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All excellent films.
Wow, Phone Booth is that short?! Damn. Really good thriller though.
Also, Zombieland is a perfect example of a movie that uses its runtime really well.
Rewatched Reservoir Dogs like 2 years ago & was genuinely surprised it's a 90min movie.
Excellent movie. Uses the low budget really really well.
I think How I met Your Mother used it well. It's kinda like "background noise". It's not as distracting.
Growing up in the late 90s to early 2000s, I didn't really mind them at all.
But in my early 20s, I discovered shows like Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Curb & Community.
Comedies that were genuinely funny that didn't rely on canned laughter
Afterwards shows with laugh tracks & live audiences just started to annoy me. It's like a switch went on/off in my brain & I started noticing the awkward pauses between jokes & the really really annoying "fake laughter"
You know, when a character says something, anything, and the "audience" loses their freaking minds..
I think it's most noticeable in Friends & also The Big Bang Theory..
Get Shorty (1995) - Haven't seen this one since I was a teen. Fantastic flick. Good perfomances & fun characters. 8.5/10
The Sandman season 1 (Netflix) - Finally checked it out. First 6 episodes are so damn good. And then it takes a turn for the worst. Genuinely struggled to finish the final 4 episodes.
Legit felt like I was watching a CW melodrama. The score would be higher if it just stopped after the first story concluded. At the sixth episode. 7/10
I once got the whole boxset of Smallville for $1.50.
Checked to make sure, all 10 seasons were intact.
I've heard it countless times on Redlettermedia but can't recall any movies or shows.
I'm amused by people who get offended by old films and TV shows.
That's how shit you used to be. You don't have to like it. But that's how people talked, addressed, dressed & treated others.
It's like a time capsule, honestly.
A modern day film or show set in the past would never (or rarely) show that aspect. The characters also just (annoyingly) talk like present day people for some reason.
It's basically a squeaky clean version of the past.
I don't mind flashbacks. I just find constant & overuse of them really annoying.
I've only seen someone die, once.
But I've seen plenty of dead people. Relatives of mine own a funeral home.
Raisins are just dried grapes. I never cared for them. Too sweet for my liking..
But some of my family members loved 'em. And they were always around growing up.
I just never put 2 and 2 together.
There was only one show that genuinely annoyed me with flashbacks.
It was soap opera levels of flashbacks. We have flashback to a conversation we literal just had. In every fucking episode!
The show is called Grimm. Still liked the show but the flashbacks were annoying as hell.
It means the film was mostly or fully done but the studio shelved it.
Either for rights reasons or to cut their loses.
https://moviechat.org/tt0268126/Adaptation
Out of those? Coyote vs Acme.
Ooh, that's definitely a tough one. Both fantastic films imo.
How about this, BJM is more rewatchable than Adaptation. So I'm gonna give it the edge.
The recent Wolf Man was a massive let down. A monster movie that's barely even one.
Same. With Del Toro and also the movie. I genuinely had a good time with it when it came out.
Was legit surprised to see how lowly rated it was when I checked IMDB and other places.
Easy, 2014. Excellent year for films.
IlMy top 10, in no particular order:
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. Nightcrawler
6. Interstellar
7. Edge of Tomorrow
8. The Raid 2
9. John Wick
10. Ex Machina
Honorable Mentions: Whiplash, Birdman, X-Men Day of Future Past, Kingsman, Gone Girl, Predestination, What We Do in the Shadows, The Drop, Paddington, The Guest.
P.S. These are all from my IMDB profile. 2014 Movies that I've rated, so far. I've probably left out some, Idk.