We're adding polls
Added 2022-05-08 09:15:45 +0000 UTCMaple has asked to start watching more "serious and adult movies" so I've been putting together a chonky list of selections and I figured y'all would be a perfect way to figure out which ones we watch in what order.
So coming soon, we're going to start running polls with groups of about five in order to see which order we watch them in.
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Selena
Rondo
2022-05-12 19:00:58 +0000 UTCThere are a lot of "serious and adult" movies that I go back to and don't really understand why I liked it when I was younger. There are some very much older movies that really hold up for me, but they tend to fall into really specific categories. In the "challenging but worthwhile" category, I'd say Road to Perdition, The Shining, and A.I. if she hasn't seen them. *Perdition is Sam Mendes, had it mixed up in my brain because Spielberg was considered for it. The Shining is arguably among Kubrick's best work, and Kubrick's death spurred the creation of A.I., which Spielberg seemingly tried to make a Kubrick movie. Spielbergianness creeps in, inevitably, but it's fascinating to watch him try to tackle a thing he doesn't seem like he particularly cares about. None of those make you feel.... good. At all. They're all hideous in their ways. For lighter fare (still heavy, still adult), The Grand Budapest Hotel is, in my opinion, the best way to onboard to Wes Anderson. I think that's the one to get used to the style. All the others make infinitely more sense, and it's wild to watch, visually. I'm struggling to come up with "adult and serious" movies that aren't huge bummers. There's the entire non-Mel-Gibson'd catalogue of Shane Black films, which are decidedly adult, but decidedly not serious. Hunt for Red October. Lots of super clever stuff there with social perspective. ...honestly, if there's a fellow-movie-based-Patreon-creator Movies with Mikey episode about it, probably worth a peek. Obviously some of those aren't like, adult. Or serious. But plenty are.
Sean Boyce
2022-05-11 22:46:48 +0000 UTC
