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I can't fairly evaluate Gump. When I saw it as a kid during its original theatrical airing, it was a tour de force, a masterpiece to my 11 yo eyes. It's hard to disassociate from that experience and I don't really want to. That being said, from adult me's perspective, Pulp Fiction >>> Forrest Gump.

Fun fact given all of the chatter about The Insider: it's written by the same guy who wrote Forrest Gump.

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04-26-2021 , 11:25 PM

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Oh yeah, I rewatched Hustle & Flow (2005) the other night for the first time since the year it came out. Excellent movie and I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time, maybe even more since I'm now the age of the protagonists and can understand their urgency giving their pipe dreams one last shot. Great performances all around and the scenes showing the genesis of what become Djay's two biggest tracks are amazing. It's also the perfect length for what it's trying to do.

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04-27-2021 , 12:10 PM

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I'm stoked Nomadland won Best Picture, was my favorite of 2020. If anything, I hope more ppl check out Chloe Zhao's earlier work. I've only seen The Rider, and it was among my favorite movies that year. Zhao tells delicate stories with so much care and precision that I cannot help but get emotional while watching her films. Still need to catch up with Songs my Brother Taught Me. Fun fact, 2+2er Ryan Firpo co-wrote the screenplay for The Eternals (upcoming Zhao MCU movie)

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04-27-2021 , 12:57 PM

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Yeah the Zhao / MCU combo should be interesting

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04-27-2021 , 02:21 PM

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I have trouble describing exactly what it is about Forrest Gump that I didn't like it but I didn't like it. Basically I was bored. I saw it in the theater and kept checking my watch which is never a good sign. Also I thought the gimmick clips were just a bit too gimmicky.

It does have some memorable scenes and quotable dialog which are things that generally draw me in but for whatever reason FG just didn't click with me.

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04-29-2021 , 02:46 PM

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Promising Young Woman I enjoyed it. Dark comedy about a gal whose med school friend commits suicide due to rape, and she takes revenge on all predators out there. Very much a film born out of the MeToo movement. Carey Mulligan was very good. Some will scoff at calling anything "Oscar worthy" with what they sometimes award, but this isn't really a film that will resonate with the Academy. 3.5/5

I saw PYW last night. Very dark and disturbing and evil and clever/smart. I really enjoyed it and think I will enjoy a rewatch if it ever comes on Netflix.

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04-29-2021 , 06:19 PM

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.......snip...... Very dark and disturbing and evil and clever/smart.......snip....

Then you should also enjoy this:

Donald Sutherland in "The Undoing"
(language)

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04-29-2021 , 07:14 PM

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Watched Three Colors: Blue again. A flat out masterpiece. Only connect!

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04-29-2021 , 07:51 PM

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Watched 10 Rillington Place for the umpteenth time. It was shot in the house itself. Perfect film.

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04-29-2021 , 07:58 PM

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Watched Three Colors: Blue again. A flat out masterpiece. Only connect!

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Of Director Krzysztof Kieslowski "He is one of the filmmakers I would turn to for consolation if I learned I was dying, or to laugh with on finding I would live after all." Roger Ebert 2003 (diagnosed with ca in 2002).

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04-29-2021 , 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by John Cole

Watched Three Colors: Blue again. A flat out masterpiece. Only connect!

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for sure

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04-29-2021 , 10:08 PM

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Boom... headshot!

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04-29-2021 , 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by John Cole

Watched Three Colors: Blue again. A flat out masterpiece. Only connect!

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04-30-2021 , 02:43 PM

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Watched Napoleon Dynamite for the first time in ten years. I didn't get it then. Now, I was crying laughing through the whole thing. So freakin' funny.

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04-30-2021 , 04:38 PM

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Watched Napoleon Dynamite for the first time in ten years. I didn't get it then. Now, I was crying laughing through the whole thing. So freakin' funny.

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04-30-2021 , 05:02 PM

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Watched 10 Rillington Place for the umpteenth time. It was shot in the house itself. Perfect film.

I watched it as a kid and I was totally transfixed by it. Staggering.

But I will never watch it again.

Same with the murder night scenes in In Cold Blood. I re-watch the investigation, interrogation and prison scenes because they’re so well done and Robert Black and Scott Wilson are really good but not the murder night scene. They’re also well-done but I have no need to refresh that stuff.

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04-30-2021 , 05:23 PM

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There was a copy of Beyond Belief, about the Moors murders, on the bookshelves at home, but I doubt I could read it. My comment about the film being shot in the house itself wasn't accurate.

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In 1954, the year after Christie's execution, Rillington Place in Notting Hill, west London, was renamed Ruston Close, but number 10 continued to be occupied. In the 2016 documentary Being Beryl on the UK Blu-ray, actress Judy Geeson revealed that the family living at number 10 in 1970 were too afraid to move out temporarily in fear of not being allowed back, so exterior scenes and window shots were filmed at the nearby number 7. However, in some shots (filmed outside from the street), the family clearly allowed Richard Attenborough some access to number 10, where he can be seen looking out of the bay window, and in other scenes going in and coming out the front door.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Rillington_Place

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04-30-2021 , 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Watched Napoleon Dynamite for the first time in ten years. I didn't get it then. Now, I was crying laughing through the whole thing. So freakin' funny.

interesting, i had the opposite feeling

remember seeing it in theater and entire place was losing it in hysterical laughter, never seen a theater just go off like that before - i thought it was one of the funniest movies i've ever seen

watched it a few times since and it just never captured that magic again

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05-01-2021 , 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Watched Napoleon Dynamite for the first time in ten years. I didn't get it then. Now, I was crying laughing through the whole thing. So freakin' funny.

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I've seen it twice. When it came out and a few months ago on TV. I thought it was a masterpiece both times. Almost Austenonian in its capture of the manners of its time.

I wonder what Dom didn't like about it the first time?

Vote for Pedro!

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05-01-2021 , 10:51 AM

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Watched this recently with my teenage kids and it wasn't nearly as good as I had remembered.

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05-01-2021 , 02:58 PM

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Criterion Channel has some terrific films now. I watched Dina, a documentary about an autistic woman about to marry a man with Asperger's. It's a touching film that plays a bit like a fiction film. Highlights were the montage sequence set to Yaz's "Only You," the male stripper at the bachelorette party, and the sublime yet heartbreaking ending.

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05-01-2021 , 03:08 PM

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I think it's just one of those movies you have to be in the right mood

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05-01-2021 , 03:08 PM

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Dominic

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10 Rillington Place - never heard of this - will check it out

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05-02-2021 , 01:11 PM

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What Happened Was . . . On Criterion, directed and written by Tom Noonan is a pretty painful watch, especially for me, since more and more these days I feel a bit like both characters. I don't always know how to act.

Noonan played Dollarhyde in Manhunter, and he, along with Karen Sillas, are the only actors in a film about a rather terrible first date. This is the second film of Noonan's I've seen. He should have directed more.

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