What movies are you watching?

[The Argonaut]

Lenny mentioned Killing them Softly last night in the Batman thread, so I stayed up until 2am re-watching it last night. Still so good

[Mickey]

Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.

yeah, close enough

What am I missing??

I don't imagine our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past. You just seem to like old movies and cut them a lot of slack.

What I feel like happens is I'm criminally underversed in older movies so I end up watching the hits more than anything.

[Mickey]

Also you're completely wrong about our tastes in movies, I'd say it's a coin flip between whose aesthetic most closely matches my own on this board between you, Malloy, and Argo.

[epilogue]

Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.

yeah, close enough

What am I missing??

I don't imagine our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past. You just seem to like old movies and cut them a lot of slack.

What I feel like happens is I'm criminally underversed in older movies so I end up watching the hits more than anything.

Ah. Well, in that case, we're not so different.

[Mickey]

That's what I've been saying!

[The Argonaut]

Also you're completely wrong about our tastes in movies, I'd say it's a coin flip between whose aesthetic most closely matches my own on this board between you, Malloy, and Argo.

Please, no, not me

[Anders]

I know Vertigo and Psycho are deeply loved. I have seen both at least five times.

My top three Hitchcock:
Rear Window, North By Northwest, Rebecca

[Mickey]

Also you're completely wrong about our tastes in movies, I'd say it's a coin flip between whose aesthetic most closely matches my own on this board between you, Malloy, and Argo.

Please, no, not me

Eat my ass, the only movie we've ever disagreed about is Wild Mountain Bumblebee Boy

[Farmer John]

I rewatched Notorious somewhat recently and I think that might be one of the most underrated Hitchcock movies. It's a top 5 for me.

[epilogue]

I've only seen:
Vertigo
Rear Window
The Birds
Psycho
North By Northwest
Lifeboat
39 Steps

[The Argonaut]

I watched both Shadow of a Doubt and Marnie for the first time recently. Neither are especially compelling, though each have their charms. I was surprised at how almost amateurish the editing felt at times for both. I had to pause Shadow and Google if the version I was watching had a missing scene at one point. And Marnie has at least one, maybe two, montages that are so awkwardly paced they play more like too-short scenes stacked on top of each other. I was surprised

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Lenny mentioned Killing them Softly last night in the Batman thread, so I stayed up until 2am re-watching it last night. Still so good

I forgot all about that post.

[Farmer John]

I need to rewatch Vertigo. I was tired when I saw it and remember thinking is was boring as shit.

[epilogue]

I need to rewatch Vertigo. I was tired when I saw it and remember thinking is was boring as shit.

A know a lot of people who feel that way. But I fucking love it. So weird and tense and haunted and fucked up. It's one of my all time favorite movies. But I fully appreciate that it doesn't work for everyone.

[Mickey]

My immediate to-watch list at the moment:

Vertigo
Rope
Shadow of a Doubt
The 39 Steps

[epilogue]

Oh man, you're gonna HATE Vertigo.

[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.

[Mickey]

Oh man, you're gonna HATE Vertigo.

I hope you tire of this bit soon, but, please, tell me why

[Mickey]

I never saw Shadow.

You should put North By Northwest on your list if you haven’t seen it yet.

Not on Criterion, but yeah it's on the list.