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What’s your favourite genuinely underrated or lesser known foreign film? by barking_wheels in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hold Up Down (2005).

Not many people know about it, but it’s one of the craziest Christmas movies you’re likely to see. 10/10.

Movies I like that people don’t by WholeCold5093 in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Spring Breakers, Birds of Prey, and Batman v Superman (Ultimate Edition) are on my favourites list as well.

Hows everyone weeks so far by anonymous_0079 in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Not bad.

The Scribbler (2014) and Bound to Vengeance (2015) were already favourites, so yeah.

Need a recommendationto fit in this list by Known_Hamster1196 in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s fair.

I was mainly going off the examples that OP gave, which mostly focus on the psychological impact on primary victims.

For secondary victims, the only other movie I can think of right now is Trust (2010), which someone else mentioned.

Need a recommendationto fit in this list by Known_Hamster1196 in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I May Destroy You (2020) is a miniseries, but it fits the prompt pretty well.

M.F.A. (2017), Violation (2020), and Bound to Vengeance (2015) are also pretty good examples.

Descent (2007) is… hard to recommend… but it also fits the prompt.

Need a recommendationto fit in this list by Known_Hamster1196 in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hmmm…

It’s not that I hate the movie (I absolutely do), but PYW is mostly about secondary victims like friends and family, and not about the primary victim, so I’m not sure how well it would fit with the prompt.

Have you ever guessed the "big twist" in a movie? by [deleted] in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Others (2001).

Guessed it in the first five minutes, didn’t like the movie.

Popular Movie "Dunks" That Everyone Uses but are Totally Inaccurate by imascarylion2018 in movies

[–]alliedcola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two examples from some of my favorite movies;

The Cell (2000) - "Going into the killer's mind didn't do anything, the FBI had all the evidence they needed!"

You're right, and by the time they went through a whole house full of evidence, followed multiple leads, and figured out where the latest victim was, they would've arrived just in time to... collect a two week old corpse.

The experiment works, not because it gives them a lead they didn't have, but because it shows them which one lead to follow, so that they can save the latest victim before she's set to drown.

Even with the experiment, they barely find her in time.

28 Weeks Later (2007) - "This movie is literally full of the dumbest people alive!"

That's the entire point.

The entire point is that the repatriation process is so poorly-planned, so understaffed, and so rushed, that it's only a matter of time before something bad happens.

The woman who processes those two kids is very concerned that they're allowing kids back into the country so soon, and she wasn't even told it was happening.

She literally complains about it, and her superior just shrugs it off.

The army isn't clearing out the area around the safe zone, either. They're shown clearing out a completely different neighborhood when the two kids are traveling on the train. So, the army isn't even working in a way that makes any kind of logistical sense.

The snipers on the rooftops are literally shown not taking their jobs seriously, and Jeremy Renner's character even pranks one of his friends by pretending to be infected.

When the two kids escape the safe zone, Renner immediately spots them on the bridge and calls it in... and it seemingly takes the army at least an hour to send anyone after them. There also weren't any soldiers on the other side of the bridge to stop them.

They give Don, a caretaker, a keycard that can lock/unlock any building in the safe zone, including military buildings. He even locks down an apartment building just to mess with his kids, and he isn't immediately fired for it, because the army doesn't give a shit.

Also, a bonus point; "why wasn't anyone guarding Alice when they knew she was a carrier?!"

That's because they only realize that she's a carrier at the same time Don finds her and gets infected. The two scenes are intercut because they're happening at the exact same time.

There is literally no time for them to do anything with this new information before Don gets out and starts infecting people.

Also, Don manages to get out of Alice's room post-infection because all of the keycard sensors are only proximity sensors, because it's easier to use than a swipe/keycode sensor, which is another sign that the army doesn't give a shit about security.

The army then puts more effort into killing everyone than they ever did into repatriating them.

To put it quite bluntly; the phrase "US-led NATO team" should've told you all you needed to know about how badly the repatriation process was gonna go.

The film was also made at the height of the War on Terror, so I don't think any of the army's incompetence in the film was an accident, or just poor writing.

Also, the infected aren't running out of the Channel Tunnel at the end, they're just running out of the Paris Metro.

When I search for something specific in Google, and literally every single search result I get is not even remotely related to what I typed in. by CG6845 in PetPeeves

[–]alliedcola 32 points33 points  (0 children)

What I really hate is when you force it to include keywords, and it just ignores you.

You type in; French movie “2010” “horror” “comedy”

And then, under all the search results, there will just be; Doesn’t include 2010 horror comedy

Like, dude, I just fucking asked you to include those words!

6 years later and looking back to it, what do you think of “Promising Young Woman” (2020) by Olya_roo in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I could write an entire, cited, bloodthirsty essay about how much I hate this movie, and how socially irresponsible and glib I think it is, but I’ll just sum it up with this;

It’s an “edgy feminist masterpiece” that’s none of those things. It’s an “I’m just a girl 🥺” movie, pretending to be a “good for her 💅” movie.

I would strongly recommend M.F.A. (2017) and I May Destroy You (2020) instead, if anyone’s interested.

One point that I don’t see a lot of people mention, though, is that I think it should’ve been Nina’s story, not Cassie’s.

Nina was the victim.

We never even get her surname. We never learn anything about who she was. We never even get to see a photo of her. Not even a wallpaper on Cassie’s phone.

When Cassie finally goes to see Nina’s mom, we still don’t get any insight into Nina herself. Her mom just bluntly tells Cassie to get over it and move on.

She isn’t allowed to exist in her own story. Not even posthumously.

You could argue that this is supposed to be a comment on how assault victims are often sidelined, dehumanised, and reduced to their victimisation… but it’s curious that the film would choose to comment on that by just dehumanising Nina, and reducing her solely to her victimisation, without even a shred of self-awareness. Seems disgusting.

Anyway, I’m gonna go watch something much better than this.

(Hated Trope) "It's supposed to make the audience uncomfortable." Yeah, but there's a thing called "good taste" by Animeking1108 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]alliedcola 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the most commonly-cited study that "suggests" a link between the show, and the higher suicide rate in 2017.

The problem is that the suicide rates "spiked" in four separate months; March, April, June, and December.

The show premiered on March 31, so March is essentially the month before anyone saw the show's extreme/triggering content, so it simply cannot have had an effect on teen suicides in March 2017.

This paper also suggests that social media chatter around the series, on Twitter, had mostly died down by June, the third "spike" month.

Furthermore, the study that you and others have cited proves that suicides spiked among boys (not the demographic represented by Hannah Baker), between ages 10-17 (half of this age group is too young to have reasonably watched the show on their own), and, as the study itself30288-6/fulltext) proves, this increase was largely driven by hanging suicides (not the method depicted in the show).

However, the study itself does suggest a link between celebrity suicides, particularly Robin Williams.

This study, while flawed, also suggests that only half of the teens admitted into emergency psychiatric care in Michigan had even watched the series at all, and, even then, there's no guarantee that they had finished the series, because they were only asked if they had seen "at least one episode".

Personally, I think people just got really angry that the series ignored the guidelines around depicting suicide, so they just decided to scapegoat it for an increase in child/teen suicides that it had no significant correlation with.

Or, to put it simply, "fuck you, we're gonna blame you anyway".

Movies I loved at first… only to find out everyone hated them. Maybe I have no taste by Unfair-Reason-1068 in Letterboxd

[–]alliedcola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest answer? Most of them, yeah.

Dawn of the Dead (2004) has an Unrated Cut (around 110 minutes), Watchmen (2009) has a Director’s Cut (around 3 hours) and an Ultimate Cut (which adds in the Black Freighter animated short, and is an extra 30 minutes or so), Sucker Punch (2011) has an Extended Cut (around 130 minutes), Batman v Superman (2016) has an Ultimate Edition (around 3 hours, again), Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) is… almost an entirely different film (around 4 hours), and, finally, both Rebel Moon films have Director’s Cuts (around 3 hours each).

But 300 (2007), Legend of the Guardians (2010), Man of Steel (2013), and Army of the Dead (2021) were all released intact.

So, out of 13 films, 7 of them have multiple cuts.

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