#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Eleven — November Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 338, for a total of 2300 movies.
This month:
* Danny Boyle.
* Men in Black.
* Probably some Planet of the Apes.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Ten — October EditionFrom 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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#339, or #2301, 1994 Danny Boyle picture "Shallow Grave."
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*points* that's clearly edinburgh
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"Good. Let's talk about disposal. Now, we have to make that body unidentifiable. And burning, dumping at sea, and straightforward burial are all flawed -- either by fingerprints or, more commonly, by dental records. This I have learned. Now, what I suggest is that we bury him out in the forest. But first of all, we remove his hands and his feet, which we incinerate. And his teeth -- which we just remove. It's as simple as that."
a plan that's simple you say
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The version of this I'd go for is, just call the cops about the dead roommate. Whatever is going on, that trail can't end at my house with the guy /disappearing/. The suitcase goes somewhere inconspicuous. Shared storage, somewhere it makes sense for it to be, but for us not to have looked. Then we wait. Six months, a year. No touching the money. Maybe we move with it once or twice.
Is it a crime to then realise our dead roommate left some cash behind? Surely not.
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"You're not eating like you used to."
corpse mutilation does take it out of a guy
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#340, or #2302, 1996's "Trainspotting."
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even the best, most glamorised depiction of heroin use never seemed like a good time to me
sure you're having a grand old time inside your head but outside of it you're living in a shithole doing things with a spoon you shouldn't be
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I assume the whole thing here is to put you in the heads of these heroin addicts, to show what the life is like, to show the ups as well as the by 1996 surely culturally relatively well known downs.
I've seen some people say it romanticises it, but does it? Maybe all I can see are the downs.
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"Fuck it, we would've injected fuckin' vitamin C if only they'd made it illegal."
thinking about this as in conversation with "A Clockwork Orange." this nihilistic life, deep and dark and disgusting. but this is just set in the 90s, not a dystopian future.
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"The truth is that I'm a bad person. But that's going to change."
Even with the cash, I don't buy it for a second.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Not my thing, in a bunch of ways.
The whole drugs thing aside, it's undeniably well-made, and I can totally understand why this hit 90s British cinema like a bomb. But just like how I can only see the bad of the drugs thing, I'm just so fucking tired of this whole nihilist schtick.
It's a load of old shit that can go stick its head up its own arse.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The movie that dares to ask, what if there were fights... on the street? It's --
#341, or #2303, 1994's "Street Fighter."
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"The only way you two are leaving... is over my dead body."
I would simply not get press ganged.
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"WHY do they STILL call me a WARLORD? And MAD? All I want to do... is to CREATE the PERFECT genetic SOLDIER, not for POWER, not for EVIL, but for GOOD!"
but spider-man i don't want to cure cancer
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"Col. Guile, deliver these instructions to your troops, then consider yourself relieved of your command."
so what I'm hearing here is if he doesn't deliver these instruction he doesn't have to consider himself relieved of his command
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"I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it."
"You don't remember?"
"For you... the day Bison graced your village... was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday."
kicks ass
great movie
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"And you... are harmless."
"That's exactly what I wanted you to think. Yah-tayh!"
kicks ass
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"You got... paid?"
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Like the original "Mario" movie, the 1994 "Street Fighter" movie is a deeply goofy adaptation, a profoundly flawed work, a universally-agreed bad movie, and an equally universally misunderstood camp masterpiece.
Bangs, honks, and slaps.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The entire time this has been out there was always something more interesting on, but I guess, even though as far as I can tell everyone agrees it's an absolute nothingburger, it's a slow enough week to finally go see --
#342, or #2304, 2025's "Tron: Ares."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Jared Leto also a real problem with this one -- I buy him as the dead-eyed, soulless computer program, but when I look him in the face I just fundamentally don't believe that he's capable of learning empathy, emotion, or the enjoyment of music.
(He never stops sounding like Patrick Bateman about music.)
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in reply to 🇹 Ti • • •@The_T Each of them is worse as a film than the last one, I think, but you're not wrong.
(The first one doesn't even look that great, but there's an eager ambition to it all that the seamlessness of modern blockbuster effects just will never capture, and it makes up for its inability to meet those ambitions by being very charmingly doofy.)
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This is NOT a movie about Jared Leto roaming around an American national park, leaving now to go see —
#343, or #2305, 2025’s “Predator: Badlands.”
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Fun! "Predator" as Yautja POV buddy road trip coming-of-age flick!
Does a lot of fresh things with the franchise, several of them encapsulated in the previous sentence, and some of which might've sounded annoying to me on paper, but are executed wonderfully here -- it's charmingly fun all the way down.
A Good Time at the Movies.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The third and final film of Danny Boyle's "Ewan McGregor Is No Angel" trilogy, it's --
#344, or #2306, 1997's "A Life Less Ordinary."
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"Robots? You're gonna tell us we're gonna be replaced by robots??"
some concerns are eternal
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This feels like Danny Boyle trying to do early Coens and it maybe doesn't quite work, but it /is/ *extremely* 1997.
1997 generally, a very Pronounced year, somehow.
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Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter are angels who've been sent to make janitor Ewan McGregor fall in love with heiress Cameron Diaz. Their arrangement to make that happen so far has been to have him evicted, fired, and forced into a situation where kidnapping her seemed like the only way out.
1997, did we not discredit Stockholm syndrome yet? I better see some real chemistry here.
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"What do you think I am? Some kind of a crazy backwoods lunatic with a barn full of human skulls?"
no he saves that guy for 28 Years Later
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"We were married in a castle in Scotland. That's in England. Near Paris?"
hahahaha fuck
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Watched a video about these Costa Botes “Lord of the Rings” behind the scenes docs recently, figured I might as well watch them, and so I watched —
#345, or #2307, 2002 DVD special feature “The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring.”
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It’s kind of amazing just how ramshackle everything looks in glorious low-fi early digital video. And also just how much he captures — nobody here is in polite behind the scenes doc mode, it’s just people hard at work making movies. And goofing off. And swearing. And getting hurt. And being human.
Eos alive, I love watching people make movies.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The movie that dares to ask, what if there was a beach, it's --
#346, or #2308, 2000 Danny Boyle picture "The Beach."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I know Boyle getting Leo for this instead of McGregor is why Boyle and McGregor don't talk for a decade and a half, but instantly I'm going, yeah, Leo at peak doe eyes is the right choice for this.
There's an innocence to Leo, one that at this time he always looks like he's right on the verge of losing, and I think that fits the "a lot of rough shit happens to a backpacker" thing a lot better than 90s McGregor's scottish scum bum vibe.
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I think I would find places like Bangkok -- or New York or Beijing or any big and crowded city -- more overwhelming to be in than I'd get anything out of being in them. Like, I find Amsterdam oppressive and stifling, I think a city like this might just crush me.
And then the grimy hostel wouldn't help, either.
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Daffy has died by way of having done quite a lot of knife-based violence to his own self and has left Leo a map to the Beach from "The Beach."
This, of course, makes the advice to go live on the Beach from "The Beach" impossible not to follow, even though surely you'd think it would have the opposite effect.
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Conveniently, these two surfers happen to have heard an urban legend going around about the Beach from "The Beach," and tell us that on it one can find quite a lot of "dope."
At every step this has the opposite effect on Leo from the one it would have on me.
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They're almost at the island, but they're swimming the last bit, and cutting to them about halfway there means they're about to get fucking fucked--
"I saw a fin!"
oh no a scandinavian
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They've found the A Lot of Dope on the Island That the Beach from "The Beach" Is On, unfortunately it comes with monkey on a chain that's attached to one of several very armed men.
See, this is just one of many reasons you don't go to the Thai drugs island.
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"Sal was the leader, but it wasn't a big deal. I mean, there wasn't any ideology or shit like that."
yeah see "no ideology" is a red flag
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"You want to go to the mainland to go see a dentist?"
"Yes."
"It's out of the question."
wee woo wee woo
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"They can take it."
ah yees-- huh. oh. hm.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •There’s a line early on where Françoise says something along the lines of, “that’s what all the cocky little white boy backpackers say,” my words, not hers, and it made me go, oh, maybe this’ll be a repudiation of that kind of thing.
But it still kind of just is that kind of thing.
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Not that Obi-Wan looks like he'd get you in trouble, but that's the wrong vibe, too.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The last time I saw this was with 80 impending law students during the introduction week for my aborted eight months of law school, which is really the ideal context to watch this in, but alright, the Brother hasn't seen it, and I guess the cinema are doing a Nicholson season, so leaving now for a screening of --
#347, or #2309, 1992's "A Few Good Men."
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Found myself quietly taken in by the Kevin Pollak character, this time. He genuinely hates these guys not just for what they did but for what they believed that made them do it, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't do the right thing. Could've made the whole movie about that.
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My journey with it went as follows:
* Hm.
* Oh.
* This might be inedible?
* No, I'm getting used to it.
* But this'll be inedible before I get halfway through.
* This is pretty good, actually.
* Finished it.
* Aftertaste will live with me for, *squints at notes* the rest of time?
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#348, or #2310, 2025's "The Mastermind."
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The Josh O'Connor character has had the Thought, and finds out why you don't turn it into the Choice. Because it makes your life incompatible with society. You'd have to leave. You'd have to go. You broke the social contract and now you can't be here any more. Or they'll make you.
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Great movie.
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#349, or #2311, 1997's "Men in Black."
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"Who are you?"
"INS Division Six."
"I never heard of Division Six."
hell, I've never heard of INS
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the thing of "what if this fantastical thing was mired in bureaucracy" does actually work for aliens and the united states government's response to them because I assume the united states government's response to anything is mired in bureaucracy
federal agent needs a postit? here's form 4422-NXD-B. fill it in in triplicate and file it with the office of office.
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"Edgar, your skin is hanging off your bones."
would you rather it were hanging off the coat rack
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"Yeah, he said the world was coming to an end."
"Did he say when?"
real and sudden vibe shift in this room
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the little Tiffany scene is clever and is meant to show us he's clever but he's also been prepped for it through the encounter with Jeebs
which he doesn't remember right now, but still
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"I knew it, this is an alien."
what gave it away
was it the alien inside the dead man's head
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"I haven't been training a partner, I've been training a replacement."
mindwiping folks who retire seems like it'd surely get you in trouble one way or another. the sheer loss of institutional knowledge alone.
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Will Smith maybe at the height of his powers here.
Very charming. Very watchable.
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And yeah I missed when Will Smith would release a rap single with every movie he was in.
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"are they walking / or are they balking / it's Women Talking"
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#350, or #2312, 2002's "MIIB," or, "Men in Black II."
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wait nope I looked up the synonpsis
I was thinking of 2 when I thought I knew the plot of 3, I may not have seen 3
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I would have guessed the bad one is the most recent one, "International", but, yeah
I'm genuinely shocked, 2 feels like such a "we're bringing it back after 10 years" movie, not a relatively recent 5-year sequel.
Like I feel like I remember 2 being alright.
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@The_T I feel like there was the famously bad one before the just totally forgettable one that was "International."
Five years is a good amount of time between sequels, I think. Gives everyone time to grow and believably change, doesn't saturate the market.
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"I see you've neuralyzed another partner."
I guess that must be what happened to Linda Fiorentino, who will never be seen or mentioned again.
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"The Earth's entire existence may depend on what Kay knows. Unfortunately you erased his entire memory of it."
institutional knowledge!! a problem!!
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"I must have neuralyzed myself to keep the information from myself."
ah well
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#351, or #2313, 1985’s “Back to the Future”!
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Which sucks, because now watching it at home will always be second place to November 13, 2025! No good! Loved it!
A tremendous (we gotta go back in) time at the movies!
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#352, or #2314, 2003’s “The Making of The Two Towers."
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#353, or #2315, 2004 Danny Boyle film "Millions."
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"God does not rob banks, alright, God does not rob banks!"
but if your god is so great, so infallible, he could, though, couldn't he
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he's hiding it in the attic.
*jims at the camera* like in shallow grave
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"They took our Christmas, we'll take their cash."
an eye for an eye, a sack full of cash for a house full of stuff, a euro for a pound
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"It's wrong."
"Who says."
"God."
"Yeah, well..."
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"He's got a good heart, he just... doesn't know where it is."
we had that problem at dnd last night. found the hearts in some enchanted scarecrows that tried to kill us.
I did suggest we burn them down before it got that far, but everyone else was trying to not get in trouble, which I, Wilhelm Scream the Undead Necromancer, thought was A Fake Idea But Alright
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#354, or #2316, 1987 Richard Bachman adaptation "The Running Man."
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"Restraint collars armed. Restraint collars armed. Sonic dead-line. Sonic dead-line."
do NOT be late sending your draft to your editor sonic the hedgehog i guess
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"The truth? Hasn't been very popular lately."
yeah this sounds like 2017
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"He's a cop! He's the Butcher of Bakersfield!"
that's the Ben "doing all of this to pay for his daughter's surgery" Richards I know from the Bachman book
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"Mr Richards, I'm your court-appointed theatrical agent."
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"I'll be back."
"Only in a rerun."
first of all, how dare you,
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"That was a lie!"
so this invents reality tv yeah?
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"Whitman."
I would simply not find the corpses of the most recent winners of the contest I'm about to win.
(Why even keep those??)
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But as just a goofy, over-the-top, silly Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick, it's hard to deny all the ways in which it's very dumb add up to something pretty enjoyably watchable.
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#355, or #2317, 2012's "Men in Black 3," or "MIB³."
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"It's not /a/ factory, it's /the/ Factory."
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"Is that Andy Warhol?"
well who else could it possibly be? Bill Hader?
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K jumps at Apollo 11 where the astronauts can see.
"If we call this in, they'll scrub the launch."
"I didn't see anything."
good call honestly
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"What's your name?"
"James."
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Isn't he though? Excellent casting.
…it's weird to realize how many movies I've seen about time travel with Josh Brolin playing a significant character. Weirder still to realize MIB3 might be my favorite of the bunch wrt time travel mechanics??
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@gladdecease He says "K!" almost immediately once he's on screen, and somehow you know and believe it before he says it. Genuinely impressive casting and performance, without really being an impression.
Oh, true. Even just this, Endgame, and Deadpool 2, he's been all over the time place. What else, though, uhhh. (Think I prefer Endgame, but maybe that's because of the sequences it gets out of it.)
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Leaving now. #356, or #2318.
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So /that's/ what Dakota Johnson is for!
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Looked funny from the trailer, I'd heard good things, so I would've gone to see this anyway, but it was nice to see it with as big a crowd as this is probably ever gonna get here.
Flows past comfortably on a pleasant river of funny and then occasionally just hits a big laugh real well. (That (great, hysterical) fight scene goes on /so long/! Cousin Greg from Succession deployed masterfully!)
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The movie that dares to ask, what if there was an 11-and-a-half month intermission in the musical “Wicked,” in which I watched 397 other movies, leaving now to go see —
#357, or #2319, 2025’s “Wicked: For Good.”
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I mean, it's still the story of an outsider in a land driven mad by greed, fear, and a willingness to reach across the aisle being driven to the fringes of society, branded a terrorist, for her totally sensible fact-based perspective, so, you know, did I relate?
The picture obviously completely incinerated me.
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#358, or #2320, 1984's "The Hoboken Chicken Emergency."
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"Mom, are you in a bad mood or a good mood?"
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"Everybody loves a bargain! It's the American way!"
"The American way is a turkey on the table for Thanksgiving, not a 200-pound chicken on a leash!"
show me when benjamin franklin ever had any opinion whatsoever about leashed 200-pound chickens called Henrietta
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Henrietta the giant chicken honestly having a good time fucking around in Hoboken
nobody even that freaked out about the giant chicken
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"My price is $60,000."
is he even aware of the size of this chicken
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"How do we know this trap of yours is going to work?"
"...Bye."
everything about this man says hyper-grifter
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"Is your name Arthur Bobowicz?"
oh by oizys why is the mad scientist fu manchu-ing
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#359, or #2321, 2019's "Men in Black: International," or "MIB: International."
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If you're gonna do global MIB, you can /do/ Paris, but it has to be the Paris equivalent of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel ventilation building, NOT the Eiffel Tower.
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"I'm T. High T."
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"Wait, so Eiffel was one of the first MIB agents?"
yeah okay but he wasn't tho
the style of these is MIB agents aren't superstars, they're janitors, they're cleaners, they're invisible, unseen, they Don't Stand Out
while the celebrities we see on the big central TV are aliens
if Gustave Eiffel is anything in this franchise, he's an alien.
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Remember how in the first one Will Smith waits until sunrise to make his decision, because walking away from your entire life is a huge, sad decision that you have to Think About and Consider the Implications Of. K walked away from his wife to do this job.
M, though, she comes sans life to give a shit about. Truly just no problem there, utterly weightless.
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"Nothing in this universe is unkillable, with the proper voltage."
bad
they should be fixing these guys' messy marriage or finding them a place to live or helping them find something
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Jack Nicholson classics season continues, I know very little about this one but I'm sure I'll recognise loads, leaving now to go see --
#360, or #2322, 1975's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
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On paper I maybe feel like it's generally too funny to support a swing to tragedy that goes this hard, but it also does just kinda work, doesn't it.
(Brad Dourif, what a babe.)
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#361, or #2323, 1988's "Amsterdamned."
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Somebody in a scuba suit stalks the canals. We see Amsterdam from their POV, occasionally following somebody we've seen them observe before cutting back to the canal POV.
This is a good use of Amsterdam.
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The thing about the canals is-- God, this is some goofy post-giallo slasher nonsense, very good.
You never hear about people getting around Amsterdam by scuba-ing through the canals, for some reason.
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🇳🇱 "Kan me niet voorstellen dat iemand voor z'n plezier in die grachten duikt."
🇨🇦 "Can't imagine anyone diving into those canals for fun."
see that's how I feel about the entire city
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right, I should be thinking about suspects, uhh
the guy from the diving club. no, too obvious.
the swim cop. no, he seems like the guy who gets killed as we go into the third act.
uhhh
this psychiatrist who seems very interested in the investigation? yeah, I'll focus on him
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> pocketing money from a charity tin
evil
> it's a charity tin for the Salvation Army
girl you do you
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🇳🇱 "We kunnen toch niet de grachten tot verboden gebied verklaren? Kunnen we net zo goed heel Amsterdam ontruimen."
🇨🇦 "We couldn't possibly declare the canals off-limits, could we? Might as well vacate the whole city."
good plan, do it
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"And now we come to the most famous painting of the 17th century."
nachtwacht cameo
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could be the psychiatrist's lady friend the museum tour guide
I guess mostly I want her to be more interesting than just being the love interest
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He's used the cops' fancy Interpol computer to look into his date, a thing the picture does not seem to know is creepy because it's 1988.
He's not found anything objectionable, which just makes me more suspicious.
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🇳🇱 "Als je echt helderziend was had je al lang kunnen weten dat je in 't water zou donderen."
🇨🇦 "If you were really psychic, you would've known you'd tumble into the water."
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🇨🇦 "Did he want to know anything else about those, uh, crimes?"
normal way to ask a normal question if you're not the grachtenslachter
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this motorbike v little cop car chase through Amsterdam's narrow streets kicks ass
tries to motorbike up an opening bridge and fails
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🇨🇦 "Innocent people don't run from the cops!"
why not, are they bootlickers?
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finally
underwater fight scene
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the killer has fled to a dock warehouse and is presently absconding in a speedboat
speedboat chase, speedboat chase
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you give me a speedboat chase
I will be happy watching a speedboat chase
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🇨🇦 "Martin. Martin? You're not messing with me, are you?"
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🇨🇦 "I've known him since I was a kid."
it's not the psychiatrist, it's... the psychiatrist's childhood friend whose body and face and brain were ruined by uranium but whose accident was covered up
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Counted some of his other ones, might as well count this one.
#362, or #2324, 2025 Defunctland video “Disney’s Living Characters: A Broken Promise.”
Slightly rambly essay incoming.
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A lot of the tech on display here, all the advances made are really just next steps on stuff we’ve had for a long time.
That Talking Mickey is ultimately just a person in a suit + a person controlling the mask and voice, with a couple handlers nearby. Lucky the Dinosaur is ultimately just a big RC car. Transphobic Stitch is a set of pre-made animations with a voice actor.
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/Everything/.
So give me no reason to topple.
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The hints are:
* “Chocolate.”
* “Eyes on the ball.”
And even before those dropped, the app had a listing for a random screening of a movie that would fit the Mystery Classic bill perfectly, that was in the same screen, at the same time the Mystery Classic usually is, that was replaced two days later by the Mystery Classic.
Leaving now to go see —
#363, or #2325, 1994’s “Forrest Gump.”
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I'll grant you, Peak Zemeckis will always just work on me, but I think this walks an impossible line between offensive and schmaltzy incredibly well. Does, I think, get schmaltzier on every revisit, but with age I also do appreciate schmaltz more. Schmaltz. Schmaltz. Yup, it's already lost meaning.
Good movie. Couldn't make it today. (Because Bob Zemeckis and Tom Hanks already made it in 1994.)
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* “Romancing the Stone” is a fun adventure flick, “Indiana Jones” by way of romance novels.
* “Contact” is the most 90s-ass sci-fi you’ll ever see, and Jodie Foster rules in it.
* “Cast Away” is great if you really want to believe in the power of the mail.
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* “The Walk” on paper feels superfluous to the documentary about the guy who ropewalked between the Twin Towers it’s based on, but JGL is kind of a hoot and there’s something magical to seeing the Towers feel that solid again in 2015.
* “Here” is shot from exactly one (1) camera angle that never ever moves but is set across like a million years and it’s kind of incredible how well it fills itself out despite that wild limitation, even if it gets kinda goofy about it.
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Well, okay, watch "Beowulf" if you want to see a movie that looks like it was made to run on a PS3.
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I feel like I should see Indiana Jones first.
Is Cast Away the volleyball one. Wilson.
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@The_T You should definitely watch the Indianas Jone first, that's a real anchor for that kind of adventure movie.
"Cast Away" has Wilson the volleyball in it, yeah. Hanks as a mailman who gets stuck, marooned, on an island, most of it is just him on the island talking to the volleyball.
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child me thought Cast Away looked so dumb. I didn't get the appeal at all...
Anyway. Indiana Jones is on my to do list, once I get to streaming the Lego video games......
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I think I was too afraid of, the danger.
Also as a kid I wanted to be the villain anyway.
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Glad I grew out of that, without having to be humbled too much...
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#364, or #2326, 2004’s “The Making of The Return of the King.”
I kinda said what I had to say about these with the other two, so, see those. Still just love watching people make movies, even if at this point they’re all SO tired.
Imagine getting not just to make these movies but to be and feel DONE making them.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"Welcome to Icarus II."
having a great time here on the unsinkable Second Titanic, now, let's get as close to these icebergs as possible
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"Harvey, you motherfucker, let me in!!"
would simply not bring motherfuckers on the mission
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"We now have no choice but to rendezvous with Icarus I."
how annoying ampersand convenient
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"Eighty percent of dust is human skin."
*jims at the camera* uh oh
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"We are... dust. Nothing more. And to this dust we will return."
[the camera zooms in on me jimming at it] the crew has been incinerated
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"Who is the fifth crewmember?"
"Unknown."
"Where is the fifth crewmember?"
"In the observation room."
oh what fresh hell awaits in the observation room
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The captain of Icarus I just straight up here to turn this into a slasher movie.
I was gonna guess but I'm pretty sure I know from this existing in the world for twenty years that he's possessed by the sun.
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#366, or #2328, 2025’s “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t.”
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They could stand to escalate these slightly further if they do do another one of these -- with this one these do start to feel a little been there, Seen that.
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#367, or #2329, 2025’s “The Running Man."
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(You’re gonna be this critical of the state of the media and also be this post-nuance? Come on, dawg.)
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/And/. It’s set in the far-flung future year of 2025, references Obama, there’s "Kardashian"-esque reality shows, but then there’s also no laptops or phones, because the show has to be live and we don’t want to have to deal with the ways in which social media changes that?
Messy!
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#368, or #2330, 2008 Danny Boyle film "Slumdog Millionaire."
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"But what if he did know the answers?"
that's how the game works dude
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"In depictions of god Rama, he is famously holding what in his right hand?"
something like this would be a much later question here but again, q3, what would be the equivalent here, something about a national symbol everyone is exposed to constantly, I'd get that
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see, this is why you should listen to more music
so you can understand moments like this in movies
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@The_T Okay, yes, but, the actual question is, which Indian poet wrote this old Indian song, so it's not like it's the kind of thing I listen to, anyway.
And hey, I do listen to music, if a game show ever asks me about Bush era ska or gay concept albums by queer women, I'm set.
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"Who invented the revolver?"
lmao james revolver
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"D."
"... ... ...Not B?"
oh now I get why they didn't get a real host in this role, he's an antagonist
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the third musketeer, uhhhh
well, it's not Cardinal Richelieu, D'Artagnan is the fourth, so it's either Aramis or Planchet
I wanna say Aramis
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"I don't know. I've never known."
oh my god what do you mean you don't know
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glad you enjoyed! I haven't seen this movie since it came out but I remember it was a big deal at the time especially when it swept the Oscars.
I liked it and bought the soundtrack too. The surprise Bollywood-style dance sequence at the end was quite a treat as well.
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they should've gone with seven different pictures of Queen Victoria
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#369, or #2331, 2010 Danny Boyle film "127 Hours."
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oof
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yikes
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Wondered how you'd fill this out, but, though there's the occasional brief flashback and imagination spot to reflect what he's thinking about -- his childhood, what he left in his car, commercials -- so far it really is just him with his arm stuck under the boulder.
Now he's pissing. Gotta fill 94 minutes somehow.
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"It hasn't been very useful. ...Lesson, don't buy the cheap, made-in-China multitool."
truly just wall to wall situations I wouldn't be in
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"Hey. Blue John."
shows up, doesn't even say hi
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@pentup Nah, I feel like all of these characters would look down on ICE and their methods etc. It doesn't feel like K or Z are taking orders from the President, does it.
Though I do think if you were doing "Men in Black" today you /would/ have to acknowledge how ICE goes about things.
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