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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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n815e wrote: I remember parts of that movie made me feel uncomfortable as a child. My dad watched it often and we always saw it with him.
We should discuss movies our dads took us to.
My dad was a cinephile, and he took me to see loads of great movies from the late 70s to the early 90s. At home, he had a projector and bought movies on film. He took us to screenings of old flicks and as a kid I was watching everything from silent movies to the newest releases.
It’s his influence that lead me to appreciate them and collect them, too. My own son loves Abbott and Costello, as well as the Marx Brothers. Although they never met, I think this is a part of my dad living on in my child.
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Shellhead wrote: I have already seen so many memes derived from Mean Girls (2004) that I never felt a strong need to see the actual movie, but I'm glad that I finally did.
That movie is so fetch.
I live with my wife and my daughter and Friday nights are movie night. Usually it's something old, but good. They've finally tired of watching Adam Sandler films thank God. Once each is plenty. But Mean Girls came up a few weeks back and I came away with the same impression as you -- so much of its dialogue has entered into the culture. You don't appreciate that it's the source.
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I saw the 8.4 rating on IMDB and was on board.
It’s also sort of a riff on Frankenstein. I think they had to work to bring this down from NC-17.
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"directed by Yorgos Lanthimos"
That explains everything.
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Cranberries wrote: Our only adult friends invited us to see Poor Things.
I saw the 8.4 rating on IMDB and was on board.
Warning: Spoiler!What followed felt very much like an art film with some pedo vibes as Emma Stone plays an autistic child trapped in a woman’s body who develops sexual urges. Think Peter Seller’s Being There with Emma Stone banging ugly dudes in a brothel for a third of the movie.
It’s also sort of a riff on Frankenstein. I think they had to work to bring this down from NC-17.
Huh, kinda like a reverse of Kirsten Dunst's character in Interview with a Vampire then?
I dig stuff that really tries to explore the relationship our mind has with our physical bodies. Few films even try to grok that without a physical body to hyperventilate, sweat, and be tachycardic the brain in isolation would probably not feel fear in nearly the same way. Or the role hormones and physical response has on lust, etc.
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“One of the things that we had talked about from very early on and I thought was extremely important was that Bella is completely free and without shame about her body,” Stone said. “She doesn’t know to be embarrassed by these things or to cover things up or not dive into the full experience when it comes to anything.” Stone further noted that for the “camera to sort of shy away from that, or to say, ‘OK, well, we’ll just cut all of this out because our society functions in a particular way’…felt like a lack of being honest about who Bella is.”
I just wasn’t planning on an NC-17 movie that evening. Like going to the hot springs and getting ambushed by naked old dudes with their dangly bits.
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