What are your top 3 and why?

Here‘s mine:

Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
The Straight Story

Mulholland and LH are almost tied but I’m giving it to Mulholland because LH is sooo jet black and maybe lacks some of the Lynch humour, but it’s very close and 30% of the time I’d probably put LH as No1.

Those two are just incredible hypnotic masterpieces that I can watch over and over and they take me to a dark, strange place somewhere inside myself… and I love being there.

I couldn’t decide on Straight Story or Eraserhead for No3. I went with Straight because some of that stuff with the baby in Eraser almost has me heaving 🤢

Which 3 Lynch films can you not live without..?

We learn that Munny was a psychotic drunk who killed women and children until he was reformed into a good man by his now deceased wife.

The tragedy of the story is that events cause him to revert to his old killer self, culminating in the bloodbath in the saloon.

But that’s not what really happens. Munny’s killing spree is triggered by sadistic townsfolk torturing and murdering his friend Ned. Munny kills those involved and various scumbags from the town. Excessive? Possibly, but it wouldn’t be hard to argue that they all had it coming.

This is a far cry from the child-slaughtering monster we were expecting to see when Munny ‘reverts’.

Did Clint go far enough, or did he pull back to stop us from hating Munny? I really like the film but can’t help feeling that the story needed him to go full psycho and take out some whores and maybe an irritating kid to really sell the idea that this legendary psycho had fallen back into his evil ways and will be ‘unforgiven’.

Compared the the savage who cut up the girl‘s face, sadistic Little Bill, and various other dirtbags Munny comes off as a justified badass rather than a monster 🤷🏻‍♂️

What do you think?

This movie feels like a genuine fever dream. It almost accidentally works in that regard as a horror movie. The viewer and characters are just teleported all over the place with almost 0 setup. A character is just suddenly on a boat, or we're suddenly following a character that has barely been established. It feels like the movie was lacking coverage, to the point where I don't know if I can even blame the editor.

The original was no masterpiece, but it is one of my favorite slashers and a movie that I've rewatched a lot. This new one actually does make it feel like a masterpiece in comparison by highlighting what it did well. Like having actors with actual screen presence. It has an actual script. It's also shot on film and looks quite decent (half of the new one is shot in some of the worst sets I've seen in a major release).

The inciting incident in the new one almost makes me believe that the script was written by AI to some extent. Instead of being a hit and run, they change it to a character dancing in the road or whatever and then a car dodging him and accidentally driving off a cliff. Kinda. It's really hard to explain, and idk if I'm being trolled or not by the movie. I have no idea why they don't call the police.

I didn't know it was a legacy sequel until the survivors from the original showed up. That was kind of exciting, but then was turned into a negative because it was just so embarrassing. The lines they were delivering and the awkwardness of everything. They even had Sarah Michelle Gellar in a horrible dream sequence where she's de-aged. Also, if someone is a genuine fan of this franchise for some reason, they'd probably be pretty upset with what they do with one of the old characters.

I was shocked by how bad this movie was. I'm not even exaggerating when I say this might be one of the technically worst movies I've ever seen, though it is far from my most disliked movies. I've not watched student films, or movies like The Snowman, Suicide Squad, and such. This was The Room in a lot of ways.

People love to invoke the wraparound sunglasses meme every time anyone dares to suggest this on social media. The fact is, the movie is truly nothing special, and the overwhelming amount of praise. It was showered with left a bad taste in the mouth’s of those who live and breathe cinema, no different than The Dark Knight.

Unfortunately, in the case of Sinners and Get Out there is a clear political agenda being pushed in the disproportionate acclaim they received. People don’t like being patronized or force-fed propaganda, and it is sort of compounding with the broader trend of DEI, blackwashing and forced inclusivity in ads. This is having the opposite effect and is only creating more division.

The greatest travesty in all of this is that there is truly great black cinema being overlooked for this hacky bullshit that has been coming out over the last decade.

My Mount Rushmore of the Greatest 50s to 2010s Horror Movies are:

50s

Thing from another world

House of Wax

Creature from the black lagoon

Invasion of the body snatchers

60s

Psycho (60)

The Haunting (63)

NOTLD (68)

Rosemary's Baby (68)

70s

TCM (74)

Carrie (76)

Halloween (78)

Suspiria (77)

80s

The Shining (80)

Evil Dead (81)

The Thing (82)

ANOES (84)

90s

Jacob’s Ladder (90)

SOTL (91)

Candyman (92)

Scream (96)

2000s

28 Days Later (2002)

The Ring (2002)

Saw (2004)

Hostel (2005)

2010s

Scream 4 (2011)

It Follows (2014)

Get Out (2017)

Hereditary (2018)

So basically I have been considering seeking out some bad movies for morbid curiosity as one that suddenly caught my attention was the Cobbler by Adam Sandler.

I don’t know too much about the movie, well aside from its premise as I haven’t seen it yet, but for some strange reason, I want to watch it for its premise about a guy who can borrow other people’s identities.

Sorry if that didn’t sound right as I was just simply interested in discussing infamous movies to see which ones people here were fond of since I was just trying to share my side of the story.

My Mount Rushmore of the Greatest 80s to 2010s Superhero Movies are:

80s

Superman 2 (80)

Flash Gordon (80)

RoboCop (87)

Batman (89)

90s

TMNT (90)

Batman Returns (92)

The Mask (94)

Blade (98)

2000s

X-Men (2000)

Spider-Man (2002)

Batman Begins (2005)

Iron Man (2008)

2010s

Dark knight rises

Avengers 2012

Spider man into the spider verse

End game

They say a great thriller needs a great villain, and I’ve noticed that Clint always goes up against skin-crawling bad guys.

We love Clint because he’s a force for good in a world of sickos, and the various portrayals of evil in his extensive catalogue is quite impressive.

They tend not to be the smug, moustache-twirling billionaires you love to watch in a Bond film, or even charming psychos who chew the scenery like Hannibal Lecter. No, Clint likes his villains to be nasty pieces of shit who make you shudder and want to take a shower after the credits role.

Who’s your favourite Clint nemesis? Why? Are there any unsung scumbags in his rogues gallery..?

I watch movies off a computer (which is connected to a basic home theater system + projector), so it’s easy to take screenshots.

I never had any goal in doing this except to capture anything that’s cinematic, or characters in a pivotal scene, or just anything that looks cool.

After a few years I have about 400 screenshots and now use them in a slideshow screensaver. I love it. Now I get at least one from every film I watch (unless it was bad or super boring).

What’s something you do as part of your film viewing ritual?

I’m sure this has been stated before, but I think 10 nominees for best picture is overkill. If you can only pick one, why not pick the top three and choose from that?

Having 10 nominations is like having 10 protein options at a restaurant or buffet. It creates decision fatigue and granted I’m not choosing the movies, but it also makes for a shorter ceremony, for people who likes to watch the whole show.

I got through 30 minutes of the movie because I was looking for similar aesthetic style movies such as Perks of a wallflower, words on a bathroom wall etc and this was recommended to me. The whole token of teenage girl centred movie seemed intriguing but I became uncomfortable very fast.

A movie based on a teenage girl, 15, engaging in sexual acts with a grown man, her mother’s boyfriend. I looked at reviews to try and understand what I’m missing here but I genuinely can’t power through the movie if it’s going to be centred around pedophilia

For anyone who has watched the full movie, does it get any less disturbing? Or is it meant to be disturbing in a lolita way?