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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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where is the fifth element
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sana says


debaser says

I could honestly really just write this movie off like most internet douchebag reviewers but I don’t like being an overzealous díckass


just @ me next time and go


ur not even half as bad as 90% of film class students at my school habibti
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debaser says

I could honestly really just write this movie off like most internet douchebag reviewers but I don’t like being an overzealous díckass


just @ me next time and go
over 6 years
I could honestly really just write this movie off like most internet douchebag reviewers but I don’t like being an overzealous díckass about things I don’t like especially when I see why a whole lot of other people do

so ya I guess I’ll forever dislike jaws or something lol
over 6 years
also reminder that WE ARE KILLING THE GODDAMN SHARKS and we need to stop
over 6 years
it aggravates me that I continuously fail to like Jaws
over 6 years
I can’t help but die on the inside with every scene that the shark is in and every time they describe him it takes me out of the movie cause I instinctively just go “NO THATS NOT HOW IT IS”

man. some things are just not meant to be. I feel like this’ll be the movie that I’ll rewatch every 5 years out of guilt and just fail to get myself to love
over 6 years
sorry pal :(

I feel bad cause I GET IT. Its iconic for a reason, and that’s that It’s Really Good. It’s suspenseful and fun and very well-directed, I caught a couple really great shots here and there but I just CANT get in on the fun with everyone else because I am a lad who grew up loving sharks :/

I feel like it’s kinda maybe how an astronaut would feel about watching Gravity or something idk
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jaws is one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite books, i am heartbroken
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debaser says

update: attempted jaws rewatch, failed. it really aggravated me even more


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next orders of business: Blue Velvet and Royal Tenenbaums
over 6 years
lmao I love this letterboxd review:

“A tragic tale of a lost and distressed fish hunted down by an aquaphobic police chief, a disgraced oceanographer trying to regain some of his tarnished reputation and a nasty drunk with a fetish for bowlegged women. All of them egged on by a corrupt mayor trying to find someone or something to blame for his small islands dwindling tourist industry and his poor taste in fashion. I wish it had a happy ending, but they even go so far as to insult the fishes mother before finally commiting the coup de grace. Shameful stuff.”
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update: attempted jaws rewatch, failed. it really aggravated me even more

watching that movie with the slightest marine biology background just completely destroys the experience
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twin peaks is so good , especially the first season and fire walk with me. the second season kind of loses the plot a little bit in favor of the paranormal aspects but i still really like it. the latest season that just came out on showtime is very.. strange. it definitely is a work of art but i dont think im hipster enough for it. granted i didnt finish it though so i dont really know where it was going lol
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also should prob see twin peaks at some point in my life
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lost highway and straight story also look good so I just added them to my list
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next order of action is to see Blue Velvet then
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blue velvet is his best
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sabah el nooooor

I LOVE mullholland drive and I have eraserhead, elephant man, and blue velvet on my list (with blue velvet being especially high priority)
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sabah el kheir have you ever seen any david lynch films and if so what are your thoughts
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i have been contemplating doing EM movie nights with rabb.it for a while now and if/when this happens there will probably be a lot of carpenter. i will let you know.
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damn with that enthusiasm im sold alex
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Groundhog Day and The Truman Show are really good
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like i could gush and gush about how no director has ever better utilized music and jump cuts and how the suspense lineage of hitchcock would have died out without carpenter but really you should just watch more of his movies
over 6 years
i didn't even mention prince of darkness or they live!

man john carpenter is the best