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Added by Darth Brutus on 1 Jan 2024 05:40
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The Return of the Film Diary (2024)

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People who added this item 1071 Average listal rating (773 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.3
They Live (1988)
23.11.

This film feels like it could've been made yesterday. Bunch of degenerated alien freaks live hiding within us, leeching off our resources and manipulating us via mass media. John Carpenter was pointing at yuppies and libertarian politics of his own time, but this phenomenon is still as real as ever.
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People who added this item 178 Average listal rating (102 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.2
13.11.

Strangely enough, I didn't actually watch this movie. I had a dream where I watched it. It was so accurate and vivid that I think it counts.
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People who added this item 158 Average listal rating (94 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 7.2
30.10.

This film is utter shitshow and it makes me laugh out loud every time I see it. They tried to make these historical figures look and sound as over the top and insane as possible. Hitler barely has any other emotion than just hate, and he's just crazy. Everything here feels so oversimplified, like there's no story or history behind anything that happens, things just happen because Hitler is evil and he's rising and he's very angry and he hates everything and everyone.

In reality there's a huge and complicated history behind this thing that is still widely discussed among historians. The things that happened during the era and the way people thought had at least decades of complicated history behind them, not just political but also esoteric, neo-paganic and spiritual thinking. That's why they used swastika as their symbol.
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People who added this item 702 Average listal rating (378 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.6
THX 1138 (1971)
27.10.
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People who added this item 2165 Average listal rating (1573 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 7.3
20.10.
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People who added this item 1217 Average listal rating (800 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.1
Network (1976)
13.10.
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People who added this item 6236 Average listal rating (4482 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 8.2
11.9.

This film is so smart and beautiful.
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People who added this item 33 Average listal rating (28 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 8.5
12.7.

After watching some other Daily Wire stuff, I decided to re-watch this early "classic" of theirs with more open mindset. I think Matt Walsh is a kind of Borat who goes around annoying people asking with this one impossible question. The problem is that the question of gender and sex are treated so superficially here, like sure, it makes good entertainment, but what's the point really? The only valid message here is that many people who make noise about women's rights seem to be just grifters, but then what?

That's just my point: Daily Wire or Walsh don't really have anything to offer other than the question. Too many people watch this stuff just because they think it's all black and white and this makes "the enemy" look really bad. This attitude in itself is the problem, the fact that opposites don't want to talk or understand each other and just try and push more conflict to hurt each other. That's just bullshit.
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People who added this item 337 Average listal rating (202 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 6.6
11.7.

I case you really love The Who and Tommy, then this film is just what you need. I don't think it's that great, but as an ambitious spectacle for the fans it does the trick. Tommy even stars Elton John, Jack Nicholson, Tina Turner...
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People who added this item 146 Average listal rating (88 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.7
8.7.

If Talking Heads is your cup of tea, then this concert film is mandatory. The way the whole thing is build goes from an empty stage to David Byrne playing solo while the scenery is built and the rest of the band join in. The longer it goes, the better it gets.
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People who added this item 3 Average listal rating (2 ratings) 4 IMDB Rating 5.2
Goofy Goat (1931)
7.7.

As far as I know, this prototype short was created mainly for experimenting then brand new coloring techniques and not for distribution. Sadly, only the black and white version exists today.
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6.6.

Garbage.
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6.6.

Around this time the series started getting really bad. All the good actors were gone, and so was the budget.
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People who added this item 82 Average listal rating (61 ratings) 5.1 IMDB Rating 5.1
26.5.

Another entertaining Wishmaster film.
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People who added this item 261 Average listal rating (191 ratings) 5.8 IMDB Rating 5.8
Wishmaster (1997)
12.5.

A very underrated, creative and entertaining horror from Wes Craven.
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People who added this item 44 Average listal rating (31 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7
Quatermass 2 (1957)
17.3.

Great paranoia thriller, this is like a classic X-files episode.
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People who added this item 68 Average listal rating (44 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 6.7
17.3.

A very solid little scifi horror gem from pre-Frankenstein Hammer.
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25.2.

He is back! The mysterious man has returned to find a perfect woman to give birth to his bastard son.
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People who added this item 141 Average listal rating (73 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 6.9
25.2.

This is some filthy horror from Brazil. I love it.
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People who added this item 27 Average listal rating (16 ratings) 5.8 IMDB Rating 5.2
24.2.
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People who added this item 370 Average listal rating (216 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.5
24.2.
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People who added this item 51 Average listal rating (31 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.9
24.2.
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People who added this item 11 Average listal rating (8 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 5.9
Kolberg (1945)
18.2.

This film sucks the big one, but the story behind the film is quite interesting.
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18.2.

Yup, this is Makaveyev, alright.
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People who added this item 150 Average listal rating (76 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 6
Sweet Movie (1974)
17.2.

Art films can't get much more intense and extreme than this.
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People who added this item 2246 Average listal rating (1458 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.6
The Fly (1986)
11.2.

I miss the time when films could still be simple and smart. The Fly was so revered, even I knew it before I could read, and I didn't watch the film until I was 18.
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11.2.

One of the finest films ever made.
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10.2.
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People who added this item 1426 Average listal rating (888 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.2
Videodrome (1983)
10.2.
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People who added this item 315 Average listal rating (192 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.4
Point Blank (1967)
4.2.

What seems like a traditional crime-thriller turned out to be a man lost in a soulless corporate world ridden with greed and paranoia. John Boorman directed the hell out of this film.
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People who added this item 98 Average listal rating (58 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.5
Phase IV (1974)
4.2.

The original ending you have to see. Without it the film is great, but the original restored version is the only true way to experience this.
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People who added this item 107 Average listal rating (74 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.9
3.2.

A man struggles to connect with his lost son (and mother nature).
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People who added this item 956 Average listal rating (624 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.6
Deliverance (1972)
3.2.

A brutal and unpleasant story about men going to conquer something that cannot be conquered. Vietnam war references are clear as a day.
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People who added this item 75 Average listal rating (37 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 6.8
Red Psalm (1972)
21.1.

Well, this was pretty tough film to sit through, honestly. There are no central characters or a story. Instead it's a one huge compilation of every revolution and revolt in Hungarian history and probably beyond. The characters are more like archetypes and symbols, and the way they use music reminded me of using art as a tool for justice and virtue in the world. In other words: hippy stuff.
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People who added this item 711 Average listal rating (475 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.3
21.1.

This film reminded me what I love about John Boorman: it doesn't matter how silly of campy his subject matters are, they always feel larger than life and downright awe-inspiring.
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People who added this item 395 Average listal rating (179 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 7.9
Kes (1969)
20.1.

Believe it or not, this film is not about a boy and a kestler. It's more about the bleak and hopeless life of a working class lad, his troubled family and the whole education system. The director is a devout socialist, so no wonder.

As usual, I don't like the pessimism. I can see what the director is trying to say, but the pessimism is what bites me.
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People who added this item 134 Average listal rating (64 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 7.6
20.1.

There's not that much plot in this film: it's just the brutality of war. It's namely Russian Civil war, but the way they frame it, this could be anywhere and any time. That is, inhumane violence and suffering, are universal.
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13.1.

Daniel Day-Lewis, man. The dude can frigging act. This is his masterpiece. The story is also great and very unique.
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People who added this item 58 Average listal rating (31 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 8
6.1.

A historically significant documentary, even groundbreaking at the time it was filmed. This doc was supposed to be about the British conquest of the South Pole, but ended up showing a tragedy of the men sacrificing their lives for their expedition. The historical value of this document wasn't fully understood until recently, maybe because history hates failures.
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1.1.

Had to watch this one again just so I could write more in-depth about it's symbolism. A great film, one of the best.
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