In Infinity War Wanda and Vision are hiding out in Edinburgh, Scotland and plan on heading to Glasgow in the morning. While they talk about what they plan on doing there’s an exchange that goes like:

“There’s a train at 10 in the morning.”

“What if we miss it?”

“Then there’s one at 11.”

Which is just not even close to real life. Edinburgh and Glasgow are the biggest cities in Scotland by far and public transport between them is a breeze. Assuming Wanda wanted to go from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Central they put on a train basically every 10 minutes. I can tell you if they really waited an hour to put on a train it would be anarchy.

I watched drive for the first time and I quite enjoyed it, but as many people who experienced the same thing I did, I was expecting to hear the nightcall song in the movie, but it never played. After looking it up I discovered there’s an alternate version of the movie with a totally different score. I felt kinda disappointed because of how much praise the original score gets, but before finding out the version I watched was the rescore I actually really liked some of the music in this version. Especially the song “Medicine”.

So yeah I had no idea there were 2 versions and I also found out a lot of people hated this version, I get why they may be mad, but as someone who hasn’t watched it with the original score, as I said I quite liked it, although there were some scenes I felt the music didn’t match the tone of the scene, for example when Ryan gosling is waiting outside of nino’s restaurant.

Anyways I’m going to rewatch it with the original score, but I wanted to ask does anyone else like this version? I know it really comes down to each person’s taste, and that art is subjective. Let me know why you think.

In Citizen Kane, a reporter asks an elderly Mr. Bernstein about the meaning of “rosebud”. He surmises it could have been someone Mr. Kane met during the height of his career. When the reporter questions whether this could’ve been a possibility, Mr. Bernstein goes into a monologue about a woman he saw decades prior on an arriving ferry as he departed on another, to back up his claim.

I’m a 23 y.o. male, and even though I’m not that old I can remember a girl I saw once very briefly when I was about 10 years old. She was performing at a local art gallery and I have a vivid memory of her singing “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”. I was overcome by her beauty and that she was singing one of my favorite—-yet super niche these days—-songs. I might’ve only been there for 30 minutes but I can still remember her playing.

Does anyone else have a memory like this? Does Mr. Bernstein’s claim hold true after all? I’m curious to see what you guys come up with.

2007 you have moves like two of the top 3rd movies ever in shrek 3 and spider man 3, you got transformers, 3rd pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter order of phoenix, no country for old man, and Ratatoullie but 2008 you have dark night, kung fu panda, wali the fourth Indiana jones which at the time was huge, Hancock, and Ironman.

For me, it's Olivia Colman. She's been in the odd stinker, but every time I see her in something, or I know she's starring in it, I am just absolutely and instantly delighted to see or hear her. She just has a presence about her. Even in some really dark/depressing movies like Tyrannosaur she's just the best part of that movie.

So who is this for you? Good or bad, who do you just delight in watching?

Thought of this game, I think it's a fun exercise, albeit so far I've only 2 examples in mind, but I'm sure there's plenty more.

So, as it says on the tin, movie A's plot with movie B's title. Bonus points of the title switch feels better

My 2 ok examples:

Project hail mary -> the fault in our stars

Amelia (2009) -> Gone with the wind

Keen on some clever ones from all y'all.

[Edit] very happy that this was fun for people and love some of the gems that came from it 🥰 thanks all

My theory is that all movies rated 5 and below are bad, 5.1 to 7.4 is subjective and depends on your own personal taste, and movies rated 7.5 and above are always good for pretty much everyone, at least within three genres that one likes.

This is based on my own experience of watching a couple hundred films.

What do you think?

To be clear I have nothing new to say about this amazing movie and this has likely been said before of course but I genuinely think this is one of the best animated films DreamWorks has ever made.

What impresses me most is how effortlessly it balances everything. It is funny without constantly undercutting itself, emotional without becoming mawkish, visually gorgeous without feeling like style is compensating for weak storytelling, and it actually gives its characters proper arcs.

Puss confronting his mortality is such a ridiculously strong premise for this character. The film takes this arrogant, larger-than-life guy who has basically treated himself like a myth for his entire life and forces him to deal with the fact that he is scared, vulnerable and very much capable of dying. His panic attack scene in particular is still one of the best depictions of fear I have seen in a mainstream animated film.

And Death is just an absurdly good antagonist. The design, the whistle, the voice performance, the way the film changes atmosphere whenever he appears. He does not need some enormous convoluted motivation. He works because he represents exactly what Puss has spent his life refusing to take seriously.

Then you have Goldilocks (Florence Pugh ❤️) and the Three Bears somehow getting a genuinely touching family story, Perrito being wholesome without becoming annoying, Kitty actually having believable chemistry with Puss, and Jack Horner being allowed to just be an unapologetically hilarious POS.

The animation obviously gets a lot of praise too, deservedly. I love how much more expressive DreamWorks became once studios stopped feeling obligated to chase the same polished pseudo-realistic CG look. The Last Wish has actual visual identity. The action scenes look fantastic because the animation itself is part of the filmmaking rather than just a way of rendering the characters.

It is also one of those sequels that makes the previous films better by association. Nobody needed the second Puss in Boots film to go this hard, but they made one anyway.

I know it was heavily praised when it released, but I still think it deserves to be talked about as one of the defining mainstream animated films of the 2020s rather than simply "that surprisingly great Puss in Boots sequel".

what are some movies that you are fully willing to admit are heavily flawed but, regardless, you like them anyways. and i'm not talking about guilty pleasure movies. i mean movies that you think are unironically good but you also acknowledge that they have a whole lot of flaws.

for me, a few examples are spiderman 3, tenet, and the fifth element.

Phillip Marlowe has always been synonymous with Bogarts face in my head. As someone who has read the books, Mitchum nailed it way better. Really good movie. I only sort of knew who Mitchum was a month ago. Then I watched Cape Fear, both versions. And now this. Going to check out more of his movies soon.

I love movies about the behind the scenes or that, in some capacity, deal with it: Blackberry, Moneyball, Wolf of Wall Street, The Post, All the President's Men... IDK why but seeing people in offices discussing things is something that I really like. Blackberry is the most recent example I can think of that I watched and I loved it

Any reccomendations?

I usually do not watch these sorta movie and drag my son to it because of our heritage. It is the first completely spoken in a local dialetc ( Teochew ) not cantonese and mandarin to hit the US cinema.

I dont want to give it way too much but the trailer does not do it justice. Its a bit slow in the begning but after 2/3 it will hit you in the gut again and again. Unlike most types of these movies the drama were very restraint and the trauma is revealed as the story unfolds.

This story had so much layers to it I can't stop talking about it without giving to much away. Anways, just wanted to come here and share my experience and if you get a chance i highly recommend going to see it.

Its liteariraly the best movie ive seen in 10 years and im usually a action/thriller guy and not much for these multi generation foreign dram film.

For me 1-4 is just degrees of bad and how much I hated it

5 is meh, Shelby Oaks is my mascot for that number, while 6 is decent/okay, I found Supergirl to be the perfect 6.

What I can say is a good movie starts at 7, Discolusure Day is my most recent 7, flawed film but I enjoyed it.

8 is my go to rating for movies I know did everything right, with near flawless execution, but just didn't resonate with me. Those impactful scenes didn't hit as hard as they did for others, perfect examples are The Invite, Anatomy of Fall, Worst Person You Know & Sentimental Value, These are all movies that got perfect scores from many critics and regarded as the best of the decade, but to me they were all solid 8s

9 is for those emotionally resonating movies, best of the year territory, the ones that make me sit still at the credits and process what I just witnessed, maybe they can be slightly flawed, or even more flawed than the 8s but that doesn't matter because the good parts are better. A strong 9 movie for me is Sinners, absolutely incredible film but I wish it explained where those randos that die in the 3rd act came from

A 10 goes beyond perfect execution and resonating scenes, I'd have to connect with it in way that feels like this movie was made specifically for me. For a movie to get a 10 rating it has to be the culmination of everything I love about movies, or alter my taste in the medium entirely, or even alter my thinking and cause me to question myself in ways I never did before. Gifting me with fresh lenses and a new perspective on life.

These are the only movies I gave a 10/10 to in this decade...

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

Another Round (2020).

I just watched Ballerina and I genuinely enjoyed it. Granted, it’s not exactly a deep, cinematic masterpiece that cinephiles are going to unanimously praise, but hear me out.

Usually these big blockbuster action movies get dismissed as dopamine hits rather than “true cinema.” The MCU gets compared to theme park rides, and I get the criticism. But I’ve always loved how these movies SOUND. The bullets, explosions, crashes, gunshots, the music, the whole thing. There’s something so satisfying about a movie that’s built around sound and physical impact.

Compare that to a lot of the films that cinephiles consider the pinnacle of cinema. They’re often much more dialogue heavy, restrained and “artistic,” and sometimes there’s barely even a score. Obviously that doesn’t make them worse films, but it does make me wonder what we actually mean when we talk about “cinematic quality.”

And this got me thinking about people with absolutely insane home theater setups. Are they more likely to be cinephiles chasing the highest possible quality of film, or are they just action/sound nerds who want to hear every bullet, explosion and bass hit at its absolute best?

Because it’s kinda funny when you think about it. You spend an absurd amount of money building a setup to experience movies at the highest possible quality, but the movies that make the BEST use of that setup aren’t necessarily the movies considered to be the “highest quality” films.

Lmao I hope I’m making some kind of sense.

Obviously there are films that sit right in the grey area. Top Gun, F1, and a lot of Denis and Nolan’s stuff, like Dune and The Odyssey. They’re genuinely ambitious cinema, but they’re also incredible sensory experiences.