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Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 hour ago
Replies: 117
Poll: Can a Prequel EVER be a Good Film?
Posted By crumbsroom
My claim that finding pure objectivity in...

My claim that finding pure objectivity in assessing the value of an artwork is near impossible is objectively true.


And my claim that discussing things and articulating ideas is important I can...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 hour ago
Replies: 117
Poll: Can a Prequel EVER be a Good Film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Watch movies and do my best to explain what I...

Watch movies and do my best to explain what I believe to be good or bad about them. And why those the things I am measuring it against matter to me. Why other things don't matter to me. Being correct...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 hours ago
Replies: 117
Poll: Can a Prequel EVER be a Good Film?
Posted By crumbsroom
If we zoom in and only focus in on very...

If we zoom in and only focus in on very particular elements in a work of art, and then define what makes those particular elements good or bad, then we can have some kind of objective measure (but...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 hours ago
Replies: 117
Poll: Can a Prequel EVER be a Good Film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Can a Prequel EVER be a Good Film?

The inherent subjectivity of our experience with a work of art, is exactly why our vain attempts to find objective measurements of its worth is so important. Awkwardly fumbling towards proving what...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 hours ago
Replies: 117
Poll: Can a Prequel EVER be a Good Film?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Can a Prequel EVER be a Good Film?

"It's all subjective" is an objectively bad argument to make.


That's probably why it's almost always used by people who never have any other argument.
Forum: Games and Tabs 18 hours ago
Replies: 1,294
First movie to come to mind
Posted By crumbsroom
Forum: General Movie Discussion 18 hours ago
Replies: 34
Movie Things Most People Like But You Don't
Posted By crumbsroom
Any movie that wants you to think it's cool,...

Any movie that wants you to think it's cool, probably isn't.


And just because it was worried about that in the first place, probably means it was shit.


Rule of thumb.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 20 hours ago
Replies: 7
Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer's
Posted By crumbsroom
Gena Rowlands is great. This is sad. What more...

Gena Rowlands is great. This is sad. What more needs to be said.


But does every morsel from every Hollywood clickbait article deserve its own thread?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 20 hours ago
Replies: 34
Movie Things Most People Like But You Don't
Posted By crumbsroom
Related to my unrelated and now deleted post...

Related to my unrelated and now deleted post about hating hot weather, I used to hate Westerns exclusively because everyone was always standing around in the sun in them and looking sweaty and I...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
Replies: 377
My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
Posted By crumbsroom
Jeanne Dielman asks a pretty basic question of...

Jeanne Dielman asks a pretty basic question of its audience: is there something worth watching here, too?


Movies all throughout cinema's history have turned our gaze towards all kinds of novel...
Forum: The Television & Music Forum 5 days ago
Replies: 52
Poll: Do you like Linkin Park?
Posted By crumbsroom
Incubus and 311 were particular hates for me back...

Incubus and 311 were particular hates for me back then.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 5 days ago
Replies: 23
Donald Sutherland has passed away.
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Donald Sutherland has passed away.

On the short list of greatest actors of all time. Plus, I always felt a stronger kinship with him than almost any other 'leading man'. It might be the Canadian thing.
Forum: The Television & Music Forum 5 days ago
Replies: 52
Poll: Do you like Linkin Park?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you like Linkin Park?

Most bands that were getting radio play at that time were about as bad as popular music had been in decades, but Lincoln Park at least didn't make me nauseous when it came on.



Korn was...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 5 days ago
Replies: 27
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They - 2013
Posted By crumbsroom
Exactly this. Also as a push back against...

Exactly this.


Also as a push back against two criticisms frequently levelled at Jeanne Dielman


1) Even if one considers narrative essential to film (they shouldn't, but let's entertain that...
Forum: Movie Reviews 6 days ago
Replies: 709
Vampires, Assassins, and Romantic Angst by the Seaside: Takoma Reviews
Posted By crumbsroom
I honestly don't even remember the end. As stated...

I honestly don't even remember the end. As stated here, it sounds fairly bad, and I imagine I would have thought so at the time as well.


But I also don't hold films that sort of aim for the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 29
What do watch more? New Movies vs Old movies you haven't seen?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: What do watch more? New Movies vs Old movies you haven't seen?

Just movies. And unless you are offering ways to watch ones from the future, who cares when they came from. Just movies.
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 709
Vampires, Assassins, and Romantic Angst by the Seaside: Takoma Reviews
Posted By crumbsroom
I haven't seen it in a long time, and I wouldn't...

I haven't seen it in a long time, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't entirely hold up, but at the time it felt like a breath of fresh air having what is essentially a film that is marketed...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 112
Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?
Posted By crumbsroom
It's actually pretty funny how everyone of these...

It's actually pretty funny how everyone of these threads that Minio creates all have the pretense of being about appreciating humanism and transcendence in films, but after a pretty cursory glance at...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 377
My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
Posted By crumbsroom
One of the very few things I have ever taken...

One of the very few things I have ever taken pride in my life, is I was likely the first Things stan in all of humanity.


Weeks after it was released I was torturing friends with it. For twenty...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 709
Vampires, Assassins, and Romantic Angst by the Seaside: Takoma Reviews
Posted By crumbsroom
The value of a movie like Terms of Endearment is...

The value of a movie like Terms of Endearment is how it acts as a balm for those who recognize the kind of family dysfunction it depicts. The humor in it works because it neither plays towards parody...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 1 week ago
Replies: 47
Do you think Terrence Malick is in the same league as Stanley Kubrick?
Posted By crumbsroom
I don't care what anyone says, Badlands is easily...

I don't care what anyone says, Badlands is easily his best.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 2 weeks ago
Replies: 47
Do you think Terrence Malick is in the same league as Stanley Kubrick?
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Do you think Terrence Malick is in the same league as Stanley Kubr

While I don't think there is any doubt that the idea of accepting cinema on purely cinematic terms is being constantly diluted, especially by the over reliance on straight narrative, I don't see any...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
Replies: 188
The Resident Bitch Prepares for... the Most Recent MoFo Countdown
Posted By crumbsroom
You made me want to see it.

You made me want to see it.
Replies: 5
Have you thanked a narcissist today? (Pros/cons of the self-involved)
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Have you thanked a narcissist today? (Pros/cons of the self-involv

As long as we are not talking about narcissists who treat everyone horribly, I'm team narcissist. They're almost always the most fun people to hang out with. You've just got to accept they are...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 weeks ago
Replies: 11
Mulholland Drive
Posted By crumbsroom
Inland Empire, Elephant Man and (if I can't...

Inland Empire, Elephant Man and (if I can't choose Twin Peaks: The Return), probably Lost Highway.


Dune is the only one I'm not a particular fan of, and Wild at Heart is kind of on a wavelength...

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