I recently saw ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1973). Good picture, a little slow perhaps by today’s standards but worthy of any movie enjoyer’s time! So this movie was shot in Venice. Venice itself being an already beautiful spot to film even today. The way we get to look in a time capsule of Venice in the 70s makes the movie that much better!
People in the 70s could not in fact appreciate it the same way we do now. Concurrently we also can’t do it for today’s movies. Some movies can only be truly appreciated over time is what I believe. This matter can be expressed in both the movie’s message or, as I did, its cinematography. Hence my question now to you.
The Thing is a god-damn perfect horror movie, and it hasn’t aged a day.
Idiocracy
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All my friends are obsessed with Costco and I refuse to join because of this movie. They’ve all never seen it and don’t get why I say this every time they mention it.
I suppose the real question then is… do you go to Starbucks?
IDK why but, I feel like Idiocracy and Wall-E take place in the same universe
I personally feel Wall-E is unrealistic, because clearly at some point they decided to have robots do everything, and the people simply get to lounge around, get fat, and have all their worries cared for. This represents a society where technology made work unnecessary for humans, and generally most humans reap some benefits of it.
This would never never happen. No. The robots will take the jobs, the rich will get richer. We will be left on earth to die horribly.
Ah yes this is not depicted but it happened in the past, the society you see on screen descends from the billionaires that survived
The Matrix Still looks great and works as a trans allegory
Gattaca Getting more prescient with each year
Gattaca Getting more prescient with each year
It’s kind of crazy how CRISPR turns the predictions on their head.
The Sixth Sense is a fantastic movie. None of the stuff Shamalan came up with after are really worth it, but this first movie is wonderful.
I kind of love the TV Series he made, Wayward Pines.
2001: A Space Odyssey still holds up pretty well both technically and narratively.
That movie pissed my ex off. 23 minutes before there was any dialogue. Should have known then and there the relationship was doomed.
That sounds pretty similar to our experience. I’ve always heard great things, but never saw it.
20 minutes in I apologized for suggesting it and we watched some paint dry instead.
Same. Any time I’ve discussed this movie, I always critique it that chapter 1 should have been shorter, 2 and 3 should have been longer and 4 should have been skipped entirely.
There really wasn’t anything to do in the 70’s, so people were more used to sitting around and waiting for something to happen.
And getting high. Which, tbh, chapter 4 seems like an LCD hallucination or something, which fits.
it’s definitely not a movie best enjoyed sober
Little known fact: the visual effects look so good because they shot the mattes and all elements ON THE SAME PIECE OF FILM. They’d shoot the matte, put the film in storage, build the set, then shoot the scene on top of that.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Every day, Idiocracy is getting further from absurd comedy and closer to documentary.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) — hard to say anything without spoiling the plot
Blair Witch Project (1999) — I just admire how great idea / concept extended beyond the movie itself. No-one can ever watch it again for a first time during ‘99 but it is iconic and great as a case study of having almost no budget and making something really impactful / special
Her (2013) — this one is my answer for the same question but asked in 2061…
Fellow lemmings, for me, it’s “Barbie”, a movie that aged beautifully over the last uh, 8 months, and its message is as relevant today as it was when it was released July 21st of 2023.
So you drink ‘wine’ that is less than a year old? A bit odd imo.
It’s a novelty account. They promo the Barbie movie whereever possible.
I watched the kill bills last week again after not having watched them since they originally came out. It still feels fresh, both in dialogue and action, score cinematography great. Incredible that some lost the brilliance in Tarantino’s penchant for a bit too much blood in a few scenes. It would be like not appreciating the Sistine chapel because there are nude angels depicted.
It would be like not appreciating the Sistine chapel because there are nude angels depicted.
That happened as it was being painted. The guy was then incorporated in the work as a nude demon who’s genitals were censored by a snake biting them off. He complained about his depiction to the Pope, who politely and snarkily told him to fuck off.
Messer Biagio, you know that I have from God power in heaven and on earth; but my authority does not extend into hell, and you must have patience if I cannot free you from there.
The Wicker Man (1974) is better every year and every viewing. That island gave him every chance to mind his own business.
12 angry men is like a Life Pro Trick sitting unused since 1957
It aged so well because the scene and camera work are relatively simple but the writing and acting are absolutely stellar.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
My vote goes to trading places, because it had both aged incredibly well (a tale of class solidarity against evil eugenics-peddling billionaires), and incredibly poorly (a story about nondiscrimination with that damn train scene right in the middle).
I’d also like yo mention RoboCop and American Psycho because their satirization of American hyper capitalism has only gotten more accurate. It really is depressing that we have the exact same social issues that we did in the 80s.
I’m trying to get the young lads at work (early 20s) to watch movies like Trading Places. All they want to watch is Fast n Furious.
Careful my guy. If you haven’t seen it in a while, Dan Akroyd does blackface. I think overall the movie has a positive message that fits in well today, but how they delivered that message only really hits if you’re a white guy from a couple decades back.
Was his blackface appropriate? It’s been so long since I saw that movie. There are certain circumstances where it is appropriate to wear blackface.
Demolition Man, they even predicted exactly how covid would work and when.
I still don’t know how to use the three seashells. 😞
