Plus Last of the Mohicans, The Crying Game, and Beethoven.
Army of Darkness also perfectly cromulent.
Oh drat you were marking movies from 96.
No, the prior list was 1992. That post was just addressing BP nominees from 1996 since he said heâs blank on the whole list.
Lots of other stuff I really like from 1996, but itâs mostly movies I know the Academy wouldnât have touched.
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The Academy was scared of that movie. It defined the zeitgeist of college culture anywhere activism was prevalent in 1992. Absolutely incredible movie.
And please watch Fargo.
If you didnât hear, Godzilla Minus One is on Netflix right now in honor of Pride Month.
Whatâs the connection?
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Godzilla is a gay icon, everyone knows it. Mothra is a lesbian queen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GODZILLA/comments/tm59en/just_gonna_leave_this_here/
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Got around to The Lobster tonight (good movie). Thereâs definitely a pretty clear Yorgos weirdness scale.
From weirdest to least weird:
Dogtooth
The Lobster
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Poor Things
The Favourite
Dogtooth made me so uncomfortable that I didnât make it to the end. Sacred Deer is darker than The Lobster, but I donât think I can call it weirder. The Favourite basically wouldnât even bring âweirdâ to mind; itâs reflective of Yorgosâs offbeat sense of humor as a filmmaker, but I still wouldnât have necessarily guessed it was him blind.
With Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman being recurring Yorgos players, and Kinds of Kindness being an anthology film, it surprises me a little that none of them are in it.
MoviePass doc didnât disappoint. Basically the boomer version of FyreFest meets Enron. How many of you had MoviePass? I think my favorite part were the interviews with the people gleefully talking about seeing hundreds of movies just abusing the daylights out of the dumbest pricing scheme of all time.
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I canât believe they also made a handful of movies. Like all of the Escape Plan movies. I liked the first one. And Villains was actually pretty good.
They talk about the horrible Gotti movie that got 0% in the doc haha.
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I didnât realize this was streaming on Max. Cheers, appreciate you bringing it up.
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I wasnât one of those guys who went to 50 movies a week but for a while I was seeing one movie a week in theaters and it cost the equivalent of one ticker per month. Back then I was seeing about a movie a week in theaters anyway and plus I wound up taking a chance on a lot of little movies I would never have seen otherwise. Favorite was Crawl which is an absolute banger of a lowball horror movie. Just a blast to see these dumb nothing movies on the big screen.
I wish I had kept my MoviePass card as a lot of fans have done.
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I think they are quite valuable on ebay (at least it is claimed in the doc they go for $1500 I havenât verified)
Crawl is excellent and very underrated. Its like if Lake Placid was actually good
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Which is like if Anaconda was actually good too?