28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[Skitch]

I'm so behind on Letterboxd. I've just now caught up to May. Hoping to get caught up over the next week of vacation.

[Irish]

Tom Cruise - 30

I dig Cruise but JFC, Laz.

Is there a story there or did you just feel the need?

[Ezee E]

I dig Cruise but JFC, Laz.

Is there a story there or did you just feel the need?

Ving Rhames is up there, so the Mission Impossible marathon was basically 1/3 of it,

[transmogrifier]

I think watching 30 Cruise films in a year might drive me somewhat bonkers.

[Lazlo]

I dig Cruise but JFC, Laz.

Is there a story there or did you just feel the need?

I feel the need!

Since May I've been doing a weekly podcast with my buddy discussing a different TC movie. It's called The Cruise Cruise and there's a link to it in my signature if you're at all interested in checking it out. Would love to hear your thoughts!

[Lazlo]

I think watching 30 Cruise films in a year might drive me somewhat bonkers.

It is a lot to deal with sometimes, haha, though I think his movies are generally excellent and/or very interesting.

[Skitch]

It's a good pod! I'm a fan.

[Irish]

I feel the need!

Since May I've been doing a weekly podcast with my buddy discussing a different TC movie. It's called The Cruise Cruise and there's a link to it in my signature if you're at all interested in checking it out. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Ahhhh yeah, that's right! I remember you talking about it back when. I'll give it a listen.

[Lazlo]

Thanks fellas!

[MadMan]

Tom Cruise usually makes some fun and entertaining films. Mission: Impossible-Fallout was one of the best films of 2018.

[Lazlo]

Tom Cruise usually makes some fun and entertaining films. Mission: Impossible-Fallout was one of the best films of 2018.

Fixed.

[transmogrifier]

As a professional editor/proofreader, my eye just twitched.

[Lazlo]

As a professional editor/proofreader, my eye just twitched.

Whoops, strikethrough'd too many words.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Whoops, strikethrough'd too many words.

Nothing gets passed Trans's eyes.

[transmogrifier]

Nothing gets passed Trans's eyes.

*twitching intensifies*

[Skitch]

You guys, are cruel.

[Dukefrukem]

My constant typos must drive trans crazy.

[transmogrifier]

My constant typos must drive trans crazy.

Nah, typos are typos - I make them all the time on message boards, they are just part of typing quickly and not editing. I don't judge anyone on typos. (I DO judge people on "I could care less", because that's just silly).

The twitch was for the ironic "fixed" comment, which reminded me of a handful of overconfident clients who can't really write to save themselves, but who are weirdly sure about what they think is right or not (e.g., I had one client request that I stop using semi-colons because they weren't formal... um, what?). To be fair, the vast majority of my clients are non-native English users, so I'm fine with grammar errors and the like - that's what I'm here for - it's just those weird few who think they know English better than a native speaker because some high school teacher taught them something incorrectly and they took it as gospel.

[Wryan]

Any mod gonna make the "2019 releases" sticky in the Yearly Database section?

[Dukefrukem]

Any mod gonna make the "2019 releases" sticky in the Yearly Database section?

I'm an admin, and I dont have the ability to do anything but change thread titles and move threads.

[Ezee E]

I'm an admin, and I dont have the ability to do anything but change thread titles and move threads.

Same. Seems like that ability went away.

[Dukefrukem]

I'd rather not have ban ability anyway (even though that was the main reason someone recommended me, was so I could ban spammers). I'm not sure MC would accept/trust me with that kind of power.

[Peng]

Eight Hours of Terror (1957)

My first Seijun Suzuki, which is basically Lifeboat on a bus. Blissful blend of nervy suspense, pointed post-war sociopolitical snapshot, and some delicious tonal whiplashes -- a baby is both a source of tenderness (bus singalong) and taboo-pushing sights (gun being put to its head more than once). Masterful in navigating both cramped bus space and open moutain area too. 7.5/10

Animal House (1978)

I posit that the dated aspects (rapey jokes, eye-boggling racism) not only clang with modern sensibilities, but also actively work against the film on a formal level, with its infectiously loose-limbed, hang-out ethos sometimes stopped dead in favor of extended easy, tiresomely low-hanging-fruit hijinks. Still enjoyable because of the superb cast and that ethos, plus some proto-Blues Brothers delightfully orchestrated deadpan jokes/chaos/anarchy (all the horse stuff, food fight, most of the climax, etc). 6.5/10

[Skitch]

I posit that the dated aspects (rapey jokes, eye-boggling racism) not only clang with modern sensibilities, but also actively work against the film on a formal level,

This was my reaction to revisiting this film as well.

[baby doll]

I saw the film in my early 20s (circa 2007) so it's never not been rapey and racist for me.

I kinda wish the whole movie had been about Donald Sutherland's character.