Great idea
I’ll have a think on Julia.
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Savior complex imo
Re: Julia
Perhaps it’s the old “sad, broken puppy can be fixed” syndrome? Like she’s seen flashes of a good person in him, feels bad for him, and wants to make him all better?
Yeah, even in real life relationship dynamics are not rational. Most people learn how relationships work by watching their parents. Since many, many parents have outrageously terrible relationships that’s usually the simplest explanation for why Person A inexplicably is in a relationship with Person B. If the show was real life, my first guess would be that Julia’s mom was in a relationship with a shitty loser and loved him against all reason. Lo and behold that’s what happens to the daughter as well.
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RE: Julia
That’s how co-dependency works. People like her come to a relationship with baggage to begin with, and then the addict essentially preys upon them.
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Took a break to do this over the last hour. Thanks for the suggestion, goofy. Fun to see how many movies the community has watched together.
PREVIOUS WATCHES
Die Hard
No Country for Old Men
Rounders
Ex Machina
Mandy
Happy Gilmore
Blazing Saddles
Uncut Gems
Community s2e24: “A Fistful of Paintballs”
Booksmart
Hamilton
The Boys s1e1: “The Name of the Game”
Alien Resurrection
Borat: Subsequent Movie Film
Saturday Night Live (November 2020 | hosted by Dave Chapelle)
There Will Be Blood
Lifeforce
Molly’s Game
HGW: TMO s1e2: “Love Me Tinder” (online dating before COVID)
The Platform
BONUS THREADS
El Sapo vs RiskyFlush 1v1 Film War
Groundhog Day
Lost in Translation
The Color of Money
Jerry Maguire
Joe vs the Volcano
And here’s the OP where I will update the list with every new watch.
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Agreed, and just expanding on your thoughts a little.
Narcissists and co-dependents are drawn to each other.
The narcissist requires a partner who will always go way over the line to prove their love for them.
And a co-dependent requires a partner that will demand they go way over the line to prove their love for them.
In his excellent book The Human-Magnet Syndrome, psychotherapist Ross Rosenberg describes the relationship equation of two people as one that ultimately must equal zero. The toxic selfishness of the narcissist balances out the toxic selflessness from the co-dependent. As insane as it appears to anyone on the outside, this is the only time the narcissist and co-dependent feel like the pieces are in the right places. If only they could figure out how to be happy while waiting for a time bomb to explode.
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Much appreciated. I’ll add it. Please anyone lmk if I missed your favorite.
LaMarche’s specialty is his Orson Welles impression, which not only pops up when he is playing the actor himself (as he did when he provided a voiceover for Tim Burton’s masterful Ed Wood), but when he’s playing the megalomaniacal mouse the Brain. LaMarche was very much aware of the commercial recordings and basked in the ridiculousness of it all.
LaMarche actually lampooned the Findus situation a few times on The Critic, where he portrayed Orson Welles both in a disastrous peas commercial and a video where he introduced a will reading, only to go on a tangent about fish sticks. It helped to know the source material, but it wasn’t necessary. These short gags played up the ideas that Orson Welles was a has-been and a glutton. That was enough.
Yet there was another LaMarche performance that was far stranger. The 52nd episode of Animaniacs featured a short cartoon called “Yes, Always” starring Pinky and the Brain. Usually, Pinky and the Brain were known for going on nightly adventures thanks to Brain’s overly elaborate attempts to take over the world. In this instance, it was nothing ordinary. It was a cartoon about Brain being asked to do voiceovers for frozen food commercials. All the while, he got in arguments with the director Pinkie and a nearby engineer.
Animaniacs will be making its return to Hulu on November 20. It’ll be full of country goodness and green pea-ness.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
Surprisingly most excellent!
I thought with Keanu and Alex being so old that the whole thing would feel like cosplay and fan fiction, but the script is sharp and clever, and the actors inhabit their hopelessly naive counterparts like a second skin. The movie knows just when to go in a new grounded direction, when to lean into the campy humor of the first two, and when to subvert your expectations in the most satisfying way.
The only reason I would place Excellent Adventure at the top is because this one doesn’t mean nearly as much on its own, but if we’re going on how much I enjoy each film as a trilogy, Bill & Ted Face the Music just shot to the #1 spot.
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I’ve started watching Hannibal and it’s got me in. My bf isn’t as into it which is surprising because it’s the sort of show he generally likes.
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Wife’s all time favorite. Fuller’s take on the source material is fantastic while Hugh and Mads are amazing. Oh and food porn. It’s certainly not for everyone but has a cult-like following. It ends up being so much more than what it starts out as.
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This is the key. Mads in particular is just bringing such a high intensity to what had become a kind of clichéd role. His physical acting in the show is just amazing, he portrays Lector as physically elegant but powerful like a ballet dancer or something. It really adds a lot of believable menace to the character, like you can believe this normal looking dude can bring explosive violence to back up his psychological manipulation.
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Agree. Mads makes the show work. He’s so charming and seduction that it’s easy to see ourselves being manipulated by him–either to believe his innocence or to become a meal yourself.
God I love Hannibal. Mads is the GOAT Lecter for me. If there were audiobooks read by Mads as Lecter, I would fall asleep to them every night.
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Last night, based on nothing other than the preview image baffled us, my wife and I watched “Happy Easter”.
Seriously, what genre would you say it is based on that? An action comedy? Has to be action with that font, doesn’t it? But why is the girl so big?
It wasn’t that, what it was was fairly jawdropping stuff. It’s a 80s French sex comedy with an aging (and Trump-tanned) Jean-Paul Belmondo as a serial adulterer. The first 5 minutes are an insane montage where he beds 4 or 5 women while telling his wife a variety of ludicrous lies. E.g. Belmondo’s on a boat, his wife is sunbathing naked. He uses binoculars to look at another boat where a ‘rich guy’ in white tie is smoking a cigar surrounded by 5 or 6 women (most also naked). Belmondo (?somehow?) catches the eye of one, she makes an excuse and dives off the boat. Belmondo tells his wife he’s off fishing, dives off his boat and the two of them swim to a beach and have sex (despite the fact that until now they appeared to be in mid ocean). He returns to the boat some time later, now in scuba gear (he wasn’t when he left) and tells his wife that he got “a few little bites”.
The main plot is a farce where Belmondo’s wife is off to Paris and at the airport he spots Sophie Marceau who needs a place to stay. She was and looks 17 to him being and looking 50, but no matter. He takes her to an Indian restaurant (cue racist gags), persuades her to come back to his but his wife also comes back and he decides to pretend Marceau is actually his daughter. Cue ‘hilarity’.
There’s a sub plot about a Marxist public servant who Belmondo (an architect) is trying to get a deal with. At one point a concussed Belmondo steals an ambulance with a women giving birth in the back. The funniest gag is when he’s bullshitting about his daughter and tells his wife he used to take her to an ice cream parlour but was too poor and had to get second hand ice cream. “You should have seen how sad she looked, ‘Daddy, my vanilla is all melted again!’ It broke my heart.”
What I’m saying is, great movie.
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Scrolled through prime and netflix unsure about what to watch. In the end I watched season 1 of Motherland: Fort Salem. Not sure if should feel ashamed afterwards. Hell my Baldurs gate sorcerer has better spells.
Now I saw “Into the Badlands” also on prime. Imdb says 8.0. Did anyone watch this and can recommend it?
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This is an amazing show if for no other reason than the premise and world building. Holy shit at the opening terrorism scene.
Into the Badlands was decent I thought. I might be a season behind or something.
You mean motherland?