I don't particularly care. I don't wonder if a chair i'm sitting on could have possibly been made by a bad person, it's a fine chair, what, am i going to throw it away if it was? I think that deplorable people can make good work, same as anyone else, and acting is just another profession as far as i'm concerned.

If he's verifiably done something criminal, then let judicial system punish him, me watching or not watching his movies does nothing to uphold some sort of justice or whatever.

The amount of times I’ve had to explain that The Joker was simply a mixture of this movie and Taxi Driver to my friends….

It’s a three-way tie between Friday, Anchorman, and Pitch Perfect.

I have to say when we saw it in the theaters, I think we all were quite underwhelmed. But then on the second watch and even the third watch it is hilarious.

Casino Royale. Bond is chasing a bad guy and he breaks straight through a wall to continue pursuit.

Shoresy!

Absolutely a great podcast. I saw the post and hoped someone linked the podcast lol

Can anyone explain what this means?

...the Oscar win for The Departed was the Hollywood equivalent of getting your own pop a spot on a track day at Silverstone...

Fucking Joe Pesci that Italian motherfucker him sounding the same in all his movies

Dude what are you talking about? Who's they? Everything Everywhere All At Once made over $100 million at the box office. People didn't ignore that movie. Banshees at Inisherin made $45 million at the box office and that's absolutely not a big dumb action/gore fest. It's a film about two friends having a friend breakup.

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While an action movie and not an indie drama, I'd say that Top Gun Maverick is still an amazing film. It's nominated for best picture and it should be. Great writing, directing, acting. The story is fantastic, the cinematography is incredible. It made 1.4 billion at the box office.

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It's a no brainer that indie films typically get less attention because.. they're indie films. They don't have the same advertising money that big budget films get. They often get put into fewer theaters across the country.

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But either way, you're putting people into a box. Anyone who goes to enjoy Cocaine Bear won't also watch "quality" films. That's just an ignorant mindset. Fuck, I saw Cocaine Bear and had fun at the theater. I also think Banshees of Inisherin is one of the finest films I've seen in the last .. I don't know how many years. It's possible to enjoy both.

Brandt can't watch, though. Or, he has to pay a hundred.

There are way worse psychos than Spacey who've made much better movies, and if you can't enjoy them cause of off-screen stuff I think that's totally reasonable, but at the end of the day you're missing out

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>Why do blockbuster movies release in november, december, march, april, and most of summer (june-late august)?

A lot of what you picked connects to when people have off from school.

> Why do senior citizens come to movies in flocks more than younger people not to mention they go to the movies on the slow days but younger people don’t as much?

similar reasoning to the last one...they've got free time and nothing better to do

Art vs Artist

You can stop the Artist from making new art. But we consumed that art, we enjoyed it. its part of us. You can't just take that out.

If you look deep enough everyone has done sketchy shit.

I'll cite the Coen Brothers' True Grit --which uses the 1888 hymn "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" as Mattie Ross's theme; and over a quarter of the film's original score draws from this hymn (often almost erupting into the melody, only to pull back), which makes its final use in the film more grandly spiritual and elegiac and satisfying.

Having grown up on an Indian reservation, Thunderheart all day!

"You were running with the Old Ones? At The Knee?"

"Fitful dreams, horseshit, you had a vision!"

"Crowhorse, fuck you..."

Doesn't get better than that, man!

The brothers bloom. No sudden move.

Often. But not usually very relevant.

To be honest, it would have to be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

First Reformed is basically a combo of Winter Light, Diary of a Country Priest, and Ordet. The first half is a straight remake of Winter Light (although I like First Reformed better)

> but I’m not familiar with his other works

Schrader has written/directed quite a few other great movies, most notably Raging Bull and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. Definitely recommend

Basically any Ingmar Bergman movie (Winter Light included). Wild Strawberries and Hour of the Wolf are good places to start

Ozu movies, particularly Tokyo Story, Late Spring, and An Autumn Afternoon

Andrei Rublev

In a Lonely Place

The Deer Hunter

“My god, they are real!”

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Pulp Fiction: (some of these may not be perfectly worded). “I’m gonna go medieval on your ass”. “Zed is dead”. “Check out the big brain on Brett”. “How about you, Flock of Seagulls”.

I've always had a soft spot for any given Sunday. Just a crazy movie about fake pro football.