Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have

[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.

[Farmer John]

The English language with thick Italian accents is making it very hard for me to take House of Gucci seriously

Same here. I'm still looking forward to it, though.

[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.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I'm looking forward to seeing Belfast this weekend

[BurtReynolds]

[Ello Sailor]

That's amazing.

[bart]

I think that’s from the HDS doc that was on Netflix 5-6 years ago. I remember liking it but also finding it depressing.

[BurtReynolds]

I think that’s from the HDS doc that was on Netflix 5-6 years ago. I remember liking it but also finding it depressing.

I just remember too many songs

[E.H. Ruddock]

Caught the end of "The Happening" last night. I forgot how ridiculous this was. There's so many cheesy elements that I sort of love it. Because of this I forgot it was an M. Night movie.

[epilogue]

Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

[E.H. Ruddock]

Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

[epilogue]

Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

Part of the reason I've never watched it is fear of having that gif contextualized.

[BurtReynolds]

Watched The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai last night.

Had to look up the watermelon scene and saw this on Wikipedia:

Begelman [studio chief] interfered with constantly through the initial stages of shooting, demanding changes and sending notes. By the end of filming, these demands had disappeared. The crew became convinced that Begelman had "checked out", and to test their theory, added a now-famous scene in which the presence of a watermelon becomes a topic for a short discussion. When the scene was allowed into the movie without comment, they concluded that management was indeed ignoring them, and they had free rein to put in whatever they wanted.

Still best end credits

[E.H. Ruddock]

I love the fight scene in the knife room in John Wick 3

[Strat]

One of my favorite things to do these days is read the Wikipedia entries to some of my favorite movies while actually watching them.

I love reading about script issues, development issues, reviews from the time period.

Its also funny to recognize when entries to Wikipedia are clearly not fleshed out beyond cut and past from old interviews/articles from the time the movies were released.

Overall, i get such joy out of reading about mostly banal issues from Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, a league of their own......and on and on and on.

[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.

[wease]

One of my favorite things to do these days is read the Wikipedia entries to some of my favorite movies while actually watching them.

I love reading about script issues, development issues, reviews from the time period.

Its also funny to recognize when entries to Wikipedia are clearly not fleshed out beyond cut and past from old interviews/articles from the time the movies were released.

Overall, i get such joy out of reading about mostly banal issues from Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, a league of their own......and on and on and on.

I do this, too.

[VinylGuy]

Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

Part of the reason I've never watched it is fear of having that gif contextualized.

oh dont worry...there is no explanation for that.

[epilogue]

Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

Part of the reason I've never watched it is fear of having that gif contextualized.

oh dont worry...there is no explanation for that.

[The Argonaut]

Top 5 Directors Working Today:
(Quality of recent work outweighs older work, but both are taken into account so newer directors with less of a proven track record are at a disadvantage. Another way to say it is that these are the five directors I would be most stoked to learn that they have a new movie coming out and at the same time feel confident it would be great. I'm really looking forward to new stuff from Boots Riley, but he only has one movie so far so I won't put someone like him on this list).

Paul Thomas Anderson
Bong Joon-Ho
Josh & Benny Safdie
David Lowery
Kelly Reichardt