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megan walker - Jun 11, 2017 8:20:42 am PDT #808 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Did anyone else see 20th Century Women?

I watched it as part of my Oscar Blitz and it ended up at #4 on my updated 2016 Top Ten. Of course, the time period of his coming-of-age makes the film practically tailor-made for me, but I still feel it was vastly underrated and am sorry more people didn't see it.

Note: You can see my Top 25 of 2016 here.

Fiona - Jun 11, 2017 8:30:35 am PDT #809 of 3463

Did anyone else see 20th Century Women?

Yeah, I really liked it too. Though not quite as much as Certain Women (going for a bit of a Women theme here. Which means that of course I'm also going to see Wonder Woman when it opens here next week).

Because of different release dates, all of these films will be on my 2017 list, along with La La Land, Moonlight and the rest. My best film of 2016 was Arrival.

megan walker - Jun 11, 2017 8:58:18 am PDT #810 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Still mad I didn't get to see Certain Women in theaters. Especially since I was doing #52FilmsByWomen last year. I hope I can stream or rent it soon.

megan walker - Jun 11, 2017 10:24:30 am PDT #811 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

BTW, one film on my list that I think many Buffistas would appreciate but I don't think has been talked about here is Busanhaeng (Train to Busan), a glorious Korean action-thriller-horror mashup with great character development. I believe it's being remade in English because of course. It's currently streaming on Netflix.

Jesse - Jun 11, 2017 12:23:43 pm PDT #812 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've never even heard of Certain Women! But now I want to see that, too.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 11, 2017 4:38:05 pm PDT #813 of 3463
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'd heard of that megan, it's zombie sub-genre, isn't it?

megan walker - Jun 11, 2017 5:05:07 pm PDT #814 of 3463
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Yes, and therefore not something I would usually like, but it is very taut, with individualized characters and decent social commentary.

Jessica - Jun 12, 2017 10:10:28 am PDT #815 of 3463
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I didn't love 20th Century Women, but it's been so long since I saw it that I can't remember what it was I specifically didn't love about it.

Zenkitty - Jun 13, 2017 4:12:19 am PDT #816 of 3463
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

According to the NYT daily briefing, Gal Gadot was pregnant when filming WW. Has anyone else heard that?

Fiona - Jun 13, 2017 4:41:03 am PDT #817 of 3463

Well, it seems she gave birth to a daughter in March 2017 so yes, she probably was.

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