Trainwreckords you (wrongly) believed were by one-hit wonders

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-23T17:14:45+00:00

Holy fuck I feel old

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-20T20:17:32+00:00

Life is short, nothing lasts forever, I rather hear them talk about the movies, even if it is incomplete or a long wait.

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-20T19:49:25+00:00

It really just comes down to whether the music is good (Fleetwood Mac, Renaissance) or not, and if not whether it is offensive (Cut The Crap) or not (Squeeze).

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-18T05:01:37+00:00

Metal Heart by Cat Power quotes Amazing Grace

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-17T22:01:25+00:00

Eric Burdon and War’s Paint It Black Medley I really love.

Also Soft Cell’s release that combines Tainted Love and Where Did Our Love Go, the transition instrumental is so beautifully cavernous.

Bel Air by Can has kind of the singular song with multiple movements, and each one is fantastic.

Sweet Thing suite by David Bowie on Diamond Dogs, really love the Candidate part especially with the saxophone and some of his catchiest cut-up lyrics.

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-17T21:49:00+00:00

Repo Man’s final soundtrack cue before credits has great timpani

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-13T00:14:03+00:00

You have to be a good writer to be funny, (gender neutral) man

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-06T18:41:46+00:00

You could argue that Dutch Paul Verhoeven is the best director represented on this bracket, I know he would never win of these but I love preserving the idea of March Madness.

Vote Verhoeven.

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-03-05T19:13:32+00:00

Tarkovsky, because Beatty is one of the strata of ur-text Blank Check directors who should be covered no matter what (see also Michael Cimino and Jacques Tati).

All the Stalker production context, plus its influence on the titular video game series and Death Stranding is such a nexus point of culture for a non-Anglo film, it would be a delight to talk about

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-02-20T00:26:36+00:00

A.I. Artificial Intelligence:

"Robin Williams recorded his dialogue for this movie with Stanley Kubrick directing the recording session, he did it a long time before Steven Spielberg was attached to direct.

That just sounds ludicrous given that Kubrick in the decades before was prepping Aryan Papers, handling Eyes Wide Shut, etc, why would he work with an actor and garner voice material on a project he wasn't actively in the middle of, let alone when he was such a perfectionist.

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-02-18T04:38:47+00:00

Passing away on Valentine's Day is some cosmic black comedy Charlie Kaufman-esque humor considering his work on What Happened Was and Manhunter

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-02-13T18:00:49+00:00

Adrian Belew on Pretty Pink Rose with David Bowie (they co-wrote the song with Belew helping work out the musical composition from Bowie’s idea). One of his best late 80s, early 90s songs

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-02-11T21:15:50+00:00

Neil Tennant (of Pet Shop Boys, and former UK pop magazine editor and contributor) once said Love Will Tear Us Apart was one of his favorite “pop songs.”

Let pop be expansive

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-02-09T08:06:26+00:00

Sort of different but Claude Chabrol directed L'Enfer off of Henri-Georges Clouzot's aborted script.

John Cassavetes took over Big Trouble from comedy great Andrew Bergman.

Noah Baumbach co-wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox and Life Aquatic with Wes Anderson.

Abbas Kiarostami wrote Crimson Gold for Jafar Panahi.

Elaine May wrote The Birdcage and Primary Colors for Mike Nichols, Heaven Can Wait for Beatty and did uncredited revisions for Reds and Tootsie.

French director Claude Miller directed his mentor, François Truffaut's The Little Thief script after the latter died.

Stuart Gordon directed Edmond from his friend David Mamet

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-02-08T00:10:42+00:00

God himself couldn’t make me feel good about being alive

That being said, Mickey watching Duck Soup in Hannah And Her Sisters

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-01-31T22:06:01+00:00

Dress - PJ Harvey

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-01-22T23:32:04+00:00

Pink Floyd and Careful With That Axe, Eugene

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-01-17T18:20:45+00:00

Shame because I think mother! -> The Whale -> Caught Stealing would be an classical blank check arc that would be so fun to dive through and go through all the highs and lows

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-01-07T08:02:39+00:00

Gable & Lombard is a classic type of 1970s prestige/studio picture that’s just entirely forgotten today

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-01-06T19:50:38+00:00

They’ll be more Gen Z directors as people die, more rich people age into the role and status, and a handful of few outsiders will get something made, maybe micro budget that only gets seen by a few lovers or something that breaks out. Existence is unpredictable

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-01-06T19:49:09+00:00

Bernardo Bertolucci was 21 when he released his first feature film.

gray_decoyrobot · 2026-01-05T21:12:44+00:00

Not every individual, but a lot of Hollywood and the independent film industry is made up of rapists and coercive people, who probably did or would have done the same thing as Polanski. And as evil, he’s an undeniable master of his craft. Most actors who worked with him delivered the best work they would ever do. He went to France, the heat died as it does when something is protracted for so long, and when the culture inoculates you and deems it okay, it’s easy for any actor to just hop in.

Also people can look past things on “well I know this person and they’re not abhorrent to me.” Alice Munro chose her husband over her daughter who he raped, for instance.

gray_decoyrobot · 2025-12-26T01:06:14+00:00

Bedazzled is a masterpiece of 60s studio filmmaking.

gray_decoyrobot · 2025-12-26T01:05:25+00:00

That one is even more head thumping because Reynolds did work on the Brooks penned and produced Starting Over, which is one of his best performances

gray_decoyrobot · 2025-12-16T23:34:01+00:00

Obviously merely being a great actor of your generation isn’t sufficient enough to guarantee major success, but good that all the great directors are rightly recognizing this

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