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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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yea probably not

just go alone to lady bird then lmao
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lady bird is a movie that i'm really really glad i saw by myself in a nearly empty theater because being with any other person might've taken me out of the movie and that would have been absolutely tragic
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debaser says

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


i promise you that no one is getting laid the night after seeing that movie, my dude
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another movie that the theater had a complete díckhead reaction to: The Florida Project

Which was also amazing
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repeat: ask someone out to lady bird DO NOT round the squad up for it
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I rounded my college friends up to go to lady bird just cause it had a hundred percent RT score at the time and didn’t realize they were aśsholes

they didn’t like it and I had to defend myself for loving it the whole way back and then I regretted not asking someone out to it
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logan is the least capeshít capeshít movie I’ve seen and also really emotional, well-written, brilliantly acted

lady bird was phenomenal, and very timely for me having graduated hs last year lol. sana ur lucky to be going into that movie as a high school senior
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also i'm mostly being facetious about logan, which was fine, but at the end of the day despite how Adult it tried to be it was still mired in all the 2017 hollywood superhero stink that makes me want to jump off a bridge
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lady bird is hands down the best movie i've seen in at least 3 years and it infuriates me that i've only been able to convince like 5 or 6 people to see it

i cried twice during that movie ngl
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basil yesterday i tried to see lady bird because i figured nobody would be in the theatre on christmas but the one i went to was completely FULL and i was so upset that i completely gave up for the day.

im gonna try and see it sometime this week though, and im probably gonna wait for an illegal or on demand version of call me by your name to come out to watch that one
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yea i also can't believe this website populated by literal children isn't more invested in janky capesht movies
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disappointed in the lack of love Logan’s getting on these polls :(
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it’s on my list
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also, now that you're a film tryhard please take some time and watch Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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why was i not pinged and informed that we were dragging la la land

disappointed in y'all right now because that is a movie i have a Lot To Say About
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if I had ONE FLAW with that movie it would be (and this might be due to the subtitling) but at certain points I could identify the dialogue being a bit dated, maybe slightly exposition-y but that’s a very nit picky flaw for an otherwise masterful movie
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as for seven samurai

I was honestly too shook last night to post a review. all the heaps and heaps of praise thrown on this thing are totally warranted holy hell its such a brilliant achievement in cinema in so many ways. The entire ensemble is phenomenal BUT EXCEPTIONALLY Toshiro Mifune who was just... a capsule of passion, cynicism, arrogance, and just straight up clumsiness and he was a joy to watch. The real precursor to post-pirates of the caribbean jack sparrow

the entire last hour of that movie left me speechless. the shots themselves, the editing, the writing... It’s all around masterful in scope. It’s just one of those films that’s forever changed film and will change ur life fr when you first watch it

tl;dr: holy fück
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Lux says


debaser says

but tbh moonrise kingdom was where Wes Anderson kinda lost me compared to his other movies, and it’s hard for me to really pinpoint why because it is, from a technical standpoint amazing. I love wes anderson camera pans and the humor and the pretentiousness of it all but that movie just didn’t hit home with me like Grand Budapest did


can you elaborate more on this opinion pls bc i willl defend moonrise kingdom to the end of time


I can’t elaborate on it tbh because I don’t rly even have a strong contrarian an opinion on it. I like it, I just didn’t LOVE it or anything like the Grand Budapest hotel or fantastic mr fox and I don’t rly remember why but I just wasn’t as entertained and it didn’t stay with me as much. But again it’s def due for a rewatch that’ll either change my mind or confirm my perception and let me word my opinion better
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still love it though. still love it
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moonrise kingdom is the wes anderson movie for normies
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debaser says

but tbh moonrise kingdom was where Wes Anderson kinda lost me compared to his other movies, and it’s hard for me to really pinpoint why because it is, from a technical standpoint amazing. I love wes anderson camera pans and the humor and the pretentiousness of it all but that movie just didn’t hit home with me like Grand Budapest did


can you elaborate more on this opinion pls bc i willl defend moonrise kingdom to the end of time
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also, please tell john that his family misses him and to come home.
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I HAVE ONE OF THOSE TOO. someday, basil. straight to the moon.
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John goodbar showed me a selfie he took with the REAL Tommy Wiseau at a random midnight screening

so jealous
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i love tommy wiseau SO GOD DAMN MUCH he is my angel.