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My wife and I started talking about this yesterday because Kevin Sorbo is in our small town (Granbury, TX) filming a Christmas movie and we joked, "Well, we know it will be VERY Christian...".

So, what actors/actresses always do the same thing: they are always in movies with a particular theme, will always be the sidekick, etc.

Hello, I just have a quick question about this new Godzilla movie. Do I need to see any prior movies in order to follow this one? If so, which ones?

I’m unfamiliar with anything related to Godzilla save for the 2014 movie.

Finding out Luc Besson created this fictional universe when he was a teenager makes a lot of sense because this certainly feels like a movie created by an imaginative teenage boy. Aliens! Spaceships! Bruce Willis running around shooting villains while making quips! Explosions! Hot women in skimpy outfits! (And not just Mila Jovovich; did we forget the stripperesque McDonald's employees of the future?) The list goes on.

But that's a big part of the fun of the movie. Roger Ebert probably captured the appeal of the movie best with this line in his positive review:

"One of the great goofy movies; a feast for the eyes if not for the brain."

Exactly that. It's a giant, colorful, creative nonsense show from the mind of a teenager trying to amuse himself and tossing everything he can think of into it. You want pear-shaped aliens? They're in. You want Gary Oldman to have a K.D. Lang haircut? Go for it. You want Debo from "Friday" as the freaking President? Awesome! Nothing is left out. You have to love a work as creatively unfettered as this.

I'm pretty sure you all know Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. The movie about airplane pilot and entrepreneure Howard Hughes. So in the movie is shown that Howard Hughes played by Leonardo DiCaprio has a kinda bakteria phobia and always cleans his hands when ever he can. But he also smells a lot on his hand, if they're clean enough.

And now months past away I saw the movie. I can't stop smelling on my hands too. No matter if after showering, cleaning them after using the bathroom, after washing dishes. I do the exact same Howard Hughes did when they're not smelling good for his taste. Clean them until I have the feeling that they're smelling good.

The shocking thing is before I watched The Aviator I hadn't this kinda behavior. I'm pretty sure this movie broke me and after expiriencing such case, I thought are there similar cases where movies influenced people in such a bad way. Please take this serious because for me this is not funny and more like horror.

I really like scream but would love to see a movie where we know from the very beginning who the killer is and we just follow him throughout his killing so we see him plan it and all

I’m pro shooting film! I think shooting on film for the right reasons is awesome. Color negative has so much more highlight recovery than digital and I find halation to be very pleasant. I just saw a Kodak featurette on Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film being shot mostly with Ektachrome 100D which was chosen for its deep blacks, high saturation, and strong contrast. Meanwhile, every shot has a CGI sky. It seems like an arduous process simply to reduce the dynamic range of an image. I think the choice makes a lot more sense 30 years ago when something like Buffalo ‘66 was trying to stand out (and it still looks beautiful). Today, it just sounds like a gimmick with little payoff. What do you think?

Mine is Bennett in "Commando" (1985):

"I'm not gonna shoot you between the eyes, John, I'm gonna shoot you between the BALLS!"

See if you can top that, I would be very interested in hearing it. :)

I'm not writing a piece, this is just fun discussion and my friends and I are always looking for future "So bad it's good" movie viewings, and what can be more so-bad-it's-good than an over-the-top Antagonist chewing the scenery into sawdust?

literally this. There are many films and TV series where an inconspicuous main character becomes a savior, the strongest, the best in everything. Are there films, preferably not comedies, where the main character is tired and afraid, they don’t want drama and war, they want an ordinary life?

I recently wrote an article for a newsletter on John Cazale’s incredible acting career and was wondering what some of the other "what if?" stories are out there. Another one that comes to mind is River Phoenix.

Full article on John Cazale is here but these are the main points:

• He was in only five movies over six years, all of which were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

• Of his five movies, three of them won Best Picture (The Godfather, The Godfather II and The Deer Hunter)

• His first ever feature film performance as the small role of Fredo in The Godfather led to Francis Ford Coppola writing a character specifically for him in The Conversation and making him the focus of The Godfather II

• Worked with Al Pacino as messengers for Standard Oil before being cast together in a play. They went on to do a number of plays and films together. Pacino said, "All I wanted to do was work with John for the rest of my life. He was my acting partner"

• He met and fell in love with a young Meryl Streep in a Shakespeare play in Central Park. He told Al Pacino immediately she was the greatest actress he had ever met.

• After he was diagnosed with lung cancer he made one last movie with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro. Robert De Niro even paid for his insurance so that he could be in the movie. He ultimately passed before the film was released.

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Same goes for "I was insert age here when I saw this movie".

According to reddit stats, The average reddit user age is 18 to 29. 22% of redditors are ages 30 to 49. That's leaves a huge range of when people were "kids".

I know many enjoy the challenge of finding a forgotten movie title, it's fun and rewarding!

What IS useful information:

Approximate year of when you saw the movie/series.

What bits you do remember.

Was it tv, cinema or streaming.

Color or black and white.

Language.

Subgenre

If you may be combining two movies.

I just watched '2012,' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' - I'm on a "End Of The World" kick but with action, not Seth Green-esque comedy. What's Next?

EDIT:

Currently it's an overarching '2012' with 'The Day After Tomorrow' guiding the context.

Edit 2 - Timeline:

1 - Tomorrowland

2 - 2012 (Half of it because context)

3 - The Day After Tomorrow

4 - Greenland

5 - 2012 (the other half)

5.5 - Threads (1984 - u/i6am6the6thorn)

6 - Moonfall

7 - Quiet Earth

8 - The World The Flesh And The Devil (1959 - u/Next-Mobile-9632)

Edit 3 - I got some.. angrily bad news, but I have to go to bed because I have to go to work and ignore that tomorrow morning. I'll follow up because I really, REALLY like this idea but if someone else wants to take the reins in comment along the same lines I fully support.

I'm now going to curl up and cry myself to sleep.

For me, it's Brawl In Cell Block 99 by the guy who did Bone Tomahawk. I see it called an action thriller, but it impacts me like a horror movie because the fight scenes aren't action-movie fight scenes and, unlike every other action movie, once the penal system gets its hands on him he makes every decision knowing that he's never getting out. And, yeah, the entire movie becomes a downward spiral as he literally finds himself deeper and deeper in literal, inescapable concrete pits as he's scheming to protect his loved ones on the outside before he's killed. And then he's killed.

It has a morbid determinism that I see in horror movies and I can't view it any other way.

Not to be a boomer or anything but it makes me so sad thinking about how little we go to the movies as streaming has taken over from the last few years. I hardly see anyone at the theaters anymore, and though streaming is incredibly convenient, it does make me wish that streaming would dial down in its popularity. Anyone else feel this way? Do you think it’ll only become less popular to go to the theater as time goes on?

Everyone always talks about movies associated with film bros (e.g. pulp fiction, taxi driver, fight club) but what films would be the female equivalent? I.e. surface level films that are mainly popular among young women that they all seem to have on their favourite movies list.

Purple Rain has to be my personal GOAT drinking movie. I rarely actually get drunk and watch movies, but when I do, Purple Rain is usually the movie I wanna watch; it's just too fun and the music is iconic. it's probably one of the most aggressively 80's movies ever to boot (which is always a bonus).

what movies are great to watch if you have a little bit of a buzz?