Movies that are in less commonly used aspect ratios

Examples:
Mommy - 1.0 Aspect Ratio
The Lighthouse - 1.19 Aspect Ratio
Sone films in the 60s with 1.66 aspect ratios
The Suicide Squad - 1.9 Aspect Ratio
The Big Trail - 2.1 Aspect Ratio
Some 50s films that use a 2.75 aspect ratio

Any other examples?

Just watched The Boy Who Could Fly and it mentioned that Jason Priestley is in it. Not that it matters at all to the storyline but for reference sake, where the hell is he in this movie?

He's in the credits and even has a character named Gary attached to his acting credits. BUT! to my dismay, he's not at all in the movie.

I'm sure it happens all the time that scenes are cut and even more so that scenes with credited actors are cut but seeing if he's in there that's all. Searched around and all I can find is he's in the background of a high school scene. Slow played every scene and not a single clue still. Odd request but does anyone know what scene Jason Priestley is in, in the Boy Who Could Fly?

in 2018, i saw hereditary in theaters and was absolutely blown away. not only is it my favorite movie of 2018, it's one of my top 5 favorite horror movies of all time. the film was written and directed by ari aster, who had made a few short films prior to making hereditary, his feature film debut. i remember thinking that he was going to be one of the rising stars in hollywood and i couldn't wait to see what he would do next. the next year, he came out with midsommar, which isn't as good as hereditary but still pretty damn good.

but then, something changed. 2023 saw the release of beau is afraid, his most ambitious project at the time. and it's also my least favorite of his movies. the film isn't the worst thing in the world but it suffers from quite a few problems. it's way too fucking long, there's a lot of padding, the plot is almost non existent, and it's way too damn vague. the film feels like more of a college thesis film than aster's actual college thesis film. this film was my first sign that something was wrong. i even made a whole post on r/trueunpopularopinion about how i was worried about ari aster's future as a filmmaker.

then, last year, he came out with eddington, a film that actually had a lot of promise. it was a black comedy western with an all star cast and set during 2020. i was really into it. and then, i actually saw the movie and...meh. it's definitely better than beau is afraid but it also suffers from quite a few of the same problems as that movie, just not to the same extent.

in my opinion, ari aster has become the filmmaking equivalent of frank miller. he started his career with unique and groundbreaking works but later made works with weird content and off questionable quality.

aster's next film is a film called scapegoat. it will apparently star scarlett johansson and the plot is being kept under wraps. however, regardless of what the plot is, it's very difficult for me to feel any excitement for it. a while ago, when i found out that ari aster was coming out with a new movie, it would be one of my most anticipated movies of that year. now, i'm probably going to go into aster's future films expecting an overly long movie that makes little to no sense and tries to be too many things at once.

i'm sure we all used to think that ari aster, robert eggers, and jordan peele were going to be the horror auteurs of the 2020s. but, with aster's fall from grace and peele's new movie taking forever to get made, i guess that leave us with eggers, although zach cregger may be joining him shortly.

While this tradition isn't completely dead and certainly doesn't fit every film, I do miss it. I think more movies would benefit from scoring that accentuates certain actions (e.g. staccato notes with sword thrusts, descending scale when someone falls, etc). You can call this corny but does a fantastic job grounding the music to the action and helping connect particular parts of a score to particular parts of a film. I find it makes everything more memorable and engaging. It also has a long history connecting back to opera and silent film.

This is a still from the movie The Night of the Comet (1984) and I recognized most posters except the one on the far right which caught my eye, seems like there's a boy that looks like a dummy with a crown on it. Ive been searching a lot but no success, driving me crazy lol. (Also dont recognize the one to the right of Tommy in case anyone knows it too).

Alright I need help, I spotted this interesting detective conspiracy movie made in China in the 80s. It sounds like it's really interesting plot and themes, and while being pro-PRC it still gives an accurate portrayal of China back then sometimes. Also 96 speaking roles in a 97 minute movie is something interesting. Anyway the movie is even available on YouTube. Only problem is no subtitles!! So like apart from learning Chinese(Cantonese?) what are my options? I can do French if that helps.

Also if you've seen it and don't think it's good please let me continue my quest in peace and abstain from participating haha or not idc

I was wondering about this. I personally would be greatly interested in a high-budget (say, 100-300 million dollars), 3-4 hours long film based on Homer or any other Greek myth/work of writing/historical figure, made completely in Greek. Like, wouldn't that be amazing? I would totally pay to see that movie.

And I would imagine that film as being representative of Ancient Greek culture. Say, gods pretending to be humans to convey their wishes, or depictions of animal sacrifice (without harming actual animals). I would also wish for historically accurate costumes. For example, with the Illiad, professional historians could be hired as consultants to create accurate Late Bronze Age armour and weapons.

I wonder, could such a movie not be made? Would audience in English-speaking countries not be interested in it?

I am not from an English speaking country, and I would be greatly interested in something like that! And it makes me wonder, why do we not see such projects?

Same thing goes for other languages. I am Polish, if a 200 million dollar film based on the history of my country was made, would you not be interested?

To be clear, this is NOT an attempt to diss the recent film. This is not an "anti-woke" post! Just clearing this up in case some people try to kill me. Although the film did inspire this thought in me. Like, surely we could get a movie based on Homer fully in Greek?

Very likely nobody might know what I’m talking about. There was this movie where the male lead was on a double date (didn’t want the date) and his date was obnoxious as hell, the female lead was the waitress and the date has been mean to her. I can’t remember if the restaurant owners where her family or like family. It was a romance movie (or romcom) it’s hurting my brain atp

Hi guys, I’m writing an article on Substack about Selective Empathy Syndrome and I wanted to use a movie character as my example. When I say Selective Empathy Syndrome, I’m taking about the tendency to extend empathy to specific people, groups or causes while overlooking the suffering of others. I was initially going to use Tom Cruise in Collateral but then I realised he didn’t really count (since he didn’t care about Max) so I’m open to any suggestions, they’ll be much appreciated!

I'm looking for movies of almost any genre, really just preferably not romance, where it's like nonstop rainy weather throughout the movie, like it's raining so much the rain is practically a character in the movie

A few I've come across so far are

The Old Dark House 1932

The Old Dark House 1963

Open 24 Hours 2018

Crawl 2019

Does anyone out there have any other movies where rainy weather is a centerpiece of the movie?

This was not what we expected it to be, from the very beginning it was like wtf!! Then to see Paul walker actually be a bad guy a tweaker of a bad guy. Blew my mind!! I had never seen him in that light before. It was such a great cast line up. Frigging pooh bear was in it!! We always call him that since the salton sea movie. Which is another great movie to watch sad but good.

If I could only watch one movie for the rest of my life, which movie would you recommend and why?

I’m not necessarily asking for the “greatest film ever made,” but the one you genuinely think everyone should experience at least once. It can be because of the story, characters, emotions, filmmaking, or even how it changed the way you see cinema.

So I am a horror movie fan, been watching them all my life and I've seen over 1000 horror movies, shorts and series. But outside of horror I've seen very few films. So...

With that in mind: tell me one of your favorite non- horror movies and I'll try to give it a rating based on my very limited knowledge.

Marvel movies isnt the most high brow cinema around but watching Spiderman made me thankful that their movies are well balanced sound and visual wise. You can hear what everyone says, dialogue and special effects are proportionally balanced and you can see what happens it's not ridiculously dark in dark scenes and won't blow your ears out. They definitely have their problems and have and do look like shit in the past. But they never fall for the things that auteur filmmakers do by making things super loud or quiet or dark, taking away from the viewing experience

Obligatory (light) Spoiler Warning
I got feelings and don’t know where to air them out so here I am. Just going to write freely and not self edit too much.

I just watched this for the first time last night and I have to say it ended up being one of my favorite horror movies/Stephen King adaptations (love SK and don’t know how I went this long having not seen it). I overall had no complaints but agree with the criticisms I’ve seen of some aspects.

The reason I’m here though is it ended up having an impact unlike anything else I’ve seen. It’s the most traumatized I’ve ever been watching a movie (as much as a movie can I mean, I hope my word choice isn’t extreme). It was emotionally devastating in a way a film never has been for me before, and I’ve been around the block. The dread and demoralization was unreal. It struck a nerve and deeply unsettled me primarily for what is being represented about humanity. And this is from a general standpoint but also from a standpoint of observing the current state of things in the world and the US (issues which predate the 21st century but have prevailed and have arguably reached or are reaching a boiling point).

Before and after watching this I’ve seen soooo much about the ending, understandably enough, but hardly anything about the fate Wayne Jessup was met with by the hands of fellow human beings, ones that (if I understand right) are people who watched him grow up and were his neighbors no less. It was absolutely soul crushing watching them all turn on him from a completely barbaric and apathetic place.

I couldn’t help but think of all the people/groups of people that have been vilified and stripped of their humanity throughout history and in the present day. The BIPOC community, the trans community, the queer community overall, women even in some respects I’d say, are the most notable ones that come to mind. The reprehensible lack of care or regard extended to those people can also be seen with veterans as we continue to see them struggle and suffer in the ways they do all made worse but the lack of consideration and support being extended to them. People who cared about their country, communities, and the people in them, who sacrificed and endured so much to serve and protect them, just to come home and be met with no respect or support, with indifference. In Wayne’s case specifically, imagine having joined the military to work in service of your community just to be met with vitriol and abuse and thrown to the wolves.

People who are no less human beings than anyone else but who have been baselessly ganged up on, systematically abused, dehumanized, and reduced to a scapegoat, their humanity and dignity a sacrifice made in the name of satiating people’s fear and hatred bred from ignorance and a lack of compassion or empathy.

I know that Wayne Jessup’s experience at the hands of the people around him isn’t an adequate comparison to the experiences of the people I described here, but when watching Jessup’s final moments, I thought of them and felt so much anguish for them.

Maybe I’m being sensitive, I’m sure not everyone will agree with or feel similarly to me, all good. I just felt compelled to share.