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December 29, 2022 at 4:56 pm #142371
wvParticipantScorcese on marvel:
July 30, 2024 at 7:53 am #151557
znModeratorJuly 30, 2025 at 11:39 pm #157267znModeratorAugust 6, 2025 at 8:19 am #157361wvParticipantPredator Badlands caught my eye.
August 9, 2025 at 8:39 am #157410wvParticipantPaul Thomas Anderson. Dunno if it will be any good, but its Paul Thomas Anderson.
August 10, 2025 at 8:40 am #157433znModeratorPaul Thomas Anderson. Dunno if it will be any good, but its Paul Thomas Anderson.
Speaking with a lucky attendee at the screening, Anderson confirmed the film––which is titled One Battle After Another––is nearly finished, helping squash those unsubstantiated reports of the film being delayed. As early rumors hinted, it is indeed a modern take on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland. While Donald Trump isn’t mentioned, the film does feature white supremacists, notably Sean Penn’s menacing character Col. Steve J. Lockjaw (aka Brock Vond, for those familiar with the book), who gets the second-most screentime after Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, whose name is reportedly Bob but he goes by “Ghetto Pat.” The film captures Lockjaw’s hunt for Teyana Taylor’s character after she leaves him to be with DiCaprio’s character.
August 19, 2025 at 5:07 pm #157585znModeratorSeptember 25, 2025 at 2:49 pm #158238wvParticipantDidnt know Ingmar Bergman was a Nazi sympathizer up until about 1948 or so.
28 minute mark of the film.When he finally came to his senses about Nazism and rejected it, according to the film, he swore to never become politically engaged again, and not to bring politics into his films.
Which seems stupid to me, and the opposite of what he should have done.Bergman: A Year In The Life
https://tubitv.com/movies/100015481/bergman-a-year-in-a-lifeSeptember 26, 2025 at 9:39 pm #158253znModeratorDidnt know Ingmar Bergman was a Nazi sympathizer up until about 1948 or so.
Fwiw there’s a somewhat different account in the wiki:
In 1934, aged 16, he was sent to Germany to spend the summer holidays with family friends. He attended a Nazi rally in Weimar at which he saw Adolf Hitler.[17] He later wrote in Laterna Magica (The Magic Lantern) about the visit to Germany, describing how the German family had put a portrait of Hitler on the wall by his bed, and that “for many years, I was on Hitler’s side, delighted by his success and saddened by his defeats”.[18] Bergman commented that “Hitler was unbelievably charismatic. He electrified the crowd. … The Nazism I had seen seemed fun and youthful.”[19] Bergman did two five-month stretches of mandatory military service in Sweden.[20] He later reflected,
When the doors to the concentration camps were thrown open, at first I did not want to believe my eyes … When the truth came out it was a hideous shock for me. In a brutal and violent way I was suddenly ripped of my innocence.[19]
But then there’s this:
The Guardian, Stellan Skarsgård on Ingmar Bergman: ‘The only person I know who cried when Hitler died’: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/11/stellan-skarsgard-ingmar-bergman-hitler
October 4, 2025 at 9:24 am #158489wvParticipantIn the book, she does call the coin-flip. (I did not know that)
October 8, 2025 at 4:40 pm #158529wvParticipantNovember 9, 2025 at 12:11 pm #159174wvParticipantSaw Babylon this week on dvd. Brad Pitt. Its by the director that did LaLa Land and Whiplash.
I’d never even heard of it. I guess it bombed at the box-office.
I thought it was a ‘borderline’ masterpiece. There’s a twenty minute stretch in the last third of the movie that kinda drags or doesnt fit or somethin. But the rest of the movie was damn good, i thought.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 pm #159300wvParticipant‘The Night Of’ is a rarity on TV. Pretty damn realistic legal mini-series. They got a LOT right. I would have thought it was written by a lawyer, but apparently it wasn’t.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 am #159332wvParticipantDecember 25, 2025 at 5:52 pm #160567wvParticipantLooks interesting. Gael García Bernal often chooses anti-imperialist projects.
January 3, 2026 at 3:16 pm #160735wvParticipantI really enjoyed Yorgos Lanthimos’ newest film: Bugonia.
Its a few degrees less weird than his other films, but he didnt write this one.
Compassionate doomer film.
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Bugonia is named after an ancient Greek term for the myth of bees spontaneously generating from a dead cow’s carcass, symbolizing decay and rebirth, which ties into the film’s themes of conspiracy, corruption, and new life emerging from ruin. Writer Will Tracy also chose the name for its ambiguous, slightly unsettling sound, evoking insects, alien worlds, or illness, fitting the story’s surreal nature.”January 13, 2026 at 11:57 am #161166
ZooeyModeratorPaul Thomas Anderson. Dunno if it will be any good, but its Paul Thomas Anderson.
It won Best Comedy er sumthin’ at the Golden Globes, I guess.
Bunch of attractive looking films here for me to put on my list.
February 16, 2026 at 7:33 pm #162195wvParticipantRobert Duvall. RIP.
February 16, 2026 at 8:13 pm #162197February 27, 2026 at 4:53 pm #162364wvParticipanti have been known to watch some of these little criterion-closet vids.
“peaceful wise resistance” vs “feral urges”
March 13, 2026 at 9:07 am #162835wvParticipantAre we all Tommy Lee Jones?
March 16, 2026 at 10:41 am #162883wvParticipantCoppola on Apocalypse Now, and its ‘stupid script.’ “In the tradition of Irwin Allen,” not David Lean…
https://tubitv.com/movies/100053645/hearts-of-darkness-a-filmmaker-s-apocalypse
March 21, 2026 at 4:48 pm #162973wvParticipantI watched an Agnes Varda film many years ago: ‘Vagabond’ is the english title. ‘Without Roof or Law’ is the French title.
One of the most haunting movies I’ve ever seen. More interesting than Into The Wild, which I also liked.
March 28, 2026 at 7:26 am #163068wvParticipantI watched Hamnet this week. I’d never heard of it, and i cant stand Spielberg who produced it, but it made some noise at the Oscars so I watched it on dvd.
I didnt think much of it, its a pretty thin narrative. I recognized the music in the final scene. Its the same exact music that was used in the film Arrival. It was also used in Handmaid’s Tale. It was also used in Shutter Island. And in The Last Of Us.
The musical piece is by Max Richter (he composed it in 2003 as a protest for the Iraq War) according to A.I.) Its called ‘The Nature of Daylight.’ And i have liked it a lot, ever since i heard it on the Arrival movie.
April 7, 2026 at 6:55 am #163194znModerator17 Poorly Explained Movie Plots We Found In 2024 That Are True
https://www.ranker.com/list/explain-a-film-plot-badly-2024/josh-buono
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A woman tells her granddaughter the story of how she f**ked a guy she just met.
The Movie: Titanic2
Most plot-relevant sex scene in a movie ever.
The Movie: The Terminator3
A janitor falls in love with a biologist while she’s in a coma. Later, he visits her at work and almost gets her fired.
The Movie: Wall-E4
Man gets frozen for decades only for him to wake up to find he has to fight the same Evil from before he was frozen.
The Movie: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery5
Alien invaders can only be stopped by a mediocre at best baseball player.
The Movie: Space Jam6
Man gets really mad at a lot of people but especially a photographer, lies on the floor for eight hours, then goes home.
The Movie: Saw7
An actor is tired of facing backlash for the character he plays, so he illegally sneaks into the army in an attempt to help his reputation.
The Movie: Wreck-It Ralph8
The main character, who has brain damage from a childhood accident, sparks a cultural revolution in his community while saving everyone’s lives in the process.
The Movie: Happy Feet9
The death of a construction foreman leads to the death of thousands.
The Movie: The Prince of Egypt10
In the first 25 minutes of the movie, our two protagonists… almost murder the antagonist of the film, expose themselves at a public event, and get extremely drunk at a restaurant full of children.
The Movie: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie11
A small group of men try to get home, unknowingly becoming famous on the radio the whole time. Once they get there, they are asked to play.
The Movie: The Warriors12
Three guys ruin each other’s relationships and then a ton of people drown.
The Movie: The Prestige13
A woman feels betrayed by her husband because of an unapproved rager in her house. They separate, but he tries to reconcile. She can’t see it working out and he undergoes a drastic transformation. Some chaos ensues as he tries to spend time with his kids.
The Movie: 28 Weeks Later14
After being released from prison, a man laments lost time while immediately seeking revenge. Also, there’s a… frog?
The Movie: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie15
A rat cooks food for humans in one scene. Other characters include a curly-haired dullard and a short guy who yells a lot. While the rat is making a European dish, there’s a funny scene with a chopper, and his secret life – and apparently his pastry tools – are discovered.
The Movie: Goodfellas16
Man attempts human sacrifice to prevent Armageddon. His attempt fails.
The Movie: The Abyss17
Dancing is banned, but some teens do it anyway.
The Movie: SuperstarApril 15, 2026 at 10:19 am #163293ZooeyModeratorApril 16, 2026 at 8:16 pm #163304wvParticipant -
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