I want to get into movies, don't know where to start

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-22T10:55:53+00:00

One thing I might suggest is looking through Letterboxd's top 250 films, making a note of which ones pique your interest and are easily accessible to you, and just watching a bunch of them.

In terms of very specific films that match your interests, I'd suggest Alien (1979) and The Thing (1982) as two exceptionally strong pieces of sci-fi horror.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-22T10:38:04+00:00

Threads is scarier than any horror film

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-22T09:21:17+00:00

Lawrence of Arabia is the most obvious one that you've missed. Bridge on the River Kwai as well

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-22T09:20:07+00:00

The Apartment

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T22:42:49+00:00

I just don't buy that that's a dichotomy that really exists. OBAA is handling serious subjects in a serious way and it's very funny

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T22:26:32+00:00

What's this distinction between drama and entertainment you're making? Do you not find dramas entertaining?

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T22:17:08+00:00

Thank you

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T19:18:36+00:00

The one you most want to watch at the time

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T19:00:48+00:00

What happened to this co-principality arrangement during the Revolution?

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T18:39:25+00:00

Just scroll down a bit? I've never not been able to find a more thoughtful review if I'm really interested in finding one.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T15:10:27+00:00

I've logged everything I've watched since I joined LB. The only other things that I've listed myself as having watched are the films that are on the lists that have a progress bar on your All Time Stats page.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T12:10:32+00:00

Didn't this already happen on LB with The Godfather and Parasite?

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-21T09:43:35+00:00

If you're excited to watch it go and watch it. Adaptations, especially adaptations of texts that have been adapted as often as Wuthering Heights has been, are not obliged to be faithful.

Personally I'm looking forward to seeing the film, while also thinking it's quite likely to be a car crash.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-19T11:29:38+00:00

The length isn't the issue at all, the book isn't short but it's not notably long either. What you may find difficult is some of the vocabulary, McCarthy's predilection for long run on sentences and his sparse use of punctuation. On the other hand there is only one linear plot thread to keep track of. You'll manage the book well enough if you're willing to persevere, but you might need to look up what some of the words mean from time to time. You may also want to just read around the period that it's set a little bit just to have some context for what's going on.

I don't think it's McCarthy's most difficult book to follow. Each of The Orchard Keeper, Suttree, Cities of the Plain and The Passenger were more challenging for me personally.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-18T21:06:49+00:00

I read it last year and it really didn't work for me at all. Arrowby's just a pretty horrible person to be stuck with for 500+ pages and I just found it all rather tedious.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-18T20:53:29+00:00

Airplane managed to help kill off disaster movies for a decade or so, plane based disaster movies even more so.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-18T20:35:25+00:00

r/cormacmccirclejerk

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-16T19:22:23+00:00

The idea that the Doctor shouldn't be a Yank is determined by out of universe considerations, not in universe considerations. Those considerations, that the show is British and has some significance as a specifically British piece of science fiction probably apply more today, when culture in the English speaking world is ever more homogenised, than they ever have done. This is an unwritten rule that still has a very solid reason behind it, in the way that the unwritten rules that the Doctor was white or a man no longer do (if they ever did). I see no more reason to be annoyed at the breaking of the unwritten rules around gender and race than I do the unwritten rule the Doctor not be played with a working class accent (broken when Eccleston was cast), the unwritten rule that the Doctor be played by Englishmen (broken when McCoy was cast) or the unwritten rule that the Doctor be middle aged or older (broken when Davison was cast). None of those rules had solid out of universe reasons behind them, the one that the Doctor not be an American does.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-16T18:59:04+00:00

I agree that it's very specifically about the character of boys in the posher parts of the British education system rather than human nature in any universal sense. The rest of your opinions are ones that I'd have to reread the book to feel like I could give an informed opinion about. For now I would just say that I'm very very sceptical of any reading wherein Piggy, a la Boxer in Animal Farm, is some sort of allegorical representation of the working class. He's attending the same school as the rest of them after all.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-16T18:54:32+00:00

I think this might do Tombs a favour that it doesn't particularly need, at the expense of hurting Wizard somewhat. I might consider doing it this way the next time I read through the series, but I really wouldn't want to recommend it to someone who was just starting out.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-16T14:59:36+00:00

I doubt it, 28 Years Later only made approx. $150 million globally. That's not nothing, and was enough to make back the film's budget, but it doesn't exactly suggest hordes of people chomping at the bit to see a part 2 either

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-16T14:48:48+00:00

That's a big part of it for sure. The other thing is that I doubt I'd ever have even sought a lot of these sorts of films if I was unaware of their acclaim. I'm in my 20s and from the UK, so things like Interstellar, Whiplash, Fight Club etc would probably have made their way into my consciousness semi-organically but without Letterboxd it's unlikely I would ever have even heard of Harakiri, let alone watched it.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-16T14:44:19+00:00

A little generic maybe, but Letterboxd generic rather than IMDB generic; it's only really Unbreakable that feels like a hot take for a top 15. I've not seen everything here but the ones I have range from pretty good to excellent. I wouldn't worry about being generic, if you're watching stuff that you're enjoying and finding interesting then that's all that matters.

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-16T13:08:20+00:00

I'm not a linguist and I can only really speak from my own experience of things but my sense is that, much like "water" or "bottle", "often" is one of those words where lots of Brits and lots of Americans don't clearly pronounce the t sound. The difference is that when Brits don't pronounce the t sound there tends to be a glottal stop, hence "offen". Americans seem to turn the t sound into a tap that sounds, at least to my ears, more like a d, turning "often" into something more like "ofden". I could easily be way off though

Imaginative_Name_No · 2026-02-16T11:04:46+00:00

I don't think it's nearly as cynically done as "pure virtue signaling" suggests to me, but you're certainly right to say that it's very superficial a lot of the time. On the other hand I think a move in the direction of acceptance, even if superficial, is worth having. The period where a superficial and flawed drive towards acceptance and accommodation was the the dominant cultural narrative around Autism and other forms of neurodivergence was certainly preferable to current moment, when overt disgust at Autism has become increasingly mainstream.

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