- I remember seeing the 90s Mario movie once as a kid, and liking it... it's weird, immersive and coherent. As I was one of those few 90s British kids who didn't have a games console growing up, the fact it was nothing like the games didn't bother me.
- I don't like The Vicar Of Dibley or most things written by Richard Curtis...
- Goodfellas is... fine, but there is this weird cult around mob movies. I mean, I like the first two Godfather films, I gave them an 8/10 and 9/10 respectively, but the widespread idea that these are some of the greatest films of all time is bizarre to me. It seems to be mainly driven by men who hero-worship gangsters and want to live vicariously through the films. Same goes for the Peaky Blinders fandom.
- I liked Andor. I wasn't convinced by the first 5 episodes but the rest was superb. I'd rank it with DS9 and The OA in my favourite 3 sci-fi series. The writing is more realistic and less reliant on shocks and twists than the 2000s BSG.
I think you’re onto something re: hero-worship of gangsters. I think some dudes dream about being the guys who break the rules and get away with it. That’s never appealed to me, I guess—I was bored to death by The Godfather and never even got around to the sequels. Haha.
I honestly didn’t see the original Super Mario Bros. movie till about ten years after it came out, when I was in my twenties (I “boycotted” it on principal as a kid—“That’s not Mario!” etc.), and I found it weirdly compelling. I don’t know if it’s *good,* but it’s so bizarrely committed to its strangeness, like the filmmakers set out to make a kiddie Blade Runner and then glued Mario iconography onto it as an afterthought. If this list doesn’t make it clear, I’m absolutely drawn to weird stuff over mediocre stuff, and that movie has weirdness in spades.
I thought What We Do in the Shadows was so much better as a show. The movie feels super slow by comparison. Maybe that’s just my internet-shriveled attention span talking though.
Add Andor to your list if it’s not on there. An amazing show and not very Star Wars-y if that’s not your thing.
It's possible the WWDitS show is better if you watch it once a week, instead of binging it on Hulu like I did, haha. I had the experience of going from "love it" to "suuuuper sick of it" shockingly fast.
I think I'm bored in general of ✨cinematic universes✨, including Star Wars, but I've heard nothing but raves for Andor. I might have to check it out.
- I loved The Whale.
- I remember seeing the 90s Mario movie once as a kid, and liking it... it's weird, immersive and coherent. As I was one of those few 90s British kids who didn't have a games console growing up, the fact it was nothing like the games didn't bother me.
- I don't like The Vicar Of Dibley or most things written by Richard Curtis...
- Goodfellas is... fine, but there is this weird cult around mob movies. I mean, I like the first two Godfather films, I gave them an 8/10 and 9/10 respectively, but the widespread idea that these are some of the greatest films of all time is bizarre to me. It seems to be mainly driven by men who hero-worship gangsters and want to live vicariously through the films. Same goes for the Peaky Blinders fandom.
- I liked Andor. I wasn't convinced by the first 5 episodes but the rest was superb. I'd rank it with DS9 and The OA in my favourite 3 sci-fi series. The writing is more realistic and less reliant on shocks and twists than the 2000s BSG.
I think you’re onto something re: hero-worship of gangsters. I think some dudes dream about being the guys who break the rules and get away with it. That’s never appealed to me, I guess—I was bored to death by The Godfather and never even got around to the sequels. Haha.
I honestly didn’t see the original Super Mario Bros. movie till about ten years after it came out, when I was in my twenties (I “boycotted” it on principal as a kid—“That’s not Mario!” etc.), and I found it weirdly compelling. I don’t know if it’s *good,* but it’s so bizarrely committed to its strangeness, like the filmmakers set out to make a kiddie Blade Runner and then glued Mario iconography onto it as an afterthought. If this list doesn’t make it clear, I’m absolutely drawn to weird stuff over mediocre stuff, and that movie has weirdness in spades.
I thought What We Do in the Shadows was so much better as a show. The movie feels super slow by comparison. Maybe that’s just my internet-shriveled attention span talking though.
Add Andor to your list if it’s not on there. An amazing show and not very Star Wars-y if that’s not your thing.
It's possible the WWDitS show is better if you watch it once a week, instead of binging it on Hulu like I did, haha. I had the experience of going from "love it" to "suuuuper sick of it" shockingly fast.
I think I'm bored in general of ✨cinematic universes✨, including Star Wars, but I've heard nothing but raves for Andor. I might have to check it out.