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spanky1 posted...

I'm one of those weirdos that absolutely loves these new movies. They get a lot of hate but to me they're so cool imo. Yes, I've seen the old ones, and I like those too. These new movies have such grandeur and spectacle though!

And I really like the guy who plays Poirot. And his mustache.

@TheOnionKnight This one looks right up my alley right? :3

Ha yes, with the seance especially!

I never saw Death on the Nile. Don't know if I'll see this one either. I didn't think the new Murder on the Orient Express was as good as the old one, so I haven't really been paying attention after that. But the new one was still fine in a lazy-day way, so I might get around to streaming these sequels eventually.

Okay that was definitely an entertaining fight scene!

spanky1 posted...

@TheOnionKnight do you know?

I do not, alas! Catching a fly with chopsticks sounds vaguely familiar, but a villain who's painted white doesn't ring any bells.

In Cold Blood is hmmmmm in the non-fiction department. Very well-written book, quite fascinating, but Truman Capote certainly did love to play around with what's real and what's not, and not always in the most honest manner. Lots of massaging events to shape the story. Since he himself was personally embroiled with the people in that book, the whole enterprise is even more dubious. I kind of view it as a progenitor to reality TV, where "reality" is edited and scripted for the most dramatic effect.

I don't read much non-fiction myself, but I finished An Immense World about a month or two ago. That was a good one. Why Fish Don't Exist was also a nice quick little read.

masterbarf posted...

David Lynch is my favorite director, and Mulholland Drive is my favorite movie so allow me to elaborate.

It's a good movie. The fuck I look like, a writer or something?

lol I should really watch it again. I love David Lynch, but I prefer almost all of his movies over Mulholland Drive. Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Inland Empire are probably my favorites. (Well, Twin Peaks: The Return is my true favorite, but that's not a movie.) Which, again, isn't a strike against Mulholland Drive. It's good! But I'm obviously missing whatever it is that has everyone else ranking it so highly.

I've tried it and it was so not my thing that it didn't even seem sexual. Like absolutely zero arousal, with a vibe of "looking at your watch and wondering where you'll get dinner after this," even though no watch-looking was literally involved. I'm down to experiment and try all sorts of things, so I'm glad I have the experience as a point of reference, but definitely not looking to repeat it anytime soon.

I have a regular old bicycle. Never ridden an ebike.

Zithers posted...

Missing 38 overall in the list

I haven't seen 33 overall. Might check out some of the others.

And yeah the love for Mulholland Drive is weird to me. I mean it's a good movie but I don't get why it's now elevated so extremely above Lynch's other stuff. Then again I haven't seen it in over a decade. I might get more out of it nowadays.

Haven't seen 1 or 7 so I have some new movies to watch!

I'm glad Spirited Away is on there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6HPGr6Lsg

Chunky posted...

No I definitely did not lol. But LamarMVPJackson isn't too far off. I do want to start dating people who are above my range (a 5/10 seeking 7/10's and 8/10's). I feel shitty making this into a math problem, and not saying there's official leagues in dating, but lots of people do think this way, and I don't blame them. If you worked hard for your accomplishments, naturally you're going to think you deserve a certain kind of relationship.

Well all I can say is that I've slept with a lot of people, and the "unconventional" ones tend to be more fun, both in bed and in general. At this point I have basically no interest in early-20s Instagram-conscious women whose only hobbies are "tacos and travel." If you expand your dating pool and don't treat it like a math problem, you'll probably have a much better time.

LamarMVPJackson posted...

TC specifically said he is looking to date the highest quality women (10/10, conventionally attractive.)

Did he specifically say that? He used a 10-point ranking system? I must've missed that part.

But I will say that the 20-25 age range in the opening post is not a good sign. Pretty narrow-minded. I had a 23-year-old fuck buddy earlier this year who was far less compatible with me than my current 33-year-old girlfriend. In fact most of my best partners have been late 20s or 30s.

Yeah the alpha male talk is BS. I'm a skinny nerdy guy and I've gotten laid plenty from dating apps over the years. Mostly hookups, which is what I tend to go after. And I don't treat it like a numbers game. I actually read profiles and send real messages.

Yeah I don't really use twitter. If that's "film twitter" then I'm glad I'm not involved!

Well I don't think twitter death threats are anything to look forward to, if that's really in the cards. People take lists like these way too seriously. I mainly use them to find recommendations.

I've seen all ten. I just rewatched Rules of the Game last month, actually, and liked it a lot better this time around.

I wouldn't say I'm hyped for the new list. I didn't even know about it until I saw this thread. But I am interested to see how it'll shake out, and if it brings any new movies to my attention.

This isn't new. He has been saying for years that he wants to make only 10 movies so that his filmography looks pristine (by his own standards) for film history. Like, I wouldn't be surprised if this news is a decade old. He's been saying it for a while.

ROBANN_88 posted...

Star Wars sequels spoiler
Somehow, Palpatine survived

This might be it for me. It's bad for so many reasons. I'm struggling to remember anything else that comes close.

Part of me wonders if he's trying to crash the company on purpose for some nefarious reason. Like he wants to gut it and then use the empty husk as a kind of zombie.

Yeah basically. I'm sure there are some edge cases, but most of the time I've encountered people actually saying stuff like this, it's due to racism.

I used to eat there like once a week back in college. I'd just get the basic combo meal. It was a decent amount of food for the price, and I personally liked it better than Zaxby's which was the other chicken place nearby. But that was well over a decade ago.

I had a perfect file with all the most difficult time trials completed for Crash Bandicoot 3 when I was a teenager, which ended up getting corrupted. So I lost everything. And I learned from that experience that it didn't matter at all. Now I don't stress about trying to get perfect scores in games, just to save them on some irrelevant file that nobody cares about. It was pretty liberating honestly.

The British guy wasn't being a dick. He was just sitting there until he got called out for no reason and insulted by both comedians. The comedian who went on a rant actually had the audacity to question him about his sexual orientation, and then said he "didn't have to be nervous." Then when the guy said he wasn't nervous, basically defending himself and his date and their right to be at the venue, that was somehow the straw that broke the camel's back and made the comedian start insulting him.

Pretty sad and insecure. And also kind of fascinating to see him immediately fall back on stereotypes as "comedy" when he feels cornered. Like yeah, keep insulting the Queen. As if every British person must worship the Queen. Oh, those insults didn't land? Like, at all? What a shocker.

North by Northwest.

James Bond, of course. And by extension, the 1967 Casino Royale!

The Conversation is very famous. Not my style of movie. But maybe worth checking out if you haven't seen it.

Have you never used a dating app before? This thread has a naive "wide-eyed innocence" feeling to it. People drop conversations and flake all the time. Just gotta move on to the next one.

Shabriri posted...

been called inhuman, monster, soulless. all sortsa stuff

I've gotten these sorts of reactions too. It's like people think they're making a joke, but it's not really a joke because, even though they're exaggerating, they're still expressing legit negativity that they feel toward you. And when you hear it over and over again from so many people, it can wear you down and feel extremely alienating.

This is one of the big reasons I never make "jokey" comments like "wow you're soulless if you don't enjoy X movie" or "if you haven't done X then you're not even alive" or whatever.

rivers posted...

oh yeah, the guy in s1m0ne and insomnia

I know this is a joke but these are actually two of the first movies that come to mind for me. I haven't seen a lot of the big ones like Scarface. That said, I still know perfectly well who Al Pacino is.

ZannoL posted...

I just listen to Top 40 stuff on the radio. That's as far as my music "expertise" goes lol.

I don't even really listen to that, so I have no idea what's popular or not. And not even just popular, but what's considered "junk food" music versus "real" music. People can be viciously opinionated about that. Really insulting and demeaning if you can't tell "good" from "bad" music. Which I rarely can do!

Shabriri posted...

That I don't listen to music. profoundly alienating, if i happen to dwell on it at the wrong time

This is a big one for me. Maybe not the biggest, but it's up there. I do listen to some music, but I don't have a very deep understanding or appreciation for it like most other people seem to have. And music comes up constantly in life. I always feel out of my depth in those conversations. Alienating for sure

Pepys_Monster posted...

There's no point in NOT shooting myself in the foot at this point. It's over.

This is the "self-defeating" part that I'm talking about!

Heartomaton posted...

You're thinking about it too much. It's just his shitty gimmick.

People have shitty gimmicks because the gimmicks are doing something for them. If TC hasn't thought about it, then maybe he should. Threads like this make me feel like I'm watching someone constantly shoot themselves in the foot.

That chart just says what's happening. Not why. Why make these threads? What function does it serve to throw a single sentence out onto the board? Is it like a little dopamine hit that feeds the self-defeating cycle, and makes negative thinking feel good in some masochistic way? There never seems to be any real discussion...

What's with all these woe-is-me one-liner threads? Feels like it's just reinforcing a self-defeating negative attitude.

I don't get the bean hate. Beans are good!

I used to love a full English breakfast, black pudding and everything. Now I'm a vegetarian so I'd leave out the meat, but I'd gladly eat everything else, including the beans and tomatoes.

I've had a few partners call me daddy. I'm mostly neutral about it myself. It's not something I've thought about enough to really get where it's coming from, or what it's tapping into. I should probably explore it more. But if you flip it around, I don't think I'd ever call a woman "mommy" in bed.

Feeld

NoxObscuras posted...

Honestly I wish I could avoid having my parents know about my dating life. My mom is so nosy and having her ask a bunch of questions is awkward lol. But she watches my son when I go out, so it's hard for her not to know

I live halfway across the country so my parents only see me once a year, if even that. Pretty easy to keep them out of them loop. But it doesn't feel great. Like I'm basically a stranger to them.

It's gotten worse since a lot of my family has gone down the Trump rabbit hole. My current girlfriend is black and liberal, which my conspiracy-minded white mother would not approve. I can't even imagine us all sitting in the same room without getting into an argument.

I can relate. I never tell my parents about my dating life. Or really anything about my life at all. Major trust issues.

A squid in 5th grade and a frog in 7th.