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Hello Sandbox!

Posting here isn't something that I often do, but I have noticed people here are a lil more artistically inclined than the other lobbies, and are also more engaging and fun to talk to so I've decided to make this thread here.


At any rate, this is a long-term project created by someone who obsessed with film! It's Basil's Film Journal

Basically I'm going to list the films that I want to watch and organize them, and might post a hot take or two about movies I have recently seen. I hope to have written my first script by the end of college!


This is my letterboxd account: https://letterboxd.com/herbalhammer/

This is my IMDb account (not as rapidly updated and score inaccuracies): http://www.imdb.com/user/ur46340233/?ref_=nb_usr_prof_0

Movies I consider perfect: Pulp Fiction (1994) , Children of Men (2006), Before Sunset (2003), The Godfather (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Magnolia (1999), Do the Right Thing (1989), Spirited Away (1999), Birdman (2014), Paths of Glory (1957), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), Oldboy (2003), Drive (2011), Stalker (1979), Taxi Driver (1976), The Lion King (1994), The Social Network (2010), The Big Lebowski (1998), Se7en (1995), A Separation (2011), The Dark Knight (2008), Schindler's List (1993), Goodfellas (1990), The Departed (2006), Whiplash (2014), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Amelie (2001)

My to-watch list: https://letterboxd.com/herbalhammer/watchlist/


Feel free to participate as I go along! Share any accounts you might have, give me recommendations, comment on my thoughts, whatever you do as long as you don't spoil anything for anyone. I absolutely love talking movies so don't shy away

2017 movie of the year?
11
other
8
get out
4
baby driver
3
disaster artist
2
star wars
2
logan
1
lady bird
1
3 billboards
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jus watched die hard

more quintessentially American than Forrest Gump
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wrong thread whoops
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[img]https://imgur.com/gallery/5cNhy5F[/img]
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ok now back to not talking about la la land :)
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I bet none of the people that hate la la land saw it or even knew what it was before it got all the nominations

except maybe sana and yeasayer u guys are ok
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in other news seven psychopaths made me laugh my heart out it was a really good time

i kept thinking about adaptation while watching it
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BaneofMafia says

7 Psychopaths is okay.

Tarkovsky's Stalker is my favorite.

Do you like Malick?


i wish i was more familiar with his older stuff, badlands etc they’re all on my list but the first Malik movie I watched was sadly a post-tree of life movie and now I realize those are considered his bad ones

also Stalker is phenomenal and i need more Tarkovsky in my life
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boo we’re done talking about la la land now
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la la land being on a list of perfect movies is a huge joke :)
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7 Psychopaths is okay.

Tarkovsky's Stalker is my favorite.

Do you like Malick?
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certainly looks intriguing, added
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check this documentary out when u get the chance

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/
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I am watching martin mcdonaugh’s seven psychopaths tonight, sure to like it bc I love in Bruges and 3 billboards
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sana and i aren’t always on the same page but tbh I welcome the opinions i haven’t found them overbearing at all :) thanks tho skala
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okay but when u say it like that u come off super elitist and like u think ur opinion matters more which is silly cos debaser just posted proof that hes watched and reviewed tons of films for years
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i dont like knocking people for their tastes because everybody is different and youre allowed to have your own opinion on la la land , but also astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih love yourself
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i’m middle eastern
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skala says

what was white savior-y about lala land and what does taht even mean?


only white people with no taste liked it
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what was white savior-y about lala land and what does taht even mean?
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I WILL DEFEND LA LA LAND TILL THE DAY I DIE THANK YOU BASIL
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debaser says

unpopular opinion: the most amazingly executed movie of 2016 was actually The Handmaiden

but moonlight and la la land are very close behind


THE HANDMAIDEN IS GOLDEN
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unpopular opinion: the most amazingly executed movie of 2016 was actually The Handmaiden

but moonlight and la la land are very close behind
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skala says

__real__ perfect movies

https://letterboxd.com/film/harakiri/
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-samourai/


dying to see both of these
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