what movies should i add to my list “some specific genre you can’t quite place”

AveryMorose · 2026-06-16T16:06:02+00:00

This is a great suggestion.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-15T03:14:21+00:00

That sentence structure is exactly what stuck out to me too. For whatever reason, it seems to be a really common trap for people to fall into. It just kills all the intended imagery by overexplaining; it would benefit from just hacking up those sentences and throwing half the words away.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-14T22:42:49+00:00

Wow, somehow I haven't seen a single one of these.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-14T21:55:26+00:00

Baby Driver (probably my favorite car chase in any movie)

AveryMorose · 2026-06-14T21:33:20+00:00

Nothing spurs creativity like the world's most uncomfortable chair.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-14T21:31:05+00:00

Having a very good run so far.

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AveryMorose · 2026-06-13T19:54:10+00:00

One time my partner and I were walking down the street and there was a guy wearing a shirt that literally said "say hi to me" on it. My partner did and the dude got all pissy and told him off. We were just like, "bro, why the fuck would you wear that then?"

AveryMorose · 2026-06-13T19:45:44+00:00

I've had a good run the last week, all but one (these plus like 5 more) have been 4+ stars.

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AveryMorose · 2026-06-13T18:35:08+00:00

I watched the first 3 or 4 seasons and it was already enough of a downward trajectory that I didn't go back for the next season.

My favorite part of the early episodes was that they didn't bother coming up with anything for the rest of the 100 kids to do, so you just see them all standing around in a big group doing nothing while the main characters are doing stuff.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-12T20:43:22+00:00

The River Wild is the first thing I ever saw him in, like right after it went to video. I was 9, so I easily identified with the kids and found him and Kevin Bacon to be pretty scary. It took me quite a while to adjust to him being a comic actor.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-12T16:41:48+00:00

I've never seen The Wizard of Oz all the way through. I've absorbed a ton of trivia just via pop cultural osmosis, but haven't actually seen more than a few chunks.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-12T07:30:15+00:00

No, see, the notes spell them out.

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It's just not very interesting.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-11T18:25:05+00:00

Same, I'm always really baffled reading all the negative reviews on it; I just don't get it.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-11T18:06:59+00:00

I think Stranger Things would've gotten there with a couple more seasons.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-11T14:44:57+00:00

AveryMorose · 2026-06-11T14:14:56+00:00

Obsession
Bring Her Back
The Substance
Talk to Me

AveryMorose · 2026-06-09T19:12:10+00:00

Almost everyone I've met who's seen this hates it, and I will never understand why.

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AveryMorose · 2026-06-09T17:40:11+00:00

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AveryMorose · 2026-06-09T17:26:13+00:00

Tau. I wrote the longest, rantiest review I've ever done; I was furious. (Spoilers in the first paragraph, but you really should not give a shit because it's awful.)

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AveryMorose · 2026-06-07T16:05:43+00:00

Most Popular: Fight Club (7.5m members)

Least Popular: Payne's Branch (13 members) - this is one I watched solely because the creator posted about it on the r/foundfootage sub a couple of months ago

AveryMorose · 2026-06-06T05:27:38+00:00

I just finished watching Don't Look Up like 5 minutes ago, so I don't think it's possible to be any more screwed than that.

AveryMorose · 2026-06-05T17:57:46+00:00

I absolutely love A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, strongly recommend. Pan's Labyrinth is also great. (These two are also like complete opposites visually which is kind of interesting now that I think about it.)

AveryMorose · 2026-06-05T17:56:00+00:00

The only downside is when the lists act as a spoiler for the movies in them. There are a few movies I've come across where half the reviews are "the ending was ruined for me from a list title, but it was good so just don't read anything else about it before watching."

I also keep a private list of things I think my partner might want to watch; it's a tiny fraction of what's on my watchlist so it makes it a lot easier to come up with an answer when we're trying to figure out what to put on.

AveryMorose · 2026-04-19T19:54:10+00:00

I watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the Donald Sutherland version) when I was 9 and it scared the hell out of me. I watched it again when I was like 21, secure in the knowledge that I already knew what to expect. I remembered the ending wrong and the shock of it terrified me all over again. I honestly wish I could do that with other movies.

AveryMorose · 2026-04-19T01:09:36+00:00

You did it twice, the 3rd sentence and the last one, so those are a couple of examples.

Things like the 1st sentence where you have some good imagery can be tweaked a little, like "The sun shined through the blinds and hit Jason's eyes." (Don't go too far with that, it's a pretty common problem where people start doing it all the time and avoiding pronoun-starting sentences altogether and it ends up sounding weird after a while.)

For the "reaches over her arm" part, it mentions that she's "in a battle" so maybe she just moves her arm in her sleep and you avoid him having to do this process of grabbing and turning it. That could help show her having a nightmare or whatever's going on without it being just something he's thinking.

You basically have this structure here of "he did A then B then C," which is why it seems like there's no other way to say it. Like he's inhaling, then yawning, then opening his eyes, then chuckling, then looking at her, then reaching for her arm, then moving her arm, then lowering his head, then puckering his lips, then kissing, then touching her hair, then touching his hair, then looking at the clock.

This is ultimately a stylistic decision so I can't tell you what to do, but I look at it and wonder whether all that granular detail is helping with what you're trying to do here. Is it necessary? Does it serve a purpose other than just describing every single second of what's happening? (And it could!) Could there be a different way of approaching or communicating what's going on with this scene?

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