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They're definitely very silly movies that I think embrace their silliness

The problem is people are so selective on what counts as stupid or stupid. Like I once heard someone say on a podcast that prestige is their favorite Nolan movie but that it's stupid that it treats magic seriously but why is that stupid & something like death playing chess genius?

I don't like it when someone says they like a movie but it's stupid. There's not much of a difference between that & saying "guilty pleasure" or "so bad it's good". Why can't you like a movie without being self-conscious about it & making sure everyone knows you're smarter than it?

Heard Seth Rogen on blank check pod shit on the ball-chinian joke in men in black 2 as if he hadn't done jokes just as stupid in his movies

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People complain about movies being too long but how many miniseries or seasons of TV shows are we going to watch when they could've easily just been 3+ hour movies?

Loved him since David Mamet's heist

For me it's between night of the juggler or vice squad

I can understand someone who enjoys seeing sex on screen but not violence but I don't understand someone who enjoys seeing violence but not sex. There should be as much sex on screen as their is violence. In fact, probably more since sex is generally a good thing that people do more of

A great companion piece with David Ayer's underrated sabotage

It seems the discourse around OBAA is that people wish it was more about politics but that's not what PTA does. He makes personal emotional stories about relationships. OBAA is about politics like the master is about Scientology or phantom thread is about fashion or TWBB is about capitalism

I'm starting to think joke-stealing isn't really a thing. Whenever I hear about a comedian stealing another comedians jokes and you hear the joke, it's not very original anyways

I'm always interested in discussing the pop culture impact or influence of something, but anyone who knows me is well aware that I'm far more interested in the movies that effectively make you a "cult of one." If you live and breathe FROSTBITER: WRATH OF THE WENDIGO, then baby, it's a masterpiece.

It's one of the things that frustrates me about blank check pod is whenever they do the box office game & they talk about a movie they've never heard of they say it doesn't exist. Like if it's not in their bubble, it's not worth remembering

I'm getting tired of people talking about a movie's "cultural impact" as if it's a measure of quality. Just because people aren't constantly talking about a movie or even at all doesn't mean it's bad. By that logic, a lot of low budget Indies are bad

Karel Roden and Oleg Taktarov will return as Emil and Oleg in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.

I would've been fine with the actor playing the young George Clooney in Jay Kelly not really looking like him if it wasn't for the movie ending with clips from George Clooney's movies

Remember when The Studio, a show about how stupid executives can be, had Ted sarandos play himself and made him look cool like he's one of the good ones?

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love

I don't really care if celebrities talk about politics or not but it bothers me when celebrities begrudge other celebrities talking about politics & act like they're brave for not speaking out

Oh, so you lot love films because you consider them important. Not because you actually enjoy the movies themselves. Got it. Yeah, that explains why some lists on here are so similar and lack personal taste.

War is a terrible thing but is it always unnecessary? For instance, like I said before, is anyone going to say we shouldn't have fought the Nazis because war is terrible? Plus is battle of Algiers pro-war because it's anti-colonialism?

That's a little bit of semantics. The point of people saying war movies glamorise war is that war movies make killing look cool which basterds definitely does do

And inglorious bastards, you could argue is unapologetically pro-war. Even Quentin Tarantino might argue that

I don't necessarily agree that war movies before 1970 typically were pro-war. Obv there are exceptions & they couldn't be very graphic in their depiction of war but they could nail the emotional, systemic & culture of war like with Sam Fuller movies who was a veteran

I get that but the thing is other people interpret it to mean that most war movies fail because they're not explicitly anti-war & I think it's a simplistic way to criticize them. Especially with a WW2 movie because is anyone really going to say we shouldn't have fought the Nazis because war is bad?

You could say the same thing about war movies. They don't cause real wars & they can be about unreal situations like starship troopers or Alex Garland's civil war

I disagree. The reason why I compared war movies to musicals is because they're a genre like any other & can be as complex & diverse as any other without being outwardly jingoistic & if that's not the case, then does that mean action or horror movies are pro-violence propaganda?

I don't want pro-war movies, I just think the term "pro-war" is overused. It's basically saying that any war movie with good cinematography is pro-war & if you want to be Anti-war, then you should have more complex things to say about it then just show how brutal it is which everyone knows already