Lurker > kateee

for the egg scene

did that make you want eggs or make you never want to think about eggs?

it was a "oh yeah eggs are a thing, i want them now" moment for me

i definitely feel like i've heard that first one before

Cool Hand Luke (for real)

honestly i wasn't expecting much because it didn't really look like my type of thing based on what i had seen (which was the image and half of the first sentence on letterboxd). it was entertaining for the most part but i started getting bored once the 'escape arc' started. not sure how much of it was my short attention span but i started feeling the length there. but the ending brought it home well enough.

my favorite parts were the early scenes that established the culture of the prison like when the other prisoners come in and see the new guys for the first time and there's the air of overall indifference because they're just more cogs. there's no crowding/fuss over them but also there's small acknowledgments like mention of a bet about how many newbies there would be or that one guy asking about Connecticut and just moving on after like a second. some cool details. and the 'in the box' laying down the rules was a great scene as well.

the egg eating was good too in a gross kind of way. but there's also that small part inside me like 'oh gosh what a waste of food whyyyyyy'

seeing the dogs making those awful noises while chasing him and then seeing one dead later was really not cool though. does it really affect my rating? no. but can i be absolutely certain that it didn't unconsciously affect my view of the character and make me not care what happened to him from that point on? ...also no. good/powerful ending though (and not because he dies lmao). 6/10

Cool Hand Luke

made me look at a dog that died from exhaustion

1/10

bleedin mahmalade

this is the third movie i've seen within two weeks in a prison (Riki-Oh & Paddington)

holy shit i meant to merge and didn't realize i was on the inherit skill screen until the warning popped telling me to merge

the skill screen after would have also told me but where is my mind

i'm all for sonia's artwork

goddaaaaamn it i literally want everyone on the banner nooooooooooooooooooooo my orbs

i saw the posts about Erk, Louise and Pent who i would have been hype for but no mention of Farina who i would have been most hype for so i got a moment of genuine surprise and hype watching the vid

as a reminder to everyone of "the process" for recommendations:

sometime Wednesday night (Pacific Time) i will remind you if it's your turn. you have until Thursday 8 ET/5 PT to nominate. if you meet the watchrate requirement but you do not respond by then, it moves to the next person in line (who then has an hour to respond, and so on) and i'll ask you again the following week. if you do NOT meet the watchrate requirement and do not respond by then, you will be skipped. (this has all been said before and is in the spreadsheet)

it's entirely possible for someone who doesn't currently meet the 50% requirement to come in 5 minutes before their deadline with multiple ratings and thus meet the requirement and gets to recommend. that being said, i would obviously prefer you saying something than letting the time run out to the deadline if you can help it.

likewise, if you are no longer interested in the topic i would appreciate you telling me so. as long as you do not say you want to be taken off the list, i will continue to @ you every week since i won't make any assumptions. but again, i would obviously appreciate a response either way. even just saying "No Vote" if you don't care/have no preference about any of the movies that week lets me know you're still interested in the topic.

whoa congrats!

if you plan to watch the movie at any point, you're still welcome to vote if you happen to catch the topic at the usual voting time, even if it's not that week. although in your case specifically, i imagine you won't deviate much from your voting method which has been consistent since the beginning.

as far as the rotation stuff and all that, the system is in place so even if you didn't say anything, the process is already laid out. i definitely appreciate you telling me you're still interested though. makes it easier for me.

next movie is Cool Hand Luke (1967) directed by Stuart Rosenberg.

@Aecioo
@Camden
@ChichiriMuyo
@CoolCly
@iiicon
@jcgamer107
@Johnbobb
@lucifiere
@Raka_Putra
@Seginustemple

we are tied between Cool Hand Luke and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. after rankings are applied, we are still tied. As previously stated, when the result is still tied after rankings have been applied, the nominator breaks the tie so @tyder21 please decide between Cool Hand Luke and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

yes

all the miscellaneous details that have come up are in the 'Recommendation Order' sheet of the spreadsheet

why is there a smt in my feh

Dark Young Link posted...

https://youtu.be/ywc9OAkWDIw

wanttttttttt

rip

although i don't really consider the score i give a movie a spoiler. i've done it in the past just cuz it was part of the post tho

does anybody have a preference for ratings/spoiler tags?

rip

Camden posted...

Edit: I could have sworn that spoiler tags went along for the ride when you quoted someone but apparently not.

yeah i found this out during this topic series too

The Blackcoat's Daughter

Vote for any and all movies you would be interested in seeing for the next week (~April 2nd, NA). The movie with the most overall votes wins. You may rank your votes from most preferred to least (do not rank movies you would not vote for) so I don't have to @ you back in case of a tie. If you do not intend to vote and are fine with whatever wins, please reply with "No Vote" so there is as little of a waiting period as possible. If you list multiple movies in your vote but you are not ranking them, please include "Not Ranked" along with your vote (I will assume they are ranked otherwise). Please vote by Friday, April 2nd, 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST

The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) - Netflix, kanopy
Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Netflix
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) - Netflix
Nomadland (2020) - hulu
One Night in Miami (2020) - amazon prime

@Aecioo
@ChichiriMuyo
@CoolCly
@iiicon
@jcgamer107
@Johnbobb
@Seginustemple
@Suprak_the_Stud

(using imdb release date)

@tyder21 it is your turn to recommend. please nominate 3-5 movies by: Thursday, April 1st, 8:00 P.M. EDT/5:00 P.M. PDT

Johnbobb posted...

made her that much more terrifying.

yes good point!

Johnbobb posted...

In a movie where it's hard to tell what is and isn't real I can't help but wonder if that scene was exactly what we were led to believe it was.

what if being chased across the roof or whatever was in her mind and idol-Mima actually took the stairs or something lol

i suppose i'm less concerned about what really happened and just love the shot as a way to convey the motif of the difference between fiction and reality which is my favorite aspect of the film. the mirror shot also happens previously in the room but including the detail of the physical actions makes it so much better

on another note, what if the truck at the end just changed into the other lane when it was literally the only car on the road?

Snake5555555555 posted...

Oh I knew about the comparisons but had no idea Aronofsky had actually bought the rights.

you know what, i'm actually going to have to take that back and add "allegedly" for now because while i have heard that bit before, i just tried to find a source for that claim and could not find anything besides the imdb trivia (which is not sourced, how the fuck is that allowed). every article/page that talks about it does not source the claim that he actually bought the rights and it just leads back to the same unsourced claims. now i wonder if this is another case like The Lion King and Kimba where unsubstantiated claims just get repeated throughout the internet and everyone just takes it as fact.

so after a little more searching this is what i found:

http://konstone.s-kon.net/modules/notebook/archives/60

Kon's blog where he mentions meeting Aronofsky. if i google translate the page, there's a section where it says Kon "heard Aronofsky bought the rights" for a potential live-action remake. If that's what it actually says and there's no denial, i guess that's the source? but no mention of the $59,000 figure that's thrown around as the amount for what the rights cost.

one person on the wiki editing page says this:
"I think I discovered the source of the frequently repeated but miscited meme about Aronofsky paying to use a Perfect Blue scene in Requiem for a Dream. In Perfect Blue director Satoshi Kon's blog cited above, he notes that the budget of Aronofsky's Pi was at an independent-film level of about 6 million yen. Someone seems to have badly misinterpreted Kon's words to mean that Aronofsky paid US$59,000 (roughly Pi's budget) to use a Perfect Blue scene in Requiem for a Dream."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ABlack_Swan_(film)

putting aside whether Aronofsky actually bought the rights for $59,000 or not, denying Perfect Blue as an inspiration is still a little eyebrow-raising. like, okay even if you weren't directly thinking about the movie when writing yours, not even acknowledging a possible unconscious inspiration? when the Requiem bathtub scene exists?

i care a lot about accuracy so i'm not going to say definitively. even the link i originally posted notes that the original article for the Q&A is gone so the writer had to repost the relevant part. when talking about the Stalker cancer thing, i specifically worded it that "the sound designer believes the set directly contributed to the medical issues" rather than like a fact that had been medically verified as that was the only source i could find at the time.

Perfect Blue

The cuts/transitions here really fuck with you and the whole movie is a trip. Lot of layers and aspects I love such as the blurring of fiction and reality. What really elevates an animated film for me is when I feel like it actually utilized the medium in a unique way that couldn't be replicated with live-action. and here it's not like Paprika level but there's some stuff here. Not to mention, some of the more brutal scenes are easier to take in because it's animation. Despite this, the character design in Kon's works are more 'realistic' than other hyper-stylized anime characters and it makes the scenes hit harder when they do happen. Like when I first watched this years ago, simply describing the screwdriver scene to a group of friends got a visceral reaction.

The main thing for me in the movie is the blurring of fiction and reality. and it's funny because in the movie, Mima does not even know how to work a computer and the Internet but the theme about your 'real' self and perception of yourself by others only grows more relevant as time goes on because of social media and the emergence of nontraditional 'celebrities' like youtube and twitch which actually emphasize the 'personal connection' aspect of online relationships. Super Eyepatch Wolf did a video on that. One of my favorite shots is near the end when Mima is being chased by Rumi and it shows Mima-Rumi effortlessly skipiping but the mirror shows the older woman sweating and out-of-breath running.

The movie is also just 80 minutes and accomplishes a lot more in that time than much longer and more boring movies.

9/10

did anyone else notice the slight screen shaking at times? was that just me imagining it

i was so confused because i thought she was already in

i actually got a 5-star Forrest on the Wrys banner lolll

if anybody is interested here is a one-minute short he directed called "Ohayo"

his last work i believe (that was finished).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4KIZD1cTJI

SwiftyDC posted...

This will be my first Satoshi Kon movie, after a quick google search.

sadly Kon's only had four features: Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika.

he also had an tv anime series (Paranoia Agent / Mousou Dairinin) featuring the one and only Shonen Bat.

Also had a manga (Opus) which i would still recommend despite never being finished.

cool batch anyway this week. only seen Perfect Blue but i was down to rewatch it anyway so would have been fine with anything. was thinking about doing an animation nom at some point also.

who has not seen Perfect Blue yet by the way?

and i guess for everyone: have you seen Satoshi Kon's other works?

our next movie is Perfect Blue (1997) directed by Satoshi Kon.

@Aecioo
@Camden
@ChichiriMuyo
@CoolCly
@iiicon
@jcgamer107
@Johnbobb
@lucifiere
@Raka_Putra
@Seginustemple

Johnbobb posted...

14 or 15?

oh yeah that would do it i think.

when i think of myself at 14...

oh noooooooooooooo

Johnbobb posted...

The first time I saw No Country for Old Men I thought it was boring and didn't care for it, but now it's in my top 10 movies.

when did you first see it? it's so fucking intense that 'boring' seems so weird applied to it looking back

SwiftyDC posted...

Pretty much same. Ace Ventura, The Mask, a lot of Jim Carrey movies

actually should check out Liar Liar again at some point. really more my teenage years than childhood and not one i absolutely loved but i'm curious how it's held up since i actually remember being blown away at things like the pen scene.

tyder21 posted...

I didn't jive with Burn After Reading when I first saw it. Years later I rewatched it and found it to be one of the funniest movies ever made. Can't think of any other examples similar to this.

I'm sure the other direction would occur frequently if I actually revisited many of the movies I loved as a child. Only one that comes to mind is Pocahontas - rewatched it as an adult and didn't like it at all.

i had a similar reaction to Burn After Reading but i didn't include it because the difference between watches wasn't as huge for me.

i was never actually into Pocahontas as a kid though so it doesn't really apply for me. i think my Disney rotation was really just Lion King - Robin Hood - Winnie the Pooh

Snake5555555555 posted...

I despised the Harry Potters almost my whole life until I watched them over the summer last year again and now I think they're friggin' amazing.

was it a book thing? i was never into them because i was just too used to the books. and i know the whole 'adaptations should stand on their own' thing but my mind actually can't reconcile the differences lol

Camden posted...

Really struggling with the opposite, can't think of any movies I disliked at first but ended up enjoying after watching again later, mostly because if I don't like something the first time around it's probably going to be a very rare exception that I bother watching it a second time.

yeah i think this would mostly be for classics i checked out when i was younger and just didn't 'get'

question for everyone: do you have any examples of movies you significantly changed your mind about after revisiting them after a long time? i think the usual question is something like "what's a movie you loved in your childhood but hated as an adult?" but that drastic of a change is hard for me to imagine (although do share if you have something that fits!)

i just looked over the list of movies i've seen and pretty much every movie i really liked as a kid, i pretty much still like now (The Lion King, Toy Story, MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS)

biggest change of mind i've had about a movie is probably still Jennifer's Body but that's still only like a 2 point change

Vote for any and all movies you would be interested in seeing for the next week (~Mar. 26th, NA). The movie with the most overall votes wins. You may rank your votes from most preferred to least (do not rank movies you would not vote for) so I don't have to @ you back in case of a tie. If you do not intend to vote and are fine with whatever wins, please reply with "No Vote" so there is as little of a waiting period as possible. If you list multiple movies in your vote but you are not ranking them, please include "Not Ranked" along with your vote (I will assume they are ranked otherwise). Please vote by Friday, Mar. 26th, 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST

Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968)
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Waking Life (2001)
When the Wind Blows (1986)

@Aecioo
@Camden
@ChichiriMuyo
@CoolCly
@iiicon
@jcgamer107
@Johnbobb
@Raka_Putra
@Seginustemple
@Suprak_the_Stud

@Xeybozn

your turn to nom!

the thing about Clue is that when i first watched it years ago i thought it was great and upon a rewatch (also years ago at this point) thought it was actually pretty stupid. i don't even remember it now though.

my first exposure to the whole 'franchise' was not even the game but the childrens book series? anybody ever read those? i thought they were hilarious because of the characters it gave the suspects and how every story was them trying to murder Mr. Boddy but he still kept inviting them over.