Continuing the discussion from What movies are you watching (2025)
Best film l have watched all year, wellâŚ
The cinematography is off the charts in this one.
Everyone scene, everyone shot is like an example of how movies are made, so apart from the love story, itâs a story about film making. Really love this film. 
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Thatâs too bad .I liked the juxtaposition of accepting both a nihilistic position and an absurdist one. In the end the end wasnât one, but being social was, which I suppose is how the movie began but the driver didnât realize it yet.
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Wow. This was profoundly difficult to watch, but all of what filmmaking is about. I hope all these boys got free therapy while shooting it!
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I remember Southern Comfort as a pretty decent Deliverance knock-off. Or at least thatâs what I imagined, not having actually seen the movie Deliverance but at least having read the book.
Still havenât seen Deliverance. 
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Deliverance is more successful
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Itâs worth seeing for sure
If you havenât seen it, watch the directorâs (John Boorman) gangster movie The General. Brendan Gleeson as Irish gangster Martin Cahill. Brutal in parts, very funny in parts.
The director, John Boorman, was one of Cahillâs burglary victims.[3] This event is dramatised in a scene in which Cahill breaks into a home, stealing a gold record and pilfering a watch from the wrist of a sleeping woman. The gold record, which Cahill later breaks in disgust after discovering it is not made of gold, was awarded for the score of Deliverance, Boormanâs best-known film.[4]
A great gangster movie imo.
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I havenât seen it. Thank you!
Just found it on YouTube and turned it on. The start is over the top noire but Iâll keep it going
Oh, Jon Voight. His Irish accent is about as good as his Spanish accent!
Rewatched âFargoâ tonight (itâs one of those rare films I could watch a hundred times and never get sick of⌠like âShawshank Redemptionâ, âGood Fellasâ, or âBig Lebowskiâ). Anyway, sometimes I look at these moviesâ wiki pages to see how it was received at the time. Itâs amazing how many critics had takes that aged like milk. Many loved it upon release, but this paragraph about those that didnât is just so wild to see now considering how beloved it is to this day.
The Time critic Richard Corliss criticized Fargo for its accents: âAfter some superb mannerist films, the Coens are back in the deadpan realist territory of Blood Simple, but without the cinematic elan.â[46] Conversely, Janet Maslin, in The New York Times, deemed Fargo âmuch more stylish and entertainingâ than Blood Simple.[47] James Berardinelli, writing for ReelThoughts, gave the film three out of five, writing that it was âeasy to admire what the Coens are trying to do in Fargo, but more difficult to actually like the filmâ.[48] John Simon of The National Review wrote that âthe Coen brothersâ Fargo is their best film so far, which isnât saying very much ⌠Fargo could have been a nice little film noir if they hadnât compounded it with black comedy, absurdism, and folksy farce: ScandinavianâAmerican midwesterners up, or down, to their hickish shenanigans. Some of this surprisingly, works, some of it ranges from the unpalatable to the indigestibleâ.[49]
I think this is why I pay more attention to audience scores nowadays. Critics always want to stand out with stupid takes, but many seem too jaded or out of touch when it comes to recognizing great filmmaking.
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Yeah, or sometimes the critics love a film and the audience tanks it, usually I go with the audience
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Free movie
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Iâm in the minority on âAdadptation.â I actively disliked it, which I attribute to the screenplay.
OTOH, another Charlie Kaufman screenplay around that time was for âEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,â which blew me away.
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I read recently that JC was told to play it straight, and the chick who played Rose was told to play it absurdist. The scene on the bus is a great example of this.
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That would be Kate Winslet 
British national treasure
I donât much bother with their names. But if I say John Wick or Jesse Pinkman, you know who it is. I know one of the Spidermen by name, but mostly because I liked Jerry McGuire.
Calling an actor a national treasure is insulting to people who actually benefit a nation, not just an industry brand. But thatâs me.
Furthermore didnât I just see Kate whatever in a horrible remake of the war of the roses? She stunk up the theater with that performance. 
That was Olivia Colman. Yeah, it was a pretty bad remake.
Yeah, who? 
Iâve seen her in other stuff Iâve not minded. But I couldnât name a single film. 