you too @Alexis

FUCK i forgot Top Secret!!!!!

FUCK i forgot Citizen Kane!!!!

@wallhackio would The Muppets go in the Disney films section...? Probably, right?

The Disney section was originally entirely made to be a catch-all for Kingdom Hearts, that's what Pirates of the Caribbean and Tron are in it...

@The_T The Muppets Christmas Carol it is objectively a disney film, but I wouldn't blame you for still considering it something else. The vibes are different imo

And while I adore Back to the Future there are some negative elements to it (it is an 80s comedy after all)

@wallhackio oh, yeah, absolutely. But I do love BttF.

BttF is also part of a collection of, "things I am downloading because they're part of the Lego games". Lego Dimensions has... a lot of out-there media properties, and so I need to download and watch them all before I play/stream it...

@wallhackio these are all great movies but my main takeaway is this list skews modern and western/japanese, and so you should probably watch *I look down at my notes* more movies.

(Some Takes through omission in here, though. Totoro, but not Spirited Away?? Nope but not Get Out??)

@Alexis i like Spirited Away. Get Out is super borderline to being on this list

my takes are weird and inscrutable even to myself

@wallhackio i mean, who am I to judge, my favourite movie is the 1996 doctor who tv movie

(or alternatively 2023's "River," a very charming Japanese Groundhog Day time loop comedy)

@wallhackio fuck yeah, Speed Racer

@Thomas it kicks ass!

@wallhackio In college I wrote a paper putting Snowpiercer and The Lego Movie in contrast as two vehicles for popular revolution

@coriander care to elaborate?

@wallhackio The gist was that both films look at corruption in existing power structures and determine that something must be done to change things. The Lego Movie argues for an incremental, reformist process, taking the same building blocks (or bricks, in this case), dismantling what exists, and building something new with the same materials. Snowpiercer, on the other hand, looks at the systems in place and argues that the only way forward is to blow the train completely off the tracks.

@coriander you are so smart and cool

@wallhackio Honestly part of why I kinda want to go back to college for some postgrad work is so I can work on being smart again, I don't know if I could write that paper right now lmao

@coriander @wallhackio reading is free; blogs are free

@coriander @wallhackio well, blogs are free·ish, it is 2026

@coriander @wallhackio i thought Snowpiercer was mostly like “what if we made a movie with the storytelling of a video game”

@wallhackio thinking The Incredibles is the only good Pixar movie is a take

@Lady I like almost every pixar film but i only love the incredibles

@Lady qwhat are your pixar opinoins

@wallhackio Up has high highs and low lows; i think it has the best character growth and emotional arcs but they couldn¦t quite commit to treating it seriously

WALL•E is their film with the greatest level of artistry but was held back by their inability to form a meaningful social critique

Ratatouille is underrated; its only major flaw is not being gayer

there are not any other Pixar films of note

@Lady im not sure why i don't love ratatouille. its an incredibly well made film. i absolutely love anton ego's monologue at the end. i love food and the movie does too.

i guess the movie just lacks the inscrutable jenny say qua that satisfies a clod

@wallhackio also known as gayness

@wallhackio when the biker girl kissed the loser boy i realized that pixar has no idea what their purpose on this earth is

@Lady @wallhackio a noted clodboy fact

@Lady @wallhackio sherclod “my favorite justice song was always DVNO” holmes

@aescling @Lady yeah

@wallhackio @Lady jenny say qua

@aescling @wallhackio no

@Ghast yes, that is one of my hottest movie takes and i stand by it

@wallhackio damn i gotta heavy disagree then i liked 1 more than 2 im still not sure how i feel about 2 but i havent rewatched it since i saw it in theatres

@Ghast 1 is a good movie!

maybe this is obvious but when i say "good movie" in the top post i am exaggerating quite a bit. all the movies on the list are movies that i love. there are quite a few good movies that i like that aren't there

a lot of people love spider-verse 1 and that is great. for me it was competently-made film heavily elevated by the incredible art style

the second movie has more time to breathe and slow down, especially early on, and i think its lets the emotional resonance really really hit

plus its possibly the greatest looking film ever made

i know a lot of people were disappointed with the cliffhanger ending. but the movie is really gwen's story, and the conclusion for that is extremely satisfying on an emotional and thematic level

but that is also a personal taste thing. i care much more about characters and themes than plot/lore

@Ghast 1 is perhaps a more "perfect" film in the sense that it completely nails what its trying to do and works so well as a standalone film

and its lands it emotional beats quite well

maybe i am a hater, i could stand to give it a second go

@wallhackio very fair im being partly jokey when i disagree, i def need to get around to rewatch 2 (i had it pirated but then my old harddrive died and all of my movies except the live action horror movies got lost) trying to remember what my issues were on first watch its been a while i think i wasnt super into the multiverse stuff tbh like in the first movie its just a few but the second is so full of them and i guess the cliffhanger does bother me a little but thats because i do tend to prefer self-contained stories thats partly why im not really into sequels to begin with i suppose

@wallhackio its definitely all personal taste thats the beauty of the world

@Satsuma yes