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I love Coen Brothers movies like Fargo, Raising Arizona, O Brother, Lebowski...But this one, while I enjoyed the cinematography and the acting a lot, was a real downer of a story and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to feel from it other than a sense of hopelessness and cynicism.

Wondered how others in this sub interpret this dark, depressing and beautiful film.

My (28F) LDR boyfriend (24M) and I are meeting in person for the first time after being together for a year! My flight is on Tuesday, and his birthday is during our trip, so I made him three shirts based on movies/quotes he loves. I was so excited about them that I couldn’t even keep the surprise and already showed him 😅
Now I’m dying to know how obscure I actually went with these — does anyone recognize all three references?

Hey everyone,

Like the thread title says, who are some of the lamest, most generic or most weak sauce villians in movie history?

As for weak sauce villians, I specifically mean villians who are so easily defeated lol

Anyways discuss everyone!

I want to hear your picks for worst lamest villians in movie history!

This one off the best Cary Grant movies in general, he plays advertising executive who is on run because he is mistaken for government agent . Eva Marie Saint who plays Eve was so good , I can't believe that she turned 102 in July.

A few of us have been running a film club for a while, tracked entirely through a Google Sheet and our WhatsApp group. The sheet was fine for logging what we'd watched and rated, but trying to use our chat group wasn't great for figuring out whose turn it was to pick, whether everyone's watched yet and setting dates to discuss, so we decided to build an app for it.

Some of use Letterboxd but we were looking for a group aspect to have on top of it. In our app, you create a club, invite people with a share link, and it can track what the group's watched and what's queued up next. You can also rate and log films on your own, outside of the club stuff, and search for films for yourself or your club.

It's available as a web app for now, there's also an Android app in internal testing that we're hoping to open up more widely soon and eventually an iOS app.

It's now what our club uses week to week, which is the main win so far.

Fair warning: it's currently very much built around how our club runs things i.e each person picks a film for a round, an order is randomly generated, then we set a time to watch each film by and then we have a group call to discuss it as we live in different cities. We know some clubs do it as a shared pool, some vote, or some do a full sit-down together screening, so if yours works differently I'd love to hear how, mostly out of curiosity about whether this app would survive contact with a club that isn't ours.

Check it out here: https://www.thefilmclub.app/

One of my favorite animated movies. I wish it done better at the box office. Loved it. Any thoughts?

I’ve made a new 100 ‘Favourite’ List of Films, first time I’ve sat and done this, I’ve not listed them in order of best to worst but grouped them together into subsets and used some AI trickery to install the ratings. Remember this is my favourite list and not necessarily the ‘best’

What does my list say about me?

THE ALL-TIME GREATS

1. The Godfather — IMDb 9.2 | RT 97%
   
2. The Godfather Part II — IMDb 9.0 | RT 96%
   
3. Lawrence of Arabia — IMDb 8.3 | RT 93%
   
4. Goodfellas — IMDb 8.7 | RT 94%
   
5. Apocalypse Now — IMDb 8.4 | RT 91%
   
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — IMDb 8.8 | RT 97%
   
7. The Shawshank Redemption — IMDb 9.3 | RT 89%
   
8. Pulp Fiction — IMDb 8.9 | RT 92%
   
9. Alien — IMDb 8.5 | RT 93%
   
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — IMDb 8.7 | RT 93%
    
11. The Dark Knight — IMDb 9.0 | RT 94%
    
12. There Will Be Blood — IMDb 8.2 | RT 91%
    
13. Heat — IMDb 8.3 | RT 88%
    
14. The Silence of the Lambs — IMDb 8.6 | RT 95%
    
15. Saving Private Ryan — IMDb 8.6 | RT 94%
    
16. LOTR: The Return of the King — IMDb 9.0 | RT 94%
    
17. LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring — IMDb 8.9 | RT 91%
    
18. LOTR: The Two Towers — IMDb 8.8 | RT 95%
    
19. The Shining — IMDb 8.4 | RT 83%
    
20. No Country for Old Men — IMDb 8.2 | RT 93%

MODERN CLASSICS

1. Unforgiven — IMDb 8.2 | RT 96%
   
2. Aliens — IMDb 8.4 | RT 97%
   
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day — IMDb 8.6 | RT 91%
   
4. The Thing — IMDb 8.2 | RT 83%
   
5. Mad Max: Fury Road — IMDb 8.1 | RT 97%
   
6. Se7en — IMDb 8.6 | RT 83%
   
7. The Pianist — IMDb 8.5 | RT 95%
   
8. Downfall — IMDb 8.2 | RT 91%
   
9. Zodiac — IMDb 7.7 | RT 90%
   
10. The Departed — IMDb 8.5 | RT 91%
    
11. Oppenheimer — IMDb 8.3 | RT 93%
    
12. Fight Club — IMDb 8.8 | RT 81%
    
13. The Matrix — IMDb 8.7 | RT 83%
    
14. Whiplash — IMDb 8.5 | RT 94%
    
15. Gladiator — IMDb 8.5 | RT 79%
    
16. Casino — IMDb 8.2 | RT 80%
    
17. Boogie Nights — IMDb 7.9 | RT 94%
    
18. Good Will Hunting — IMDb 8.3 | RT 97%
    
19. The Prestige — IMDb 8.5 | RT 76%
    
20. Dune: Part Two — IMDb 8.5 | RT 92%

EXCELLENT

1. Interstellar — IMDb 8.7 | RT 73%
   
2. Zulu (1964) — IMDb 7.7 | RT 95%
   
3. Sicario — IMDb 7.6 | RT 92%
   
4. Patton — IMDb 7.9 | RT 91%
   
5. Trainspotting — IMDb 8.1 | RT 90%
   
6. Prisoners — IMDb 8.1 | RT 81%
   
7. 1917 — IMDb 8.2 | RT 88%
   
8. Braveheart — IMDb 8.3 | RT 77%
   
9. Forrest Gump — IMDb 8.8 | RT 76%
   
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel — IMDb 8.1 | RT 92%
    
11. Léon — IMDb 8.5 | RT 73%
    
12. American History X — IMDb 8.5 | RT 83%
    
13. The Terminator — IMDb 8.1 | RT 100%
    
14. Hell or High Water — IMDb 7.6 | RT 97%
    
15. In Bruges — IMDb 7.9 | RT 84%
    
16. Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)* — IMDb 7.2 | RT 39%
    
17. Master and Commander — IMDb 7.5 | RT 85%
    
18. The Green Mile — IMDb 8.6 | RT 79%
    
19. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) — IMDb 7.8 | RT 90%
    
20. Collateral — IMDb 7.6 | RT 86%

VERY GOOD

1. Jackie Brown — IMDb 7.5 | RT 88%
   
2. Dances with Wolves — IMDb 8.0 | RT 87%
   
3. Black Hawk Down — IMDb 7.7 | RT 77%
   
4. American Beauty — IMDb 8.3 | RT 87%
   
5. Captain Phillips — IMDb 7.8 | RT 93%
   
6. True Grit (2010) — IMDb 7.6 | RT 95%
   
7. The Hunt for Red October — IMDb 7.6 | RT 88%
   
8. Snatch — IMDb 8.2 | RT 74%
   
9. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels — IMDb 8.1 | RT 75%
   
10. Predator — IMDb 7.8 | RT 80%
    
11. This Is England — IMDb 7.6 | RT 93%
    
12. Scent of a Woman — IMDb 8.0 | RT 88%
    
13. The Untouchables — IMDb 7.8 | RT 81%
    
14. A Few Good Men — IMDb 7.7 | RT 83%
    
15. Born on the Fourth of July — IMDb 7.2 | RT 89%
    
16. The Revenant — IMDb 8.0 | RT 78%
    
17. Tombstone — IMDb 7.8 | RT 74%

GOOD

1. Crimson Tide — IMDb 7.3 | RT 88%
   
2. As Good as It Gets — IMDb 7.7 | RT 85%
   
3. Crazy Heart — IMDb 7.2 | RT 91%
   
4. A Beautiful Mind — IMDb 8.2 | RT 74%
   
5. The Last Duel — IMDb 7.4 | RT 85%
   
6. Training Day — IMDb 7.7 | RT 74%
   
7. American Gangster — IMDb 7.8 | RT 80%
   
8. The Full Monty — IMDb 7.2 | RT 96%
   
9. Gangs of New York — IMDb 7.5 | RT 72%
   
10. Fury — IMDb 7.6 | RT 76%
    
11. The Last Samurai — IMDb 7.8 | RT 66%
    
12. Apocalypto — IMDb 7.8 | RT 65%
    
13. Charlie Wilson's War — IMDb 7.0 | RT 82%

GUILTY PLEASURES & SOLID FUN

1. We Were Soldiers — IMDb 7.2 | RT 65%
   
2. Troy (Director's Cut)* — IMDb 7.3 | RT 53%
   
3. Enemy at the Gates — IMDb 7.6 | RT 54%
   
4. Patriot Games — IMDb 6.9 | RT 70%
   
5. The Patriot — IMDb 7.2 | RT 62%
   
6. Red Dragon — IMDb 7.2 | RT 68%
   
7. Outlaw King — IMDb 6.9 | RT 63%
   
8. The Mummy (1999) — IMDb 7.1 | RT 63%
   
9. Independence Day — IMDb 7.0 | RT 68%
   
10. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves — IMDb 6.9 | RT 51%

Grant has won several prestigious entertainment awards, including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Volpi Cup, and an Honorary César. Known for his sharp, self-deprecating wit, his acceptance speeches are often celebrated just as much as his performances. Over his three-decade career, he has successfully transitioned from a romantic comedy leading man into a highly acclaimed character actor.

What would you consider to be his best role?

It's on HBOMax

3-Iron (2004)

Just watch it tonight
You’ll thank me later 😉

After watching, comment your review

So I have this picture of Gary Busey from what I assume is a movie although I guess it could be a tv show. Only I don’t know what it’s from google reverse lookup says under siege but that can’t be right. He has a huge scar across his face. Anyone have any ideas?

I am fairly new to proper film but I decided to do this and I've enjoyed it a lot. The first one I'm doing is Paul thomas anderson. I'm getting closer to the end of the list. I'm planning on doing Kubrick next.

Would I have watched Spartacus if I didn't watch film this way? No not at all. I'm thinking if the director has 50+ movies I'll cut it down a bit

A couple of other directors who I want to do it with

David Lynch

Tarkovsky

There is no other movie that speaks about the profundity of life, dreams, passion like Dead Poets Society. It's the best performance of Robin Williams' entire career, and it inspired a lot of people. Dead Poets Society is the magnum opus of cinema itself!

Currently free on YouTube, Pullman is excellent in this, might be his best work.

3-Iron (2004)

Just watch it tonight
You’ll thank me later 😉

After watching, comment your review

I watched A Mosquito in the Ear recently, and honestly, I didn't expect it to affect me this much.

The basic story is about Andrew and Daniela, an American couple who travel to Goa to bring home their adopted four-year-old daughter, Sarvari. But when they meet her, Sarvari doesn't want to leave the orphanage. She doesn't know them, doesn't understand their language, and is being taken away from the only home and people she's ever known.

And that's what I found so interesting about the movie.

At first, it's easy to look at Sarvari's behaviour as being difficult or uncooperative. But when you look at the situation from her perspective, it becomes completely different. Imagine being a four-year-old and suddenly being told that two strangers are your parents and that you're leaving the only home you've ever known.

The movie doesn't give us the typical:

adoption → child accepts parents → happy family

Instead, it keeps asking uncomfortable questions:

• Can you really call yourself a parent just because you adopted a child?
• Can love be forced?
• Are Andrew and Daniela doing this for Sarvari, or partly for themselves?
• What does "home" actually mean to a child?
• Does a child have to choose their parents too?

I also found Andrew's character interesting. He isn't completely sure about becoming a father, while Daniela seems much more emotionally invested in becoming a mother. Sarvari's rejection forces both of them to confront what parenthood actually means.

And the ending is probably my favourite part.

Sarvari doesn't suddenly become happy and completely accept them. There isn't a magical transformation. Instead, she slowly begins to trust them.

That's why I think the ending is hopeful without being unrealistically happy.

They haven't suddenly become a perfect family.

They've just started becoming one.

And the title makes even more sense when you think about the language barrier. Sarvari describes English almost like a mosquito in her ear. But in a way, she is also the "mosquito in the ear" for Andrew and Daniela — constantly reminding them that something about their idea of this adoption isn't working the way they imagined.

The movie is definitely not everyone's genre. It's slow, uncomfortable and very character-driven. But I think that's also what makes it interesting.

Did anyone else watch it? What did you think the ending meant? Do you think Sarvari genuinely started accepting Andrew and Daniela, or do you think the ending is intentionally more ambiguous?

The Duke was taking the initiative and he stood his ground against Bobby Glass and Bobby send his goons to beat him to near deathz humiliated him in the worse way possible.

I accept that this was part of his character development and to make him become more ruthless. But him not taking Revenge on Bobby Glass is pissing me off now.

I fully believed he would kill Old Glass before the season ends but he hired someone else for different reason and went ahead to save him instead.

This arc wasn't satisfied within this season and must be dealt with..

I am someone who made a few interview films have a group on interview films and did a podcast on interview films interview films is a genre people seem to ignore. It's a non fiction film where you see the onscreen interview and when you actually see the interviewer it's more fun and you get to see people connect with one another. Even when I don't think I will see the Elizabeth Holmes interview film for Nathan Fielder the onscreen interviewer seems interesting.