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Post by NDX on Jan 14, 2023 5:23:04 GMT -5
Any special plan on how to approach them? Will you just go with as the mood takes you? Maybe I will try for at least one from each decade, as part of it. I'll probably go by how I feel. If I tried to do it any other way I'd just fail hard.
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Post by NDX on Feb 13, 2023 0:32:28 GMT -5
3 off the pile with Candyman 1992, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian and Wall-E.
I haven't seen Candyman in probably 25 years. A slow burn of a film, Tony Todd looked amazing while Virginia Madsen stole the show.
Monty Python's The Life Of Brian is as good as Python gets.
My copy of Life of Brian is the Criterion DVD from 1999 and it's like watching a 35mm reel. It has all the scratches and noises from a reel found in a box from 1979, and it's beautiful. It even has the "cigarette burns" to indicate reel changes.
I kind of want the BD to go with this to see how much they cleaned it up, and to pair it with the Flying Circus BD set I have.
I've probably watched Wall-E 20 times since getting the DVD back in 2008. It's in my top 10, if not top 5, all time animated films. Until tonight, I have never seen an HD version of this, just the DVD on ish TVs. The Criterion Collection recently put out its first Pixar release on BD and I had to get it, and I regret nothing. Just spectacular looking. It's like seeing it in a whole new light.
Like the ship of Theseus, Wall-E has been replacing parts on his own, cannibalizing other units for centuries. How much of him is the original, if any?
Also, have to point out how the film shows the potential dangers of consumerism and pollution and here we are getting another release on top of countless others.
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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Feb 18, 2023 12:44:58 GMT -5
I'm planning to watch Good Bye, Lenin! again soon. In Germany there is something called Ostalgie, which is a yearning for certain aspects of the old East Germany. Some of the old East German products have even become cool with youths in the united Germany, who never knew what the real state was like. I suppose it is a form of rebellion against modern consumer culture, but as with everything, this seeming rebellion is itself commercial in its way as money is made out of it.
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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Mar 9, 2023 10:56:50 GMT -5
Any more films watched from the list NDX ?
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Post by NDX on Mar 9, 2023 21:57:54 GMT -5
Any more films watched from the list NDX ? Sadly no, I have not been in the right mental state to watch more movies, it seems.
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Post by NDX on Mar 14, 2023 1:19:23 GMT -5
Arrival
Very much a modern day Contact with a touch of ID4 mixed in. A slow burn of a film, but I enjoyed it.
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