#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Eight — August Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 238, for a total of 2200 movies.
* Next director: Bob Fosse.
* But first: Another three 1954 Best Picture nominees.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Seven — July EditionFrom 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 203, for a total of 2165 movies.* I really gotta double back down on the Best Picture nominees.
* Probably start Sam Raimi soon, though I dunno if I'll rewatch what I've already seen.
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#239, or #2201, 1954 Best Picture nominee "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."
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"Imagine... On my way to my own home."
this is a woman who does not know this man lives with his six titular brothers yet
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The Six Unmarried Brothers are annoyed that Adam's got a wife and they don't.
Simultaneously, Milly is annoyed she's less "married" and more "the help" for these slobs.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I understand this has a famously great Brando performance but is unfortunately also transparently the director trying to make snitching to the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare seem heroic, it's --
#240, or #2202, 1954 Best Picture winner "On the Waterfront."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •so they chucked this guy off the roof because he was gonna testify to a government committee about organised crime, and Brando don't think that's right
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The last of the musical rerelease season, let's find out how poorly this has aged, leaving now to go see --
#241, or #2203, 2007's "Hairspray."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Has hard to ignore issues -- the direct equating of fatphobia with racism, having the white girl solve all racism forever -- but I feel like the picture is aware that it's kind of preposterous, and I think its heart is ultimately in the right place.
John Travolta genuinely immeasurably bad, though.
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#242, or #2204, 2003's "Freaky Friday."
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The only time I ever really got sent to detention was the year where I was too good at English for the new English teacher.
(From my newfound perspective as a teacher myself, I must've been at least as much a shit as she was shitty to me, probably more.)
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"Privacy is a privilege."
love a very sincere 00s family comedy but sometimes the patriot act sneaks in
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I would simply not unintentionally perform a bodyswap ritual on the ancient and hallowed magical grounds of *squints at Los Angeles ley line notes* the Chinese restaurant's bathroom.
(A very 00s layer of Orientalism to all this.)
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> if you sign a contract while bodyswapped, is it the personality or the body that's legally bound by it
there's no law in any court known to themis that recognises the possibility of a bodyswap, so, the body
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •An 85-minute theatrically released comedy that's getting rave reviews? What is this, 1997? Leaving now to go see --
#243, or #2205, 2025's "The Naked Gun."
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I dunno, what other movies has ever made?
(Extremely good! Enjoyed it a lot!)
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#244, or #2206, 1954 Best Picture nominee "The Country Girl."
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aka the 1954 equivalent of the manic pixie dream girl.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"Instead of taking an actor and teaching him to box, you had to go to some gym and get some punch-drunk fighter and teach him how to act."
the year is 1954 and how we think about acting is changing
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"I'm just a girl from the country. The theatre and its people have always been a complete mystery to me, still are."
*leo-points* it's the country girl
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"There's nothing quite so mysterious and silent as a dark theatre. A night without a star."
grace kelly at the height of her powers can, it turns out, punch me in the face with but a whisper? wow.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I am legally required to see a new Dracula adaptation, even if I've not heard a single fucking thing about it, ergo, leaving now to go see —
#245, or #2207, 2025's "Dracula."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Well, okay, 2025's "Dracula," or, in some regions, "Dracula: A Love Tale," sure is a movie made by a rapist! Gross!!
That's the gist of it, and I'm not putting a whole thread on it in your timeline, but if you want more words on the subject, you can find a longer review on my Letterboxd.
Bad! No good!
A ★ review of Dracula (2025)
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If you pick a number between 1 and 8 before the water boils, you can pick which tea.
EDIT: Too late, vanilla rose tea it is.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •A sequel that actually has the exact title we all want it to have? Unprecedented. Leaving now to go see --
#246, or #2208, 2025's "Freakier Friday."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Another one for the "so they CAN still make 'em like that" canon -- "Freakier Friday" does pretty much exactly what you want and expect a "Freaky Friday" sequel to do! Fun!
It's so genuinely just a delight to watch Lohan and Curtis and the two new kids bounce off each other's personalities that I never minded the occasional slightly clunky exchange or too-convenient rehash of the first one.
A hoot! A good time at the movies!
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#247, or #2209, 1969's "Sweet Charity."
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"Shake her 'til all the water's out!"
Dam, CPR, not invented yet?
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"This time it's different, he loves me!"
is that what he's gone off to do with the purse and the $427, loving you?
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"Boy, did he love those meatball sandwiches."
Charlie Sweetcharity is an absolute Brian Nineteenninetysixdoctorwhotvmovie level event.
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you know what energy Charity has
it's like she's the 1969 incarnation of the same Time Lord Natasha Lyonne plays in "Poker Face"
totally different energy, totally different kind of story, but, like, that's true for Troughton to Gatwa, too
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@kurt I feel like the line should start in 1963, so right now we've identified:
* The First (unidentified)
* The Second (Charity) (1969)
* The Third (Columbo) (1971, probably until a bigeneration, after which he carries on Columbo-ing)
* ???
* The Current (Charlie Cale) (2023-onwards)
Hm, all C-names.
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@kurt I was just about to suggest making him the War one, because he'd have to be 2007, not 1969, one we learn about later.
Aesthetically I feel like Holly Hunter and Meg Ryan are in there somewhere, too, though heck knows as which characters. (Hunter in Broadcast News, mabye.)
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@kurt I feel like the Coen Brothers are such a rich vein for leads with Time Lord energy that that should be its own list.
(But also, Margaret Qualley in Ethan's lesbian B-movie trilogy.)
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Charity is so bad at this job interview that the interviewer fully thinks it's a prank by the lads down the hall.
Not had one go that bad, though when an interview for a mail job turned out to be with two candidates at once, when I realised the other person would be the better fit I did fully just tank my own shot.
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"Sweet Charity. Sweet Charity? Sweet Charity."
sweet charity
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"I'd like to do something different tonight."
"You wanna rob a supermarket?"
"Would you like to go to church?"
he's gonna kill 'er
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"Good morning."
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#248, or #2210, 1995's "Casper."
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Does it always quite make sense? Is the third act zippy to the point of feeling like it's trying to get you out the door on time? Do angels need to come into this at the end there? Do we ever talk about how this is a Ghostbusters movie? No, yes, eh, and, weirdly, never. But does it matter? Nah!
Fun!
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#249, or #2211, 1972 Bob Fosse picture "Cabaret."
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"Divine decadence."
divine decadence
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this is a lot of very frank sex talk for 1972.
oh, rated X, yeah, that tracks
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the story of "Cabaret" is the romance between Sally and Brian, which happens between song and dance at the Kit Kat Klub
but the third string on that fiddle is an incredibly harsh contrast with the rise of fascism in 30s Berlin and the horrible violence happening on its streets that comes with that
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and because, frankly, Sally and Brian are just not very easy to like, because they're emotionally very distant from me, the effect of it is less "life and art carry on in the face of it" and more "divine decadence is getting to look away from the horror movie happening outside"
art that doesn't fight back is monstrous
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these fucking closeups, making me look eager singing nazis in the eyes
like I know they're actors but jesus christ bob
okay so I think this movie might be making me viscerally angry
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#250, or #2212, 2025's "Weapons."
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Absolute sickos.jpeg-ass movie!! Yes, hahaha, and also, indeed, yes again!
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(It comes in a… concentrated burst, but I don't remember ever laughing this hard at any horror movie.)
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Old ideas move into a family's home, corrupting the parents, and using a child's existing feelings of loneliness, get them to commit a sacrifice they don't truly understand, that will scar a community for a generation.
I /think/. This one might be about FOX News and school shootings.
The giant gun floating over the house in that one dream sequence is where this clicked, I do not think this is subtle /at all/.
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#251, or #2213, 1972 Liza Minelli TV concert special "Liza with a Z."
It's a small hour of Liza Minelli on stage performing some really solid 1970s-ass music, some of which I knew, most of which I didn't, which, you know, not /that/ much to it, but also, who can complain.
She's a real firecracker, that Liza Minelli. Very watchable.
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#252, or #2214, 1973's "The Wicker Man."
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"Missing? /My/ daughter?"
alright don't practically quote me, movie
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Obviously I know broadly speaking what happens here. The islanders worship pagan gods, and in the end, the whole thing is a trap and the cop is sacrificed to them.
What I didn't know was I guess this is a musical? Ten minutes in the picture is on its second song.
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I know they're all in on it. All the islanders know they're all in on it.
Sgt Howie is the only one who does not know they're all in on it.
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"They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick, discussing their duty to... God. Not one of them kneels to another, or to his own kind who lived thousands of years ago. Not one of them is respectable, or unhappy... All over the Earth."
hell yeah brother
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"Everywhere on this island I go, I seem to find public degeneracy."
I'm moving to Summerisle.
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Sgt Howie thinks he's a real big, tough man, shoving a nice little school teacher aside to get what he wants.
And now he's forcing his backwards religion on the local graveyard.
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"Oh, what is all this?? I mean, you-- you-- you've got fake biology, fake religion-- Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus?"
"Himself the son of a virgin impregnated, I believe, by a ghost."
why should a sensible people have heard of jesus, sgt howie. is it because of centuries of violent enforcement, sgt howie?
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"Lord Summerisle, I am interested in one thing: The law. But I must remind you, sir, that despite everything you have said, you are the subject of a /Christian/ country."
sgt howie can fuck right off
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"You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice."
the pig may never understand the point of bacon
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"Did I do it right?"
Sgt Howie learning a lot about what it feels like to tumble ass-first into a trap right now.
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"Don't you see that killing me won't bring back your apples!"
worth a shot innit
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(I still like the Cage one, but this /is/ clearly the superior film, no question.)
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At the risk of spoiling the details of the ending, (so feel free to read this after the Wicker Man is revealed) my friends and I joking refer to to that scene by borrowing Eddie Izzard's joke:
"Fuck or death?"
Howie> "Death, please."
"Very well. Give him The Wicker Man..."
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#253, or #2215, Bob Fosse's 1974 Lenny Bruce biopic "Lenny."
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For a start, I'm pretty sure I found the Luke Kirby version funnier than I do this Dustin Hoffman version of the man.
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Part of the problem with any depiction of stand-up this old is obviously that the things that get you arrested under obscenity laws in the 50s and 60s are rarely that scandalous today.
Maybe he ramps it up, but I've posted more offensive shit online than this just casually shitposting light, harmless jokes.
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But the fact that I don't think he's funny is a real problem. He's meant to be funny, I'm pretty certain.
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#254, or #2216, 1979 Bob Fosse picture "All That Jazz."
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"I can make you a better dancer. And I-- I'd like very much to do that. Stay?"
"Are you gonna keep yelling at me?"
"Probably."
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"Everything he does seems to be a denial of his condition."
down to the tone of the entire sequence
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"At least I won't have to lie to you anymore."
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#255, or #2217, 1983's "Star 80."
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"I do love her."
what this guy loves is the potential for wealth and status she represents
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"Well, he's got the personality of a pimp."
even hugh hefner thinks this guy sucks
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Ultimately I do think this is the logical endpoint for Bob. Everything he's fighting against in his musicals, the unreality, the glitz, all stripped away until it's really just about Dorothy Stratten, not really as a person, but as a body, first naked, then dead.
Bob dies a few years after this without making another film, but I dunno how he could possibly have stripped it all any further away.
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"And I obviously misread him."
he seemed like such an upstanding guy, somehow
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yeesh
bleak and gets bleaker
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#256, or #2218, 2025's "War of the Worlds."
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Going great, I think.
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"It's another one of his decoys."
this isn't even the first time they've fallen for this obvious trick?
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"What are the rules of engagement here??"
why are you asking the guy who profesionally stalks people through their amazon carts
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"There's so much destruction!"
the car her dad stole is being remote driven through the most normal traffic you ever saw
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they're calling it a
war of the worlds
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"Everywhere they've been going, there's a data center."
lotta data centres in the world, man
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oh the tentacles are data cables
that's genuinely not a bad idea
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"Something's going on with the servers."
"What in the world...?"
the WAR of the worlds
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"They're in hyper download!"
never do hyper download if there's a free download button
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"These things eat data?"
these things eat data
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oh, Disruptor also goes on about this surveillance thing
the son is Disruptor, obviously
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"Faith can load it for you, and I can get it to you!"
"What? How?"
"Prime Air! It's the future of delivery!"
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I've spent 12 years reviewing Christmas movies and I've seen some truly bad ones in there, including one of the worst last year. But I would still say this was far far worse because War of the Worlds was hateful on every single level.
Also, I'm pretty sure when the daughter gets the thing sticking out of her leg it swaps sides.
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What really irks me is the fact that it was produced by someone who did a movie called Unfriended in 2015 which is the same concept taking place entirely on a screen and that movie was really good.
There was also a John Cho movie done in the same way about his daughter going missing and I enjoyed that too.
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@retrosponge "Missing" and "Searching" are genuinely good screenlife films, and I think key to the difference is scale -- Ice Cube is doing a bad job, but the job is "sit in an office chair and believe there's an alien invasion happening outside," which is a LOT harder an emotion to have to sell against absolutely nothing than "worry about your missing child."
(John Cho is also just a much better actor.)
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I think the other problem is they did nothing to make his character likeable either. He's an asshole from the start so you don't really care about him. He's abusing his position to spy on his kids and that's just awful.
I love John Cho. And Kal Penn. I am hoping the rumored fourth Harold and Kumar movie happens.😁
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#257, or #2219, 2025's "Nobody 2."
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(Keanu and director Francis Lawrence have a script ready to go for it, apparently.)
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The main antagonist, I don't quite buy her operation as a, like, thing that functions in the world? But I always hate when they kill their own goons. Sharon Stone clearly having fun, though.
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#258, or #2220, 1955's "Marty."
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"I'm 34 years old, I'm just tired of looking, is all!"
34 used to be a lot older than it is now, I say, 34 years old, trying desperately not to crumble into dust
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If I had to cast modern actors for a movie about the making of 1955's "Marty."
Joe Lo Truglio as Ernest Borgnine as Marty.
Tim Robinson as Joe Mantell as his pal Angie.
You'd basically have to put Joe Lo Truglio on stilts, though.
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"I got stuck on a blind date with a dog."
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I dunno who I'd cast as Betsy Blair as Clara, but part of that is the types of gal Hollywood will allow to thrive is narrower and has changed a lot more since '55 than the types of guy.
You'd end up with, say, Margaret Qualley, who everyone likes, who'll do a good job, even if she doesn't quite look like 'er.
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The whole time it's Marty, when're you gonna meet someone, Marty, when're you gonna get married, Marty this, Marty that.
Marty meets somebody, Marty thinks he might really like her, suddenly it's Marty, she's a dog, Marty, she's not Italian, Marty, she's this, Marty, she's that!
These people ought-a be ashamed of themselves!
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"You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog. And I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees. I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me. If we make a party on New Year's, I got a date for that party. You don't like her? That's too bad."
Martyyyyy~!!
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Could be "Eden," could be "The Ritual," but "Afterburn" feels like Sneak Preview fodder.
Leaving now. #259, or #2221.
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Gnarly true-story survival thriller, this one maybe runs a little long, but I enjoyed watching the three sides' ideological differences play out until they hit a boiling point.
That said, as somebody who occasionally longs for exile, please understand that I do mean less this and more a house in the middle of a nowhere where the mail and a grocery delivery service can still find me.
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#260, or #2222, 1955 Best Picture nominee "Mister Roberts."
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"The war is over in Europe! The war is over in Europe!"
and yet the movie persists
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#261, or #2223, Genddy Tartakovsky's R-rated 2025 dog-neuterin' picture "Fixed."
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I do think there's a version of this you could pitch to me that would work on me. The arc this dog's on is clearly to learn that he has worth, both to himself and his community, even without the part of him that he values most -- and there's something to be said for putting out there a story about how feeling emasculated doesn't have to be experienced like a violent attack on the self.
Unfortunately the picture is more interested in once again showing you the dog's nuts.
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I'm actively not describing a lot of this to spare, well, you all, but also, myself, from having to figure out what to cw any of it.
Anyway, piss ballet.
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and I'm several years behind, so I could-a put it off, but this way I can just forget about it
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("All the other Tartakovsky films" is just the Hotel Transylvania series.)
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#262, or #2224, 2016's "Now You See Me 2."
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...They've been transported to Macau?
I suppose they got knocked out after getting in the tube, then somebody flew them to Asia, and woke them up by throwing them into a tube in Macau?
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"Are we clear about that?"
"As clear as the water he's under."
that water looks filthy but okay
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#263, or #2225, 1955 Best Picture nominee "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing."
There's things about this interracial romance picture that are interesting — I think it has compelling things to say about racism outside of the West — but all of it is completely washed away by the fairly central issue of the Eurasian — she'll correct you if you call her Chinese — lead being played by a white lady in yellowface.
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Outdated to the point of unwatchability.
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#264, or #2226, 2025’s “Afterburn.”
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(Bautista nothing to write home about but innocent.)
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#265, or #2227, "Fear and Desire."
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(I say this as somebody who likes the goofier scores of the Pertwee era.)
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#266, or #2228, 1955's "Killer's Kiss."
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(Between this and "Sweet Charity," I've seen two movies about taxi dancers in my life and I've seen both of them this month.)
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*looks up the Taxi movies* Love the journey depicted in this sequence of posters.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The gap between the visual style and everything else is much narrower here than it was in "Fear and Desire," and next to the Best Picture nominees from the same year I'm in the middle of right now, it's the best-looking movie of 1955 by a country mile, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.
Like a story with more than three beats!
At the current rate of progress, Mr Kubrick may well put out a watchable film by decade's end.
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#267, or #2229, 1955 Best Picture nominee "Picnic."
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He asks a local for a quick job, but she refuses to employ him on Labour Day, so just offers him breakfast.
Meanwhile, her daughters are getting ready for the day--
"Well, if you fussed with yourself a little, maybe you'd have a date for the picnic today."
We have picnic, I repeat, picnic on the horizon.
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"Who are you?"
"What's that matter? I'm bigger than you are."
Hm, not big on this romance starting with some light intimidation of a harmless goober kid.
William Holden shirtless count: 2.
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Holden's in town to see his old buddy Hal, who's the type of guy to play golf on the lawn with his dad.
Hm, next to his buddy and his obvious love interest, Holden maybe too old for this part.
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"I never could wear another fellow's clothes, you see, I'm sort of beefy around the shoulders. I should have all my clothes tailor-made."
"Nobody'd mind if you took it off!"
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The hints this month:
* Y2K.
* Scrap an E, and he becomes a hero. (Schrap een E, en hij wordt een held.)
Dunno if that second one even works translated! Anyway!
Leaving now. #268, or #2230.
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Less good how this guy's schtick times ten is just what every modern douchebag dingbat manosphere maroon is like now? I do realise expecting media literacy from the fascist fuckcanoe brainrot brigade is like expecting cheese to sing, but if you think this guy is aspirational, woof, yikes, eek, etcetera.
Movie great, though!
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#269, or #2231, 1955 Best Picture nominee "The Rose Tattoo."
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"Where did he put it?"
"Right over my heart."
Title explained, short film over.
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clearly they're members of the same cult
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"I'm dressed okay, I'm not naked!"
"Oh, I'm so ashamed I could die ashamed! Mama, you look disgusting!"
1955 not on board with casual fridays
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#270, or #2232, 1975’s “Jaws.”
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The shark is just a machine, it eats, it swims, it fucks. It's a biological process given the form of a monster. The mayor of Amity is that, but for capitalism, and I would simply blow him up, also.
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Which is how I've always seen it because I've never seen Jaws but I have rode on the Jaws ride at Universal at least 20 times.
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But my memory of the one from the ride is way more a machine.
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[looks up the ride shark] Oh, yeah, that's more of a machine-y shark.
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#271, or #2233, 2025's "The Roses."
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Ends the way it should, and I'll defend that.
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#272, or #2234, 2025's "The Thursday Murder Club."
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Not got much to say about this. Very likeable cast.
Should try to solve the murder, I guess.
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"I've been in this job for nearly thirty years, I'm not gonna be pushed around by four bloody pensioners!"
see, that's the kind of thing a modern cop should really be genre savvy enough to know not to say
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"He's dead."
first suspect never did it
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#273, or #2235, 1956's "The Killing."
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"Come on, you clown, sing us a chorus from Pagliacci!"
huh a Pagliacci reference that's to the opera instead of the joke
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god, the horseshoe being his undoing
racism'd himself to death
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the carelessness of airport luggage handlers, the quality of 1950s suitcase latches, and by oizys, this motherfucking dog,
many true enemies in this one
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I'm pretty sure Bob Zemeckis' "Tales of the Crypt" episode "Yellow" is a pastiche of this one, it's --
#274, or #2236, 1957's "Paths of Glory."
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"I've seen much more formidable objectives. Much, much worse."
hm, no, this seems pretty impregnable
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how can you look at this and not seen a suicide attack, it's an absolute meat grinder
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"The case made against these men is a mockery of all human justice."
as fairness goes this does seem rank amongst the un, yeah
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"We do not question the will of God, my son."
this is surely all the will of General Mireau, who everyone here could simply agree to shoot
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You think the combat sequences are gut-churning, but it just gets more and more nauseating from there.
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Maybe there's a point where they've got both all the data and enough control over the humans that they can stop killing the humans and just control the planet?
I can't imagine this was thought through this far.
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