One of the things I dislike about the modern internet are ranked lists. They’re everywhere in articles and videos and for the most part I find them useless and an annoyance to constantly come across.
My family went to see Inside Out 2 today. Plotwise, it's similar to the first film, but there are enough minor changes to make it distinct in tone and feeling. I related to the first film more intellectually and as a parent, emotionally. This one, I related to personally, having struggled with anxiety for 25+ years. Anxiety literally made me anxious, and if you want to see what Pixar can do with a panic attack, well, here you go!
#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)
#OnThisDay, June 17, in 1972, five burglars connected to senior figures in the Nixon administration were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. (depicted in All the President’s Men, 1976)
#OnThisDay, June 16, in 1931, Al Capone pleaded guilty to income tax evasion & 5,000 prohibition violations in a trial at the Chicago Federal Building (depicted in The Untouchables, 1987)
I've been reading some reviews of Inside Out 2 and critics keep on harping on Pixar's creative decline like Turning Red (one of Pixar's best films), Coco, Lucca, Soul, and Onward (yeah, I'll go to bat for it) didn't come out within the last 10 years. The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4, while unnecessary, we're still pretty entertaining.
#OnThisDay, June 15, in 1215, overseen by a council of barons, King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta, a cornerstone of the idea of the liberty of citizens (depicted in Ironclad, 2011)
Apollo 13 is one of those films that, despite having seen it more than a dozen times and being familiar with the actual history behind it, gets me every freakin' time. I don't think Ron Howard has done or will do better.
Any masto accounts like Discussing film? I'd honestly take a bot that just reposts tweets at this point. There's like 3 news aggregators that I wish I could follow here then I'd really be able to just delete my account.
Graphic designer Saul Bass directed exactly one film, an extremely trippy adaptation of HG Wells' "Empire of the Ants" called PHASE IV.
As far as I can tell the ants do not become large, so the film may not qualify for #Monsterdon, but it does sound real fucked up. It's on Criterion til June 30, dunno about other sites.
#OnThisDay, June 9, 1954 was the turning point for Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade, when Army counsel Joseph Welch asked him, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” (depicted in Tail Gunner Joe, 1977)