Arrival. It tells the entire story in the first scene. And then you get to watch it all unfold beautifully to understand the story.
One of those movies that I thought was impossible to make after reading the book and was happy to be proven wrong.
Which do you prefer among the two?
90% of the time, I’ll take the book over the movie. That’s true in this case and even more so with Hail Mary.
I associate the movie so much with the visuals and score, I can’t imagine how it would have been originally written. A good reason to check out the book.
There’s a book!?
there’s always a book, and noones ever read it
I’ll get roasted for this, but here goes…
“Josie and the Pussycats” from 2001.
It was marketed wrong (IMO). It’s honestly a really funny satire on corporatism, and celebrity worship, and everything that essentially turned up to 11 in the years since it was released.
The very definition of “came out to early to be appreciated” since it was skewering things that were only then just beginning to take over the internet.
That movie is great and so under appreciated. I have the movie soundtrack on CD and I pop it into my car fairly often. Lots of good catchy songs too.
I have the movie soundtrack on CD and I pop it into my car fairly often
Great soundtrack. IIRC it was Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo doing the voice for Josie and she rocked it.
100% this.
My autistic wife made a power point presentation about how under appreciated this movie was for it’s time
The Man From Earth
Quick 1h30m low budget “one room” movie about an immortal admitting it to a room of friends and all the inquiries and criticisms they have. The writing is tight. There’s not a lot, if any holes. It’s really engaging.
Also, check out Coherence from 2013. And I beg you don’t try to watch the second movie of the man from Earth. Your disappointment would just destroy the whole original movie magic. It’s easily the worst thing I ever watched, the second movie. The first one is one of my favourites.
Coherence was a mind fuck, but I caught on eventually. The Man from Earth was amazing. I kinda guessed the spoiler just before it got revealed, just because my mind is weird, I guess, but that didn’t take away from the enjoyment.
I find I really like this one-room ensemble movie genre. Reminds me of well made theater plays.
I find I really like this one-room ensemble movie genre.
Yeah, some of my favorite films fall into that category. Recently watched one I hadn’t seen before. Tape with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. A drama. Takes place in a hotel room. Things slowly go off the rails. Directed by Richard Linklater, a dialogue heavy director people tend to love or hate. I’ve always enjoyed his films.
Coherence is great too. I could probably rewatch it now since I don’t remember a lot of details. I will avoid TMFE 2.
It had an interesting production history too! Jerome Bixby started working on it in the 60s, and eventually finished it from his deathbed in 1998, and then it still didn’t get made until 2007. The producers also thanked movie pirates for building word-of-mouth when it first came out.
It’s my sister’s favorite movie of all time, so it’s played regularly in our home.
Good call, it’s on YouTube https://youtu.be/HAX2RuZm-Fk
Honestly, Yes Man.
I knew nothing about it when I went to watch it, and I sat down expecting to just see another Jim Carrey comedy flick, which it delivered on.
But the underlying story about breaking out of repression and what it means to go to positive extremes to correct previous negative extremes and finding balance.
It’s a very subtle thread in the movie but it is consistently touched on and taught throughout the entire movie while Jim Carrey yells and screams over the top of it in a comedic fashion.
Should the book it’s just as wild and apparently true.
I came here to recommend the book and saw you had beat me to it.
Written by a British comedian/writer called Danny Wallace and the premise is he says yes to every suggestion put to him in a year to get him out of his rut and to see if it brings changes to his life.
I can’t recommend it enough, in fact, I think I’ll read it again soon.
Yes love the movie watch a lot. So tracked down the book and found it just as hilarious. A great read and love having it in my collection.
Holy shit, I did not even realize there is a book.
So we just saw Andor episode 8, and I’m quite blown away.
It evolves from what seemed like a superficially subversive show to essentially a revolution manifesto. There’s the arbitrary police repression, corruption throughout the layers of hierarchy, the displacement/genocide of entire peoples and destruction of ecosystems for access to resources… In episode 8 there’s left-infighting, the complete oppression of workers, the figure of the foreman -using the workforce to police itself, through granting of privileges and performance goals,… McCarthyism, slavery, wage theft, genocide… there’s all of it. It really is a thinly veiled history of the USA.In fact I am surprised this got produced at all, I’ll have to read who’s behind it.
That was 8th episode of the season 2. I rewatched the thing (the entire two seasons, plus Rogue One) mostly to enjoy that one episode. It’s a quintessential of the entire show, and to some degree the entire universe / its global story. I was blown away how complex and actually great this show is. Especially compared to this quite silly and too dull universe. (I mean, the universe they created is great. But for some reason, most of the movies are just utter shit.)
Well I am very eager to reach that point then
If i remember correctly. The writers included multiple historians that specialized in revolutions of history. That is why the show felt so real. It was an amalgamation or real revolutions here.
aha !! that makes sense. Once we finish watching I’ll get to reading everything I can about it
I recently rewatched Sicario and I’m glad I did because I did not follow it at all the first time. Which is sort of the point. You’re as lost as the main character.
I know a lot of people give it crap for the same reasons I really like it, but Tenet. Its really in-depth and nuanced that takes more than just one watch to really understand what’s happening
at some point understanding a movie is more of a puzzle than a movie. similar with primer.
Tenet is a good flick with terrible audio
Everything Everywhere All At Once.
I knew little before seeing it, apart from the hotdog hands, and expected a silly sci-fi of some sort … what I got was existentialism mixed with a study of intergenerational family dynamics, and a dollop of philosophy on top.
Plus a scene of kung fu with dildos.
I honestly reqlly wanted to like that movie because i heard so much good tgings about it. When i watched it it was a lot of meh for me. Like i didn’t hate it, or disliked it, i think my expectations were just through the roof. A lot of it was just like wow epic le random thing happening. It was one of the movies i wished i haven’t heard anyone talking about.
“Thank you for smoking”. Stayed with me for bloody years. The fact that it even got made was a small miracle.
Full disclosure: I lost loved ones to lung cancer, and I’m 100% certain the cancer sticks pushed by this fucking industry contributed a great deal, so I’m hoping they’re digging up a new circle in hell just for their C suites.
Im going to cheat a bit here, but it’s not a top level commment: the Tomorrow episode from The Bear blew me away. Probably the best half hour of television I ever watched.
That one’s been on my watchlist for a while, I should check it out.
As an american, at this point in time: Idiocracy.
The Life of Chuck. I had no expectations going in and it was presented very uniquely while also being engaging
The novella in **If It Bleeds was well written, another Stephen King sleeper
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It doesn’t make sense until it does. Once it all falls into places it’s just perfect.
Fantastic choice! And one of the very few movies where I regretted reading the book beforehand.
The book is totally worth your time too, by the way.
Death to Smoochy. Clever satire with fun dialogue.
Pulp Fiction - in the sense that I was surprised by giving thugs such eloquent lines.
The House That Jack Built, that movie is about a hell of a lot more than just another serial killer. Matt Dillon does such an amazing job with that role.
Yeah, it definitely caught me off guard with how clinical everything was while also rapidly falling off the rails.
It was telling you that it was an allegory the entire time! But I didn’t see it at all until it hits and outright tells you what’s going on. The second watch is even better than the first, once you know to look at things for what they really are.
