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The Mask (1994) - uh it was fine, I guess. Lol I liked this movie a lot as a kid for some reason. I don't know why. It was funny but also kind of unnerving, so it hit that sweet spot that kids like. The funniest part is every character's blasé reaction to encountering a being that's obviously from ...

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R41. School Ties - Pretty good... I think I just really like the "boys coming of age at a preparatory boarding school in New England" genre. Dead Poets Society, Scent of a Woman, School Ties... what other movies are there in this genre? Anyway, this one's not as good as the other 2, but s...

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Yeah, it's great. I also use "MEDIOCRE!!" a lot. Marie Antoinette (2006) - I can't tell if this movie is actually good or not, but I enjoy it. It's a good experience if you just feel like drowning yourself in meaningless pretty. It's also an effective portrait of someone trapped in an ultr...

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It's usually more like I'm not up to writing a whole post on whatever's up next. I don't mind watching the movie that's up next, but thinking about it afterward and writing all my thoughts on it down in a coherent and organized manner is time-consuming and mentally draining, at least when there's a ...

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'Lost in Translation' and 'Mad Max: Fury Road'? Two brilliant films and can't wait to hear your thoughts on those two. Damn, you pay attention. That is correct. Lost in Translation - One of my favorite movies of all time. It connected with me on a very deep and profound level when I first watched i...

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - You could make the case that this is the biggest contemporary movie of all time, all things considered. A blockbuster juggernaut, and (unlike many blockbuster juggernauts) unanimous and rapturous critical acclaim, and (unlike many movies with unanimou...

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What if one of them just swallowed the Ring? Like is Sauron going to really still want it then if its covered in Hobbit feces. Why don't they just bury it in the ground? Sam's a gardener, right? He's good at burying things. Problem solved. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - The extended editio...

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Fair warning: I have a pretty good feeling the next several posts are going to be very, very long. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Holy shit the end credits to this are almost thirty fucking minutes. I haven't seen any of these movies for about ten years, maybe more, and I only j...

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my thoughts:

it was good

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Lilo & Stitch - yep, pretty good! Well, half of it is. I can take or leave all the wacky alien stuff. But the other half, the one with the human characters, is honestly kind of great. The emotions and dialogue are very authentic and naturalistic and down-to-earth. Nani is great. Lilo is great; ...

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Let The Right One In - I put this on my favorites list a long time ago probably because I felt that this was the type of movie I was "supposed" to like, not that I actually liked it. It's very crisp and beautiful and appropriately moody, but kind of meaningless and boring as hell. I had a...

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Yeah everything he's made after RotK has been mostly crap. Except They Shall Not Grow Old, I guess, though I haven't seen it. The Last Seduction - Linda Fiorentino was the only thing good in it. Everything else was mediocre. Well, Bill Pullman was amusing, I suppose. Linda Fiorentino wasn't even tha...

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King Kong (2005) - The quality of this movie increases metronomically as it goes on. The first act (which is basically an entire movie by itself) before the island sucks, the second act (another entire movie) on the island is somewhat better, and the third after the island is really good. The first...

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I hyped up this movie a lot so you'll probably find it underwhelming. Just know that most of the reasons I like it are subjective shit like its mood and atmosphere, stuff I can't explain in words very well. Also I think it was my second or third viewing when I started liking it so much. Jumanji (199...

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I wasn't aware until this re-watch. How to Train Your Dragon - This movie is extremely double plus good. Exceptional. Best animated movie I've ever seen. I have seen it many, many times and it remains incredible. A very sweet and simple story told exceptionally well. I love its aesthetic, I love its...

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Yeah. Apparently her identity became known shortly after the movie's release. I wonder what she thinks of it. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey - This movie has huge, gigantic nostalgia value for me. I watched it obsessively as a kid, and haven't watched it since for about fifteen years. It hol...

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I haven't seen The Trial of the Chicago 7, but I heard it basically liberalizes (or Sorkinizes) political radicalism. Abbie Hoffman in real life was a revolutionary, an anarchist "burn it all down" type who liked to make a mockery of traditional American institutions, but it seems the film...

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Yeah, I agree the soundtrack was also pretty good. I should add that the last scene is honestly quite horrific, and the tension leading up to it was unbearable. Not many violent film scenes get me as much as it did. It was extremely well-done. Everything about the movie was well-done, but the ending...

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I think Theon's arc in the second book is one of the most compelling and well-constructed in the series, and IIRC the show did it justice. Sansa was very interesting in Season 2 imo, which is impressive when considered what she was up against. Season 2 of GOT was basically a smorgasbord of extremely...

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I honestly think Rax is the only person on the internet, and perhaps even the entire world, who doesn't hate Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Seriously if there's one thing in the world that unites everyone online it's the opinion that Season 8 of Game of Thrones sucked. Since I've only seen half the sh...

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Thanks Lyndon. Heavenly Creatures - Just watched it for a second time and my opinion is unchanged. I think it's really great. I have nothing to add to what I already said. Heavenly Creatures - Well, that was simply incredible, I think. It instantly cemented itself as one of my new favorite movies. I...

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This seems like it's an extremely bad movie, but not a "so bad it's good" movie, a "so bad it's boring and unpleasant" movie. I'm not sure why you want to see it so bad.

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He Was a Quiet Man - I saw this almost a decade ago and put it on my favorites list because it was edgy and surreal. And it is, and there are certainly some good aspects to it, primarily the acting and the quirky and surreal visuals. It was interesting, and bleakly funny sometimes. But it was extre...

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - I love this movie almost entirely for how visually luscious and gorgeous it is. Almost every frame of it is strikingly beautiful and artfully composed. From a purely aesthetic standpoint this movie is a marvel; I haven't really seen another that reaches its ...

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Happy-Go-Lucky - This had a fairly profound effect on me when I first watched it, although I couldn't articulate why back then. I was extremely cynical and depressed at the time (as opposed to now, where I'm cynical and depressed in a more detached and dispassionate way) and I was struck by this mo...

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No idea. Don't care. The Guest - Still a favorite. A success at blending multiple different genres at once. Thriller, action, horror, mystery, pulp, comedy, and political satire. It's also a good pastiche of specific styles - there's a lot of James Cameron, a lot of John Carpenter, a lot of Nicolas ...

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Groundhog Day - I read a while ago someone did some online survey among movie nerds asking not what their most-liked movie was, but what their least-disliked movie was. This one won out. It makes sense. This is one of the least dislikeable movies in existence. It may not be your favorite, it may no...

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Fucking Ãmal (Show Me Love) - A very good film. It's a teenage lesbian coming-of-age drama, not a very unique subgenre even back in 1998, but it displays more open-hearted tenderness and warmth towards its characters than any other movie I know, which makes it stand out a lot. It's extraordinarily ...

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I have no idea what dork_lord did to piss him off so much. But yeah I think I was one of the dork_lord's groupies for a while, even though I barely knew who he was at the time. I disliked him because he was an asshole to most of the people I liked on the religion board, and he seemed to get along fi...

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Oh trust me buddy, I'm way ahead of you. The Florida Project - It's still great. I don't have much to add beyond what I already said. It's very nice when a movie like this comes out that shows people living in poverty without being either judgmental and condescending or wallowing in patronizing pers...

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Worov was a fucking asshole. I hope he's dead.

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall - I saw this movie once a very long time ago and I liked it because I had a crush on Mila Kunis and thought she was particularly attractive here. That was it. And I was correct. She's radiant. Angelic. I barely paid any attention when she wasn't on screen. Which is good, b...

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Yeah it's cringey edgelord shit and I have no tolerance for that. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - I had placed this on my favorites list back when I was more insecure than I am now and when I let critical consensus determine my opinions on film for me. As I said in my last thread, that doesn...

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The Youtube version of the Gish Gallop.

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It would fit right in with Kafka or Sartre. There needs to be more existentialist horror movies. The Edge of Seventeen (2016) - I still think this movie is very good, but at least 60% of that is due to Hailee Steinfeld's performance. Most of the rest is due to Woody Harrelson. Everything else is mos...

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Dogtooth - This movie sucks. I don't know what Yorgos Lanthimos was attempting to do here and I don't care. I guess presenting the nuclear family as an evil brainwashing cult and parenting as totalitarianism or something? Thanks, I already knew that. Every Lanthimos movie I've seen has basically be...

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Cube (1997) - On a basic level, this movie sucks. Terrible acting, bad writing, nonsensical story, and so on. But it works fine as an existentialist nightmare. When I was younger I thought the cube was basically a literalized metaphor for life - it was meaningless, purposeless, randomly dangerous, ...

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The Conjuring 2 - I know... I know. This is some generic-ass Hollywood spookhouse carnival bullshit. But it's very good generic-ass Hollywood spookhouse carnival bullshit. Like, if generic-ass Hollywood spookhouse carnival bullshit is what you're looking for, it doesn't get much better than this. I...

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Compliance - If Bridge to Terabithia was baby's first Pan's Labyrinth, this can be probably be called baby's first Girl Next Door. This caused a bit of a stir when it came out a few years ago, if you'll remember. It's a dramatic reenactment, basically, of an incident where some guy called a McDonal...

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Lol. Okay. Call Me By Your Name - Yeah, it's good. I appreciate it, I don't love it. I kind of feel like I already said most of what I can about it three years ago, and my thoughts haven't really changed: It's lush, sensual, vibrant, and rich. Watching it is like transporting yourself into a nostalg...

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I really have to apologize. I was fully intending to put a big fat SPOILER tag over my Bridge to Terabithia post, then I just forgot. I really hope I didn't spoil it for anyone. I think from now on a good assumption is that every post on this thread will be a spoiler. Also, I wasn't even aware there...

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I'll expand on Nightcrawler on my latest thread when I get there, but yes, it's one of the sharpest, funniest, and most effective attacks on capitalism I've seen in a mainstream movie. It's definitely not just about the media.

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Nope, no Dark Souls.

That's one reason why Jak II was supposed to be so hard, the relative lack of save points. That's a rather uncreative way to make a video game hard, but whatever.

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Bridge to Terabithia (2007) (SPOILERS) - I read someone describe this as "baby's first Pan's Labyrinth". I guess that's fair, although this movie is a lot more viscerally sad. This movie destroyed me when I first watched it when I was fourteen or whatever. I was a complete mess, and I'm n...

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Batman Begins - This movie is a lot sillier than most people remember. It has a secret centuries-long ninja organization that was responsible for The Black Death and the fall of Rome, visions of fire-breathing demon horses with red glowy eyes, a deranged psychopharmacologist with high-level mob con...

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The Bad News Bears (1976) - Is this movie considered an American classic? I can't tell. It seems surprisingly unknown and unloved by general culture today. I grew up thinking The Bad News Bears was one of those movies everyone has heard of and knows at least by reputation, yet some quick research s...

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28 Days Later is the only Boyle movie I've ever seen. The Apartment - I like this movie quite a bit. Its screenplay is clever and entertaining and thoughtful. Jack Lemmon playing Baxter is the personification of its continuous morphing between goofy farce and melancholic sadness so that they basical...

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Iron Man was fairly serious if I remember correctly, at least compared to later installments. It wasn't grimdark, but it was serious. Even there there wasn't a whole lot of difference.

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Iron Man is the best MCU movie and is also the best superhero movie to come out in 2008.

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Jak II has the most jarring change in tone of any sequel I've ever seen to anything, video game or otherwise, yet somehow they made it work.

I don't remember Bajo-Tooie being edgy, but if so, that's just another screw up. Nothing connected to Banjo-Kazooie has any business being edgy.

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