Interestingly, there is a documentary coming to Hulu next month about just this. It's gotten pretty good reviews so far, from what I can tell. It's called Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.

The Wailing is a Horror Masterpiece

>I’m genuinely confused on why people like these kinds of movies, when there’s more upbeat inspiring movie flicks.

Being upbeat and inspiring does not inherently make a movie better, for me.

I experience stories in order to have memorable emotional experiences. These can also be from "negative" emotions (tensions, sadness, fear, being disturbed). I can look back on those experiences with nostalgia.

>most people just need a positive perspective to tell them that life isn’t that bad and we should help people realize that no matter your circumstances you can always rise up.

I'm sure plenty of people have watched Taxi Driver and thought to themselves something along the lines of "well, at least I'm doing a lot better than this guy" and/or "damn, we really need to help people like these", instead of "life sucks"

They absolutely have not. My workplace still makes you isolate if you have Covid and we’re food service. Not an industry known for sending someone home if they’re sick.

Everyone I know has gotten covid, regardless of their vaccination status and masking habits.

I’m excited for it but I wish he would do straight Horror because he is so good at it

What they didn't say is that it'll be debuting at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025.

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It better be streaming...

Margin call won’t be many peoples cup of tea, that’s for sure. But i work in finance and I enjoyed it, it captured the sort of ‘nothingness’ that surrounds that world. It’s hard to explain, big short was more colorful, entertaining but margin call has more grim and down to earth. It’ll be very boring and uneventful for people uninterested in the events of 08. It kinda just, goes. That’s why I liked it.

Been boosted, my guy

There's a new documentary about it. Blaming womens lib for the pedo boom. Gross.

Your formatting is enough to drive someone crazy.

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Slasher films tend to start with the victims being bumped off in out of the way places so nobody catches on for a while. Once people figure out what’s going on it can just be a race between the killer and the police. Movies like Ft13 are usually set in locations where you can get a few more kills in in the time it takes the police to arrive, and then they fill the killer full of bullets just in time to save the last victim.

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A bunch of murders in 1920s Oklahoma among the Osage (Native American tribe). Becomes one of the very first big cases to be tackled by the brand new FBI under J. Edgar Hoover.

"The Apple Originals feature, an epic about the serial murders of the members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion and Tantoo Cardinal, all of whom are expected to attend Cannes for the May 20 premiere, alongside Scorsese."

It's literally in the article...

I don't hold Taxi Driver in high regard like other ppl do. But I don't believe all films need to have a positive influence. But if that's how u feel I could understand why u don't like this film.

If you haven’t watched Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy start there. Those movies are heavily influenced by the works of Michael Mann, specifically Heat, which is a phenomenal film but has a different vibe from The Batman, although I still highly recommend watching it as a crime thriller.

In a somewhat funny coincidence, The Batman takes a lot of visual cues from another Michael Mann film, Manhunter, which I highly recommend because it has an almost identical aesthetic and vibe to The Batman.

The way Reeves structured the film is very interesting; each act could be seen as representative of a different era in action films. The opening has direct references to John Boorman’s Point Blank with Lee Marvin, but also draws parallels to films like The Driver or Le Samurai. The second act has parallels to 80’s and 90’s crime thrillers like Manhunter, Cobra, and Silence of the Lambs. The last act goes full disaster mode, striking visuals similar to the Schumacher era Batman films or late era De Palma, stuff like Batman Forever and Snake Eyes.

The Batman was one of my favorites of last year, as a hardcore movie nerd I found the sheer amount of references downright fascinating. Say what you will about Matt Reeves but the man clearly loves movies and has done his homework.

Travis is "on the edge" but I think he only becomes truly crazy as the film unfolds.

Sometimes, throwing people's grime back in their face can be a necessary wake-up call. Taxi Driver said a lot about post-Vietnam New York and a particular ugliness about America that needs to be addressed from time to time. You can wave your hand about "society" all you like, but you're only able to minimize the message because you don't see any of the context. By your own words, you didn't understand. It's evident.

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I agree. In his own words, this sounds incredibly self indulgent. Maybe he’s bad at pitching movies? But the article leaves me at Hard Pass as well.

Without spoiling what is it about