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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.
Letterboxd lets you track your watch history in a diary, but doesn't show it to you in a calendar format, so I went and did it myself.
Does anybody want to talk about:
The Zone of Interest (2023): ★★☆
I really wish they hadn't burned the subtitles into the video and let me use the normal subtitle toggle instead. The ones burned into the video are too small and hard to read at times because they don't have an outline. They also really need to make the setting clear when the movie opens the way that it does. It also would have been nice to be able to try and follow the German on my own. It's been more than a decade since I took classes in school, but I could make out bits and pieces on my own.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): ★★☆ (rewatch)
I'd seen this once before. After that, I read some people's opinions that the movie is really about Ferris' friend Cameron, and I tried to watch it from that perspective this time. I get where people are coming from, but Cameron's arc has a 30-minute TV episode's worth of material, not a two hour movie. You still need all the rest of it to make it a satisfying movie.
Taste of Cherry (1997): ★☆☆
Add one to the list of movies that make me feel stupid. I was confused at the end and felt nothing as the credits started rolling. Clearly I missed something since this movie is so well-regarded, but I can't really explain my frustration without going deep into spoilers.