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I rewatched it recently and yeah it blew me away all over again. Love when that happens.

Pretty in Pink

I need to watch it again. Been awhile since I seen it last. But definitely one of the best comedy-thrillers ever made.

Let's go with Joker. (also sorry it completely slipped my mind to pick another movie last time)

Well you covered pretty much everything! Excellent write-up for one of my all time favorite movies. I'll pick out another in a bit.

Let's go!

Pearl was a god damn masterpiece.

Nice!

Finding Nemo is still one of my favorite animated movies ever. Everything about it is endlessly creative, funny, & emotionally moving with not one wasted scene if you ask me.

Put a guess in for Lucky Number Slevin

Sure, Bateman might truly like the music, but his long spiels on music actually lack substance and he's just mostly parroting what's he read elsewhere and spitting out surface level facts. It's all part of his image to appear hip, smarter, and more cultured than he actually is.

Let's see I'll nominate Taken since I haven't seen it in a while and have no idea if it holds up anymore.

Fun fact about Dafoe's character - they had him film all his scenes in 3 different ways - one where he doesn't think Bateman committed the murders, one where he's unsure either way, and one where he thinks Bateman did it. And they used some parts of all three takes & shuffled them into every scene he's in, this way both Bateman & the audience is never really sure what Dafoe feels when he's questioning him. There's a video on YouTube that actually lays out when and what take is being used at any given moment, it's pretty neat.

American Psycho can be interpreted many different ways, but I think the film staunchly makes everything out to be decidedly all in Bateman's head. The climax murder spree is enough to push it over the edge into pure fantasy. Though whether it's real or not never actually felt like an important question to me. American Psycho feels more interested in commenting on 80s excess through the head of its main character. The audience already understands that Bateman is unhinged from the opening scene; what it does after that is examine pathological disorder to an almost cartoonishly extreme degree. Representing warped morals, rampant misogyny, exploitation of women, etc. American Psycho succeeds to me not through the stabbing or screaming of violence, but rather the apathy of its protagonist and the culture he immerses himself as a whole. Bateman says it himself - "He just wants to fit in." He doesn't actually feel connected to the music he listens to or the restaurants he goes to, or even the culture that consumes him. Bateman is himself as much a victim of the culture he's a part of as he is an exploiter. The film is definitely a perfect condemnation of the 80s and the excesses of capitalism, but it's also more specifically a critique of the excesses of American culture at that time. It takes on the constant cultural relevance and superficial consumerism of the era and satirizes every clich trope there is. To me, it goes beyond just being a horror movie. It can practically be considered a straight up comedy if there wasn't all the murder!

That being said, I understand your criticisms perfectly. There is a reason that it's a divisive film. All the disparate threads of the story definitely do go a pace at which it does it doesn't make much sense sometimes and that can be frustrating if you're not so much into symbolism.

(sorry if I went in a little bit but American Psycho is my favorite horror movie so I kind of had to!)

Oh whoops I completely forgot to respond to the write-up and post a new nomination. But I'm glad you enjoyed Mean Girls, it's like one my favorite pure comedy movies ever.

Anyway - next nomination is Fight Club

Thanks for some of those!

Johnbobb posted...

Lulu

Oh yeah, I guess I blocked that album from my memory!

Sent my rankings, decided to just go all in and finish it out tonight since it was the original due date anyway. Look forward to the rankings!

Oh this is going to be good

Spyro

Ash
Venkman
Hobbes
Walter

Makes you realize how diverse Satan can be design wise.

Master > Justice > Black > Ride > Garage > Kill > Hardwired > Load > DeathMag > ReLoad > Anger

Master, Justice & Black are all perfect to me. Ride is almost perfect but it has Escape so ehh, not a bad song but it's not exactly a classic either. Garage is actually my most listened to Metallica album funnily enough though with so many tracks on it they can't all be memorable. Kill's highs are fantastic but it suffers from filler, I'd say the same with Hardwired & Load. Death & Reload are very hit or miss and St. Anger, is well, St. Anger. I don't outright hate any Metallica album though.

A fellow drum appreciator - excellent drumming just elevates a song so much.

Obscure Easter eggs that blossomed into full projects (for example, Freddy grabbing Jason's mask in Jason Goes to Hell leading to Freddy vs. Jason)

Oh fuck yessssssssssss

Wow I really like that Rumours comparison!

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

These sound neat

They are! And they can all be played for free or cheap!

Instruments you like the most in songs

Ah no worries, I enjoyed reading your thoughts regardless. The characters acting like idiots all the time is definitely intentional. Just tying back in to the theme of humans already being braindead zombies in the first place. I guess knowing a little bit more about the genre would've helped even if I still think it's a great standalone zombie movie in its own right already.

Burn After Reading for my next nom

Village DLC #1 priority!

Hoping Gotham Knights is good.

Also excited for Scorn, Plague Tale, MW2, & NA release of the new Yomawari!

I do want Bayonetta too but I don't have a Switch.

Lost comics probably valued around 300-500 in the mail a few years ago. Just got my money back and never found out what happened to them.

No, definitely not.

I was late too - and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. Oh did you watch the clip show between season 3 and 4? It's an easy episode to miss.

Fantasy

Oh missed that day. My vote would've tied the Red/Sully match!

Farnsworth
Vito
Scarecrow
Taskmaster

Since it's been going around on horror Twitter lately, thought I'd bring up Koji Shiraishi's Senritsu Kaiki Kowasugi Files here, because they look amazing! You should try to watch it if you can.

swordz9 posted...

Metaverse gotta be worse? Zuckerbergs lost half his fortune already mostly from it I think

Hmmm yeah I would say that's worse. That's been a total disaster front to back.

You can say it was expected and all but this still has to rank as one of the biggest failures in gaming or even tech history.

Oh I'm really interested in Bitch Ass now. I'll try to hit it in October.

48th Academy Awards winners

Teddy Perkins is so freakin' good

MegaWentEvil posted...

Go back to the middle ages.

Haha! For the record I adore cats with all my heart but come on, they do so many evil things!

The Beast (Agony)
Mundus (Devil May Cry)
Satan (Dante's Inferno)
Icon of Sin (DOOM)
Leland Gaunt (Needful Things)

Cats are like little devils though.

MetalmindStats posted...

Also, you can find our compatibility scores here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rwCnoOWgY4Kb-D6h83qxvuSktyN4aav0yKup37QUbq8/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks for doing this, it's cool to see!

Coraline championship when? (but I will also take Wolfwalkers god damn that movie is good)

Joker
Barry (damn it though)
McClane
Kyle
Booster

SPYFAMILY
Todd McFarlane's Spawn
Attack on Titan
JUJUTSU KAISEN
Demon Slayer
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories
Death Note
Blood-C
Duckman
Over the Garden Wall
Paranoia Agent
The Critic
Neon Genesis Evangelion

Fantasy

8/10

I wanted to nominate something from the band Twin Temple but I didn't know how to phrase the nomination :(

Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer/Arrowverse)
Lucifer Morningstar (DC Comics)

I'll drop The Devil from "...Georgia" because he's locked with 3 anyway.