Jake Gittes

Network is a pretty obnoxious movie imo.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is only a little less fun than it is retrograde, in its first hour at least. Disarmingly goofy with game performances and some ridiculously well-choreographed set-pieces, the pre-barn raising dance is one of the best things I've seen in the genre. Unfortunately it does get kinda tonally incoherent in the final third when it more or less starts arguing with itself about its #problematic elements and ends up having multiple cakes and eating them too. But overall still much more enjoyable than I thought it would be.

Cuckoo's Nest had a big impact on me in my early teens but it went down a little in my eyes after I read the novel and honestly retroactively the treatment of Ratched as a two-dimensional hiss-worthy villain doesn't sit entirely right with me as good as Fletcher is in the role. Like Brainbug I need to see it again but I'm afraid I'll think even less of it when I do.

Sherlock Jr. is a masterpiece and maybe the best cure for anyone who thinks silent movies aren't for them. There are more visual ideas and energy in there than in most movies made since.

There's a movie that has Jim Carrey with a beard and a Polish accent vs. Marton Csokas playing a "bad-boy novelist" https://film.avclub.com/who-s-there-it-s-dark-crimes-the-dark-crime-thriller-1825826525

Try as I might I hear Yanny and nothing else in that thing.

Speak for yourself. Didn't take me more than one viewing to pretty much feel like I just saw God himself when I got to the movie's climax. Apocalypse Now gets more on-the-nose for me as a war critique with each viewing but on the whole it's still a formidable experience. Slipped from my top 10 (back in '12 and '14) closer to #30-40 though.

It's not his debut, that's Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

His best performance no question. He's got legit raw young-Brando magnetism going on in that, which he may have lost forever now that he's all established

Brando definitely popularized method acting but it's not like he was the first person in 50 years who realized that you could act naturally in a film. There's a handful of different approaches to acting in the classic Hollywood films, from aggressively stylized (which works perfectly well for stuff like noir and screwball comedies, you just gotta get used to it instead of letting the first impression throw you off), to relaxed and accessible - by the standards of the time, yes, but still. (The Best Years of Our Lives is a good example.) And there were so many actors who simply had a singular screen presence that you can't just boil down to "oh it's old so it's wooden and fake".

August 24 would be a great date for this to go wide.

I feel your pain but this would only really be a valid question if we knew that roughly the same amount of members here have seen Persona and The 400 Blows that have seen the Potter movies. Unfortunately that's obviously not the case. 99% of classics are at a disadvantage from the start here.

The only unbelievable thing about Rear Window is that Jimmy Stewart resists Grace Kelly when she wants to marry him.

Here's a good, thoughtful write-up deeming the movie a masterpiece, and a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier re: individual experience > public outrage, walkouts, etc. https://filmmakermagazine.com/105344-cannes-dispatch-5-blackkklansman-the-house-that-jack-built/#.WvuCDqSFPIU

I get you better now but as someone who's not too drawn to the franchise lore I can just pretend that nothing post-T2 (or T3, when I'm feeling generous) exists. I'd say the book comparison is kind of flawed because here the first and the last chapter are written by entirely different people decades apart.

Love Rear Window. Dunno if it's Hitchcock's best but for me it's his most enjoyable front-to-back. That introductory close-up of Grace Kelly damn near made me pass out every time I saw it.

I watched The Band Wagon. Biggest Golden Age musical I still had left. A lil too long and scattered but the highs are very high, Astaire and Cyd Charisse's dance in the park is the purest slice of that vaunted old-school classic Hollywood movie magic I've seen in a long while. The Pirate still my favorite Minnelli but this ties or maybe even edges out Meet Me in St. Louis for #2.

That was sarcasm. See the post right above that one.

Kelli v Jimbo LET'S GO

Love the expression of the guy behind the kid's left shoulder. "Yeah well what else did you expect from this shit?"

Eyes Wide Shut!

No one fucking does this.

Yeah I'm sure we can all agree that T1 really went down in our eyes after we saw Genisys

'S all good. No need to apologize. Europa is good as hell. Really recommend that. Visually one of the most unique and impressive films I've ever seen, and with a solid story too. The Idiots didn't leave a lasting impression on me one way or the other but I can see how one could hate it. Yeah I can't wait for Climax now. I'm a fan of I Stand Alone and Irreversible, but didn't much care for Enter the Void and never even summoned enough interest in Love to watch it. He pretty much risked becoming completely irrelevant if he didn't deliver with this one so I was really happy reading all the positive reactions.