What movies are you watching?

[Rangi Guy]

Gonna give Dr. No a hoon tonight

[Anders]

Gunda

[Jorge]

Groundhog Day. Somehow not as funny as I remembered it. Pretty corny actually

[Farmer John]

Going to take an edible and watch The Green Knight tonight.

wish me luck!

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jorge]

I still enjoyed it but it's just much sappier / creepier than I remembered it

I also can't make up my mind about the film's philosophical stance, whether it's optimistic or cynical. It's either "given enough time, man can become the best version of himself and be kind and good and generous," or "given enough time, man can manipulate others into thinking he is kind and good and generous in order to gain from them and/or bask in their admiration"

[Anders]

Gunda is the opposite of that.

[epilogue]

I still enjoyed it but it's just much sappier / creepier than I remembered it

I also can't make up my mind about the film's philosophical stance, whether it's optimistic or cynical. It's either "given enough time, man can become the best version of himself and be kind and good and generous," or "given enough time, man can manipulate others into thinking he is kind and good and generous in order to gain from them and/or bask in their admiration"

It's literally just Scrooge.

Crumpy dude get slapped by inconvenient magic until he stops being an asshole and sings at the audience.

[Anders]

It’s a funny movie.

[tree_]

Yeah good lighthearted romantic comedy.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tree_]

Says a lot about where Jorge is right now that he’s struggling with it. Maybe it has something to do with his sociopathy?

[epilogue]

Says a lot about where Jorge is right now that he’s struggling with it. Maybe it has something to do with his sociopathy?

That can't be it. He's not an uptight weirdo.

[Jorge]

I never saw time as having anything to do with it. The message I’ve always got is that living a life of good intention and good will for your fellow man leads to joy and fulfillment.

What did Phil need in order to reach that realization?

[Jorge]

You guys should watch it again, it's very treacly and even a little disturbing at parts

[tree_]

I get you’re point, I just disagree. It’s a silly fun romantic ride.

[Jorge]

It is those things, but I also think it's fun to engage with a film at a level past what the filmmakers intended

[BurtReynolds]

I still enjoyed it but it's just much sappier / creepier than I remembered it

I also can't make up my mind about the film's philosophical stance, whether it's optimistic or cynical. It's either "given enough time, man can become the best version of himself and be kind and good and generous," or "given enough time, man can manipulate others into thinking he is kind and good and generous in order to gain from them and/or bask in their admiration"

Doesn't he achieve the second theory midway through, but still isn't fulfilled?

I thought it was about Buddhism.

[Jorge]

Halfway through he hadn't had enough time to get super good at piano yet

[BurtReynolds]

I meant some point in the movie that wasn't the end.