Watchmen. I planned on watching it in 2010 and look where we are now. Still haven’t seen it. I promise I’ll get to it… Haha.
Threads (1984) by Mick Jackson
Not sure who recommended it to me, but IMDB says its about “[t]he effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.” Didn’t have a lot of motivation to seek it out, but it has great ratings. Top review says “Very few films have the ability to suck the life out of a viewer and leave them feeling drained and shaken in quite the same way that this does.” Yeah, so I’m not sure if I will ever be in the mood for that to be honest.
it’s on youtube
imagine Shakespeare tragedy where everyone dies but as a narrated documentary. it’s freaking depressing…
as a brit raised on US apocalyptic films, it was genuinely jarring to see what looked like my home town undergoing a nuclear war in a realistic fashion.
Normally I watch these films and think “oh those poor people”, but this was the first I thought something else.
Dunno about first, but the top of the list is Zero Hour, as part of an Airplane! marathon
A friend of mine for weekly movie night started this habit with his family where every time they watched a movie, the next week, they’d watch the movies advertised in the DVD previews, exponentially growing their movie list. They began with Kiki’s Delivery Service (I think) and ended (to my knowledge) with some random Japanese movie with English closed captions about three women and a girl who accidentally gets drunk and reveals when drunk that she is worried about one of the women moving, but they don’t and the movie ends with them walking along a beach (feel free to tell me the name).
Anyways, of the movies, there are several the library did not have because it runs on contributions.
My first movie on my list is Sound of Metal.
This is probably a bit silly, but everything I’ve seen or heard Riz Ahmed in- he’s been great, except for Aladdin. I guess it was a problem with the script and/or direction but his Jafar was so boring 🥱
Not sure about first, but the top 3 that remain as the beginning are:
- Wonderwoman 1984
- The Guilty
- Searching
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Couldn’t find it anywhere, so it’s still at the top of the list.
IMDB shows that you can watch it from a few places.
There are many encodes floating around and even a full bluray copy (criterion collection) on ygg.re… but I’m curious, how come it’s at the top of your list?
Long time ago I wrote down a lot of movies to watch. I was able to watch many, but that one is the oldest in my list that I couldn’t find. Oh, and thanks for the pointer!
Inside Out 2
The Infiltrator
Mental watchlist… I have no clue but I have probably not watched it lol.
According to Trakt, Edge of Tomorrow… The reason is, I watch pretty much all the movies with my gf, and we add more shit to it… Hey, that is why this lists exists, isn’t it?
Eurydice BA 2037 by Nikos Nikolaidis is the first film I added to my letterboxd watchlist. And I have not seen it yet. But it set the tone for my watchlist, which is solely a list of films that look interesting to me, that I will definitely forget the titles if I don’t put them somewhere. Anything I’ve heard of before, I leave off the list.
