AlmostAGhost

Yea that's true. I'll add, my ratings and answering the 'should this be on the list' more or less ignores the AFI's criteria. Perhaps the first film does meet the criteria better than the second two, or any other Pixar film, or just about any movie ever, come to think of it, but... I'm not sure much of those criteria are relevant to the question ("What is great?").

I also voted no. For the simple reason that I believe #3 is better. I do think I like all three fairly equally, but the change in the second two is that they feel more about characters and less about 'toys', and that is an improvement for me. I can understand why a 'first' is often used to represent something, but the converse of pioneering something is that the first one can suffer for being a bit of a novelty. And I think there's a little of that here. I called the film 'product placement' in my Letterbox review, which is close to what Amy was expressing in it being too corporate. I'm not anti-corporate (used to be, less so now as I get older). But I definitely think that vibe is why I'd keep this version off the list.

Two more to add 7/11 - Gone With The Wind 7/18 - Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

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It did change to Do The Right Thing next week, I confirmed it on twitter 6/27 - Do The Right Thing (see tweet below; it's being re-released) 7/4 - The Deer Hunter (hmm about this being on the Fourth Of July)

Yea didn't he say that exactly in the beginning? When Vanessa was doing some steps without music and he was just utterly baffled.

Honestly, I thought this movie was as bad as the HDTGM movies we watch. The two leads occasionally had some charisma (they are pop stars irl) but mostly everyone just talked quietly and slowly like they weren't interested in anything. The direction was weird, I thought, with the camera floating all over and around their heads and stuff. A lot of scenes were irrelevant and pointless. The script was generic and bland. I found it truly a chore to get through.

I have no idea what (this) Serenity is about beyond what Paul mentioned in the mini-EP. I am going in cold! I'll try to keep it that way

Ah shit now I have to actually make it all the way through the whole thing

Nah I always choose places to go based on books and stuff. Seems normal to me!

I wanted to expand on me calling it 'superficial' as I keep pondering that. I think my main issue is all these points that they mention on the pod -- homosexuality, his mother, self-identity, earlier trauma, being raised by TV, even Vietnam I guess -- are raised so minutely in the film that I feel like it's just all on the surface. I take this movie as very straightforward almost, which maybe is at odds with its rep or intent. I see it as just about a guy with some sort of misguided dream, who meets another guy with a similar misguided dream. *edit to note that sycasey simulposted a similar explanation.

Yea Amy is helping me a little with one too. I still find the film fairly superficial and think it doesn’t say all that much, really, beyond extreme hopelessness (which maybe is enough). It definitely a movie I’m finding I can’t stop thinking about though.

I can’t wait for 18 hour days! I went to Iceland in December 2017 and had the opposite experience! we have an AirBNB on a fjord too... gonna be a scenic week I hope!

Norway! My brother has been planning a trip for a long while and I'm gonna tag along as he takes his wife and kids. Fully expect a Scandinavian musical when I get back!

Oh what timing! I am going out of the country on June 30th until mid-July. It looks like I'll be here the week of my pick but not the week of the discussion. So can I drop down 2 or 3 spots?

I am stuck and not at home this evening... will try to watch it this weekend though! Have fun

That's true to some extent, I can see the lack of ego point. The difference to me though is that she isn't just reading the Ramayana, like most of us would Lord of the Rings, she's putting herself straight into a retelling. Or at the very least, she's making a movie about reading the Ramayana, I guess -- which is a far weaker dramatic framing than just retelling the Ramayana. That's how her storyline warps the film slightly for me. I do think that was a big flaw, but I say 'slightly', as I still liked the film a lot, I'll add. It was fun; as fun as a "break-up movie" could be, I guess! lol

Yea, I said something similar on Letterboxd. Putting herself into it felt really weird to me, and the way she told that part was really basic with no insight or anything. If you were to just tell the Ramayana story with old jazz blues, that would have been just fine, just as creative and original, and probably even more effective of a tale of break-up and timeless emotions.

My favorite part was the music, which even being from such a different time/culture as the Ramayana, matched up so perfectly.

Hmm here's my quick Oscars for these first 50 films Best Actress - Jodie Foster Silence of the Lambs Best Actor - Charlie Chaplin City Lights Best Director - Stanley Kubrick 2001 Best Screenplay - Billy Wilder / Raymond Chandler Double Indemnity Best Picture - 2001 here's my personal ranking of the first 50, though I do fiddle with the rankings a lot so it's ever-changing https://letterboxd.com/almostaghost/list/my-unspooled-afi-list-order/

6/6 - Live From Overlook! episode 6/13 - Midnight Cowboy 6/20 - Toy Story 6/27 - The Deer Hunter different types of cowboys for us

i'll just show up June 7 and surprise me with the movie

I'd assume Paul & Amy, because of their jobs, have gigantic TV screens. But either way, me, I watch most all of these on my phone. It's fine. It's how I watch things now. I still liked 2001 and Vertigo an awful lot and my experience isn't lessened with the films. In fact, I find it more absorbing to be that close to it. If a film can't accurately depict its scale without literally being big, I dunno, is that good? Watch them how you watch them. It's 2019. I will defend viewings in this way!

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