I think this is the equivalent of people saying Interstellar is their favourite Nolan movie, sure some of Scorsese's other works are better but somehow KOC just resonates with them more.

cant believe how far i had to scroll to find this.

Counter-Counterpoint: I just said it’s common decency. You can be an arsehole all you want, nobody’s stopping you.

To me, it compares to the nature of their misdeeds and how much they contributed to the art form. I'll discard a shitweasel that has no talent pretty easily. It gets harder when they have amazing or unique talent, because they can offer you an experience or connection that is rare. At that point, it becomes harder to justify supporting them on rational terms.

Kevin Spacey is a fine actor, and very charismatic. But I don't think he pushed the medium in any new direction, so I don't feel all that bad or any great loss about not watching his films.

My moral dilemma is with Mel Gibson. He's an all time great movie star, an amazing actor and a fantastic director. He's also racist, sexist and antisemitic. His outbursts captured on tape are some of the most vile things you'll hear a human being say. But to play devil's advocate, he's also diagnosed with bipolar and has an extensive history of alcohol addiction. So he's prone to poor judgment and wild or unpredictable mood swings, which can include rage. Those outbursts are not necessarily things he's fully in control of. But these are also outbursts that have a continuity over time.

So with Mel, he's an amazing contributor to movie history. He's a rare breed of star, he can play any genre effortlessly, and he's made as a director one of the most truly adrenaline-pumping movies I've ever seen (Apocalypto). I want to keep watching his work. But he's acted abhorrently on several occasions, that I do wonder if I should support his work. The best way I can reconcile it is that he's not always well, and should give him some consideration due to his mental illness. He's also not taken his actions beyond words (to my knowledge). So he's no Kevin Spacey/Cosby/Weinstein with a deliberate, systematic approach to physical abuse.

I think I do draw a hard line at anyone who engages in deliberate victimization/exploitation. Predators targeting people with less power than themselves can just fuck right off.

First one wasn’t too bad.

The scene in Minority report where Tom Cruise’s character goes to kill a man he thinks murdered his son shatters this rule:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5M4QWD0U8-A

I think it might be the worst edited scene I’ve ever seen.

Kubrick breaks the 180° rule, too, which is even more directly related to the OP.

The second movie has imo the worst trap: pit of dirty needles.

Never. Doesn’t matter how old or culturally ubiquitous a film becomes, someone reading your post or comment or whatever hasn’t seen it and deserves not to have it spoiled.

If you’re writing a spoiler, tag it. Always. No exceptions.

I love me some Zoolander. I drop a lot of "But why _____?" in work meetings

finally someone with an interesting taste of cinema on reddit

If you want a really subtle anti-war film about a fictional conflict, check out the original Red Dawn (1984).

WTF am I saying?

Watch the entire film. The "Wolverines" suffer 80% casualties and the only two survivors do so by running away. The "bad guys" aren't one dimensional, with the singular exception of zampolit General Bratchenko.

The one character who undergoes the most personal growth in the entire film is bad guy Colonel Ernesto Bella. He goes from being proud, to being disgusted with what he's become, and finally resolves to resign and return to his wife in Cuba. In the end, he lets Matt and Jed Eckert go, saying "Vaya con Dios" ("Go with God"), a strange thing indeed for a committed Communist to say.

Plus, don't even know if the US won the war at the end. The ending narration is ambiguous about the matter:

Erica: [closing narration] I never saw the Eckert Brothers again. In time, this war - like every other war - ended. But I never forgot. And I come to this place often, when no one else does. "... In the early days of World War 3, guerillas - mostly children - placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so that this nation should not perish from the earth."

The USA still survives, and the area around Calumet is apparently back in US hands, but that doesn't necessarily mean the USSR and its allies were completely thrown out of US territory, the only real way you can define a "win" when you've been invaded. Calumet was only about 40 miles behind enemy lines. USSR could still occupy much of the plain states and that ending narration would still be true.

Also, that particular ending was tacked on at the insistence of the studio, who wanted a "happy ending" unlike the ambiguous one John Milius wanted. He still managed to make it ambiguous.

im no ive been on reddit for a while bud so im not a "troll"

Yeah, the part where he went all-in on food was hard to watch.

Not sure but I seem to remember Pinochio crying "Papa! Papa!" was a big element of the story

That said, I think I agree. Couldn't put my finger on it, but it's likely his voice that spoiled it for me. And it just wasn't particularly scary. I remember watching this as a kid and it terrified me.

OP I know what you mean. I found it to be a lil annoying. But Pinocchio is suppose to be a little shit so Maybe it’s on purpose. Beautiful movie…annoying voice.

The Big Lebowski, man.

idk man just read the Bible and watch paint dry if movies and their characters (which in some movies you listed are based on real people) are to degenerate for you

The concept of spoiling a story is both silly and not that old. Like what, should I put spoiler warnings when discussing Shakespeare's work or when discussing Greek classics? Can I not discuss mythologies without putting a spoiler warning? Where does it end with you people? Do you think anyone back then cared about "spoilers"?

Bruce Willis ripping the car door off in Unbreakable. For what it is its such a quiet film but in that moment I remember the music ramping up which drives a lot of the panic and emotion. Also I think he does it relatively effortlessly and it just sort of, happens? It's just there so you know he's always had this strength and he's just gotten on with his life with that knowledge.

Gasoline alley.

I haven't kept up with any of his films outside of Hollywood - but while rush hour series is good, I think three is a step down and also Shanghai Noon and Knights are far better.

Don't compare to police story, meals on wheels etc but Shanghai is so good!

I enjoyed it but it's still one of my least favourite broken lizard movie

Good for you. I didn’t cry but I almost did. It was an extremely touching movie.

I tell people, Whale is like Black Swan, except far more relatable, because instead of being about a person striving for perfection, it’s just about a person, a failure, trying to accomplish at least one thing good for the world before dying, and about how humans care about each other so deeply.

Violent Night made 76 Mill? Is that what counts as dominating the box office now a days?