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bobatsfight t1_jdyxgzj wrote

Huge nostalgia. I saw this movie in theaters when I was 7. I remember seeing Mario 3 for the first time and getting so hyped. “California” became this mystical place that I hoped to visit some day. I’ve lived in CA for 12 years now and did a cross-country trip when I moved out here. I definitely thought of the movie and how it might have helped nudge me.

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TheElbow t1_jdyupg9 wrote

I feel exactly the same. I watched The Godfather as the “Saga” cut on VHS tapes for the first time when I was around age 13. Not only is it amazing cinema, but I also feel like part 1 especially is a comfort movie. I could just watch them over and over.

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Masterbeif1 t1_jdyttml wrote

Reply to comment by dixons-57 in 'Signs' is really great by The_Cyberbard

It wasn’t a priest it was Bo the daughter. It’s hinted at when Mel is telling her the story of how she was born. “You didn’t cry you were an angel” he meant angel metaphorically but unbeknownst to him she really was. Hence; the water was blessed.

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Masterbeif1 t1_jdytil4 wrote

Seems a lot of people hating the ending but I thought the movie was great one of my all time favorites. Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix were both awesome in it and I loved how on the surface it was aliens but there’s a metaphor under it for faith. Loved it

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_SkullBearer_ OP t1_jdysxpj wrote

I saw it as something like a fashion show, it wasn't functional, but there were some good ideas there that set it apart from the yearly retread of the subject matter. I particularly liked Ali Baba, and the idea of making Tiny Tim into a little person. I don't see any signs of that originality in this new movie though.

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TheUsualQuestions t1_jdysdyt wrote

I normally believe in respecting a person’s opinion on films and stories but Steven Knight’s butchering of A Christmas Carol was so insufferably sadistic, poorly written, and oozed so much unearned arrogance that I gotta say you should’ve seen this coming and the fact that he’s being given the chance to essentially rape another one of Dickens’s works is an absolute disgrace.

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