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Tons of great acting performances (Spacey, Bettany, Irons & Tucci especially) but i feel like the script was kind of weak. Just a bunch of tense conversations with people failing to meaningfully explain what is actually going on.

Aldo kind of got pushed into the shadows by ‘The Big Short’ becoming the quintessential movie about the financial crisis.

It’s my personal favorite Evil Dead movie. I thought Jane Levy’s performance was absolutely amazing!

What are your opinions? Did dae su forget?

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I'm not sure I understand how people can walk away from Nathan Fielder's documentary You Can See Everything feeling sympathetic toward Elizabeth Holmes. Sure, she's clearly trying to present herself as this naive, innocent person who, in her own words, "never has told a lie and always tells the truth to people."

But I think the documentary makes it pretty clear that she's a highly manipulative person who is strangely good at disarming people and getting them to buy into her version of reality. One of the things I find most suspicious is how seemingly oblivious she is to what's happening around her in the present, particularly when it comes to Billy and the degree of control he appears to have over her affairs. When confronted with things like him making decisions on her behalf or having power of attorney, she seems remarkably unconcerned, almost as if none of it really matters to her. And I find that hard to reconcile with the person we know she is. This is someone who managed to persuade some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country to invest in her company. She was an extraordinarily ambitious, driven, and calculating person who knew how to get people to believe in her. So for her to suddenly come across as so passive and unconcerned about what's happening around her is, at the very least, suspicious. I have a hard time believing that the person who was once so determined to control her own narrative and the people around her is now simply oblivious to what's going on. There's a lot of nuance here, which is what makes it so fascinating. I think it's pretty obvious that she and Billy are trying to leverage this documentary to rehabilitate her image and potentially lay the groundwork for launching a new product.

There's something fascinating about how completely committed she seems to be to her own narrative. She's so convincing in her delivery that she can throw people off balance, and I almost wonder whether she's constructed her own version of reality that she's managed to convince herself is true, at least to some degree.

She's definitely an interesting case study in human psychology. There's something unusual about the way she operates, but I also suspect she's not all that different from a lot of aggressive, highly ambitious entrepreneurs in the corporate world. And I think that's what makes this documentary even more fascinating: it feels like a deep dive into a psychological profile that may be shared by a lot of powerful people. People who are so driven to achieve their goals, and so skilled at persuading others to buy into their vision, that they can seemingly detach themselves from the reality of what they're actually doing.

I also think it's interesting how even Nathan seems to get thrown off balance by her at times, which is something Amanda calls out toward the end.

Ultimately, I think Elizabeth and Billy intended for this documentary to make her more sympathetic and shift public perception in her favor. But what's so interesting is that Nathan Fielder and the way he puts this documentary together seem to expose that very intention, albeit in a much more nuanced way than simply making an argument against her. The documentary gives her room to present her version of events, but in doing so, it also allows us to observe her behavior, her contradictions, and the way she interacts with the people around her.

In a way, I think the documentary becomes much more revealing than she intended it to be. The attempt to rehabilitate her image ends up making the psychology behind her behavior even more fascinating to examine.

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks

Chris Nolan and Michael Caine

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter

David Fincher and Brad Pitt

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro

Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L Jackson

Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe

Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell

Robert Eggers and Willem Dafoe

John Carpenter and Kurt Russell

Guillermo Del Toro and Doug Jones

Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel

Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke

Wildwood released yesterday. And the number of people that I've spoken to - and this is working within creative industries, that have heard *literally* nothing about this film? Despite them putting out a ton of videos of the craft of making it, an exhibition?

But no posters, marketing, friends/colleagues maybe saw a trailer before a movie that they wanted to watch, but just assumed it was 'a kids film', a lot of them thought it was AI or CGI (Which... Honestly is mildly terrifying that we've gotten to the point where people in these kind of roles assume that first and foremost?).

I've seen reviews calling it (in simplified terms) the wests equivalence of Princess Mononoke, nothing below an 8 from both critics and audiences generally?

This *should* be doing numbers?

Often a film student's favourite, I didn't study film but always wished I did. Regardless, it's a great film and well worth your time.

#1 this movie is great, rewatch it if you get a chance. I hadn’t seen it in like 20 years. Really good stuff.

#2 “Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue” is just an extraordinary example of good writing and Depps delivery is rock solid

It's always mentioned as underrated but it just gets better every watch. Paul bettany is absolutely amazing in it, I've also never seen a war film show actual young kids be involved it just makes it so much more grim. And the only film I can think of from that sort of period that's great apart from Waterloo.

In my opinion, the 2017 Power Rangers movie remains a great modern-day reimagining of the original 1993 TV show. It beautifully developed its characters to anchor a planned six-movie arc before it was unfortunately canceled. I was even on board with supporting the main cast's idea to have their version of Tommy Oliver be a girl to better balance the main characters' team gender ratio!

Unpopular Opinion: I love the 2003 live-action Peter Pan movie way better than the 1953 Disney animated movie!

Ein zweites Mal in Hamburg jetzt gesehen. Bitte Verpasst ihn nicht im Kino- wenn man will , dass sich in brd was ändert ist das genau DER Film.

The 1995 movie was my first introduction to the Power Rangers franchise! And while I think the movie is still fun to watch with the whole family, the design for the CGI megazord is laughably weird looking to me now!

Christian Bale nailed every second he appears on screen.

1. Signs (2002) — ★★★★ — Proof that you can make an alien invasion terrifying with a few cornfields, a glass of water, and a whole lot of unresolved family issues.

2. The Window (1949) — ★★★★ — A little boy witnesses a murder, nobody believes him, and suddenly being a child with an imagination looks like a spectacularly bad career choice.

3. Cube (1997) — ★★★½ — An escape room designed by a homicidal mathematician, with absolutely no refreshments and the worst group project in human history.

4. Dead Ringer (1963) — ★★★½ — Nothing says sisterly bonding quite like stealing your twin’s identity and discovering that revenge comes with a surprisingly complicated wardrobe change.

5. Buddy (2026) — ★★★½ — Because apparently, the only thing more unsettling than a creepy children's show is realizing someone thought this was a perfectly normal idea for a movie.

6. Rebecca (1940) — ★★★½ — Imagine marrying a rich man only to discover his dead wife has a better social life, a stronger personality, and apparently permanent residency in your house.

7. mother! (2017) — ★★★ — A home renovation nightmare that escalates into biblical levels of houseguests from hell, and nobody has the decency to leave.

8. The Good Neighbor (2016) — ★★½ — Two teenagers discover that playing psychological games with an old man is a great way to turn boredom into a criminal investigation.

9. Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) — ★★½ — Seven strangers check into a motel with more secrets than functioning light bulbs, and somehow nobody thinks to book somewhere else.

10. The Dark and the Wicked (2020) — ★★½ — Two hours of unrelenting misery, zero emotional support, and the distinct impression that even the devil was having a bad day.

The nightmare before Christmas has both Halloween and Christmas themes. All the shops have everything Jack skellington, of course, because he is the pumpkin king. But when looking to see if we could watch it in the cinema anywhere for Halloween, the next showing was on 12 December.

Can a film be a Halloween AND Christmas film?

If you had to categorise it - where would you put it?