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The original post: /r/movies by /u/indiewire on 2025-01-03 20:04:30.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/hhikk077 on 2025-01-03 20:01:52.

I really hope that this is the right subreddit for this but I feel like I need to share this In the movie it shows a title card saying that Kevin was stuck in that house for 572 days and the movie can be interpreted as watching your family struggle while at a young age and as you’re very young and just supposed to be obedient, you take what you see at face value and as everyone around you is a role model you copy what you see The confusion, the fright, the despair of seeing who you’re supposed to look up to and who’s supposed to be protecting you be out of energy and depressed brings nothing else other than confusion since you’ve never seen it before, and at a young age like that, confusion is absolutely terrifying You’re forced to take a back seat while watching this movie as everything unfolds because that’s how movies work, you can’t do anything. And it’s the same as being so young as nobody really wants to listen to you about their problems, not even that you have anything to say because you don’t have experience with this. Not only are you so confused and new to this, but you can’t do anything, literally nothing.

Kevin had to deal with that for 572 days, stuck in that house, dealing with confusion and change

My mom died when I was little, I was 572 days old, seeing that title card saying that absolutely destroyed me

The original post: /r/movies by /u/thslightofmine on 2025-01-03 19:29:20.

Hi! I’m in search for movies that have/show a lot New York City apartments in it. I realize I’m getting hooked up in movies that has such vibe, such as The Intern (2015), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Soul (2020), The Secret Life of Pets (2016 & 2019), and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).

I’ve searched on Google regarding recommendations on the said themed movies, but a lot of them only show the New York City itself rather than the apartments. I’m not too picky, though I’d like it very much more if it’s a light-hearted, slice-of-life movie. And no horror, please. I’d like to know you guys’ recommendations. Cheers!

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Foamrocket66 on 2025-01-03 19:17:06.

So I just watched The Da Vinci Code again after many years and the central plot of the movie is that two sides have battled for ages over the descendants of Jesus

The core of this battle, is that Jesus fathering a child takes away his divinity and makes him human. The church wants to kill the descendants to keep this hidden, and not reveal to the world that Jesus was not divine, but a mere man.

My question is, how/why does him having a child, take away his godliness? The movie doesnt explain this. I mean, Jesus dying of a wound, like any other human would, seems more non-godly like, than having a child with Maria Magdalene? It doesnt really make sense to me.

Am I missing something?

The original post: /r/movies by /u/IceDogg23 on 2025-01-03 18:05:51.

With Honors; whereas, I have seen this movie before (several times), I have just watched it again and again floored! Who has not seen this movie? If you haven't it's totally worth a watch even as a background movie while you work on something.

SPOILER: It will draw you in to the humanity of it all.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/sukh345 on 2025-01-03 17:43:46.

Just watched this movie & it is very simple but amazing movie with no bad actors ✅

Story is not complex 😉✌️

Action is Raw , doesn't look fake 🤥

Inclusion of Hinduism is also Good, directors played safe with sensitive topics.

Half of movie is in Hindi originally 🤘

However, it's not released in India due to some religious problems.

I'm also an Indian and i see no controversial things in this movie not even one, everything is acceptable.

It's what i think about it , there are many good things about this movie but can't explain because I don't know how to explain 🤣🤣

The original post: /r/movies by /u/MichaeltheSpikester on 2025-01-03 16:53:36.

With Hollywood lacking so much originality nowadays being just sequels, remakes and reboots just as it seems to be the same for this year as well. I wanted to ask everyone for any recommendations for Indie films from last year?

The only Indie films I watched was Frogman and In a Violent Nature. But curious of any others from 2024 that would be worth a watch?

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Additional_Event_986 on 2025-01-03 16:38:34.

Hey everyone, I put this this question/recommendation out to the r/MovieSuggestions subreddit and while I was getting recommended movies, the moderators took down my post because they don’t allow people to ask for broad movies, only specific genres.

I hope to make it work here and I want to see if you guys can recommend me some more movies. YOU CAN RECOMMEND LITERALLY ANYTHING, ANY TYPE OF MOVIE, GENRE, YEAR, ETC ALL IS OKAY!!! I want to hear your voices and I want to see everything there is to offer.

I have the entirety of January planned out and most of February but obviously I need the rest of the year. So by the end of the year, I’ll have 365 movies watched or more, as I need at least one per day.

Thank you guys for your recommendations, I appreciate all of them.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Hog_enthusiast on 2025-01-03 15:34:55.

I watched Glass Onion again last night because it had finally been long enough for me to forget the plot. I remembered not liking it, and I didn’t like it on the second watch either. I really enjoyed the first Knives Out, and Glass Onion gets mostly positive reviews, so why do I hate it so much?

There’s a few things that detract from the movie that are obvious up front. The aesthetic is worse. The characters aren’t believable and contradict themselves repeatedly. Blanc wins the record for quickest flanderization of a character in human history. The constant jokes about Covid and NFTs are dated and stale already. But that’s not enough to make me hate a movie. I can excuse dumb character decisions, or ugly costumes, or bad accents, or factual mistakes and inconsistencies.

The thing that absolutely kills this movie is twofold. For one thing, the cardinal sin in a mystery is to have a twist that the audience couldn’t ever figure out. There need to be hints. “Actually, Andy is dead and this has been her sister the whole time”? Terrible twist. The audience had no hint, no subtle costume detail, no strange line or moment that is later explained by that twist. Now this wouldn’t be enough to kill the movie. But because of that twist we get the real issue:

The whole movie is an attempt to figure out if Miles killed Andy, or if someone killed Andy on behalf of Miles.

Who cares?

Seriously, who cares? What difference does it make? Either way she is dead, she was screwed over by her friends, and Miles is responsible. The movie builds to nothing, it’s in pursuit of nothing. And maybe I could excuse that, if there were some fun or interesting scenes or characters. That isn’t the case. The dialogue is boring and hamfisted. The characters have no chemistry. It says a lot that I saw this movie two years ago, and couldn’t remember any characters or plot points or scenes.

To be forgettable is one thing, to be stupid is another. To be forgettable and stupid is unforgivable.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/screenplaywise on 2025-01-03 15:04:50.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Evening-Grocery-9150 on 2025-01-03 14:52:19.

George Lucas gets a lot of criticism particularly post the 2000s, but American Graffiti and THX show, in my opinion, that he is much more than a one trick wonder. He had a real stroke of genius in him. Even if we keep his directorial work aside, it would be hard to imagine anyone who has had as profound and as deep of an impact on the art of movie making than he has - both in terms of how his intellectual properties like Indiana Jones and Star Wars have shaped popular culture; and how his technical endeavours like Industrial Light and Magic have transformed what was possible to put on the big screen. His big fluke in the prequels, particularly The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones was what I believe to be the work of a man who had been told for two decades how much a genius he was and had nobody above him to question his creative choices. He had complete control on every aspect of the films, which made them much less coherent and cohesive. He's certainly not the best writer of dialogue and not the most artsy of directors - he himself admits that he is not too fond of directing films of such scale as Star Wars. Even so, you see him respond to criticism and roll back many of his over the top directorial and creative tendencies for Revenge of the Sith. I think he gets far less credit than he actually deserves - beyond merely being a rebellious director from the 70s, his creative genius is what gave us Star Wars and Indiana Jones. He is a technical maestro without whom the achievements of visual effects, sound design and digital filmography in modern filmmaking could not have been possible. It's unfortunate that he pretty much retired after the Clone Wars. I would have loved to see the 'small, personal stories' Lucas had said he would direct after Revenge of the Sith.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/artpayne on 2025-01-03 13:40:02.

Everyone who's seen the original Die Hard loves it, knows it's the best of the franchise, and ranks it first.

Now, the third one, with a Vengeance, is terrific too. It comes real close to the first one and should easily be the second-best of the franchise. But some people rank it above the first one—and that's okay.

Apparently, there's a fifth one, whose existence nobody wants to talk about or even think about.

BUT...

The real question is...

Die Hard 2: Die Harder vs. Live Free or Die Hard—which one takes third place? You could make a case for either, honestly.

Personally, I like them both, but I'm gonna settle on Die Hard 2 for third place. I mean, do you really think it's okay to rank a rated-R action movie from the '90s below a PG-13 one from the mid-2000s? Nah, come on.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Task_Force-191 on 2025-01-03 12:04:30.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Neat_Desk3063 on 2025-01-03 10:47:50.

Now I watched the movie and I've seen many people criticize it for whatever reason. But hear me out. I was thinking about the movie and the message that Haneke wanted to send (Critizing the people who watch violence in movies). And I though, wouldn't it be better if:

They show the psychopaths in a charismatich way, and make us root for them (maybe in a Joe Goldberg type of way?) Then they start hurting them (not necessarily showing it on screen) and then all of the sudden we see Anna or George come to the screen and break the 4th wall, telling us desperately to help them or asking why are we not doing anything.

I feel that this would've made a greater impact (at least for me) and that I would actually feel called out (and prob feel bad) and I think the message would have been understood.

What do y'all think?

The original post: /r/movies by /u/violetgrrlie on 2025-01-03 03:36:59.

I am always looking to watch more scary movies, but I tend to get disappointed with underdeveloped plots, or reliance on cliche’s or shock factor things like gore and jump scares. What movies would you recommend for having a well-written and interesting plot, that are also gripping and dark or spooky/scary?

The original post: /r/movies by /u/TheStranger113 on 2025-01-03 03:04:02.

What are some of the best and worst recasts in movie (and TV) history?

One of my favorites has gotta be Lena Headey as Sarah Connor in the Terminator TV series. Not as badass as Linda Hamilton, but very true to the character in her own right.

Not sure if this counts since it's a different continuity, but I loved Robert Pattinson's take on Bruce Wayne. He was totally different from everyone we've seen before him, but in a way that still "feels" right. Add in Mads Mikkelsen from the Hannibal TV series taking on the role Anthony Hopkins once played - that one may be #1 actually.

Now for the worst...I'm drawing a blank at the moment. What do y'all think?

Edit: Already realized my own answer - Stuart Townsend as Lestat in Queen of the Damned.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/CnP8 on 2025-01-03 01:33:04.

Anyone got any suggestions for sci fi action style movies? Here some of mine.

Elysium

In Time

Pacific Rim

Maze Runner (All of them)

Hunger Games (All of them)

I Robot

Terminator 1 and 2 are the best. 3 and Salvation are ok. Genesis is my least favourite. Dark Fate was actually not to bad in my opinion.

Divergent (All of them, but the last was cancelled)

Starship Troopers (All of them)

Avatar (Both of them)

Attack the Block

Snow Piercer

Life (2017)

What happened to Monday

Repo Men

The Island

• Not sure if these 2 are sci fi, but they good movies -

Level 16

Limitless

Need more sci fi. Please suggest some good ones for me! 😉

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Grem357 on 2025-01-03 15:40:32.

Heard about that movie for ages and always put it aside. Thought of it as one of those movies that is somehow talked about alot but does not deliver.

... Just finished it and oh my... That was something.

Brutal story... Goes deep into the darkness of drugs and leaves you there. Don't know what to think right now... But likely a movie that will stick for a while.

Don't remember ever watching something close to it.

Ellen Burstyn was... phenomenal. So was the rest of the cast to be fair.

What a movie.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/DemiFiendRSA on 2025-01-03 15:26:18.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Muscly_Legs on 2025-01-03 14:40:57.

Obviously there are many movies about young people experiencing personal growth that helps them develop into adulthood, but I was wondering if there are any movies about young characters who aren't able to overcome the challenges they face or are failed by their role models, leaving them unprepared for the adult world.

The only one I could think of was Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, but I feel like there have to be more.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/outremer_empire on 2025-01-03 14:14:46.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Sisiwakanamaru on 2025-01-03 14:05:39.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Fan387 on 2025-01-03 12:16:16.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Zaphoid411 on 2025-01-03 11:57:21.

"The Remarkable Life of Ibelin" (or just "Ibelin" on IMDB) absolutely broke me.

It's a documentary about Mats Steen, a Norwegian man who died in 2014 of a degenerative muscular disease. The disease was progressive and by his teens he was wheelchair bound, his condition just got worse from there. In his adult life he became engrossed in the online RPG World of Warcraft, which saddened his family as he withdrew from them. However, Mats left them his login info for the game when he died...

His parents decided to log in and post a message on his account about his passing... they were immediately flooded with Mats' online friends reaching out with their condolences and stories of online friendship. The family digs into his account and discovers that Mats was not simply gaming, but living a very rich and fulfilling life in the game where he was not limited by his condition. He made many friends, genuinely affected those he cared about and even found love. His online community mostly had no knowledge of his real life condition.

I cried multiple times, but absolutely bawled at the end at his funeral when some of his guildmates attended his funeral and the woman that he had a genuine, loving and complicated relationship with was one of his pall barers.

15/10 - cannot reccomend it enough.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/ItsAlmostShowtime on 2025-01-03 09:51:09.

Streaming on Netflix

Synopsis: Gromit's concern that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a smart gnome that seems to develope a mind of its own.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

IMDB score: 7.9/10

Cast: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Reece Shearsmith, Lenny Henry, Lauren Patel, Diane Morgan, Muzz Khan, Adjoa Andoh

Directed by: Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham