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I'll guess Gangster No. 1

alright sent, whatever I forgot to say I'm sure I'll mention as the rankings are revealed

I'm cranking out the last few right now, just a slow-ass writer here let's gooo

Taking my sweet time on these last few writeups, I'll finish this later tonight

Working on the writeups now, I can already tell I'm gonna have a hard time finalizing the ranking

On the last four now, with Irishman a rewatch.

I also enjoyed through these chronologically, really got a sense of how the genre has evolved in conversation with itself.

Dang, I just rewatched that one too. Should have waited!

There Will Be Blood
A Serious Man
Mulholland Drive
The Dark Knight
The Departed
Fellowship of the Ring
Cast Away
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Bronson

There's 8 left I haven't seen so I should be able to finish, just not sure if I can get to an honest rewatch of all the ~3 hour entries I've seen before. I forgot how long a lot of these are!

Bump, just getting through these slowly

I was surprised how much I enjoyed Resurrections, maybe my second favorite of the bunch

With RLM I get the sense the main guy only sounds insightful/knowledgeable as long as he's going after low-hanging fruit. I used to enjoy the Plinkett reviews back in the day but on revisiting them I found them needlessly nitpicky, like in one of the Star Trek movies he spends five minutes harping on Picard mishandling a prop because it contradicts the precedent set in Season 5 Episode 13 or w/e for how that prop was handled, and just stuff where you'd have to be scanning for things to complain about. And it only tracks because the movies are already easy targets

I like it more when Jay brings a guest on to do something like Eraserhead and they can both be enthusiastic about it

Nah, the situations in which I'm compelled to wear it are getting rarer. But it's certainly been a thing for longer than I expected already.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Oh hey it's the same guy that did the Bahuubali movies, which are also worth checking out if you're into this style

LMS is going to crater this topic as long as people take him seriously

fortunately no but I got pretty sick of zoom

For me it just comes down to what Jakyl said yesterday -

At least make me believe that if Joe Biden had a magic wand to federally legalize abortion that he would actually use it.

this kind of thing at least suspends disbelief a little

I'm already watching r/politics pivot from "Biden can't try anything" to "that doesn't do anything!". Maybe it doesn't, but I swear these people will reject even the pretense of effort

AxemRedRanger posted...

IIRC there's something about Japan where only a medical examiner or something can officially pronounce someone dead so until that happens they often use euphemisms that basically amount to the same thing.

"He's uhhh...dead tired"

Ah yeah I don't know what's cooking on the other lists, I was just surprised nothing from the 50's made it here

Checked out The Public Enemy and Cagney lives up to the hype! Really dials in the template for so many gangsters of the genre, felt like there were hints of Liotta and DiCaprio in there. I'm guessing Scorsese was a fan

Yeah Strange New Worlds is my favorite of the new series, and I gotta give credit to Disco for test-running that crew in S2. I don't know if we'd get the full spinoff if they didn't set up Captain Pike so well. His show's been knocking it out of the park so far.

Picard is an incomprehensible mess at this point, unfortunately.

Lower Decks is okay, feels like Family Guy but the cutaway gags are all Trek references which is both lovably dorky and exhaustingly navel-gazey

Prodigy is surprisingly good for being aimed at the youngest demo. I grew up watching Reboot, this show's animation blew my inner child's mind

It's a mixed bag but I think the good outweighs the bad. It has a hard time sticking the landing on the season-long arcs, that's the main flaw for me. The cast is talented enough to keep me invested and, while superficial, I think the high production value is refreshing for a franchise that had looked pretty hokey before this series

Feels light on the noir era!

If I do this I might have to make some room for honorable mentions

BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

I have never heard someone compare philosophy to economics before, and I have no idea what you're talking about.

lol take some econ courses yourself my guy

KamikazePotato posted...

There are very few charismatic candidates on either side right now. Dems have Bernie, and maaaaybe AOC. GOP has Trump. That's about it. Biden is probably in the Top 5 right now and that's kind of sad. Desantis might become President or whatever but it definitely won't be because he's charismatic.

I watched Obama come onto the scene with his famous 2004 DNC speech, feels like the Dems have nothing close to that level of charisma right now. The old boys are past their time and AOC isn't even old enough to run until '28*, if you consider her charismatic.

Remember when Howard Dean's campaign imploded because he got excited and went BYEAHH that one time? Dems could probably use some BYEAHH energy nowadays

*I guess she technically turns 35 a month before the next election, but does anyone think she'll try this time?

Other than Trump and Arnie how many Republican politicians do you think could entertainingly host The Apprentice

I never played this game but I've covered "No More What Ifs" with a band once, that's a nice tune

SwiftyDC posted...

Yup! In fact, this movie has the best opening scene ever for a sequel.

I was so stoked that they hit it right away. Well played, movie

This felt so keyed on Star Wars (use the force, Rooster!), which itself was obviously inspired by the dogfights of the World Wars so it's only fair for Top Gun to put its stamp on the trench run. It works really well, it's intense. I don't even think the first movie is that solid but this one nailed it

^ damn, do they still use Kenny Loggins at least? I gotta check this out tomorrow

StartTheMachine posted...

just got done talking with my right wing family members about this and of course they bring up all the Fox News talking points like fucking doors being the real problem and that there's nothing that can be done

The line I'm hearing is that we spend too much on foreign aid when we should be spending it securing all our schools with armed guards, as many as it takes. Naturally, the solution in the 2A mindset involves increasing firepower. I think Elon Musk could float Robocop as the answer right now and some people would go for it

Why are we saying Nic Cage sucks, is it just that he's bad with money?

Sports. I can always watch sports movies, but I can't watch movie sports

People do use the terms rap and hip-hop interchangeably nowadays but originally the idea was that rap was a subset of hip-hop, along with DJing, tagging, and breaking. Rap was the storytelling, hip-hop was the whole culture

This movie was everything Nicole Kidman promised in that AMC ad

Phantom barely, I still have a soft spot for the podracing bs

I will give AotC credit for the soundtrack though. Across the Stars is one of the best themes in the franchise

Damn this board gets dramatic sometimes. Let's have a group hug y'all, come here and hug it out

red sox 777 posted...

Yes, Republicans also live on this planet. But people have to be nice. You need to convince ordinary Republicans, not the politicians.

every time you talk to an ordinary republican about the environment another bicyclist gets coal-rolled

well hold on now, it's Doctor Strange in the MOM

MoogleKupo141 posted...

did you all know that the genre of music the Max Rebo Band plays is called jizz

that's actually based in reality, "jazz" is old slang for jism

shit I was on my own renting at 19, now I'm 33 and living at my mom's place

I hate to say it but when one parent passes away it makes it easier to go back

Yeah that was a really cool comeback role for a child actor. I knew he seemed familiar but I couldn't place it, never would have made the connection to Goonies/Temple of Doom.

This movie hit all the right notes and then some, great theater experience not so much for the size of the screen but the catharsis of sharing a happy cry with a bunch of strangers. Thanks for the recommendation!

Big Bob posted...

There are international rich jerks, too, but I doubt they're known enough on Board 8 to include

Well, does Vladimir Putin count?

twitter may cost 50 billion but the boomer memes are priceless

Hey may be more replaceable than Stewart but his career certainly hasn't slowed down. Of course, if Jon never walked away from television I think it'd be a different story.

Stoked, this show was my after-school jam as a kid

Best: The Climb
Worst: Mother's Mercy

I loved Swiss Army Man and of course the "Turn Down For What" music video so I'm gonna have to check this out

What's up with Wyoming? That state keeps such a low profile, I virtually never hear about it and idk if that's a good sign or a bad sign

Mos Eisley specifically feels very spaghetti western and Flash Gordon is an actual space western influence, but Star Wars blends a lot of influences. It's in there but not consistently