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Meowbot posted:Is there any good comedies from the past few years that were actually really great but possibly overlooked? Black Dynamite.
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I'm in the mood for a technical movie with a complex or ambiguous narrative, where following the movie presents a challenge in itself. Think Memento, Timecrimes, Primer, Upstream Color, Stay, 12 Monkeys. A "puzzle" movie. If it involves time travel, extra points.
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caiman posted:I'm in the mood for a technical movie with a complex or ambiguous narrative, where following the movie presents a challenge in itself. Think Memento, Timecrimes, Primer, Upstream Color, Stay, 12 Monkeys. A "puzzle" movie. If it involves time travel, extra points. I have a sneaking suspicion that you've already seen it but Triangle is a movie that you are looking for.
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Mouser.. posted:I have a sneaking suspicion that you've already seen it but Triangle is a movie that you are looking for. Nope, haven't seen it. In fact haven't even heard of it. 2009, right?
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caiman posted:I'm in the mood for a technical movie with a complex or ambiguous narrative, where following the movie presents a challenge in itself. Think Memento, Timecrimes, Primer, Upstream Color, Stay, 12 Monkeys. A "puzzle" movie. If it involves time travel, extra points. Looper, Following, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner
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Skwirl posted:Looper, Following, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner Seen all of those except House of Games. I'll check it out.
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caiman posted:Nope, haven't seen it. In fact haven't even heard of it. 2009, right? Yes the 2009 movie that's directed by Christopher Smith. There have been a lot of comparisons between Triangle and Timecrimes but they are entirely coincidental and I have always been in the camp that far prefers Triangle over Timecrimes.
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caiman posted:I'm in the mood for a technical movie with a complex or ambiguous narrative, where following the movie presents a challenge in itself. Think Memento, Timecrimes, Primer, Upstream Color, Stay, 12 Monkeys. A "puzzle" movie. If it involves time travel, extra points. All from David Lynch: Lost Highway Mulholland Drive Inland Empire And Triangle was awesome.
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I've fallen back in love with and watched O Brother, Where Art Thou a dozen times this month. I'm wondering, now, which movies match the light-hearted adventure tone of O Brother, and also have the same focus on music? I understand it's a pretty specific request, and I can't think of anything similar off the top of my head.
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May 21, 2013 05:21
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The Blues Brothers, American Graffiti, The Producers (1968), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Top Secret!, Back to the Future, High Fidelity sort of, This Is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, any Disney movie (like Aladdin, The Lion King, etc.), Jesus Christ Superstar sort of, and probably some other movies that I can't think of right now.
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What are some movies about competent, talented people getting away with (or almost getting away with - no spoilers!) elaborate plans? I'd prefer it not be the Joss Whedon-I'm-Brilliant-At-Everything-But-Haven't-Earned-It magical plot device character, but someone who is just great at planning, execution, and deception. I'm thinking Thomas Crowne Affair, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and to a lesser degree Ocean's 11.
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May 21, 2013 07:05
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Harold and Maude, Love and Death, Twelve Monkeys. Wow, thanks man. I'm going to go on a marathon!
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feedmyleg posted:What are some movies about competent, talented people getting away with (or almost getting away with - no spoilers!) elaborate plans? I'd prefer it not be the Joss Whedon-I'm-Brilliant-At-Everything-But-Haven't-Earned-It magical plot device character, but someone who is just great at planning, execution, and deception. I'm thinking Thomas Crowne Affair, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and to a lesser degree Ocean's 11.
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Swim Good posted:Wow, thanks man. I'm going to go on a marathon!
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feedmyleg posted:What are some movies about competent, talented people getting away with (or almost getting away with - no spoilers!) elaborate plans? I'd prefer it not be the Joss Whedon-I'm-Brilliant-At-Everything-But-Haven't-Earned-It magical plot device character, but someone who is just great at planning, execution, and deception. I'm thinking Thomas Crowne Affair, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and to a lesser degree Ocean's 11. Most everything I could mention was already said except Election, and Skwirl posted:Looper, Following, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner Most of these are people not quite getting away with it, but I don't want to spoil which is which.
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caiman posted:I'm in the mood for a technical movie with a complex or ambiguous narrative, where following the movie presents a challenge in itself. Think Memento, Timecrimes, Primer, Upstream Color, Stay, 12 Monkeys. A "puzzle" movie. If it involves time travel, extra points. L.A. Confidential Solaris (both the Tarkovsky version and the worse but still OK new version) The Sting Rashomon In the Loop Brick Zodiac Dark City (director's cut) Duplicity Zero Effect (I think; it has been a while since I've seen it)
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What are some good movies or documentaries about or mostly revolving around High School?
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Hat Thoughts posted:What are some good movies or documentaries about or mostly revolving around High School? Brick Dazed and Confused
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feedmyleg posted:What are some movies about competent, talented people getting away with (or almost getting away with - no spoilers!) elaborate plans? I'd prefer it not be the Joss Whedon-I'm-Brilliant-At-Everything-But-Haven't-Earned-It magical plot device character, but someone who is just great at planning, execution, and deception. I'm thinking Thomas Crowne Affair, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and to a lesser degree Ocean's 11. I asked for something similar a few months back and I was introduced to the TV show Leverage, where every single episode is about making and carrying out awesomely planned stuff. Five seasons of pure joy, I gorged myself on that thing.
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Anyone know any good Noir or Neonoir movies. Preferably, but necessarily, black and white and rather archetypal visually and story wise. I'm also looking for something similar in the form of a Spaghetti Western. Something that's easily recognizable as part of the genre that isn't by Leone. Also preferably something good. Recommendations for good but less well known American Westerns would also be appreciated.
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Hat Thoughts posted:What are some good movies or documentaries about or mostly revolving around High School? 21 Jump Street FreudianSlippers posted:Anyone know any good Noir or Neonoir movies. Preferably, but necessarily, black and white and rather archetypal visually and story wise. Brick. Everyone watch Brick 
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Hat Thoughts posted:What are some good movies or documentaries about or mostly revolving around High School? Clueless Election Detention
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Hat Thoughts posted:What are some good movies or documentaries about or mostly revolving around High School? FreudianSlippers posted:Anyone know any good Noir or Neonoir movies. Preferably, but necessarily, black and white and rather archetypal visually and story wise.
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I'm looking for films like Taxi Driver. Not the ones that are just familiar to it in style or topic, but ones that are about loneliness and capture this feeling of utter alienation and pointlessness as well as Taxi Driver does.
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Red Garland posted:I'm looking for films like Taxi Driver. Not the ones that are just familiar to it in style or topic, but ones that are about loneliness and capture this feeling of utter alienation and pointlessness as well as Taxi Driver does. Taxi Driver is a high bar, but I can suggest "Paris, Texas", "Naked", "The Conversation", "The Lives of Others", "Martha Marcy May Marlene", "The Consequences of Love" and "Save the Tiger". These are more contemporary choices, I'm fairly sure European New Wave has a wealth of alienation / loneliness-concerned films but I'm not as familiar with them as I should be (yet).
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Red Garland posted:I'm looking for films like Taxi Driver. Not the ones that are just familiar to it in style or topic, but ones that are about loneliness and capture this feeling of utter alienation and pointlessness as well as Taxi Driver does. A lot of Wong Kar Wai's films touch on both of those topics, specifically as they relate to love / romance. In the Mood for Love, 2046, Happy Together The Five Obstructions The Decalogue Dancer in the Dark Eraserhead Melancholia The Conversation After Hours (for a darkly comic take on this subject)
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FreudianSlippers posted:Anyone know any good Noir or Neonoir movies. Preferably, but necessarily, black and white and rather archetypal visually and story wise. I liked The Man who Wasn't There, it's neonoir with sprinklings of surrealism.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I'm also looking for something similar in the form of a Spaghetti Western. Something that's easily recognizable as part of the genre that isn't by Leone. Also preferably something good. Recommendations for good but less well known American Westerns would also be appreciated. Notable non-Leone spaghetti: The first few Django movies are all great: Django, Django Kill... If You Live Shoot! and Django il Bastardo Lee Van Cleef stars in a few gems: Death Rides a Horse, The Grand Duel, The Big Gundown and Sabata Sergio Corbuccio (Django) directed a couple other good ones with: The Great Silence and Companeros Finally, I have a soft spot for anything Terence Hill and Bud Spencer appear in: My Name is Nobody, They Call Me Trinity..., Trinity is Still My Name As for good but less well known American Westerns... that all depends on what you've seen already. Here are some more great, non-Leone titles that I enjoy: The Ox-Bow Incident Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia McCabe & Mrs. Miller Bad Day at Black Rock Ride the High Country The Furies The Naked Spur The Man From Laramie Gunfight at the OK Corral The Professionals
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regulargonzalez posted:A lot of Wong Kar Wai's films touch on both of those topics, specifically as they relate to love / romance. In the Mood for Love, 2046, Happy Together How can you mention WKW and not list his most fitting film: Fallen Angels?
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Starscream posted:Alright well some modern ones you may have missed: Azumi, Azumi 2 and Aragami are all fun in their own ways, a little lacking in story but featuring some great action. This is awesome. Thank you!
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So this might be a bit vague but I'm looking for movies with a bit of a postmodern, drawing attention to the fact that their movies, type stuff. But not just breaking the 4th wall, stuff that kind of drives home how film can lie to you. For example, F For Fake. I also just saw Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell and that kind of had the same vibe. I'm also thinking about some of Godard's work where the editing draws heavy attention to itself or Maya Deren's At Land where each cut brings the protagonist to a different location. Or even stuff like Adaptation or Mulholland Drive.
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TrixRabbi posted:So this might be a bit vague but I'm looking for movies with a bit of a postmodern, drawing attention to the fact that their movies, type stuff. But not just breaking the 4th wall, stuff that kind of drives home how film can lie to you. Surely Inland Empire qualifies, and probably Full Frontal (though the former is my least favorite Lynch and the latter is my least favorite Soderbergh). Exit Through the Gift Shop will absolutely make you question if Banksy is loving with you, with the public, or if there is any fuckery at all and I could not recommend this movie more highly. Probably the most similar in feel to F For Fake I can think of. In a different vein, Irreversible via its structure and camera work and Enter The Void by having a lot of it be from a first person perspective (in a way) accomplish the 'drawing attention to the fact it's a movie" thing very well. Other ideas: Purple Rose of Cairo Funny Games Synecdoche NY Adaptation (e: just saw you mentioned this. Definitely check out Synecdoche NY, which was written and directed by the writer of Adaptation)
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Thanks, I've seen most of those but will check out the few I haven't. Although for the record I definitely feel like everything in Exit Throuh the Gift Shop is real. I've seen it over five times now and nothing really clues me in that it's a hoax. But it does get a bit into the nature of art and I'm definitely interested in that.
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Hm I'll try to work up some additional recommendations, but don't know that any of these will be something you haven't seen and are mostly just meta-reference movies, not movies remarking on the fakery of movies: Ocean's 12 has one of the most audacious, 4th wall breaking stunts I've seen in a movie Last Action Hero Wes Craven's New Nightmare (far better than it has any right to be) Shadow of the Vampire e: I'd like to request recommendations for movies that are just straight up gorgeous to look at. Prefer interior locations to landscape vista type deals - along the lines of Flowers of Shanghai and Barry Lyndon regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 09:16 on May 23, 2013 |
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TrixRabbi posted:Thanks, I've seen most of those but will check out the few I haven't. Although for the record I definitely feel like everything in Exit Throuh the Gift Shop is real. I've seen it over five times now and nothing really clues me in that it's a hoax. But it does get a bit into the nature of art and I'm definitely interested in that. Exit Through the Gift Shop is most definitely taking the piss out of the art world something chronic. Thierry/Mr Brainwash is fictional.
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TrixRabbi posted:So this might be a bit vague but I'm looking for movies with a bit of a postmodern, drawing attention to the fact that their movies, type stuff. But not just breaking the 4th wall, stuff that kind of drives home how film can lie to you.
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TrixRabbi posted:So this might be a bit vague but I'm looking for movies with a bit of a postmodern, drawing attention to the fact that their movies, type stuff. But not just breaking the 4th wall, stuff that kind of drives home how film can lie to you. Annie Hall Last Year at Marienbad
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My 10 year old daughter just asked me if there were any documentaries about mermaids/merpeople, I figured I'd come here. Anything remotely close to this?
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Stares At Floor posted:My 10 year old daughter just asked me if there were any documentaries about mermaids/merpeople, I figured I'd come here. Anything remotely close to this? My 11/12 year old cousins loved this documentary about Mermaids on Animal Planet that aired last year.
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Parachute posted:My 11/12 year old cousins loved this documentary about Mermaids on Animal Planet that aired last year. Bad rear end, thanks. =)
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