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    Love it Spinal.

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    I watched The Black Stallion for the first time in its entirety last night. It's magnificent. My dad tried to show it to me as a kid but I got so scared I only made it through the first 20 minutes. Had no idea about [
    ] I distinctly remember being frightened by the quick scene at the beginning where the horse is fighting against the ropes on the deck of the ship. Also, the ship wreck sequence is really scary and so is the bit with the cobra.

    Anyway, got me thinking about other movies that scared me as a kid:

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - The bit where the guys in spacesuits enter the house.
    Jurassic Park - Not a particular part, but I had nightmares about velociraptors after the second time I saw the movie.
    The Empire Strikes Back - I saw this first because my dad got confused as to whether Star Wars was the first movie in the Star Wars saga or not . Again, nothing specific, but I remember thinking that when I turned on lights in dark rooms at night that Vader would be standing there ready to get me. Not unlike this scene:


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    Quote Quoting Spinal (view post)
    I watched the original Ghost in the Shell for the first time tonight. Super impressed. I know of few movies that are so jam-packed with ideas in such a short run-time. Gotta be honest, I was having trouble keeping up, but I was enjoying it all the same. I can see why they chose to remake this one. It speaks so directly to our times and the way in which technology simultaneous makes us powerful and vulnerable. The down side is that I am now super skeptical of the remake.
    I feel like I peel back a new layer or idea every time I watch it. Same with Akira. Love it. Are you going to watch any more GiTS stuff? I recommend Stand Alone Complex.

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    This is sorta brilliant on a couple of different levels, but the coup de grace is burying a "Hacksaw Ridge" rating in the middle of it

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    Quote Quoting Spinal (view post)
    The down side is that I am now super skeptical of the remake.
    I'm surprised you weren't skeptical of the amount of Land Before Time sequels. What happened, did your son get bored of the Criterion Collection?

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    Are you going to watch any more GiTS stuff? I recommend Stand Alone Complex.
    Maybe eventually. I'll have to do some more research as to what I'd be getting into. Looks like there's a lot to digest.
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    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    This is sorta brilliant on a couple of different levels, but the coup de grace is burying a "Hacksaw Ridge" rating in the middle of it
    I learned that there's more Land Before Time movies than can be fit in a signature.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Quote Quoting Lazlo (view post)
    What movies scared you as a kid?
    The one I always remember is Poltergeist which I saw around the age of 9.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    I proudly own the Land Before Time on laserdisc.

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    One question that keeps coming back to me over time. Why do people in the US love The Shawshank Redemption so much? It HAS to be a cultural thing. I've spoken to people of all countries who don't think it's that big of a deal. But every American seems to regard it as a masterpiece.

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    Wow, really? Huh. Whats not to like?

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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    One question that keeps coming back to me over time. Why do people in the US love The Shawshank Redemption so much? It HAS to be a cultural thing. I've spoken to people of all countries who don't think it's that big of a deal. But every American seems to regard it as a masterpiece.
    I want to know someone who saw it in the theater. Everyone I know came across it on TBS/TNT.

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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    I want to know someone who saw it in the theater. Everyone I know came across it on TBS/TNT.
    I did. Good movie, but I also am a bit mystified at it's elevated reputation. It surprises me when it's mentioned alongside all-time classics.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    I want to know someone who saw it in the theater. Everyone I know came across it on TBS/TNT.
    I did. Great movie.
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    Top 5 movie all-time for me.
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    Top 5 movie all-time for me.
    Whoops. Looks like I demoted it to #26.
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    Blind rent on VHS. Blew my mind. Watched it twice in 24 hours.

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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    One question that keeps coming back to me over time. Why do people in the US love The Shawshank Redemption so much? It HAS to be a cultural thing. I've spoken to people of all countries who don't think it's that big of a deal. But every American seems to regard it as a masterpiece.
    First, explain your countrymen's love of Eva Perón.

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    I really hope that's Spinal's actual rating for Hacksaw Ridge.
    Sure why not?

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    Here's a non-horror (the film that scarred me the most was Demons, but that is a no-brainer - I would have been scarred by any gory horror at the time I saw it) movie that freaked me out when I was younger: Return to Oz
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    I think The Shawshank Redemption is almost the perfectly told story. In terms of how the plot is laid out, and how it comes together, and how it works to deepen the characters and their relationship with each other, and how it ends, and how all of the shots and scenes are almost perfectly chosen to seamlessly move the story forward, it is something that should be more of an inspiration for mainstream cinema today - seriously, some of the blockbusters we see today have atrociously banal screenplays and little idea how to tell a story that isn't (a) a chosen one parable (snooze!) or (b) some jerk learning to not be a jerk (eh).

    Some movies aren't interested in telling a perfect story, and this is not necessarily a negative - I think Mulholland Dr. (purposefully) leaves a lot of holes and mysteries in its central narrative, but it is richer for it, being able to generate a brilliantly realized atmosphere... so, anyway...
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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    One question that keeps coming back to me over time. Why do people in the US love The Shawshank Redemption so much? It HAS to be a cultural thing. I've spoken to people of all countries who don't think it's that big of a deal. But every American seems to regard it as a masterpiece.
    Maybe part of it is that the film is in some ways America's overall self-narrative, the idea of the free individual self-liberating from a destructive system. It's also a film that anybody can understand without coming off as condescending (your mileage may vary on that, though). I think part of it for a lot of viewers is that you feel like you discovered it; it was recommended by somebody and then you rented it, or maybe you caught it on cable (which was how a lot of people saw it for the first time after its tepid theatrical reception). That's always a fun feeling, discovering something on your own - it's the opposite of how a lot of "great films" are promoted to casual movie-watchers, with superlative-heavy reviews from Esteemed Sources and Noted Filmmakers, to the point that watching Citizen Kane or La Dolce Vita starts to feel like an obligation, like coursework instead of a good time.

    Also, don't underestimate the popular appeal of a movie that has an uplifting and well-told story.
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    I think The Shawshank Redemption is almost the perfectly told story. In terms of how the plot is laid out, and how it comes together, and how it works to deepen the characters and their relationship with each other, and how it ends, and how all of the shots and scenes are almost perfectly chosen to seamlessly move the story forward, it is something that should be more of an inspiration for mainstream cinema today - seriously, some of the blockbusters we see today have atrociously banal screenplays and little idea how to tell a story that isn't (a) a chosen one parable (snooze!) or (b) some jerk learning to not be a jerk (eh).

    Some movies aren't interested in telling a perfect story, and this is not necessarily a negative - I think Mulholland Dr. (purposefully) leaves a lot of holes and mysteries in its central narrative, but it is richer for it, being able to generate a brilliantly realized atmosphere... so, anyway...
    Hah, you lapped me on it simply being a good, well-told story. But to piggyback on the shot choices and scenes, absolutely, Darabont does a great job of crafting a film that's sort of quietly elegant, that sometimes does very dramatic things with camera, lighting, and composition, but without making you too conscious of the effects - maybe because they almost always come in to support a moment of high drama. They feel proportional, like that gigantic crane twist when Hadley's dangling Andy off the roof, but as Andy talks and you realize that he has leverage (as an accountant), the camera moves down and tilts up, drops the vertiginous angle, and puts them at eye-level with each other. It's graceful and unintrusive and helps communicate stakes (the plunge) and then communicates character dynamics.

    Steven Spielberg is sort of the God of that kind of old Hollywood style of filmmaking (at his best, he is, anyway).

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    My problem with The Shawshank Redemption is that it feels like two fundamentally different movies awkwardly spliced together: On the one hand, it's a liberal screed against the abusive conditions prisoners are subjected to in American prisons (or at least, were in the past) and the inability of those prisoners to adjust to normal life once they get out, but on the other hand, it's an uplifting personal story about interracial male bonding in which the sympathetic characters overcome major obstacles and the unsympathetic ones get their comeuppance. Without the former, the latter would just be schmaltzy wish-fulfillment, and without the latter, the former would be unspeakably depressing, but I'm not sure grafting them together like some kind of Frankenstein monster is an ideal solution either.
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    Oh shit, just realized that King basically wrote this story twice, once in the original novella, and once (to some degree) in The Eyes of the Dragon, where someone innocent is imprisoned and must think of a slow-boiling plan for escape. [
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