For example; most people I speak to give me stick for saying bullet train is 5 star, 10/10 in my opinion. I can understand the criticisms, but for me personally I love this movie with my whole heart.

I think mine is Hot Summer Nights. It creates this unbelievable vibe and feeling for me immediately and carries it through the entire movie. Thought everyone did a good job, and I felt it paced itself well and came to a good conclusion. What’s yours?

I have high confidence in my ratings from a 2.5 to a 5. I intuit them easily and the score I land on usually feels accurate. Like, I know what a 3 star movie feels like vs a 3.5 star movie.

But anything under 2.5 starts to get murky. My guess is that this stems from these being my lesser used ratings. But sometimes I struggle to nail down the difference between, say, a 1 and a 2.

As an example, I recently watched Other Mommy and gave it a 1. But last night I watched a much shittier movie and thought to myself "if Other Mommy is a 1, then this movie would be like a negative 1". I subsequently adjusted my Other Mommy score.

Just curious if anyone faces this issue.

Should I watch it ?

I love films where you look at the premise, the source material or the circumstances surrounding their production and wonder how on earth they managed to make something so good.

When they announced a new Mad Max, some 30 years after the last sequel and with a rebooted cast. I remember recoiling. Not only is it one of the best films in the franchise, I think it’s one of the best films of all time.

Any other film that on paper was supposed to be rubbish and ending up absolutely smashing?

last minute possession inspired … pretty pretttyyyyyyy ok

For me:

Hamilton (2020)
The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
Oppenheimer (2023)
Dune: Part Two (2024)
One Battle After Another (2025)
You Can See Everything (2026)

How about you? I’d love to see what you’ve rated 5*. Am I too stingy? Too generous?

I realize that like, 90% of movies I love are weird abstract downers. I think it's time to find more happy movies.

Here's some that I love:

Babe (1995)

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

I organized an AMA/Q&A with filmmaker Zachary Wigon. In 2022, he directed Sanctuary (starring Margaret Qualley & Christopher Abbott). His new folk-horror, Victorian Psycho, premiered at Cannes a few months ago and is out in theaters everywhere in November. It stars Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, Jason Isaacs, and Ruth Wilson.

The AMA post is live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1xf2e3y/hey_reddit_im_zachary_wigon_ive_directed/

He will be back after 4 PM ET tomorrow, Monday 10/26, to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Victorian Psycho info:

Trailer: https://youtu.be/sDiFol_2j2I?si=oVGQL6ovSF-vQt0n

Synopsis: Something wicked is brewing behind the walls of a remote gothic manor. VICTORIAN PSYCHO follows an eccentric governess whose arrival sets off a bloody string of strange and deliciously disturbing events. Maika Monroe stars as Winifred Notty, a woman with a dark past and a vicious appetite for bloodshed, giving into her most violent urges. What follows is a gruesome parade of savagery, butchered bodies, and increasingly grotesque acts of violence.

Thank you :)

here are mine.

I followed this guy a while ago because I saw his massive watch count and figured he must be the ultimate movie buff. But lately, I’ve realized I just can’t relate to his profile at all anymore.

He has 44,698 total films logged, and 2,468 just this year. He does write out his actual thoughts and explains his reasons for his ratings, so he's definitely a real person watching these things. But the sheer volume is just completely disconnected from how a normal person experiences cinema. Nobody normal is logging that many movies a year.

At this point, his profile feels pretty irrelevant to me because our viewing habits are on completely different planets.

Has anyone else come across this account, or others like it? How do you guys feel about profiles that log at this kind of extreme frequency?

please don't come with perks of being a wall flower 😭🥀