> I couldn't believe there was so much going on with just one dude on an island.

It's a rare actor that can be the only entity in a film for an hour and still make it gripping as hell.

It's often glossed over, but the movie has no soundtrack until he leaves the island.

Then the music hits like a freight train.

Reva’s story was absolute nonsense. She survives things that she shouldn’t survive and her motivations make absolutely no sense. She becomes an inquisitor to kill the remaining Jedi to get close to Vader so she can kill him to avenge the Jedi 😂

You didn’t watch Taxi Driver.

Just some baffling decisions. I can’t remember who pointed it out but the whole idea that he’s meant to be there protecting the boy and yet, he’s kinda let it slip?

What is with this generation of filmmakers making our heroes completely different from whom they use to be. Rambo, Luke, Obi Won. I don’t get it. I love that Tom Cruise basically said, “Fuck that. I’m the hero. I act like a hero the whole time.”

This thread is seriously the first time I’ve seen people argue that Dutch spent all of that time creating a decoy trap that the Pred was supposed to almost walk into, then notice, then move himself to an arbitrary position under the counterweight for the “real” trap.

As opposed to the rather straightforward read, that it was a combination of luck and quick thinking that enabled Dutch to pull victory from the jaws of defeat.

I thought it was meant to be Russia this time too.

At a certain point, the film Mother! becomes the best depiction of a bad dream ever.

This takes place in San Fransico , not Asia.

Castaway may be one of the few movies where the second act is the best but the third act is a good second place.

I think Mean Girls is a masterpiece of the New Sincerity Movement (Post-post modern). The way it uses irony to burn down flawed, Hughesque, perceptions of teenage existence and high school, and then builds a sincere vision at the end fulfills the thesis in an inspired way.

Not to mention it's a comedy where nearly every joke elicits a laugh, and where setups service multiple punchlines, and punchlines serve as setups for future jokes.

and typically film lags behind literary movements, so I think Mean Girls is also quite ahead of its time which is why i's still so enjoyable to watch today

I just remember "TAKE IT BACK AND COOK IT RIGHT!" from the cartoon.

But that’s just not at all how the scene is shot. This is seriously the first I’ve heard of this interpretation.

Here’s the scene: https://youtu.be/lOoOP2l_ahQ

Dutch has clearly made an effort to disguise the spikes by camouflaging them with leaves. And he’s actively goading the predator to follow him through the kill box.

The movie makes a big show of the predator almost doing it too, but accidentally bumping into the spikes and thus noticing the trap. Then we have a sequence where we, as the audience, are watching the alien internally debate the best path forward. That tension only works if we, and Dutch, actually want the alien to move into the kill box.

And then, when the predator decides to just go around, the film is clearly showing Dutch’s reaction as first a sort of “you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me” defeated look and then a realization that his counterweight is perfectly placed to drop on the alien’s head.

❤️❤️❤️🎵🎸🎤🎶

If you think that French Cinema is so bad they cannot survive without crony protectionism, then you think their movies are terrible.

I think French Cinema is perfectly good. Sorry you disagree, that doesn’t mean your opinion trumps that of every other French cinema viewer in the world. Like, say, the French.

Exactly when I began watching it I didn't think she was going to be so likeable to be honest.

Schlemiel is Yiddish for a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person. Schlimazel is Yiddish for a consistently unlucky or accident-prone person. Hassenpfeffer is a rabbit stew.

I don't know if it counts because it's not technically a dream but I want to shout out I'm Thinking of Ending Things. That movie feels like you're in someone's head, like you're watching someone's subconscious in free time. Characters talk over the ends of each other's sentences, the dialogue and performances are stylized in an inconsistent way (as if someone keeps changing their mind about how these people talk), character names and layouts of rooms change randomly, shots linger longer than they need to or cut abruptly in an uncomfortable way, even the sound design feels unnatural.

Everyone knows Kaufman is an accomplished writer but he really impressed me with his directing choices in this movie.

I would not say Taxi Driver has a happy ending. And saying that Travis “gets the girl” is pretty gross considering you’re talking about a 12 year old.

It's rabbit stew

Exorcist 3

Lenny and Squiggy still around?

I’d say that’s true for Ti West

Flanagan is actually talented though

Fighting Tyler Durden

Agree that a lot of it was so sad. Interesting to see that the same hosts are still joking and humiliating women the same way as in the 90s...

That being said, I just realized that I love her! She's clearly talented, she's done so much for the vulnerable and was promoting it all while being disgustingly insulted by assholes through her whole life. I love how she can joke about her life and she seems like such a loving, funny person. Her relationship with her sons is so wholesome.