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I don't know, the fantasy is pretty dark, look at the Pale Man scene, so I think the violence as a whole, is a theme throughout the whole movie, not just reality...The Captain is in a lot of the movie, but you're right, not in the fantasy scenes. I know the director wants to keep us guessing, is this real fantasy or all in this little girl's head? I think the fighting scenes and the Captain's orders would be enough to show how much of a psychopath he is, or even just one of the scenes would be enough for me. *shrugs* I know we all have different tolerances, but personally, I could have done with less. It honestly took me out of the world he created when it happened. I'd cringe, turn away from the screen/cover it until it finished. Then, it takes a bit to get back into the movie.

I've definitely had movies with more ultra violent scenes but I've also not liked those as much...

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With October fast approaching, I wanted to watch a little horror today. I figured that I may as well get some credit, so I looked through my eligible horror titles, and decided on Godzilla: King Of The Monsters . Maybe it has to do with the fact that I saw this version long before I saw Gojira , but even though that is widely considered to be the better film, I have always enjoyed KotM more.

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This is the first year that I've ever completed the checklist.

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Congrats!

Only watched 10 or so new-to-me films, but they were all quite good. Hard to pick a favorite, but probably The Thin Red Line or Pina. More later hopefully, scrambling to queue up some horror.

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Congrats! I was hopeful I would finish, but I think I'll end up missing 2, maybe three. I ordered three last ones from the library last week, 2 came in but the 3rd never shipped for some reason. Oh well, I came pretty close!

Finishing off the challenge with Chungking Express. It's a bit slow going but watchable. I also saw Harlan County USA yesterday and while enjoy would not be the right word considering the subject matter, I did like it. The whole documentary is very well done.

I watched 13 films, 11 of them new to me watches, and I enjoyed most of them!

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Very cool! Congrats!

I'm almost as surprised by that as I'm sure you are! (And probably even more pleased!) Glad to hear you actually found some stuff to like. Told you you would!

I didn't get anywhere close to completing the checklist or even my own listed goals. I also didn't offer much in the way of guidance for conversation in the thread as host, and I apologize for that. I was in the hospital for the first 10 days of the month and rest of it was kind of a topsy-turvy mess.

I did, however, squeeze in the entire contents of the In the Realm of the Senses Blu-ray and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse DVD in the last day-plus. The former is a movie I probably shouldn't even be able to finish, but there's something surprisingly engaging about it. The latter may merit more consideration now than at any time since its original production.

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I hope you feel better soon, Travis. I didn't watch much this year, but I did enjoy the movies I did watch. Got 6 movies in, and found out that Fishing With John was on YouTube. I used a couple episodes of those when I wanted to work on the Challenge, but didn't want to sit down and watch a full movie.

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Hey, I resemble that remark! I'm not usually too hard to please, really, there's just some very...outside of my normal taste type of movies in the Criterion collection.

I did try a little harder this time to aim for movies I thought I might enjoy more. I definitely was trying more for quality than quantity as my original goal was to watch one per decade, then when I saw how close I was by coincidence to get one in every spine number category.

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Thanks. I'm recuperating. It's a messy process. I watched Fishing with John a few years back during another of these challenges and got a kick out of it. I hate fishing, so for that show to have entertained me was surprising.

I knew you had potential.

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Wish I would have known about this challenge before. Can't wait to participate next year!