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Muse said:
Have you seen any with Humphrey Bogart? Casablanca?

Titanic?

Jerry Maguire?

Sinners? I hit Eject 1/2 way through!

My Fair Lady?

The History of the World Part 1?

Spaceballs?
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I watched Casablanca for a college class. Loved it.
Also yes to: Jerry Maguire, My Fair Lady, and Spaceballs.

So, in order, yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, yes.
 
JujuFish said:
There are many, many popular movies that I've never seen.
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ok but one thing is not watching a few of the many very popular films, another is not watching LOTR, Star Wars .. or Pulp Fiction.

Surely you must have been in conversations where someone compared the thing to Pulp Fiction. It's not just a great film, but it's a film that's been enormously important, from a cultural perspective, for everyone. It's like not having seen Superman, it's not just a big thing for a group of people, it's a big thing for everyone.
It's culture that has spawned other culture. Not being clued up about a cultural thing that is that predominant, is almost alienating. omg it's like not having watched Alien, not having watched Predator, but constantly hearing the joke "and we'll call it alien versus predator" for the millionth time and not saying ok, i'll watch the fucking movie already!!
 
DigDog said:
ok but one thing is not watching a few of the many very popular films, another is not watching LOTR, Star Wars .. or Pulp Fiction.
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The way I decided to watch Django was to go to IMDb, filter for all movies with 1 million reviews (86 such films, if anyone's curious), and use a random number generator to pick one (reroll if I've already seen it). Pulp Fiction could have happened, but RNGesus had other plans.
 
JujuFish said:
I haven't seen any Alien or Predator film. The Alien thing I do feel bad about and need to rectify.
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You might be late for Predator because the whole schtick was that it was a war film, which then goes waaaaaay off the rail when this bigass monster with a fuck-you cannon on his shoulder shows up. And that surprise has been ruined now.

Alien is less about the alien and more about how damn real the whole thing looks and feels, so you might still be in time.

If you've not seen Blade Runner, please don't let me know, i do not want to cry.
 
Hijack - 6.5/10 - AppleTV 8-part Series

This was a fun popcorn series starring Idris Elba as a passenger on a hijacked plane heading to London from Dubai.

Fast paced episodes, some very tense moments. Sure there were more than a few plot holes but nothing major that would ruin the fun.
 
JujuFish said:
I haven't seen any Alien or Predator film. The Alien thing I do feel bad about and need to rectify.
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Alien and Aliens are very good movies.

I have not seen Predator, but now that it's presented here as a must see, I'll plumb my local library for it.

My artist GF at the time dragged me to see Pulp Fiction. Well, not dragged, but it was 100% her idea, I hadn't heard of it. I have the disc on my shelf. Let's see, looking in my data I see I've seen it 7 times:

01/12/2021
12/29/2017
06/01/2012
02/08/2006
03/03/2005
03/14/2004
01/08/1995

Edit: Damn, the Predator films are a series, there's 9 of them! Double damn! Prey (2022) is considered the best. Damn!

Well, there's disagreement, wouldn't you know. It's also contended that the 1987 original is the best.

Edit: Two library system near me, each with several branches have neither of those Predator films. Must suck.
 
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Protector - was entertaining, mostly. Milla Jovovich is a female Liam Neeson in Taken. Her daughter gets taken by sex traffickers and she goes to get her back. It's a very overused scenario, the action is completly over the top, and the acting's pretty b level. It did have some cool action sequences, but there are so many movies with this same plot. So I was sure I already knew how it would end. But the ending completely caught me off guard and made me glad I watched it. If this had the same ending as a Taken or similar movie I would be whatever about it. But the ending threw me for a loop. The acting's pretty terrible though. And there are some very unbelievable occurances. In 1 scene she gets a survival knife stuck almost all the way into her thigh. And less than an hour later in the movie time she was running like it was nothing. They made her character way too much of a bad ass. Also, it's just a movie but it's about sex trafficking which is real shit. So a lot of the movie was depressing when I'd take a second and think about how fucked up some people in the world are.

The Bride - FUCK YES! The reviews on RT are mixed. I loved it though. It's incredibly light on the horror, it has some damn good acting and the story was well told. It's closer to a Bonnie & Clyde than a horror. The sound and visuals popped. Christian Bale was awesome, and this is my 1st time I've seen Jessie Buckley, but she's fucking fantastic here. The 2 together had great chemistry. Some of the parts left me scratching my head, I was a little lost about a few things, but overall it was a blast of a flick. This is in Dolby Theater and IMAX and is a great movie visually to show them off.
 
I'm currently watching the IT: Welcome to Derry TV series and just finished the third episode. It's a big pile of meh. The story is lame, the kids don't have any chemistry with each other like in the movies, and they threw in the over-the-top CGI "scares" from the movies and made them feel like they belong in a kid's Halloween movie.

I'll probably finish it, but it's pretty bad IMO.
 
i watched the incredibly boring

The Right Stuff - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/reference/

which amounts to three hours of chest-beating americans.

Basically it's the story of Project Mercury, which the film implies succeeded only because 'muricans are the most 'murican of all the world, and it's every 'murican's duty to 'muricate as much as they 'muricanly can, and if it wasn't for all the 'muricaning, they would have lost to the Communists and now we'll all be eating borscht.
Couldn't find any other discernible plot. Since i'm on the side of the nerds of NASA rather than the jocks whom the nerds give the billion-dollar rocket machines hoping they don't break them, i didn't like this film.

6/10 i guess it's not terrible. It was a massive bomb when it came out, fwtw.

starting to have doubts about this "best ever" list.
 
then, because i wasn't satisfied, i watched the horrendous

The Celebration - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154420/reference/

1998 danish-language film, with some of the worst production values i have ever seen. And i'm putting ALL film in the hat, because this isn't from the 80s, it's from the same period as The Matrix.

The story is about an extended family meeting for the titular celebration, during which the obvious dark secrets come out, there's been infidelity, abuse, possibly incest, and in order to .. "focus on the performances" .. the director deliberately chose to:
1. use only a non-stabilized(?) handheld camera
2. the most shit grainy film ever, probably found in a dumpster
3. inexistent lighting
this is a snip from the actual film
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i did not deteriorate the image in any way.
this horrendous production, along with too many meaningless ultraclose shots, the shit lighting, the fact that i need to read the subs - and the camera moves like it's drunk - and i can't see the faces, relegate whatever ideal of indie production the director had to the world of wishful thinking. To be one hundred percent clear, this film is shit.

my vote: 4/10
 
omfg kill me now.

Before Sunset - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381681

Ethan Hawke.. an actor whom i otherwise enjoy .. and Julie Delpy .. are a man and a woman who meet in a bookstore in Paris, and they take a walk together.
This film is 80m of them walking together, talking, flirting.

Back when i used to go around with gang of friend there was one who had a super-clingy girlfriend and they were constantly chit-chattering and we found it abso-fucking-lutely odious. But maybe you like that and you would want an entire film made of that. Well have i got some news for you.

Absolutely insufferable.

4.5/10
 
JujuFish said:
I may not have seen Blade Runner
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did you notice passing by that this thread is about film, yeah? I mean, it's been going on for years, i would say we've even gone past the point of the original thread title.

Would it not be weird if i joined the hockey fans thread and said i have never seen Wayne Gretsky play? or the Shakespeare thread and say "Macbeth who?".

i'm not trying to gatekeep you, but for your own benefit, please go watch the great classics, they will really make your life better, they are that great of a piece of art.
 
is there going to be a single decent film in this FIVEHUNDRED BESTEST FILMST EVAH list?

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/reference/

Two wymmen are the sex gay, in the 1700s. And they take a long time to say hey, actually you know what, we could sex. AND THAT IS FUCKING IT.

What is classed as a "romantic historical drama" is just this one woman showing up at the house of a Countess (Valeria Golino) after having had a not-particularly-turbolent past, where she paints, and talks about life and shit, where she meets the other woman that she does the sex with, and there is no scandal, there is no .. drama, that i could find, they even get along well, there are no fire-breathing dragons, there is no trauma they must escape from, nobody is trying to kill them, so what is the point of this fucking film !

Also, they do this *modern* thing i fucking hate where they switch languages mid-conversation; being the film in french, then they shift to italian, and i happen to understand both, but guess what, other people do not.

5/10 purely because the photography was nice.
 
Mon Vie de Courgette (My Life As A Zucchini) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2321405/reference/

Although the english translation should be "my life as zucchini" as the protagonist's nickname is Courgette, zucchini.

French-language animated film, it's a young orphan boy who goes to the orphanage and instead of it being horrible and Dickensian, it's kinda decent and there's other boys and they make friends. And do stuff.

Like, this was not bad, but it's 7.8/10 on IMDb and i wonder if the reviewers and critics have ever seen a Pixar film, because this film here, from 2016, should have stayed in the 70s where it belongs, and even then it wouldn't hold a candle to real masterpieces, like the original Pinocchio, from 1940.

6/10 at best. Basically the other film i've seen from the list are so shit that they elevate anything that's vaguely normal.
 
i watched the .. decent,

Lovely & Amazing - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258273/reference/

Starring the dubious Emily Mortimer, and the substantially better Catherine Keener. Two sisters, both having trouble with their relationships, and both looking for happiness elsewhere. Told like that it seems shit, but the dialogue was relatable, the pacing was good, and hey, it's got a babyfaced 20yo Jake Gyllenhaal.

Weird that Emily Mortimer got a Bafta for this, when she has the weaker acting and the weaker character of the two. She was also the co-lead in The Newsroom, and frankly her acting watered down the awesomeness of Jeff Daniels and co.
And, i find the main attraction of the film is to just watch the excellent acting of Keener, who, for whatever i know, hasn't really found fame, as of yet.

anyway, decent. Maybe not calling for you to rush out and see it.
Emily has a full nude scene, if you're into that sort of stuff.

6.5/10
 
DigDog said:
did you notice passing by that this thread is about film, yeah? I mean, it's been going on for years, i would say we've even gone past the point of the original thread title.

Would it not be weird if i joined the hockey fans thread and said i have never seen Wayne Gretsky play? or the Shakespeare thread and say "Macbeth who?".

i'm not trying to gatekeep you, but for your own benefit, please go watch the great classics, they will really make your life better, they are that great of a piece of art.
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So Blade Runner is the Wayne Gretzky of film? I guess I'll have to bump that up my list.
 
Wolfwalkers - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5198068/reference/

2020 animated film about .. ugh .. wolfwalkers.

The art style is nice, but the animation itself is not great. And the story is just dull, there's good girl protagonist with medieval Sean Bean father who says do as you're told, but she's a free spirit and she finds that wolves are actually not bad, because Wolfwalkers(tm), shamans whose spirits inhabit wolves. And so the girl whose father doesn't listen to and tell her to keep her head down so as to not get in danger, must rescue the wolves from the Evil Authorities, but also her father from his own ignorance.

The voice acting is also not particularly memorable, so i'm not really sure there's anything to recommend, here, unless you are really young, idk 10 years old, and then it would be nice.

6/10 ?

Memories Of Murder i had already watched & reviewed in 2021, 6/10
 
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