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Ricochet Moving Pictures Club: 19th Reel

Chris O
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Bajan delivery this week, I'm on vacation. Congratulations to the 18th Reel winner, LC! LC provided an excellent question for our 19th Reel: What is the most ambitious film that actually worked?

Wish you were here!

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Discussion (46)

  • Sisyphus@Sisyphus

    The Lord of the Rings. An absurd undertaking guaranteed to be nitpicked by a hundred million fanboys with every failure to adhere to the text blared across the universe in fifty point type. Peter Jackson might have been revered for centuries if he had never done the Hobbit films.

  • Percival@Percival
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    Sisyphus (View Comment):

    The Lord of the Rings. An absurd undertaking guaranteed to be nitpicked by a hundred million fanboys with every failure to adhere to the text blared across the universe in fifty point type.

    Agreed.

    Sisyphus (View Comment):

    Peter Jackson might have been revered for centuries if he had never done the Hobbit films.

    Thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread, as Bilbo Baggins might have put it.

  • Flapjack@Flapjack

    I find Inception a fascinating movie. The dream within a dream within a dream plot lines are both confusing and engrossing. The special effects are pretty fantastic. And the depictions of human frailty are interesting in the best way.

    Final answer.

  • DMak@DMak

    Christopher Nolan’s Memento.

    A man with anterograde amnesia is searching for his wife's killer, employing unusual means to keep track of the timeline. The film is told in dual timelines and is highly ambitious.

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