"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question
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"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question
Wanted to pick something with prominent hands, and no fewer than three! Checked another spaghetti Western off the watchlist: Find a Place to Die, a remake of 1954's Garden of Evil. An average outing with a couple good set pieces and the original Captain Pike, Jeffrey Hunter, as our tortured lead.
it's more fucked up because garfield was the one who took that saudi money to do the riyadh comedy circuit.
Poster for the movie Find a Place to Die
CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
LesIsMore watched Find a Place to Die (1968) to complete the "In Their Hands" challenge for 2026 Week 10
Love when the challenge fits into my already planned viewings! Train Dreams was my last Best Picture winner to check off (got to see it in a theater!) and Joel Edgerton holding an axe on one poster slots it here. Wonderful film about the beauty in a quiet life that made me sob through the credits.
Poster for the movie Train Dreams
CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
LesIsMore watched Train Dreams (2025) to complete the "In Their Hands" challenge for 2026 Week 10
Here’s some watchlist options:
Salvation
Fright Night
Fantastic Planet
Old Henry
Endgame
She Hate Me
A Bittersweet Life
Snowpiercer
Ballerina
Handsome Guys
Sleuth
Jackie Brown
Force of Evil
Barb Wire
Find a Place to Die
Shampoo
Casino
The Lady in Red
Targets
Steel Dawn
The Accountant 2
Ella McCay
Love the openness of this. Here’s some recent watches that would fit:
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Bad Lieutenant
Audition
Send Help
Con Air
Trafic
KPop Demon Hunters
Child's Play
Safety Last!
Lady Snowblood
High and Low
xXx
The Secret Agent
A Late Quartet
Sisu: Road to Revenge
Hard Boiled
Michael B. Jordan holding two Actor Awards
I didn't realize everyone who won for the ensemble cast got one and briefly thought they gave him two for winning Best Actor as a bit
You know, for kids!
#LetterboxdFriday
#Last4Watched
Rise of Skywalker was this basic idea but in movie form, and it tanked Star Wars as a theatrical franchise for almost a decade. And on TV, outside of Andor, even the better shows were catering to a rapidly shrinking audience of the hardcore.
I've been thinking about how this has already played out in games - there was a massive push to convince the industry and world that there was this huge audience of angry reactionary gamers who weren't getting what they demanded. And it turned out there weren't that many and they don't buy games
It's hilarious that they've convinced themselves that there's a massive, under-served audience segment just yearning for more right-wing content if only someone would give it them. It doesn't exist! The people they're talking about already only watch TV and entertain themselves by bitching about it
The plans....
Here's some options on the Criterion Channel:
- Last Hurrah for Chivalry
- Last Summer
- Last Holiday
- The Final Insult
- Five Star Final
- The End of Summer
- The End of the Day
- Raven's End
- No End
- The End of the Affair
Delightfully devilish, Joyce!
Been on a French film kick this month, easy to add Last Year at Marienbad for this week's challenge! Technically a different meaning of "last," but you can read finality in it. (Along with many other things, this film begging for interpretation.) Beautiful film, visuals that feel very proto-Kubrick.
Poster for the movie Last Year at Marienbad
CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
LesIsMore watched Last Year at Marienbad (1961) to complete the "Finality" challenge for 2026 Week 9
Final films, films with an ending reference in the title?
Spun the watchlist to find something streaming, and landed on David Cronenberg's second feature film, Crimes of the Future. A prototype of many of the twisted ideas he'll evolve and mutate in the decades to come. Slow, confusing, and low-budget, I'd recommend it for Cronenberg completionists only.
Poster for the movie Crimes of the Future
CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
LesIsMore watched Crimes of the Future (1970) to complete the "Plurals" challenge for 2026 Week 8
sorry to say but that's a ....naan starter
#LetterboxdFriday
#Last4Watched
My Social Studies teacher in high school showed us The Hudsucker Proxy. I assume it’s because it’s, y’know, for kids!
[reading the news] this country is going down the crapper and we deserve it
[watching the olympics] USA USA USA
Great thread, I agree with every single point Micah makes, and he doesn’t even get into one of the primary reasons I despise the pile of dog poo known as TROS with the intensity of 10 million suns — the way they fucked over the character of Rose. All too illuminating & unforgivable. Cowards.
Incredibly open challenge! Here's the watchlist:
- Hustlers
- All the Old Knives
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Little Woods
- Natural Born Killers
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Cries and Whispers
- Fallen Leaves
- Four Daughters
- The Girl with all the Gifts
- Maps to the Stars
- Da 5 Bloods
- Bridge of Spies
The night, and the dream, were long…