The Pitters' Place

Interesting short film. Thoughts?

My to-watch document is called my memory.

I think I do have a few Word documents lying around too though...

It's time to sever.

Derived Absurdity wrote:The list of movies I want to see but haven't are probably in the hundreds by now.

I find watching movies is like battling the hydra. I watch one film, and suddenly there are five more in its place I want to see.

22. Hidden Figures - I'm really conflicted on this one. I love that I actually learned some stuff about the history of NASA, the contributions of African-Americans to one of our most important accomplishments as a country, and what may be the first film I've ever seen period about black lady scienti...

aels wrote:Same day! http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/27/neo-nazi- ... n-6409291/

Beautiful.

Wait when was the second punch?

Let me ask you all this then: Is The English Patient the Best Picture Winner of the 90's to ultimately hold the least relevance? Here all of the winners of that decade: Dances With Wolves (1990)* Silence of the Lambs (1991) Unforgiven (1992) Schindler's List (1993) Forrest Gump (1994) Braveheart (19...

I guess people haven't seen The English Patient. :( 21. Moonlight - A quiet movie about emotional vulnerability in people that Hollywood is usually all too quick to reduce to stereotypes, particularly in movies like The Blind Side. It has a really interesting narrative structure too, which kind of r...

Context is important. That line about brevity is from one of Shakespeare's longest plays, which is filled with many lengthy soliloquies that most certainly do not go for the briefest way of expressing ideas. Even that link talks about how Polonious is unwitty and long-winded, whereas other character...

As we all know, Shakespeare was known for his brevity. :P

I do agree there shouldn't have been three movies. Hell before it was even announced as a trilogy I remember complaining that two films was overkill.

The thing is that I don't think Jackson is always doing serious in the Hobbit movies. Like the more comedic scenes that are just Martin Freeman fulfilling his patriotic duty as the British fish out of the chips are great. Hell I even liked that silly nonsense with the barrels on the river. OTOH the ...

Key and Peele had some really great skits- watching a bunch of them, it really surprised me how well they were able to combine classical filmmaking ideas with their comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izh-j8KUYjs It's pretty easy to draw a parallel between this video for example, and Hitchcock's...

FWIW I was referring to the 1928 Joan of Arc movie, the one Dreyer directed. ^ I'm with aels on LotR, though I did make it through the books. I do prefer The Hobbit book to the films, though. I liked the Hobbit book. As far as the movies go...I feel like I enjoyed them more when they weren't trying ...

The two I always get into trouble for not liking are The Passion of Joan of Arc and Lawrence of Arabia. I'm not fond of the Lord of the Rings trilogy either though it's been such a long time that a rewatch might change my opinion.

20. The English Patient - I had trouble really getting hooked into this one, though I think that's less of a fault of the film than the fact I felt pretty sick today. Otherwise I liked several aspects of the movie- namely how soft the more romantic scenes felt, as well as the back and forth between ...

What's funny is that the Rocky sequels do deal with similar themes as Million Dollar Baby- Creed in particular has the specter of Apollo being killed in the ring in Rocky IV haunting over Adonnis' entire quest, the film hinting that he'll probably meet the same end as his father some day . It's inte...

Can't say I've heard of either of those two. :(

Rational debate didn't defeat the Nazis the first time- I'm not sure why anyone would think it might do the trick this time.

18. Million Dollar Baby - So I generally enjoy Clint Eastwood's movies, and had decided to save this one for a while. Watching it today its pretty decent but I don't think I would have given it the Best Picture Oscar, certainly not over The Aviator. The ending was surprising, with it maybe being the...

17. Le Petit Soldat - I'm a little surprised that Godard made this right after Breathless, since while it has the content you might expect from early Godard...it's got like none of the formal inventiveness we associate with him now. It feels super conventional, but well done conventionality. I kind ...

The new Blair Witch is also a sequel, believe it or not. If you didn't like the original though I really doubt you'd like the newer movie. Shutter Island was interesting to revisit since the first time I saw it I really didn't care for it. The twist just didn't work at all for me, like Scorsese was ...

So here's my list of movies I've seen so far this year. If you want to hear about what I thought of any of these specifically, just ask. As I post new films I'll try and add a line or two about them though. 1. Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces 2. Exam 3. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 4. Shadow of the ...

I liked Triangle (2009), though I think the way the stuff with the main character's child plays out comes off as a little needlessly edgy.

Also if you've seen anything else in the genre the big twist is a little predictable, though still well done.

Yeah its one of those things where they're not wrong to be skeptical of the big news stations but advocating for Alex Jones is like a thousand times worse than the flaws of CNN and the like. I don't think unbiased news really exists- reporters are always going to have to interpret facts and organize...

When I was in middle school, we once went on lockdown for several hours because someone decided he just had plain had enough that day and tried to escape. Never found out what happened to him. When I was in college we went on lockdown because of reports of someone with a "long gun" on the ...

You know I can't help but wonder if I wouldn't be quite so distasteful of Ghibli if it felt like the only anime a lot of cinephiles seemed to not immediately reject, if only in comparison to the stuff from more "disreputable" genres I tend to prefer. I'd like to think I'm above such biases...

Hello there, fluffy new board lambkin! Thanks. :) You're one of the good ones, right? Nope! Hey Raxi. FYI for everyone, Raxi is the first refugee I've invited from the Evangelion board. He's good peeps, despite his lacking a soul, which I discovered when he admitted his apathy towards Studio Ghibli...

I dunno, hearing that this cockroach that digs into our skulls still lives is actually pretty frightening.

Refugee.

That's right, I believe we talked briefly over at IMDb- assuming you're the same Gendo, that is.

When I moved away from Indiana a few years ago, I took some comfort in believing that at least I no longer had to live under Pence's governorship.

Jokes on me, of course.

Hi, how are you all doing, what's up, etc.