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Might seem like a weird criticism of this type of horror movie, but I just found this so unpleasant?? The first half I was thinking “Oy, very r/atheism.” By the second half I realized that was by design, but that doesn’t change the fact that watching HERETIC means suffering through nearly 2 hours of r/atheism bullshit.
I will say they GOT me with the “why aren’t there more Jews” bit because when Hugh Grant first asked the question, I (a Jew) kept yelling “BECAUSE WE DON’T PROSELYTIZE!!!” at the screen, and then when Sophie Thatcher came back with “weird how you didn’t mention the Holocaust???” I was like “Oh shit. I uh, I really should have thought of that myself. Right off the bat. Oh.”
Anyway… Chloe East phenomenal. Weirdly small amount of Topher Grace. Loved the architecture and the thought that went into designing the house. I just overall kind of wanted it to be over for most of the runtime.
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I’ve been watching so many churned out xmas rom coms I forgot the acting can actually be good??
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Watched on Tuesday November 26, 2024.
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I am BEGGING someone to make a poster combining Tedesco’s vape cloud with the fumata bianca coming out of the Sistine Chapel chimney. 🙏
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Sarah Ramos hive EATING GOOD!!!
The secret santa swap scene was especially cute. Cute lil movie.
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Watched on Sunday November 24, 2024.
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Wig budget and music licensing budget combined: $4.27
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“HOW ABOUT I MAKE YOU MY WEE-OTCH”
- Sebastian Stan
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Me the entire first half: It doesn’t snow in LA, why did it snow on her walk of fame star?!??
Me the entire second half: YOOO IT’S THE SIX FLAGS GUY!!!!
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Watched on Thursday October 24, 2024.
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How did he have such incredible music taste and write the worst songs of all time???
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What is this damn town’s parade budget. Just constantly on parade. Whole town. Only two job options: Parade or Mayor.
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Watched on Saturday October 19, 2024.
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Glad I’m not the only one who thought this was a poster for the new season of Very Important People. (Vic Michaelis feature film WHEN??)
Had to watch this in five minute bursts because it was so horrifying. Very exciting directorial debut from Anna Kendrick!
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Watched on Friday October 18, 2024.
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“What happened to the flaming liberal I was married to?”
“I’m still liberal… But to a point.”
GOOD FOR HER!!!
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Sobbed while holding my mom’s hand in a theater full of kids 🥹
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Watched on Saturday October 12, 2024.
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[Writing this review 3 weeks late, you’ll see why]
Walked by the guy who played Forbes on my way into a Halloween party this weekend and since I’m not familiar with his work but grew up in Hollywood, I found myself falling into the classic trap of assuming I recognize someone from elementary school or whatever instead of The Screen. As he passed I said “Wait! You look familiar. Where do I know you from?” and the girl with him said “𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓭𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶𝓼, 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓼?”
Anyway this movie is a rollicking good time!!! Very fun!!! Maybe it was all a dream I had but it was a certified blast!!! Seriously though I’m a sucker for anything where actors get to play each other and cool camerawork and fun editing and this had it all.
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Watched on Monday October 7, 2024.
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Watched on Monday October 7, 2024.
]]>Asked Twitter for movies that burn a hole through your soul. Movies that eat your bones and turn your skeleton hollow and low opacity. Movies that leak rot past the screen’s edges. Black mold of the soul.
Partially inspired by @brofromanother’s tweet asking for examples of “truly evil movies that feel like they're channeling something awful into the world” as well as a bit of @Seamus_Malek’s tweet about what he calls “Negative Escapism.” But I might make that a separate list, because these aren’t just bleak, they’re a specific brand of spirit devouring, mood spoiling, haunting movies that will follow you for weeks, months, years after you watch, stalking the corners of your mind like a venomous specter. Lingering almost as if in wait, but for what?
- Threads
- Cure
- Nitram
- Thelma
- Martyrs
- The Cremator
- The Wailing
- Funny Games
- The Vanishing
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer
...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>This can mean a lot of things. Generally there’s something overarching I’ve never seen before but I might include movies that have moments that do things I’ve never seen before.
]]>- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
- Persona
- Legend
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- House
- First Reformed
- Colossal
- The Young Girls of Rochefort
- Stalker
- Barry Lyndon
...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Holding room for movies I plan to add to my Visually Insane list! This was a private list, but I saw lots of comments from people wondering if a certain movie they recommended was ever going to be added and even though I doubt anyone will take the time to look at this and check (since they don’t even check the original list before asking me to add things…) I figured making this public couldn’t hurt.
It takes a long time to find the right poster and placement for a film in the main list, so sometimes stuff gets stuck here in list limbo for a while! Nobody is reading this, congrats if you did though haha. Have a freaky & vibrant day.
Update: wow people actually are reading this?? I did not expect that! Y’all are lovely.
- Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
- Bajirao Mastani
- Freak Orlando
- Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
- Batman Ninja
- Digimon Adventure: Our War Game
- Aimy in a Cage
- Pulp Fiction
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
...plus 78 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Trying to expand my horror watches know that I can handle scary stuff so I asked Twitter for the scariest movie they’ve ever seen and I’m taking recs here too!
Here’s an ongoing “scared me but I loved it” list, very vaguely ranked (stuff I liked most at the top) so you can get a sense of what I like and also are able to recommend NEW stuff!
Getting a little deeper into it: “Horror” to me means anything scary. So thrillers MORE than welcome. I’m waaay more into psychological than bloody, but I can handle and am open to bloody! Seeing viscera, people cut open, that’s fine. I can eat an egg salad sandwich while watching somebody get chopped to bits. But I still have a hard time with certain kinds of grosscreepy monster/creature faces sometimes— if there’s, say, rotten flesh and an artificially wide smile and like, fang eyes, I’m probably gonna be in a bit of trouble. I watched The Haunting of Hill House recently for the first time because I thought I might be ready, and I was, but it was definitely near the (ever expanding) edge of what I can handle. But it was so worth it because WHAT A STORY!!!!!
The reason I asked about scariest ever is that it feels like a great way to hone in on really AFFECTING stuff as I find my footing / taste place in the genre. I’m always interested in movies that stick with you, and the horror I’ve loved the most stuck with me not because I was scared for a week afterwards but because it just like got into my bones and poked at parts of my brain I’m not used to movies prodding? For example: CURE instantly became one of my all time favorite movies because the eeriness seeped into my pores and ate my spirit and I think that rocks!
- Lake Mungo
- [REC]
- Martyrs
- Session 9
- Poltergeist
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Variola Vera
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side
- The First Omen
- It Follows
...plus 125 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Love Me Tonight
- Zero for Conduct
- L'Atalante
- Footlight Parade
- Madam Satan
- Swing Time
- Shall We Dance
- A Matter of Life and Death
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
...plus 150 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
- What's Up, Doc?
- Game Night
- Burn After Reading
- Top Secret!
- Bringing Up Baby
- Design for Living
- To Be or Not to Be
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- Ball of Fire
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>movies that i keep not watching for some reason and keep moving to the top of my watchlist and yet they somehow remain unwatched despite my extreme interest in watching them.
- 8½
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Chungking Express
- Daisies
- City of God
- PlayTime
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- Mon Oncle
- All That Jazz
- Ran
...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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]]>Asked Twitter for their favorites of the genre, taking recs here as well!
- Fargo
- The Thing
- The Shining
- Ravenous
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- Snowpiercer
- The Hateful Eight
- The Great White Silence
- The Great Silence
- The Revenant
...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Need inspiration for a project I’m working on so I asked Twitter for their favorite movies about covering up a lie (from the perspective of/focusing on the liar, not the uncovering— aka not SPOTLIGHT). Taking suggestions here too!
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
- Shattered Glass
- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
- Fargo
- Rango
- Dolores Claiborne
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- A Bug's Life
...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- In the Mood for Love
- Beau Travail
- The Thing
- Days of Heaven
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Suspiria
- 12 Angry Men
- First Reformed
- Southland Tales
...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Into the Woods
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Pokémon: The First Movie
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- Furious 7
- The City of Lost Children
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Beauty and the Beast
- Dune: Part Two
...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Okay “sheer” isn’t really the word here, I’m including any movie that just has really strong vibes, good or bad! Also some of these have tons of plot but they’re still on the list because the vibes are so prominent / memorable / unique etc etc.
- August in the Water
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Eyes of Fire
- Morvern Callar
- Point Blank
- Orlando
- Everybody Wants Some!!
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
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]]>Whether by choice or not. What am I missing? I’ve been gathering answers from Twitter but I’ll accept recs here too! ALSO: “white boy” is more the vibe/for the bit than a hard and fast rule. I’ll consider anyone inside an animal.
- The Revenant
- Midsommar
- Freddy Got Fingered
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
- Rob Roy
- The North Water
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
- Being John Malkovich
- Men in Black
...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Answers to this prompt from my beloved Twitter pals, who truly get me & have impeccable taste:
“What are good movies to watch when you’re exhausted but still want to be immersed? I don’t mean a smooth brain movie (low-tier romcom etc), I mean specifically good for a weird, frazzled headspace. Can’t be too complex plot-wise but can still have a lot going on (or not)!”
Will keep adding (and color sorting because it’s fun) films as people recommend them!
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
- The Goonies
- Cool World
- Delicatessen
- Excalibur
- Enchanted
- Stardust
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
- Rope
- The Monster Squad
...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Adaptation.
- Everybody Wants Some!!
- That Thing You Do!
- Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You!
- Face/Off
- When Harry Met Sally...
- mother!
- Shazam!
- Saved!
...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Pretty self explanatory. Movies that make you say “now that’s a fuckin MOVIE!!” Asked Twitter for recs, thread blew up and I can’t possibly keep track so EXTRA appreciative of suggestions in the comments here!
- The Fall
- Sorcerer
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Point Break
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
- Babylon
- Linda Linda Linda
- Fish Story
- The Fugitive
...plus 72 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Asked Twitter for everyone’s favorite Be Gay Do Crimes movies, gathering your answers here.
These are mostly explicitly gay, but honestly how in the hell could I NOT include gay-and-criminal-as-hell masterpieces like Point Break or (my personal choice) Rope?? ROPE IS GAY. HAROLD, THEY’RE LESBIANS.
Some movies have notes about why they’re on the list. Some are serious some are silly. Enjoy!
Also if you like this list you’ll probably enjoy my Visually Insane list, too. 🩷
- Bound
- Love Lies Bleeding
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Heavenly Creatures
- Diabolique
- Please Baby Please
- Basic Instinct
- The Handmaiden
- Jennifer's Body
- Bottoms
...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Asked Twitter “What’s the most visually insane movie you’ve ever seen?” Adding your answers!
Am I missing your favorite hallucinogenic, meditative, harrowing, dreamy, or chaotic visual feast? Comment here (with year and/or director please!) and I’ll include your recs in the list— I have no criteria besides “Is it on Letterboxd?” If I see em, I’ll add em! Who do you think I am? The Grand Arbiter of Insanity???
A small request: before commenting with a rec, PLEASE GO TO THAT MOVIE’S PAGE AND CHECK IF IT’S ALREADY ON HERE (it should show up under “popular lists” at the bottom). I know it’s a slog to manually scroll the list itself, so I don’t blame people for recommending things that are already on here, but someone in the comments suggested this workaround and it’s surprisingly simple!
If you recommended a movie and you’re wondering why it’s still not on this list, check out the 🪭VISUALLY INSANE WAITING ROOM🦜 where I put all the movies I’m working on adding!
᪥༄༆⁂❁✰۞𓇽᪥𓃵⁂𖤛༒𖦹᯾𖣔
𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙪𝙣, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙢𝙨 𝙄'𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩:
- Speed Racer (2008)
- House (1977)
- Mandy (2018)
- The Cell (2000)
- The Holy Mountain (1973)
- The Fall (2006)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
- Enter The Void (2009)
- Climax (2018)
- Fantastic Planet (1973)
- Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (1985)
- The City of Lost Children (1995)
- The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
- L’Âge d’Or (1930)
- Brazil (1985)
- Zardoz (1974)
- Redline (2009)
- The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
- Stalker (1979)
- Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
- The Wolf House (2018)
- Mad God (2022)
- Labyrinth of Cinema (2019)
- The 20th Century (2019)
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
- Ran (1985)
- Suspiria (1977)
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
- Akira
Note: I have not updated the above list in a while, it’s from when this was WAY smaller. At some point I’ll go through the most common suggestions again and edit to reflect them.
- House
- Speed Racer
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Mind Game
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
- The Happiness of the Katakuris
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Forbidden Zone
...plus 811 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Big Fish
- My Life in Pink
- Brazil
- After Life
- Airplane!
- Rat Race
- This Is England
- Destino
- Great Expectations
- Bringing Up Baby
...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Primal Fear
- Arlington Road
- Incendies
- Oldboy
- The Village
- The Others
- The Illusionist
- The Prestige
- The Drop
- A Perfect Getaway
...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Beau Travail
- The Wicker Man
- The Cremator
- Navalny
- Sorcerer
- The Vanishing
- The Father
- The Piano Teacher
...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Movies either featuring or entirely about a chaotic dinner. “Chaotic” is expansive here— it can just be a really tense, awkward, uncomfortable dinner. Or it can be absolute madness. Asked twitter but taking suggestions here too!
- The Celebration
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Hereditary
- The Family Stone
- Meet the Parents
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Punch-Drunk Love
- The Ref
- Caché
- Perfect Strangers
...plus 76 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Gender neutral! Anyone losing their mind welcome here. Asked Twitter, adding their recs, but taking suggestions in the comments too!
Parameters: I’m mainly interested in one person going bugnuts, not groups, but I’m not a cop so suggest what you want. Also, movies about people who just *think* they’re losing their minds only to discover they were right all along (or people who the audience believes to be crazy until they’re proven right, either perspective) are accepted!
- In the Mouth of Madness
- Jacob's Ladder
- Onibaba
- Possession
- The Lighthouse
- Black Narcissus
- Affliction
- Whiplash
- Cure
- A Cure for Wellness
...plus 198 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Asked friends for recs on stuff to watch with my dad, cataloguing here!
- Hell Drivers
- The Hit
- Remember the Night
- Rodents
- Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
- 3-Iron
- The Promised Land
- Ashes and Diamonds
- Artists and Models
- Mother Joan of the Angels
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Asked for recs on Twitter, adding them here!
- Hagazussa
- A Field in England
- A Wounded Fawn
- The Ritual
- Onibaba
- Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
- Suspiria
- Gaia
- Hellbender
- Enys Men
...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Asked Twitter for ambitious movies, regardless of critical success. Movies that shot for the moon, who cares where they landed! Ambitious doesn’t just mean big sci-fi extravaganzas (although those are MORE than welcome), I mean big ideas, big swings, big brain shit.
This is the realm of Tarsem Singh, the Wachowski sisters, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Jim Henson, Richard Kelly… anyone who’s enough of a mad genius to GO for it.
As always, comment recs if you have them and I’ll add!
- Southland Tales
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
- Cloud Atlas
- Heaven's Gate
- Jupiter Ascending
- Speed Racer
- Until the End of the World
- A Touch of Sin
- Three Thousand Years of Longing
- Anomalisa
...plus 134 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Design for Living
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Petite Maman
- The Muppet Movie
- Ice Merchants
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
- Top Secret!
- Knock at the Cabin
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
- In the Loop
...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Cure
- Thelma
- The Innocents
- The Vanishing
- The Haunting of Hill House
- The Cremator
- Apostle
- Event Horizon
- The Wicker Man
- Retribution
...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A big kiss for everyone involved!
- Flash Gordon
- Dark City
- John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Batman Returns
- Joe Versus the Volcano
- But I'm a Cheerleader
- The Matrix
- UHF
- Jupiter Ascending
...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>When I need to know how something got made: how specific stunts or set pieces or practical effects were done (or what was VFX), what tensions there were on set, how it was cast, the budget, how they got the rights for a piece of media used in the film, how a shot was done… the practicality and backstory overall.
- Face/Off
- Flash Gordon
- Sherlock Jr.
- Freaks
- M
- Bringing Up Baby
- Black Narcissus
- Blow Out
- Total Recall
- The Birds
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>This is a trope! Inspired by oomfie’s perfect tweet. Looking for movies where there are flashbacks to happy memories of the protagonist laughing under a bedsheet with their wife, who is now dead. Taking suggestions!
Btw “Wife” and “dead” are honestly pretty flexible as long as the gist of the trope is present. Okay, wife more flexible than dead, but you get what I mean. (Sheet NOT flexible!!!) I’m adding these from people’s recs on Twitter, so correct me if one of the entries does not in fact include said trope or anything resembling it.
Lmao this might as well be called “The Liam Neeson and David Fincher list”
- The Grey
- The Counselor
- Memento
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- John Wick
- Inception
- The Wolverine
- The Other Man
- Up
- Cloverfield
...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I’m trying to get decent at an Aussie accent just for fun so I asked Twitter for recommendations of Australian shows and movies to watch. Films are listed, tv show recs below!
🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
- Deadloch (prime)
- Please Like Me
- Sea Patrol
- Australia’s next top model
- Australian Survivor
- Aunty Donna podcast. (I’ve seen the show)
- Wilfred
- Bluey
- Kath & Kim
- Operation Buffalo
- Irreverent
- Smiling friends
- Taskmaster Australia
- Fisk (Netflix)
- Upper Middle Bogan
- Frontline / Utopia / The Hollow Men
- Rake
- Mr. Inbetween
- Colin from Accounts
- Below Deck: Down Under
- The Other Guy
- Why Are You Like This?
- Escape from the City
- YOLO: Crystal Fantasy / YOLO: Silver Destiny
- Glitch
- Tidelands
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Walkabout
- Wake in Fright
- Muriel's Wedding
- The Nightingale
- Nitram
- The Plumber
- The Last Wave
- The Dry
- The Royal Hotel
...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- The Castle
- The Nightingale
- Walkabout
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- The Plumber
- Nitram
- The Dry
- The Royal Hotel
- The Last Wave
...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Asked Twitter to help me understand what people mean when they describe movies as “mean.” Getting so many great, clarifying answers I decided to put em in a list! The thread has some great discussions on definitions of mean cinema, but taking suggestions here too!
- Funny Games
- The Parallax View
- Happiness
- The Mist
- mother!
- Mother
- The Piano Teacher
- The Belko Experiment
- Killer Joe
- Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>this was for a showdown but i forgot to make it public lol
- Out of Sight
- The Great Muppet Caper
- Fight Club
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Design for Living
- It Happened One Night
- Top Gun
- In the Mood for Love
- Risky Business
- Secretary
...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Movies about making movies or featuring (even if briefly) movies being made!
- Living in Oblivion
- The Player
- Scream 3
- Sherlock Jr.
- Singin' in the Rain
- American Movie
- Ed Wood
- Contempt
- CQ
- Orgazmo
...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Accepting binoculars or regular glasses but trying not to include eyewear that doesn’t have a reflection of something specific. Also it doesn’t need to be the main poster, we love alts here! Taking suggestions!
FINE you guys bullied me into adding RISKY BUSINESS. 😤 (FTR it’s one of my favorite movies it just doesn’t fit the list but FINE)
- Challengers
- Almost Famous
- Valley Girl
- Lisa Frankenstein
- The Seed
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Josie
- The Babysitter
- Madame Web
- The Lost Boys
...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I tweeted about DEATH TO SMOOCHY and someone was like “WAIT this was real and not just a nightmare I had as a kid??” which got me thinking about how that’s practically a genre, so I asked Twitter “What movies did you think were your own nightmares that you later discovered were real and/or what movies *feel* like that?”
Answers go here! Most are specifically the “was it a fever dream” vibe/genre (like Return to Oz), others are movies people had that experience with, AKA not necessarily a scary kid movie —or a kid movie at all— but if you imagine having seen it as a kid, you know it would have fucked you up (like Jacob’s Ladder).
Also accepting suggestions in comments.
- Return to Oz
- The Secret of NIMH
- The Pagemaster
- The Peanut Butter Solution
- The Beastmaster
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
- Toys
- Warriors of Virtue
- The Dark Crystal
- The Mouse and His Child
...plus 93 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>“A lot happening” is subjective. I don’t necessarily mean a wild plot, it could just be engrossing! Silent films don’t count unless they’re from the talkie era, although I’m more looking for movies that DO have dialogue but just not that much of it.
Asked Twitter, compiling answers here but also adding commented suggestions!
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Drive
- Blue Ruin
- Perfect Days
- Moon
- Pig
- Prey
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Walkabout
- Badlands
...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Noir, neo-noir, and the in-between. Hitchcock obviously dominating but shoutout to my dad for making it on here three times (THE PLAYER, DEEP COVER, GLEAMING THE CUBE) and no I’m not biased shut up!
Work in progress!
- Deep Cover
- The Parallax View
- Cure
- Blow Out
- Gleaming the Cube
- The Player
- Collateral
- Sin City
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
- Manhunter
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Inspired by my own exhaustion and I Think You Should Leave, I asked Twitter for Sleep Deprived Cinema favs. Comment recs if you have any and I’ll add em to the list!
- Bringing Out the Dead
- The Machinist
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- After Hours
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Dead Ringers
- Safe
- Fight Club
- Brick
...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Bright Star
- The Matrix
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl
- Beau Travail
- The Heartbreak Kid
- A New Leaf
- Ishtar
- Mikey and Nicky
- But I'm a Cheerleader
...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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