It feels like I watched a different Brief Encounter than everybody else. It finished last on my list in a previous PRHoF.
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what a heartwarming, beautifully woven tale with exquisite cinematography.
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It's a funky, sassy, and fun movie, even if I can't say it's very good. It really should be like The Rocky Horror Picture Show with midnight showings and audience participation. It's that kind of movie.
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I think you've nailed it calling it 'funky, sassy and fun'. That is what I love about it, it's just fun. And Malcolm McDowell is brilliant. And Naomi Watts. I nominated this for you as there's not much you haven't seen, you seem pretty open minded when it comes to films and I thought you might have fun with it.
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I don't think Tank Girl is a particularly good movie, but it's a ton of fun and I was always happy to watch it whenever it was on one of the movie networks. The film actually came up at work today, since we were joking about water, and I kind of want to watch it again now haha.
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I don't think Tank Girl is a particularly good movie, but it's a ton of fun and I was always happy to watch it whenever it was on one of the movie networks. The film actually came up at work today, since we were joking about water, and I kind of want to watch it again now haha.
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And I believe you had it as your second choice for me.
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Heathers (1989)
Directed by: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Kim Walker
Directed by: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Kim Walker
If I had known how morbid the plot of Heathers actually was, I probably would've watched it a long time ago. I was aware that it had an atypically dark tone for a teen comedy, but I wasn't quite expecting it to have a body count as well. Most of the dialogue is very cleverly written, but given how disinterested I am in standard high school drama, I was ready to turn the film off 20 minutes in. Luckily that's when events take a turn, and the story becomes far more intriguing.
I laughed out loud on a number of occasions, and I'm not quite sure why the mineral water bit landed as hard as it did, but I definitely cackled the longest at that. My engagement with the film did waver again in much of the second half, but I still appreciated how odd and unconventional the whole ordeal was. The dream sequence near the end came at just the right time, and it was so successful at recapturing my attention, that it even straightened my posture for the remaining duration of the film.
Many of the characters are just exaggerated stereotypes, but it works incredibly well for the tone and themes of the film. All the performances were exactly what they needed to be, especially for the more ridiculous minor roles. Winona Ryder is a great actress, but the perfect casting of Christian Slater had him stealing the show more often than not. Overall Heathers was a bit of a mixed bag for me, but it was still genuinely far more entertaining than I expected it to be, and will probably warrant a revisit at some point.
I laughed out loud on a number of occasions, and I'm not quite sure why the mineral water bit landed as hard as it did, but I definitely cackled the longest at that. My engagement with the film did waver again in much of the second half, but I still appreciated how odd and unconventional the whole ordeal was. The dream sequence near the end came at just the right time, and it was so successful at recapturing my attention, that it even straightened my posture for the remaining duration of the film.
Many of the characters are just exaggerated stereotypes, but it works incredibly well for the tone and themes of the film. All the performances were exactly what they needed to be, especially for the more ridiculous minor roles. Winona Ryder is a great actress, but the perfect casting of Christian Slater had him stealing the show more often than not. Overall Heathers was a bit of a mixed bag for me, but it was still genuinely far more entertaining than I expected it to be, and will probably warrant a revisit at some point.
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Glad you had a mostly positive experience with it. The darkness of it is a big reason why I've always loved it.
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I use to love Tank Girl when I was younger, haven't seen it in awhile. I did write a review of it here and see it was some years since I last watched it.
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So for Millennium Actress, there is the option for the Japanese or the US/English version. Does the nominator have a preference or recommendation as to which I watch?
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So for Millennium Actress, there is the option for the Japanese or the US/English version. Does the nominator have a preference or recommendation as to which I watch?
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I have an anime to watch 'Grave of the Fireflies' . . .
So for Millennium Actress, there is the option for the Japanese or the US/English version. Does the nominator have a preference or recommendation as to which I watch?
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Even my room mate, who happily watches a lot of poorly dubbed anime, only owns a copy of Millennium Actress that is in Japanese with English subtitles, so that might be worth noting.
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Excellent, but extremely sad. Similar sad Japanese anime is 1983's Barefoot Gen.
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Excellent, but extremely sad. Similar sad Japanese anime is 1983's Barefoot Gen.
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It's about the bombing of Hiroshima.
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