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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
Finally watched Inside Out 2. I enjoyed it, though it wasn't as good as the first one obviously. I did shed a couple tears towards the end...
I had the exact same experience. except I cried a little more even in the middle.
I've surprisingly only seen ~37% of ~movies top 10 favorite movies list, so I'm hoping to knock out some of the list soon. Maybe once a week? I think I've seen most movies that had 5 or more selections as a top 10 movie, but have a lot of unseen in the single movie list.
Hoping to watch The Thing as the most recommended movie that I haven't watched yet.
Forgot to include the link:
https://tildes.net/~movies/1i6w/tildes_favourite_movies
Interesting idea. I am missing Hot Fuzz and The Princess Bride from the top. Movies I have somehow barely heard of, so that is surprising. Might need to find the time for them.
Looks like you have some top comedies to catch-up on. There are also quite a few entries in the gray area of I've seen it or seen a majority of it, but it was a really long time or I didn't have my full attention to it. Pricess Bride might be one of those movies honestly.
I watched both those movies when I was 15. I can’t remember how far apart they were but they just have been pretty close if I can feel them linked.
Princess Bride I watched in a class as a reward after a test. I can’t remember if I knew about it before hand, I must have because of the memes and it must have been included in some of the movie documentaries I watched.
Hot Fuzz I watched on my own, that was awesome. I vaguely remember seeing that advertised as a kid.
Hot Fuzz is one of the very few movies that I've ever watched twice in one sitting. Friends and I watched it for the first time when we were like 15, so shortly after it came out, and we were like hell yeah let's watch that again
I watched Hundreds of Beavers for the second time in a few months.
The way the gags keep coming and the complexity keeps building is worth remarking on. It has a very video game way of progressing, somewhat like passing through increasingly difficulty levels. The low budget visuals are surprisingly interesting and play well into the laughs.
If you spend time looking into what others have to say about this film, you may find mention of Looney Tunes, and the director was quoted in this review mentioning the obvious influences of Chaplin and Keaton films.
It's awfully funny. Highly recommend for people that enjoy atypical cinema.
It looks fun. Have you, by chance, experienced the Red Green show? If you like this kind of thing, you owe it to yourself to check it out. They have it on Prime streaming.
Wow. Hadn't thought of that show in a very long time. I've not watched it from beginning to end, as I only saw it on linear TV broadcasts many years ago. I think it might have aired on PBS in the US. I definitely stopped on whatever channel it was whenever I happened upon it. I can remember my parents laughing along with me. Thanks for jogging my memory.
I watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女) (2006) -- and it was pretty good. A little shallow, if that makes sense. It feels like Undone took this as a starting point and ran wild, dramatically improving the concept.
All in all, good film.
I also watched Midnight Cowboy (1969). I hate this style of hippie movie. I get what they're going for, but they all reuse the one song over and over until you never want to hear it again, yada yada yada -- it just isn't for me.
Watched the classic Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) again this week. The movie came up in conversation while walking through a subway station in NYC with my friends when we spotted an ad with Willem Dafoe on it. One of my friends then immediately started quoting a scene involving the character played by Dafoe in Mr. Bean's Holiday and the rest of my friends and I started discussing it on the subway train. We even had a random person on the train join in on the convo briefly as they were in disbelief that Willem Dafoe was in this film.