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  • zaphodb2002toAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made?
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    9 天前

    Mullholland Drive is fucking fantastic and I almost put it on the list over Blue Velvet. I’m sure this will forever be debated by film nerds as long film nerds continue to exist. There’s something about that heightened, unreal 80’s vibe in Blue Velvet, plus what a fuckin’ cast. I also like the “dark side of a quaint small town” theme, which reminds me of his work in Twin Peaks a bit, where Mullholland Drive feels more like he’s expressing more a criticism(?) of the place Hollywood occupies in the cultural consciousness. I’m a sucker for a suburban dystopia, it feels more relatable. Ultimately though, Mullholland Drive feels like a second take on the same kind of ideas, and it’s glossier and more plotty, but I personally I like the smaller, more raw version. Lynch was a master of the medium and almost all of his films are either outright masterpieces or at least incredibly artistic curiosities.

  • zaphodb2002toLord Of The Rings Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Thin. Stretched...English
    15·
    9 天前

    Yes the fan edits are great and this one is my favorite as well. As far as I’m concerned this is the definitive version and is now a part of my rewatch marathons. It’s not just a re-edit, they fix the color grading and add film grain to match LOTR’s look and some clever effects to actually change some frames. Really well done.

  • zaphodb2002toAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made?
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    9 天前

    My top 3 best (but not favorite) movies:

    • Rear Window
    • The Thing (1981)
    • Singin’ In The Rain

    This is hard. In the discussion:

    • Vertigo
    • RoboCop (1987)
    • Alien
    • Back to the Future
    • Schindler’s List
    • The Empire Strikes Back
    • Toy Story
    • Mad Max: Fury Road
    • The Silence of the Lambs
    • Blue Velvet
    • It’s A Wonderful Life
    • The Lion King (1994)
    • The Iron Giant
    • so, so many more I need to watch or rewatch or just can’t think of right now

    Good call on your picks, all three masterpieces, and two of the three your friend picked definitely qualify. Shawshank is a fine movie but doesn’t belong among the greatest films ever made, imo. I think it just played on TV constantly in the late 90s and early 00s so people have affection for it.

    I am about 40 years old, for context.

  • zaphodb2002toCars - For Car Enthusiasts@lemmy.world•What car do you have and what cars have you had?English
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    13 天前

    Mostly because the RS was just too heavy and too powerful to have fun on the roads I’m driving, and the computers mean you barely have any feel anyway. The RS was purchased when I lived in Kansas City, but now I’m back up in the mountains of Southern California. Plus it was impossible to work on and parts were difficult to source. Plus as I list, this one’s not my first and I knew I loved Miatas. So I sold the Ford and bought this 97 NA with 90k miles on it, one owner, and had more than enough money left over to dump $10k into a full refresh and mods. It was fun for a bit to have power, but there’s nothing like driving a slow car fast.

    The NA gets far more smiles per gallon than the RS, and anything that breaks I can fix in my own garage on the cheap. I fully intend to own this car until I die.

    Also, pop up headlights.

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