I watch a lot trailers and see a decent amount of movies and was wondering the same thing. :/

Limitless with Bradley Cooper. He starts out as a struggling writer with writer's block and ends up running for the US senate.

Yeah, that’s why I made the post. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. I grew up on the lowest budget movies out there and have loved lots of them. What was lacking in special effects, cinematography, writing, et al can sometimes be made up for with quirky fun stuff like a deformed hero with a mop for a weapon.

I just got zero fun out of this movie at all. Even the old straight to video/sci-fi channel movies had some campy jokes. This was just a straight forward disaster/terrorist action flick with zero inspiration and a $10 budget. People were rushing out of the screening in total silence. Idk just a weird experience seeing it have an audience.

I haven't seen Jordan Peele's other films, though I am planning to since I really enjoyed Nope. People each have different ways of watching films and if you watch enough you definitely build a skill of digger deeper and understanding media literacy.

Though to a general audience, it tends to only go surface level.

For example, most people will see Alien as a movie about just Ellen Ripley against the Xenomorph and such, whilst others will see the deeper ideas of pregnancy and rape.

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Do I need to see the first one for context?

Yeah I’ve always wanted to see some directors use the same shooting script for different movies. But like release the same time

It just kind of depends how thorough the streamer wants to be with their licensing purchase. Generally they just lease out huge chunks of a distributors library in bulk, not individually. So they'll get the cheapest, default cut of the title. More recently I've seen services going out of their way a bit more and having separate listings for subtitled and dubbed versions of non English films, which is cool. But rarely do they get unrated vs rated because if they do they see it as getting charged for the same title twice and don't bother.

Sometimes the cut they get is actually rarer. I had never seen the PG-13 cut of 2002's Rollerball before, because it was a disaster and all Home video releases bumped it up to an R rating to try and help promote it. So if you really want to see the PG-13 cut for...whatever reason, streaming is essentially the only way to do it.

I would say that your reaction to the movie is stupid. Lots to pick apart, but it’s your reaction. Own it, rather than claiming the movie is at fault for what happened in your brain

Seen it multiple times and still can't quite put it all together!!

But part of it's appeal was just that. I don't know that you could capture that lightning in a bottle twice.

When I say ‘how the words are read’ I don’t mean the literal pronunciation but the emotional performance. For example, watching comparisons a character will read a line nonchalantly when the original character read the line bitterly and that difference can change a lot of how a scene comes across. And I think emotion is something that sorta transcends language barriers. You don’t have to be able to speak another language to pick up on the emotion behind a line read.

The Rock for it's completeness, Bay could never seem to top it as his best film, imo. Face/Off has the better action while Con Air is batshit crazy.

Carrie by Brian De Palma, We Need To Talk About Kevin By Lynne Ramsay, It Follows by David Robert Mitchell

I still think it’s arguably the best movie ever made.

Place yourself in the time period when it released when you watch it, and think for a minute that none of the stuff he’s doing with the camera existed before him.

The makeup, all the actors came from stage never been in a movie before, Wells’ transformation into an old man, watch the scope of Xanadu, how the fuck did he create the depth/scope back then??? It’s sheer magic.

But all that’s superfluous, designed to trick you while Orson Wells spins a tale about a man of great power and wealth who dies alone.

The final quote wraps up the movie perfectly…

“He was a man who got everything and then again lost everything, Rosebud must've been something he lost or something he wanted but never got"

It’s a movie about what’s really important in life, what’s worth living for and the mistakes and regret of an old man.

I saw it at 9 and didn’t understand it, again at 15 and thought it had a message but was past it’s prime, again at 25 and it hit harder.

41 now, life is at the halfway point, shit hits even harder as you get older.

I hope you find it as intriguing as I always have…

I’ve seen extended editions on streaming services before.

Edit: Yeah, the extended editions or LotR is on HBO Max right now.

Perks of Being a Wallflower. The main character and me experienced a lot of the same events in life but there's a big one that's concealed in nature until the end of it.

The whole time his behavior is familiar but it didn't really click why until the ending. Rewatching it was like "okay yeah I see it now"

Probably more welcome to the dollhouse than kids. Even storytelling or happiness.

I was in full Arnold worship mode as a kid. Expecting another predator level film. First huge disappointment. Haven’t seen it since that day in the theatre. Wonder if I would like it more. It was too Fourth wall brakign for my little kid mind

This one is one my Dad wanted so bad an never happened

Forbidden Planet. It would so make for a good remake.

Plus Leslie Nelson

I didn’t fully understand memento until I saw the special edition where you solve a test and get to see it in chronologically order. Then I was like. Oooohhh I missed that

Also Tenet. Watch it 3 times only get 30 percent of it. Even when it’s explained. I don’t fully get it I guess Most if Christopher Nolan films make the list

Obviously Last Action Hero, but does OP not know who Arnold Schwarzenegger is?

family/dysfunction maybe little different than you are asking but recommend welcome to the doll house and kids

Fear

Caw!