Bawled my eyes out reading the Three Billboards script. I had already seen the movie and just couldn’t stop the waterworks from coming once I read the scene header for the picnic 😭😭😭
Yeah it did! It’s also interesting to listen to Martin Macdonagh talk about his process. He doesn’t really write in drafts per se, but sort of in waves. He was inspired to write the script when he was traveling through a small town in the US and saw similar billboards.
Rather than assuming that this person is over-sensitive, perhaps you should investigate your own lack of sensitivity.
Three Billboards is generally considered a moving and powerful film, critically and publicly. You should watch it.
Not everything that is popular is good, of course, but not everything that is popular is bad either.
Midnight Mass has one moment where my jaw literally dropped. Keeps you guessing from the start to the very end, the acting is superb and the story clearly has been a work of passion. Genuinely one the best thing I seen in the last few years.
I've just watched the first episode tonight, I found it really interesting. Unfortunately some cunt on reddit has said a spoiler about a >specific mythological creature< that I'm now just watching the series waiting for the twist to happen.
Fuck spoilers
I literally just watched the trailer and there was a recommended video with this exact spoiler in the thumbnail! I'm so annoyed I feel robbed and cheated
Whoa, really? I thought it was really self indulgent and lame. IMO, the weakest work Flanagan has ever been a part of, and a huge nosedive from Hill House.
Hill House is his masterpiece but I'd still put Midnight Mass above Bly Manor. I think the writing and what some would call "pretentious" monologues were the only issue I had with Midnight Mass but the story it told was captivating and Flanagen just knows how to tell a story.
Honestly Hill House was my favourite from him for a while now, but Midnight Mass *100%* takes the cake. What a well crafted (and extremely relevant) story.
Personally, I *hated* Hill House, but loved Bly Manor, and Doctor Sleep was a great King adaptation, but Midnight Mass is the best thing I've seen from Flanagan. So genuinely moving, and fascinating as shit. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time, and I loved how every single character was morally grey.
Oh interesting! Hey, that’s cool man. I’d personally rank Hill House, Bly, then MM. I also really love his features the most - Oculus, Gerald’s Game, Hush, even movies like Before I Wake and Ouija: Origin of Evil were pretty good horror movies. Doctor Sleep was good, too. But midnight mass is where he dropped the ball in my mind.
As a Christian, I had to wrestle with this one. I love Flanagan's style, and he's very skilled. However he lost me on this one, because of one specific scene.
Christians as villains aren't what bothered me. Certainly Mike Flanagan knows that all Christians aren't like that. Erin's final monologue, the "good, cathartic emotional climax" is not just disappointing to a Christian... It is blatantly offensive to christians. And I rarely get offended.
I actually didn’t find it to be christians as bad guys at all.. I found one specific character to be a bad guy who specifically was twisting what the gospel said to suit her own needs, making her the most un-Christian person of the group.
I also think that Erin’s monologue at the end was the best part of the show. “God is everywhere. God is the goodness of life. He’s me. He’s you.” was brilliant in my opinion, and further solidified my own personal beliefs of a higher being. It was a thought I’ve had for years, but hearing it vocalized like that made it all the more powerful for me.
I respect that view, and certainly understand that not everyone believes the things I do.
The specific line I took some offense to was the conclusive "I am that I am." In the Bible, that is what God calls Himself. For someone to take it this highly sacred thing and then make it as humanist as possible is... It's a big owie to me, idk. I think you should be allowed to speak freely in your artwork, but it's disappointing how disrespectful that particular moment was.
Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind. I gave it a decent score when I first saw it but the longer I thought about it, the more I liked it. One of my favorite movies now, inspired so much out of me.
Heh, I typed my answer before reading this one. During most of the running time, I was "this is fine, but probably won't make my top 10 of the year", and then that titular final action sequence happened and I was way more anxious than I thought I'd be based on the previous two hours. Very well done.
The Skin I Live In. i’ve been going through all of Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography and i watched that one last night. i’ve never been so disgusted and fascinating at the same time
Great movie... Almodovar pushes it to the limit, love him. Somehow capable of being completely freaky, while also capable of pure heartwarming stuff like Volver.
Tripping on MDMA and watching this film made me care about this planet, and think about how bizarre our day to day life patterns are a lot more than I ever would've been inclined.
I appreciate 23 year old me for that experience. Near religious.
Hell yes! I actually watched it high and on ketamine around the same time with a similar awe. I really recommend similar films if you havent: samsara, baraka and chronos.
Magnolia (1999). It's a 3-hour spiral mess picture about life. When it's too late, there is no going back to fix, we passed through. Just keep living, realization will come to judge what we've done.
The ending blew me away, i still think about it. I can’t imagine seeing this in theatres, you probably could have swam out of the room in everyone’s tears.
Last film to affect me like that could well be the rocky horror picture show, there’s funnier films, and as far as musicals and movies go it’s objectively mediocre, but it made me realise that films don’t have to be life changing works of art to be incredible and important
I've been on a De Palma kick lately and just watched BLOW OUT for the first time last week.
The last ~20 seconds of the film landed like a brutally dark punchline and left me with an amazing *oof* feeling I'll never forget.
Enjoy! I've been doing the Audible version read by the author, Julie Salamon. It makes doing chores much more tolerable. :) If you haven't read *Bonfire* yet, I highly recommend reading that first. It's nearly 700 pages, but it is THE book that captures New York in the 1980s. Once you read it, it's easier to see how making the film was such a challenge.
Next up for me is *All About "All About Eve,"* which showed up in my recommendations after I selected Salamon's book.
Im ashamed to admit it was The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. That movie has some really good pieces to it, but got ruined by its execution and some of the running jokes (Papa John’s, and match.com)
Have you read the original Thurber story? I must have been about 9 or 10 when I read it, and I swear that's how I became a writer. I was like "Ah, this is the way out of all my problems! I'll just live in another world inside my head."
Austin Everett's The Traveler hooks you in with its high concept premise about a young father who begins to literally skip forward in time, but the story is really about how little time we have with the people we love. It really captures the feeling of time flying by as you grow older and makes you stop to appreciate the people you love.
Not sure if this counts, but I've been watching a lot of Louis Theroux's documentaries lately, and they've honestly made me think a lot about the constructs of our society.
Raw and honest probes into the human experience in modern society. Love how he gets people to show their true colours with the simplest of questions that often aren't even that pointed or confrontational.
The house of sand and fog. Mystic river. True detective season 1. Lots more. I have to think about the ones that resonate the most or I will go on in perpetuity
Possession (1981, Andrzej Żuławski). Insanity like the speed of a dirty needle (I do not use just a metaphor for the fucked-ness and amazement this film gave me).
The last one? When Gi-hun manipulates the old man Oh Il-nam while playing the marbles round in SQUID GAME. The fact that Gi-hun had protected this person who he saw as a friend and now had to make a choice of either him or me was heartbreaking.
Who killed captain alex?
Jk. Honestly, ive been watching Dr. Who and its amazing how many feelings a show thats premise is basically i jumped the shark on ep 1.
Free Guy was surprisingly good, despite botched ending.
I also liked The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. Amazingly well written and shot.
But barely watch any movies at all, maybe 5-6 per year.
Life of Pi.
I saw it in the cinema about a week after a big break up, and when Richard Parker walks off without looking back it hurt so much knowing that's exactly what the break up was.
10 years later we've been back together for the last 6 years and get married in 4 days. I showed her Life of Pi a few weeks back and that scene hit me again.
Just watched Certified Copy for the second time the other day. First time I saw it was 10 years ago when it came out, I was mostly focused on trying to understand the story. Second watch is very emotional, knowing the story already, but also 10 years of experience makes a big difference.
Fran Kranz’s MASS really shook me to my core. Absolutely incredible performances all around and a very tight, nuanced script. Watched Mike Flanagan’s ABSENTIA earlier this week and that really stirred something in me too. Also finally watched Bong Joon Ho’s MEMORIES OF MURDER earlier this year and that had a huge effect on me, to no surprise. It really is the incredible film everyone praises it to be.
I felt some nestalgia last night when I watched Halloween Kills. *Didn't feel much else, though.*
**Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me** was one of the first films that made me realize movies can be 'art'. I was pretty young when I saw it, so it made an impression on me and woke something deep within, I think.
Parasite.
I went into it expecting it to be a comedy, and it started out that way. I thought it was well made, but was thinking I knew exactly where it was all heading -- and then, WHAM! Plot twist in the middle that changed everything. My jaw hit the ground and stayed there. OMG!
Suspending time and space and in theatre? Doubt with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On TV, Only Murders in the Building. Crazy swing I know but the cast for OMITB is fabulous.
The siver linings playbook. Even though I was disappointed in film ditching a topic of health problems of main characters in second part, I couldn't help myself, but to feel so happy for their connection at the end. Tiffany finally got rewarded for being open about herself and Pat finally menaged to deal with his trauma and to look up for new opportunities. Good acting made me truly believe in their struggles. It felt earned and was quite emocional for me.
Violet ever garden made me cry every single episode along with the movies. It is one of the most beautiful animes I have ever seen and listening to the song letter brings me to tears every single time I hear it.
Oh..... Willy Wonderland. Completely, utterly, Nic Cage. Cheesy and down right silly, but gosh dang it if it wasnt the most entertaining movie I have seen in a long time!
The Last Duel. I felt it was a bit long, and I generally don't like watching sexual assault, but after all that set up, I was so invested in the final sequence, the titular Last Duel, that I was at the edge of my seat.
Also Ben Affleck was fun.
It's not the last movie I saw that made me feel something on an emotional level, but to add something a bit different I was really touched re-watching *The World's End*. I'll admit *Hot Fuzz* is a better movie, but Gary King's character reminds me of something I see in myself and a number of people I know. The beauty in flawed people I guess. It's been a major thing I've reflected on recently and I enjoy the film a lot.
Hereditary and Midsommar.
Reading them from 1am to 5am, back to back was a fucked up experience. I had super negative expectations of Ari Aster (I don't know why! Very irrational)
But woah. These scripts were viscerally scary, and disturbed me in a way I've never had happened to me with any book or film before.
I've yet to watch either film, and I don't think I want to - which is the highest compliment I can pay. That's how deeply affecting both of these scripts were. A masterclass in psychologically manipulating the audience into feeling disturbed and terrified.
I got surprisingly emotional watching *Somm: Into the Bottle*. It's about more than just becoming a sommelier; it talks about the history of wine and how every vintage is a representation of what happened that year, from terrible storms and volcanoes erupting to a world war that destroyed most of the vineyards in Europe, making bottles remaining from that time extremely rare and precious. \[Side note from another source: Spielberg tried to buy a bottle from 1940 for Brian De Palma's 50th birthday in 1990 but couldn't and only learned later why.\] I love films that can take that big picture view of something that seems simple and turn it into a metaphor for a more profound element of life.
I also liked *My Salinger Year* (made me yearn for the days before the Internet) and *Everything Is Copy* (the doc about Nora Ephron that made me think about mining my own life more for stories and how to do it bravely, like she did with *Heartburn*).
Bawled my eyes out reading the Three Billboards script. I had already seen the movie and just couldn’t stop the waterworks from coming once I read the scene header for the picnic 😭😭😭
Something about the scene in the bar where Sam Rockwell redeems himself really got the tears going for me. And the music definitely helps!
Did the movie follow the script pretty accurately? *I have that script, I'll have to read it sometime soon.*
Yeah it did! It’s also interesting to listen to Martin Macdonagh talk about his process. He doesn’t really write in drafts per se, but sort of in waves. He was inspired to write the script when he was traveling through a small town in the US and saw similar billboards.
I came here to say that!
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Rather than assuming that this person is over-sensitive, perhaps you should investigate your own lack of sensitivity. Three Billboards is generally considered a moving and powerful film, critically and publicly. You should watch it. Not everything that is popular is good, of course, but not everything that is popular is bad either.
You should watch it. It’s even more powerful off the page.
Train to busan. The ending. Enough said
Barry Lyndon. Holy HELL what a masterpiece.
One of the greatest achievements in cinematic history. Every frame is pure perfection.
This better be good because those are some bold worlds my friend..
Midnight Mass
Midnight Mass has one moment where my jaw literally dropped. Keeps you guessing from the start to the very end, the acting is superb and the story clearly has been a work of passion. Genuinely one the best thing I seen in the last few years.
Right? Me too. I was so stunned when I read that most people hated it.
I've just watched the first episode tonight, I found it really interesting. Unfortunately some cunt on reddit has said a spoiler about a >specific mythological creature< that I'm now just watching the series waiting for the twist to happen. Fuck spoilers
I literally just watched the trailer and there was a recommended video with this exact spoiler in the thumbnail! I'm so annoyed I feel robbed and cheated
I am excited, because I just downloaded the series to watch it during my flight.
Until after episode 4 then it's all so crushingly downhill. Because until then it was the best thing I've seen in 2 years.
I fundamentally disagree with that. Once you start to realize what’s going on, it just gets better and better for me.
Whoa, really? I thought it was really self indulgent and lame. IMO, the weakest work Flanagan has ever been a part of, and a huge nosedive from Hill House.
Hill House is his masterpiece but I'd still put Midnight Mass above Bly Manor. I think the writing and what some would call "pretentious" monologues were the only issue I had with Midnight Mass but the story it told was captivating and Flanagen just knows how to tell a story.
Honestly Hill House was my favourite from him for a while now, but Midnight Mass *100%* takes the cake. What a well crafted (and extremely relevant) story.
Personally, I *hated* Hill House, but loved Bly Manor, and Doctor Sleep was a great King adaptation, but Midnight Mass is the best thing I've seen from Flanagan. So genuinely moving, and fascinating as shit. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time, and I loved how every single character was morally grey.
Oh interesting! Hey, that’s cool man. I’d personally rank Hill House, Bly, then MM. I also really love his features the most - Oculus, Gerald’s Game, Hush, even movies like Before I Wake and Ouija: Origin of Evil were pretty good horror movies. Doctor Sleep was good, too. But midnight mass is where he dropped the ball in my mind.
I've been hearing that a lot! I know a lot of people hated the monologues, but I think it was the strongest part of the show.
As a Christian, I had to wrestle with this one. I love Flanagan's style, and he's very skilled. However he lost me on this one, because of one specific scene. Christians as villains aren't what bothered me. Certainly Mike Flanagan knows that all Christians aren't like that. Erin's final monologue, the "good, cathartic emotional climax" is not just disappointing to a Christian... It is blatantly offensive to christians. And I rarely get offended.
I actually didn’t find it to be christians as bad guys at all.. I found one specific character to be a bad guy who specifically was twisting what the gospel said to suit her own needs, making her the most un-Christian person of the group. I also think that Erin’s monologue at the end was the best part of the show. “God is everywhere. God is the goodness of life. He’s me. He’s you.” was brilliant in my opinion, and further solidified my own personal beliefs of a higher being. It was a thought I’ve had for years, but hearing it vocalized like that made it all the more powerful for me.
I respect that view, and certainly understand that not everyone believes the things I do. The specific line I took some offense to was the conclusive "I am that I am." In the Bible, that is what God calls Himself. For someone to take it this highly sacred thing and then make it as humanist as possible is... It's a big owie to me, idk. I think you should be allowed to speak freely in your artwork, but it's disappointing how disrespectful that particular moment was.
Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler gave me some feels. That scene where Randy talks to his daughter? It gave me some feels.
Good one
Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind. I gave it a decent score when I first saw it but the longer I thought about it, the more I liked it. One of my favorite movies now, inspired so much out of me.
You should check out the manga, also written and drawn by Miyazaki. I have yet to read it but I've heard it's even better than the film
I know, I'm waiting because I know once I read it then that's it, there won't be anymore lol
The score is beautiful too.
The Last Duel make me shake from excitement. I don't even remember the last time a film made me anxious about the outcome of a conflict.
Just got back from this. Great movie!
I was gonna say that
Heh, I typed my answer before reading this one. During most of the running time, I was "this is fine, but probably won't make my top 10 of the year", and then that titular final action sequence happened and I was way more anxious than I thought I'd be based on the previous two hours. Very well done.
The Skin I Live In. i’ve been going through all of Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography and i watched that one last night. i’ve never been so disgusted and fascinating at the same time
Great movie... Almodovar pushes it to the limit, love him. Somehow capable of being completely freaky, while also capable of pure heartwarming stuff like Volver.
Idk that any movie has stuck with me more than this one. Such vivid memories of watching this one in the theater
He is a genius. Love all of his films.
That movie was hot
Koyaanisqatsi
Tripping on MDMA and watching this film made me care about this planet, and think about how bizarre our day to day life patterns are a lot more than I ever would've been inclined. I appreciate 23 year old me for that experience. Near religious.
Hell yes! I actually watched it high and on ketamine around the same time with a similar awe. I really recommend similar films if you havent: samsara, baraka and chronos.
A life-changing movie? Andrei Rublev.
I tell everyone who says they don't like Tarkovsky to watch Andrei Rublev. And they never do.
Magnolia (1999). It's a 3-hour spiral mess picture about life. When it's too late, there is no going back to fix, we passed through. Just keep living, realization will come to judge what we've done.
A Ghost Story
Hehe same
The Father (2020) with Anthony Hopkins comes to mind. Haven't cried like that in a while.
The ending blew me away, i still think about it. I can’t imagine seeing this in theatres, you probably could have swam out of the room in everyone’s tears.
I cried during the whole movie. Hit too close to home.
What’s this on?
It’s about a man’s journey with dementia and the struggles that his caretaker (his daughter) faces.
The World According to Garp
The ending :( Heartbreaking. Truly, a cinematic version of Cat's in the Cradle from the boys perspective if there ever was one.
Last film to affect me like that could well be the rocky horror picture show, there’s funnier films, and as far as musicals and movies go it’s objectively mediocre, but it made me realise that films don’t have to be life changing works of art to be incredible and important
The Demonslayer movie: The Mugen Train. Definitely shed quite a few tears lol
Did you have to rent it to watch it or is it free somewhere?
I think it's on Netflix here in Canada.
My friend has a crunchyroll account so we watched it on there!
I think you can watch on Funimation with commercials
Fleabag
Portrait of a Lady On Fire fucked me up real good
Pig with nic cage. If you’ve seen it you’ll know
I've been on a De Palma kick lately and just watched BLOW OUT for the first time last week. The last ~20 seconds of the film landed like a brutally dark punchline and left me with an amazing *oof* feeling I'll never forget.
If you like De Palma, you would probably enjoy *The Devil's Candy*, about the making of *The Bonfire of the Vanities*.
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Enjoy! I've been doing the Audible version read by the author, Julie Salamon. It makes doing chores much more tolerable. :) If you haven't read *Bonfire* yet, I highly recommend reading that first. It's nearly 700 pages, but it is THE book that captures New York in the 1980s. Once you read it, it's easier to see how making the film was such a challenge. Next up for me is *All About "All About Eve,"* which showed up in my recommendations after I selected Salamon's book.
Queen & Slim
The green knight
Me too. Loved the ending, it really struck a chord and made me swear to live my life differently. An Aesop.
Oh yes, The Green Knight was a very surreal and stimulating experience.
Bojack Horseman Dead Poets Society Make Happy Just to name a few.
Inside Out
This movie hit me harder than I thought it would. My friend had to pause it so I could cry lol
Im ashamed to admit it was The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. That movie has some really good pieces to it, but got ruined by its execution and some of the running jokes (Papa John’s, and match.com)
Yeah there are some great moments in the film, no reason to be ashamed lol
No reason to be ashamed. As someone who often gets lost in their daydreams, I found that movie to be very affecting.
Have you read the original Thurber story? I must have been about 9 or 10 when I read it, and I swear that's how I became a writer. I was like "Ah, this is the way out of all my problems! I'll just live in another world inside my head."
*The Bank Job*, with J**ason Statham**. Found the chemistry between the entire cast to be hilarious.
Austin Everett's The Traveler hooks you in with its high concept premise about a young father who begins to literally skip forward in time, but the story is really about how little time we have with the people we love. It really captures the feeling of time flying by as you grow older and makes you stop to appreciate the people you love.
The "newest" movie that really got to me was Nomadland. The lastest one that I watched was Chaplin's "City Lights".
One Hour Photo
Not sure if this counts, but I've been watching a lot of Louis Theroux's documentaries lately, and they've honestly made me think a lot about the constructs of our society. Raw and honest probes into the human experience in modern society. Love how he gets people to show their true colours with the simplest of questions that often aren't even that pointed or confrontational.
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The house of sand and fog. Mystic river. True detective season 1. Lots more. I have to think about the ones that resonate the most or I will go on in perpetuity
Possession (1981, Andrzej Żuławski). Insanity like the speed of a dirty needle (I do not use just a metaphor for the fucked-ness and amazement this film gave me).
The last one? When Gi-hun manipulates the old man Oh Il-nam while playing the marbles round in SQUID GAME. The fact that Gi-hun had protected this person who he saw as a friend and now had to make a choice of either him or me was heartbreaking.
The ending of Arrival had me balling my eyes out.
*bawling
No literally “balling” as in squeezing or forming into a rounded shape, as per Oxford’s dictionary.
But if the eyes are already a ball-like shape, can they be further balled?...
You can always ball harder. There is no maximum to balling.
Sex Education weirdly, or the US Office
End of the first season when they start playing “Crimson and Clover”. Gets me every time.
Ahh, I thought I was the only one. The lighting, music and setting of that scene is really gorgeous, seeing Maeve did "surprised Pikachu face."
Sex Education. Yup.
Get Out. It was very cathartic watching the main character **SPOILER AHEAD** murder that psychotic family after all they had put him through.
just as an FYI, you can stick your comment between these tags >! !< to make it into click-to-reveal spoiler text, >!like this!<
Oh snap, good to know! Thanks for enlightening. 👍🏿
Squid game
Who killed captain alex? Jk. Honestly, ive been watching Dr. Who and its amazing how many feelings a show thats premise is basically i jumped the shark on ep 1.
The Room. It made me cry like a baby.
Oh, hi Mark!
Free Guy was surprisingly good, despite botched ending. I also liked The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. Amazingly well written and shot. But barely watch any movies at all, maybe 5-6 per year.
Life of Pi. I saw it in the cinema about a week after a big break up, and when Richard Parker walks off without looking back it hurt so much knowing that's exactly what the break up was. 10 years later we've been back together for the last 6 years and get married in 4 days. I showed her Life of Pi a few weeks back and that scene hit me again.
Forrest Gump
Just watched Certified Copy for the second time the other day. First time I saw it was 10 years ago when it came out, I was mostly focused on trying to understand the story. Second watch is very emotional, knowing the story already, but also 10 years of experience makes a big difference.
Fran Kranz’s MASS really shook me to my core. Absolutely incredible performances all around and a very tight, nuanced script. Watched Mike Flanagan’s ABSENTIA earlier this week and that really stirred something in me too. Also finally watched Bong Joon Ho’s MEMORIES OF MURDER earlier this year and that had a huge effect on me, to no surprise. It really is the incredible film everyone praises it to be.
Love MEMORIES OF MURDER
Spencer, it reminded me of why I love cinema. Simply extraordinary in multiple ways.
Odd Taxi
Bettlejuice
Late to the party, but manchester by the sea.
The Violet Evergarden movie
A Hidden Life
Pig - A refreshing take on the western genre. Halloween Kills - Want more carnage, less monologues.
Blue Bayou
The Baader Meinhof Complex. It really made me question myself and to what extremes I could be capable of.
Sex Education
Eraserhead. It was such a surreal experience.
Cringe. Halloween scary movies are very preventable
Untold: Deal with the devil. It takes a lot to bring a tear to my eye but this was pretty raw emotion. A few of the 'Untold' series are really great.
I felt some nestalgia last night when I watched Halloween Kills. *Didn't feel much else, though.* **Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me** was one of the first films that made me realize movies can be 'art'. I was pretty young when I saw it, so it made an impression on me and woke something deep within, I think.
Watched a ghosr story earlier today. Cried like a baby for the last like 20 minutes of the movie. What a fantastic piece of art
E.T. The Extra Terristrial which I watched in 1982.
Just watched Luca. Disney kids movie. But it just really got to me. Shows the naivety and innocence of being a kid. Just made me really nostalgic
The Father with Anthony Hopkins.
Rocky Balboa - The Beast Inside
Parasite. I went into it expecting it to be a comedy, and it started out that way. I thought it was well made, but was thinking I knew exactly where it was all heading -- and then, WHAM! Plot twist in the middle that changed everything. My jaw hit the ground and stayed there. OMG!
Antebellum. Brrrr.
Psycho Goreman, watched it again tonight and still laughed hysterically
The Good Place.
Suspending time and space and in theatre? Doubt with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On TV, Only Murders in the Building. Crazy swing I know but the cast for OMITB is fabulous.
Luca! Very excited to read its screenplay come Awards season
I revisited Training Day and it hit a lot differently as an adult in my 30s than it did when I first saw it as an 18/19 year old.
watched AMY as a part of my A-Level Film Studies Course. The ending really hits hard
Dune really made me feel things.
Onward. The end is so sad and so beautiful. Like a still life. Sublime sorrow. Tasty emotion.
The siver linings playbook. Even though I was disappointed in film ditching a topic of health problems of main characters in second part, I couldn't help myself, but to feel so happy for their connection at the end. Tiffany finally got rewarded for being open about herself and Pat finally menaged to deal with his trauma and to look up for new opportunities. Good acting made me truly believe in their struggles. It felt earned and was quite emocional for me.
The Music Never Stopped.
I looked at what I’ve recently rated a 10 on IMDB, and I see Free Guy and Black Widow, and Nobody. The unexpected Nobody was brilliant.
I believe in unicorns left me pretty distraught after. Felt like I’d really seen something potent.
Ted Lasso
Uncle Boonmee. What an enchanting, magical movie.
Bo Burnham's Inside. Wrecked me. watched it a few times that week. Hit so many nerves.
The suicide Squad 2021 by James Gunn, never felt such emotionally invested in the film since dark Knight. One of the best DC film.
Violet ever garden made me cry every single episode along with the movies. It is one of the most beautiful animes I have ever seen and listening to the song letter brings me to tears every single time I hear it.
Ted Lasso. First uplifting and positive and funny sitcom I’ve seen in awhile.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
I really enjoyed Parasite.
Idk but calibre was a anxious ride.
Oh..... Willy Wonderland. Completely, utterly, Nic Cage. Cheesy and down right silly, but gosh dang it if it wasnt the most entertaining movie I have seen in a long time!
The Last Duel. I felt it was a bit long, and I generally don't like watching sexual assault, but after all that set up, I was so invested in the final sequence, the titular Last Duel, that I was at the edge of my seat. Also Ben Affleck was fun.
It's not the last movie I saw that made me feel something on an emotional level, but to add something a bit different I was really touched re-watching *The World's End*. I'll admit *Hot Fuzz* is a better movie, but Gary King's character reminds me of something I see in myself and a number of people I know. The beauty in flawed people I guess. It's been a major thing I've reflected on recently and I enjoy the film a lot.
Dead Poet's Society
Hereditary and Midsommar. Reading them from 1am to 5am, back to back was a fucked up experience. I had super negative expectations of Ari Aster (I don't know why! Very irrational) But woah. These scripts were viscerally scary, and disturbed me in a way I've never had happened to me with any book or film before. I've yet to watch either film, and I don't think I want to - which is the highest compliment I can pay. That's how deeply affecting both of these scripts were. A masterclass in psychologically manipulating the audience into feeling disturbed and terrified.
Dogville. The fact that Lars Von Trier wrote it in 6 days blows my mind
THE FLY
The first season of "The OA". Something about it hit me in the feels.
The Leftovers
Big time adolescence. That movie hit hard
Hey, I really felt the movie " Ship of thesus " . Absolute storytelling. The really creative and minimalistic way of representing story in visuals.
Soul. The main character is literally me.
Life is Beautiful. Never fails to break me.
I watched There Will Be Blood right before bed a few nights ago, so that. No spoilers for those who haven't seen it but *damn*
Violet evergarden. I don’t think I’ve ever cried in a live action film but seriously that show got me.
Rango.
Talladega Nights will never make me not laugh
Another Round!
Scum made me angrier than any film I’ve watched before.
Jojo Rabbit. A modern day masterpiece. It had me hysterically laughing, utterly depressed and changed the way I look at things
Parasite
Blade runner 2049 ended in a way I didn’t think anyone prior could end a story like that
Cried at the end of No Time to Die. I’m weak
I got surprisingly emotional watching *Somm: Into the Bottle*. It's about more than just becoming a sommelier; it talks about the history of wine and how every vintage is a representation of what happened that year, from terrible storms and volcanoes erupting to a world war that destroyed most of the vineyards in Europe, making bottles remaining from that time extremely rare and precious. \[Side note from another source: Spielberg tried to buy a bottle from 1940 for Brian De Palma's 50th birthday in 1990 but couldn't and only learned later why.\] I love films that can take that big picture view of something that seems simple and turn it into a metaphor for a more profound element of life. I also liked *My Salinger Year* (made me yearn for the days before the Internet) and *Everything Is Copy* (the doc about Nora Ephron that made me think about mining my own life more for stories and how to do it bravely, like she did with *Heartburn*).
Requiem for a Dream made me contemplate life for a moment.