As I’m still unclear about the rules of this thread, here are seven movies where it’s unclear what the rules are:
- Mulholland Drive
- Donnie Darko
- The Holy Mountain
- Primer
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Synecdoche, New York
- Annihilation
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- Ikiru
- 2001
- Three Colours: Blue
- Sherlock Jr.
- Anomalisa
- Inherit the Wind
- The Human Condition
OP has been fixed per your desires.
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Seven best true crime documentaries?
7 movies I did work for this year:
King of New York
The Alto Knights
The Surfer
Sinners
The Strangers Chapter 2
Battle Royale
Good Fortune
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I’d definitely have some of them, mine would go
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Apocalypse Now
- Come and See
- The Human Condition
- Paths of Glory
- Ivan’s Childhood (not really any fighting, but inarguably about war)
- Das Boot
Every time I see one of these lists, my mind just goes completely blank, but I’ll submit The Staircase, one of the most disturbing. They even had a shot in the documentary of how the guy killed his wife when he was ‘playing’ with one of the kids. It was chilling to watch and I’m not even sure the filmmakers understood the significance of the shot. Even more disturbing is the guy had a relationship with the editor of the documentary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a documentary that used so much behind the scenes footage of a person’s life while the case was ongoing. The added episodes weren’t nearly as good as the first 4 or whatever it was in the original run, but it was still worth watching.
I’ve seen quite a few true crime documentaries but most don’t stick with me for one reason or another.
The Adnan one was good but I was really offput by random accusations of other people in it.
I can’t remember the name of the one that was about Patton Oswalt’s wife. It was a compelling story but she was straight up nuts to have done some of the things she did.
I was quite pissed off by how the filmmaker constantly put himself into the center of the Jinx documentary and the fully manipulated and staged ‘confession’ at the end of the doc. Even if that was how it happened (it wasn’t), it was completely unethical for a documentary filmmaker to have attempted such a stunt (got him the Emmy, tho). The filmmakers could literally have killed that case with how they handled crucial evidence and that was Durst’s aim. Part 2 of that was practically a master class on how to not do a documentary.
The Nexium one on HBO was good, too, but it almost proseletyzed him with me feeling like some people should have been locked up who were telling the story (talking to you videographer and Sara).
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I know I need to see the Human Condition movies. Harakiri is essentially perfect, so watching that one multiple times and not quickly getting to the other consensus masterpieces of the same director’s career is malpractice on my part.
I’ve seen Come and See. I do not see the greatness in that one that others do. It’s completely unsparing, I obviously have to give it that, but not in a way that I found compelling.
I have it narrowed down to these sixteen but am having trouble making eliminations down to seven.
The Thin Blue Line
The Vow
Going Clear
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
The Staircase
Making a Murderer
The Perfect Neighbor
Tickled
Wild Wild Country
The Girl in the Picture
The Tinder Swindler
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Leave No Trace
I Love You, Now Die
Fyre Fraud
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Seven movies about lists:
- Schindler’s List
- High Fidelity
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2
- The Ten Commandments
- Seven
- The Bucket List
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Is The Vow the Nexium doc?
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Yes.
Hulu also made one called Seduced that focuses on interviews with the victims rather than the people who were in the upper tiers of leadership.
I may need to check that one out. I watched the very not great one on Starz or Showtime of whatever it was that was very subpar in comparison to The Vow.
Seven movies where the main protagonist dies at the end:
- Gladiator
- Braveheart
- Titanic
- American Beauty
- Leon: The Professional
- Scarface
- Uncut Gems
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Spoiler alert dam
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ok ok
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3 hours long (or close), 21st century
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Magnolia (1999, close enough)
RRR
Cloud Atlas
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Brutalist
3 hours long, 20th century:
The Godfather Part II
Short Cuts
Spartacus
Malcolm X
The Deer Hunter
Lawrence of Arabia
Once Upon a Time in America
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No The Green Mile dam
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Weird, I don’t think of that as a Very Long Movie, although it clearly is. 
I once made the joke (hilariously laughed at by his assistant at the time who is now an Executive Producer) that Frank had diarrhea of the pen. I immediately regretted the joke, though I do stand by the assessment. It was actually meant as a compliment but I doubt it came off that way.
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