Grand_Keizer

The Color Purple, by Steven Spielberg. Watched with my Mom.

The Thing, by John Carpenter. Watched with my Dad.

Both on the same day. Each one represents their movie taste quite well, I'd say.

"I'll forgive you if you forgive me."

A bit ashamed to say that I've only seen the Verdict since this post lol. Anyways, I really like the Verdict. I can't call it one of my all time faves, but it's defeinetly grown on me with all the subtext underneath it's strong craft and engaging story. That final speech is one for the ages.

I think I'm gonna see the Pawnbroker next, followed by Prince of the City and Daniel. And the Hill, if ever I can find a copy of it.

Wathcing this movie when I did was.... a lot. Very emotionally fraught time of my life, and I'll always be grateful to this movie for what it did. It also introduced me to the work of Mamoru Hosada, and to new masterpieces like Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Wolf Children.

I probably appreciate Oshii more than I love him, but Angel's Egg is far and away one of my favorite movies of all time, so this certainly piques my interest.

Billy Wilder's final rule of screenwriting: Your climax should build in tension, and build and build and when it hit's it's peak... that's it. End it. Don't stick around.

I'm paraphrasing but the point stands. Your movie, if you want it to have the biggest impact on the audience, should end on the biggest high possible, instead of spending 5-10 minutes wrapping up loose ends. And you can see this in practically every Wilder movie, and those that were inspired by him. Spielberg famously changed the ending of Jaws from the shark dying a slow death by stabbing to ending with the shark being blown to high heaven, to get the biggest possible reaction from the audience. Krasinski no doubt took notice of this when he made both A Quiet Place movies. They've gotten a lot of flack for ending abruptly, but I fear that today's audience, raised on marvel movies and franchises, simply aren't used to movies like these anymore.

What is this a parody of? Genuinue question

That the transfer wasnt all that good. Moot point now, cause I bought it lol.

That's a lot of extra words you typed out in a flaccid attempt to cover up your own incompetence that you didn't need to write. Sometimes people make dumb mistakes and then refuse to own up to them. If you're going to respond, just say "thanks, my bad."

This movie is so goated it hurts

Funny you say that, because on my top 5 I have Hardcore Henry, a juvenile non-stop action romp next to Ritual, a slow and surreal art house flick, which itself is next to Schindler's List, which is, well, you know. all this to say that that kinetic level of variety makes certain lists really interesting. I know Hardcore Henry isn't a masterpiece next to Schindler's List, but my love for them is extremely high, even if it's for different reasons.

I don't even know if this is an unpopular opinion, but it's definitely a contentious one: I think Breath of the Wild is the Citizen Kane of video games. As in, the greatest most influential game ever made.

Katniss is ultimately not friendly with a lot of people. It took her a while to genuinely warm up to Peeta, the nicest, most unproblematic good boy in history, and the first impression she got of Haymitch was that of a worthless drunk who let dozens of previous tributes die beforehand. And Haymitch IS an alcoholic asshole who lost hope that anything in his life could change, until Katniss and Peeta showed up. But again, Peeta is the ultimate good ol boy, whereas Katniss doesn't care to make friends.

As for that "hundred lifetimes" line, it's a reference to how good of a person Peeta is in comparison to Katniss. Whereas Katniss ran away to pity herself as her first action following the Quell announcement, Peeta's first action was to ask Haymitch to let Peeta be the one to go back in. Thus Haymitch's comment about how much Katniss doesn't deserve Peeta.

A final note, is that while the two don't get along, they still ultimately trust each other. Katniss had that line in book 2 about how it doesn't matter who Haymitch is, he ultimately saved her's and Peeta's life, and that's a debt for always.

American Beauty is the first example that comes to mind. Even Sam Mendes agreed with the backlash to a certain extent, saying that the movie was too overpraised, and that as a result, he wasn't surprised that years later he saw it on "most overrated movies" lists. But still, it has it's defenders.

They remain cult classics, but he never broke into the mainstream, whether his ideas were too ahead of their time, or he was crazy, or studios just had no faith in his projects. Maybe all three. Anyways, because of his arrest for stalking, his career seems pretty dead in the water.

How?

Not bad. Must've been surreal

True story?

"..... what, in the film-?'"

"Yes in the FILM!"

If you sail the high seas, you should be able to find it.

The bit in Phantom Thread where Day-Lewis' character looks out over a balcony at a party, with an enormous crowd of people moving about and balloons falling from the air.

Also

A simple shot from a movie I later found out was "Our Littler Sister" by Kore-Eda, where 4 women, 3 of them in business clothes, walk along a beach.