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    1. Midweek Movie Free Talk

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      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.

      11 votes
    2. Tildes' favourite movies

      A couple of days ago I asked Tildes about your ten favourite movies. I've taken the results and put them in a sheet to count the results. There were 310 unique movie suggestions from 45 different...

      A couple of days ago I asked Tildes about your ten favourite movies. I've taken the results and put them in a sheet to count the results. There were 310 unique movie suggestions from 45 different Tilderinos.

      Here are all the movies ranked, with the Top 13 in a table, and the rest in accordions that you can click through to.

      Movie Votes
      Alien 10
      Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 10
      Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 9
      Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 9
      Hot Fuzz 8
      The Princess Bride 6
      Everything Everywhere All At Once 5
      Aliens 5
      The Empire Strikes Back 5
      The Thing 5
      The 5th Element 5
      Sprited Away 5
      Blade Runner 5
      14th - 75th
      Movie Votes
      Lawrence of Arabia 4
      Dr. Strangelove 4
      Star Wars: A New Hope 4
      The Truman Show 4
      The Godfather Part 1 4
      Monty Python and the Holy Grail 4
      RoboCop 4
      The Matrix 4
      My Neighbour Totoro 4
      The Shawshank Redemption 4
      Shawn of the Dead 3
      Children of Men 3
      Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 3
      2001: A Space Odyssey 3
      Arrival 3
      Mulholland Drive 3
      Interstellar 3
      Moonrise Kingdom 3
      Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 3
      Inglorious Basterds 3
      Goodfellas 3
      Blade Runner 2049 3
      Die Hard 3
      The Prestige 3
      La La Land 3
      Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse 2
      The Dark Knight 2
      Taxi Driver 2
      The Sound of Music 2
      Tremors 2
      Apocalypse Now 2
      Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 2
      Annihilation 2
      Bo Burnham: Inside 2
      Inception 2
      No Country for Old Men 2
      Pan's Labyrinth 2
      The Lion King 2
      Song of the Sea 2
      Dogma 2
      Pulp Fiction 2
      Dune (1984) 2
      The Hunt for Red October 2
      Kill Bill: Volume 2 2
      Princess Mononoke 2
      Ghost in the Shell 2
      The Man from Earth 2
      The Producers 2
      Perfect Blue 2
      Before Sunrise 2
      The Terminator 2
      T2: Judgment Day 2
      Pacific Rim 2
      The Martian 2
      Back to the Future 2
      This Is Spinal Tap 2
      Blazing Saddles 2
      Stardust 2
      The Grand Budapest Hotel 2
      The Sixth Sense 2
      Monty Python's Life of Brian 2
      The Silence of the Lambs 2
      76 - 310
      • Good Will Hunting
      • Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse
      • Baby Driver
      • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
      • The World's End
      • The Farewell
      • Avengers End Game
      • North by Northwest
      • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
      • Schindler's List
      • The Graduate
      • Jingle All The Way
      • Patriot Games
      • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
      • Godzilla vs. Megalon
      • About Time
      • The Cabin in the Woods
      • Jurassic Park
      • Dark City
      • Eurotrip
      • The Godfather Part 2
      • The Godfather Part 3
      • Reservoir Dogs
      • Mandy
      • Waking Life
      • 12 Monkeys
      • Midsommar
      • Climax
      • Alice in Wonderland (1951)
      • Brick
      • A Clockwork Orange
      • It's Such a Beautiful Day
      • The Wizard of Oz
      • Persona
      • The Birds
      • Sunset Boulevard
      • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
      • Zerkalo (The Mirror)
      • The Exorcist
      • Texas Chainsaw Massacre
      • MST3K: The Movie
      • Dreamcatcher
      • The Thirteenth Floor
      • Fantastic Mr. Fox
      • Ghostbusters
      • 28 Days Later
      • Gattaca
      • Signs
      • Vanilla Sky
      • Highlander
      • Nimona
      • Thor: Ragnarok
      • Raiders of the Lost Ark
      • Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom
      • Shrek 2
      • Django Unchained
      • Chinatown
      • The Deer Hunter
      • 12 Angry Men
      • Rear Window
      • The Conversation
      • Eastern Promises
      • Fargo
      • The Royal Tenenbaums
      • A Fish called Wanda
      • Koyaanisqatsi
      • Lost Highway
      • Santa Sangre
      • The Lobster
      • Mirrormask
      • Kubo and the Two Strings
      • Mad Max: Fury Road
      • Wet Hot American Summer
      • Room
      • 10 Things I Hate About You
      • Mr Jones
      • Big Trouble in Little China
      • Sneakers
      • Poltergeist
      • Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
      • Kill Bill: Volume 1
      • Mei and the Kitten Bus
      • Hard Boiled
      • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
      • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
      • Super Troopers
      • Dogma
      • Rocky Horror Picture Show
      • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
      • Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
      • The Wall
      • Interstella 5555
      • In Bruges
      • Galaxy Express 999
      • The World's Fastest Indian
      • Pontypool
      • 1408
      • The Last Samurai
      • Carlito's Way
      • Police Academy
      • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
      • Cool Runnings
      • Watch Out We're Mad
      • Home Alone
      • Convoy
      • Contact
      • Funny Games
      • Godland
      • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
      • Ben Hur
      • Three Colors: Blue
      • Autumn Sonata
      • Clerks
      • Sherlock Holmes
      • Nirvana
      • Asteroid City
      • Edge of Tomorrow
      • Gangs of New York
      • Snatch
      • Starship Troopers
      • Maximum Overdrive
      • The Killer (1989)
      • Noroi: The Curse
      • Her
      • Inside Llewyn Davis
      • Star Trek (2009)
      • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
      • The Lighthouse
      • Batman vs. Superman Dawn of Justice
      • The Proposition
      • Tombstone
      • The Strangers
      • The Sandlot
      • Primer
      • The Neverending Story
      • Aladdin
      • The Big Lebowski
      • Spaceballs
      • A Knight's Tale
      • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
      • O Brother Where Art Thou
      • Scott Pilgrim vs the World
      • Heavy Metal
      • Beerfest
      • Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem
      • Kung Fury
      • Table for Six
      • Fiddler on the Roof
      • Jeanne Dielman
      • Through the Olive Trees
      • A Special Day
      • Aftershool
      • The Naked Island
      • What Time is it There?
      • Day Night Day Night
      • Notorious
      • Late Spring
      • Grave of the Fireflies
      • Porco Rosso
      • Akira
      • Das Boot
      • The Legend of the Drunken Master
      • Manchester by the Sea
      • Office Space
      • Planet of the Apes
      • Clue
      • Wall-E
      • The Addams Family
      • The Nightmare Before Christmas
      • Tenet
      • End of Watch
      • Sicario
      • Spider-Man 2
      • Captain America: Civil War
      • The Big Short
      • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
      • Yojimbo
      • The Last Duel
      • The Green Knight
      • Dune Part 1
      • Dune Part 2
      • Top Gun
      • Predator
      • Burning
      • Malignant
      • Possessor
      • Your Name
      • Grizzle Man
      • Pulse
      • Event Horizon
      • The Tale of Princess Kaguya
      • Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
      • The Man Who Sleeps
      • Honeyland
      • Beyond the Black Rainbow
      • Sans Soleil
      • La Jetee
      • The Secret of Kells
      • A Scanner Darkly
      • 12 Angry Men
      • Almost Famous
      • Forrest Gump
      • Jaws
      • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
      • South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
      • Metropolis (1927)
      • Metropolis (2001)
      • Cloud Atlas
      • Tokyo Godfathers
      • Hero
      • Leprechaun
      • The Dark Crystal
      • We Need to Talk About Kevin
      • Leon: The Professional
      • Full Metal Jacket
      • A Room with a View
      • The Departed
      • Ocean's Eleven
      • Ocean's Twelve
      • The Fountain
      • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
      • Shine
      • Saw VI
      • Toy Story 3
      • A Silent Voice
      • End of Evangelion
      • The Incredibles
      • Brazil
      • 5cm per Second
      • Coco
      • Anchorman
      • Lola Rennt
      • In God We Trust
      • 15 Million Credits (Black Mirror)
      • Don't Look Up

      Edit: I may have jumped the gun on this, there's another reply in the other thread.

      43 votes
    3. What are your ten favourite movies of all time?

      What are your ten favourite movies? My daughter asked me this the other day - we were watching Cabin in the Woods, which is one of my favourites, and I said that it was a top ten movie for me, and...

      What are your ten favourite movies? My daughter asked me this the other day - we were watching Cabin in the Woods, which is one of my favourites, and I said that it was a top ten movie for me, and she asked me about the others. Now I want to hear yours!

      50 votes
    4. Midweek Movie Free Talk

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      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.

      8 votes
    5. Midweek Movie Free Talk

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      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.

      4 votes
    6. Why does "Everything Everywhere All at Once" repulse me so much?

      I have never seen "Everything Everywhere All at Once". I know only a few details about the story. I know it was hugely successful and is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best, movies...

      I have never seen "Everything Everywhere All at Once". I know only a few details about the story. I know it was hugely successful and is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best, movies of all time.
      I know so very little about it, because somehow everything about it repulses me. And I have no clue as to why.

      There are very few movies that provoke such a strong negative reaction in me. As a matter of fact, the only other movie that comes even close is “Ad Astra”, a movie I despise on a very visceral level. But for that one, I know exactly why I hate it so much. I can talk about my reasons for hating it for hours on end and have done so in the past (very much to the dismay of my friends on the other end of the voice chat).
      But with "Everything Everywhere All at Once", my reaction to it is a complete mystery to me.

      It’s not that I find it simply unappealing, I’d say that I find most movies unappealing. But in those cases I just say “eh, not for me” and look for something else.
      I also don’t think it’s bad. I know so damn little about it, how could I even make that judgment?

      But whenever I read something about it, see clips from it, or hear other people discuss it or its themes, I get this very strong feeling of repulsion. Think of it like holding a glass of holy water under a vampire's nose. If I force myself to continue reading or watching, I get angry/agitated, complete with quickened pulse, fight-or-flight impulse, the whole enchilada.

      But I don’t understand why. Why is my negative reaction so damn strong when I know so very little about it?
      Sure, its philosophical take about absurdism isn’t really my style, but I’ve seen plenty of trailers or snippets of absurd comedies and usually my reaction is just “meh, not for me”, maybe even a “damn, that looks like shit” if I find it particularly unappealing.
      And yes, it’s flashy style, quick cuts and overdone lighting-effects are just downright too hectic for me, but why would that make me hate it so much?


      So yeah, I deeply dislike everything about "Everything Everywhere All at Once" despite me knowing very little about it and I have no clue as to why my reaction is as strong as it is.

      Has anyone experienced a similarly strong negative reaction to this movie, or know someone who has?
      Does anyone have an idea as to why/how it essentially triggers me, even though I have had way to little exposure to it or anything like it that would merit such a reaction?

      35 votes
    7. Midweek Movie Free Talk

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      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.

      8 votes
    8. Deadpool & Wolverine discussion

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      This is possibly the biggest movie of the year, definitely the biggest R-rated movie of the year (probably all time if it has any legs after last night's huge opening), and Marvel's first R-rated flick to be part of their "Cinematic Universe", so I think it might be worthy of discussion on those grounds alone.

      I saw the movie last night in the most packed movie theater I've been in since before COVID. This experience was an absolute treat, and reminded me why I've always enjoyed going to big tentpole Marvel/DC movies opening weekend despite never really being into comics or super heroes as a kid. The energy of the crowd is downright infectious, and impossible to replicate at home.

      As for the movie itself, I enjoyed it. I thought the story was a little thin. Deadpool's character arc here is not as strong as what we got in either of his first two outings, with Wolverine doing more of the heavy lifting. The primary antagonists, Mr. Paradox played by Matthew Macfadyen and Cassandra Nova played by Emma Corrin, are also not as well developed as their counterparts from the prior films (Ajax, Rusty, and Cable). However both still turn in solid, funny performances.

      I think this is made up for by how well executed everything else is. This is a movie that only works because it is a Deadpool movie. Act 2 in particular is a non-stop assault of cameos and references that would make me groan in almost any other context, but had me laughing my ass off. The chemistry Reynolds and Jackman have on screen is palpable, making for the most entertaining super hero team up I've seen.

      Perhaps more than anything, this is a love letter to 20th Century Fox's decades-long run of super hero movies, warts and all.

      SpoilerIf this wasn't clear during its runtime, the sequence of BTS footage and clips from these films set to Green Day's Time of Your Life during the credits absolutely does.

      7.5/10. I had a great time, but I think the central premise here only works once. If there is more Deadpool in our future, a smaller cast with more focus on character work like the first two would be welcome.

      Some stand-out moments for me:

      Big time spoilers * Chris Evans as *not* Captain America * The fight scene inside a Honda Odyssey * Dogpool and Nicepool * Thor crying over a dying Deadpool * Chris Evans' incredibly vulgar post-credits scene
      20 votes
    9. Movie of the Week #40 - Edge of Tomorrow

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      The last blockbuster is Edge of Tomorrow from 2014. Directed by Doug Liman and starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. It made $370 million at the box office.

      IMDb
      Letterboxd
      Wikipedia

      Is this a proper blockbuster? Is it a proper Tom Cruise movie?


      This also ends Movie of the Week format for now. See you in the Midweek movietalk instead.

      19 votes
    10. Midweek Movie Free Talk

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      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.

      6 votes
    11. Midweek Movie Free Talk

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      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.

      3 votes
    12. Movie of the Week #38 - Snatch

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      Next up of blockbusters is Snatch from 2000 directed by Guy Ritchie and it made $83 million in box office.

      IMDb
      Letterboxd
      Wikipedia

      Is this a proper blockbuster with all that entails? Any thoughts on Guy Ritchie's other films?


      The rest of the schedule is:

      • 22nd: Barbie
      • 29th: Edge of Tomorrow
      11 votes