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    1/31 - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

    all of February - 4 side episodes about 2018 movies

    I guess starting back in March:

    EP 39. The Graduate

    EP 40. Saving Private Ryan

    EP 41. A Night At The Opera

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    15 minutes ago, grudlian. said:

    There's a world of difference between what Michael Moore or Dinesh D'Souza does and someone like Erroll Morris or the Maysles.

    Yea that's true.  There's just become a block in my head that all docs are propaganda - I need to get over that tbh, there's a lot I should be interested in and am curious about. 

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    mini-update

    1/24 - Sunset Boulevard

    upcoming soon - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

    Amy said on instagram they were recording Cuckoo's Nest today, whether it's next week's movie or not, I do not know for sure yet

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  7. Posted

    24 minutes ago, grudlian. said:

    I'm curious how much of this is a nebulous idea that superhero movies don't deserve Oscars or aren't "Oscar Worthy."

    Yea, besides being my fave, this is why I think Black Panther should win.  "Oscar-worthy" is such a weird circular logic for liking movies, I want the definition to change.

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    1 hour ago, bleary said:

    And he had plenty of other moments of life: he married the hottest girl in school, he inherited a pool hall, his best friend nearly blinded him, he lost his marriage to the hottest girl in school, and his little brother figure gets killed in the street*. 

    Everything you mention here is totally passive.  They happened TO him, on little effort of his own.  Even the relationship with Ruth, he was just sent to her house, and they connected.  All these things served to keep him in that town.  If he was thinking of leaving, and he probably was, these things would happen and then he'd have to stay longer.

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    I disagree with the Sonny hate.  I think he was terrific.  I found him to be a relatively unique character for a film, a quiet non-vocal type.  What was interesting, and perhaps disorienting for most, was that he wasn't given any sort of desires.  Like we connect with Jacy's experimentation and trying to stop herself from this boring town and find some excitement and life experiences.  Duane we could see his goal was trying to impress Jacy.  But Sonny was just there.  Oh sure he found some occasional moments of life - that's what the Mexico trip was - but I found him a great comparison with those other two, and frankly it is probably realistic to a lot of kids.  Not everyone strives.  I liked seeing that.

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    Yea, and in Red River, John Wayne is decidedly NOT the 'hero' of his reputation.  In the first ten minutes of the movie, he punches a boy in the face and stabs an Indian to death, before turning tyrannical and all the men he's leading turn on him.  I'm not sure the use of Red River was as a 'western paradise/movies are fake' as an inverse reflection on the reality of the LPS town.  It may have been the opposite.

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  22. Posted

    3 hours ago, WatchOutForSnakes said:

    However, I was thinking that this movie wasn't too bad on the racism square

    Yea, I joked before I started that I assumed it would be, and it certainly isn't great by any means -- just way too many stereotypes that probably set the course for what people think about Asians for years afterward -- but you're right, it's not particularly racist.  There is some weird 'other'ing of immigrants in there (like they never heard of a bank or whatever; immigrant refugees aren't automatically uncivilized fools).  But still generally I am enjoying the film so far (I'm only halfway through as of yet).  The cast is all so very cool, that's what is standing out to me.

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    Yea, and I did note that too - in that the characters, all of them, seem to be given that depth.  The evil cruel sheriff has some noble goals (to retire in peace, to keep the city safe), for example.  Most characters have all these sides, and I think that is probably the best part of the writing in Unforgiven.  Nobody is one-dimensional.  However, I did feel like they were all still tropes, basically.  I do think The Searchers was a little subversive, esp. in making John Wayne unlikable and rude.  I guess though the question becomes why is 'subversive' always seen as a good thing?

    Black Panther was indeed engaged on the topic of race, actually.  Very much so on the level of the others (I haven't seen them all, but from what I have).  I would say BP is quite subversive both on the micro level of its story (about an African race deciding how to best interact with the outer world) and the macro level of the film's existence.

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    I think The Iliad works here for sure.  I couldn't say though if it was intentional, or basically such a standard classic that it is everywhere, but I like your connections.

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  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, grudlian. said:

    But is he good guy?

    He's well known as a cold blooded murderer of women and children. His story is he's going to assassinate a man. He brings his friend out of assassin retirement who otherwise would not have known about the mission. He kills six people in the bar when he probably could have just rode away from town. By his own admission, he killed people who didn't deserve it and is going to hell.

    We sympathize with him because he needs money for his kids and he lets a guy he shot get some water and he won't sleep with a prostitute because he loves his deceased wife. But he's not a good guy.

    The closest thing we have to a good person is maybe Delilah or one of the nameless posse that notifies Gene Hackman whenever a bad guy shows up in town.

    Oh yea I guess I was thinking 'hero' in answering that, but I guess that wasn't the question.

    I guess that is a modern thing -- basically nobody is good in this movie.

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