Epicmafia

Film Journal

almost 7 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

Alex

almost 7 years

both of those movies are masterpieces but so are escape from new york, big trouble in little china, assault on precinct 13, and the fog, and ghosts of mars is legitimately maybe the most enjoyable goodbad movie i've ever seen but also i was on acid the first time i saw it so grain of salt

just whatever you do don't watch escape from LA or village of the damned

debaser

almost 7 years

gimme a quick rundown on everything that isn’t Halloween and The Thing

Alex

almost 7 years

john carpenter is my everything and all of his movies are flawless (except for the ones that aren't but we don't talk about those)

debaser

almost 7 years

haven’t seen a substantial amount of his movies yet so I can’t say I feel a certain way that hasn’t already been said

Alex

almost 7 years

how do you feel about john carpenter

i want to talk about john carpenter

debaser

almost 7 years

noted

Alex

almost 7 years

i am very happy that villenueve is making movies but i also hope no one ever tries to cop his style because i can only sit through that level of trite like once every 2 years at most

Alex

almost 7 years

blade runner is a MESS of a movie but it's really really pretty and we get like 45 minutes of Actually Engaged Harrison Ford which only happens once every 5 years or so now so it ultimately gets passing marks from me

see it in IMAX if you can

debaser

almost 7 years

for me the director you’re describing is Villeneuve

which is why I am absolutely PUMPED to find a massive screen and watch blade runner after having missed it

Alex

almost 7 years

beguiled is a perfectly fine movie but by no means a must watch

it's infinitely better than the original though, which is basically smutty fanfiction

debaser

almost 7 years

idk I feel like I won’t have time to get to some of these (brads status, brawl, beguiled) and think some of them have potential for me to really dislike them (last flag, mother) but we’ll see im gonna try to get around to it all so I feel like a completionist and also cause I saw way too many more movies in 2016

Alex

almost 7 years

there's no better working director at not wasting a single second of screen time than steven soderbergh and he's basically the only person making movies that i don't think needs a crisper editor; i basically complain about every movie i see needing a better editor and this is why i hate coppola

debaser

almost 7 years

that’s fair

also lol I was kinda expecting mother to be like that

Alex

almost 7 years

debaser says

Logan Lucky was also on that list and I did not like that movie so I guess it’s a/e

logan lucky was one of my favorite movies this year but i love soderbergh almost as much as i love channing tatum so that movie was basically cocaine for me

Alex

almost 7 years

debaser says

a lot of people hated mother but it’s aronofsky and also I wanna get in on the controversy

basically the first 1:15 or so is actually a pretty interesting suspense movie with some hamfisted biblical allegories and then it goes off the rails and you're like "alright fck this" and then it goes SO off the rails you kinda get back in on it and then it manages to go even further off the rails until you're exceptionally angry

debaser

almost 7 years

Logan Lucky was also on that list and I did not like that movie so I guess it’s a/e

debaser

almost 7 years

a lot of people hated mother but it’s aronofsky and also I wanna get in on the controversy

Alex

almost 7 years

nice, 2 of the worst 5 movies i've seen this year are on that list

you should absolutely skip brawl in cell block 99, you can also elect to skip mother! but if i'm being honest i enjoyed hating that movie so much

debaser

almost 7 years

I wanna have seen these before I make a list of my fav movies of the year https://letterboxd.com/herbalhammer/list/2017-to-watch/

Alex

almost 7 years

like i'm really just out on that director whose name i'm not even gonna attempt to spell, i absolutely get what he's selling and understand why others would buy it but i'm not one of them

debaser

almost 7 years

did u catch call me by your name yet also

Alex

almost 7 years

killing of a sacred deer was exactly what i expected it to be after watching the lobster, which meant i wasn't mad that i watched it but it also didn't do a ton for me

debaser

almost 7 years

lol these are the kind of children that caused mass refunds from the rich old white folks at the theater by my house

and also it’s a movie that made me feel every emotion ever during its runtime so i gotta highly recommend that

have you seen Brigsby Bear and/or A Ghost Story, Killing of a Sacred Deer? I really wanna watch those before the year’s our

Alex

almost 7 years

i haven't because i lowkey hate movies that revolve around children, but the people i trust really like it

i've seen just about everything else worth seeing this year, though (and a bunch that absolutely wasn't worth seeing)

if you don't have moviepass yet you should get moviepass

debaser

almost 7 years

have u seen the Florida Project mr bill stickers