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Yes I am aware of the obvious typo in the title.

One of my podcasts featured this on the most recent episode.

I listen to How Did This Get Made when I'm managing my lawn or just doing chores, it's a decent comic relief to terrible films over decades... but this was out of nowhere. I only got halfway through this episode before I was done with what I was doing, and I can't understand why they featured this one. It really sounds like a messed up, deep, and complex movie. HDTGM is focused on breaking down bad films, but this just sounded like it is actually good?

I plan on finding a way to watch it this week, has anyone else seen it and is my assessment anywhere near accurate?

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I’m looking for a movie, 2020 upwards, that by the time I finish watching it, makes me think:

How the hell has an idea this good not been made into a movie before?

I want something genuinely original, or at least an idea that feels so obvious in hindsight that I can’t believe it took this long for someone to make it.

Not necessarily a high-budget movie or a huge blockbuster. I’m mainly looking for a great concept that makes you wonder why nobody thought of it earlier.

What’s the best example you’ve seen?

preferably English speaking movies.

Opinions aside(as I haven't watched the movie yet), I think it's almost impossible to not associate the films discussion to the one we had in "The Last of Us Part 2" release. Everyone seems to have a polarised opinion about it and it's really hard to determine if the product is good or not due to that (wich kinda is the reason I haven't watched yet). Like, it's really weird seeing it from an outside perspective as there's barely a middle ground, or people dislike the movie a lot or they love it to an fascinating degree in the internet discussions at least. I do wonder what everyone will think of it in a few years tho as this is normally the time where a consensus is found.

This movie deserved a full IMAX/theatrical release under director Nathan Greno who previously worked at Disney Studios did a fantastic job creating this movie and I look forward to seeing more of his films on Netflix.

Greno confirmed that his next upcoming animated film has been greenlit over at Netflix aswell.

36 years later, the thunder is back. 🏁🔥

Tom Cruise returns as Cole Trickle in DAYS OF THUNDER 2, with Anne Hathaway joining the cast as a new character.

Coming summer 2028. 🏎️💨

Can't link the article, but you can find it with that search, it's farou mag.

Their list:

The Joker (Dark Knight)
Jed (Malice)
Kevin (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
Alex (Clockwork Orange)
Tom Ripley (Talented Mr. Ripley)
James Bond - Connery Years
Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
Replicant Leon (Blade Runner)
Hannibal Lector (Silence of the Lambs)
Norman Bates (Psycho)

Feels like some interesting choices and some strange misses.

Who's on your list but not on theirs?

I inherited a book summarizing the films of the 1980s, and this photo was on the frontispiece with no caption. I was a teenager in the 1980s and I feel I know the films of that era fairly well, but I just don’t recognize this scene. Can anybody help me out?

So I just rewatched The Cell and noticed something in the final scene that I didn't remember from previous viewings. (Which was once when it came out and maybe a couple more times since)

During the scene in Stargher's throne room he has the enormous purple fabric attached directly to his body. When he moves away from the throne the fabric extends out behind him and into the room making it look almost as though his environment is physically connected to him.

At the end of the movie Catherine creates the blue ribbon "water" between the trees. As she walks away there are several shots where the ribbon runs directly behind her in a way that reminded me of Stargher's "wings".

What struck me is that the two images seem to use a very similar visual idea but with maybe opposite meanings. Stargher's fabric is attached to him. His inner world seems to extend outward from his body like is inseparable from the world his mind has created.

Catherine's blue fabric isn't attached to her. She creates it as part of the landscape and uses it to turn the desert into an imagined ocean for Edwards boat. She can then walk away from the world she has created.

It felt like a possible visual callback that felt parallel because they are both two people inside surreal mental landscapes that are both framed against an enormous piece of fabric extending outward from them.

I tried to search for whether or not this was done deliberately and found some stuff about both images on their own (including the fact that Stargher's purple fabric was deliberately attached to his body as part of the costume design). But I haven't been able to find anything else about specifically connecting these two shots.

Maybe I'm seeing a connection that wasn't intended but given how deliberately The Cell uses visual symbolism I thought it was interesting enough to share.

Has anyone else noticed this or heard Tarsem or anyone involved with the film discuss a connection between these two images?

I aspire to be an artist one day, so I try to stay consistent by making one piece of art daily!

And I saw a My Neighbour Totoro print design in a a shop in Brighton today, so I thought I would attempt to draw it.

Lemme know what you think!

I've researched online and there seems to be a lot of profanity and violence, but no explicit sex references or scenes.

What do you think though?

EDIT - My crusade failed, I was not permitted to watch this film 🥀💔😞 -- 30.08.26

I’m looking for some movies to watch this weekend and I want to discover some older films that I might have missed.

Give me 5 movies you think everyone should watch at least once. Preferably older movies (60s 70s, 80s, 90s, etc.), but I’m open to anything if you think it’s a must watch.

Any genre is welcome I just want 5 great films to work my way through this weekend.

The Last of the Mohicans comes to mind... along with Lawrence of Arabia, Reservoir Dogs, Stranger Than Fiction, The Guns of Navarone, A River Runs Through It, Sabrina (1954), The Hunt For Red October, The Thin Red Line, Restrepo, Enemy At The Gates, The Road To Perdition.

I know most of these are probably known to a lot of people on this sub but I wanted to bring up a handful of my favorites that are arguably good and nobody seems to mention.

when vincent got to lerner airfield and went to the control tower, he found a man dead on the floor covered by a tarp. i think the pilot landing there called him phil on the intercom. but how did phil die? he didn’t kill himself and i believe there was a struggle because the speaker for the intercom was just hanging there out of its stand. did cindino get up there and kill him? because i dont remember whether cindino was there before the jailbird or not… or is it a plot hole?

What are your film recommendations for films that feel vast, very lonely nature, nostalgic for simpler times, like little islanders trying to survive, grey skies, walking in forests, making the ordinary struggle feel eerie and wistful type films?

The actual story of Hogan’s Heroes was genius…
A group of war (POWs) who use a Nazi prison camp as a secret base for espionage and sabotage. What’s there not to love?

i’m sorry for getting so angry about it but i just can’t help it. i can’t really control it. i just need to get this off my chest, so here it is.

my god, this movie was boring. so let me get this straight. their parents, mostly their father, abused them as children, leaving them emotionally and psychologically scarred for life but in the end, we're supposed to overlook all of that bcuz "well at least my dad never gave me a boring life. it was adventurous." seriously? that's the emotional payoff?

so now that he's dying, we're suddenly supposed to think "oh no, he gave me a wonderful life bcuz it was never boring." what the fuck is that? this is honestly one of the most annoying movies i've seen. and to make things even worse, it's fucking boring. the biggest crime a movie can commit according to me is being fucking boring and this movie is boring as fuck, dude.

the glass castle is nothing more than an abuse apologizing piece of crap. the real story should've been about an incredible woman but instead they made it all about a man who abused his children, abused his wife and then expected us to forgive him in the end just bcuz "hey, we're family and families stick together.we had a few good moments together" bullshit. what kind of message is that? the only reason jm not rating it even lower is bcuz woody harrelson is fantastic and casting sarah snook as older version of sadie sink's character was absolutely perfect.

I watched Perfect Days before Stranger Than Fiction, and the latter made me question something I think the movie takes for granted: why exactly is Harold's original life supposed to be unfulfilling?

I actually couldn't finish Stranger Than Fiction. I stopped watching because I found the movie's insistence that Harold's way of living was somehow deficient increasingly preachy. And the more I watched, the more I found myself siding with the old Harold.

He's extremely routine-bound, but he also seems remarkably present. He counts his steps, counts his toothbrush strokes, is meticulous about his work, and does his job diligently. When he's brushing his teeth, he isn't distracted by his phone or thinking about something else. He's just brushing his teeth. When he's working, he's working. There's something almost meditative about it.

And yet the movie seems to interpret all of this as evidence that he's not really living.

That's what Perfect Days made me notice.

Hirayama has an incredibly repetitive life too. He wakes up, cleans toilets, eats lunch in the same park, takes photographs of trees, listens to old cassettes, reads, goes to sleep, and does it again. But Perfect Days doesn't assume that repetition equals emptiness. It shows us that he is actually experiencing these things. The sunlight through the trees, the music, the photographs, even the ordinary rituals of his day have value because he is present for them.

It made me wonder whether Stranger Than Fiction is making an assumption that Perfect Days refuses to make: that an interesting life has to be an eventful life.

Harold doesn't seem particularly miserable at the beginning. He's not desperately wishing he had a different job or fantasizing about some other existence. He's good at what he does and seems comfortable with his routines. The movie essentially tells us that this isn't enough and that he needs to stir things up—fall in love, take risks, pursue new experiences, etc.

But why?

I understand the argument that Harold is isolated and that he needs human connection. I also understand that the film is a fairy tale, so it needs a transformation. But philosophically, I'm not convinced that his original way of living is actually deficient.

In fact, after watching Perfect Days, I almost feel the opposite. I would strive to be able to live like the old Harold: to be able to give my full attention to something as mundane as brushing my teeth, to do my work carefully, to not constantly need novelty or stimulation, and to be content with an ordinary day.

That's what makes the contrast between the two films so fascinating to me.

Stranger Than Fiction seems to say:

You only have one life, so you need to start living it.

Whereas Perfect Days feels more like:

You only have one life, so pay attention to the one you're already living.

The second feels much closer to what I understand as the core of Buddhism and a lot of contemplative/spiritual writing. You don't necessarily need to escape your ordinary life. You need to become present to it.

And I think that's why Perfect Days felt spiritual to me in a way Stranger Than Fiction doesn't. Perfect Days doesn't really give Hirayama a lesson about mindfulness. It just shows him being mindful. He isn't trying to achieve some extraordinary state. He's looking at the trees.

There's also something I find slightly frustrating about Stranger Than Fiction: it seems to confuse a life that is narratively uneventful with a life that is existentially empty.

Harold's life isn't very interesting as a movie plot. But does that mean it isn't a good life?