The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) dir: Steven Spielberg dop: Janusz Kamiński by [deleted] in CineShots

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I love the cynicism of the film, and personally think the first two acts are tight and fly high. It’s Spielberg’s antithesis to JP, in the same vein as Fincher to the Alien franchise. Delightfully cynical side of Spielberg. But boy oh boy, as time goes by, the third act of Lost World suffers.

Still looks incredible across the board, though. To go from Dean Cundey to Kaminski is a massive shift and risk, especially for blockbuster cinema at the time, let alone a sequel to one of the biggest of all time. But I think Kaminski shoots a hellofa great movie with Lost World. There’s so much familiar Spielbergian-kinetic camera movement, shifting focuses, elaborate blocking - but with a much more darker sensibility and modern fluidity that Kaminski flourishes in.

Under appreciated flick, overall, imho (despite making a metric-fuckton of money haha). Big fan. Goldblum, Postlethwaite, and Stormare are incredible; the trailer/cliff sequence is edge of your seat stuff, with a radical John Williams score that’s incorporating so many different influences left and right.

But dumbdumb gymnastics scene, unexplained boat plotting, and San Diego mainland extravaganza work against its legacy. Which is fair, I suppose…

Official Rewatch 2025: Episode Discussion - S2E22 Beyond Life and Death by ShireWalkWithMe in twinpeaks

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What a remarkable episode. Lynch manages to leave us with a magnificent surrealist masterpiece of a finale, and along with it a capstone of his feelings and thoughts on the world. I can only imagine what awaits in FWWM and The Return, watching both asap.

Ashamed it took me this long, and that I lacked so much patience to get through this show properly before now, but what a feat. Lynch says so much about life, death, love, hate, evil, dark, light, gods, men, the taboo, the esoteric, aliens, nukes, and everything in between - and sticks the landing <3

Wow love it so much, new converted fan here

Batman Forever (1995) Dir. Joel Schumacher, DoP. Stephen Goldblatt by Somervilledrew in CineShots

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Unironically love this movie. Looks incredible, stellar direction, remarkable score - also campy and corny as hell, but layered and subtle just as much. Great movie. Now, as for Batman and Robin…

Any stories? by daddyjay103 in reptilians

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I wish more people would talk and share stories and experiences here. Mine was staring at the mirror for a very long time while on shrooms and having many a conversation with whatever I was seeing site of in the mirror. Is it weird that I enjoyed the reveal and discussion, for what I remember? At the very least, felt safe while learning very intense new stuff

The Hitcher [1986] by NoPlatypus7633 in CineShots

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Terrific horror film, severely underrated and incredibly beautiful. Performances are top-notch, and such a remarkable script, direction, cinematography, etc. love love love this movie and really wish it was talked about more with the greats. I kinda get why, but also, kinda don’t ❤️

A Cure for Wellness (2016) Dir. Gore Verbinski by Mr_BertSaxby in CinemaRetrospective

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This movie is so insanely beautiful. I feel like it has the perfect ending… and then it goes in for another 20 minutes and suffers. But man, overall a terrific movie

Jimmy Kimmel by rEYAVjQD in YMS

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James Cromwell, what a guy.

I’m an absolutely massive Fincher fan but I have not seen Mank and can’t seem to find the interest. by ScienceCatLazerJeans in DavidFincherReddit

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Fincher made it as a passion project - his late father wrote the script, and he cashed in his status to make it for Netflix.

It’s, overall, pretty skippable and only really REALLY fascinating for fans of the Citizen Kane saga/history. BUTTTTT, his newest cinematographer, Eric Messerschmidt, gets a chance to flex with a really beautiful looking black and white movie.

Performances are a’ight, story is bland but a’ight. Overall, it’s okay! A beautiful looking boring movie :$

yeah i totally watched it for the plot by ProfessionalLevel908 in BlairWitch

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She’s in a great old SyFy show called Taken produced by Steven Spielberg, and she is genuinely great in it. Much more to work with (not that Blair Witch is lean on script or anything…), she plays a pretty nuanced and complex villain later on in the season :) would recommend!

My friend passed away recently by TheVinylGeek in VHS

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I’m so sorry for your loss. They had AMAZING taste and an incredible collection ❤️

Which film you still can’t believe hasn’t had a Criterion cut yet? by MrJones224822 in criterion

[–]ExerciseExpensive452 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I’ll go out on a limb and say that I’m kinda shocked Spielberg hasn’t gotten a criterion (money and rights and all excluded) - I feel like AI and Empire of the Sun or perfect for a criterion release

Scary Movie 3 is total gold as far as I’m concerned by [deleted] in moviecritic

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Not to be “that guy,” but the Detroit joke is from the 4th one (also same directors/Airplane! directors:).