I've had two ideas for threads and now that this place is purely dedicated to film geekery, this is the best time to do them and here's the first.
I listen to a lot of film podcasts but Battleship Pretension is definitely my favorite because they're very analytical about film and possibly sub consciously influenced my decision on my thesis for grad school: Film as political allegory and how that can make us better political communicators. Anyway, I listened to their episode discussing their personal favorite films of all time and then analyzing why those movies are their favorite and what those choices may say about them as people and it got me thinking and most of you all in here are very insightful about film so I ask: what do your favorite movies say about you?
For example, my top three fav flicks of all time, The Godfather, Casino Royale, and The Maltese Falcon, all deal with main characters who are conflicted internally and have a specific way of seeing the world and a moral code. I may not always agree with the code, but it does exist in Michael Corleone, James Bond, and Sam Spade. I'm drawn to characters who have some kind of internal thing going on, whether it's due to moral reasons or emotional reasons or logical reasons and aside from Michael, I'm drawn to heroes; guys who take on the world by themselves in order to get some sort of justice.
Figured it would be a great way to christen the new place and I'm definitely interested to here what you cats think
I listen to a lot of film podcasts but Battleship Pretension is definitely my favorite because they're very analytical about film and possibly sub consciously influenced my decision on my thesis for grad school: Film as political allegory and how that can make us better political communicators. Anyway, I listened to their episode discussing their personal favorite films of all time and then analyzing why those movies are their favorite and what those choices may say about them as people and it got me thinking and most of you all in here are very insightful about film so I ask: what do your favorite movies say about you?
For example, my top three fav flicks of all time, The Godfather, Casino Royale, and The Maltese Falcon, all deal with main characters who are conflicted internally and have a specific way of seeing the world and a moral code. I may not always agree with the code, but it does exist in Michael Corleone, James Bond, and Sam Spade. I'm drawn to characters who have some kind of internal thing going on, whether it's due to moral reasons or emotional reasons or logical reasons and aside from Michael, I'm drawn to heroes; guys who take on the world by themselves in order to get some sort of justice.
Figured it would be a great way to christen the new place and I'm definitely interested to here what you cats think
