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over 6 years

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

over 6 years

Lynch is such an auteur. I love how insanely innovative he is and I literally can’t believe that such a beautifully shot film came out in 1986

actually a lot of aspects of that movie are so shocking for an 80s film lol

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BUT YES, BIG MOOD. movies are magical.

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also i may have to change my vote in the sidebar poll because the disaster artist is a real contender

over 6 years

goddamn the ending is literal crack I swear I could probably watch it a billion times

there’s just every now and then filmmaking that blows you away and you’re like... HOW do you do this shít with a camera and actors and stuff... goddamn man I love film so much.

over 6 years

David Lynch man

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this makes me so happy, it is by far my favorite film he's ever done.

over 6 years

hard for me to choose between this and mulholland dr though I love the latter SO MUCH but I think I gotta give this one time to stew in my brain a bit before I can decide

over 6 years

yes and I love it

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DID YOU FINALLY WATCH IT

over 6 years

I think this movie might have one of my favorite endings ever and I’ll say that much

over 6 years

i think i need to sit on blue velvet a little longer

i just wish i was half as smart as David Lynch

and also dennis hopper is basically dead to me

over 6 years

David Lynch, master of surrealism

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coco is pixar’s best since inside out and i’m glad you went to see it.

over 6 years

saiorse ronan is a goddess. this is fact.

over 6 years

debaser says

repeat: ask someone out to lady bird DO NOT round the squad up for it

i remember you texting this to me and i have been furiously attacking tinder in the hopes that i will find a girl dumb/smart enough to go see it with me

i also mentioned that to my squad today because we were talking movies and lady bird came up because we love saiorse ronan

over 6 years

letterboxd review of the day:

“A story about death, murder, loss, grief, aging, dementia, living skeletons, and deadbeat dads.

Y’know, a kid’s movie”

over 6 years

I mean when most of my thoughts here have been hot takes I loved this one enough to write a full fledged essay here so for what that’s worth... go see coco if you haven’t !

over 6 years

I’d say the flaws I put in are very nit picky though they did take me out of the movie for a SLIGHT SECOND. This movie was almost perfection for me and joins in canonical Pixar animation in my book

over 6 years

as far as negatives.. there was nothing that substantial besides a couple spoiler-y things. the movie throws kind of a curveball at some point that i truthfully saw coming a mile away, and the third act of the movie is where things started getting slightly less unique and a little more run of the mill (save for the spectacular final scene), and there’s a couple things about what was done with the villain that I would’ve liked different but found understandable given the nature of Pixar needing to cater to a child audience

all in all this was an unforgettable piece of cinema and honestly the positives far outweigh the negatives. I can forgive it’s VERY MINOR flaws just for the sheer personal impact it had on me with some of its themes and for the grandiose scope of it all. loved this

over 6 years

I don’t even know where to start with this review

this film’s thematic layers are about as gorgeously orchestrated throughout the movie as the animated city of the dead which is hands down the most jaw droppingly beautiful piece of animation I’ve seen this year. this is a beautiful, beautiful piece of animation that tackles death, loss, memories, music, following your dreams, building a legacy, being afraid of being forgotten, family, love, celebrity status, cultural barriers, tradition, forgiveness... there’s so much to unpack, and it’s all done with typical Pixar nuance

the universe these characters were in was strikingly Miyazaki-esque to me and I loved that. the land of the dead felt like a Mexican take on something straight out of Spirited Away and I can’t emphasize how enveloping and lush it was

I think the entire first and second acts of this movie are literally perfect cinema, and there are cultural aspects of this film that struck a heart wrenchingly strong cord with me on a really personal level. Some parts echoed some of my favorite older Pixar movies (a la ratatouille chef gusteau and de la cruz parallelisms early on and something about the climax reminded me of a certain Monsters Inc scene) but not in a distracting way that took me any where out of the film at all

over 6 years

actually managed to watch coco tonight and... man.

over 6 years

nvm lost our seats theater too crowded lol

over 6 years

walking into coco lets see if it lives up

over 6 years

fifth element blows

over 6 years

I’ve considered this for a while but it always looked dated and goofy and so I never put it on my list