#52

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#53

Hey not sure if I’ll be able to but would you mind adding me in just in case? Would like to rewatch Rango

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#55

Weird film, this one. Enjoyed watching it with my film club posse though, obviously.

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#56

total dud for me.

didn’t like rango as a character. the story was far too ill-defined. very bizarrely pitched film. which all would have all been totally fine but it wasn’t even funny. :frowning:

#57

All of this really. Though I mark it up a bit more for the quality of the animation.

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#58

Didn’t join this time but I liked Rango a whole lot when I saw it

#59

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#60

Much denser and less kiddish than I was expecting, great character design and the animation was gorgeous, especially that sequence just before he meets the man with no name. Still too pastichey and too many annoying characters for me to really love it. Could’ve done with fewer wacky characters and more fleshing out of the main ones

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#61

Blew my mind that it came out 9 years ago though, don’t think I’ve seen cgi animation that looks much better since

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#62

didn’t enjoy it as much as when I first saw it, but 2011 was my first year of film watching so figures that i’ve seen a lot of better stuff since

#63

you hadn’t seen a film until 2011?

#64

I had but basically just Disney, family stuff like yer Hooks, Jurassic Parks, Space Jam etc, and the thick end of the teenage film wedge- Pulp Fiction,Amelie, Eternal Sunshine and such. Was never a film guy, even as a kid.

Decided in 2011 to start catching up and ended up watching 1000 films in the next three years. All or nothing with me like.

Also managed to make a list of every film I’d ever seen up to that point, and obviously have had a spreadsheet for them since, so I’m quite confident that I know exactly how many films I’ve seen in my life.

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#65

Just looked it up. I have seen 2,040 films. 2,888 if you include shorts, mini series and documentary series.

Mad shit

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#66

really want to look at @AQOS’s film spreadsheet

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#67

sadly it broke and I’ve had to strip it right down but I’m gonna rebuild it soon

It was a work of art if I do say so myself

Had every film, my personal rating out of 5, the director, country of origin, language etc, and I could look up my average score for each director or country, see how many films from each director I’ve seen, loads of little tricks.

IT WILL RISE AGAIN

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#68

This is so YOU

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#69

I was a bit too late to join in with the live chat but I watched it all the same. I genuinely love it; it’s utterly unique in that while most mainstream animated movies go out of their way to appeal, Rango dashes gleefully in the other direction, and yet somehow manages to look incredible despite its eye-wateringly ugly cast. There’s more character in a single background denizen of Dirt than most other animations manage in a whole movie. Getting Deakins to be the virtual DOP helps massively, of course.
I’d also like to point out the Bat Canyon/Ride Of The Valkyries scene was the best Mad Max chase sequence before Fury Road came along to steal its thunder.
Visually brilliant, completely bizarre, should probably never have been made, but I’m glad it was.
And damn if it hasn’t seriously held up well over 9 years.

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#70

what was the first entry? really like the idea you saw a trailer for rango and thought “wow, talking lizards, maybe films are good after all”

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#71

first rule of film club is don’t tell anyone outside of film club what jook is like

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