The Shining
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Young Frankenstein
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Young Frankenstein
Name three movies you can watch over and over without getting bored... - Not necessarily your favorite movies - just the ones you can watch repeatedly like the autist you are.
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Maxxicus Callahan
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1. Inglorious Bastards
2. Death of Stalin
3. Children of Men
2. Death of Stalin
3. Children of Men
Piece of Crap
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1. Top Gun
2. Akira
3. A Christmas Story
2. Akira
3. A Christmas Story
I am happy to see Casino get recognition here I’ve watched that move 30+ times — it has a cadence and energy that is difficult to explain. I’ve even had it playing while working, cleaning, and doing other chores. TBH, all of Scorsese’s mafia films are like this, so I’m going to cop out and include 3 of them (in no particular order).
1. Casino
2. Goodfellas
3. The Irishman
I almost included Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but after reading the amazing book, I almost can’t go back to the movie.
1. Casino
2. Goodfellas
3. The Irishman
I almost included Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but after reading the amazing book, I almost can’t go back to the movie.
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
3. The Taking of Pelham 123 (the original from 1974)
2. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
3. The Taking of Pelham 123 (the original from 1974)
1, Casino
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Scarface
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Scarface
Casino is better than Goodfellas is the hill I will die on alongside the other one about Alien 3 being a damn good movie (the Assembly Cut moreso).
I saw it when I was a kid and it was the USA network version that cuts out an hour of footage while censoring language and violence. I loved it then and I was about 13 at the time. It was one of the last times where the violence in a movie got to me a little bit and that was the scene where Pesci and his brother are beaten to death. Which is funny given my horror fan roots. I didn't recoil in horror and cover my eyes but it was an "Oh fuck." moment. Surprisingly, the scene was mostly uncut on USA. The censors only cut a little bit of blood when Pesci is hit with a bat, otherwise the scene plays out in it's original brutality. I did notice during repeats that the censors would cut more and more out of the scene until at one point it just starts with Pesci and his brother starting to get beaten and then it hard cuts to their bodies thrown into the pit. The last movie to genuinely unnerve me was Cannibal Holocaust when I was 14 but I digress.
When I saw it again a few years later when I was about 18 or 19 it was revelation to see this hour of footage. Including a small but very important role for the great Joe Bob Briggs:
"Ya fuckin' MoMo!"
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Jurassic Park
Ghostbusters
Blade Runner
I could name a lot more.
But it's dreamlike at the same time, a perfect example of that is how at the end of the movie the building they're inside is somehow on fire in the background and it's nighttime, even though we see the exterior of the building just moments before and there's no smoke plus it's daytime, but it makes the sequence all that more atmospheric, it's almost like it's a movie about someone's memories of the Vietnam war than it is depicting it literally, hence in Private Joker's memory that event would have felt as dramatic as it's depicted onscreen, despite that not making literal sense.
I'll never forget the first time I saw and how disappointed I was when it was suddenly over, it feels like a movie that could just keep going for hours and hours following those characters and their experiences.
The Shining is of course even more surreal and very much on purpose in that case which adds to the nightmarish feel of everything.
Ghostbusters
Blade Runner
I could name a lot more.
This is a great example, there's just something fascinating about that movie no matter how many times you see it, it has this weird dreamlike quality, like all of Kubrick's movies, that just sucks you in, despite the real world subject matter.
But it's dreamlike at the same time, a perfect example of that is how at the end of the movie the building they're inside is somehow on fire in the background and it's nighttime, even though we see the exterior of the building just moments before and there's no smoke plus it's daytime, but it makes the sequence all that more atmospheric, it's almost like it's a movie about someone's memories of the Vietnam war than it is depicting it literally, hence in Private Joker's memory that event would have felt as dramatic as it's depicted onscreen, despite that not making literal sense.
I'll never forget the first time I saw and how disappointed I was when it was suddenly over, it feels like a movie that could just keep going for hours and hours following those characters and their experiences.
The Shining is of course even more surreal and very much on purpose in that case which adds to the nightmarish feel of everything.
Another great example, same with most of Tarantino's movies, it's fun to just "hang out" with the characters.
Town Drunk
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1: Snatch
2: Oh Brother Were Art though?
3: Harcore Henry.
2: Oh Brother Were Art though?
3: Harcore Henry.
The part of Nicky and Dominique’s death that I love is immediately before the first bat strike. Nicky is still narrating like in the rest of the movie and right as the bat makes contact, he is cutoff and yells — as if he was narrating everything in his head as he was walking to that fateful cornfield meeting. It’s almost a deconstruction/jab at the Goodfellas/Scorsese narration-driven film and it’s awesome.
I sort of noticed a US geographic trend with these films: northeasterners like Goodfellas more while people in the west like Casino more. IDK if it’s true, but it lines up with the people in both regions.
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