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Rewatching for the first time in a while
Saw today. Favorite film of 2023 so far
A childhood memory of seeing it on Broadway
Favorite lines/moments
The Greeks’ caution (minor spoiler)
Movies seen the most times
Top 25 horror films
S02!
S01 incredibly consistent
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AFAIK I've always had 20/15 vision, but starting in my mid-thirties, while reading menus in restaurants for dinner/supper especially, I needed either more light or had to hold the menu farther from my face and maybe squint to read it clearly. This was the beginning of my battle with presbyopia, or "old eye" literally from the Greek. From what I've read, it typically hits you around or in your mid-forties, so I guess I just got lucky.
I started around +1.25, and every couple years I add +0.25. One thing I didn't learn for a couple years is that there is no difference between "computer glasses" and "reading glasses," except for maybe that faint yellow tint, which you can easily calibrate your monitor to your liking to match the ambient light, but also the magnification level simply corresponds with the focal point, e.g. if your reading glasses are sharp at +1.75, since you typically hold a book closer to your face, your old +1.50 or +1.25s would do fine as your "computer glasses" since their focal point is a bit farther from your face.
So don't toss those readers that have "passed their prime," until you try them with your computer.
I'm still pretty sure past a certain distance I'm still 20/15 ("is that a nickel over there?"), but since I haven't had my eyes checked in almost a decade, I got a check-up in a few weeks for the heck of it.
Agreed the Price version is my favorite, and the closest adaptation, but could have been closer. As mentioned, he played it pretty straight, i.e. against type, so it could just be my favorite role of his.
The Will Smith version did the best job at portraying his loneliness. Thankfully it was the only one I saw prior to reading the novella, so I wasn't disappointed at how much they Hollywood-ized it. Saw it in the theater and more or less had a fun time.
I wish I had seen an MST3K version of the Charlton Heston vehicle, for surely one existed. Alas, I saw it raw and found it ironically campier than Price's.
I see we have a few Vatos Locos present...
I, too, will omit most of my childhood favorites, except ones I still might watch every couple years as an adult, such as:
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The rest I'll try to order by number of times seen; it should be obvious I love them all, so ordering by rating would be near impossible:
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
The Thing (1982)
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Airplane! (1980)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Oh man, I was near twenty when I realized it was a top ten. There were some hard decisions made, let me tell you....
The top of the staircase shot will never not scare the hell out of me, and I've seen the film ten times easy over three decades. It also ruined taking showers for a bit, not nearly as much as Jaws ruined swimming in the ocean for me, but tomato/tomato.
As a huge horror fan I have to place it in my top twenty, maybe top ten, mostly for the groundbreaking (think Citizen Kane) horror filmmaking, but also because it truly scares me in parts.
The eye is fine; it's just the rest of her body that's just off a degree or two. I think she's fine as hell and might prefer her eyes the way they are. Oh, and I just remembered the *freckles!* +1 charisma bonus.
Bless your heart; you have restored my PJ respect level back to near-perfect!
And I had to look up if I had even seen WtWTA. Gave it a 5/10, so I know I saw it, wasn't impressed by it, but can remember nothing about it. Odd, because I've loved Jonze's Her, Adaptation and Being John Malkovich.
The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Alone in the Wilderness (2004)*
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)*
[•REC] (2007)
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)*
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008)*
Valerie a týden divu aka Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Murder Party (2007)
*Documantaries
Hmm... Using the right IMDb advanced search keyword is gonna be tricky. Order will be pretty random and I suspect my list will be a mix of obvious popular films and more obscure ones,and probably not all exactly what you're after, but I'll definitely keep them rated high enough by me to fall in to the like+ recommendation category:
Psycho (1960)
Don't Breathe (2016)
Tony (2009)
Welp aka Cub (2014)
The Woman (2011)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Môjû aka Blind Beast (1969)
Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) **Super gnarly warning
The Lodger (1944)
Pearl (2022)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
The Ritual (2017)
Ravenous (1999)
Creep (2014)
Dead End (2003)
Tsumetai nettaigyo aka Cold Fish (2010)
More where that came from. Please do let me know if any strike your fancy in particular.
Well, thankfully there is plenty of plot to keep the movies interesting, as opposed to PJ's The Hobbit trilogy, which was stretched to its limits. When talking about that trilogy, I like to jokingly make the "stretch it out" hand gesture mimicking what PJ would be doing behind the camera to each actor in all their scenes.
To anyone around the world unfamiliar with the gesture I'm describing, picture using both hands stretching a wad of gum apart horizontally, indicating you want whatever is happening to take as much time as possible. That is how IMO he made three full length movies out of a comparatively short children's book, after doing a one film per relatively longer book trilogy.
Yep. That was the most glaring "error" of the recent pt.2 film for me as well. It's been decades since I read up to book 3 , maybe 4. Is DV making the first book a film trilogy, and so we know how far they plan to take the movies? I assume it depends on box office returns, and I'm just being lazy asking you, who might not even know. I just hope we get to spend some time with child and adult Alia.
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