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TheBandit1 said:
No Armageddon love? It’s not Orson Wells but it’s entertaining as all get out.

Part of the Criterion Collection too.

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Armageddon

Bruce Willis and an all-star cast of roughneck oil drillers blast off on a mission to save the planet in Michael Bay’s doomsday space epic.
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Armageddon and 2012 are top tier end of the world movies for me.

These Final Hours is probably the best one though.
 
seedavid said:
I watched One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Little Shop of Horrors tonight. Both were great, but McMurphy is a shithead and Ratched was kind of in the right, and I really enjoyed all the songs in Shop.
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I haven't read or watched that movie in a long time but I can't imagine being on Team Nurse Ratched.
and no Danny Devito mention?

LSoH is an all-timer.
 
sameasiteverwas said:
I haven't read or watched that movie in a long time but I can't imagine being on Team Nurse Ratched.
and no Danny Devito mention?

LSoH is an all-timer.
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I wouldn't say I am on Team Nurse Ratched, but there are a handful of moments when she's just trying to keep order in a mental institution, and McMurphy is fucking with her for literally no reason, to the detriment of all and the benefit of none (himself included).

Like McMurphy trying to rile up the other guys to watch the World Series and then get all indignant when Ratched tries to tell him she doesn't want to fuck with peoples' schedule. Most of the other patients are there voluntarily (unlike McMurphy, who was imprisoned because he raped a 15 year old girl and then acted like a combative asshole while incarcerated), and presumably just need to be treated for their very legitimate mental health issues. They all seem to be getting along fine until he arrives. Life isn't perfect, but they're doing their thing. Ratched is a ball buster, sure, and goes too far at the end, but she's mostly just a stern nurse trying to do what is best for some very mentally fragile patients. By the time the story ends the only person that is arguably better off is The Chief, but who can really tell.

I don't know. I've never read the book so maybe there's more detail about her there that makes it much more clear that she's out for blood or something. But for a character that is always spoken of as some deeply evil villain I didn't find her to be all that unreasonable for most of the movie.
 
seedavid said:
I wouldn't say I am on Team Nurse Ratched, but there are a handful of moments when she's just trying to keep order in a mental institution, and McMurphy is fucking with her for literally no reason, to the detriment of all and the benefit of none (himself included).

Like McMurphy trying to rile up the other guys to watch the World Series and then get all indignant when Ratched tries to tell him she doesn't want to fuck with peoples' schedule. Most of the other patients are there voluntarily (unlike McMurphy, who was imprisoned because he raped a 15 year old girl and then acted like a combative asshole while incarcerated), and presumably just need to be treated for their very legitimate mental health issues. They all seem to be getting along fine until he arrives. Life isn't perfect, but they're doing their thing. Ratched is a ball buster, sure, and goes too far at the end, but she's mostly just a stern nurse trying to do what is best for some very mentally fragile patients. By the time the story ends the only person that is arguably better off is The Chief, but who can really tell.

I don't know. I've never read the book so maybe there's more detail about her there that makes it much more clear that she's out for blood or something. But for a character that is always spoken of as some deeply evil villain I didn't find her to be all that unreasonable for most of the movie.
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oh man, now i'm really curious. i just confirmed that i still have the book, so i'll fire that up once i'm done with the book i'm currently reading. then i'll check the movie. it's been ages since i've read or watched it and in that time, i went to school, entered and dropped out of the mental health field, so maybe my perspective will be completely different from when i was in my early 20's.
 
seedavid said:
I wouldn't say I am on Team Nurse Ratched, but there are a handful of moments when she's just trying to keep order in a mental institution, and McMurphy is fucking with her for literally no reason, to the detriment of all and the benefit of none (himself included).

Like McMurphy trying to rile up the other guys to watch the World Series and then get all indignant when Ratched tries to tell him she doesn't want to fuck with peoples' schedule. Most of the other patients are there voluntarily (unlike McMurphy, who was imprisoned because he raped a 15 year old girl and then acted like a combative asshole while incarcerated), and presumably just need to be treated for their very legitimate mental health issues. They all seem to be getting along fine until he arrives. Life isn't perfect, but they're doing their thing. Ratched is a ball buster, sure, and goes too far at the end, but she's mostly just a stern nurse trying to do what is best for some very mentally fragile patients. By the time the story ends the only person that is arguably better off is The Chief, but who can really tell.

I don't know. I've never read the book so maybe there's more detail about her there that makes it much more clear that she's out for blood or something. But for a character that is always spoken of as some deeply evil villain I didn't find her to be all that unreasonable for most of the movie.
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I read it way back in 10th grade. I remember McMurphy is sympathetic as the main character, and that for the times, the standard of care for in patient psychiatry was kind of scary, but McMurphy is an unreliable narrator, too, and I don't know how well I fully appreciated that as a 10th grader. Like yes, I got that he was a mental patient and imperfect, but how that works in interpreting the story and the characters, I don't think I got all of the nuance.
 
I watched The Breakfast Club for the first time about a year ago. Just never saw it when I was younger for some reason. Watching it as an adult I found the teenagers to all be unlikable assholes and mostly identified with the principal. I'm sure if I watched it when I was 18 I would've felt differently. Not that that's exactly the same as Nurse Ratched, but still, it's all about perspective.
 
Last night we watched Army of Darkness (Director's Cut) and David Byrne's American Utopia.

Seen Army of Darkness a bunch of times and always the Driector's Cut, so when we finished we put on the regular ending when it was over because I had never seen it. I like the original ending, but now I get people quoting the theatrical ending. I love Bruce Campbell.

Fear is a bigger fan of Talking Heads than I am, but does not like concerts as much as I do, and has not been as in to Byrne's solo work as much, but everyone raved about the tour and the subsequent release to HBOMax of the Spike Lee concert film. In this time of limited access to live music, I found it gosh darn delightful. It was a wonderful performance, and the music and messaging fits well with this moment in time. I enjoyed it a lot.
 
quirk6 said:
I watched The Breakfast Club for the first time about a year ago. Just never saw it when I was younger for some reason. Watching it as an adult I found the teenagers to all be unlikable assholes and mostly identified with the principal. I'm sure if I watched it when I was 18 I would've felt differently. Not that that's exactly the same as Nurse Ratched, but still, it's all about perspective.
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quirk6 said:
I watched The Breakfast Club for the first time about a year ago. Just never saw it when I was younger for some reason. Watching it as an adult I found the teenagers to all be unlikable assholes and mostly identified with the principal. I'm sure if I watched it when I was 18 I would've felt differently. Not that that's exactly the same as Nurse Ratched, but still, it's all about perspective.
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