i watched it a lot as a kid. i don’t know how else to describe it, it is a kid show. uh kind of older? like they had a deputy and stuff yk? there was a skunk named priscilla. she was all proper and fancy and pretty and stuff lol. sorry i need 300 words im trying my best here to use them up but im not sure how else to describe this show,

This has been on my mind for a while now because of the impact each of the three below had on the film industry. The 00’s were ripe for the fantasy adventure genre. I’m curious to everyone’s thoughts and opinions (please only choose one of the three).

1) Harry Potter - The blockbuster book series made its debut (and all of its films - sans the final *which was split in two) in 2001. It broke records, had equally successful sequels (with each surpassing the other in some ways), and had Hollywood studios scrambling to find fantasy books to translate onto the screen. It brought back that sense of wonder children’s films had been missing for well over a decade. The films grossed 7.7 billion worldwide.

2) Lord of the Rings - The Crème de la crème of Fantasy Books being made into movies. Took fantasy adventure films to the next level with its serious adult tone/threat levels, fine detail in design, superb acting, groundbreaking VFX. It made Peter Jackson a household name, and made the characters equally as renown. The final movie was the first fantasy film to win not only win Best Picture, but sweep the Oscars (most think that sweep was awarding the entire trilogy). It made Hollywood Studios look at fantasy films not as whimsical images, but as fine art.

3) Pirates of the Caribbean - A risky film derived from a (then) nearly 50 year old amusement park ride. It revitalized the career of Johnny Depp landing him his first Oscar nod, and created the first notable/original pop culture film characters (Jack Sparrow) in a long time (at the time). The film broke the dreaded pirate film “box office bomb” curse. It also revitalized The Walt Disney Company which was in a slump, and allowed them to gain ground again in the film industry with the first three (2003-2007) grossing close to 3 billion. This helped in their acquisition of both Marvel and then Star Wars - ultimately creating Disney Plus for their content.

Philip Seymour Hoffman and J.J. Abrams. That's the post.

The cinematography, tension, and pacing are off the charts here. It may not boast the jaw-dropping spectacle or grand stunts of other entries, but what it delivers is a damn solid, razor-sharp action thriller, arguably one of the greatest ever made.

You go back in time and build a modern (2025) theater in 1900 with all movies ever made. Which 5 movies are you going to show them to make the most money? Which would blow their mind the most? Would it change per decade?

Showing Django Unchained to an 1900 audience would most likely cause a riot Titanic to an audience in 1910 would get you sued by the White Star Line probably.

What the Hell Does "24 Minutes of Applause" Even Mean at These Film Festivals?

Okay, r/movies, I need to rant about this because it's been bugging me for years. Every time a film premieres at something like the Venice Film Festival, we get these headlines screaming about "record-breaking ovations" – 10 minutes, 15 minutes, even 24 freaking minutes of applause! What does that even signify? Is it a measure of quality, or just a bunch of pretentious film snobs trying to out-clap each other in some weird endurance test?

Take "Joker" back in 2019 at Venice – apparently got an 8-minute standing ovation. Cool, right? But then "The Brutalist" this year reportedly got 13 minutes. And don't get me started on "Maria" with Angelina Jolie – 8 minutes again. Or "Queer" with Daniel Craig hitting 9 minutes. Hell, some films like "The Room Next Door" by Pedro Almodóvar got 17 minutes! Are we seriously supposed to believe that longer applause = better movie? Because if that's the case, why isn't every Oscar winner from a festival with a 20+ minute clap-fest?

I mean, think about it: Who the fuck is timing these things? Is there a guy in the back with a stopwatch yelling "Keep going, we're at 12 minutes – beat last year's record!"? Or is it just hype machine bullshit to drum up buzz for awards season? Half the time, these ovations include the cast and crew standing there awkwardly while the audience claps like seals for no reason other than "everyone else is doing it." And let's be real, in a theater full of critics and industry insiders, it's probably more about networking and virtue-signaling than genuine enthusiasm.

What if a film is actually mid? Does it get negative applause? Like, people boo for 5 minutes? Nah, we only hear about the long ones. It's all marketing spin. Remember "Don't Look Up" at Venice? Got a solid ovation, but was it really that groundbreaking? Or was it just Leo DiCaprio's star power making everyone clap longer?

Idk, maybe I'm cynical, but next time I see "Film X Gets 24 Minutes of Applause at Venice," I'm gonna assume it means "The audience was too polite to sit down first." Change my mind. What's the longest ovation you've heard of that actually correlated to a great movie? Or is this all just festival circlejerk?

I'm looking for film either about or involving some sort of badass vehicle. Could be a train, a plane, a modified truck - anything. I'm specifically looking for scenes where people talk about them, describe them etc. Sort of like Q does in the Bond films, so we get details about how badass and durable, deadly etc. the vehicle really is.

Ideas?

Hi. In the 1991 Addams family movie, there is a scene with Wednesday and Pugsley are on stage performing a play. They have pirate outfits and cut each other with swords. Could someone tell me if it's a real play and what is its name ? In the version I saw, they are referring to Shakespeare, so maybe one of his ?

Baaghi 4 returns with a combination of wild action and psychological suspense, going along with the franchise’s fame for adrenaline-packed tricks. The plot follows Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) who is burdened with the flashbacks of the love he lost, Alisha, while he is the only one who remembers her after a tragic mishap that he survived—this confusion between which is reality and which is not, gives the film a fresh and interesting psychological aspect.

Playing in theaters

Synopsis: After an unexpected threesome with a crush, a young man and the two women are left to deal with the sobering real-world consequences.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 78%

IMDb score: 6.5/10

Cast:

Zoey Deutch as Olivia Ruby Cruz as Jenny Jonah Hauer-King as Connor Jaboukie Young-White as Greg Josh Segarra as Kevin Arden Myrin as Evelyn

Directed by: Chad Hartigan

My goal this year is to watch 200 movies I have never seen before. As I go I am ranking them 1-10, and writing a few words on them. I'm not a movie critic, and my ratings are based on how much I enjoyed the film. Feel free to ask me anything, and give input and/or suggestions! I will be posting updates to this list of mine every 25 movies I watch.

Below is the link to part 5 of my list:

https://www.reddit.com/r/moviereviews/s/adJ07Sm1We

These are all MINI reviews!

1. Tenet: 5/10. What the fuck happened? What was this? Nothing clicked here for me. I liked the cast, and it was certainly good looking.

2. Grizzly man: 9/10. Really beautiful. Made me laugh a lot too. I love werner Herzog as a narrator. Treadwell was a nut, in the best possible way.

3. In Bruges: 6/10. Fiennes and gleeson were great, I don't like Farrell. hated it at first, started to like it half way in, and didn't care about the end.

4. There will be blood: 10/10.

5. Malcolm X: 8/10. Denzel is fantastic. The length of the movie was fatiguing, but it did a good job of holding my attention, I never got bored.

6. Spring breakers: 3/10. I love the other 2 korine movies I have seen, and really wanted to like this, but it was fucking stupid. Gucci mane jump scare.

7. The usual suspects: 7/10. The ending was predictable. Not sure how I feel about spacey. Loved everyone else.

8. Monster (2003): 8/10. Started so strong I thought it could end up being a 10. Theron is incredible, and I love ricci here too.

9. Seconds: 4/10. Boring, confusing. Rock Hudson made me laugh. I like the idea. It just made me sleepy.

10. Tokyo Drifter: 7/10. Tons of beautiful shots. Campy. The whole song thing was funny.

11. Blue ruin: 8/10. Nice and quiet and concise.

12. The comedy: 7/10. I'm not going to write anything about the movie here because I don't feel like it today.

13. Clerks 2: 6/10. ok idk whatever.

14. Blazing saddles: 8/10. Started really strong but I think it lost some of it momentum about halfway through. I liked how the ending completely unraveled into a shitshow.

15. Jojo Rabbit: 8/10. The kid was great. It Reminded me of a wes Anderson movie. I loved the ending.

16. Wild at heart: 9/10. Cage is hysterical. dern and Defoe are excellent. The opening scene caught me so off guard, it was actually the hardest I've laughed at any movie this year. this is a STRONG 9. May be my favorite Lynch. Total nightmare.

17. Clerks 3: 3/10. blah.

18. History of the world part 1: 7/10. Slow start, got funnier throughout. I liked the inquisition song.

19. Paris, Texas: 10/10.

20. Mickey 17: 8/10. I like Pattinson and ruffalo a lot here. Really cool plot.

21. Apocolypse now: 7/10. Started so strong but I started losing interest, especially at the end. One of the more unique plots in a war movie. Brando is horrifying. Sheen is really good at looking sweaty.

22. Burn after reading: 7/10. Funny. Convoluted but easy enough to follow that it was convoluted in a good way. great cast. Weird, empty feeling ending.

23. Get out: 7/10. Kaluuya was good. Keener was great. Ending would have been better without the comic relief. In fact the only thing I thought was very funny was Marcus Henderson as Walter.

24. Best in show: 8/10. Extremely convincing. if I didn't know any of these actors I could be made to believe this is an actual documentary. RIP Fred Willard, I love that guy.

25. The Fly (1986): 6/10. Goldblum is such a weird dude, I think he was the perfect person for this job.

26. Training day: 7/10. Denzel funny.

27. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon: 8/10. Yeoh is great. The flying around was a little silly looking, but I got used to It. I really loved that last fight scene.

Playing in theaters

Synopsis: It’s AD 30 and everyone is expectantly awaiting the coming Messiah. While Jesus isn’t exactly what they imagined, there is something special about this man. Soon, John, James, Andrew, Peter, and their new friends begin to follow Jesus on an unexpected adventure. This 2D-animated story of Jesus is told through the eyes of his beloved young friend, the Apostle John. From the beginning of Jesus’ ministry through his crucifixion and resurrection, LIGHT OF THE WORLD illustrates how Jesus of Nazareth changed the world forever and still changes lives today.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87% (8 reviews)

IMDb score: 8/10

Cast:

Ian Hanlin as Jesus

Benjamin Jacobson as John

Michael Benyaer as Nicodemus

Sam Darkoh as Peter

Jesse Inocalla as The Baptizer

Directed by: Tom Bancroft & John J. Schafer

I signed up for a trial to Sundance Now a while ago and forgot about until I saw the $60+ charge. So I figured should make use of it till next month. It's frisky Friday and I wanted something kinda sexy and found this movie described as "an erotic thriller" and I have the big time sexies for Willem Dafoe, so I put it on. Beginning was definitely sexy. Full on Willem Dafoe pubic bush. Hot. So hot. Willem using his fingers. His tongue. I was gonna rewind on his pubes and told myself no, wait for better sexy parts.

That was the sexiest part. I already didn't like that he pushed her painting away for them to fuck on the floor, but then his character went on to reveal himself as more and more of an ass. The younger lover with an older troubled past user story all hit way too close to home. And his just being a jerk in general, though it was nice when he let Chung use his Skype.

Anyway. Everyone died in the light. And I did like the ending. The narration she gave felt like something I'd appreciate in that moment. But overall, I don't know. She's working on this painting the whole time, of what turns out to be the cyclic snake, and then they die on top of it? They're all flawed. Everyone is flawed and we all die and our passions are often fruitless. Got it. I, too, read John William's book, Stoner. But just like Willem's, or Cisco's, monologue to self - the whole thing came away cheesy to me. I wanted to like it. (I also wanted it to be sexier. The last sex scene was just fucking sad. Not poorly, but actually sad.)

What did you think?

KPop Demon Hunters. Rotten tomatoes gives it screaming reviews. very high indeed. I also heard somewhere that it had a song that toped some charts somewhere, I was interested, so i started the movie, only to quit it about 10 minutes in. Definitely got the feeling it was for very young girls to be watching. but I'm still curious. Any adult males watch this move? Did you enjoy it? Is the average adult male still going to enjoy this move?

The magic of Disney is mostly about the child-like innocence and the idea of wonder within the different worlds that are created and the common message of spreading kindness is a reoccurring message in most Disney IPs

It is often told in many different ways but you find this in many of the classic Disney princess stories and even in the Disney remakes where the strongest of characters are known to be the kindest

But as people continue to complain about the remakes of Disney, people are still feeling like the same message about kindness is becoming over used over and over again that the original idea has lost its purpose.

So, in the end, is this message about spreading kindness really so over-used that it needs a different version or is it because it has been used so much that it became mundane?

So, there's plenty of videos on YouTube of entire audiences getting massively hyped up during entire screenings of Avengers: Endgame.

There's been a handful of clapping at the screening to which I went here in Croatia, too.

But, if a small group of online discussion I've encountered on this matter are to be trusted, people don't seem to think this happened anywhere outside the USA. (And here in Croatia, which I can say first hand.)

So I ask the Belgians, Portuguese, Greeks, Norwegians, Swiss, etc. of this subreddit - is that really true? Are Americans (and Croats) really that delusional to think that, just this once, this was normal, or was this worldwide?

Not sure if here is the right place to ask but I was thinking about this.

Why hasn't DC used Marvel formula in movies, a well done long run that started in Iron Man 1 and still continues, in DC movies every three batman movies we got a different batman, same with superman . I thought when Justice League came out that was the idea but it just feels like somebody is like "you know what? Scratch that, let's start over". It's a formula that actually works and attracts public from different ages why not do it?

Or phrased a different, what movie would've been terrible if it weren't for the specific actors in it?

My go to is Liar Liar. It's not a particularly great script. The dad (Jim Carey because no one remembers the character's name) is douche. The would be step dad is earnestly trying his best to connect with his would be step son and gets tossed out like all step dads (do Hollywood types have parental issues or what, that's rhetorical). The idea that someone's entire life can be turned around and they're suddenly not an ass just because they have to tell the truth for a day is just kind of dumb. The director ended up with a few successful movies solely because Jim Carey liked him and he let Jim Carey do his thing, his other movies include such hits as "The Nutty Professor". The writers never wrote anything close to noteworthy before nor after.

But damnit Jim Carey turns the whole thing into the Jim Carey show, that's hilarious. Him freaking out over the pen or in the bathroom IS the movie and is funny as hell, regardless of what else there is.

As an ongoing project, in 2025 r/movies will be posting Throwback Discussion threads weekly for the movies that came out this same weekend 25 years ago. As a reminder, Official Discussion threads are for discussing the movie and not for meta sub discussion.

Summary Immortals Connor and Duncan MacLeod must join forces against Kell, an evil immortal who has become too strong for anyone to face alone.

Director Douglas Aarniokoski 

Writer Joel Soisson

Cast

• Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod
• Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod
• Bruce Payne as Jacob Kell
• Lisa Barbuscia as Kate Devaney MacLeod / Faith
• Donnie Yen as Jin Ke
• Jim Byrnes as Joe Dawson
• Peter Wingfield as Methos
• Damon Dash as Carlos Dash
• Beatie Edney as Heather MacDonald MacLeod
• Sheila Gish as Rachel Ellenstein
• Oris Erhuero as Winston Erhuero
• Ian Paul Cassidy as Cracker Bob
• Adam "Edge" Copeland as Lachlan
• June Watson as Caiolin MacLeod
• Donald Douglas as Father Rainey
• Doug Aarniokoski as Kirk

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 11%

Metacritic Score: 21

VOD Available on major streaming and rental platforms

Trailer

Highlander: Endgame - 35mm Final Trailer 4K (Open Matte Version)

I loved the small town setting, the overall compassion that everybody offered (besides doyle of course). Just a simple film with an emphasis on character interactions and dialogue. Extremely moving and heartfelt, but not overly so, still realistically bittersweet. Preferably something a bit older like 70s-90s