#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter Two — February Edition
From 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
In January 2025 I watched another 31, for a total of 1993 movies.
* Watchlist going terribly -- I've added more than I've watched.
* But we podcast movie and Best Picture nominee ever onwards.
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#MovieThread VI: The Past Is An Undiscovered Country, Chapter One — January EditionFrom 2020 to 2024 I watched 1962 movies.
Major projects this year:
* Still catching up on movie podcasts.
* Really wanna go through a bunch of letterboxd watchlist.
* What if I watched... all of these? letterboxd.com/jacob/list/clos…
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#1994, or #32, 1994's "Speed."
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but could you get the city to shut down the Ringweg in time? or would bureaucracy get in the way?
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"Jesus. Bob, what button did you push?"
goddamnit bob pushed the elevator crash button again
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"How come they sent cops here? Shouldn't they send repair guys?"
this guy, doesn't even know he's in a "pay ransom or elevator goes boom" scenario yet.
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"Shoot the hostage."
Jack has definitely thought about what he'd do on the bridge of the Kobayashi Maru.
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"No, you just take them out of the equation."
see, this is what a good prologue does, you establish right away that these are "third option" characters
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"Don't fuck with daddy."
not the catchphrase I'd go with
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"I don't suppose anybody'll give me three million just for you."
i dunno, it's Keanu Reeves, he /is/ a globally beloved living treasure? you could get a crowdfund goin' to save him from the terrorist, for sure.
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"There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50... it blows up. What do you do?"
shoot the extortionist?
(clear premise, cleanly delineated)
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"I love my car. I miss my car."
ah there she is, good ol' Sandy Bullock
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"Temple! We just got a ransom demand from your dead terrorist!"
what like it's HIS fault?? come on Joe Morton
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he's boarded the bus
this might be the greatest movie ever made?
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"Yeah, there's a bomb, some funny joke, man!"
do cops usually jump onto moving busses in the middle of traffic for prank reasons
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Sandy Bullock, who's taken over from the shot driver, has a confession to make:
"I had my drivers' license revoked."
"What for?"
"...Speeding."
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"He's an encyclopaedia of bombs."
knew a guy like that in school once
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"Interactive TV, Jack! Wave of the future!"
this terrorist would've loved American Idol
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"We've got a big problem! This freeway isn't finished!!"
oh fuck
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"There's a gap in the freeway!"
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"Floor it!"
hell yeah!
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"We're at the airport."
"Yeah, so?"
"I already seen the airport."
a singularly focused mind
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"Hey, get your ass behind the yellow line!"
Sandy Bullock has her priorities straight -- if bus etiquette falls apart in the bus that explodes if it slows down, so does all of polite society in the bus that explodes if it slows down.
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"I'll be damned. You go to the University of Arizona?"
what?
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"Arizona Wildcats. He can see you."
it's 1994, nobody is /really/ thinking about a camera on the bus
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"He doesn't know it blew up."
you /think/ he doesn't know it blew up
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"No! No!!"
the industry standard reaction to your evil plan being foiled
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"Pop quiz, asshole. You have a hair trigger aimed at your head, what do you do?"
i'm gonna say, not shoot the hostage, because that's Sandy Bullock
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"Yeah? Well, I'm taller."
absolute king shit
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"You've got to stop the train! The track isn't finished!"
los angeles get your fucking SHIT TOGETHER
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#1995, or #33, 2023's "River."
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(also every loop is a one-shot)
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"Wow, this deja vu is insane."
already several steps into going through the motions before they admit it
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"We've been through lots of problems in the past. When it rained, we pulled up the riverbeds. We used candles when snow caused power cuts. Here, we entertain our guests no matter what nature throws at us. Repeating time is nothing compared to that! Time loop? No problem!"
i've been through a global pandemic, I could figure out a time loop
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"The rice in this hot pot doesn't go down!"
"We've been eating it forever!"
*sylvester mccoy voice* unlimited rice
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"You can't write, nor will the deadline come!"
the worst of both worlds
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"Maybe #loop is trending."
it's really too short a loop for this to /trend/
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"No, that bath is weird! It was hard to get here, too!"
the bath guy is in the worst version of this story, can't really meaningfully get out of the bath, can't really enjoy it any more
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"What will happen if I take a dump? What goes out comes back in my ass?"
right on the verge of having to shit in a time loop, a nightmare
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"You see, I was making a wish. To the river. To stop flowing."
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"I can't get out of the mountains and my friends think I'm crazy!!"
hahaha I forgot about this guy
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"I died once because of you two!"
I love that the place this raises the stakes to is where a lot of movies like this would start, or end up at around the end of act one -- whether or not you can recover from death genuinely feels up in the air
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"Where has the snow gone?!"
it's gone the way of the shooting schedule being longer than the time depicted on screen o7
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#1996, or #34, 1996's "Fallen Angels."
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"Remember me! I'm Hoi! I was always the number one in school!"
this type of guy is a lot
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"I hate digging bullets out of my own body."
yeah well don't be a hitman then
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maybe it's just that I'm looking too much for what I dug about "Chungking Express," and how that runs into this being so deliberately a dark mirror of that film, but I'm not really vibing with this
like, it's good, but also, everyone is annoying
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#1997, or #35, 1993 John Singleton picture "Poetic Justice."
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"Justice, I was just thinking. The real reason why I love you, is because, when I was in the county jail, you sent me all those nice poems."
she's a Justice who's poetic, you get it
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#1998, or #36, 2025's "Wolf Man."
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This hunter and his small son are being hassled by a large and angry-sounding grunting thing, and we saw a wolf-what-stands-like-a-fella earlier.
Could just be a Cocaine Bear?
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Thirty years later, Small Son is Average Size Dad With Anger Issues, living in San Francisco with Small Daughter and Below Average Size Wife Who Looks Scared Because She's Played By Julia Garner.
He's just taken receipt of a death certificate for his dad and the keys to the house from the flashback.
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But you can get "what if a man was a wolf" pretty much anywhere these days, what this needed wasn't boiling down, but the exact kind of escalation and reinvention that you, well, that you hire the 2020's "Invisible Man" guy for.
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#1999, or #37, 2025's "Bad Genius."
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Apparently the original Thai film ends with a very strong "cheating is bad" moral, but I think this one threads the needle between "getting away with it" and "real consequences" very well.
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It's --
#38, or #2000, 2000's "Dracula 2000."
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the most 2000-ass hacker thieves you ever saw
the one earring, the trenchcoats, the ponytail and satchel, perfection
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This vault got Dracula in it, you fuckin' know this vault's got Dracula in it.
No time wasted on setup here.
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"Marcus, you idiot!"
oh, she's in on it
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"You don't build this kind of security without a gold mine to hide. You and me are going to find it, trust me."
*jims at the camera* they're gonna find it alright, because they're fuckin around
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"The skulls are to scare us. The crosses, the coffin, all of it. It's a grand-spanking mindfuck to scare off thieves."
great thinking, brain genius
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"Simon, look, some of my holdings were acquired in a manner not quite befitting the scrutiny of the law."
yeah the corpse of Dracula probably wasn't acquired at a polite auction house huh
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"Dax and Eddie get impaled? What the hell is going on?"
I would want those answers before I was already on a flight to the Caymans with Dracula's coffin and a man called Nightshade.
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"I do not need this shit."
a wise man
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"What the hell are /you/?"
oh, sexy gerard butler dracula
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"I've had these dreams my whole life."
the Dracula thing of him being able to put somebody under his spell from the other side of the world is maybe the one big Dracula thing I don't care for
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"Shoot it in the heart, or cut off its head. They are the undead!"
"Undead?! UNDEAD?!"
reasonable response from jonny lee miller honestly
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"Dracula. Not myth. No ravings of a mad Irish novelist."
is part of the Dracula myth in this world that Bram Stoker seemed particularly mad telling people about Dracula instead of just, a writer
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"If Dracula could not die, then neither would I."
baller mission statement honestly
oh that's what the leeches were about
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"I don't drink... coffee."
*jims at the camera*
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"Never, EVER fuck with an antiques dealer!"
hahahahaha
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"He knew that Dracula was just one of his many names, he knew he had to be much older than that."
what if Dracula is Jesus
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"Is that Hebrew or...?"
"Aramaic."
"Aramaic. That's been a dead language for almost two thousand years."
WHAT IF DRACULA IS JESUS
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[Jonny Lee Miller holds up a Bible]
DRACULA: "Propaganda."
wait what if he's JUDAS
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wait Sir Christopher Plummer also called him "the Adam" of vampires earlier
he's definitely SOMEBODY
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"I have born the wrath of God. Chosen to suffer like no man before."
...Job?
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"Let me show you what I have shown no other."
flashback time?
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"You made the world in your image! Now, I make it in mine!"
judas dracula got me hootin' and hollerin' over here
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#39, or #2001, 2013's "Inside Llewyn Davis."
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"What do you think?"
"What?"
"Him. Troy."
"Wonderful performer."
"Is he?"
"Wonderful."
"Does he have... a higher function?"
hahaha jeez llewyn
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"This is not our cat! It's not even male! Where's its scrotum, Llewyn! WHERE'S ITS SCROTUM!"
oh my god llewyn
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me, a cat discerner: doesn't quite look like the same cat, but you'd get different ones depending on the scene, I get it
the picture: you fool
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"Oh, that's good, you got a new cat."
"No, he came back!"
The cat is called Ulysses.
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And as a portrait of that scene, this is very charming. One guy in it, trapped in the loop of his life. A good gig, a bad week, a good gig. Kidnap the occasional cat. That's just how it goes. Until you open for history.
Oscar Isaac very good as a very annoyed man.
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#40, or #2002, 2002's "Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones."
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Episode I's biggest issues are the things George does without really thinking them through, like importing old racist adventure story tropes uncritically.
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"Ani? My goodness, you've grown!"
"So have you. ...Grown more beautiful, I mean. Well, f- for a senator, I mean."
genuinely cringing
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"I sense it, too!"
Running into the room and lightsabering off the kouhun worms just before they strike, the mysterious ways the Force works in seem to me to mostly be about knowing when you're needed in a scene.
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If Tatooine was familiar territory to start back up in, chasing an assassin around cyberpunk-noir Coruscant is something totally new for Star Wars at this point, there's nothing like it in the original trilogy.
If you pitched it to somebody in 1998, they'd say it feels more like Blade Runner or Fifth Element.
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"Wanna buy some deathsticks?"
"You don't want to sell me deathsticks."
"I don't want to sell you deathsticks."
"You want to go home and rethink your life."
"I want to go home and rethink my life."
Good ol' Elan Sleazebaggano. Whatever happens to him.
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"Anakin. Don't try to grow up too fast."
"But I am grown up."
anakin skywalker, just because you've been recast doesn't mean you're not 19
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"Cloners? Are they friendly?"
well it's not called "Star Wars: Episode II -- Hug of the Clones," is it.
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"I hate to say it, but it looks like the system you're searching for... does not exist."
jocastu nu, pressing one button: 404 System Not Found
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"Are you allowed to love? I thought that was forbidden for a Jedi."
"Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is central to a Jedi's life. So you might say that we are encouraged to love."
The Jedi Code leads to such toxic things, and almost every reinterpretation we see is healthier. Yoda's stubborn enforcement of it is the Real Villain.
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"It's outrageous, but after four trials in the Supreme Court, Nute Gunray is still the viceroy of the Trade Federation. I fear the Senate is powerless to resolve this crisis."
haha yeah I wonder how somebody like that could still be in power HA HA YEAH NO IDEA HOW THAT HAPPENS
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"I love the water. We used to lie out on the sand and let the sun dry us, and try to guess the names of the bird singing."
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere."
I forgot that the Sand Rant follows her telling him about stuff she /loves/. Talk about the water, you dorkus!
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Padmé is 5 years older than Anakin's 19, an age gap that feels a little weird when we've seen them meet when he was a small boy, but, like, the fact that they're 19 and 25 is, you know, again not the issue.
And like, they're both hormonal young people who've never really had the opportunity to live life on their own terms and find the other comfortable to be around. I get it.
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"And now that I'm with you again, I'm in agony. [...] The thought of not being with you, I can't breathe."
George is trying to Romeo and Juliet this, I think, but it /just/ comes across as creepy again. Dark room, the light from the fire mostly falling on him, he's like a flame trying to burn /something/, /anything/ that'll get close.
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And I get it, I get it, we're trying to get at the darkness, the rot in Anakin's soul from life as a slave, from life oppressed by the Jedi Code, from constantly being held back, that will eventually lead him to the other side.
But George, and George, I love you, big fan, but George, you're no Shakespeare, and Hayden Christensen is not capable of making more of what you're giving him.
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"Oh, not good."
I love a big goofy fight.
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So why doesn't it quite work? Part of it is that we're used to seeing the Jedi as something heroic, a force (ahem) for Good. We think of Old-Man Obi-Wan and Luke, we think of them taking down Darth Vader.
Even just in these, the idea that they're an instrument of Palpatine's dark Bush-era agenda is a slow burn, background radiation, and we're constantly with Anakin and Obi-Wan, always trying to, officially, Do Good.
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Shmi lets go because she got to see her son alive and thriving, a hero, somebody who has, beyond all hope, ascended from the life she was able to give him. What little she had is more than ever.
Padmé lets go because everything she cared about is gone, dead, destroyed. Even if she lives, she'd, what, have to hide, with her kids? A life beyond heartbreak would be hell. Everything she had is less.
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
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"I wasn't strong enough to save you, Mom. [...] But I promise, I won't fail again."
next time a mother relevant to anakin dies it's because he's TOO strong for her to live
IT'S LIKE POETRY, IT FUCKIN RHYMES
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"Clone Wars" elaborates on him and makes him a whole guy, but I always thought Master Sifo-Dyas was obviously just Palpatine in Groucho glasses.
Sifo-Dyas. Si-faux-Diyas. Faux-Sidious?
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"Senators. Dellow fellagates."
I think Naboo maybe voted for Jar-Jar because they thought the Galactic Senate needed some comic relief.
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"I love democracy. I love the Republic."
normal way to start a speech about how you're going to undermine those things
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All of this is still structured like an old adventure serial -- assassination episode, Kamino episode, Tatooine episode, with little major change to the status quo between them -- but George here is better about not just blindly importing old racist shit.
(The Tusken Raiders are a problem, but those, and how people talk about them, he at least inherits from the original trilogy.)
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"Oh my goodness. Shut me down! Machines making machines!"
"shut me down" is Threepioese for "fuck me, what the fuck."
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"I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life."
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"We decided to come and rescue you."
"Good job!"
Obi-Wan has so been here before, so many times.
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"I've got a baaad feeling about this."
I want to dislike referential lines like this because in 2025 they're almost always a signal that the work isn't confident enough to feel like it can stand on its own, but here it just feels like a kind of genuine fondness for the older work.
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"She can't do that! Shoot her -- or something!"
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that said: even at its goofiest-looking, I think this all looks great
George knows what he's working with, what it's capable of, and it's all always in service of presenting a big vibrant colourful sci-fi world that's always gonna be a little goofy at heart
so does it matter that Dooku doesn't look like he's sitting on that hoverscooter? nah, it conveys exactly what it needs to do and it does it well
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"Begun, the Clone War has."
and don't change the channel, because you can watch it unfold on Disney+ right now, right here
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Last time, I gave this three stars on Letterboxd.
But this time I honestly think all of this is great. The relationship is a series of mismatches running into and tripping over each other, and I don't think Anakin's arc, or the idea of the Jedi being a flawed system, really get sold as well as they should have been.
But I also think George, working with what he has, when he has it? Turns in the best version of this he can.
Five stars.
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But it's absolutely how you get a Vader.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •my only take on EII is that Padmé's wardrobe choices are all excellent
I... Don't really remember anything else from that movie lol
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This isn't even the only 1940s Christmas movie I'm gonna watch this month, it's --
#41, or #2003, 1946 Best Picture nominee "It's a Wonderful Life."
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"I'll give you the moon, Mary."
like the "Twelve Days of Christmas" list -- I don't know what I'd even do with /one/ geese a-layin' -- it's a terrible gift. where would you even put a moon
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"I wanna do what I wanna do!!"
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"I've never seen one, but that's got all the earmarks of bein' a run!"
I know it'a run on the bank, but it's also a funny way to say "look at 'em hoofin' it."
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"I said I wish I'd never been born!"
how is what I thought was the premise the /middle/ of the /third act/
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and all because he doesn't believe Clarence and doesn't really listen to him
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alright picture, George would like it more than I did
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fuck me, the happy ending is he gets to keep running the Savings and Loan, which is actively ruining his life?
he doesn't even get to travel??
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •A direct sequel to "Inside Llewyn Davis" about another guy you've never heard of, leaving now to go see --
#42, or #2004, 2025's "A Complete Unknown."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Less a Bob Dylan biopic and more a movie about Hurricane Dylan wiping out the 1960s New York folk scene. A hurricane doesn't care about what you want, it can't know what you want -- it's just gonna do it's own thing and it's up to you whether you evacuate.
Thought it was surprisingly unflattering, surprisingly unsanitised -- he's constantly a real asshole, especially to Joan Baez -- but I also didn't know that much about Bob Dylan, so I assume all of the jackassery is established lore.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Chalamet really solid, but it's Norton as Pete Seeger who really stands out to me here -- where Dylan is a black box, Seeger has to wear it all on the ol' sleeves, and Norton does it beautifully.
(Second movie I've watched in less than a week where somebody is Judas at the end.)
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I really wish they'd turned Phil Collins' autobiography into a movie. It would be fantastic.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Yeah, it's such a shame because he did an absolutely incredible job. Just the movie was total garbage.
I've been a fan of Queen since the title song came out originally in the 70s and there is just so much wrong with that movie.
I've heard the Elton John one is really good, but I've not seen it.
I watched Better Man last night, the Robbie Williams one, and I think I've probably seen my favourite movie of the year already.
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Decided screw it, I'd download a graphics program and make it happen.
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#43, or #2005, 2025's "Captain America: Brave New World."
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#44, or #2006, 1971's "Shaft."
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"Bumpy sent us to bring you uptown."
Everyone talked like that in the 70s. Everyone was called Bumpy.
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Despite the systems he exists in and around being explicitly situated against him -- the cops are racist, the crime families think he's too close to the cops -- John Shaft moves through the world like a hot knife through butter. The world is his, he makes the rules. The butter better get out of the way.
And Richard Roundtree, in 1971 clearly the hottest man alive, really sells it. The weight of the world isn't on his shoulders, it's under his feet.
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this all slaps, man
just great, incredibly watchable vibes
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Might as well make it a blaxploitation double feature, it's --
#45, or #2007, 1972's "Blacula."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Roses are red,
deep is the mine.
People get axed,
in --
#46, or #2008, 1981's "My Bloody Valentine."
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"He cut out their hearts and stuffed them into heart-shaped candy boxes."
I would simply ban heart-shaped candy boxes.
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so the backstory is, two miners left the mine on valentine's to attend the dance, leaving them short-staffed, leaving methane levels unchecked, mine went boom
the next year the sole survivor, having lost his mind, kills the two who left, and stuffs their hearts into candy boxes, with a note demanding the dance be cancelled forever, or else
with the dance finally back on twenty years later, the mine killer is also back in business
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On the Mayor from Jaws scale, this mayor is even dumber -- I get that people gotta unwind, but "serial killer on the loose" is a good enough reason to cancel a dance, damnit.
And next year, just celebrate the equinox or something!
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"'You didn't stop the party.' Stop the party? What damn party!!"
how was he supposed to stop the secret party nobody told him about though, come on, The Miner
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"The elevator isn't working! We're gonna have to go in this way!"
yeah man shove the whole town into the mine, that'll solve something
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As hokey cheapie knockoffs of the Friday the 13th/Halloween slasher formula go, this one is pretty cheap and pretty hokey -- and all the more charming for it.
Even at its goofiest, the picture never stops feeling ambitious, even if they clearly can't afford to be -- it's like Doctor Who trying to make an alien planet happen in 1963, it clearly /can't/, but by gum, that's not gonna stop anyone from tryin'.
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#47, or #2009, 1995 John Singleton picture "Higher Learning."
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"Don't you know I came from the master race?"
if this guy is from the master race i'm sticking with my nintendo
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •My understanding is that there is a woman and that she's pretty, leaving now to go see --
#48, or #2010, 1990's "Pretty Woman."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Obviously the Richard Gere character is an evil capitalist and his relationship with Julia Roberts is profoundly poorly balanced; what does this look like a year from now? Leaving him would mean leaving the whole lifestyle, yikes!
But also, it's so hard to argue with a movie where Julia Roberts is /this/ charming? A smile you can see from space! Love her!
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#49, or #2011, 1946's "The Razor's Edge."
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"How much longer do you think this is going to take you?"
gap year pap schmear, we've skipped over a year in the first half hour, this is one of those decades-spanning epics they love to do at this time
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"You can't just go around loafing forever."
isabel if I could go around loafing forever why wouldn't i
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"I want to have babies, Larry."
and then two seconds later she says
"I'm young, I want to have fun!"
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"Shall I tell you something, dear fellow? I don't care a row of beans."
underappreciated alt of "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
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"Any man who wastes his energy on knowledge is a fool."
make 1920s france great again, yeah, yeah, we get it
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"Somehow I've lost confidence in the accepted values."
relatable feeling, though in 2025 my response is less "extended gap year" and more "daydreaming about the violent deaths of the people enforcing those values." (in minecraft)
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"I felt... I felt..."
"That you and God were one."
Larry's journey of self-discovery in rebellion against the society he comes from is honestly very powerful, and is absolutely getting dragged the fuck down by the Isabel story.
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"Larry? I thought you were dead."
We're past the 1929 stock market crash and Larry is back in Paris..
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They've run back into Sophie, the best friend whose husband and baby died, and she's a drunk, on drugs, and may be a sex worker.
Isabel thinks this is awful, to Isabel Sophie has become the Joker -- but to Larry, she's as normal a person as he's ever met.
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Isabel instantly wants to cut Sophie out of her polite little life, but Larry, pushing back, announces that he's engaged to marry Sophie.
It's like Isabel is the Hays Code and Larry is the moviegoer who wants something better.
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Larry is now in a battle for Sophie's very soul, Maugham tells us. He's actually pretty succesful -- she cleans up nicely, and hasn't had a drop of alcohol since they ran back into each other.
But then the waiter bullies their table into a bottle of "Persovka," and suddenly Sophie finds herself a vegan at a barbecue.
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Where Larry has transitioned comfortably back into high society after his journey of self-discovery, Sophie is at a different part of her journey, and a different journey entirely at that.
The accepted values can't stomach somebody who does things differently. To high society, Sophie is a virus -- and Isabel an antibody.
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Isabel has successfully driven Sophie to drink.
Isabel must, to be clear, perish. An absolute monster. When I say I daydream about the violent deaths of the people enforcing the accepted values? In 1920s France? I mean Isabel.
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"Sophie is dead."
"... ... ...Dead?"
local woman voting for the leopards should eat my friend's face party shocked to see state of friend's face
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#50, or #2012.
Don't think I've been right this year yet, but let's file my prediction: It's probably "William Tell," which I hear was the Sneak Preview at the Vue chain this weekend.
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But is it... appropriate for the stakes in this situation, in a movie made and released today, to be whether or not you got the scoop and made good TV? Is it right to so gloss over just how badly ABC fucked up here? Does the picture have anything to say about the current state of broadcast news?
No, I don't think so.
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#51, or #2013, 1997's "Rosewood."
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Boy, this sure seems like a nice idyllic town in 1923 Florida. Charming families both Black and white relatively happily coexisting in what was surely a difficult time.
(Be a shame if something-- Nope, not gonna say it.)
I can already guess what the match thrown into this tinder box will be -- somebody will be, say, accused of something, perhaps falsely, theft, or even just a lie, and punishment being what it is in these times, suddenly it's one side against another.
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"I been in Rosewood one day, and they askin' me to stay. Now, you pack up your truck and go, see who tries to stop you leavin'."
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The sheriff (Michael Rooker) occasionally experiences a pang of awareness that all of this is wrong. But he never stops it. He never tries to stop it, not really.
Because when racism has lit your community on fire, you have to be stronger than he is, and he may be the weakest-willed of them all, to be anything but just more kindling.
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"You give me your word? All you want is to question him?"
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#52, or #2014, 2025's "The Monkey."
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Was worried this would have the problems the other Perkins films do, where he clearly has a thing he's going for visually but isn't quite in control of the story, but no, this is his first Actually Good one.
(They should let Tatiana Maslany be this fucking funny in everything.)
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#53, or #2015, 1947 Best Picture nominee "Miracle on 34th Street."
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"There's a lotta bad -isms floatin' around, but one-a da worst is /commercialism/."
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"I'm sorry, she doesn't speak English, she's Dutch."
Emergency Dutch Notes in-coming, wee-woo, wee-woo.
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"She's been living in an orphan's home in Rotterdam ever since--"
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"When she saw you in the parade yesterday, she said you /were/ Sinterklaas, as she calls you, and you could talk to her."
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"Hallo, ik ben blij dat je gekomen bent."
the real miracle on 34th street is an American actor speaks understandable Dutch on film??
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"Oh, u bent Sinterklaas! Ik wist het wel!"
not a Dutch actress, but this is very charming
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"No, a real house! If you're really Santa Claus, you can get it for me!"
damn, Susie really went for "fucking prove it then motherfucker."
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"I intend to prove Mr Kringle /is/ Santa Claus."
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"Your honour, we request an immediate ruling from this court. Is there, or is there not, a Santa Claus?"
this is about to set some absolutely wild legal precedent
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belief intersects oddly with a court of law
we believe murder to be wrong, and thus it is
so why wouldn't that count for the existence of Santa Claus?
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"Your Honour, the State of New York concedes the existence of Santa Claus."
arrest him on the charge of billions upon billions of counts of breaking and entering then
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But then the whole thing hinges on the utter and undeniable infallibility of the post office.
And I think that's beautiful.
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#54, or #2016, 2024 SNL historical picture "Saturday Night."
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"The whole night?"
well just an hour and a half of it
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Lorne Michaels wanders the streets of New York, covered in blood.
That's kinda how I picture him anyway.
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Easy to dismiss in all the ways I did earlier, to call it "exclusively referential," and "absolutely incomprehensible if you're unfamiliar with the first episode of SNL" or perhaps "a manic hat drifting on a shallow pool."
You could easily make fun of the way it tells you you're watching the unfolding of a seismic televisual event that nobody at the time believed in approximately, having now counted, 463,000 times.
And honestly, you'd be right to.
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It's not /good/, but I had a good time.
Which I guess, you know, I think that's what SNL is.
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#55, or #2017, 2000 John Singleton picture "Shaft."
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"Thanks for breaking my nose that night. My lawyer said that's why I got bail, and that's precisely why I'm skiing in Switzerland right now."
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"I saw Shaft, he drove off!"
"...Then who the fuck is that?"
second and a halfth shaft
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#56, or #2018, 1947 Best Picture nominee "Crossfire."
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"Like always. Bunch of people in a bar. Something happens."
this was definitely originally meant to be gay
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"Some of them are named Samuels. Some of them have funnier names."
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"I don't like Jews, and I don't like nobody who likes Jews."
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Much stronger in the clarity of its message -- so actively dealing with anti-semitism not just in how the Nazis were anti-semitic but in the ways seemingly normal, good people back at home can be full of hate is /still/ rare -- than in its ability to deliver much of a noir crime thriller.
The picture's tendencies towards long, wordy conversations gets stale by the end.
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This is much harder to file a guess for, but they've given a hint: "Happy 30th. Or 31st." We've interpreted this as, it's a 1994 movie that came out here in 1995.
Of the handful of plausible options, we've decided we'd quite like it to be "The Shawshank Redemption." But who knows!
Leaving now. #57, or #2019.
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Part of it is that so much of it is loser try-hard shit, like Mr Tarantino's dialogue, like Mr Tarantino's long shots on a person's face, like all the violence.
I don't like how Mr Tarantino treats his women characters. It all feels *bad*.
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#58, or #2020, 2020's "Promising Young Woman."
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#59, or #2021, 2021's "Raya and the Last Dragon."
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"A plague. Born from human discord."
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#60, or #2022, 2022's "Fire Island."
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(Though another part of those is I thought Jane Schoenbrun's previous film was so far up its own ass it came out the nose and Vera Drew is from that Tim & Eric zone that I also just never get on with.)
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If you want something a little sillier, a little broader, 2023's road trip through Asia flick "Joy Ride" is a hoot, or if you want more of a drama where, like, the characters are funny because life is just funny like that, but also you'll cry at the end, check out Thai film "How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies."
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