a sword!!"
goes hard tbh
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Or is the fear and doubt and uncertainty the issue? I thought Jesus was meant to be of both worlds, divine as much as he was mortal, which surely implies less perfection and more contradiction and flaw.
Of course, Spock gets boiled down by popular understanding in the same way.
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"All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing."
"Either way it's dangerous."
the romans will literally crucify a man instead of going to therapy etcetera
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"Mother, Magdalene... Where are you?"
just at the cross thinking about all the Marys he knows
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"Who are you?"
"I'm the angel who guards you."
done a piss poor job of it so far
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"He's tested you and He's happy with you. He said, let him die in a dream, but let him live his life."
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"I don't have to be sacrificed?"
"No. No, you don't."
"I'm not the Messiah?"
"No. No, you're not."
I suddenly see why a certain type of person got real mad about this one.
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you know, if you could offer to Christ this life, a happy one, with a wife, with kids, where he did all that was asked of him and sacrificed himself -- but without having to die over it all...
that would be a real Last Temptation, wouldn't it
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"Don't try and tell me what happened to me because I *know*."
the idea that the story of Christ's sacrifice and resurrection doesn't actually need Christ to have died or resurrected for it to take off, hm
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"My Jesus is much more important and much more powerful."
Harry Dean Stanton incredible as Paul.
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"Look at her. Satan."
oh well if he'd known to look at her
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"I want to be the Messiah!!"
this is just It's A Wonderful Life
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#125, or #2087, 2022 Pixar film "Lightyear."
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(Everyone was confused about this at the time, too.)
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#126, or #2088, 1949 Best Picture winner "All the King's Men."
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"It's a free country, Willie, if you can convince the people to vote for you, go right ahead."
an unlikely populist businessman running for office? this can go one of exactly two ways.
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It's easy to draw lines between Willie Stark's story and modern politics, and I get why people compare him to the current American president, but so far he cares too much about actually doing the right thing to really feel like that particular fascist.
Though I suppose in 1949 it was hard to imagine something quite as crass, craven, uncivilised as that particular fascist having any kind of appeal.
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Willie's got drunk and now instead of his usual speech explaining his tax plan, he's started "saying it like it is," which mostly means the kind of "is there a chicken in your pot" catchphrases that are old hat now, and calling out obvious corruption.
It eventually evolves into loud, aggressive, populist rants about how he's the only hick who'll stand up for the hicks, real "I'm one of you, and I'm an idiot, too, so vote for the biggest idiot" stuff.
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Fascinating what does and doesn't feel real -- Willie Stark is a big, increasingly angry, increasingly dumb-presenting guy, so the story simply can't picture that he'd ever win without a few real losses, or without learning how to play the game.
But turns out, in reality, if you just throw a big enough, dumb enough guy at the system, the system'll just break!
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The journalist falls because after he quits at the paper he was writing about Willie Stark for because they got too scared of him, he joins Stark's team as opposition manager.
Stark's rise is on an unstable pedestal -- first surrounding himself with yes men and enforcers, now he's taking bribes, and promising nepotistic appointments after he wins. (He's won.)
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Stark's wife has fallen, her loyalty having been rewarded by his rampant, out-in-the-open affairs.
The judge appointed as a favour has fallen, resigning after witnessing Stark openly blackmailing somebody.
All of these are, really, falls that could be recovered from.
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"You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs."
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Stark's son, feeling the pressure of his father's lifestyle and office, has fallen, killing his girlfriend in a drunk driving accident.
Suddenly the eggs seem less repairable.
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"Willie Stark, messiah or dictator?"
well unless he goes up the cross at the end and comes back three day later, i'm gonna say the picture's perspective is that he's the latter
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#127, or #2089, 1949 Best Picture nominee "Battleground."
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But that's every war film now.
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(It doesn't help that I can't tell any of these soldiers apart for the fucking life of me.)
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#128, or #2090, 1949 Best Picture nominee "Twelve O'Clock High."
I get what this is trying to say about the war -- that so much of it is about morale, and so much of it is about command -- but the practical effect of applying this take to yet another boring war movie is that *this* boring war movie is about how the *most* boring guy in the war is *also* very important to something something patriotism bring 'em home boys yankee doodle yeehaw.
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#129, or #2091.
Still fully expect to see "Black Bag" at Sneak Preview.
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It was 2025's "Black Bag."
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One of those where you've seen all the individual parts a thousand times before, but they come together here totally fresh, totally cool, in a great, compelling way. So strong on every level, so in control of itself that it makes it look effortless, when you know it's not.
Great little flick.
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#130, or #2092, 2016's "The Accountant."
As a depiction of a grown adult autistic man, borders on being a hate crime. But as a piece of modern over-the-top bordering-on-silly action cinema, just about gets away with it by being very, very watchable.
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#131, or #2093, 2025's "Sinners."
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#132, or #2094, 2001's "The Mummy Returns."
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"Anubis gave the Scorpion King command of his army."
anubis bro you met him when he was dying from heatstroke because of how hard he got owned
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"What does it say?"
"He who disturbs this bracelet shall drink from the Nile. Oh, well, that doesn't sound too bad."
and then the room floods
not much of a sensible adventure couple if we're not reading instructions are we
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"The Book of the Dead gives life."
"And the Book of the Living... takes life away."
Big "What They Teach You at Harvard Business School" / "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School" energy.
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if a geyser of beetles came out of the ground and devoured my coworkers, I might look for alternative employment
though I suppose hench work in the illicit treasure hunting for movie villains business is a rough trade
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"You know, a couple of years ago, this would've seemed really strange to me."
it only takes a few mummy uprisings to get used to mummy uprisings, doesn't it
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"Lady, I don't behave for my /parents/, what makes you think I would do it for you?"
your parents are much less likely to throw you off this train
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"Honestly, I'm not losing my mind, it all makes total sense now."
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"Right, she's a reincarnated princess, and I'm a warrior for God."
"And your son leads the way to Ahm Shere."
classic adventure story trio
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"I must face the Scorpion King alone!"
classic guy-who-dies thing to say
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"Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?"
everyone in this movie is approximately the same height
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#133, or #2095, 2008's "Tropic Thunder."
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"I think I can spot a prop head when I see it."
I feel like it's less the head and more the how they swapped the alive director out for the bombed to shit prop parts of the formerly alive director that would get me.
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"This motherfucker's dead."
he truly was kind of a motherfucker
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"Man, I don't drop character 'til I done the DVD commentary."
Oh, I should watch it with that, also.
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#134, or #2096, 2008's "Tropic Thunder,"
-- with the commentary track where RDJ stays in character as Kirk Lazarus staying in character as Staff Sergeant Lincoln Osiris the whole time. Pretty good, pretty funny.
Say, how the hell do you win Best Actor for a documentary.
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#135, or #2097, 2005's "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith."
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But I'm older and wiser and, frankly, stronger than I was, and I love it.
I love the theatrical tragedy of it. I love all the big performances, I love McGregor giving it his all, I love Frank Oz making Yoda, objectively a shithead, seem so lost, I love Hayden Christensen, who doesn't work, does he, but who has grown on me.
And Ian McDarmid goes SO fucking big in his performance no monument could capture the scale of it.
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The picture is, ultimately, perfectly sincere. And so is my fondness.
And I allow sincerity the space to transcend.
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#136, or #2098, 1950 Best Picture nominee "Father of the Bride."
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do you know how many weddings i've seen fathers be overly protective of their daughters in the context of
it must be millions
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@kev probably nailed it, I fully expect it to be "Top Gun."
#137, or #2099.
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I don't think I have much to say about 1986's "Top Gun," though I guess coming back to it after having seen "Top Gun: Maverick," it's really not that evil compared to the later film.
The dudes being guys stuff is pretty watchable, but the action is honestly impossible to follow.
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A ★★★★ review of Top Gun (1986)
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#138, or #2100, 2008's "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor."
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Obviously doesn't hold a candle to the 1999 film, though.
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(A little too long, mind.)
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#139, or #2101, 2024's "Conclave."
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Nothing else to really add. Still just think it's a tremendously constructed airport novel-ass little picture.
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@naga Oh, it's a terrific picture, for sure. But I don't think people bomb cinemas because a movie is really good.
(And if they do, "A Minecraft Movie," which is really bad, should surely be generating the opposite reaction. People should be achieving nirvana in the aisles.)
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