• karashta@piefed.social
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    Citizen Kane.

    Yes it is circle jerked hard by film lovers… For good reason.

    This is what I might consider the first movie shot in what would be recognized as a modern movie format.

    It is told non sequentially, the composition of shots is absolutely incredible.

    It’s a movie shot in 1941 that looks nothing like the other movies of the time. Literally decades ahead of its time. It looks like it could have been shot a few months ago as a period piece.

    There’s good reason for it being one of the most acclaimed movies of all time.

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    I still can’t believe The Matrix is from '99. The themes and the effects hold up incredibly well, it feels far more modern.

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    The Man From Earth. It’s always felt out of place to me. I’m not sure if it’s too early or too late, but it doesn’t feel of it’s time to me.

    Same vibe for The Discovery of Heaven.

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    Brick. By Rian Johnson with Joseph-Gordon Levitt and Lukas Haas was very deliberately a throwback to good ol’ hard boiled detective noir.

    I thought it worked quite well. It has an excellent on-foot chase sequence, if nothing else.

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    The first “War of the world’s” movie from 1953.

    It’s based on a genius, but quite challenging science fiction novel.

    I am sure the people in 1953 liked the movie.

    When you watch it today, after you have already seen Spielberg’s version from 2005, then it feels like they were way ahead of their time in 1953 (and you would never believe anyway that the book was written even back in 1898).

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      One of the many little details I love about that movie is Pacific Tech, the university where scientists studied the alien hardware. I noticed they used that as the name of the college in Real Genius. Apparently it’s has been in many movies and tv shows.

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      So, what you’re saying is … sometimes there’s a movie… I won’t say a film, ‘cause, what’s a film? But sometimes, there’s a movie. And I’m talkin’ about The Big Lebowski here. Sometimes, there’s a movie, well, it’s not the movie for its time and place.