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Is there any horror movie from 21st century that’s better and scarier than Obsession?

For me, personally, it’s a perfect film. It is extremely fun and rewatchable, the acting performances are on top (especially Steve Buscemi, absolutely loved him in this), the cinematography is insane (the car park scene, wow!), the dialogue is sharp, the humor is top notch (and it gets funnier every time I watch it) and the story just unfolds in the most insane ways, without it feeling artificial. I love how unprofessional, pathetic and idiotic Steve Buscemi’s character is. Also, the Brainerd murders scene is perhaps the finest sequence the Coens ever did. It’s just so intense, adrenaline filled and constantly escalating. Marge (Frances McDormand’s character) is obviously the heart and soul of the film and she absolutely deserved that Oscar. Overall, this film grew on me over time, I absolutely love it and it’s probably my favorite Coens Brothers’ film.

I watched Wasteman last night, which had a very limited theater release, and I was throughly impressed

I organized an AMA/Q&A with Johnnie Burn, Oscar-winning sound designer, editor, mixer, and supervisor. He's known for his work on The Zone of Interest (which he won the Oscar for), Hamnet, Poor Things, Under the Skin, Bugonia, Nope, The Favourite, The Lobster, Waves, 28 Years Later, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and tons more. He's probably the world's best working sound designer.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1tjiitz/hi_rmovies_im_johnnie_burn_oscarwinning_sound/

He will be back at 3 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

His new movie, Tuner, is out in theaters everywhere next week, starring Leo Woodall, Havana Rose Liu, and Dustin Hoffman, directed by Oscar-winner Daniel Roher.

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/rdlOZhl-nSA?si=fl-EMvv72dK-vdFS

Synopsis:

With his once-promising musical career over, he works across New York with his mentor Harry Horowitz (Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman), encountering a range of characters, including composition student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), with whom he forges an unexpected connection. Niki’s safecracking work threatens his budding romance with Ruthie and pulls him into increasingly dangerous territory. Blending romance, drama, and the taut suspense of a heist thriller, Tuner also features performances from Tony Award®-winner Tovah Feldshuh, Lior Raz, with Jean Reno.

Thank you :)

*particular :(

fatal attraction was phenomenal, both the message it delivered and the acting

Welcher der beiden Filme ist euer Favorit ?

Ich halte beide für Meisterwerke.
Kennt ihr ähnliche Filme?

cool easter egg

People keep calling The Bride! “Joker coded” or a ripoff of Joker: Folie à Deux, and it’s driving me insane, because the movie is pulling from a completely different tradition. If anything, it’s way closer to Frankenstein movies and The Man Who Laughs (1928) than it is to anything Todd Phillips is doing.

The obvious thing: The Man Who Laughs (1928) is based on Victor Hugo’s novel(yeah, the same guy who wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame), and that film is what directly inspired the Joker’s face in the first place. Conrad Veidt’s carved grin becomes the visual template that the comics basically took and turned into a completely different kind of monster.(see picture)

What The Bride! is doing with Frank feels way more in line with Hugo/Shelley/German expressionism than with Folie à Deux’s whole “jukebox musical of shared delusion” thing. Frank and Gwynplaine are both made into monsters by other people and then forced to live inside a body that exists for other people’s entertainment or control. Both have to cover or manage their faces/identities just to move through the world without being treated as a threat or a spectacle. (Down to the scarf/handkerchief thing, which feels like a deliberate echo.)

Christian Bale’s Frank has some Karloff Frankenstein “misunderstood outcast” energy, but the loneliness and the very physical, awkward sadness of him reminded me a lot of Veidt too. It feels very German Expressionist: the distorted body as a mirror of a distorted world.Meanwhile, Joker: Folie à Deux is a New Hollywood inspired comic book musical about shared psychosis, abusive fantasy, staged musical numbers inside Arthur’s head. Whatever you think of it, its whole project is about turning Joker and Harley into this toxic, jukebox musical nightmare.

The Bride! isn’t interested in making a “cool villain origin” or a “broken couple we stan.” It’s more of a tragic monster story about bodies that have been used up, mutilated, stitched together, and then expected to perform romance and revolution for other people. Frank is not giving Arthur Fleck with scars vibe at all. He is someone who knows he was built as a thing and is still desperate for an actual life.

So yeah, The Bride! isn’t trying to chase Joker at all. The film lives in that sad, literary monster space (Mary Shelley’s creature, Victor Hugo’s Gwynplaine, Karloff’s misunderstood brute, Veidt’s mutilated performer). Frank and the Bride feel like a pair of walking wounds who are finally, maybe, allowed to want something for themselves.

I know most of these are kinda generic. I have 199 movies logged on Letterboxd so far (obviously I have watched more before I started using the app) and I was wondering if there were any movies you'd recommend

Movie characters that could not only compete in Survivor, but characters that could make to Final Tribal Council and win it all.

Personally, I love The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo and Stitch more because of how different they felt compared to the Disney films from the decade before and after.

In the case of The Emperor's New Groove, I love it for the fact that it's not afraid to be zany, lighthearted and hilarious. In the case of Lilo and Stitch, I appreciate how it can get very deep in terms of its writing.

But I would like to know your insight on these three films and which one do you love the best?

I just watched Mother Mary and I’m still trying to work out exactly where I landed on it. I gave it 3.5 because there are flashes here that are honestly incredible, especially the opening, the score, the song-performance structure, the surreal flashbacks, Anne Hathaway’s performance and the chemistry with Michaela Coel.

The parts that fully lean into the pop psychodrama are easily the strongest. At its best it feels like a more emotionally sincere sibling of The Neon Demon with some Black Swan theatricality thrown in.

But I also found it frustrating because it keeps stepping away from the version of itself I liked most. The balance felt slightly off. I still admire the swing massively, absolutely the kind of A24 film I can see splitting people hard.

For anyone else who’s seen it: did it fully land for you? Did the melodrama work better than it did for me, or were you also waiting for it to return to that opening-five-minutes energy?

P.s “My Mouth Is Lonely For You” is an absolute raging banger of a tune.

The Dark Knight (2008)
For me, it's Nolan's masterpiece. The pacing, Heath Ledger's performance, and the score are flawless every single time. What about you guys?

I compiled my Top 10 favorite movie scenes of all time:

1 - Shutter Island - Ending Scene
2 - Zodiac - Basement Scene
3 - The Thing - “The Blood Test”
4 - The Dark Knight - Opening Heist
5 - 1917 - “Battlefield Run”
6 - Cure - “What’s That?”
7 - Good Will Hunting - “It’s not your fault”
8 - Ex Machina - Ava betrays Caleb
9 - Dune: Part 2 - “Riding the Sandworms”
10 - Pulse - Dancing Ghost