TychoCelchuuu

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  1. Posted

    On 2/16/2017 at 7:30 PM, Patrick R said:

    It was surprising to hear you talk about Snagglepuss without mentioning him as a gay stereotype. My primary connection to Snagglepuss was always as "the gay Hanna Barbera character", even without knowing he was supposed to work in the theater. And it even sounds like the new Snagglepuss has specified that further into a Tennessee Williams figure. Am I the only one who makes that association?

    You're definitely not alone.

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    The best part of Wadjda is that at one point the English subtitles say something like [Speaking in Arabic]. It's like, thanks subtitles! I know it's Arabic! What I'm really looking for is a translation of that Arabic! After all, I don't speak Arabic! That's why I have English subtitles turned on!

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    6 hours ago, Ben X said:

    I recognised the reference but I don't get it. I mean, is the entire joke here "there is a thing that is happening and I have changed a few words of a lyric from a random song to inaccurately reflect that event"?

     

    In other news, I no longer have All Star stuck in my head because I have Breakfast At Tiffany's stuck in my head.

    No, the joke is that the Groupon's title fits perfectly as a lyric in Wonderwall. It's literally the same joke this entire thread is devoted to, but for a different song.

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    Indiana Jones as a cranky old man is great, Marion is always amazing (although she didn't have much of a part), Cate Blanchett hamming it waaaay the fuck up, aliens moving the series on from 30's and 40's serial adventures to 50's pulp sci-fi, Mutt was legitimately good, the scene between the greasers and the Socs was worth the price of entry, the chase in the university town was exciting and had great music, and that's a wrap. I'm also not bothered by stuff that probably also bothers lots of people, like the godawful CGI in parts (I mean come the fuck on, what even happened there?!) or the fridge, which I was fine with - mostly I just liked that scene because realizing he was on a nuclear test site was pretty funny and exciting.

  14. Posted

    Saw this movie recently. Enjoyed it, but I wasn't head over heels for it. Spoilers:

     

    By far the most interesting part of the movie was the theme of "if you knew everything that was going to happen in your life, including some tragic stuff, would you change anything," and also the subtext of 

    could you change anything. The movie spent almost no time on it but honestly that was the only thematically interesting thing to me. The Sapir-Whorf stuff is just dumb pseudo-science, the aliens themselves had pretty opaque motivations and not much else going for them, and the movie took its sweet time doing everything (not that I minded - the languid pace actually makes me really excited for Blade Runner 2, because there's a chance that movie will also take it niiiiiice and slow, like the original).

  15. Posted

    I've only seen 14 Spielberg movies, so my ranking can only be very partial. I've included the scores out of 100 that I give to each movie so you have cardinal in addition to ordinal ranking information:

     

    1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (100)

    2. Jaws (95)

    3. Schindler's List (91)

    4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (90)

    5. Munich (87)

    7. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (84)

    8. Saving Private Ryan (81)

    9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (80) (yes I liked this movie a lot)

    10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (79)

    11. Minority Report (77)

    12. Jurassic Park (68)

    12. Catch Me If You Can (68)

    13. The Terminal (62)

     

    As you can tell, Jurassic Park wasn't my favorite in the world. It has good music and the Goldblum but not much else, really.

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    It's not an algorithm based on what you already know, it's an algorithm based on what other people similar to you think about the movie. It doesn't suggest you anything other than things it thinks you'll like. I don't know about Letterboxd's suggestions but I've gotten suggestions from Criticker that I would never have heard of otherwise, because it just randomly picks movies that it thinks you'd score high, rather than picking based on popularity or something. Like, there's no way I would ever have added "As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty" to my "to watch" list outside Criticker, I bet.

  22. Posted

    One of my favorite things for Criticker is that for each movie you can see the score breakdown that shows you how much everyone liked it, which countries liked it the most, how much each gender liked it, and how much each age group liked it. It's cool seeing how some movies, like Clueless, have a fairly substantial difference in the average score between men and women (4.72 vs 5.35 in that case). It's also interesting to see how many movies have a higher average rating from men than women - Clueless is one of the few exceptions. It hammers home how man-centric a lot of our entertainment is.

  23. Posted

    In terms of recommendations, I use Criticker in four ways. First, if you just refresh the home page, it'll show you some interesting movies, including some super obscure stuff that I had never heard of and likely wouldn't have heard of. Second, the collections are super helpful - for instance, the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 250 essential noir films list is great for finding noir to watch. Third, the database serach search is great for finding (for instance) all the best sci-fi movies I haven't seen, or all the best movies from 1957 that I haven't seen, etc. Since those searches are so broad they find lots of obscure stuff. Finally, I use it to check out a movie I've found via other routes, like Netflix. If something on Netflix looks interesting but iffy I'll just type it into Criticker and see what it says. I used Letterboxd only very briefly so I can't really say how it compares.

  25. Posted

    16 minutes ago, Problem Machine said:

    Yeah I'm mostly just taking issue with the little text box underneath the ranking saying bad, terrible, okay, etc. That's probably also partially because their calibration movies tend to be extremely well known and popular, which skews it towards movies that I like. That said, a movie has to be pretty bad before I rate it under a 50, just because I think we're generally okay at making movies and it's rare for movies that actually get eyes on them to actually be below average.

    Ah, yes. You can change those quips and the numbers they're assigned to with the link near the bottom of your profile page.