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    gonna vote this weekend after rewatching. But damn guys what an annoying episode. Almost as bad as Grapesgate in Pan's Labyrinth or that weird Sound of Music episode. And is it cool to hate Fincher???

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    Voting yes. I was 16 when this movie came out. I remember lying to my parents, and driving to the fancy theater an hour away with my friends to see it. Coming from a small town in southern Maryland, being gay wasn't really a thing. It was just a thing jerk guys joked about. This movie was a joke before people even saw it (if they ever did). The gay cowboy movie. But it was a profound experience for me. Just seeing tow men kiss and express affection was a huge thing for me. This movie is so beautiful. Ang Lee has such a precise hand behind the camera, and his direction of actors is astounding. The story is so sad, and moving.

     

    Agree with Amy about the sex scene. Even at 16 I was like "what a cop out." It is raw, but very much "directed by a straight man and featuring two straight actors."

     

    Also The Notebook is huge for ladies around my age. But things about and/or for girls gets dismissed all too easily.

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    Are there any Bollywood films you'd recommend to a novice?

     

    Absolutely! Johnny Gaddaar (a really stylish thriller) Veer Zaara (what I consider one of the best romantic epics in recent times), Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara (a yuppie coming of age story about 3 guy friends), Neerja (a harrowing true story about a flight attendant dealing with a hijacking), Band Baaja Baaraat (a modern rom-com that is a capsule of New Delhi culture). A lot of novices like Lagaan, which was the last Indian movie nominated for an Oscar.

     

    Those are all relatively new. For older movies I'd recommend Sholay (THE Western for India), Mughal-e-Azam, Mother India, Pyaasa (all 3 are revered dramas).

     

    Some of these are available on American Netflix, iTunes or YouTube. Also you can check your library. Unfortunately India sucks with maintaining older films so it's rare to find special editions of older movies. And Criterion has yet to realize that Indian cinema is more than Satyajit Ray.

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    Hard yes.

     

    I love Bollywood completely unironically (and cringed at Devin's description of it--that was accurate like 25 years ago). Parallel cinema is wonderful and so is Ray. I also love Mahanagar.

     

    Pather Panchali is a great movie, and it's universal. I welcome the discussions of Aparajito and Apu Sansar

     

    The funny thing, when I saw the restoration in the theater last year I was the only person of color there. White people front to back in the theater.

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    Hard no. If this movie had been about a woman, it would have been written off as a Lifetime made for tv melodrama. Performances were solid, but the movie did not hold my interest at all. Gloria was the only character who I found engaging. I can see the historical importance but even so I did not care for it.

     

    FYI the last shot was a flashback to the beginning, not a callback to it.

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    Just wanted to help the hosts out with the name Satyajit Ray

     

    Sat, rhymes with cut

    Ya, like the word yeah but a short "a" sound

    Jit, rhymes with fleet

     

    And I think Ray is supposed to rhyme with the world eye, not like ray of sun. However Satyajit Ray is from a different part of India than I am so I could be wrong.

     

    hope that helps

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    I quit listening to the podcast about 15 minutes in. Couldn't handle it this episode.

     

     

    it was almost as bad as the Sound of Music one. that's the only episode where I just stopped listening. I wanted to hear more about Slacker so I pushed through on this one.

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    I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm not going to rush off and watch it. I'm sure it's great, but I am just so tired of movies about straight white men. For me, it's not the isolated incident, it's the pattern. Most times when a filmmaker wants to make a movie with a specific point of view, that means "straight white men."

     

    They should both pick their favorite female coming of age film to face off.

     

    Or maybe two whole episodes dedicated to female coming of age movies so that we don't have to pit women against each other. If there are separate episodes for Gunga Din and Temple of Doom, then Clueless and Heathers should get solo episodes too.

     

    Most movies directed by women do feature interesting or at least colorful guy characters like Donald Faison in Clueless. I've never seen a female oriented movie where the guys are just props or sex objects.

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    As for a bad movie in The Canon, I would argue that Showgirls is both more cinematic, ambitious and culturally significant. It's a noble failure, which is more interesting than stuff like The Room and Plan 9. Those films are made by people who don't even understand basic concepts of filmmaking. Actual talent was involved with Showgirls, and the film tries to make a point despite its disastrous results.

     

    Agree with the poster above--the idea of ironic hate-watching is gross and unappealing. I wouldn't want time to be wasted, when The Canon does a great job of highlighting forgotten gems.

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    I had no idea that name mispronunciations were such a bugbear for HDTGM fans. You've been put on notice, Mr. Dangerously! IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME...

     

    for me at least it was that people were saying it right around him and he did not correct himself nor did anyone point it out. I could picture Zouks saying "dude say it right!" but he didn't.

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    I like Mila Kunis a lot--she's not my favorite actress or anything. But I think she's great at comedy. That 70 Show, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Ted, Friends with Benefits. She has fun presence and with the right material (like T7S seasons 2-4) she can be great. Also liked her in Black Swan. She's definitely a 'needs the right material' kind of actress. She seems likable offscreen as well so that colors my perception of her.

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    MEE-LA, not My-la. that drove me nuts!! 3 people were saying it right and he didn't catch on! I know someone who insists on calling Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Yo-hanson WTF

     

    also I want to respect this Josh guy's opinion but Jupiter Ascending is not empowering to women, aside from passing the Bechdel test often

     

    having Jupiter be a damsel in distress who becomes kick ass in the last half hour is not feminist. I liked Jupiter but she got kidnapped like 3 times and had to be rescued. I also didn't like how she didn't do anything to earn the universe--she had to be. This is the sort of thing that MEN think are empowering but Jupiter wasn't a 3 dimensional character

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