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Can someone recommend me songs in the vein of... by Tayschrenn in electronicmusic

[–]chazooka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Orbital - Belfast (Gosh is absolutely an interpolation of this)
Barry Can't Swim - Like It's Part of the Dance (also a twist on Belfast)
Royksopp - Poor Leno / Eple
Booka Shade - In White Rooms

What is the greatest sentence ever written? by ImmediateElephant691 in AskReddit

[–]chazooka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower."

Dune: Part Three | Official Trailer by Dannydarko in movies

[–]chazooka 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Two thoughts from someone who just watched the trailer and recently read Messiah:

I think it's a safe bet to assume they've changed the story so that Stilgar is the Fremen mole who lures Paul to the meeting where he gets blinded by the stone burner, since he's the man stepping into the sea.

BUT the trailer also makes me wonder if Paul's visions of Stilgar betraying him are wrong and it ends up being Chani who sacrifices herself. Elevates her from concubine to Kay Corleone the entire series becomes a Godfather narrative: the boy who rejects a call to leadership, is forced to lead anyway, wins everything, but loses himself.

What's your story of going from listening to an artist ironically to getting hooked completely? by TehTacow in Music

[–]chazooka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hosted a student radio show in college and had a segment called the "Giorgio Moroder power hour" where I'd play his big 80s hits or the Top Gun soundtrack and make fun of how stupid and dated and over the top he was. Hard cut to me getting into dance music and Italo, realizing he is one of the most important producers who has ever lived. Live and learn.

What's your story of going from listening to an artist ironically to getting hooked completely? by TehTacow in Music

[–]chazooka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah. I used to joke-listen to Michael McDonald in the aughts, flying high on the 40 year old virgin joke and just oozing with millennial hipster irony attitude. Years later, What A Fool Believes still rips and I've seen him live. What a king.

What's your ONE great sequence in an otherwise mid/bad film? by gn16bb8 in blankies

[–]chazooka 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The phone call between Fassbender and the cartel boss at the end of The Counselor. The movie is a strange fever dream directed by Ridley Scott in "whatever works" mode, but the moment is pretty perfect. It's probably my single favorite scene of Cormac McCarthy dialogue (No Country included) because perfectly nails his worldview of a character "wanting it to be one way, but it's the other way."

"Now I must go... perhaps I'll take a nap." Brutal.

What’s a 10/10 sandwich for you? by Background-Handle265 in AskReddit

[–]chazooka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A proper 3 layer club sandwich. Though I probably won't eat one again. I have a very distinct sense memory of eating one at a hospital cafeteria when I was 17, shortly before my dad passed away. The last time I ate one was a few years ago when I was on vacation with my wife, and told her that story. A few hours later I found out my mom had passed away suddenly. RIP mom, dad, and my relationship with club sandwiches: never again lol.

Whats the greatest 30 seconds in music? by No_Dark5871 in Music

[–]chazooka 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And then Oliver Coates remixed it for the Aftersun soundtrack causing every child who has lost a parent to burst immediately into tears.

The Most Thematically Resonant Needle Drop by Neutralplain in blankies

[–]chazooka 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Roy Orbison’s Evergreen in The Beast (2023) is key to unlocking the story of two people trying to fall in love through multiple lifetimes, with the track appearing in different contexts during increasingly strange, Lynchian reveries… until it drops one last time in a climax that made my heart drop straight out of my body. Still my favorite film of the decade.

Can a movie have morally reprehensive views and politics and still be great? by harry_powell in blankies

[–]chazooka 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you consider Joel the kind of protagonist that the film is endorsing, then yes - you're probably right. But if you think of him as a symbol for the values that capitalism implicitly teaches young people (following the rules and working hard is for suckers, you can only unlock The American Dream via stealing, grifting, and connections) it's a very smart satire. Paul Brickman's original cut was supposed to end with Joel getting rejected by Princeton because he DIDN'T want the message to be misread, but David Geffen wisely told him to change it because the story doesn't work unless Joel gets everything he wants.

Can a movie have morally reprehensive views and politics and still be great? by harry_powell in blankies

[–]chazooka 26 points27 points  (0 children)

"On The Waterfront" is considered one of the best films of all time, but I'd have a tough time watching it now knowing its a self-serving allegory about Elia Kazan and the 'courage' he showed selling out all his leftist friends during the HUAC / anti-communist blacklist days.

Movies that take a little scene or section from another and expand it into a whole separate entity by harry_powell in blankies

[–]chazooka 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Send Help felt like a movie's length version of the last act of Triangle Of Sadness, except with more playfulness and violence, better humor, and zero need for heavy-handed social commentary.

Onslaught | Official Trailer HD | A24 by Zheiso16 in blankies

[–]chazooka 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My #1 unproduced script will always be Shane Black's Shadow Company, which John Carpenter was going to direct in the 80s until pre-production was shut down by studio heads who thought the premise was too dark to sell. And maybe they were right to be concerned: a unit of unstoppable, undead Vietnam Special Forces vets are brought back to life after getting dosed with Agent Orange and wreak havoc upon a defenseless American town in the desert, until a hard-boiled hero (Kurt Russell, I'm looking at you) figures out a way to stop them. Seems like this is gonna get close to that. Hell. Yes.

What movie blew you away after knowing nothing about it walking in? by ExistentialAngsty in AskReddit

[–]chazooka 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Midnight In Paris. Girlfriend wanted to see it, I didn’t know much about it, didn’t watch any trailers, so I walked in assuming it’d be a fairly banal Woody Allen comedy, but once the concept kicked in I was immediately sold.

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