While I was in the bathroom post film, one of the staff chuckled at his shirt as he walked by, then he came back and asked if he really was Whalefall’s #1 fan.
He told him “You’re damn right I am” and he asked if he wanted the banner.

For those wondering the front of his shirt says WHALEFALL #1 FAN and the back says WHALEFALL FILM OF THE YEAR 2026. Ya can’t make this shit up.

Apparently, these are the films I’m supposed to have seen by now. The ones people look at me like I’ve committed a cinematic crime for missing. What ones would you watch first? There are in no particular order.

My Letterboxd if you want to follow >>> https://boxd.it/3G0Sp

I bought tickets for the science museum L24 and L23 for dune part 3. Wondering if these are decent seats to anyone who’s gone?

Today is February 3rd, known in Japan as Setsubun. Families celebrate by casting out evil spirits from their homes. But Ayumi is not convinced that they're all evil...

Give me some philosophical films and filmmakers.

I have dune 3 tickets booked for showcase xplus on 15 December and Cineworld Leicester Square on 19 December. I will probably only go to one of them. I understand Cineworld Leicester Square is in imax and has a better aspect ratio of the film. I’ve never been to Leicester Square Cineworld and fear the rows are too close and people’s heads could be in the way. Anyone that has been before have you ever had this issue? I like showcase as the seats are great and there is a wall between you and the row in front. Anyone know which to go for?..

I previously shared the first and second part at this links: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinema/s/9lBTMwIhLe and https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinema/s/9eTcgWaQPo

Relatively unknown, fantastic sci-fi movies can sometimes be overshadowed by blockbusters. Unfortunately, Hollywood is a massive abyss in this regard. Here’s a great list. Some of these films could be considered cult classics, while others are virtually unknown. This is the part three of the list.

The plot twists in Digger is quite staggering (*spoiler alert*). And if these twists and turns finds a fertile ground there is the potential to harvest a golden fruit from this masterpiece of a movie:

To stagger.

Yesss ... I'm talking about putting on those fancy boots that makes you walk like an egyptian on mushrooms. And open the door to where entertainment meets the dead serious ... as in utterly cryonic frozen and holy f*** the very floor we are standing on is quite literally melting !?! And have been melting for quite some time. And the part of us peeking out from the frosty circular window on board the ship already knew this. Knew since the first little baby cover stories took their first stumbling steps into the arena of planetary history.

This is now a deliberate attempt to loose you: The pathological part of you (and me) that are constantly stretching out the arms to find something to cling to. Anything. The story of how a tuna was raised is taken as truth, and swallowed hook, line and sinker. And a part of us savours this. Find a little bit of breathing room, before we are again swimming in open sea with sheer panic just beneath the surface - looking for a saviour. Who would dive in that situation?

Digger would dive. Digger is who dove.

And our reaction? We throw all of our repressed hatred onto him , momentarily relieved that the scum of the earth is now externalized.

To continue succesfully, basically

SURVIVE,

we need to establish a firm boundary to that part of us who have mistaken the map for the territory, who mistook perception for reality. This is not done by moving along the habitual pathways for how a movie, a text or for that matter anything unfolds.

This is what an LLM excels in, and for an LLM words are perception. And perception is reality.

Going off piste like this is challenging. It demands something from us: Instead of just leaning back and eating what is served from the neural pathways of least resistance, we must lean into and connect to the part of us capable of facing the situation.

A great movie ceases you and lifts you into a realm of imagination. An even greater movie ceases you in a way that allow you to witness that this is what is happening. Why is the latter superior to the first? Because entertainment is not what we need. It might be what we crave, but it is not what we need.

We need to train our capabilities to go off piste. And then maybe retracting to familiar territory. But eventually we need to go off piste and stay there, because .... psst ...

the boat is sinking.

And have been for some time.

The convoluted paths of this movie is NOT an attempt to loose you (the sober part of you), its just that the part of us who have bought into the idea that parts of our reality can be weaponized, did not even notice the subtle shift from hydrogen bombs to perception management that happened ages ago.

Mammals were successfully revived after being frozen back in the 60's, so for those invested hook, line and sinker in the lifeboat, cryonics have for a long time been the option if you had a desire to prolong life or avoid death. This long lost sheep is beginning to wake up and initially it does not like the view. At all. Which poses quite a challenge for anyone reaching down to reach this part of us right on the nose. It takes a big swing, balls and brains.

And Digger have it all.

This movie still holds up well today with the slow burn of the story lines and the satisfying finish of the end.

Toni Collette in Hereditary (2018) and Batfleck in BvS (2016). Personally Collette terrified me and Batfleck aroused me.

Seen in Theaters

1983 to 2026, 375 films

1983

Return of the Jedi

Jaws 3-D

Smokey and the Bandit 3

1984

Footloose

Ghostbusters

Gremlins

The Karate Kid

Conan the Destroyer

The Muppets Take Manhattan

The Jungle Book ↻

Pinocchio ↻

1985

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Back to the Future

Explorers

Fright Night

Follow That Bird

Summer Rental

The Return of the Living Dead

Teen Wolf

Silver Bullet

Rocky IV

Clue

101 Dalmatians ↻

1986

Little Shop of Horrors

Iron Eagle

Quicksilver

Sleeping Beauty ↻

Short Circuit

Top Gun

Cobra

Poltergeist II

Back to School

The Karate Kid Part II

Psycho III

Maximum Overdrive

Friday the 13th Part VI

Howard the Duck

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Crocodile Dundee

Soul Man

Hoosiers

An American Tail

Song of the South ↻

Star Trek IV

Three Amigos

Lady and the Tramp ↻

1987

Mannequin

Over the Top

Police Academy 4

The Secret of My Success

Creepshow 2

Beverly Hills Cop II

Ernest Goes to Camp

Harry and the Hendersons

Benji the Hunted

Roxanne

Spaceballs

Adventures in Babysitting

Innerspace

Revenge of the Nerds II

Jaws: The Revenge

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ↻

La Bamba

Superman IV

The Living Daylights

The Lost Boys

Maid to Order

Stakeout

Masters of the Universe

Disorderlies

Garbage Pail Kids

Baby Boom

The Running Man

Cinderella ↻

Throw Momma from the Train

Batteries Not Included

Overboard

1988

Short Circuit 2

Caddyshack II

Mac and Me

Young Guns

Hot to Trot

Elvira

Ernest Saves Christmas

Scrooged

Naked Gun

Twins

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Police Academy 5

Biloxi Blues

The Fox and the Hound ↻

Beetlejuice

Friday the 13th Part VII

Willow

Crocodile Dundee

Big

Funny Farm

Big Business

Poltergeist III

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

License to Drive

1989

Three Fugitives

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

The 'Burbs

Police Academy 6

Cyborg

The Dream Team

Field of Dreams

Pet Sematary

K-9

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Fright Night Part 2

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Pink Cadillac

No Holds Barred

Renegades

Ghostbusters II

Batman

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Great Balls of Fire

Karate Kid III

Lethal Weapon 2

Peter Pan ↻

UHF

Turner and Hooch

Parenthood

Uncle Buck

Look Who's Talking

Back to the Future Part II

Christmas Vacation

1990

Tremors

Madhouse

House Party

Joe Versus the Volcano

Pretty Woman

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Ernest Goes to Jail

Psycho IV

Home Alone

Rocky V

Misery

Edward Scissorhands

Look Who's Talking Too

Mermaids

Kindergarten Cop

Bird on a Wire

Back to the Future Part III

Total Recall

Dick Tracy

Gremlins 2

RoboCop 2

Days of Thunder

Die Hard 2

Jetsons: The Movie

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Quick Change

Arachnophobia

Problem Child

Young Guns II

DuckTales: The Movie

Air America

Flatliners

My Blue Heaven

Taking Care of Business

Men at Work

Mr. Destiny

Graveyard Shift

1991

Dutch

Life Stinks

Doc Hollywood

House Party 2

The People Under the Stairs

Cape Fear

The Addams Family

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

My Girl

The Last Boy Scout

Father of the Bride

The NeverEnding Story II

King Ralph

Nothing but Trouble

The Doors

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II

City Slickers

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

The Rocketeer

Naked Gun 2½

Problem Child 2

Terminator 2

101 Dalmatians ↻

Point Break

Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

What About Bob?

199219

Wayne's World

Ladybugs

The Babe

Lethal Weapon 3

Encino Man

Far and Away

Sister Act

Batman Returns

Pinocchio ↻

A League of Their Own

Pet Sematary Two

Captain Ron

School Ties

Dracula

Home Alone 2

Aladdin

A Few Good Men

Scent of a Woman

Trespass

1993

Sidekicks

Alive

Army of Darkness

Cliffhanger

Dennis the Menace

Son in Law

Free Willy

Coneheads

The Fugitive

Needful Things

The Three Musketeers

Addams Family Values

Mrs. Doubtfire

Sister Act 2

Wayne's World 2

Grumpy Old Men

1994

Cabin Boy

House Party 3

My Girl 2

PCU

Maverick

Beverly Hills Cop III

The Flintstones

The Cowboy Way

City Slickers II

Speed

Wolf

True Lies

Natural Born Killers

Richie Rich

1995

Major Payne

Tommy Boy

Bad Boys

Friday

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Father of the Bride Part II

Grumpier Old Men

1996

From Dusk Till Dawn

Black Sheep

Happy Gilmore

Sgt. Bilko

Fear

The Rock

The Cable Guy

The Nutty Professor

Striptease

Independence Day

Jack

Bordello of Blood

Tin Cup

Last Man Standing

High School High

Thinner

Jerry Maguire

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Scream

The Preacher's Wife

Michael

1997

Beverly Hills Ninja

Star Wars ↻

Liar Liar

Anaconda

Con Air

Speed 2

Face/Off

Air Force One

Cop Land

I Know What You Did Last Summer

The Devil's Advocate

Scream 2

As Good as It Gets

1998

The Wedding Singer

The Newton Boys

Bulworth

Lethal Weapon 4

There's Something About Mary

Halloween H20

Snake Eyes

Blade

Dead Man on Campus

Rush Hour

A Night at the Roxbury

What Dreams May Come

The Waterboy

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Meet Joe Black

The Faculty

Patch Adams

199912

Varsity Blues

Cruel Intentions

10 Things I Hate About You

Life

Entrapment

Idle Hands

The Mummy

South Park

American Pie

Bowfinger

Detroit Rock City

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

2000

Final Destination

Gladiator

Road Trip

Big Momma's House

Gone in 60 Seconds

What Lies Beneath

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Coyote Ugly

Almost Famous

Little Nicky

Dude, Where's My Car?

What Women Want

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2001

Hannibal

The Mexican

Swordfish

The Fast and the Furious

Rush Hour 2

American Pie 2

The Others

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

From Hell

Thirteen Ghosts

Vanilla Sky

Shallow Hal

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2002

Orange County

Queen of the Damned

Blade 2

Spider-Man

Scooby-Doo

Mr. Deeds

Austin Powers in Goldmember

2003

Big Fish

Final Destination 2

Dreamcatcher

Daddy Day Care

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Elf

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2004

Secret Window

The Grudge

Meet the Fockers

2007

Shrek the Third

2009

Drag Me to Hell

2011

Spy Kids 4

2015

Mad Max: Fury Road

2023

Evil Dead Rise

The Flash

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Napoleon

2024

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Alien: Romulus

Gladiator II

Kraven the Hunter

Heretic

2025

Flight Risk

Mickey 17

Superman

The Naked Gun

2026

Prime Time

↻ marks a re-release

18×30 acrylic painting of Spider-Man from a BTS shot of Brand New Day

I wanted to check in on people's thoughts towards one of my most favorite recurring moments in You Can See Everything, regarding Billy Evans and his faux-capitalist nepo baby persona.

I see a lot of people clowning on the guy for being this perfect representation of Silicon Valley soullessness that only speaks in corporate tongues and platitudes, and while I agree with that characterization, and I don't think this behavior is an indictment in and of itself, the way he was repeatedly shown 'watching' chemistry videos in hyper speed was HILARIOUS to me and displays a prominent Dunning Kruger like effect happening in real life.

As far as I know, he went to MIT for Economics and is now a sort of entrepreneur, which is all fine and maybe even impressive, but I would guess that he did not receive an equal education in a hard science like chemistry from MIT. To be fair, the doc did not go into why he was watching the videos, but it was definitely framed as self-education, given that he is pursuing a Theranos 2.0 kind of idea with the now-imprisoned Liz Holmes and a team of (actual) researchers.

But does anyone else get the feeling that that was all performative? How could anyone learn anything concrete or foundational in something as difficult as, say, molecular biology, to a point of being able to prototype a new Edison machine with cutting edge laser technology, from just watching youtube videos at 5x speed? Even as just an investor or business consultant, who are you trying to fool? The language he was actually using on calls and when talking about the product was all MBA jargon with a lot of 'circling back', 'maximizing throughput', and 'untangling communication channels', etc.

And yes, while I am a cynical nerdy guy who is repelled by those levels of greed and wealth-attachment at some base level of my being, I can't shake my personal belief that real domain knowledge like that, the kind that you need to actually know what you are talking about and truly revolutionize a field or technology within that field, at least partially comes from the dirt and mud? Like you have to fall in love with it almost, usually as a child or young adult, when there's no chance for greed to touch it, to actually get anywhere serious with it. And furthermore, are people that don't get to experience a relationship with knowledge like that, or find it boring or pointless, more susceptible to becoming professional 'deceivers' as adults? In the sense that when you get to be 25 for example, and have no skills to show for it, but you are desperate to seem as if you do, maybe it's easier to learn how to fake it rather than actually put in the work to become an expert? And what does that say about the people who fall for it? This is not to paint myself into a binary view of the world where people are simply experts or lying-experts, when in reality most people are neither and are just content surviving comfortably, but I do want to shine a ton of light on the latter of the two groups, especially the ones with seemingly unlimited resources, as very much dangerous in the way they pursue their own, most-likely-aggrandized, success.

I understand I'm finishing on a mainstream point now, and I think there's plenty of spotlights put on these types of people right now (albeit with little to no consequences in mind), but I just loved how that little detail in the film brought so much of this cultural moment into the front of my mind while watching. I'll be curious if anyone felt the same way or find that I am totally misreading these moments and should delete this post imminently.

im going to see godzilla minus zero, the tickets for imax and regular screening cost the same, the only difference would be seats. is it worth going with the imax screening? ive never seen one

Ken Sanzel writes and directs the action thriller about rogue federal agents, a con man and a waitress caught in a deadly diner standoff. In theaters and on digital November 20.

My previous post was removed because it seems I broke one of the rules regarding politics. I'm sorry, but don't you think Digger addresses political issues?

We Need less Marvel and DC more films along the lines of Magic Sword, The Sinbad films, Jason. I remember how these films used to the kind of things that stir the imagination.