My wife was depressed and decided to watch this. It was my first time watching it, laughed my ass off. Very fun movie.

One From The Heart is a visually dazzling film from start to finish, with an amazing music score and decent acting. The writing is kind of mud though.

I feel as though the film doesn't sufficiently set up the romance between It's two leads, Hank and Franny. From scene one they're already at each other throats for seemingly no reason at all, this is a relationship that was already crashing and burning before the cameras even turn on, and the dialogue we get in this first scene implies they quite frankly didn't have much chemistry at the peak of their relationship either.

Franny finds her prince charming quite easily, rather, the guy delivers himself on a silver platter having been an admirer for a bit. Ray is everything Franny wanted in Hank -- exciting, can sing, can dance, and wants to find paradise hand in hand with her. Meanwhile, Hank finds someone just good enough as a sexual rebound, but that's seemingly all he sees in her.

What is weird however is that, with mere seconds left on the clock, Hank and Franny get back together and I'm left scratching my head. Didn't Franny's plane to Los Angeles clearly just take off with her on it?

I felt the film would have worked better if they literally just cut out the last couple of minutes. There didn't need to be a random reconciliation between Hank and Franny at the end of the film, their romance wasn't convincing to begin with, and as I watched the film, that almost started seeming like the point. Sometimes relationships don't work out, especially when each partner wants something completely different from the other, with completely different desires for what they want to get out of life.

Despite the writing being all over the place though, I still enjoyed the film. Again, It's a visual spectacle that looks like nothing of It's era, and would honestly go toe to toe with a lot of highly regarded films of today. The set facades are really obvious, I mean you can see the ceiling in most of the outdoor scenes, but that was clearly intentional as It's meant to be something like a stage play, with curtains opening to kick us off, and curtains closing to end the show. The music is also really great from beginning to end, the jazzy blues all timed and synced very well with each accompanying beautiful scene.

One From the Heart is a decent film let down by It's writing.

I’m always taking my time with David Lynch’s films, because they always leave feeling like things will never be the same again.

This is my first time watching this, and it’s happened again. However, it won’t be my last and I can’t wait to explore it even more.

It’s simply beautiful, hypnotic and unique. What a talented human being he is.

Great film.

This was a favorite of mine when I was a kid and this morning I revisited it with my daughter.

Well she was into it and I was into it too. This is one that I think is fun for kids and adults too.

It's got a great voice cast with Terry Thomas and Andy Devine and Pat Butteam and Peter Ustinov. I don't remember any other Disney movies really having a bunch of famous voice actors at least not from that era, but this one's a who's who of old funny voices.

But my favorite part was definitely Roger Miller and the soundtrack. These songs are so great and they've been stuck in my head for like 30 years or however long since I first heard them.

Well this is a fun cartoon and it's on Disney Plus right now so check it out if that sounds like it's up your alley!

I've had the Bruce Springsteen song from this on my ipod for like twenty years but I've never actually watched the movie that it's from. Well that all changed last night/this morning.

Well it's really great and Tom Hanks is great and Denzel Washington is really great. It's great that Tom Hanks won best actor but I kind of felt like Denzel Washington was kind of the star of the show here. Maybe it should've been a tie that year idk. I wish Denzel Washington doing more stuff that I wanted to watch it seems like every movie he's in now is like the Equalizer part 2 or some action movie. Not that I have anything against action movies just like not really the stuff he's been picking I guess.

Well anyway this is a great movie and a real tearjerker and I'm glad I finally checked it out.

Also there's a good Neil Young song in here too that I had no idea about.

Well thanks everybody!

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Give me any movie set on the high seas from this time period and I'm going to enjoy. This film along with The Bounty is probably my favourite

Singin' in the Rain was one of the movies I watched endlessly as a kid while being babysat by my nan. I watched it last night after not having seen it for years, but I still remembered nearly all the words to most of the songs.

Set in 1927, the story follows Hollywood superstar, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) as the movie studio tries to make its first "talking picture". Problems arise as Don and his friends - Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor) and Kathy Seldon (Debbie Reynolds) - try to come up with a solution to the fact that Don's costar, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), has a grating, shrill voice and can neither act, sing nor dance.

The film's comedic qualities are fantastic, often showcased through impressive stunts and dance routines performed by Kelly and O'Connor. The exploration of silent films and non-verbal communication is a through-line, as well as celebrating old-fashioned forms of theatre entertainment, such as the Ziegfeld Follies. My favourite element of the film is its reflection on the changes taking place in Hollywood during the 20s and how much cinema and other forms of entertainment had changed in the proceeding 20-30 years. It seems to me that the filmmakers deliberately tried to showcase the marvels of modern technology, such as cutting techniques, Technicolor, and wide angle shots.

Viewing it now and reflecting on how much film making, entertainment and culture has changed since the 1950s is really interesting. For example, I watched this with my partner, who had never seen it, and very early on he remarked that there were no black people, not even as background characters. There's even one fleeting scene that includes blackface. Diversity is an element of modern film that is completely missing from this era of cinema, and it was cool to reflect on how much more representative media is these days, as well as to imagine what TV and cinema will look like in the future.

I really enjoyed my revisit of this childhood favourite and seeing it in different and deeper terms to how I used to view it, as well as singing and tapping along to the lush, colourful musical numbers. It remains one of my favourite musicals and I can't recommend it enough!

Apparently it was a Jim Carrey kinda night.

Hard to believe this movie is 24 years old. Very well done all around!! And the names in it?!?! Truly a live action classic and a MUST for the season.

This movie is a bit of a garbage fire, but is apparently based on an experience that Dan Aykroyd actually had getting pulled over for speeding in a rural town in the Northeastern United States. Also the first on screen appearance of 2Pac Shakur as a member of the digital underground.

As the title implies, this movie is kinda fun.

Always been a fan of Jim. And always had a low key crush on Téa. But… I’m wondering where their repercussions are from the hold ups and grand theft auto?

Fun movie though.

I watched this decades ago and remembered it being underwhelming, but I liked it a lot more this time. There are some shockingly good bits of dialogue. Some real pearls! My only complaint would be that the last 30-45 minutes are the weakest part of the movie IMO. It doesn’t culminate into a very notable ending, but it’s a good thriller overall.

A slightly dark, romantic comedy that certainly goofy at times. Wonderful cast. Seeing Burt in his prime is always a treat.

A group of investigators set out to find the truth behind the mysterious internet poster John Titor, a self-proclaimed time travel from the future.

Aside from how much effort it took for me to find a copy of this film (it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet), this was a rather interesting piece of found footage cinema.

I have been fascinated by the myth of John Titor ever since I first learnt about him through Steins;Gate. The actual story has for the most part been debunked through investigation and the majority of his predictions simply not coming true. Although given the way the world’s heading, there’s still a chance for his prophecies to take place a couple of decades behind schedule.

This docudrama follows an internet sleuth from his active posting period as she attempts to verify his claims and make direct contact with him. The early segments drag on a bit with a bunch of testimonials claiming the government is hiding time machines, but if that were the case *waves vaguely at the state of the world* then they’re obviously not very good at them.

It gets a bit more interesting when the shadowy government figures start showing up to confiscate their footage, even if John Titor appears to be some random guy wearing a mask and running a commune when he finally does show up.

Still for as low budget as it was, I found it engaging enough. I think time has been the enemy of this piece because the rather pressing concerns they end the movie on all happened decades ago and have gotten much worse since with no sign of Titor returning to correct things.

Christmas time in London brings an interconnected series of vignettes about the many forms of love. There’s aging rock star Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) struggling to stay relevant with the help of his longtime friend and manager Joe (Gregor Fisher). Meanwhile, Mark (Andrew Lincoln) pines for the beautiful Juliet (Keira Knightley)…who just married his best friend Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Jilted writer Jamie (Colin Firth) escapes to his cottage in France and finds himself connecting with his housekeeper Aurélia (Lúcia Moniz). Harry (Alan Rickman) is married to Karen (Emma Thompson) but finds himself tempted by his secretary Mia (Heike Makatsch). David (Hugh Grant) has just been elected Prime Minister and finds himself bonding with household staffer Natalie (Martine McCutcheon), a bond that is tested when the President of the United States (Billy Bob Thornton) makes a pass at her. Daniel (Liam Neeson) is a lonely widower who tries to connect with his stepson (Thomas Sangster) by helping him impress his crush Joanna (Olivia Olson) and even makes a new spark of his own with a fellow single parent (Claudia Schiffer). Lonely heart Sarah (Laura Linney) longs for her coworker Karl (Rodrigo Santoro) but their relationship is constantly interrupted by her mentally ill brother Michael. John (Martin Freeman) and Judy (Joanna Page) are professional stand-ins and meet on a film shoot, instantly connecting while Colin (Kris Marshall), unsuccessful in wooing women in his home country, decides to travel abroad to America to woo women there and soon draws the attention of some lovely ladies (Ivana Miličević, January Jones, Elisha Cuthbert and Shannon Elizabeth).

Got turned on to this movie by an ex-girlfriend of mine back in my early twenties. Our relationship eventually fizzled out but I retained my fondness of this film. I love the interconnected nature of the stories and seeing these tales overlap with one another. Each role was well cast and the actors played the stories well. It’s particularly worth noting the wonderful role from Rowan “Mr. Bean” Atkinson, who couldn’t help but bring his charming brand of humor to his character Rufus. Fun fact, the original script called for Rufus to be revealed as a Christmas angel but this subplot was eventually dropped. While Christmas is just a framing device for the web of tales woven by writer/director Richard Curtis, the film has gone on to be a Christmas staple and a cult classic. It has such a devoted audience that, in 2017, Curtis wrote a short sequel film for Red Nose Day that catches us up on the characters and what has happened to them in the intervening years since the original film.

This movie rules. This is the perfect example of classy Hollywood filmmaking. Sorkins script is a masterclass in dialogue, some of which has become iconic ("YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH") due to an amazing ensemble cast of Hollywood big shots under the solid and precise direction of Rob Reiner. Reiner has fallen out of favor recently but he's had one of the best directorial runs in film history starting from Spinal Tap and finishing up with A Few Good Men. Tom Cruise is charismatic as hell. Kevin Pollak in a supporting role is a real breath of humor. RIP to JT Walsh, who always gave a heartfelt performance. Jack Nicholson is absolutely iconic. He's Jack for sure but he's also perfect for the role and adds complexity to the characters performance.

It’s everything Hitchcock. An ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumstances, mistaken identity, intrigue, suspense, and a love story. Nominated for a Best Picture in 1941. Highly recommended!

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This one is amazing. Jimmy Cagney might be my new favorite actor — he’s electric in this movie. Great shots and snappy dialogue. Cmon, where else can you hear a gangster call a young lady a “swell dish”?

Georg, Anna and their son, also Georg, head to their vacation home where they’re taken captive by two young men, Paul and Peter. Over the course of an evening the family must survive the games Paul and Peter want to play.

Opening on the family happily playing ‘guess the composer’ in the car journey at the start immediately creates a bit of a disconnect. Here there’s a presumption of class; the music they enjoy, the home they vacation at and the boat they own. Then the titles and metallic punk music plays over the scenic car journey the family take. This is for us, they’re listening to their own music, they aren’t aware of what we, the audience, are listening to. Immediately we’re made aware we’re outside looking in.

When Paul, an impressively sociopathic Arno Frisch, and Peter, and outwardly guileless Frank Giering, appear, they are dressed in white tops and gloves. It makes them appear innocent, almost virginal. They’re hiding in plain site.

They quickly force themselves into the family, practicing a golf swing… borrowing eggs. But director Michael Haneke slowly builds the unease of the egg borrowing scene, the tension escalating expertly. You know where it’s going, you sense the violence and you are on edge awaiting its arrival. Also, Paul and Peter mask their menace in friendly tones, and disbelief at not being accommodated.

“Why are you doing this?” “Why not.”

As things ramp up we’re treated to the first of several fourth wall breaks as Paul turns to us, the audience. He is our guide into this nightmare and wants our opinions. Be it a wink to the camera or asking us if we want to take a bet, we’re involved. It’s as though Haneke is asking us, why don’t we turn it off? Be it morbid curiosity or an affinity with tragedy, we don’t. We can’t.

Michael Haneke has said the film is a viewpoint on the media’s effects on people. Not for nothing do the two men refer to each other playfully as cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead, apathetic teenagers, and Tom and Jerry, character’s synonymous with outlandish cartoonish violence. Here we’re directly involved, why don’t we find this situation as amusing as they do? We’re supposed to be shocked and disgusted. I certainly was. However, it should be noted the majority of the violence is implied. We either see the aftermath, or we’re with others as the acts are carried out. In one prolonged uncomfortable take we sit with characters after one horrific scene has peaked. If we’re going to enjoy the violence, we must suffer the fallout.

Whilst Paul and Peter do this purely as an excuse to escape boredom and entertain themselves, the family are horrified and don’t understand why it happens to them. Some of the horror is in its realism, this could happen to us.

Susanne Lothar as Anna is the standout. Her switch to terror, to hope and desperation is etched on her reddening tear drenched face. We watch as she is slowly drained of the will to fight.

Ulrich Műhe also gives a great performance, most notably in the prolonged take mentioned earlier. For a character who spends most of their time sitting down, he portrays the panic at the situation very well.

Towards the end, in one clever inventive scene, Haneke’s commentary on the media climaxes by showing our expectations being subverted. We have no control, but Paul and Peter do, events play out how they want them to. We’re along for the ride, you’ll find no hope here.

This movie was awesome, I've been wanting to get round to watching it for ages. I love body horror so it worked for me perfectly, and Jeff Goldblum's performance is terrific.

My parents always told me as a kid how disgusting this movie was when they were younger so I've wanted to watch it for a while. It might just be it's age, but I didn't find it as sickening as maybe they suggested, but the body horror is great and it is an absolutely horrific fate for any character.

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Lately, I’ve made a hobby of rewatching movies from the ‘90s and ‘00s that I didn’t see the first time around. Especially the B-movies, lower budget, straight to DVD or small theater run films. Watched But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) the other day and thought it was very campy, enjoyable, and realistic portrayal of what LGBT youth were going through back in that time. It made me explore more Queer cinema from that time period and a distant memory came back of Another Gay Movie (2006). I remember seeing the trailer for this online when it came out and thinking it was going to be ridiculous fun but for some reason, never watched it… until last night.

This film is worth a watch if you are into over-the-top raunchy comedies. The plot is similar to that of American Pie complete with several references (see cover art!), except this time it is four gay men trying to have sex . Explicit scenes of student/teacher sex in a classroom (in front of other students!), a BDSM dungeon, failed sexual encounters between multiple men, scenes meant to parody the gay men/gerbil urban legend, MANY full frontal male nudity shots, and more! I loved the character of Muffler who is a stereotypical butch lesbian as well.

Great film to watch with your boys or fun late night film. Found out there is a sequel I never heard about! The director’s cut is on Tubi.