Velvet Buzzsaw, kinda sorta? It's about the art industry rather than the fashion industry, but there's a lot of overlap between the two worlds.

I'd say the post-apocalyptic The Mist (2007) handled this quite well. Based on a Stephen King novel, it tells the tale of a band of ordinary people of all races and genders who hole up in a supermarket ... and rapidly abandon all logic and reason to form a quasi-cult, turning quickly on the logical and rational people who they eventually blame for the acocalypse.

The point is that ordinary people will rapidly fall in line behind whatever demagogue has the power at that particular moment in time.

A Clockwork Orange, kinda sorta. Fast motion is used during the orgy scene. However, they're also playing Bach in the background. In typical Kubrick fashion, he's going for a kind of black comedy feel. We've already seen how dangerous and sociopathic Alex and his droogs are. The comedy comes from juxtaposing this with them drinking milk at a futuristic milk bar, and picking up two beauties to go back to his place and have group sex to classical music.

If anything, the whole scene helps shed some light on what the inside of Alex's mind looks like, and it's clearly a crazy and disturbing place. Fast motion? Sure, bring it on. Couldn't make things any weirder.

I know this happened with Will Smith. Before about 2010, it was very rare for a TV actor to successfully cross over into movies. Smith had just come off five years of doing The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and it was a real surprise when Michael Bay cast him in Bad Boys (1995), which was a big hit.

Roland Emmerich then took a gamble casting him in pivotal role in Independence Day (1996), where Smith pretty much stole the show. After it became the top grossing movie of that year, Hollywood finally recognized Smith as a leading man, and he got top billing for Men in Black (1997) where he was acting opposite industry legend Tommy Lee Jones.

LOTR's extended editions are all great, but I have to single out a two minute scene added for The Two Towers. It's a family reunion of sorts between Boromir (Sean Bean), his brother Faramir (David Wyndham) and their father Denethor (John Noble), told in flashback during happier times.

It ties together all the actions of Boromir in the first movie (why he knows so much about the ring already, and why he scheming to get it,) Faramir's incredibly heroic actions in the second movie (he lets Frodo and the ring go, knowing that keeping them will mean finally winning his father's respect) and Denethor's madness in the third movie (we realize he knows he is responsible for sending his most beloved son to his death.)

I realize that the theatrical cut of Towers weighed in at over three hours anyway, and director Peter Jackson was under serious pressure from the studio to cut anything not critically, 100% necessary. But I just wish they could have somehow saved this scene. It adds another layer of emotional complexity to the whole trilogy.

Freddy Got Fingered (2001). The most cleverly written and self aware anti-movie ever made. It's a Dadaist masterpiece.

For the unitiated, this movie is about a completely untalented cartoonist who inexplicably gets given $1m to make his cartoon, and blows the lot of dumb stuff. In real life, Tom Green had the stupidest TV show that you ever saw, and was inexplicably given $10m to make a movie. The fact that it was ever made is a giant fingers-up to Hollywood, with a slight fingers-up to the audience thrown in. Nothing like it will ever be made again.

For me, the problem was that the movie had already been made less than ten years previously, and was called Independence Day. War of the Worlds knew it would have to go in a radically different direction to bring something new to the table, so it focuses on one family.

This is a problem because it almost feels like the alien invasion and eventual defeat is a subplot compared to divorced dad Ray Ferrier (Cruise) trying to reconnect with his wayward children. For the record, I quite liked Tom Cruise in this, and he's believable as a person with flaws: we can say why his marriage didn't work out. I didn't even mind his brats that much - they're complete basket cases, like a lot of kids are in real life. The only thing that let the movie down was its tendency to pull its punches at the last minute. (That's a longwinded and fancy way of saying they should have >!let the brother character die.!< It would be a much better and darker movie if Spielberg had the balls to follow through with that one.)