#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Five — May Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In 2025 so far I've watched another 139, for a total of 2101 movies.
* My watchlist is a lie, podcast watches continue to rule.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Four — April EditionFrom 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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#140, or #2102, 2025's "Thunderbolts*."
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Though you can feel where certain things were maybe cut for time, the picture has a clear take on these characters, executes it pretty well, and comes to a strong end with certain sequences in the third act.
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#141, or #2103, 1991's "Father of the Bride."
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"I used to think a wedding was a simple affair."
Oh, this is a remake-ass remake down to the line-readings huh.
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"Annie had been studying for a master's in architecture for the past semester in Rome."
Ah, at least they're updating the stuff you'd want them to update.
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"You have kids, you understand, it's better when they're on the ground."
steve martin just playing my mom here
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"This guy was going to coordinate the wedding? How? With subtitles."
Martin Short doing an absolutely wild and ridiculous accent is really his whole character here, but it's not unfunny.
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"...but yoo know that yoo want a wodding at hoame on Janyouary 6, roght?"
it does to Steve Martin feel like a coup is being performed upon his daughter, I suppose
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They sell hot dogs in packages of eight, but hot dog buns in packages of twelve, and he doesn't want to pay for hot dog buns he won't use, fair, reasonable.
But then he tears four buns out of three packages, removing twelve in total, indicating he needs 3 x 8 = 24 buns, meaning he could've just bought two packages?
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The /second/ movie that dares to ask, what if there was a Scorpion King, it's --
#142, or #2104, 2002's "The Scorpion King."
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...no, that's hay fever madness talking
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"You are the ruler of nothing but a pile of rocks and sand."
if he's no king, why do /you/ care so much, guy
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they just Furious 7 skyscraper jumped the Rock from one tower to the other with a trebuchet
maybe this is good actually
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There's watchable action here, but no real art, no beauty, no wisdom, it's all just structure, just function.
And yet it still might be more of a Movie than anything the Rock has made this decade.
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#143, or #2105, 2025's "Until Dawn."
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Brett Dalton was in it!
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#144, or #2106, 1988's "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack."
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"I'm off to the Moon!"
me when i'm off to the moon
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"Lalah Sune??"
would you still love her if she was an ethereal space bird
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"Amuro, I'm doing something extremely wicked. If you're nearby, feel my presence."
char
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"They sincerely believe they've reached a binding peace agreement with Char."
every war has ten thousand sides factoid actually inaccurate, Char, who's switched sides five thousand times, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted
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"He's hee."
alright, alright, let's do this
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"Following the revolution, the wordy passions for rebirth are swallowed up by bureaucracy and mediocrity."
damn Amuro has been reading theory
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"Why do you always have to look down on other people??"
well he IS in space
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"Lalah Sune was a young woman who may very well have become a mother to me! You took away her life, so don't you judge me!"
"Lalah? A mother??"
what? char man come on
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While this sets up what could've been an easy, crowd-pleasing Char/Amuro face-off, the picture appears to have rejected that premise, instead narratively shattering the two of them into pieces, violent shrapnel of each other's intellectual gore, and finds that, huh, none of this will ever fit together again.
Big, bold, beautiful choices from Tomino.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It's Tuesday, it's Sneak Preview. (They show a movie that isn't out yet, but you don't know which one.)
Filing my guess: Either "Riff Raff" or Cage picture "The Surfer."
#145, or #2107.
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All he wants is to surf -- and yet!
Beautifully shot, and all built around a tremendous Cage performance. Does everything you want in one of these! Don't want to see the man yell "EAT THE RAT! EAT IT!!"? Well, don't have a good time at da moviesh, then!
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#146, or #2108, 2025 Dropout Presents standup special "Cameron Esposito: Four Pills."
It's a solid one of the "comedian talks frankly about what the fuck is wrong with them" genre. Nothing here, though, you haven't seen before.
Fascinated, I guess, by the artifice of the standup cellar being a set all along, and the three different iterations of that set, and how... little this actually ends up doing with that.
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#147, or #2109, 1950 Best Picture nominee "Sunset Boulevard."
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"Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California."
can you imagine
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"We've come for the car."
In LA? This guy might never leave the block again.
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"If you need any help with the coffin, call me."
hold on, help with the what
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"You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big."
"...I /am/ big. It's the /pictures/ that got /small/."
wow
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"Last one I wrote was about Okies in the Dust Bowl. You'd never know it, because when it reached the screen, the whole thing played on a torpedo boat."
dust bowl, torpedo boat, surely a similar struggle
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"There was a tennis court, or rather the ghost of a tennis court."
the ghost of a man -- already, practically speaking, one foot on the bus to Ohio -- in the ghost of a house -- built for a life no longer lived -- owned by a ghost of a woman -- one of the greats of an art no longer made
even the butler seems like he'd simply keep going even if he died
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"It is someone by the name of Gordon Cole."
the Deputy Director of Dale Cooper's own FBI?
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"You see, I was her first husband."
this house is a prison, an afterlife for the not-yet-deceased
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"Stars are ageless, aren't they?"
what a fuckin picture
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#148, or #2110, 2014's "The Maze Runner."
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"In all the time we've been here, nobody's ever killed a Griever before."
naturally the newly-arrived white boy is Special
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"It's not a prison. It's a test."
the test runner
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"Teresa, we did this to them?"
he was the CEO of Torturing Teens In The Maze all along? sure
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"Unfortunately, your trials have only just begun."
this isn't even an ending
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"It's time now to begin... Phase Two."
the movie that dares to ask, what if there was a trilogy of popular YA films
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A shallow, thin picture with nothing to say, 2014's "The Maze Runner" fails to a-maze.
All of these straight boys sure run that maze, but there's truly nothing else to it -- what few mysteries are established are uncompelling and delivered with the deadest of eyes, and the world is too barren, too empty to care about otherwise.
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#149, or #2111, 1950 Best Picture winner "All About Eve."
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Ah, an unreliable narrator.
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"You're Margot Channing's best friend." [...] "You've seen every performance of this play?"
wee woo wee woo red flag alert
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Team Margo's trust level of Eve: She seems nice, we're a little protective of her.
My trust level of Eve: No.
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"It's about time the piano realises it has not written the concerto!"
everyone is very cruel to Margo
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This looked fucking racist, so I didn't wanna livetoot it, but still I watched —
#150, or #2112, 1950 Best Picture nominee "King Solomon's Mines."
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But you will hear from me no apology. I regret wasting time watching this. There is nothing of value here, no art worth seeking out.
The character of Allan Quatermain has largely been left behind by the culture, and rightly so.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I don't remember what this is meant to be about, which is just something that happens sometimes when you see 120+ movies in the cinema every year, leaving now to go see --
#151, or #2113, 2025's "Riff Raff."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Perfectly fine, middle of the road crime dramedy, though it has some real issues -- we spend way too much time at the cabin without anything happening, the cast is way punching below their weight class, that extended homophobic riff is nothing and doesn't even make sense, too much dram, not enough edy, and you /will/ wish they gave Bill Murray and Pete Davidson a little more to do -- but it's fine, competent, watchable, and occasionally manages to draw out a chuckle.
A polite three stars.
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#152, or #2114, 2024's "'Salem's Lot."
I'd heard neither good nor bad about this one, having been unceremoniously dropped on HBO Max last fall, and about half an hour in, I get why this was dropped on HBO Max fairly unceremoniously.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Having listened to the book, the vampire stuff plays as a real, like, violent intrusion upon the Peyton's Place soap opera town of Jerusalem's Lot. It's one aesthetic sinking its teeth gruesomely into the other, draining it of life.
The 1979 version, being three hours long, has the time to do some of that stuff. This, being an hour shorter, goes right into the fog, the tension, the paranoia, the blood. No soap, just horror. And it's a real loss.
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"That's why he's missing, it's because he's a fucking vampire."
the living dead do tend to walk away more than you'd like the dead to do
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#153, or #2115, 2010's "The Ward."
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"Why would you think they're dead?"
"There's a /ghost/ in here."
well if there's a ghost in here
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#154, or #2116, 2024's "Final Destination Bloodlines."
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Just a rock solid One Of These, a grand ol' time watching people perish in gut-wrenchingly gross ways. And some of those deaths play out differently than the trailers would lead you to believe, which: Great additional tension.
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#155, or #2117, 1950 Best Picture nominee "Born Yesterday."
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*This* guy is in a separate hotel room from his fianceé? *This* guy?
*looks at the Hays Code*
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Boorish, loudmouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock comes to DC amidst rumours that he's there for the long term, looking to affect national policy in his own favour. But amongst the DC elite, his young, uneducated trophy wife-to-be Billie Dawn, to who much of Harry's assets have been signed over for secrecy reasons, embarrasses him.
You have to hope the picture is about her coming to her senses and running away with those assets.
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"It's a clear case of predestination."
"Pre-what?"
"Look it up."
:)
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it does also have a racist picture and a boringly sweet picture in it, but still, next to most of the 30s, three-fifths is a good hit rate
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#156, or #2118, 1951 Best Picture nominee "A Place in the Sun."
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"Paris is not going to tell American women what sorts of bathing suits to wear."
they're rebranding them freedomkinis
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"What are you doing here?"
"Talking."
"Look, boy, they've invented the house. It's a very good place to talk in. You better get back to yours."
the invention of the house in 1951 really changed the game for roof salesmen
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"Oh George... George..."
this Evangelionesque pan and hold on the radio as they canoodle away in the darkness may be the closest thing to a sex scene I've sex seen since Will Hays walked into town
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"You needn't be afraid to tell me."
just pretend the Hays Code isn't in the room with us, but also don't make it angry, then tell us about the abortion you intend to get, but without saying the words "abortion," "doctor," or "baby."
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Does that mean the picture is bad? No, no, of course not. The performances are strong, it's handsomely staged, and they shoot the hell out of it.
But I was maybe a little too sleepy for it to really land.
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#157, or #2119, 1995's "Clueless."
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The shape and premise of source material "Emma" so much more visible to me this time.
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#158, or #2120, 2023's "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (Part One)."
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"Or as we like to call it, Monday."
the common complaint of "why do they always gotta be goin rogue" is, of course, silly, even more so with these than with Bond -- permission to go rogue where needed is practically Ethan's job description.
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"But I swear... your life will always matter more to me than my own."
"...You don't even know me."
"What difference does that make?"
that's it, that's the guy
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#159, or #2121, 1951 Best Picture nominee "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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"There's your car now."
oh Desire is the destination sign on this tram
well, roll the credits and call me sally, I thought there'd be more to it than that
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And in walks Brando.
A million years removed from it, not every trend in historical cinema makes sense to me. But Brando, you do kinda get it.
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"Under the Napoleonic Code a man has got to take interest in his wife's affairs."
i mean if it's napoleon who gets you there, you do you
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#160, or #2122, 1955's "The Night of the Hunter."
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"Sometimes I wonder if you really understand. Not that you mind the killings. Your Book is full of killers. But there are things you do hate, Lord. Perfume-smellin' things, lacy things, things with curly hair..."
oh, a preacher taking things into his own murderhands type of guy
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god, some of the fuckin shots in this
chuck laughton, i, too, love expressionism in film
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This could so easily have been trashy old tripe, but instead, it's a damn fine, meticulously crafted picture. Every shot is clearly thought-through, deliberate, designed, while feeling almost effortless. This is what movies /could/ be.
Christ alive, what a picture.
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#161, or #2123, 2025's "Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning."
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Who am I to complain about another cake?
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#162, or #2124, 1951 Best Picture nominee "An American in Paris."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •"This is Paris. And I'm an American who lives here."
title mystery solved
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*pointing at the MGM backlot's Waterfront Street* not been there, though
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"Doesn't all that reading make her moody?"
"Never! She's the gayest girl in the world!"
reading made me gay also
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It's a 3-hour Technicolour Roman epic from 1951, which means it's gonna look fucking gorgeous and be paced like a turtle's sleepy afternoon, it's --
#163, or #2125, 1951 Best Picture nominee "Quo Vadis."
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all roads lead to--
"...as all roads lead to Rome."
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"Lygia, I'm forced to tell you the women of Britain cover themselves with deer fat."
"I'd say that was an understandable desire to be warm."
boy the romans sure were the americans of their day
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"Gentlemen, our friend Paul of Tarsus."
you can tell he's paul the apostle because he's dressed in blue
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The conflict isn't even, really, about whether or not he gets the girl, as it were, but about her being a Christian in a time when that's the kind of thing you get in trouble for being.
This is, of course, true. In 64AD or thereabouts, to be a Christian was to worship a dead carpenter who they hung from a tree some time ago, which was considered both preposterous and heretical to the polytheistic state religion.
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It's possible to do religious stories without it feeling like you're trying to sell me something, of course. "Last Temptation" just feels like Scorsese found a great angle on what he thinks is a great story.
But when clearly the ending in sight here is Marcus accepts Christ into his heart and lives happily ever after with Lygia, that feels different.
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#164, or #2126, 2021's "Benedetta."
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#165, or #2127, 2025's "Fear Street: Prom Queen."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •The kills are boring, you never care for a second about the characters they happen to, and the 80s aesthetic feels like a shallow put-on.
Just an empty, low-effort, low-reward teen killfest, with nothing really going for it to make it more than that.
It's not even gay! And it gets several opportunities!
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#166, or #2128, 2015's "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'."
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"Lord Freeza is coming back to life!"
Freeza always just seemed difficult to work with.
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"We wish for a million zeny!"
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"So what is this, Super Saiyan with blue hair dye?"
*jims at the camera*
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"You just got a new life and I'd hate for you to waste it."
could've done literally anything but get killed
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"All hail Vegeta, prince of noone."
I think Vegeta should turn Freeze into a fine mist, or perhaps a paste?
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"I can only turn it back three minutes."
[rewind sound effect]
"All hail Vegeta, prince of noone."
I think Vegeta should turn Freeze into a fine mist, or perhaps a paste?
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#167, or #2129, 1951's "Decision Before Dawn."
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Which is true, of course -- resistance lives everywhere there is something to resist, the first victims always live at home -- but it's not a subject I can imagine 1951 Hollywood delivering a particularly nuanced take on.
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"You're in the Luftwaffe, what are you doing around here?"
Groundwaffling, clearly.
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I've come around on it -- next to certain earlier war pictures, this is honestly a pretty terrific production, its use of real still-ruined European locations a real boon to a solid premise.
Does it do everything it could with that premise? No. I wish it did far more with the various powder kegs Happy has to navigate, that's where the juice of this is for me. Instead he just gets found out in the third act and then just goes on the run.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Do you know how many movies there are in my native language? Letterboxd records the existence of thirteen Frisian-language films: letterboxd.com/films/language/… , four of which are shorts, one of which is a documentary, and one of which is a stand-up special.
Of the remaining seven, I watched --
#168, or #2130, 1937's "Kar út Twa." (Literally, "Choice of Two.")
It's a silent film, easily available with Frisian intertitles and Dutch subtitles on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=JbXsdlDAC2…
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •But most importantly, the world and people depicted look like /my/ world. It's the world of my parents' parents' family photo albums. This is the world they went to the market in. These are people who /talk like me/, even if they do it silently, in intertitles that also have Dutch subtitles on them.
And that makes me wish there were more than seven.
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The hints this month:
* Beware of tunnel vision.
* And also for wet feet on the train.
Our best guess: Could very well be 2000's "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
But who knows!
#169, or #2131.
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A treat!
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When Eos brings you dawn, do you complain to her about yesterday's weather?
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Almost all of them were gone before she even first gets to the bridge.
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(We'll forgive the one regular who I know is developmentally disabled and just struggles with following movies in languages he doesn't know.)
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#170, or #2132, 1952 Best Picture winner "The Greatest Show on Earth."
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But of course I do understand the appeal of a big Technicolour spectacle depiction of the circus in 1951.
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"Now get this, listen, all of you. We only stay out as long as we're in the black."
"...You mean, we all gotta play in blackface??"
god, lmao
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saints alive how is there still an hour left of this thing
cecil b. demille do cecil b. defilmin'
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yeah, that's a good one
But in a circus you can bring small children, and eat
So maybe the aesthetics will, in fact, stay the same lol
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oh absolutely! It's not impossible, but it would require a lot of very dedicated, very knowledgeable people
Most efforts I've seen are basically about saving traditional circus sans animal abuse, and tbh I don't see much future in that
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#171, or #2133, 2025's "Karate Kid: Legends."
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A fun time at the movies!
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Would I recommend Karate Kid in this, the Year of Luigi 2025?
* The first 4 movies are all fine, fun, cool 1980s teen martial arts flicks.
* The 2010 reboot I think kinda misses the point, but is fine.
* Cobra Kai is a genuinely very good, very thoughtful, very sincere show.
* Legends is a bit to the side but sweet and fun and redeems the 2010 film.
* The power of karate will solve any problem.
If you're looking for a little franchise to dig into, you could do far worse than Karate Kid!
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#172, or #2134, 1982's "Tron."
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"Tampering. You know, Flynn has been thinking about..."
They just immediately clock him.
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"Somebody pushes me, I push back."
From how they talk, I think this might genuinely be what generative language model morons think happens inside computer.
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"All unites exiting game arena!"
why does the computer even have back alleys
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"Now for some real user power!"
local man installs browser plugin
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"This is where Tron said he was going."
must-a gone the trong way
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It's like beaming.
You get ripped apart on a molecular level, then reconstructed.
I do indeed imagine it is painful beyond imagination.
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Fun fact: There is another movie, "Wargames" that literally changed the industry. Before the movie, not setting a password for personal logins were commonplace, only afterwards security tightened.
Setting the password to "master" in 1982 would not be unusual, not in the slightest.
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