Buffalo 66, Bringing Out the Dead, Rear Window…

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    Hot Fuzz

    Every watch you notice new little details. This film is the (modenr) textbook example of Checkov’s gun.

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    The Big Lebowski. Every time.

    He just picks things up through the movie and uses them later. One of the best examples starts in the opening scene of the movie where he’s buying milk and paying with a check, as he’s writing it out there’s a t.v. behind the cashier playing GWB Sr saying “This aggression against Kuwait will not stand”, then way later in the movie someone is shouting at him and he uses the line “this aggression will not stand” and you know he’s picked it up from that earlier scene and used it again. The movie is full of this kind of callback and interaction.

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      The conversation with him and Maude Lebowski is also a great example of this:

      Maude Lebowski: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?

      The Dude: 'Scuse me?

      Maude Lebowski: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?

      The Dude: I was talking about my rug.

      Maude Lebowski: You’re not interested in sex?

      The Dude: You mean coitus?

      Gets me every time

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      I do know about its existence, but the description doesn’t sound like I’d like it. In the queue, lemme try.

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          I watched idiocracy at home a year or 2 after it came out, and I hated it because i felt like it beat you over the head with the message, like yeah I get it, I don’t need to watch an hour more of this!

          …then I rewatched it after our handling of covid and January 6 insurrection… Thought to myself “yep… Thats how the future plays out…”

          If you watched it now for the first time? In 2025? Fucking hell. I hate this timeline.

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            One can only hope we end up with a president like Camacho. Dudes an idiot, but at least he put in the effort to help his constituents by finding the smartest dude he could and have him solve their problems.

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            Sounds like it aged like wine.

            It came out when I was busy getting started in life after school. So a lot of what came out in that period didn’t feel “genuine” at the time.

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    I’m a fan of Fifth Element. Super enjoyable and there is a lot going on. It took a few watches before I realized the protagonist and the antagonist never actually meet in the movie.

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      Brazil is wild, always weird how little screen time De Niro gets, but how much presence he has in the movie!

      I guess I 2nd that 3rd point.

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        I’m committed to a Tuttle costume before I die. But I’ve yet to find an occasion where I think a single person would recognize me.

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    I’ve passed through Everything Everywhere All At Once approximately eighty times now, because on every single viewing, I’m discovering one or two tiny fragments of interrelationship that I’ve never seen before.

    It’s a marvelous, marvelous movie.

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      I’m one of the few that hated that movie. Started strong, got weird in a fun funny way, got weirder to the point where I’m in just to see where it’s going, then idk it just lost me and I was out

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      I’ve watched that probably a dozen times just for my favorite part… “Alright, I AM the messiah…”

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        The thing is, a lot of the humor in that movie is like not that funny when you first see it, but then a couple days later out of nowhere you suddenly think: “He has a wife, you know…” And you’re like: why did I think that? Oh yeah it’s from the Life of Brian! That was hilarious!

        “Blessed be the Cheesemakers…?”

        “All I said was: that halibut was good enough for Jehovah!”

        “Worse? How could I be making it any worse?”

        “you are ALL INDIVIDUALS!!!”

        “He’s not the messiah! He’s a very naughty boy!”

        fml I’m dead…

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          The thing is, a lot of the humor in that movie is like not that funny when you first see it, but then a couple days later out of nowhere…

          You know I felt the same way about The Big Lebowski. First time I watched it? Meh. But I kept remembering the quotes (granted the internet helped with that). So I watch it again and it’s suddenly a totally new experience, like I’m finally on the inside understanding all the inside jokes.

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          When I was a teen I loved all their stuff, including the shows… but I get what you mean. Numerous times I’ve tried introducing it to friends only to be met with blank stares because they didn’t quite understand the comedy of it. Sucks to be them.

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        Mine is, “but you are the Messiah my lord and I should know I’ve followed a few”.

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    “Perfect Blue” by Satoshi Kon. Watching it dubbed multiple times so I notice the visuals. Also the changes between the sub and dub can bring more understanding.

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      That movie is so hot. And I’ve met plenty of young women in the BDSM community who use submission as a mechanism to cope with trauma and fear. Its a better BDSM story than 50 Shades of Grey, that’s for zure.

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    Other than what everyone else has said (great taste in film, lemmings) I’ll throw out…

    In the Mouth of Madness. People tend to rank The Thing as his best movie, but the other two parts of the “Apocalypse Trilogy” are also excellent. Prince of Darkness has plenty to reccomend it, but I actually have watched IMM at least 10 times. The practical effects hold up well, and I feel like I catch new little details or acting quirks on each watch. Sam Neill and Julie Carmen are both really on their game and amazingly bring a lot of both subtlety and camp to the roles. The soundtrack is really banging too, if you’re a fan of Carpenter’s synth-rock.

    And for something completely different, but still an “at least 10 views” favorite: Rian Johnson’s Brick. You’ll probably need at least 2 viewings just to catch all the dialogue, which is very fast and uses a weird made up slang. The main victim makes a phone call in the first act that basically reveals everything if you understand what she’s saying, but it takes the whole movie for that to happen. It’s just a fun, good mystery story too. Great sense of style, great (slightly off kilter) acting choices all around. Its one of those movies that’s a little like poetry or a great album, just fun to watch and enjoy for itself.

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      Brick is wonderful, such a brilliant movie.

      There’s a new film on Netflix called Brick and I was so disappointed that it’s not the same one!

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      I also recommended In the Mouth of Madness for the same reasons!

      Prince of Darkness needs a high budget modern remake. Such killer ideas held back by budgetary constraints and practical effects limitations. It doesn’t have quite as many new details to notice on repeat watches though.

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      If you liked Brick, you might also like Assassination of a High School President by Brett Simon: Similar noir type tone with little details that reveal the underlying mystery. You’ll probably figure it out before the end (it’s a little cliche) but it’s still a decent watch.

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    The Netflix TV show Dark. Holy hell. I missed SO much the first time. If you haven’t seen this show do yourself a favor and watch it, the amount of detail is crazy, and the casting is top notch. Watch it in German with English subtitles though, the English dubbing is really, really horrendous.

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      I watched a bit of Dark when it came out, will look into its status as I’m not inclined to watch (NF) shows that slowly die. Not sure if that’s what happened here.

      What is interesting tho, is that I have Paper Moon (1973) scheduled to watch tomorrow night. Never seen it before.

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        Hah, I randomdly picked this screen name, never seen paper moon either! Just looked it up, seems Interesting, added it to the queue.

        Dark had a planned ending, it was 3 seasons and then done.

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    Lots of movies I’ve rewatched a lot of times but one I can think of off of the top of my head that offers something new on subsequent rewatched is The Truman Show.

    There’s just… soooo much stuff there. Like, does Truman become aware of what’s going on over there course of the beginning of the movie, or is he already aware before the movie even began and trying to blend in?

    And because the movie is really fun to watch, you will come back to it, and notice something new every time.

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      A fun little game is to point out all of the cameras that are visible. If you make that into a drinking game you would be dead by the end of the first act…