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Love, love this movie. Plot holes and all.
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When the premise is so over the top unbelievable, it's easy to suspend belief. It's like watching Superman lifting a plane or car at one end and not having it fold under its own weight. Impossible.🤓 "Shut up, brain. I'm watching a show about an alien with godlike powers. The laws of physics has left the building."😏
Maybe only the memories of previous loops are retain; the trauma and stress gets reset too. Who knows?🤷‍♂️ It's just like restoring from a previous save point. I've lead Solid Snake/Gabriel Logan/Jill Valentine into thousands of horrific deaths. It didn't seem to both them at all.😁
 
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The Medusa Touch (1978)
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Richard Burton admirably conveys a sense of quiet menace as he loses his grip on sanity. The unfolding of events in the ensuing investigation are presented with smooth transitions from flashback to present in order to create a sense of fatalistic inevitability.

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Queen6 said:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
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Richard Burton admirably conveys a sense of quiet menace as he loses his grip on sanity. The unfolding of events in the ensuing investigation are presented with smooth transitions from flashback to present in order to create a sense of fatalistic inevitability.

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Looks interesting. I have heard of it but have not had the opportunity to see it.
 
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I was going to watch Mulholland Drive for the nth time, and to my surprise, @Queen6 watched it a couple of days ago!

I’d like to hear more about why you think it messes with the viewer.
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Mulholland Drive is a mind twisting nonlinear visual jigsaw that unravels before you. Consider the film more thematically, rather than as a straightforward narrative. The film is constructed in a manner that the meaning will always be open to the viewers own subjective interpretation.

If surrealism and veiled meaning of the film are attractive to you, or if you simply enjoy working things out for yourself, then Mulholland Drive is well worth watching for that aspect alone. David Lynch is one of the few filmmaker who let's you draw your own conclusions, watch and see...

After your first watch, you'll have a lot more questions :)

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Queen6 said:
Mulholland Drive is a mind twisting nonlinear visual jigsaw that unravels before you. Consider the film more thematically, rather than as a straightforward narrative. The film is constructed in a manner that the meaning will always be open to the viewers own subjective interpretation.

If surrealism and veiled meaning of the film are attractive to you, or if you simply enjoy working things out for yourself, then Mulholland Drive is well worth watching for that aspect alone. David Lynch is one of the few filmmaker who let's you draw your own conclusions, watch and see...

After your first watch, you'll have a lot more questions :)

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True. This wasn’t my first or even second watch, but it is true that after the first watch I didn’t understand anything from the film. Well, maybe I was too young as well.

Then I started reading about the theories (I know, my bad) to have a bit of a reference to put a bit of order, and everything kinda clicked.

But yesterday, after quite a few years since last time I had watched it, I started watching it knowing that the film contains two parts, a dream part and a reality part, and that the dream part may happen before Diane wakes up, or after she blows her brain and I think I completely understood the whole idea of the movie.

I think it is brilliant the way Lynch transformed the filmed material into a full movie. For those that don’t know it yet, most of the recorded material is from a pilot of a TV show that Lynch was preparing for ABC, but they rejected the idea, so he edited what he had filmed so far, added some key elements to add a bit of coherence to this new idea, and recorded a few minutes more. I think this is the main cause of the movie being the way it is.

By the way, with Inland Empire I didn’t even try. Maybe you disagree with me on this one, but I just watched it one time, and never went back to it. I didn’t like it and I honesty felt like Lynch had been laughing straight at my face during the whole time.
 
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a visually stunning movie, very well acted, yet with a pathetic ending one could see coming a mile off.
emblematic of just how woke Hollywood has become and an insult to Catholics everywhere - except for the most liberal ones.
talk about a deflated feeling after leaving the theatre.
yet another reason movie lovers have stopped going to big screen venues and prefer to stream older quality movies at home.
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Queen6 said:
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)
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The original vampire film, a legend in gothic horror. Some interesting takes here on YT and for those that want to watch but don't want to purchase you can watch Nosferatu legitimately on YT here & here. I have the film on disk as the 2006 restoration is stunning.

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i love this film.

If you like silent films check out Faust if you haven't already.
 
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Thor: Love and Thunder or How To Destroy A Franchise (2022)- Absolutely hate it cause it went overboard on the humor, Zeus’s portrayal turned the story into a complete farce. Yes, this is opinion, so feel free to disagree. :)

Keep in mind I also disliked Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol3 (2023)- The Marvel love affair is over, facing the hard reality.
 
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Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017)- I’ve recently come around to this version, even though it’s not as good as the 1995 version, but at least I can tolerate it now. :) The original 1995 movie takes place in this world, while 2017 takes place in the game world, “in the jungle you will wait” (?), and is technically a sequel as references to Alan Parrish, the character from the original movie are made.

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1995​
 
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Huntn said:
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017)- I’ve recently come around to this version, even though it’s not as good as the 1995 version, but at least I can tolerate it now. :) The original 1995 movie takes place in this world, while 2017 takes place in the game world, “in the jungle you will wait” (?), and is technically a sequel as references to Alan Parrish, the character from the original movie are made.

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1995 for me.
 
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Harvey (1950)- A charming story about a pleasant man (Jimmy Stewart) who has a friend, a large invisible white rabbit, that he keeps company with, that mostly he sees, but others do too on occasion. The story is brilliantly told. I felt emotional when:
Stewart’s older sister has a panic attack, because she realizes she does not want him to be changed by a drug injection at an insane asylum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Púca

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Huntn said:
Harvey (1950)- A charming story about a pleasant man (Jimmy Stewart) who has a friend, a large invisible white rabbit, that he keeps company with, that mostly he sees, but others do too on occasion. The story is brilliantly told. I felt emotional when:
Stewart’s older sister has a panic attack, because she realizes she does not want him to be changed by a drug injection at an insane asylum.

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I love this film!
 
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Huntn said:
Harvey (1950)- A charming story about a pleasant man (Jimmy Stewart) who has a friend, a large invisible white rabbit, that he keeps company with, that mostly he sees, but others do too on occasion. The story is brilliantly told. I felt emotional when:
Stewart’s older sister has a panic attack, because she realizes she does not want him to be changed by a drug injection at an insane asylum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Púca

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I love this movie! and puca
 
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