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Rewatching for the first time in a while
Saw today. Favorite film of 2023 so far
A childhood memory of seeing it on Broadway
Favorite lines/moments
The Greeks’ caution (minor spoiler)
Movies seen the most times
Top 25 horror films
S02!
S01 incredibly consistent
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I see we have a few Vatos Locos present...
I, too, will omit most of my childhood favorites, except ones I still might watch every couple years as an adult, such as:
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The rest I'll try to order by number of times seen; it should be obvious I love them all, so ordering by rating would be near impossible:
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
The Thing (1982)
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Airplane! (1980)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Oh man, I was near twenty when I realized it was a top ten. There were some hard decisions made, let me tell you....
The top of the staircase shot will never not scare the hell out of me, and I've seen the film ten times easy over three decades. It also ruined taking showers for a bit, not nearly as much as Jaws ruined swimming in the ocean for me, but tomato/tomato.
As a huge horror fan I have to place it in my top twenty, maybe top ten, mostly for the groundbreaking (think Citizen Kane) horror filmmaking, but also because it truly scares me in parts.
The eye is fine; it's just the rest of her body that's just off a degree or two. I think she's fine as hell and might prefer her eyes the way they are. Oh, and I just remembered the *freckles!* +1 charisma bonus.
Bless your heart; you have restored my PJ respect level back to near-perfect!
And I had to look up if I had even seen WtWTA. Gave it a 5/10, so I know I saw it, wasn't impressed by it, but can remember nothing about it. Odd, because I've loved Jonze's Her, Adaptation and Being John Malkovich.
The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Alone in the Wilderness (2004)*
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)*
[•REC] (2007)
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)*
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008)*
Valerie a týden divu aka Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Murder Party (2007)
*Documantaries
Hmm... Using the right IMDb advanced search keyword is gonna be tricky. Order will be pretty random and I suspect my list will be a mix of obvious popular films and more obscure ones,and probably not all exactly what you're after, but I'll definitely keep them rated high enough by me to fall in to the like+ recommendation category:
Psycho (1960)
Don't Breathe (2016)
Tony (2009)
Welp aka Cub (2014)
The Woman (2011)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Môjû aka Blind Beast (1969)
Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) **Super gnarly warning
The Lodger (1944)
Pearl (2022)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
The Ritual (2017)
Ravenous (1999)
Creep (2014)
Dead End (2003)
Tsumetai nettaigyo aka Cold Fish (2010)
More where that came from. Please do let me know if any strike your fancy in particular.
Well, thankfully there is plenty of plot to keep the movies interesting, as opposed to PJ's The Hobbit trilogy, which was stretched to its limits. When talking about that trilogy, I like to jokingly make the "stretch it out" hand gesture mimicking what PJ would be doing behind the camera to each actor in all their scenes.
To anyone around the world unfamiliar with the gesture I'm describing, picture using both hands stretching a wad of gum apart horizontally, indicating you want whatever is happening to take as much time as possible. That is how IMO he made three full length movies out of a comparatively short children's book, after doing a one film per relatively longer book trilogy.
Yep. That was the most glaring "error" of the recent pt.2 film for me as well. It's been decades since I read up to book 3 , maybe 4. Is DV making the first book a film trilogy, and so we know how far they plan to take the movies? I assume it depends on box office returns, and I'm just being lazy asking you, who might not even know. I just hope we get to spend some time with child and adult Alia.
I know, and sincerely appreciate that; I just didn't want to steal SJ's thunder. :D
I'm not sure how to take that, as I always thought puns were supposed to produce a mild "heh" to appreciate their cleverness. e.g. "Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
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