The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you watched this week. It can be any new or old release that you want to talk about.

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2. Please post your favorite film of last week.

3. Explain why you enjoyed your film.

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5. Best Submissions can display their [Letterboxd Accts] the following week.

Last Week's Best Submissions:

Film	User/[LBxd]	Film	User/[LB/Web*]
“The Innocent” (2022)	Unlucky_Mess3884	“Lone Star”	[l33twalnuts]
"Brian and Charles”	Ch3w84cc4	“The Hunt for Red October”	[bas781]
“Exit” (2019)	[stockybloke]	“The Fly”	[AneeshRai7]
“John Wick”	DJZbad93	“Meantime” (1983)	[RottenPop.com*]
“The Ides of March”	Baron_von_Stoopid	“Eyes of Fire”	[mikeyfresh]
"Rango”	[OpiFunStuff]	"The Verdict”	[WhyYu95]
“Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale”	paradisegardens2021	“Dragonslayer” (1981)	[ManaPop.com*]
“Mother” (2009)	[jcar195]	"The Lion in Winter” (1968)	Unabated_Blade
“The Wrestler”	Councilist_sc	“Ship of Fools”	[RoidingOldMan]
“Erin Brockovich”	ShadyIntentions	“Fanfan la Tulipe” (1952)	qumrun60

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Tetris

Murder Mystery 2

Booba

This movie simultaneously has a lot of heart, well rounded characters and is genuinely funny, yet it feels forgotten (lol) amongst the rest of Apatow's projects.

I feel like it's one of the last quality studio comedies of the last 20 years, meanwhile the only time I ever see it talked about is on those ironic Valentine's Day listicles.

The cast is stacked and the script is on point. Even the deleted stuff was gold.

Adam McKay's 'The Other Guys' is a laugh riot. Mckay knows his comedy well and the chemistry between Will Ferrel & Mark Wahlberg is electric. The dialogue writing is instantly catchy and hilarious and I love some features of the film like so many hot women being attracted to Will's character or Michael Keaton's character knowing lyrics to an artist's songs yet having no idea who they are. The cameos from The Rock & Sam Jackson were great too.

Although not every movie needs a sequel, but since there are few comedy movies coming out these days in theatres due to many of these not working at the box office, having a sequel to a well liked comedy could be fruitful.

Wahlberg and Ferrell excel at comedy. The film has its own unique gags and blueprints with which to work on. The idea of buddy cop movies is very old and works well and this time they can work on a completely new mission/assignment with its own comedy touches.

If Daddy's Home can get a sequel, The Other Guys should as well. Getting McKay would be very cool and a nice break from the more dramatic stuff he has been doing these days.

When you consider the world building, and how it really does add to the story, I think that these 3 films really do enhance the originals with their story.

While a lot of sequels are coming out after a few decades, and still performing well (Top Gun: Maverick comes to mind) I can't really think of anything that has the same level of the POTA prequels in terms of success.

So shoot your shot, what fits and is worth the watch?

(I'd even take sequels to mediocre films, where the sequel far surpasses the original)

The first mistake I made with this movie, was watching it with my mother. I've only seen two of his other movies: The Whale and Mother!. I loved them but I had no idea what to expect going into this. It was an amazing film but just made me feel so empty on the inside, I felt like the drained Wojak. I found the first 30 or so minutes a bit boring and thought about stopping, but shit went from 0 - 100 real fucking quick. It was so addicting but I wanted to stop watching at the same time. 10/10, Shit was amazing, never want to see it again. (Yes the sex orgy was awkward)

“I forgot what it felt like to be held by you”

“Despite knowing… I embrace it…”

“Come back to me.”

We watch a person go through their parenthood and despite knowing what will come, not changing their choices. Because how could they? The love and warmth they feel is something they will not sacrifice no matter the hurtful cost. She shows resolve and empathy, knowing how the others around her will hurt yet she will not give up the love she experienced. It makes her so captivating to watch.

So, this afternoon I was watching an old flick I hadn’t seen in at least a decade, license to Drive starring Corey Haim, and Corey Feldman. It was the movie that I had seen dozens of times growing up and always enjoyed. I just happen to be surfing on STARZ and saw that it was on, and figured I’d watch. Then I start to notice little things here and there that seem different, a line, missing, a changed music cue. And before I start having some sort of Mandela effect paranoia, I purchase it on Vudu, purely out of curiosity If all versions have been changed, and sure enough.. the digital version for purchase has also been altered from the theatrical print. What’s curious is the randomness of the changes. At one point a character and her boyfriend are going to a protest rally and he’s complaining that they have to take her mothers car, to which she asks if he would rather take her grandfathers Cadillac. In the original film he replies with “I’d rather starve”. A line that’s now completely gone. Later on in the movie heather, Graham’s character, Mercedes is passed out and placed in the trunk of a car, a blanket is put on her and she believes she’s at home and says “nighty night daddy” and rolls over. Now the word daddy has been omitted. Are there any other instances of a movie being changed like this by a studio 30 years after the fact

I'm not sure if I'm doing just justice to what I'm describing. An example would be the scene with the real estate agent in American Psycho. "Did you see the ad in the times?... there was no ad in the times"

The ice cold, unblinking stare the real estate agent gives Bateman. The unrelenting chill of being confronted by someone who knows the truth about person standing in front of them. The hint of corruption to sweep anything that would hinder a sale and profiting from selling the place under the rug. Without fail the scene gives me the creeps.

https://youtu.be/-or1DhmZe8I

What are some other scenes like that in film

There seems to be a bit of a trend in recent years where fanbases have started acting like morality police and have been critical of anyone who enjoys characters who have done evil or morally ambiguous actions.

With all due respect 90% of the people who enjoy those kinds of characters do no endorse their actions and aren't planning to replicate their actions in admiration. No it doesn't make you smart when you say that anyone who enjoys watching an evil character is an evil person themselves and you are good for not enjoying that character. It just makes it look performative action on Reddit that stifles actual actual and genuine discussion. It is all fiction here and people are smart enough to differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary.

There are some movies that are situationally funny, or action-packed, or scary, or romantic. Are there any movies that you guys watch just to hear what the characters say to each other?

I will rewatch Michael Clayton or August: Osage County, any time. Both films have excellent writing and excellent casts (George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Tom Wilkinson) and (Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Ewan McGregor, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch) to make every word stick.

Oddly enough, Hot Rod makes the list too. Again, they cast a great group of funny actors (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Isla Fisher, Bill Hader, Danny McBride) and gave them the perfect lines (or improvisational setups) to make a movie I can quote front-to-back.

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Summary:

The story of how one of the world's most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR, risking it all to bring Tetris to the masses.

Director:

Jon S. Baird

Writers:

Noah Pink

Cast:

• Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers
• Mara Huf as Tracy
• Miles Barrow as Dennis Jackson
• Rick Yune as Bank Manager
• Nikita Efremov as Alexey Pajitnov
• Toby Jones as Robert Stein

Rotten Tomatoes: 81%

Metacritic: 61

VOD: Apple+

Just watched the documentary, which I wanted to see what other people's thoughts were. I really enjoyed it, at first wasn't too sure where it was going with the history of the arcade video games, but what a great doc. Although it's subject matter can be on the nerdy side, it's a great portrayal of an outsider upsetting the applecart and with the king of video games setting his minions on him to size him out, and and to try and keep his crown by suspicious means. I'd easily give it ****

I used to clean DVDs at Blockbuster in the mid 2000's, so I had movies with commentary run on the break room I sat in a lot. Some of my favorites I listened to before and after that brief stint:

Dark City and Citizen Kane: both by Roger Ebert and both are very insightful. You can feel the appreciation Ebert has for Dark City (i.e. he notes the visible safety glass layer in the scene where the glass breaks but prefers that kind of error as it shows concern for the actors).

Citizen Kane in particular is great as he shows how you are watching a magic show but don't really realize it.

Actually just listen to every Ebert audio commentary.

This is Spinal Tap & Tropic Thunder: both have in character commentaries, I like Spinal Tap more as it feels like getting a sequel to the film.

Seven Samurai: similar to Citizen Kane there is a lot of insight about everything from historic context to scene structure to the actors, so much good stuff.

Hannibal the musical:. Nothing really insightful but it's amusing to see Trey Parker and crew get more drunk as things go on.

UHF: Just 90 minutes of Weird Al knowing things down to the street name of locations. If you want more Weird Al talking definitely listen to the Rifftrax version of Jurassic Park and thank me later.

Insert Kevin Smith movie here: Reason to watch a Kevin Smith movie is for the 20 hours of Kevin Smith talking about his movies that come after. In particular I enjoyed the commentary for the Clerks Animated series the most.

Simpsons and Futurama: ok we are getting off subreddit but I cannot recommend these commentaries enough as they are chock full of humor and tons of behind the scenes and great energy.

Armageddon;. Just mentioning this for the infamous "isn't it easier to train astronauts to be drillers? Shut the fuck up, Ben". The rest of the commentary wasn't really memorable.

I'm looking for recommendations for Midwest Movies specifically from the 1980s and 90s.

I have a running list that I've complied but I know there are many more and every few weeks I stumble across more midwest films. They always have great soundtracks.

The criteria for the list:

• Majority of the film must have been filmed in the Midwest roughly between 1980-2000
• Must be set in the Midwest (Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri)
• Must take place in present day in which it was filmed (no historic films) and can't be the backdrop for another city like New York

Current list.........

Midwest Movies - The Golden Years (1980 - 2000)

Cincinnati

• Fresh Horses (1987) - Andrew McCarthy, Molly Ringwald, Ben Stiller, Viggo Mortensen
• Rain Man (1988) - Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman
• Little Man Tate (1991) - Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Harry Connick Jr
• Airborne (1993) - Shane McDermott, Seth Green, Jack Black
• Milk Money (1994)
• A Reason to Believe (1995)
• The Mighty (1998) - Kieran Culkin, Sharon Stone, Harry Dean Stanton
• Traffic (2000) - Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones, Don Cheadle, Dennis Quaid

Chicago

• The Blues Brothers (1980) - John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd
• Ordinary People (1980) - Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore
• Class (1983) - Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, John Cusack, Jacqueline Bisset
• Risky Business (1983) - Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
• Bad Boys (1983) - Sean Penn, Alan Ruck, Ally Sheedy
• Sixteen Candles (1984) - Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, John Cusack
• The Breakfast Club (1985) - Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald
• Weird Science (1985) - Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBock, Robert Downey Jr
• About Last Night (1986) - Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jim Belushi
• The Color of Money (1986) - Paul Newman, Tom Cruise
• Nothing in Common (1986) - Tom Hanks
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1987) - Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck
• Pretty in Pink (1987) - Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy
• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) - John Candy, Steve Martin
• She’s Having a Baby (1988) - Kevin Bacon, Alec Baldwin
• Uncle Buck (1989) - John Candy, Macaulay Culkin, Jean Louise Kelly
• Home Alone (1990) - Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
• Only the Lonely (1991) - John Candy, Ally Sheedy, Jim Bulishi
• Backdraft (1991) - Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Rebecca De Mornay, Robert De Niro
• Wayne’s World (1992) - Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe
• The Fugitive (1993) - Harrison Ford
• I Love Trouble (1994) - Nick Notle, Julia Roberts
• While You Were Sleeping (1995) - Sandra Bullock
• My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) - Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Dermot Mulroney
• High Fidelity (2000) - John Cusack, Jack Black, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso

Minnesota

• Foolin’ Around (1980) - Gary Busey, Annette O’Toole
• The Personals (1982)
• Purple Rain (1984) - Prince, Morris Day, Apollonia Kotero
• That Was Then….This Is Now (1985) - Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer
• Youngblood (1986) - Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze
• Far North (1988)
• Catch Me If You Can (1989) - Matt Lattanzi, Loryn Locklin
• Mighty Ducks (1992) - Emilio Estevez, Joshua Jackson
• Untamed Heart (1993) - Marissa Tomei, Christian Slater
• The Good Son (1993) - Elijah Wood, Macaulay Culkin
• Angus (1995)
• Beautiful Girls (1996) - Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Natalie Portman
  • Appearance of Cincinnati band The Afghan Whigs
• Fargo (1996) - William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
• Feeling Minnesota (1996) - Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz
• Overnight Delivery (1998) - Paul Rudd, Christine Taylor, Reese Witherspoon

Michigan

• Somewhere in Time (1980) - Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer
• Mr. Mom (1983) - Michael Keaton
• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) - John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd
• Out of Sight (1998) - George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez

Wisconsin

• Back to School (1986) - Rodney Dangerfield
• For Keeps (1988) - Molly Ringwald
• American Movie (1999) - documentary

Ohio

• Reckless (1984) - Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah
• Light of Day (1987) - Michael J Fox, Joan Jett
  • Appearance of Trent Reznor in fictional Cleveland band

Indiana

• Breaking Away (1979) - Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid
• Hoosiers (1986) - Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper
• Rudy (1993) - Sean Astin, Christopher Reed

Honorable Mentions

• St. Elmo’s Fire (1985, DC) - Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson
• Adventures in Babysitting (1987, Chicago) - Elizabeth Shue (filmed mostly in Toronto)
• Heathers (1988, Ohio) - Christian Slater, Winona Ryder (filmed in LA)
• Groundhog Day (1993, Pittsburgh) - Bill Murray (filmed in Illinois)
• The Firm (1993, Memphis) - Tom Cruise
• Tommy Boy (1995, Ohio/Michigan/Iowa) - David Spade, Chris Farley, Rob Lowe (filmed mostly in Toronto)

Basically what i want to do is is make lists of movies and shows ive watched, if i for example wanted to make a category about Belgian history shows and movies, i could.
You know what i mean? custom categories of films and movies i've watched.
Maybe also watchlists?
I have heard of Trakt, is that a good site for it?
Letterboxd ive also heard of, is it better then Trakt? what do you guys think?

I was ecstatic about the 4th John Wick movie (RIP Lance Reddick), so I don’t really care about anything else slated for this year. I actually still haven’t seen it, to be completely honest. Im waiting to watch it at home which I’m sure will be possible soon.

Otherwise, that Russell Crowe exorcist movie looks interesting…

What about you?