For me itās Interstellar, it never fails to make me ugly cry at least twice during each viewing
John Carpenterās 1982 masterpiece The Thing. The themes of paranoia and isolation are so perfectly explored; it launched the career of Keith David, who is just a treasure; the performances are all immaculate; and those effects. My god, the effects.
Love that one too. What do you (or anybody with a theory or the answer) think is the meaning of the ending?
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My god, the effects.
My god, the soundtrack. Heās a fantastic musician. I really liked his Lost Themes, especially Wraith:
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5th Element
Hot Fuzz. Itās just hilarious and fairly well done and people I know generally appreciate the style.
For those that donāt, maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred-Year-Old_Man_Who_Climbed_Out_of_the_Window_and_Disappeared_(film)
The Big Lebowski
Is gonna be the best movie youāve ever seen once you see it twice
It has a really messy plot with fast paced dialogue and subtle details that you can miss, I also remember my first time seeing it and being like āwtf is going on?ā
As I said, the second time I saw it years later, I already knew the general direction of the movie so I could focus on the single characters and let me tell you: thereās a reason why there are a bunch of people quoting it all the time, every line of the script is like a meme, everything is so iconic
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Just watched both bladerunner movies (idk which versions of them) and was rather underwhelmed. The cinematic grand setpieces i can apprechiate and see how they can be captivating for some but the story (or bith of them rather) wasnt very good imo. The worldbuilding is ambitious but the logic behind everything is lacking. Its just not ārealisticā enough for me. I get thats sci-fi but for me it feels more like a fantasy movie like idk avatar or harry potter, rather than sci-fi which is supposed to play in our world/universe but with advanced tech. Things like not being able to distinguish replicants (first movie I just didnt buy. And then in the second one there is a gadget that can do just that.
And also Ryan Gosling played pretty badly (maybe it was the script), no emotions, (almost) no storytelling in his mimic, emotions, in his character at all. He is almost like a wax figure, during watching I multiple times had to pause and complain to my co-watcher about his performance, as it too was unrealistic and too stoic for my taste
I feel like Iām the only person I know who really enjoyed the sheer visual masterpiece that was the second movie. Gosling is supposed to under-react here, and that he does well, right until the point that he breaks.
I mean, I get both. Sometimes it felt more like a documentary whith grand and cinematic images of the city and few spoken words, I can apprechiate that, altho its not what I am looking for in a movie.
I suspected that he is supposed to not really show emotions, to show how he is trained/at the ābaselineā and how he is not quite human. But I couldnāt see a gradual/fine development nor āhiddenā or suppressed emotions behind his cold pokerface. (Apart from the one moment at the memory girlās)
To be fair, you have to remember that the story the that the first film was based on was published in 1968. Itās basically a form of the āSeinfeld isnāt funnyā trope. Just about every work of sci-fi, about being able to (or not) tell human from machine has borrowed one thing or another from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or the first Bladerunner film in one way or another. Itās basically impossible not to.
So I wonder if your opinion of it, watching it for the first time in 2024 could be colored by that. If all of those themes have been beaten to death again and again, satirized, parodied, meme-ified, then eventually cycling around to being cool again, then maybe youāre noticing all of those things as the tropes/memes they became.
I would say like half of Rick and Morty episodes are a take on a Philip K. Dick plot point. Had I not read his novels before being exposed to that stuff, Iām sure I would have probably caught more about how poorly written his female characters were, for example. But at the time I was just too blown away by the concepts this dude had come up with that it didnāt matter to me.
Yea, me watching it so many ywars after it came out definitely colored my opinion. Its like that with many āfirstā movies, from Tron to Metropolis, that the original appeal decreases as the motives and filmmaking techniques arent as new anymore, because of those movies. One would have to watch āgenericā movies from that year to really apprechiate the innovative parts which then got replicated over and over.
