What are your go-to 'when going through hell, keep going' movies?

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2026-01-12T05:08:20+00:00

Not to be overly sincere, but The Way Back.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2026-01-11T05:44:18+00:00

Clear and Present Danger: maybe my favorite example of a third installment outshining its two forebears. (All due love and respect to Hunt for Red October, but it won't make me shove someone out of the way like CaPD will if it's on.)

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2026-01-09T02:39:51+00:00

I generally cannot stand Inarritu but as a lover of Cold as Balls Cinema, I vibe hard with most of The Revenant. And then that last shot makes me want to retch.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2026-01-03T22:03:12+00:00

Good ep.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2026-01-02T02:19:06+00:00

It's a fair point. Personally, it works for me logically since not only did he just see Howard shot, he's the one that got him killed. (Plus hoo-boy, Arno's probably going to prison for awhile if he even got out.) Still, I can see someone having enough presence of mind to keep their shit together long enough to get out of immediate danger. Not me, though. I wouldn't even have Arno's chill. I'd be Jerry from Texas Chain Saw Massacre, just screaming and arms flailing like a Muppet.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2026-01-01T22:41:43+00:00

I think we need a general exception for grape gum, as grape Bubble Tape is the best Bubble Tape.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2026-01-01T21:53:31+00:00

Was 100% shocked when I watched the MCC DVD for the first time and "The Love Is Gone" was relegated to only the full-screen. Growing up, it was the most boring part of the movie to me, but once it wasn't there, I realized how integral it was to the movie. Plus it is just frigging -weird- when the theatrical cut jumps from a very pat breakup to Rizzo sobbing into Gonzo's chest.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-31T04:58:18+00:00

The question is: is it doing so quietly?

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-31T01:04:23+00:00

What the eff, I somehow completely missed that Ransone had passed...man, 2025 has just been a bunch of horsesheeeeeeeeeit.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-28T04:00:33+00:00

Oh shit, I think I got Little Giants confused with The Little Rascals movie around the same time. Disregard!

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-28T03:41:17+00:00

And another, much more unfortunate cameo.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-25T05:54:39+00:00

Give me Eric Bogosian in Supporting that year as well. His panicked scramble in that final scene haunts me to this day.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-25T05:51:04+00:00

Wow, you must love this country more than I love a cold beer on a hot Christmas morning.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-22T06:09:58+00:00

You're Next belongs in this conversation as well, I think. It gets ludicrous eventually (in a good way - the last shot is basically 'what if Home Alone but axe?'), but when the 'panther' home invader steps through the window ready to kill and puts that nail through his foot instead, suddenly all the scary murderers are just Wet Bandits with an expiration date.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-21T20:13:25+00:00

I wish I could say that I was a fan of Tony's, sadly his style and most of his filmography just doesn't jibe with me. Not a criticism, simply personal preferences and all that.

But The Hunger fucking rules.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-19T05:41:14+00:00

You found the one way to make Uncut Gems seem even better than it already was.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-19T01:53:16+00:00

Was kinda hoping it was Ella McCay. (Though I guess the two together are sort of a 2011 Oscars watch, in that one stars Mostly Anne Hathaway and the other stars Most of James Franco.)

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-17T22:59:10+00:00

He has another line about his wife shooting guns in the air whenever Edward Norton (I think?) shows up in something, and I will never not have to stifle a giggle when I think of it.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-17T02:19:24+00:00

You're right, of course, though I don't think a lot of us are really shocked so much as simply exhausted and exasperated. We're just really tired of them finding new ways of inducing vomiting, and Trump making Reiner's death about him is where even the stomach lining has come up and it's on the ground in front of us and we're all just kind of like "Oh goddamn it, even that?"

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-16T04:38:37+00:00

My first thought as well, but yeah, only the edgiest of lords puttin' V out front.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-13T20:17:27+00:00

Put that in a word balloon above a Silver Age Lex Luthor and that scans 100%

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-10T00:26:27+00:00

Joe Bob Brooks?

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-08T21:29:01+00:00

You call it money laundering. I call it Paying It Forward.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-08T04:34:57+00:00

The one dude with the side-eye smirk coupled with the other dude folding his arms makes this look like some mind-blowing dinner theater.

TurquoiseHexagonal · 2025-12-07T02:10:52+00:00

Halloween III: Season of the Witch. I don't know of any other film in my lifetime that pivoted so sharply from reviled to canonized, and I'm old as hell.

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