And what about the people that suck at working at the office? And those that don’t get any or are not interested in a work based social life?

Reality is that there’s diversity and lots of in betweens. Thus diversity and flexibility and the value of managers in bringing it all together (like maybe they were always supposed to?)

Furiosa

Maybe controversial, depending on who you talk to I suppose. It's no Fury Road, at all. But it's in the same world and it's a good film. I'd imagine following with Fury Road directly after works quite well as a pairing

Dredd (2012)

"One of my favorite action movies"

Hmmm … tricky.

I’d clear it or redirect, unless there’s a decent protest against the idea. In which case, working out what people especially like here and then focusing on that if viable, would be possible.

Generally though, no need to keep up to many dups.

Otherwise, knowing the history here … I think you’re to be commended on your persistence and commitment to this space!

and lacks subtitles.

This I suspect is an underappreciated aspect of the dynamics at the moment. More broadly, it's about the personalisation of the watching experience. Screen size, seating/lying position, noise and brightness, subtitles and their language, audio configuration (where you can optimise your home set up to help with dialogue clarity or "epicness")

Sneakers

A ‘hacking’ movie that holds up brilliantly despite outdated technology. Excellent cast, characters, story, and pacing IMO.

Yea … probably more hyped for this than I ever was for rings of power.

Blade (1998)

Various things have reminded me of this ... it came up in a community episode, the MCU version in development hell etc ... thought it might be interesting to revisit as a flavour that the MCU has definitely not explored

Yea I realised a while ago that time just stopped passing for me around 2018 ... everything's just a blur since then.

It appears to be on Disney+ AFAICT (I'm not subscribed).

La Grande Bouffe (1973) wikipedia

The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend, with the express purpose of eating themselves to death.

Meet the Feebles (wikipedia)

Released in 1989, this is an early-ish Peter Jackson movie (yes, the LOTR guy).

It's a lurid and disturbing backstage comedy of a troupe similar to The Muppet Show.

I watched it with one friend in the mid 90s who, when it ended, stood, turned to me, and said "It is possible to go too far" before leaving the room.

Lost Highway (1997) wikipedia

A David Lynch film. I've not seen his 90s films but always meant to. After hearing of his illness, I figure now is as good a time as any

Thanks for the suggestion! I was worried no one would be into this "fringe" idea!!

You have my axe on this one! I saw it twice in the cinema when it came out.

While there are few things to find disappointing about covenant, for it was the attempt to put Prometheus aside and give the fans the Xeno they always want.

Thanks so much for the suggestions! I was worried no one would be into this "fringe" idea!!

It would be more damning if they said “part of a franchise”.

For sure, but part of what the MCU "unlocked" was a non-linear franchise, where it's not just sequels or prequels but an arbitrary network of films that connect in some way or another. Thus all of the MCU films.

The thing though, I suspect, is that a sense of linearity in the overall story was actually pivotal to the Ironman-Endgame era of the MCU. There was always a sense of the whole thing pushing in a single general direction. And post Endgame, that sense disappeared and Marvel frankly kinda shat the bed on recreating it in some way.

So given that, and the way IronMan/RDJ was the single linear thread through the whole thing, along with the rest of the "the band", I think it makes a lot of sense to treat that sprawl of films as a giant series of sequels.

The Cremaster Cycle (wikipedia)

This is probably as pretentiously art house as you can get ... I've never seen it but always meant to. It's probably hard to get a hold of ... but I'm putting it here anyway

Excellent suggestion!!

Each column is the top 10 films of a single year. They seem to increase in box office takings as you go up the column.

entering data is beautiful mode ...

It's not a basic 2D graph. And honestly it generally works, especially as the bubble size gives a clear enough sense of the actual box office takings.

It could be 2D though, with the vertical axis representing box office, and that'd probably work too, but it wouldn't be as aesthetically pleasing.