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3 Panel Comic

Panel 1: James sits clutching a mug nervously as he listens to a conversation he’s afraid of. He stares at something off screen. Near by, a woman and smartly dressed man talk movies over their drinks. The woman nods along.

Man: I’d say probably the best filmmaking I’ve ever seen, has been ‘The Sacrifice’ by Tarkovsky

Woman: Mmhmm

Panel 2: James is pulled from whatever holds his attention as he’s dragged into the conversation.

Man: What about you James? What would you say is the best film you have ever seen?

James: Huh?

Panel 3: James turns back towards the window he’s been watching as he feeds the man an expected answer.

James: Ah! Uhm y’know… ‘Mulholland Drive’, maybe ‘Vertigo’

Outside the window, the movie ‘Step Brothers’ bangs on the glass demanding to be acknowledged. knock knock knock

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
    301·
    5 hours ago

    Whenever someone asks me what I think is the best movie I just say Robocop.

    Some people will will be disdainful. These are people I’m not interested in talking about movies with because they equate pretentiousness with quality. These are boring people to have a conversation with.

    Some people will be like “Fuck yeah! Robocop! Dead or alive you’re coming with me! I’ll buy that for a dollar!” These people don’t care about getting any kind of deeper meaning from a movie, but that’s cool. It’s fun to talk about cool action scenes in movies.

    Then there are people who are actually capable of understanding the subtext and are willing to look for meaning in a movie that from appearances is just a dumb 80s action movie. These are the people that you can have interesting conversations about movies with.

    • wia@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I always give 2 movies.

      Fifth Element as my personal favorite that everyone should see and holds up.

      West by Northwest as my “Film” of choice.

      That way I can still hold a conversation no matter what anyone wants to go on about. Plus it lets me push for someone to broaden their horizons no matter where they fall on the spectrum of movie nerd.

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      6·
      1 hour ago

      You’re right to say RoboCop. It’s a masterpiece of cinema.

      What makes a man a man? What makes a human a human? When has society used us up? When have we sacrificed everything for nothing, and come to the realization in front of a house where we are no longer welcome? When can a sacrifice bigger than one’s self close the final chapter on a life lived in naive folly?

      If someone doesn’t come away from watching RoboCop feeling nearly every feel, they missed the point.

        • hansolo@lemmy.today
          3·
          1 hour ago

          LOL, thanks. For what it’s worth, Niger is the name of a large country in West Africa, and a state in Nigeria. I lived in the county for years. So my autocorrect defiantly knows the name and threw it in there instead of “bigger.”

    • Hobo@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 hours ago

      The sunscreen commercial is possibly one of the most dystopian things I’ve ever seen in a movie. That might’ve been in Robocop 2 though. Still both films are legitimately two of the best dystopian sci-fi films out there.

    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I always pull out “Velocipastor” or “Iron Sky” for very similar reasons. There’s quite a bit you can dig into on any level with those movies.

        • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
          3·
          2 hours ago

          Oh I love Kung Fury. And Kung Fu Hustle. And Shaolin Soccer.

          I’ve just found around me more people have seen Velocipastor and Iron Sky, or are more willing to watch them, so they work better as discussion pieces with others. My real friends get introduced to everything.

        • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
          7·
          4 hours ago

          I mean I’m not pulling anything new out of it that hasn’t been done before but there’s a lot in there.

          Subversion of expectations with a hooker being a good guy and Christian ninjas being the bad guys (among other things). Discussions about VFX and what’s actually needed to sell a scene. Pacing (the whole movie moves at a decent clip without feeling rushed, but still takes a moment for slower scenes). Camerawork and lighting especially for the nighttime scenes. Budgets. The acting is decently solid.

          Like really there’s a lot that the movie gets right with like a $30k budget that big Hollywood movies fail at. It’s cinema stripped to some of its essential parts and it’s much better than it maybe has any right to be.

          But then I’ll talk about it with people who don’t care about all that and just think a velociraptor fighting ninjas is fun and, well, they aren’t wrong.

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
            7·
            4 hours ago

            Subversion of expectations with … Christian ninjas being the bad guys

            Finally, someone has subverted those pesky expectations we have about Christian ninjas.