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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
over 6 years

debaser says

watching seven samurai on a road trip

prepared to be shook to my core honestly and I think it’ll likely be an addition to the perfect films list but we shall see


I only managed to get thru half of this but for the purposes of me not losing my iTunes rental i gotta finish it by tonight so my review will be posted later
over 6 years

yeasayer says

basil what are your thoughts on the room


LOVE

also the disaster artist was a pretty great time
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but yea I get that I see where ur coming from and it’s all good we can agree to disagree pal
over 6 years
talk about being late to the party!
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debaser says

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


i forgot abt this thread but yes i watched it in cinema cos i liked the idea of a throwback hollywood movie since i love classic romance films and was pumped for it (plus gosling/stone reunion yiisss) and almost left but i value my money lol. it was not bad it was just very overhyped and the ending whilst trying to be realistic was lacklustre in its execution. the songs were also not that great, i only liked two whew. it's just most definitely not a perfect movie to me.
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basil what are your thoughts on the room
over 6 years
watching seven samurai on a road trip

prepared to be shook to my core honestly and I think it’ll likely be an addition to the perfect films list but we shall see
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it's funnier when you go back and read other horror movie boxes/cases and many of them say that they're going to do to X what Jaws did to the Ocean!
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debaser says

jus watched die hard

more quintessentially American than Forrest Gump


an amazing christmas movie.
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instead I watched “Logan Lucky”

honestly kinda let down
over 6 years

debaser says

speaking of great whites I will watch jaws tonight for the first time since I was a kid. I already have a lot of beef with that movie for demonizing a beautiful creature forever but we’ll see maybe I’ll still like it


put a pin in this for now
over 6 years

debaser says

watched Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” on a flight today

what a movie. honestly I feel like I need to sit on it before I decide on a verdict but it’s really something. tonally it reminded me a lot of Chinatown, and Gene Hackman is an absolute master of subtlety here. some side characters kind of left me a little cold and there are definitely pacing issues, but the ending was a phenomenal brutally stone cold payoff. only time will tell how long this one’s gonna stay with me


also a really interesting fun fact about this movie is that Coppola wanted to make this way before “The Godfather” but no studio was sold on it until after the success of that film
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actually tho very eloquently hateful for a freshman in hs wow
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HAHAHAHA THIS IS AMAZING
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in my freshman year of highschool i wrote an essay/marxist analysis/review about how much i hate jaws and its really funny and good and since you brought it up i have to post it here



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speaking of great whites I will watch jaws tonight for the first time since I was a kid. I already have a lot of beef with that movie for demonizing a beautiful creature forever but we’ll see maybe I’ll still like it
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lmao is that the one with the great white shark surprise death
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I also suggest that you watch any movie other than Deep Blue Sea. I watched it for one of my film class papers and it was SO BAD
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seen it a while ago, classic Daniel Day and imo underrated Scorsese movie
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Hello it's not on your list so I don't know if you missed it or haven't seen it but Gangs of New York is a fantastic movie that should not be missed ever
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watched Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” on a flight today

what a movie. honestly I feel like I need to sit on it before I decide on a verdict but it’s really something. tonally it reminded me a lot of Chinatown, and Gene Hackman is an absolute master of subtlety here. some side characters kind of left me a little cold and there are definitely pacing issues, but the ending was a phenomenal brutally stone cold payoff. only time will tell how long this one’s gonna stay with me
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nacho libre is literal perfection
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both are on my list!!
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you should watch "la haine", very underrated movie. yw
over 6 years
basil!!!!!!!

based on your list of perfect films you should watch the lives of others if you haven't already. so good!!