• very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    it’s hard to pick, but i really like Possessor (2020), it’s a cool dystopian science fiction horror-ish movie that scratches a lot of my itches

    i also rate some of the Andy Kaufman movies really high, like Synechdoche, New York (2008) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

    most of my favourite movies are just mindfucks about identity or memory, because that’s the flavour of my mental illnesses, lol

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    2 months ago

    My most watched movies:
    Jurassic Park
    The Firm
    The Verdict
    Children of Men
    Arrival
    Lord of the Rings

    But you know all of those already. Here’s one you probably haven’t seen: Love me some stage play adapted to movie. Doubt (2008)

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    I have pretty thoroughly stopped caring about movies.

    The only movie in the last 15 years I’ve wanted to sit down and just watch. By myself, not as a thing to do with friends or family, not as something to have sound in the house while I do something else, to sit down with a bowl of popcorn and a beer and WATCH, was Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. So we’ll go with that I guess.

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    I love old movies. Here are 15 great ones. Watch these and you will love old movies too! Most are available on internet archive. I could probably add another 85 to this list.

    • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    • All About Eve (1950)
    • The Apartment (1960)
    • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
    • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
    • Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
    • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
    • Rear Window (1954)
    • Laura (1944)
    • Rope (1948)
    • To Have and Have Not (1944)
    • Key Largo (1948)
    • Lifeboat (1944)
    • The Letter (1940)
    • Now Voyager (1942)

    Edit: bonus movie

    • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
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    No one ever mentions this movie but my favorite movie is The Fountain, with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.

    It’s basically a love story set in three timelines, with absolutely amazing music, dark storytelling, and an unbelievably satisfying ending. A lot of it is left up to interpretation but it’s not overly complicated. Cemented me as a huge fan of Aronofsky even if he’s not always a pop culture favorite.

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    Overall favorite: Shawshank Redemption
    Watched the most times: Notting Hill and Coming to America

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    2 months ago

    Being John Malkovich

    the story is just so out there and it’s excellently acted and directed. chef’s kiss

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      I never watched that movie because of the title. Watched it the first time last year. Holy shit what an amazing movie. The half floor had me dying.

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    Favorite is difficult and changes over time. But it’s gonna be one of these:

    • The Big Lebowski
    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    • Clerks
    • Tron
    • Airplane!
    • Die Hard
    • Escape From New York

    Now I think The Pianist is the best movie of all time, which is a different thing, but that newer movie 1917 sure competes.

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    2 months ago

    One is not enough, and a lot of great movies where already named, still, some great movies are missing:

    • Heat (Michael Mann) Every single time I see it, it is brilliant and I discover something new
    • Jin Roh (The original animation movie), awesome atmosphere and only after the 2nd viewing one can really appreciate it
    • Near Dark (1987) Why the hell did nobody ever produce something like this ever again?
    • Miami Vice (Michael Mann), ‘Style over substance’, in a great way, although I have the shaky camera
    • Seven Samurai
    • Casablanca
    • Strange Days
    • Point Break
    • XXX (Nobody understood that it was a parody back in the days :-P)
    • What we do in the shadows
    • Brazil
    • Rocky
    • Eternal Sunshine …
    • The city of lost children
    • Leon the professional
    • Dolls
    • The Killer (The original of course)
    • The last unicorn
    • Dark City
    • The thing
    • The Lost Boys
    • Spirited Away
    • Donnie Darko
    • Rashomon
    • Brother (2000)
    • Parasite
    • Hatsukoi (First Love)

    … from the top of my mind. :-P

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      The Magnificent Seven is way better, and predates it by 80 or 90 years. Rumour has it that John Sturges was so impressed by the Seven Samurai, that he presented Kurosawa with a Colt Single Action Army Revolver and said “You have made a great movie, but it’s my movie, ya dig.”

      (you may crucify me now.)

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        I think you got that backwards. Magnificent seven came out in 1960, seven samurai in 1954. It even says magnificent seven is just an adaptation of seven samuria.

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            Kurosawa Akira’s The Seven Samurai was released in 1954. John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven was released in 1960.

            So, uh, first, The Magnificent Seven was the remake, not the other way around, and second, it comes only 6 years after the inspiration, rather than close to a century. If The Magnificent Seven had been made 80 years prior to The Seven Samurai, it would have been made in 1874. …Which would have been before some of the firearms used in the film were even invented, and only 10 years after the US Civil War.

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              Pre-tty sure the magnificent seven came first. Check your sources again. Kurosawa was super nervous that people would find out about his clone of an american classic, and as we all know, the US comes first

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                The Magnificent Seven was released on October 12, 1960.

                The Seven Samurai was released in 1954, six years prior.

                A number of Kurosawa films have been remade for American audiences. Take The Hidden Fortress; it was remade as Star Wars. Meanwhile, Kurosawa did take inspiration from western playwrights, such as Shakespeare’s MacBeth (Throne of Blood) and King Lear (Ran).

                And, BTW, I happen to absolutely love chanbara, especially and including the schlock garbage like Sleepy Eyes of Death, Zatoichi, Lady Snowblood, Lone Wolf and Cub, and especially Hanzo the Razor. Samurai film share a lot of similarities with western films, and many of the low-budget sword-fighting films were modeled after the western genre films (only with a funk and jazz soundtrack).

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                  I think many of those old Kurosawa films are just rip offs of many 1890s John Sturges films

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      Midsommer is one of those ones I struggle to watch. I get super empathetic and start tweaking out.

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        That’s fair, it is a bit tough. I really liked Hereditary, and Midsommer to a lesser extent. Then I watched a “complete guide” by Novum (YouTube). It’s literally 6:55:24, but I watched it over about a week while working. It definitely made me appreciate it even more.

        Don’t know if it would help you watch it, but it was very interesting (although it dissects the whole movie, so it’s just a giant spoiler).

        The Hereditary one is “only” 4.5 hours, but also worth watching if you liked Hereditary.

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          Holy shit… I would love to watch that. I can’t over state how well done the movie actually was, so I would love to learn more about it.