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!I know I posted this on Favslist a long time ago, but I can't find that post anymore. It was about a couple movies that I watched as a kid but didn't know the title of, and also only remembered some specific parts of. I may have found at least two of these movies!
One of the movies is about a camper which is used as a time machine, and also the passengers cover themselves with blankets because it gets cold during time travel or something. That movie is called "The Miracle in Valby"!! I am not sure about the blankets, but looking at trailers, the camper with its huge antenna does look very familiar to me! I'm downloading a torrent now, so I can watch the movie and verify whether this is the real thing or not!
The other movie was about a burglar who breaks into a house with unsupervised children in it - but it turns out the "burglar" is actually a really nice person, plays with the kids, puts on different clothes for some sketch comedy, and shows them a thing or two about paper cutting. That movie is called "Go'natt herr luffare"! It 100% must be this film as I vividly remember those scenes, and these scenes are exactly in the movie just like that. I will have to find a download for this one as well, preferable under the German title "Gute Nacht, Herr Landstreicher".
Still, I can't find some obscure cartoons I watched as a kid, and the AI is absolutely not helping here.-
Saved!LizardTaroEditing … Uh-oh... the version of "The Miracle in Valby" I downloaded is in Dansk only, meaning I don't understand what the characters are saying! -
Saved!LizardTaroEditing … I briefly skipped through the movie and found a time-travel scene in which they are wrapping themselves in blankets. IT IS DEFINITELY THE MOVIE!!! HOLY SHIT! UNBELIEVABLE!! MY MEMORY WAS NOT WRONG, GUYS!! That also means those weird unknown cartoons I watched must exist somewhere, too!
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Saved!LizardTaroEditing … I searched 17 years for this...
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Saved!LizardTaroEditing … @Husky Wing Could you please add "The Miracle in Valby"? Thank you in advance!!
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Saved!All of AVGN's complaints about modern movie theaters sound like all of my current gripes. I don't understand why movies start 30 minutes after the show time, dammit...
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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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