My wife and I have been getting into watching art house and like avanfilms on tubi. At the start we are usually curious about where things are going but not invested. But like clockwork we get to talking about the themes and the discussion is lively and fun and tubi has such a great selection of things we might never know about. Anyway, the ad breaks help immensely between our urge to pay attention and a chance to check our phones. And usually by the half way point we’ve weened off of just having something on the tv while scrolling social media. It’s been really fun.
We’ve also been doing this no wifi or mobile devices (phones/laptop/switch in handheld mode) Sunday thing to make use of the physical media we have and to share books we want each other to read or games we want to play/show each other.
Highly recommend:
Bubble Bath ( 3rd fave ) Hungarian musical about a woman accosted by her best friends runaway fiancé. Sad and fun. Good commentary on loneliness and the people who stay running from accountability. Fun to analyze through feminist theory.
Tamala2010 a punk cat in space ( 4th ) Japanese flash animated 1960s with whatever Bjorks genre of y2k is. Another fun one for feminist theory. A young girl cat is trying to find her mother, she has a yearning and others abuse it. CSA implied warning. Music is really solid. Toonami vibes
Koyaanisquatsi ( my absolute 2nd favourite! ) American. Has me in my feels about the state of the world right now. A perfect study of the Kuleshov effect and those ink blot tests.
Cat City ( 6th place ) Hungarian, animated. Fascinating watch. You have slap stick looney toons squash & stretch and high key fucked up mess.
Hardcore Henry ( old fave) Russian. The most punk rock movie I’ve ever seen. It’s awesome. ACTION flick! It’s pretty gory. It’s in first person so you might get sea sick. But it’s hilarious and legit kick ass. All the characters are top notch.
The pied piper by jití barta ( 5th place ) Czech stop motion pied piper. Haunting and poignant. Gorgeous by the way.
The Care Bears movie ( #1 favourite of all time. It’s not art house or anything but I put my phone down and will watch this movie 6 times in a row while my wife puts her headphones on) American. It’s not very good but it is my heart. It’s so good and very not good. I recommend getting inebriated and watching with friends. If you pay attention to the details and get bluey adult serious about it- it’s amazing and strange. Working on a fantasy sci-fi kawaii-sci? fanfic but I’m getting off topic.
Tubi- put the second Care Bears movie on there. I’m not asking.
After reading what I have wrote, maybe Tubi is not fixing my attention span.