Try "The Heart of the World", which is a fantastic short that you can probably find on YouTube, then you could watch "Careful" (his first "hit") and/or "My Winnipeg" (which is one of his most accessible I think; it's very funny).

Yeah, get those chicks out of my car chase movie, amirite brah?

It really is a very "tangible" movie and the work that went into its production design and camerawork is mind blowing. It should be watched by anyone who has a serious interest in cinema. But after 40 minutes of muck I was already in a "okay I get it" mood, and there was still 2 hours and 20 minutes to go.

That's a great Guy Maddin movie, maybe even better than The Forbidden Room.

It's okay, but I had already forgotten it existed.

Yeah, I didn't expect it to be as good as it is. Great dialogue and a very deliberate pace for such a mean, brutal movie.

It's incredible, but maybe not the best Maddin to start with if you haven't seen any of his movies.

Well, Andrei Rublev and Ivan the Terrible have some forward momentum. Hard to be a God is one of the most impressive movies I've even seen on a technical level, but the endless repetition did nothing for me.

Your taste seems to be similar to mine, so I should tell you to go watch "The Forbidden Room" ASAP and also "The Witch", which I guess is considered a 2016 movie but I don't care because it's fantastic.

I can find three: we could've spent a little more time with Max in the beginning, before he was captured; there could've been some clever bit of business when he was trying to remove that metal thing from his face (he just files it away until it opens); the climax could've been a little more creative.

I honestly believe it's an important hallmark of cinema. Of all the (new) movies I watched this year, the only one I liked better was "The Witch".

Watch any random five minutes of "Hard to be a God" and read the premise; now you pretty much can already talk about it intelligently. I didn't hate it, but it's the same thing over and over. For three hours.

In the Transformers comics, that sort of disregard for scale consistency was rampant. Marvel used to be so weird.

If you scroll for like ten minutes, the pictures start to appear. No joke.

There's no way that wasn't a "fuck you" to the naysayers.

I don't hate Christensen, but one thing DiCaprio can do really well is "angry".

But you see, in ROTS Anakin wears black clothes reminiscent of what Luke wore in ROTJ. THEY RHYME!

Palpatine should never use what he would later refer to as a "jedi weapon" with visible contempt.

That second one is one of the moments where the limitations of the greenscreen become painfully obvious. There was probably a wall right in front of him.

You can't really do that with midichlorians because Palpie mentions them in ROTS.