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[Drizzle]

Something that people don't talk about enough is that EA Games's Return of the King is hailed as one of the best movie to game adaptations and Gandalf's staff is essentially a rocket launcher in it. Hell of a fun creative liberty.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

While this abomination exists:

Legit best part of that adaptation.

 

[Kane52630]

The most f***ed up kids movie is upon us.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Anora got me like:

 

[blueharvest]

 

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[Kane52630]

 

[Drizzle]

Wow, hard to believe Se7en is about to turn 30. Seems like only yesterday when I first watched it in a theater as a wide-eyed innocent first grader.

 

[Kane52630]

Meet the New Trump Resistance: Europe’s Filmmakers

Progressive continental auteurs aren’t ready to give up on America just yet. But their governments are less inclined to pick a fight with the President-elect.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Kane52630]

Just FYI anyone buying blurays, the WB 100th 25 Film Collection sets are going for $50 each.

 

[Kane52630]

Also the only time you can get 40 Criterion Collection films in one package... for a reasonable amount.

 

[Black Narcissus]

 

[Kane52630]

Me: "second screen is the worst thing to happen to movies"

Twitter: "hold my attention span"

 

[Lily Adler]

Apparently this is a great movie that nobody wants to talk about.

 

[Snow Queen]

Apparently this is a great movie that nobody wants to talk about.

It's excellent. Has as many endings as Return of the King, but great.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Snow Queen]

Embarrassing.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Happy 5 years.

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[Black Narcissus]

Brute Force

This is one of them classics prison break flicks that has been sadly forgotten. If I hadn’t clicked on a random criterion haul by the great William Friedkin, it would’ve gone unseen. Director Jules Dassin’s first crime genre. Burt Lancaster is so damn good here. Dassin’s story as a director is fascinating. He was blacklisted for his ‘’support’’ of the communist party, which later turned out to be without real proof, he went to Europe to direct. He made a masterpiece in ‘RIFIFI’ and tried many times to come back and make movies, but by then the damage was done. He self exiled in Greece for the rest of his life making movies there. One of the pioneers of film noir genre, Here is no different!

The last half of this film is so amazingly violent for the time period! I can’t believe they let it happen. The escape attempt is masterfully directed and shot. Now, the rumor is that they filmed two different endings, they kept the more obvious one at the end, but the other ending was a balls to the wall ending which made the suits panic and reshoot for obvious reasons.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Black Narcissus]

I’m a sucker for certain genres. I will see them without question. Top five favorite time travel flicks? Mines in no particular order:

TimeCrimes
Palm Springs
Midnight in Paris
Terminator
Edge of Tomorrow

 

[Kane52630]

Top five favorite time travel flicks?

I feel like there should be a delineation between time travel movies and time loop movies.

Time Travel 5 favs:

The Terminator/T2
Planet of the Apes
Predestination
Demolition Man
...controversial one but Tenet.

Time Loop 5 favs:

Happy Death Day
Triangle
Edge of Tomorrow
Palm Springs
Source Code

 

[Enriquespy]

Back to the Future is one of the greatest science fiction movies, coming of age movies, and time travel movies, C'mon.
T2.

Just that, just a top 2.

 

[Dr.]

Speaking of time travel movies… Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée is to be recommended.

In 2012, BFI ranked it as the 50th greatest film of all time; in 2022, it was 67th. And it often comes in first or second on “greatest time travel movies of all time” lists.

That said, La Jetée is a tad slow and fairly characterized as “arty” or “experimental” because it’s presented (almost) entirely as a series of still photographs — a “photo novel” (“photo roman”). Also, it’s in French.

On the upside, the movie is a “featurette” — only 28 minutes long. And to the extent that Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys is esteemed, La Jetée — its inspiration — is, IMO, worth a look.

(Below) is a fairly decent print. But it has no native subtitles. So you’ll need to fiddle with “auto generate closed captions --> English” in the settings menu.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

Top five favorite time travel flicks?

Back to the Future
Bill & Ted
Groundhog Day
Terminator
The Time Machine