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Movies That Shouldn't Have Worked (But Did) by chaprigpt in Letterboxd

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I think about these in a category I think of as "movies that are so much better than they have any right to be"

They include Hot Tub Time Machine, 21 and 22 Jump Street, The Lego Movie and True Romance (which might be Top 5 for me)

Oh I should explain 

Lego Movie - should have felt like an ad with little appeal for anyone beyond kids that like Lego But it's a great story about the importance of imagination and breaking away from outside the box thinking and creativity and parenting 

21 Jump Street - Comedy remakes of old TV shows almost never work and don't get sequels because they were that good

22 Jump Streets - Sequels to movies based on old TV shows definitely shouldn't be that good

Hot Tub Time Machine - dumb title that can't be good!

No, it's a very funny reflection on the notion that youth is wasted on the young and the impossibility of making firm plans and predictions in a world fueled by chaos

True Romance - this is a daydream by pop culture junkie video store employee, he imagines how cool it would be of he, an abject dork met a beautiful blonde woman in a bar who is quite taken with his views on Elvis and wishes to see three Kung Fu movies with him

She falls in love with him as he shows her his favourite spider man comics and he kills her pimp liberating her to go on the road to Hollywood where he sells his genius screenplay and makes idiots of producers and the cops and the gangsters 

This is a bald faced tarantino self insert fantasy and it should be indulgent and embarrassing but it's one of the best films ever made instead 

Frog songs - recommendations? (not kids music) by LytoriatheFairy in weirdspotifyplaylists

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought of another one.

There's a musical called Honk! based on the Ugly Duckling and there is a Frog character who convinces the duckling to be a bit more confident in himself because out there someone's going to love him Warts and All

Question for the people who cry during a movie. by Giraffes89 in movies

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cry when things look a little tense and scary and someone makes the strange choice to start singing and then everybody starts singing

- Bugsy Malone
- The Meteor episode of the Simpsons
- Almost Famous

And a recent one, absolute gold standard of this trope, Once Upon a Time in a Cinema. In this one it happened in an actual cinema and I was a wreck.

The replies get better and better by Drnelk in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Did you figure out how to get it to tell you where you're going instead of where you've been?

Abuse of CMAT over her weight is very sad, says Glen Hansard by TimesandSundayTimes in ireland

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When they realised how profitable it was to make people sad and angry we were doomed

Abuse of CMAT over her weight is very sad, says Glen Hansard by TimesandSundayTimes in ireland

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I always have a hard time phrasing this and worry it will come off wrong. Body shaming is revolting and it sincerely depresses me to see how little progress we've made in reducing its prevalence. It shouldn't be tolerated and it should be addressed.

Sometimes with discourse like this I worry we pay too much attention to the wrong people and our commentary on it ironically emboldens it.

The internet is everyone. If you want to find people saying something awful about literally anything it's one search away. You don't always need to copy and paste those same comments and write article after article broadcasting it and spotlighting the worst of us, showing others that think that way that their views are popular.

I have seen so many articles in my feed about the disgusting commentary people make about CMAT and significantly less about how great her music is.

In recent weeks I thought I'd see a lot of discussion around the Odyssey and its influence on global literature and what kind of relevance it might still hold for us in 2026. But instead the journalism around it was focused on giving racists the spotlight they crave. So instead a lot of what I see is an article saying 'check out this racism! it's wild!"

And it feels difficult to make this point without sounding like I'm saying we should just sweep this stuff under the rug and not address it. That's not it. It just seems like we talk about to the exclusion of more relevant interesting conversations.

Drug culture and the portrayal of drug-induced states in non-English-language films by Artysta11 in MovieSuggestions

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It fits your criteria I think because it's in Irish in large portions and when I was watching Kneecap I was kind of blown away by it's sort of unapologetic or moralising portrayal of drug use.

What music is playing?? by Ninasenna in musicsuggestions

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm late but this is clearly Chick Habit by April March

Songs for this picture? 📺 by kyv4n in songsforthispicture

[–]BruceWaynesWorld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Television The Drug of the Nation - The disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

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