#461

Yes (that or Curzon Home Cinema)

#462

pffft looks like you pal.

#463

:grinning: :wink:

#464

Just seen Under The Silver Lake. Now that’s a spicy meatball.

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#465

Just watched Perfect Blue. 81!

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#466

Dude is such a g eating that bread and cheese eh

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#467

Are you on the pro side with me and @guntrip

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#468

Never even heard of that, any good?

#469

Beanpole - great! The director is only 28 :open_mouth:

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#470

It is actually, its very dated (the main character needs advice to log onto the internet) and its an anime, first one ive ever seen, but decent yeah

#471

Terrific anime film, psychological thriller, director Satoshi Kon made a number of great films and died far too young

#472

Also just watched it for the first time, fucking terrible. So stupid and broad. I can see why it would be popular in the 80s and even 90s but hoo boy it has aged badly

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#473

I haven’t seen it in a few years so take with a pinch of salt, but it absolutely worked for me several times since 2010

#474

Also Assault on Precinct 13 is basically a perfect film, glad we all agree

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#475

Eh, it was ok for me. I liked parts of it but it focused too much on the director’s own family, which while is an interesting looking at the dichotomy of a religious woman owning a gay porn store who then finds out her own son is gay I don’t think there was enough to stretch out to basically a whole film. The context of the LA gay scene gets dropped pretty quickly after the first half an hour which is a shame because it made it pretty uneven as a film. Some good, touching moments in parts though

#476

It’s just like “ooh look at all these different stereotypes who learn things about each other when forced to spend a whole day with each other except they’re all pretty charmless and in places quite problematic!!”

I’d get if you watched it as a teenager it would have resonance so that’s on me I guess but as a 31 yr old in 2020 it’s just a bit of a slog. I’ve been watching community for the first time properly which while I think is patchy at times has taken this concept and made it better and funnier (by being more self-aware)

#477

Mate, he sang until the windows smashed

8.7/10

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#478

Also lol let’s all laugh at the nerdy kid’s (unrealistic) botched suicide attempt!! Let’s makeover the weird girl so she can become acceptable to the jock!! Let’s suggest the teacher is dangerously unprofessional that he threatens a student!! The posh/popular kid and the rough kid from a broken home can totally call each other out and then get together!! The janitor is the unspoken hero!!

You can’t just throw all these tropes in and expect it to make a good and fulfilling film. But again, will accept the caveat that this is 80s America. Like the Community example, think the best parts about Donnie Darko is showing up this kind of bullshit but aware that I’m looking at this from a post-2000s lens

#479

All those points are fair but I also think a lot of coming of age films fall into those tropes inherently - at least ones that are mainly sincere and not as meta as Community. Are these issues you often find with that type of film generally or is this just an especially egregious example?

#480

Dunno, don’t really judge films on genre :wink: