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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Tequilaforrealya on 2023-07-18 02:11:42+00:00.

Michael Mann is my favorite director (tied with Scorsese). I absolutely love the themes he loves to explore, but he’s also a technical genius and a master of atmosphere.

Very few directors can truly capture both style and substance on a consistent basis, and in my opinion this guy has proven it over and over, and some of his films have aged quite well, particularly Heat and Collateral.

I just did a post about Collateral, and marvel at how it’s essentially a movie about a nihilistic philosophical hit man, and a wise cabbie not living up to his full potential. I’ve revisited that movie probably more than a dozen times and somehow each time it gets better, hits harder, and I pick up on different visual effects I hadn’t noticed before. Clearly I’m partial to this movie, yet I do not think it’s his best by any means.

So if you had to rank his movies in order? Here mine:

1: Heat - it’s just the best all around.

2: Collateral - it used to be Manhunter, and maybe is on some days, but this has aged the best for me of his films.

1. Thief - it has a more interesting and badass lead, and a much much better ending.
2. Manhunter - had this had Red Dragon’s ending, in Mann’s 80’s visual style- it might’ve been his 2nd best. I hate ranking it 4th because it is so good, but that ending sucked.
3. The Insider - his top 5 are all so close besides Heat. This one is so good, but fails to engage my ADHD ass as much as the other 4 do.
4. Miami Vice - visually his best after Heat. Substance wise not his best effort, but the show was like that too. All flash lol. Still great stuff.
5. The Last of the Mohicans - this is where his filmography starts to really lose me, although I liked it the 2nd time.
6. Public Enemies - honestly just didn’t like it. Maybe I’ll give it another go. The look is just eh for Mann too.
7. Ali - fell asleep every time I tried watching it. I think it’s more Will Smith than Mann though, cause technically it seems awesome.
8. Blackhat - omg was this bad, and honestly has me worried for Heat 2.

Haven’t seen The Keep or Ferrari. If I missed one let me know. Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Key_Point_4063 on 2023-07-18 02:06:05+00:00.

I'm in the mood to watch a really good movie. Like I'm talking titanic, wolf of wall street, the dark knight type of good. I feel like I haven't seen a truly exceptional movie in years. I've heard the whale is really good, but that sounds like a huge bummer and I got a sprained ankle rn, so I'm more in the mood to laugh.

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Obversa on 2023-07-18 02:00:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/desMorningStar on 2023-07-18 01:47:48+00:00.

I wanted to ask what will be the aspect ratio of oppenheimer in PVR PXL Mani Square Kolkata. WIll the whole movie be in Scope format (2.20:1) or will it switch between scope and IMAX (1.90:1).It was a 70mm theatre once and i have heard they showed avatar 2 in 1.85:1 format there despite being a non IMAX theatre.

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/crawthumper on 2023-07-18 01:46:31+00:00.

I was reading the blog of someone with posttraumatic stress disorder a few days ago, and she was saying that she most often identifies with Sarah Connor, from Terminator 2. The blogger said she could really identify with Connor's fear, paranoia, and the desperate need to prevent something terrible from happening.

This made me think. I had never really thought about the idea of identifying with a movie character. I mean I like some and don't like others, but do I really identify with any?

I asked a colleague, who is a forensic psychiatrist, who he identified with. He was quick to say Dr. Hannibal Lecter. I was afraid to ask why.

What movie character do you Redditors identify with?

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Rare_Handle3817 on 2023-07-18 01:35:43+00:00.

I need some good B movie recommendations. They can either be so-bad-they’re-good movies or parody style movies that are in on the joke (think Kung Fury).

So far I’ve watched,

Kung fury

Zombeavers

Sharknado

The Room

Plan 9 from outer space

ThanksKilling

Piranha

and the Leprechaun movies (god those were awful)

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/mel-06 on 2023-07-18 00:34:22+00:00.

I was surprised Pixars Elementals last month did horrible in the box office, and I feel bad for the director since this is his second movie that did bad (The good Dinosaur) (2015), Dream works new movie also did bad at the box office, so are people not wanting to go see animated movies, although the Spider-Man Across the spider verse did very well, or are people just waiting until it ends up a streaming service?!

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/strawberry-seal on 2023-07-17 23:56:33+00:00.

Ok, so one of my favorite movies when I was a kid was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs; I used to watch it all the time and I still sometimes watch it for old time’s sake when it shows up on TV. However, I’m wondering if there’s a scene I might be remembering incorrectly.

So I’m assuming most of you have seen the movie, but just in case, for context: a scientist, Flint, invents a machine that converts water to food and causes it to rain food all over town when it gets shot into the sky, but the machine goes haywire and causes the food to over-mutate so he and his new friends have to shut it down. The machine is basically inside a giant exoskeleton of food; Flint and Sam, his love interest, get in and almost get to where the machine is, but are blocked by a cavern of peanut brittle, as Sam has a severe peanut allergy. As Flint gets lowered inside with a rope, Sam accidentally gets scratched by a piece of it and goes into anaphylactic shock, so Flint offers to cut the rope so she can get back to the ship and get the medicine she needs. Before he does, the following conversation happens:

Sam: Look…I like you, okay?

Flint: Like…like, as a friend?

Sam: No, like…like you, like you.

And that seems innocuous enough, but I swear to GOD this was supposed to be a callback to an earlier scene where they’re first getting to know each other & Sam tells Flint she likes him and Flint’s like “ like me like me?” & she’s like “no I mean as a friend” which would make the later scene more meaningful, but whenever I watch it on TV or streaming that scene never happens, even though I remember watching it when I saw it in theaters. It could just be a Mandela effect, but I know what I saw.

If anyone could help me on this one, I’d definitely appreciate it.

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Friend-Shoddy on 2023-07-17 23:32:36+00:00.

Those were the only seats available on the day I can watch MI7. I really want to watch the movie in the theaters, even though they're a bit close to the screen. Do you have any tips on how to make the experience more comfortable? Or would I be fine? Cinemark Century Theater.

The next time I would be free to watch it in the theaters would be in about 2 weeks.

TIA!

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Fra06 on 2023-07-17 23:30:28+00:00.

I've been waiting for Oppenheimer for a while, but I live in Italy and here they won't play the movie in IMAX 70mm (at least not that I'm aware of, but even then I would not be able to go). I have never seen a movie in IMAX 70 mm, and I won't be able to go to London when the film is available. I read that BFI is one of the few cinemas worldwide to keep their copy of IMAX 700 mm films, and I read that they sometimes show them athegain. The thing is, the only proof I found of this was that they screened a few of Nolan's movies in these months leading to Oppenheimer, but is this a thing they do every once in a while, or was it a one-time thing? I'd be down to plan a trip around the movie, and I am subscribed to their newsletter, but please tell me if they have done this other times with famous movies or if I have to get my hopes down (also, in case they do it, if it's just one screening or multiple, cuz I think it would sell out pretty fast for one screening). If my questions was not clear, please tell me and I'll try to rephrase

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/HolyPotato2020 on 2023-07-17 23:30:01+00:00.

I found a YouTube short about a police man who's becoming the head or something get handcuffed at a restaurant by a police man who dosent know and the main guy calls for police squad to come and they do and he has a daughter, comments say a fatal attack a fatal shot, a single shot. I cant find the movie anywhere online to watch or more details! Can anyone help? The actor is supposedly Chen Jianbin and they say it came out in 2001, it looks good though.

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/mgcho6 on 2023-07-18 01:42:22+00:00.

I am excited about these new movies coming in September.

Equalizer 3 (Denzel Washington)

Challengers (Zendaya)

A Haunting in Venice (Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot, & Michelle Yeoh)

The Creator (SciFi - The trailer is interesting )

There will also be Nun II and Expandables 4.

What’s yours?

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/rejs7 on 2023-07-18 01:29:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Danmark100 on 2023-07-18 01:23:14+00:00.

Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie

I’m trying to find a viewing in Berlin or an online method of watching this film. Any ideas as to where I might find a screening or perhaps a link to a site I can watch this movie?

Thank you for your time

Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie

I’m trying to find a viewing in Berlin or an online method of watching this film. Any ideas as to where I might find a screening or perhaps a link to a site I can watch this movie?

Thank you for your time

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/janearcade on 2023-07-18 01:04:14+00:00.

I remember (aging myself) the trailer for Dangerous Minds and there was a scene where Michelle Pfeiffer was playing pool with the kids she taught, but when I saw the movie in the cinema no such scene existed, so it must have been cut at some point?

I'm just curious if there are other examples of this happening?

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Wild_Masterpiece_178 on 2023-07-18 00:58:48+00:00.

I had made a post on whats the scariest movie and everyone went crazy in the comments and i need the same for this question lol😂 Whats the funniest movie you all have ever seen? I need a comedy movie thats going to have me dyin my ass off because its funny as shit type comedy. Ive seen a lot of movies but ill take all the suggestions i can get.

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Equivalent_Ad_9066 on 2023-07-18 00:42:58+00:00.

One of my favorite directors ever is Martin Scorsese. His way of depicting, crime, depravity, self-destruction, and chaos has always inspired me as someone who's a huge fan of crime and psychological thriller media

Although I've been a fan of his for years, I've never understood the stigma or assumption that he was this artsy fartsy cinephile. At least not until I've seen his interviews as well as the "Superhero movies aren't cinema" controversy back in 2019.

But prior to that, his films never came off as pretentious, art house, deep movies to me. For me they're just intriguing character studies about a lifestyle that shows lots of sex, violence, drugs, and insanity.

And that's how it's always been for me. Not this "pure cinema" meme that people like to associate him as. Cause believe me, I've seen my fair share of films that have came off deep and pretentious

So in conclusion, no matter how critically acclaimed, oscar-winning, and film-enthusiast Martin Scorsese is. To me, he's always gonna be that guy who makes really awesome crime, psychological thrillers, and drama. All the other accolades I don't really care about as much

But what are your thoughts on Martin Scorsese and the whole "Cinema" meme surrounding his name?

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Any-Satisfaction-770 on 2023-07-17 16:51:45+00:00.

I was raised as a kid deep into the Pokémon craze. Before I got obsessed with pro wrestling at the age of 10, Pokémon was my world back then. I had some spare time recently and decided to watch the original television show. I zeroed in on episodes that made the franchise the success it was and there is genuinely great writing there. The first movie however is a mixed bag.

For nostalgia reasons, this is one of those movies that's always going to be difficult to watch without nostalgia goggles. But as an adult I can still put on my film critic hat. Let's start with what works.

The film is short and packs a lot of tension in the scenes. The battles and the chase scene with the pokeballs trying to catch Pikachu are done very well. I admire the writers attempt to try a more mature story arc of Mewtwo being a created Pokémon and having an existential crisis over identity and purpose. It's just funny that this was the franchise to try that experiment which gets into the main problem with the film.

The plot is stuck in this bizarre contradiction. An entire franchise marketed primarily on Pokémon battling each other has a movie where fighting is bad? So I guess it depends on the kind of fighting now? The climax also is very tacked on. Pikachu tears to revive Ash turned to stone. Spoilers. It does feel like the writers just threw something together to end the film.

On the bright side Mewtwo's quote at the end is still wise "I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

I think I'll always be overly generous to this film. To grow up at that time as a kid was unique and watching this movie still brought back a lot of memories personally. However the dated soundtrack and the obvious cash grab reminds me that the film is still a product of its time.

There are parents now that were kids during that time. Maybe they have kids. I wonder what those kids think of a movie like this removed from the nostalgia? Would it be like me watching some kids movie from the 70s or 80s? Probably.

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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/Key_Damage_9220 on 2023-07-17 14:03:17+00:00.