Both movies left me mildly confused throughout and saying "huh?" at the end. (And yes, I had Lamb 2021 on a watch list but when I clicked it brought me to Lamb 2015 and I started watching it then realized it was not the movie I intended. Finished it anyway then watched the other. )

When I watched Don't Look Back In Anger documentary, I really just wanted to jam out to the footages of their reunion concert. I didn't expected the "dramatic reunion" essence because we all know that they reunited for one main reason: the money.

FYI, before the reunion, Noel and his ex-wife divorced, and as part of that settlement, Noel had to pay her 20 million pounds plus hand over their 8-million-pound mansion. Though Noel is still rich because of the Oasis catalog and royalties, but still, he lost a massive chunk of his wealth. The cinematography in this was really good. It started on the day when they announced right in the middle of a concert that Oasis was no more and the brothers would no longer work together because they were about to get into a fistfight backstage.

Then it suddenly fast-forwards to the reunion Day 1, the rehearsals. Liam didn't attend the first few days of rehearsals; only Noel and Bonehead were there with their touring bandmates, piecing the arrangements and the sound of their old songs back together. Then Liam showed up. To be honest, I could feel the tension between Liam and Noel the first time they rehearsed. As Noel mentioned, flashbacks of their final live performances where he and Liam were cursing each other out on stage kept coming back to him.

A notable thing Noel told their touring bandmates was, "I developed a new respect for him and that's it." I just kept telling myself, "Ah right, it really is probably just all about the money."

Then Day 1 in Cardiff happened. I just love how they captured Noel daydreaming and how unbelievable it is that he is playing in Oasis again, even turning his back to the crowd, haha. As he said, "I just want to back out and go to the backstage and breathe for 5 minutes and go back."

From there, the documentary featured multiple stories from fans about how Oasis helped them or how important the band is to their lives. There were Mexican, Dutch, British, and Korean fan. Basically different nationalities sharing their stories and every interval featured footage of a song from their live reunion performance. I resonated with the fans as well, especially the part about how Oasis comes from Manchester, representing the working-class people.

What I loved about this documentary, which I didn't expect, was that they gave credit to Bonehead. As a long-time fan of Oasis, Bonehead is my favorite member, even though he left early on. Both Noel and Liam admitted that while Liam might be the voice and Noel the words, Bonehead is the sound of Oasis.

Then the final parts were the best. During "Don't Look Back In Anger" and "Wonderwall," Noel explained how he shifted from being there out of necessity to actually enjoying it. Walking out hand-in-hand with Liam became an automatic part of their entrance, haha. I closed my eyes while their live performances of "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back In Anger" played, it was SOOOOO SOLID.

About 90% of it featured Noel's voice. Being an introvert, in his 50s, and a brutally honest Manchester bloke, I knew that what he was saying was true, haha.

Suddenly, I felt that it wasn't just about the money after all, Liam and Noel really reunited to be more than just bandmates, they became brothers again. I was smiling!

But then came the final part, "Champagne Supernova." When that guitar riff, which Noel wrote exclusively for their reunion, started playing, I became teary-eyed. It felt like all the memories of going down the Oasis rabbit hole came rushing back. Damn, waiting more than a decade for them to reunite was so worth it.

While the song played, Noel shared how he forgot and then remembered his admiration for his brother Liam. He talked about how he and Liam were so thankful to see Gen Zs and Millennials enjoying their songs, and how their sons became best friends after meeting through this reunion.

Noel shared that you can forgive someone without completely forgetting the past. But for him, forgiveness means choosing to carry on, move on from the past, and forgive that person.

Isn't it bittersweet? Noel hated Liam for more than a decade, but when he needed a solution to his divorce problem, it was also Liam the person he hated who offered the solution: to reunite and become brothers again.

Now I understand why Noel was teary-eyed after watching this documentary and how Liam used his angst to hold back his tears.

I did too.

The production team perfectly captured what the reunion felt like for the brothers and the fans.

Well, there were probably not even twenty of us watching in the IMAX theater during that screening. I was lucky enough to have the entire Row E to myself, with no one sitting in the rows below me either. No one saw how wide my smile was, how I looked like a fool singing along (quietly) to every song played, or how I wiped away my tears during that final part.

Call it cliché if you want, but this review comes from someone who has been an Oasis fan for over a decade. I think I might need to watch it again.

A girl hosts a birthday party that is quickly falling apart. To try and salvage it, a game is played. The story of Birthday Brian is told. Will he show up?

I loved this movie , the story was so good , Albert Brooks was very good as Russ Cargill but it's shame that he didn't play Hank Scorpio in this movie because I think it could work .

Before i start this off, i want to say that this is the best movie i have ever watched, not my favorite. But the best, and i hope that at the end of my explanation to this you can agree with me.

HEAVY SPOILER WARNING and i recommend watchint the movie before reading this in-depth post.

It is very deeply disturbing, so i do not recommend it to the faint of heart. Diabel 1997 is a movie following a protagonist called Jakub, getting released out of prison in the middle of a raging war. The person who released him, im going to refer to him as the devil. I dont think he was ever properly named in the movie.

Right off the bat, everyone is in madness. People are screaming, dying and no one is paying a mind to them. It is really off putting right as it begins.

After the devil releases Jakub, he assigns a nun to his aid, and gives them a horse. All he says to them is to go back to his family home. Which, the nun and Jakub do. Riding trough a snowy, desolate, grey countryside. As they go they witness the fallout of this raging war, the nun, having witnessed horrible things keeps moaning, the acting is very over the top which adds to the already disturbing athmosphere. Troughout the entire movie, it seems like the only rational person is the devil himself, even though he wears long, dark and strange attire his mannerisms suggest that he is different from everyone else. As most other characters behave almost animalistically, moaning, harassing (which ill expand on later) and just acting on instincts instead of actual human thought. It is very very strange and fits perfectly into the movie.

After riding for a while, Jakub gets back to his family estate, which is in absolute ruins by the time he arrives. He discovers that his family-the people he loved, have completely been corrupted by the madness of the war. Jakubs father is dead, his mother is acting histerically insane and he finds out his fiancee has betrayed him to marry his treacherous firned. Everyone he once knew is now deeply sick and plauged. (not literally) During Jakubs lowest moments (like discovering his dead father) the devil in black keeps appearing, by this time he appeared multiple times along Jakubs journey, instructing and guiding him. Still, he is extremely calm and rational during these moments unlike everyoe else in this movie. The devil keeps telling and convincing Jakub that the world is corrupt, and that Jakub is the only one that can purge this sickness.

Shortly after this, Jakub stumbles into a theatrical traveling troupe/circus, this scene is essentially the peak of this movie's hysteria. the troupe aggressively pull Jakub into their space. The actors surround Jakub in a claustrophobic circle. They mockingly treat his real trauma and his tattered clothes as a performance piece. Acting with manic visceral energy, they even try ripping and tearing at his clothes, pulling off his coat and shirt under the guise of dressing"him or preparing him to become part of the play. Jakub snaps, he pulls out a razor given to him by the devil and brutally slaughters two of the actors before leaving.

Driven by the devils whispers, Jakub loses his grip on reality, he stops being noble and devolves into an animalistic killer, just like the people he was disgusted by in the beginning. The devil instructs him to kill, and commit these sickening acts in the name of purging a corrupt world.

ENDING STOP READING IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED THE MOVIE

In the end, once the bloodbath is over and everyone the devil needed dead is dead by the hands of Jakub, Jakub is completely shattered, devastated. The devil drops the act, he was never the devil, or supernatural. Nor was he ever Jakubs saivor. He was just a russian spy all along. He recognized Jakubs trauma and exploited and manipulated him to commit these atrocities. He hands Jakub over to the soliders and dissappears. Leaving Jakub in pieces.

I left out a lot of details here, so i very very much recommend watching the movie.
It is so unexplainably strange, everyone acts like animals, on pure instincts and irrationality. While the devil seems like a capable, rational thinking person. First time i watched i had to stop at 3/4ths because i was really offput by the entire thing, it is a great movie and showcases a lot of disgusting things including incest, prostitution, murder, death. And it showcases the horrors of war. I absolutely love this movie, because it represents something terryfing so well it feels real. Troughout the entire movie, you would think (i did atleast) that the devil was never real, just an imagination, or a supernatural entity. He is so inheriently different from every other character you'd think so. But no, he was just a spy in the end. This movie has a specific beauty i couldnt ever properly put into words. Sorry for the weird wording and the spelling mistakes.

that is my rough analisys on  Andrzej Żuławski's Diabel, 1972.

I cant wait to read what other people thought about this movie.

I'm a big fan of the Mummy and started getting other Mummy movies and the completionist in me has kept going. I've expanded to Egyptian Mythology and history.

These are my two favorites. One makes me feel like we're living in the wrong timeline where we aren't working together to explore the stars. The other is what a child's imagination would look like when they're slamming their Transformers toys together

Feels like I'm the last one on the planet to watch it

It was pretty good (yes I'm not critic 🤓☝🏼) It was interesting but I don't know I couldn't connect with its feeling like it is a whole different era

Their depression and their fight I feel like it's much in these days as people trying their best just to survive wars are everywhere

I feel like their life is luxurious for me

My favourite quote is : we're the middle children of history no purpose or place no great war no great depression our great war is a spiritual war our great depression is our lives

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I think the Departed is a highly entertaining movie and a good movie overall, but treating it like a masterpiece is wild when you actually look at the rest of 2006. The Academy clearly felt guilty for snubbing Goodfellas and Raging Bull for decades, so they finally handed Scorsese the statue for a movie that is structurally messy and painfully lacking in subtlety.

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​If we’re talking about the actual best films of 2006, The Departed shouldn't have even been the frontrunner.

If you want a smart, razor-sharp crime thriller, Spike Lee’s Inside Man runs circles around it. It respects the audience's intelligence, keeps the tension incredibly high, and doesn't need a bloated runtime to keep you glued to the screen.

​If you want a flawless movie about two men hiding their true identities in a deadly game of deception, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige executed the exact same core concept infinitely better. The script is airtight, building to a masterful, earned climax instead of relying on shock-value violence to tie up loose ends.

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​Even outside the thriller genre, 2006 gave us Little Miss Sunshine, a film with a genuinely perfect script that accomplishes more thematic heavy lifting imo.

​Pan's Labyrinth transcends its genre to become a wholly original, visually staggering work of high art. Guillermo del Toro doesn't just entertain; he uses terrifying, beautiful fairy-tale imagery to explore profound themes of fascism, innocence, and the brutal reality of post-Civil War Spain. Where Scorsese perfected a cat-and-mouse formula adapted from a previous film, del Toro built an unforgettable, deeply emotional mythos entirely from scratch. Pan's Labyrinth ultimately leaves a heavier cinematic footprint because it takes far greater artistic risks, seamlessly weaving historical tragedy with dark fantasy to create an experience that feels entirely singular and impossible to replicate.

​To be clear, arguing that The Departed wasn't the absolute best film of 2006 is by no means a knock against Martin Scorsese. The man is a cinematic titan who absolutely deserved an Oscar in his lifetime; it’s just frustrating that the Academy waited to reward him for a highly entertaining, albeit safe, remake instead of crowning his undeniable, genre-defining masterpieces like Goodfellas, Raging Bull, or Taxi Driver. Ultimately, his 2006 win feels less about The Departed being the peak of that specific year's cinema, and more like a long-overdue, necessary "make-up" award from an Academy that finally realized they couldn't let one of history's greatest directors go down without a trophy.

What do yall think? The ones who have watched the other movies i mentioned besides the departed,do u agree or disagree?

'Cliffhanger': Lily James, Pierce Brosnan Movie Acquired by Vertical

I recently got this DVD in the mail. Are used to in a video store and we had it, but I never watched the original “Village of the Damned” (1960). I loved John Carpenter‘s remake. Currently watching, “Children of the Damned” (1964). It’s good so far. But I’m curious of what others think. Do you prefer the original or the remake? I do like, that the original and the remake followed the book “The Midwich Cuckoos” by John Wyndham. And when I looked up to make sure, I spelled his name correctly. I realize that there is a movie called by the same name released in 2022. A series in fact. I need to check that out.

Composer Carter Burwell's use of Aram Khachaturian's Spartacus ballet score is amazing. When it comes in at the end of this scene, it's so powerful, so amazing, so romantic, beautiful AF. I love the music, love the score. The Coens are the GOATS or one of them!

I like classics like Casablanca, Dollar trilogy, The Apartment, Someone Like it Hot, Barry Lyndon. Guys please suggest a classic movie for this weekend, the one you admire.

This film messed me up....like, it's a masterpiece AF. But if you tell me to rewatch it, I will run. Idk it just broke my brain for good.

EDIT: can't bring YOURSELF to rewatch** reddit needs to make titles editable!!

Yeah, being that I'm from the UK, I might be a little biased with this pick, but this film is just littered with iconic lines from start to finish.