I've yet to see vertical comic strips, those guys deadpanning then cheering, or Batman interrogating The Joker, something-something "I can't believe I accidentally the Coke bottle".
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The quiet part out loud does seem like it's "I want to take something mainstream and popular, then turn it into 4chan", that place poisoned his mind, and he's not the only one, not by a long shot. In fact, his brand of mental damage is dime-a-dozen nowadays.
Echoes of The Graduate...
"I've got one word for you, Benjamin. One word only. Are you listening?"
"Yes, sir."
"Plastics."
Meditation is better advice. By which I mean doing the exercises to approach grounding oneself in the present, sensing and feeling things from that perspective, instead of the YESTERDAY and TOMORROW clashing storms inside our minds.
But one can't just start meditating one day - "from zero to sixty", so to speak - and expect immediate results. It's a discipline, like brushing your teeth every day.
You know... I've never really thought about it that way, but my three favorites may be the same most watched.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Empire Strikes Back
Miller's Crossing
Sometimes I'll watch Miller's Crossing with English subtitles/captions, just to take in all that insane and masterful dialogue, it truly is as if William Shakespeare had written a 1920s mob tragicomedy.
You ain't got a license to kill bookies and today I ain't sellin'. So take your flunky and dangle!
Isn't Grosse Pointe Blank from around '98 or '99?
That's when VHS was on its' very last legs. I think my first DVD player was from around 2001, by that time the graph line of DVD rising and VHS falling had already intersected, and this was in Mexico, I'm not sure when other parts of the world made the transition, say in the US, Europe or Japan it happened earlier.
That mid-Almodovar peak was incredible, now that you mention it. My personal favorite from that time has to be Habla Con Ella (Talk To Her), in parallel Woody Allen filmography terms I would equate it with Hannah & Her Sisters, in artistic achievement.
Barry Lyndon is currently a rising "underrated masterpiece" topic with most of the best film critic podcasters. My personal favorite film has nearly always been 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I just recently rewatched Barry Lyndon and man... in any other filmography this would have stood alone at the top.
And we still have the rest of Kubrick's work to contend with... Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Paths Of Glory, Eyes Wide Shut... it's just ridiculous.
For a long time now, I've regarded two people as my artistic heroes of the 20th century: Stanley Kubrick and John Coltrane. Mark Rothko could be up there, too, I cannot imagine my day-to-day life without his work to stop and look at, or to simply have as a presence in my surroundings.
"...the Rat Pack one with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin!"
Imagine some crazy guy saying that.
This list of yours needs Werner Herzog's Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo in there.
This is Old School Cool catnip.
Is there an active Old School Cool instance around these here parts of the internets?
Oh lord... I LOVE Another Green World like few other albums in this world. Up there with Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock, in my book.
But what about Futtbuckers, then?