Movies
A film, also called a movie, motion picture or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession. The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects.
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Saved!Oscar noms are out! Of the Best Picture noms I've seen Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, Sinners and Train Dreams. I'm pleased they all made the cut. Sinners is my favorite of the year but I think OBAA is the favorite to win. Not only does it deliver strong performances and drama with sociopolitical themes that resonate with current events, but it's also a crowd-pleaser with action and comedy. Also one of the best predictors for Oscar winners is who is "due." Paul Thomas Anderson has had two movies nominated before but has also been pumping out critical darlings for decades, and everyone seems to agree this is his year.
Of the films I haven't seen I'm most excited to see Bugonia and Marty Supreme, and I'll also make seeing Hamnet a priority. I correctly predicted 7/10 of the nominees, but had Blue Moon, It Was Just an Accident and No Other Choice in place of Bugonia, F1 and Frankenstein.
In other surprises, Sinners is nominated for Best Supporting Actor, but for Delroy Lindo, when I would have nominated Miles Catton or Jack O'Connell by a country mile. I'm also a little put out that 2025 blessed us with a Park Chan-wook movie, but No Other Choice didn't even make the cut for Best International Feature.
Overall I think 2025 wasn't the strongest year, but I was so pleased that most of the movies the dominated the discourse weren't dumb capeshit, and these nominees seem to reflect that. Probably still won't be enough to get me to tune in, but I'm sure I'll enjoy the highlights like most years.-
Saved!DJ_JJSliderEditing … Yeah, the good movies were real stunners. I don't think there's any contest who would win. Bit of a shame, because Marty Supreme was one of the most accessible Safdie films. About a ping-pong master under a ton of stress. But Chalomet should still win the Best Actor award. I mean, this one deserved it, because the character goes through hell and somehow stays cocky through the whole runtime.
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Saved!I've noticed that montages are very common in movies.
There's one in The Peanuts Movie about 30 min in, so I stopped watching.
Employee of the Month had one about 20-30 min in, so I stopped watching.
Bee Movie has one 30 min in so I stopped watching, even though up until that point I actually liked the movie.
She's The Man has one about 20-30 min in and it's the third fucking montage in the movie. I'm amazed I didn't kill myself. And something tells me the movie contains about fifteen more, so I hopefully will never be watching it ever again. -
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Saved!Most Anticipated Movies:
Everything Everywhere All at Twice
Star Wars: Episode X - Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Mad Max: Glory Hole
28 Centuries Later
Oliver Twist II; or, The Parish Boy's Revenge
Jesus Christ Superstar: Revived
Zack Snyder's Avengers
A Suicide Squad
Indiana Jones and the Wand of Gamelon
Finnegans Wake - Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire-
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Saved!SudertumEditing … I am rooting for: Titanic 3 a.k.a. the revenge; Call of Duty Trilogy directed by Uwe Boll and Tommy Wiseau; Superman vs Batman IX tensions in retirement center -
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … Oh I forgot. Netflix adaptation of Tuxedo Gin. Not live action but animated. And not anime style, but in CG like Popeye or Captain Underpants.
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Saved!SandvichEditing … From the look of it that Star Wars movie will continue the franchises most important staple: incest.
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Saved!The History of the World Through Film: The Ultimate Historical Movies Guide
By watching each of these films in order, viewers should gain an intermediate understanding of the entire history of civilization on Earth.
Quest for Fire (1981)
The Man from Earth (2007)
Iceman (2017)
The First King: Birth of an Empire (aka Romulus v Remus) (2019)
Coriolanus (2019)
300 (2006)
Spartacus (1960)
Jesus Christ Superstar: Live Arena Tour (2012)
Gladiator (2000)
The Last Legion (2007)
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Baahubali (2015-2017)
The Great Wall (2016)
The Scythian (2018)
The Physician (2013)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Braveheart (1995)
Assassin's Creed (2016)
The New World (2005)
Apocalypto (2006)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Anonymous (2011)
The VVitch (2015)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017)
Hamilton (2020)
The Madness of King George (1994)
Marquis (1989)
Les Misérables (2012)
Oliver Twist (2005)
Hamlet (1996)
Django Unchained (2012)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (1962)
Exit Humanity (2012)
Free State of Jones (2016)
Song of the South (1946)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Current War (2017)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Tesla (2020)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
The Dead (1987)
Photographing Fairies (1992)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
The Flowers of War (2011)
The Conformist (1970)
The King's Speech (2010)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Deutschstunde (2019)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Lumumba (2000)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
300 Miles to Heaven (1989)
No (2012)
Sometimes in April (2005)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)
Locked Down (2021)
Mars & Avril (2012)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Mad God (2021)
Once you've finished watching every movie on the list, congratulations. You are now a historian.-
Saved!SudertumEditing … Meh, prefer my history books and history related games. :) The nine flicks i already watched mostly contain many inacurancies.
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … I would have included The Bible: In the Beginning and Fiddler on the Roof, personally. But then again, I am not a historian. (wait, Wonder Woman and Fantastic Beasts? this is a meme list I think? lol) (Assassin's creed... yeah, ok)
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Saved!SudertumEditing … Likely, Baahubali for example is on youtube. Beeing completly fiction in a ancient setting, battle scenes are stupid and amazing at the same time. So just an indian blockbuster!
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Saved!Top 5 Most Anticipated Movies
1. Cloudier Atlas
2. Star Wars: Episode X - The Last Return of the Phantom Sith Clone Empire
3. 300 3: 900
4. Spider-Man: Caesar is Home
5. Return to the Conquest of the Battle of the War for the Planet of the Apes-
Saved!JackinatorEditing … For me, it's The Young Pope 3: War for the Planet of the Popes - A Voiello Story, Chapter 1: The Popening. -
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Saved!Anybody else use the app Letterboxd? It's pretty neat. I like that I can record what day I watched something and look at a timeline of the movies I've watched with the ratings I gave them. Will make tallying up my best of the year list much easier.
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … Master crash and I are on letterboxd, although I haven't used it in a while because I grew bored of moves. I always just used it in a browser btw, not the app.
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Saved!ExplojinEditing … The website has too many ads, I like the app interface more. It's pretty sleek and has everything where you want it... -
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … Slider is making statuses about Moneyball, so, today I created a new list on Letterboxd of movies I might go back and see someday.
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Saved!I really should watch Samurai Cop someday. This looks amazing.
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Saved!So, is there any real reason (besides shameless money grabbing) that the industry is flooded with remakes, re-releases and sequels to old franchises? Is this just the nostalgia generation?
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … The "industry" is always the lowest form of any medium, you have to look outside it to find the good shit.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … I'm sick to death of super hero movies. Not many films have interested me lately.
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Saved!MasterCrashEditing … I saw a video about this the other day. It was something on the lines of the fact that the media pre-internet had more control about what got marketed, but with the internet age now everyone can get access to their own niche stuff, but since that was not the case in the 80s and 90s we kinda did grew up more or less watching the same stuff. Stuff we are now nostalgic for and also, guess what, we now have money to throw at it. So instead of focusing on marketing new stuff that people can generally avoid, it's far more safe nowadays to just bet on things we grew up with. -
Saved!NodleyEditing … I suppose there's a lot of truth in that. But I love new stuff too. Look how Harry Potter smashed it. Every so often something new comes along and does really well. And the total recall remake was shit.
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Saved!Silent GamerEditing … There's actually tons of new stuff being made at the same time, so it doesn't bother me. It's just a bit bewildering going to the cinema in 2019 and seeing posters for Aladdin, Pet Sematary and Child's Play. -
Saved!NodleyEditing … Not gonna lie, pet semetary interests me. I love the original but it's quite shit watching it now, it's like a cheap tv movie.
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Saved!SandvichEditing … Because just like gaming and every other industry, we're in the era of record profit-seeking for every quarter. The number of movies released each year has doubled since the turn of the century, and people have their attentions further divided by Netflix, Youtube, social media, Fortnite etc. So brand awareness becomes key and movie executives greenlight the familiar and give it a huge marketing budget. What's easier to drill into the drill into the heads of the masses? "Widows? Never heard of it? Oh, it's a heist movie? Based on a BBC series? Never heard of that either. Steve McQueen? He's dead! Oh, the director. What has he done? 12 Years A Slave? Yeah, I've been meaning to see that one but it looks so grim." VS "Black Panther? Ooh, he was really cool in Civil War! I'll see that for sure!" Much like game publishers pushing military shooters until they're driven into the dirt, movie studios chase trends like the Dark Universe, not because they think it will make for a quality franchise, but because they're risk averse and they want some of that sweet MCU money. In that case as well as the DCEU you see how it can blow up in their faces when they try to cut corners and push a franchise out the door without gradually building on it. And it doesn't really matter if these factory assembled movies suffer because of it. In spite of all the fuck-ups, the Mummy still made back more than double its budget. I work with people with medical degrees, and regularly hear conversations like "I can't wait to see that Nutcracker movie" or "My husband and I watched that Adam Sandler Netflix movie and were dying of laughter when naked David Spade fell out of the truck!" Even intelligent members of the filmgoing public generally don't really give a shit. They don't see enough movies to recognize lazy writing, cliche or stock characters or stereotypes, and going to the movies to them is usually an excuse to get out of the house, something fun to do with the kids, somewhere to go on a date etc. Go look at audience polls on Cinemascore. X-Men: First Class is tied with Origins: Wolverine for the lowest rated of the franchise, meaning the Last Stand and Apocalypse were liked better. A family film like Wall-E gets the same score as the fucking Lorax! TL;DR Yes, because of money-grubbing, and because it tends to work.... for now.
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Saved!ExplojinEditing … I think folks will go see a reboot movie because if they liked the original and they like the new one that's great. If they don't like the new one they get to compare the two and shit all over it. They still have something to talk about the next day so it's a win-win situation from the general consumers point of view. And of course that translates to dollars.
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Saved!DJ_JJSliderEditing … I dunno. There's a lot more money grubbing than ever before at the moment. I think companies are really playing it safe, because they're super-afraid of losing out. Sorry if I can't offer any really good insight, but that's the perception I've getting from these big entertainment companies.
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Saved!I want to get back into movies. I haven't watched anything in so long. I also want to rewatch my top movies. It's been a few years since I've seen most of them and I reckon it's been just long enough for me to have forgotten parts.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Lately I think I've been rewatching more of my favorites than watching new films. I think a part of it's cuz I'm worried about movies disappointing me. But also, lots of my screen time's occupied by TV shows right now. So far I've seen more TV seasons this year than films.
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Saved!Silent GamerEditing … That's my problem with games. I 'could' play the new one's, but I replay older games instead because the are familiar and I already know I'll have a great time. Rewatching/replaying is great though. You get different things out of them depending on mood/timing/knowledge. It's awesome! :D
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Yesterday I bought myself the FO4 season pass for $12.89 (MSRP is frickin $50!) and installed a ton of mods. Perhaps it's time to return to that game... Finally I'll be able to finish lots of my settlements, now that I've modded out the build limit :p
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … In the starting settlement, I was building an elevated city. I built towers on each of the empty house plots, and started connecting them with bridges. Alas, but that build limit. Similarly with the drive-in theater I had surrounded the entire plot with walls and began to transform the place into a giant headquarters, only to run into that pesky limit on my creativity!
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Saved!Silent GamerEditing … Ooh, those sound awesome. Bethesda always makes a great base game, but it's the modding community that really give them life.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Even without mods, Skyrim's my #1 ♥. Their games have some of the best mods there are, but damn do they nail the immersion and interactivity. Seriously, other open world RPGs disappoint me when I find out none of the miscellaneous objects have physics. Immersion LOST.
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Saved!Silent GamerEditing … I really want to play Skyrim, but again, FPS. I heard there was a mod created a good while ago that attempted to make it more playable in third-person. If that ended up coming to fruition, I'd definitely give it a go.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Hmm, there's definitely a whole ton of third-person Skyrim mods. I'm pretty sure I've seen at least one that optimized the third-person combat, I think it made the camera more dynamic instead of locking onto your back. Don't know how successful it was though, I usually use the mode as just a vanity camera.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Geez, I can't find anything that looks particularly useful. Although the comments under one of those mods mentions "Customizable Camera"...
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Okay so Customizable Camera allows you to adjust the view in different modes, such as during combat and such. Seems to let you fine-tune the angle, zoom, FOV, and speed of the transitions. Don't think it offers any sort of dynamic camera like Assassin's Creed though. You can use it with either Oldrim or SSE, so that's fortunate. Also lets you set a "swap side" key! But new hotkeys might not be much of an option if you're on a gamepad.
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Saved!I need your help again guys!!!!
When I was really young I watched a movie and of course I don't know the title of the movie anymore. It's a family-friendly movie about a burglar (?) who breaks into a house. Much to the burglar's surprise, there are two children in the house (a girl and a boy I think, the parents are away). Instead of robbing them, he plays mini-games with the kids, puts on costumes etc. to entertain them. And in the end of the movie, he just leaves I think. The movie is set in winter. If anybody knows a movie that comes close to this description, let me know! Oh and the movie is a bit older... probably a 80s/90s movie.-
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … I was gonna say cat in the hat (the live action one) as a joke, but from what I can tell it doesn't take place in winter
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Saved!SandvichEditing … I've had pretty good luck identifying movies I can barely remember from my childhood. There's a TV show that I saw a single episode of about 15 years ago that I wish I could remember the name of. It was the schmaltziest thing I've ever seen, like it made 7th heaven look edgy, and boy would it be amazing to track down and cringe at all over again.
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Saved!SandvichEditing … There are also a bunch of movie trailers I remember seeing as a kid and wanted to track down even though I never saw the movie itself, but boy is that difficult. I have to go off of no actors, next to no dialogue and only vague recollections of the premise. No luck there.
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … there's a cartoon I saw as a kid about anthropomorphic dogs who dressed like the blues brothers and performed on stage. they drove a van that came out from a trap door in the middle of the street. Every time they come out they blow away this guy's newsstand and he was always pissed about it. I've had no luck finding the name because people think it's either Road Rovers or Dog City, even though it's obviously not either of those.
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