I never gave this movie any of my attention for two solid years. I don't know a druid from a bard, I have no idea what charisma points are, and I wouldn't know the word "Demogorgon" if it wasn't for Stranger Things.

So naturally I thought there's no way I could follow along in "Honor Among Thieves" because I know diddly squat about the franchise.

But you guys ... you wouldn't let it be. So many posts, so many comments, saying how wonderful this movie was. I gave in and watched it last night.

It's really good. Yes, just like you have all been screaming at me. Good action, good comedy, good SFX, all around a great movie.

I really loved Hugh Grant's performance. He pulls off smarmy and slimy quite well.

And I was leaping out of my seat when I saw live-action versions of these guys. Yay fanservice!

I know I was a dummy. Forgive me.

Last night I was cozy in my bed looking for a cute movie to watch. I haven’t seen many studio gibli movies but the ones I’ve seen I absolutely adored. I see Grave of Fireflies on Netflix with 2 cute little kids on the cover and I’m so ready for a My Neighbor Totoro-type movie. I was SO wrong. From the beginning I could tell how it was going to end but MY GOD. Ruined my night. And my day. And possibly my week. Will I recover? Who knows. Cute cozy fun movie suggestions will be appreciated.

What is the single greatest acting performance you have seen?

It's got to be Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice for me. Such a heartbreaking and nuanced portrayal of loss and devastation, and doubly impressive because she had to learn two languages fluently and had to speak German with a Polish accent, when neither language was native to her.

I'd choose The Maltese Falcon as the characters and the overall story, twists and all, made it such a good film.

Of course Bogies sardonic wit rounds off so many of the interactions and is perhaps scene stealing at it's finest.

Many people forget that three of the major actors were reunited the next year for Casablanca.

What film, for whatever reason, just stays with you constantly because you saw it way, way too young to either "get" it, or it was just too much for a undeveloped brain?

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There's plenty of films that scarred me, etc. I picked out Friday the 13th Part 2 for a sleep over at like 10 years old. No bueno. Here's a bunch of cover art from VHS store horror movies I compiled, FWIW: https://imgur.com/gallery/vhs-horror-movie-cover-art-that-enthralled-captivated-you-youth-from-late-70s-to-early-90s-9L046CH

But I'm not talking about horror, vs just not "getting it" or having adult themes way out of your league?

The one film I saw because "cute robots" was Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull, starring Bruce Dern. Almost feels like a spiritual ancestor of High Life in one sense, but like things that made you who you are... Fred Rogers, Carl Sagan, etc... this film gave me a presence of mind about nature that I learned way too young. It's at the core of how I behave and treat this planet...

But it shattered and broke me. I know Huey's forest is still out there, but when Louie died, and when Dern says goodbye to the robots... I mean, it was just pure trauma for my child mind.

I wonder what other people saw that just anchored into their soul or heart, or became the basis for their fears or weird stuff, all because you saw it too young?

Your choices:

• Lethal Weapon (1987): Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
• The Monster Squad (1987): A group of 12-year-olds form a Universal Monsters fan club called Monster Squad, and have to attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters when they show up for real.
• The Last Boy Scout (1991): A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.
• Last Action Hero (1993): With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character.
• The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996): Government agents come after an amnesiac woman, who gradually remembers her past.
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005): After being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery.
• Iron Man 3 (2013): When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
• The Nice Guys (2016): In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.
• The Predator (2018): When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

The influences of Alfred Hitchcock are there as "Raising Cain" playis like Psycho meets Sybil. Lithgow plays respected Dr Carter Nix who happens to have multiple personalities, some of them being psychotic murderers. Lithgow plays each of these personas with a distinct sense of extreme emotion, be it shyness or weakness or playful sadism. His performance keeps changing it up whenever a persona takes over, at one point he assumes a female persona, and Lithgow always had a bit of feyness in his acting which perfectly allows him to convincingly add that extra layer.

Supporting roles are fine, I liked Frances Sternhagen as an eccentric psychologist trying to get to Carter Nix. Lolita Davidovich wears beautiful dresses. Steven Bauer has a nude scene. And aging actress Gabrielle Carteris plays a teenager again, this time no glasses and trashy.

I think the most famous would be "Stuck In The Middle With You" from Reservoir Dogs.

It took me years to be able to separate "Goodbye Horses" from Silence of the Lambs (no thanks to Jay & Silent Bob).

I am interested in songs that existed independently before the film. Nothing that was written specifically for the movie.

I saw this movie when I was in a vacation when me and my brother stayed up and we were 10 and 12. It’s super bizarro with ultra violence, and lots of nudity, and Sean Connery flying around in a stone triangle. So much to unpack it ha to be one of the strangest big celebrity movies I have ever seen.

People often talk about scarring, the most gruesome, or films you watched too young, etc. But there's a softer side of that trend, and it's simply the feeling of existentialism within the context of the film, whether storyline, visual vocabulary, subtext, etc. So what are some other films that feel this way, like:

Silent Running

Watership Down

Threads or the Day After Tomorrow

Aniara

Until the End of the World

Mindwalk

My Dinner with Andre

It's insane how successful Crocodile Dundee was back in the 80s. 174 million dollars domestically.

I didn't realize Paul Hogan was a comedian or his character was supposed to be funny. I still had a great time watching Crocodile Dundee and I am bitter Linda Koslowzski never got a break outside of Crocodile Dundee. He got the credit yet she's the one who dominated the last act as her character runs for the Train station.

A heartwarming film, personally.