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kentro2002 t1_j6n7n2j wrote

Reply to Every Movie I Saw in January by Yenserl6099

I would follow you, these are spot on IMO. Devil is #1, so good. Kramer vs. Kramer, as a kid who parent got divorced a year or two after that, I cry every time. Office Space should have been the seed of the working people of Reddit, which I think it is.

The one I didn’t get was LaLa land, I love them both, Gossling especially, I didn’t get why it got all the accolades, not bad, and I understand some of the cinematography was groundbreaking, but I still could never get in to it.

Other than than, well done!

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Kyriio t1_j6n7kr3 wrote

Reply to Tarsem Singh Returns to Films With Indian Project ‘Dear Jassi’ by gautsvo

I'll always like Mirror Mirror, even though it's clearly not a great film. With that cast (Julia Roberts! Nathan Lane! Sean Bean!), costumes (RIP Eiko Ishioka) and music (Alan Menken!), it only needed a better script to be a classic. It was the beginning of CGI overuse in Hollywood, but Tarsem's sensibilities made it age rather well.

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NeoNoireWerewolf t1_j6n7d03 wrote

Reply to comment by SwingJugend in Why Film Festivals Are Steering Clear of Controversial Movies by BobRobot77

That’s a bit different since it was a young, unregulated industry trying to avoid the government taking an interest in their hustle. The artists were not self-censoring out of fear of being deemed racist/sexist/insensitive/whatever, it was the studios saying you couldn’t have films be too violent/sexual/crass because then the government will come in and start telling them how they can run their business. Basically the same story for the Comics Code Authority. Today’s discussions about self-censorship are quite different, as they are linked more to things like representation and whether the content of the work is representative of who the creator is as a person. It is a fight about who has the right to tell what kind of stories and whether the art can actually be separated from the artist.

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mikeyfreshh t1_j6n6t8h wrote

Reply to Every Movie I Saw in January by Yenserl6099

You should get on Letterboxd if you're not already. That's a better platform for this kind of thing and it will make it easier for you to sort through your movies and reviews later on

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