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Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

No Zodiac?

Morrissey replied to the thread Your Top Twenty Shows of All Time (As of 2024).

I made a shortlist today and I forgot how many things I have watched.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

If you met Scorsese is that the movie you would want to talk to him about?

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, April 26,2024).

I always expect the dumbest observation from him and he still manages to amaze me.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

It is beautiful and the best scene Cameron has ever made. Sarah Connor shaking his hand and coming to terms with her earlier trauma, John realizing it has to be done and symbolically transitioning from a child to a man, and the Terminator showing how much he has learned. It is such a fantastic ending to the series, which is a big part of why the sequels never work. Blowing away John Connor in the first two minutes of Dark Fate is like spitting on the films.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

Chris Moltisanti loved it.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

There are a lot of working directors I have seen every film from, but as far as completed filmographies it is probably just Kubrick and Tarkovsky. I have seen every Scorsese but I really need to watch Last Temptation of Christ and Age of Innocence again to see what I did not appreciate the first time.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

Don't give him the satisfaction.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

Schindler's List is probably the first exposure I had to anything involving the Holocaust. I didn't really understand the conflict or anything like that but I knew I had seen something important.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

The fact that you don't know the context of the scene, which is built up over two movies, is so disappointing. It is the scene that all men cry at.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

Schindler's List is one of those movies I just assume every adult has seen. Titanic, The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Shining, The Terminator.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

Missing Schindler's List is mind boggling.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

You aren't missing much.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

It is fun to go to Letterboxd, sort all movies by popularity, and see what you haven't seen. My top four are two Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Coco.

Morrissey replied to the thread Your Top Twenty Shows of All Time (As of 2024).

I mostly agree with this, because you are going to revisit and appreciate the good while the bad will fade away. I think of it a lot with Francis Ford Coppola versus Martin Scorsese. Coppola's four best are better than Scorsese's four best, but then the dropoff is much steeper for Coppola. Who is the better director, then?

Morrissey replied to the thread Your Top Twenty Shows of All Time (As of 2024).

When you rank a show, how much do you factor in the entirety of the show? For example, if you are ranking the Simpsons, how much does it lose that you're really only talking about a quarter of the show?

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

Most of my top ten is unchanged from the last time we did one. I tried to omit films that I might have ranked highly at the time but couldn't remember well.

Morrissey posted a new thread: Your Top Twenty Shows of All Time (As of 2024).

We have done film, now it is TV time. I think I will split my list between comedies and dramas.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

I don't generally rewatch movies unless I am on an airplane or maybe on vacation.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

[IMG] 1 (tie): CONTEMPT AND MASCULIN FEMININ DIRECTED BY: JEAN-LUC GODARD Jean-Luc Godard died recently, and it really emphasized just what a unique presence he had on the film landscape. When you watch somber European arthouse films releasing today, you can see the clear influences of Bergman and Antonioni. Bela Tarr very obviously owes a lot to Andrei Tarkovsky. The big-budget directors all want to be Steven Spielberg, and Paul Thomas Anderson's deliberate and slowly paced filmography has shades of Stanley Kubrick. However, no one ever really captures what Godard was doing in his "cinematic period" from 1960-1968, and it might be impossible to ever recreate ever again. While all of the French New Wave directors were rebelling against the stuffy prestige films of the time, it was Godard who was most questioning what cinema can be, how you can change the defined rules of the medium, and how to play with audience expectations. When he wanted to, he could make a beautiful mainstream drama like CONTEMPT, and after he had proven to the world how great he was, he would begin to infuse his politics and move away from traditional narrative, starting with MASCULIN FEMININ. Godard's cinematic period is almost parallel with Dylan's pre-motorcycle crash career, and the similarities illustrate the changing world of the Sixties. Godard and Dylan both proved themselves to be masters of the form in the early Sixties; Godard making ironic crime capers like some sort of proto-Wes Anderson while Dylan became the leader of the political folk movement, and then both men began to move against their own language, Godard becoming meaner and more openly polemical and Dylan embracing electric elements and moving beyond the protest movement. Throw in John Lennon and you have artistic growth that runs the gamut from the clean and optimistic early part of the decade and the chaos, violence, and conservative pushback of the later part of the decade. Talking about Godard's later films is contentious, as he often seemed to be trying to alienate the people who adored his earlier work, but those fifteen films over a nine period represent perhaps the greatest artistic output in the history of the artform. [IMG] [IMG] Jerry Prokosch: Whenever I hear the word "culture," I bring out my checkbook. Madeleine Zimmer: Give us a TV and a car, but deliver us from liberty. They are both films about relationships, but everything else is radically different. CONTEMPT, made in color despite being the older film, is as mainstream as a Godard film was ever going to be. With an internationally famous model and a significant portion in English, it depicts the pain of falling out of love and the moments that betray trust. While the decisions can appear minor, and we know they are done for career purposes, those betrayals are irreversible, and you cannot even look at that person you used to share a bed with the same way again. Godard's personal history with women is problematic, to say the least, but more than almost any other director he really tried to explore the silent suffering of women of that time period, who were at once expected to become sophisticated modern women while also being expected to shut it down and become a dutiful housewife when the time required it. MASCULIN FEMININ is about young love and the ways so much jealousy and competitiveness will ruin the moment, only for us to realize what we were missing years later. It is about those people who were the first generation born after the war, able to access all the luxuries and benefits of modern society without the pain and trials of the first half of the twentieth century. Today we call them baby boomers and we think of their selfishness in less romantic terms, but they did not realize how much damage they were doing when their biggest concern was getting a date for Saturday. Famously, one of the intertitles claims that we are the children of Marx and Coca-Cola, juxtaposing our idealism and desire for equality with our ultimate selfishness and materialism. Both films end violently, as Godard films often do. Dead characters do not need messy resolutions, after all. This can be used as a criticism of Godard, but it is to illustrate how fleeting these moments and scenarios are. Godard ended up outliving virtually all of his peers, but he was constantly trying to reinvent himself in case he became the sort of stuffy museum piece that he diagnosed when he was a film critic to start his career. We will always be his students.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

Leon really changes the show but Marty Funkhauser was great too.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

Janice from the Sopranos is definitely up there. Livia couldn't realistically show up in a lot of scenarios so Janice is a great foil for Tony. Saul and Mike are the best characters outside of Walt in Breaking Bad. Newman in Seinfeld. Frank Costanza as well. Half of Veep. The Wire is sort of cheating since the show changes focus every scene, but Marlo and Carcetti and Michael and Snoop and so many others are essential to the show. Megan and Ginsburg and Stan add a freshness in Mad Men to match their new modern office. Windom Earle really revives the second season of Twin Peaks when it was really starting to become a chore.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

The tie exists for two reasons: 1. They represent different flavors from the same director. 2. When I got to the top ten I realized I forgot a movie.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

The Flintstones is one of two movies my mother made us walk out of as a kid. It was on TV when I was at a bar in 2019 with no sound on and Moranis never felt like Barney.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

I have learned about a Bert Kreischer and he makes me not want to watch any stand up.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

There is a tie at number one tomorrow.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

Someone will have to bring back the tinychat days.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

I met @scott at a dive bar about eight or nine years ago. I don't think we talked about movies at all.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

I only really drink on special occasions now because I am a bad sleeper and I don't need anything else messing it up. On my vacation last night I mostly stuck to vodka and cranberry juice. When I was younger it was Long Island Iced Teas.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

Isn't that area crushingly depressing? People like to joke about Florida but we can go swimming in January.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

That is definitely where I got the idea from. I tried to be a White Russian drinker from The Big Lebowski, but you can't really drink more than one of those without getting sick, and then I tried being a mojito drinker because of Miami Vice but they are disgusting.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

I have not had a beer since 2008 but I will have an appletini once in a while.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

Where do you live?

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).

TV list starts Friday.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

There are only so many hours in a day.