Watched His Girl Friday. It’s fine. As Cary Grant comedies go, it’s not on the level of Bringing Up Baby or Arsenic and Old Lace, but it wasn’t bad.
One of my favorite comedies as a kid, which I discovered over time has no popularity at all, was The Distinguished Gentleman. Eddie Murphy plays a grifter who sees an opening to get on the ballot for U.S. Congress as a third-party candidate running under the same name as the dead incumbent, and wins just based on name recognition. He moves to DC and continues grifting. I rewatched the movie some years ago and it’s nothing special, but I still have a lot of nostalgia for it and there are still some hilarious moments. The clip that I always come back to is him trying to strong-arm his way onto a powerful committee assignment almost immediately upon arrival.
Johnny Mnemonic? lol, is everything okay over there, Criterion?
https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1669435407635828743?s=20
But hold up, they buried the lede:
https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1669435410013986817?s=20
GHOST IN THE SHELL
ZARDOZ
DARK STAR
Finally managed to catch this. First third was very boring imo but last third was pure fun so this balances out…
(also I’m 100% sure I would have hated the French remake with famous actors, so thanks for advising me off that months ago !)
Anyway this was fun but not really a horror movie, there’s a few times where this made me wish I was watching the descent or texas chainsaw instead…Just like when I recently watched the “Invisible man”, which was fine, but also had me feeling I should have just put on Halloween 1 or 2 or Malignant…might be time for me to rewatch some horror classics !
That title gets an F from me
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Yeah, it’s hard to explain what One Cut of the Dead is without giving the game away, but it’s really a Fablemans-style movie about the joy of making small-budget productions and connecting with your family. I don’t think anyone else liked it nearly as much as I did but I’m gonna keep pushing it on people.
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Idk if this makes sense, but I think movies like this need a great song and music video in order to bridge niche cult audiences with people who would get if if they saw it in a different format.
I can think of a lot of people that wouldn’t be able to appreciate why The Breakfast Club is not just good but an essential part of pop culture if they watch the whole movie, but if they see it via this music video, they will understand on a deep level why the movie continues to resonate decades later.
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Second best freezeframe to end a movie, after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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That’s a good list!
Also, ff ending must be old I know all those.
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Pardon my French but
gets double points for being both an iconic freezeframe and iconic “look into the camera” (not sure about the proper English term)
And thanks for reminding me I really need to watch Thelma&Louise 
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Magnifique
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Watched The Breakfast Club with my daughter this morning. The last time I saw it, I was in middle school. Happy to say that it still holds up. Now I can see that Claire is the real weirdo for eating unrefrigerated sushi for lunch.
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Oof, if Marvel movies are showing up on the Flop House, that’s not a good sign.
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They gave a great assessment of the MCU brand.
“Low ceiling, high basement.”
Quantumputania is the first that was bad enough to deserve their ire. And tbf, it is pretty bad.
That’s a pretty good list.
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Otherlife
A scientist develops a revolutionary drug that alters the brain’s sense of time, creating a virtual reality directly in the user’s mind. The government attempts to take over her project, claiming the drug can solve overcrowded prisons.
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This was indistinguishable from the very best episodes of Black Mirror and could even be seen as a prequel to White Christmas.
To me, this movie shows that what fell flat about
Don’t Worry Darling
wasn’t the tech behind the twist but how the twist was revealed. These movies don’t have anything close to the same story, just in the sense that the premise behind the tech in both movies is sort of similar.
You could also see this as sort of the origins of Total Recall technology if things got kinda goofy lol (the poster, not the tone).
Watch for free ASAP on Tubi.
https://tubitv.com/movies/587115?link-action=play&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed
Would you add or strike any from the below list in progress?
More Movies/TV Shows For That ****Ed Up Black Mirror Feeling
Synchronic
Vivarium
Primer/Upstream Color
Time Crimes
Ex Machina
The Wave
Advantageous
Parallels
ARQ
Freaks
The Invisible Man
ReMemory
10 Cloverfield Lane
Equals
What Happened to Monday
Predestination
Project Almanac
Stranger Than Fiction
The Midnight Sky
Stowaway
Chronicle
Take Shelter
Transcendence
Looper
Oblivion
The Edge of Tomorrow
Cube
The Tomorrow War
SongBird
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Maggie
The Colony
Snowpiercer
Sliding Doors
Daniel Isn’t Real
Archenemy
Ultrasound
Quantum Leap evil leaper episodes
The Matrix: Reloaded
Sunshine
Searching/Missing
Dashcam
Mortal
Special
Super
Vivarium
The Invitation
The Perfection
The Perfect Host
Border
Goodnight, Mommy
The Other Lamb
Pure
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Bodied
The Fountain
Coming Home in the Dark
The Power
Midsommer
Arrival
V/H/S
Jagged Mind
Clock
Let the Right One In
Rattlesnake
Unseen
Get Out
Nope
Key and Peele: “Family Matters Behind the Scenes”
The Endless
Coherence
Annihilation
Event Horizon
Upgrade
Dark City
Triangle
Underwater
Being John Malkovich
Moon
Mulholland Drive
Enemy
Under the Skin
Camgirl
Possessor could probably be on the list
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