Spaghetti Kitchen: Pieces of Eight

[Ezen Baklattan]

Three for the price of one.

 

3.

 

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EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU

Chloe Zhao was such a good choice for this material, a journey through time and memory that lingers with me to this day. Every performance and detail here, even as messy as it seems, blends into a mosaic whose beauty I'm still trying to put together in my mind. Even within the inciting plot incident, it gives every character in  this room to be fully dimensional and move in surprising ways. I will absolutely seek out the novel it's based on because this is good, good shit. I'm very impressed, Slam.

 

 

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STRANGERS IN THE TOWN

 

Legitimately a joy from start to finish. There's a reason I'm bringing Claire Scanlon into my fold for Y8, but I had such a good time in this tale of deceit, comedy, and even heart in turn of the century Wisconsin. Nobody's a weak link, and not one minute of the film passes slower than the others. It's a comedy structured so perfectly, and between the seeming con artist strangers and the town's man of the hour, everyone has at least some likability here, but all of it is just simply delightful.

 

And the #1 film of the year is...

 

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One thing's universal,

 

After the holiday's dispersal,

 

Taika and Jemaine find ways to make me believe,

 

It's love, overloaded,

 

Blank went big, he didn't blow it,

 

Making it clear,

#1 belongs to OLIVE'S HALOWED EVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Blankments]

*replace with halloween

 

😮

 

thank you sir! This is a shock lol

[Ezen Baklattan]

Full List:

 

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1. Olive's Hallowed Eve

2. Strangers in the Town

3. Everything I Never Told You

4. Everything We Miss

5. The Bronx is Burning

6. Sandboy

7. Flightless Bird: The Downfall of the Boeing 737 MAX

8. Christmas Shopping

9. Up in the Sky

10. Sins of their Father

11. World of Trouble

12. The Space Between Trees

13. The Last Airbender: The Boy in the Iceberg

14. The World That We Knew

15. The War Between Ants

16. Learning to Care

17. Holland Hannah

18. Mass Effect: Revelation

19. Returning from Hell

20. Static Shock: Frozen Summer

21. Losers Weepers

22. Floodbath

23. Wet Willy

24. Funny Business

25. Mighty Fall

 

All Scores: (Out of 5)

 

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Title	Score
Losers Weepers	3.5
Gunman Clive	1.5
The Lost Empire	2.5
White Whyvern	1.5
Home Invasion: Part III - Hunted	1.0
Christine Monteiro	3.0
Romance Road	2.5
A Very Adam & Cindy Valentine	1.5
Funny Business	3.5
Pokemon: The Case of the Orange Outrage	3.0
Holland Hannah	4.0
Fable	2.5
Flightless Bird: The Downfall of the Boeing 737 MAX	4.5
Recompense	2.0
MEG	2.5
Far Cry	3.0
Citizen Kale: A Veggie Tales Movie	3.0
Kings of the 6	2.0
Tyler Perry's 2 Big Families	1.5
Numbers Theory	3.0
Doc Dreams	3.0
The Idiots	3.0
Snow Monkeys	2.5
No Mercy	2.0
Up in the Sky	4.0
The Insect God	3.5
Mass Effect: Revelantion	4.0
Walking with Dinosaurs: the Cinematic Experience	2.5
Wet Willy	3.5
Monster Bug Wars: The Spider Path	2.0
Monster Bug Wars: The Scorpion Path	2.0
Rhino Riders 2	2.5
Dealer's Choice	3.0
Heartman	3.0
Sandboy	4.5
The Wild Thornberrys	2.0
Everything I Never Told You	5.0
Bailey Buckets: A Hoops Story	2.0
Dave-Day	1.5
Mighty Fall	3.5
Meme Th(II)evies	1.5
The Gnashing	2.5
Eminem-esque	3.0
Fullmetal Alchemist: A Tale of Two Brothers	1.5
Animal Crossing	2.5
The Exchange: European Studies	2.5
Static Shock: Frozen Summer	3.5
Frankenstein Jr.	2.5
The Wave Heist	3.0
The Space Between Trees	4.0
Strangers in the Town	5.0
New Tricks	2.0
The Outback	2.5
Learning to Care	4.0
Splash, Splat, Boom!	1.0
Soar	2.5
Panzer Dragoon	2.5
Floodbath	4.0
The Million-Dollar Jacket	3.0
The War Between Ants	4.0
Green Arrow: The Ninth Circle	2.0
Olive's Hallowed Eve	5.0
Out of Order: The Decline of the Arcade	3.0
World of Trouble	4.0
The Tale of a Guinea Pig	2.0
Dirty Hands	3.5
Everything We Miss	5.0
Returning from Hell	4.0
The Three Caballeros Ride Again	1.5
The Bronx is Burning	5.0
The Last Airbender: The Boy in the Iceberg	4.0
The World That We Knew	4.0
Loving Shadow and Light	1.0
Castaways	3.0
The Turkey Squad: The Fred Durst Cut	0.5
As Fast as I Can	1.5
Christmas Shopping	4.5
Dreams	2.5
Endless Animation's The Un-title-able Squirrel Girl Sequel	3.5
Sins of their Fathers	4.0
Wii Fit	2.5

 

[SLAM!]

Thank you for #3, #8, #14, #23, and the HM!

[MCKillswitch123]

Thank you for #9, #19, #22 and #25 @Ezen Baklattan

[Ezen Baklattan]

@Blankments, @4815162342, and @SLAM! (in that order), you've all made my favorite films of Y8, and as such, you get to pick a pre-read of mine. Numbers, you can keep your Aquarius pre-read or swap it out for a second pick in one of the six films below. Note that casting is not final yet for these films:

 

CASSIA OF THE NIGHT (Drama/Romance/Fantasy) (dir. Celine Sciamma)

Cassia, an immortal drifter in 1980 New York City discovers an underground scene of vampires living within the city, keeping at peace with the mortals among them while fending off those who wish them dead. When Cassia falls for a fellow creature of the night, she begins to question the life she has led for over four hundred years and face a world conditioned to fear her with her true voice.

 

DANSE SAUVAGE (Musical/Biopic) (dir. Hanelle Culpepper)

A stylish, musical (a la ROCKETMAN) biopic of Josephine Backer and her years in France from the early 20s and her rise to fame in the city. In addition to becoming one of the most famous black singers of her time, she would go on to become one of France's greatest assets against in the resistance to the fascist regime of Nazi Germany.

 

FRANCIS (Animation/Sci-Fi/Comedy) (dir. Owen Dennis)

A young married couple threatening to collapse under the weight of their collective problems is invited to test a new product by a prolific tech company, a robotic friend named Francis. When Francis turns out to be far more powerful than imagined, they're forced to put aside their issues and help their creation save the world from a force who sees a means for exploitation in the self help android.

 

INNER VOICE (Horror) (dir. Jen and Sylvia Soska)

VERY loosely inspired by the novel Be More Chill, A lonely young man in High School discovers a secret pill that will help him unlock the secrets to social success by installing a special monitor inside his brain. It seems to work incredibly well, at first, but the more he relies on it guiding the way, the more he loses of himself and the further he descends into a nightmare.

 

THE PRODIGAL CHILDREN (Comedy/Sci-Fi/Thriller) (dir. Claire Scanlon)

Two children used as psychological experiments in WWII are released into a seemingly normal life, until they become television stars in the 1960s for their incredible, godlike abilities. Life couldn't be sweeter for this family, but when the CIA tries to loop them into Cold War shenanigans, their façade slowly begins to crack in dramatic, darkly comedic ways.

 

THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN (Comedy/Drama/Fantasy) (dir. Taika Waititi)

Five strangers who died in freak accidents over the course of a given day are chosen at random by a playful archangel. They wake up in a strange facility, one that presumably used to have a Sears. It soon comes to their attention that one of them will be given the chance to live again, but who?

[4815162342]

I'll keep Aquarius

[Ezen Baklattan]

1 minute ago, 4815162342 said:

I'll keep Aquarius

You also get to add one of the six if you wish!

[SLAM!]

Cassia of the Night

[4815162342]

56 minutes ago, Ezen Baklattan said:

You also get to add one of the six if you wish!

 

Prodigal Children then

[Blankments]

Uh... can I have Prodigal children 😬 

[Ezen Baklattan]

@4815162342 sorry but Blank takes precedent because he had the #1 film; can you pick something else?

[cookie]

Thank you for #7 and #4!

[4815162342]

30 minutes ago, Ezen Baklattan said:

@4815162342 sorry but Blank takes precedent because he had the #1 film; can you pick something else?

 

This wasn't supposed to happen.

 

 

So, I guess, This Wasn't Supposed to Happen