it really does need to be seen on the big screen for the full effect
Yep, I’d never actually seen it all the way through in one go until the 50th anniversary ultra-wide cut in a cinema, classic art deco place projecting on film too.
Easily overtook Gravity on Imax as my top movie experience ever.
My wife and I started watching Deadloch, a murder mystery with some comedy mixed in. The show is set in Tasmania while the main characters are opposing detectives from Sydney and Darwin. It’s a good show that is satisfying my cravings for more media from Antipodeans.
We’re four episodes in and definitely enjoying it. We found it on Amazon Prime.
Mulholland drive is one of my personal favorites. Peep the profile pic. I would love to pick David Lynch’s brain
tw : mentions of suicide
This convinced me to make a Letterboxd account
Pretty sweet! Got a nice watchlist going from some lists I was looking at.
just got a copy of Oppenheimer and working my way through it
I loved the first two parts of the game series. After that not so much, for me it worked better as an RPG than a shooter.
So I saw The Boy and the Heron over the weekend, I thought it was good! He was really shooting for the Spirited Away/Princess Mononoke level and I think it’s pretty much there with them.
Very weird and mystical, which is good, but also maybe to the point where it became a little tricky to follow.
I also thought maybe some of the animation was not as fluid/natural looking as I have come to expect like with the motions of all the birds, but overall visually stunning as you could hope for.
I’m usually one for Japanese with English subtitles, but Robert Pattinson got me curious enough to see it in English and he absolutely nailed it! Good VA all round.
Definitely one to reward multiple watches, I thought some questions were left unanswered but that may be me missing things. Still much to think about in terms of the more personal family oriented story and the meta subtext of it likely being Miyazaki’s last movie.
This is all far too complicated cinema for my tastes but perhaps you would appreciate by buddy who participates in Nick Cage November and watches one of his flicks (or more: his words) every day in November. I forgot to celebrate the important milestone movies with him this year.
Loved it. Agree with all of this, except it was definitely one of my favorites of the year. Of course, I don’t see many new movies so that’s not difficult for me, lol.
My family watches trash. I couldnt pay attention to whatever was on TV, it had some insane plot lol
I started listening to Tarantinos audiobook and the book’s chapters are “Organized around key American films from the 1970s” so I decided it would be cool to watch them before listening to each chapter… watched the first two.
I’d seen the Bullitt car chase scene before, but don’t really remember the whole movie. I’d say the only thing I took away other than the car chase scene was really cool again (and a few other decent scenes) was Robert Vaughn’s performance. Loved that guy. He is excellent here, but stays in his lane.
Dirty Harry I hadn’t seen before. It was pretty wild and enjoyable. Harry is supposed to be an anti-hero I’m pretty sure… and the very last shot at the end where he’s walking away is pretty bad ass… but to me, he was pretty insufferable throughout the movie. I’m sure it’s because at this point the Dirty Harry character has been spoofed to death that makes it feel even more of a cringey cliche character to me, but I felt very eye rolley “ok tough guy” watching this movie… hoping his partner would kinda be the Sancho to Harry’s Don Quixote. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the character, but I did wonder what kinda take I had on this vs the zeitgeist. Time to find out what QT thinks. 
I love Cillian and have since 28 days later… and I also read and loved American Prometheus… so I’m definitely biased here. But Oppenheimer is prob my best picture of 2023.
I always thought the worst thing about the movie theater was the people. That and the prices for snacks…
I’m on movie 11/12 of the Cinema Speculation list and its Paul Schraders Hardcore (1979) which is just f’n excellent so far. Especially how good George C Scott is. And then did a double take at this line 
Got around to watching Love & Mercy today. As a fan of Brian Wilson and his work in the Beach Boys I really enjoyed myself, but the major catharsis came from the raw emotional punches the movie keeps throwing your way. “Life is stranger than fiction” is a good way to put it considering its all based off true events and the performances also elevated the movie to a whole different level than most contemporary music biopics. Needless to say Paul Dano kind of stole the show for me but that’s only one of the many great actors already putting in top shelf performances. Great movie, glad someone decided it was worth telling in this medium.
That’s fair, I don’t doubt the hollywood-ification at work and if I knew a lot more about the story being told I would have more notes, I think the strength of the movie was more the portrayals of the musical process and mental health. I do agree that they could have put more work into making some characters seem less one-dimensional but maybe the runtime would have suffered too who knows. Glad this is not seen as a perfect movie too because I actually had a hard time thinking of criticism but I think your outlook is pretty valuable here so thank you
I’ve found it so hard to sit down and watch movies all the way through lately, but there’s a lot of potential movies you guys posted here that could draw me back in!!
Been a little late but I started watching the second season for Invincible. I was so freaking confused because I thought I had forgotten everything about the first season but it turns out my dumb ass started watching episode 2 instead of beginning with the first one. I completely forgot about the Lizard League, what the hell
