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I'll second Touching the Void, that movie is brutal. There's also Herzog's Rescue Dawn, and the first half of The Descent.
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Kvlt! posted:What are the best survival films? I've seen the classics like The Edge, Into The Wild and The Grey. I'm really looking for that "man pushed to his limits to survive" type film. Papillon
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I've just watched The Day After and the lead up to the bombs dropping was one of the most intense things I've ever seen. Can anyone recommend any films that have a strong/tense run up to a global nuclear conflict? Is War Games good? I have a feeling I saw it years ago and have it in my mind that it's a daft movie about Ferris Bueller saving the world. I have already seen Threads and The Sum of All Fears.
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War games is good in a cheesy 80s teen movie way, it's a classic of the era and you should watch it. War Games 2 on the other hand is not content to simply be poo poo, it reaches back in time and retroactively makes the original poo poo as well. Don't watch war games 2. It doesn't perfectly fit your request, but you've seen Dr Strangelove right?
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Nov 7, 2015 16:26
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And Dr Strangelove makes a great double feature with the similar-but-earnest Failsafe.
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Thanks for the recommendations. I've not seen Dr Strangelove before but will check it out, for some reason I've been putting it off for years. Failsafe and Crimson Tide look like they will fit the bill perfectly.
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Strangelove is amazing because the tension is really high but its also constantly hilarious, but the comedy doesn't completely break the tension.
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magpie posted:I've just watched The Day After and the lead up to the bombs dropping was one of the most intense things I've ever seen. Can anyone recommend any films that have a strong/tense run up to a global nuclear conflict? Fail-Safe the serious version of Dr.Strangelove with Henry Fonda as the President. Seven Days in May the run up to nuclear war is not the main plot, but is a constant threat. Twilight's Last Gleaming more Burt Lancaster is always good. Wrong is Right nuclear terrorism as a government misdirect and casus belli, and Sean Connery's best movie. PS: It's a very black comedy.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Fail-Safe the serious version of Dr.Strangelove with Henry Fonda as the President. These look cool, gonna seek them out. Thanks!
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I Origins, huh. Had to kinda pause to reorient my brain as well. It's terrible and monumentally stupid but commits so wholeheartedly to its premise that I have to give it a sort of begrudging respect.
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magpie posted:I've just watched The Day After and the lead up to the bombs dropping was one of the most intense things I've ever seen. Can anyone recommend any films that have a strong/tense run up to a global nuclear conflict? Fail-Safe and Countdown To Looking Glass. Looking Glass has a particularly strong ending.
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Nov 7, 2015 22:12
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Punch Drunk Drewsky posted:Had to kinda pause to reorient my brain as well. It's terrible and monumentally stupid but commits so wholeheartedly to its premise that I have to give it a sort of begrudging respect. I have to give it another chance, I guess. I was expecting something more in the way of a bizarrely enjoyable mess like Branded or The Box.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I have to give it another chance, I guess. I was expecting something more in the way of a bizarrely enjoyable mess like Branded or The Box. This is exactly where I'd take a bullet for you. Please don't do that to yourself. I respect movies that commit as thoroughly as I Origins does but it's a smug fuckin' disaster otherwise.
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I'm actually not even sure if I've seen the whole movie because I checked out pretty early.
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magpie posted:I've just watched The Day After and the lead up to the bombs dropping was one of the most intense things I've ever seen. Can anyone recommend any films that have a strong/tense run up to a global nuclear conflict? It's not quite on the same scale but I enjoyed Miracle Mile. The build-up is very effective from memory.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Fail-Safe and Countdown To Looking Glass. Looking Glass has a particularly strong ending. Just watched Countdown to Looking Glass. You were right about the ending, thanks. PTizzle posted:It's not quite on the same scale but I enjoyed Miracle Mile. The build-up is very effective from memory. I'm just reading about this now...Anthony Edwards...1988...Tangerine Dream soundtrack....romantic nuclear Armageddon movie....Why haven't I seen this already! Thanks, I can't wait for it to arrive.
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What are some movies like Zero Dark Thirty, Green Zone, and Body of Lies? Modern-day military/thriller films?
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magpie posted:Just watched Countdown to Looking Glass. You were right about the ending, thanks. Miracle Mile is incredibly tense.
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Kvlt! posted:What are some movies like Zero Dark Thirty, Green Zone, and Body of Lies? Modern-day military/thriller films?
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magpie posted:Just watched Countdown to Looking Glass. You were right about the ending, thanks. I didn't like it at first but then it stuck with me for days afterward. I was really mad at a fictional president.
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Kvlt! posted:What are some movies like Zero Dark Thirty, Green Zone, and Body of Lies? Modern-day military/thriller films? Comedy options: Good Kill, Battle: Los Angeles. Teriyaki Hairpiece fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Can you guys think of some other movies that have scenes like the drug deal in Boogie Nights? Gradually escalating the tension to the point where it's almost unbearably agonizing? The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is another good example (and the opening scene, for that matter) but I'm hard-pressed to think of any other great ones. I love it when a movie can pull that off and make you feel the same pressure as the characters.
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The stick-up scene in Killing Them Softly is like that.
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fishtobaskets posted:Can you guys think of some other movies that have scenes like the drug deal in Boogie Nights? Gradually escalating the tension to the point where it's almost unbearably agonizing? The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is another good example (and the opening scene, for that matter) but I'm hard-pressed to think of any other great ones. I love it when a movie can pull that off and make you feel the same pressure as the characters. Hitchcock has a number of these. The break-in in Rear Window and the murder in Dial M For Murder come to mind.
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fishtobaskets posted:Can you guys think of some other movies that have scenes like the drug deal in Boogie Nights? Gradually escalating the tension to the point where it's almost unbearably agonizing? The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is another good example (and the opening scene, for that matter) but I'm hard-pressed to think of any other great ones. I love it when a movie can pull that off and make you feel the same pressure as the characters. I've never seen Boogie Nights but from what you're describing I think you would enjoy No Country For Old Men
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Kvlt! posted:I've never seen Boogie Nights but from what you're describing I think you would enjoy No Country For Old Men Blood Simple from the Coens as well.
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fishtobaskets posted:Can you guys think of some other movies that have scenes like the drug deal in Boogie Nights? Gradually escalating the tension to the point where it's almost unbearably agonizing? The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is another good example (and the opening scene, for that matter) but I'm hard-pressed to think of any other great ones. I love it when a movie can pull that off and make you feel the same pressure as the characters. The movie Chopper has an extremely similar scene.
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fishtobaskets posted:Can you guys think of some other movies that have scenes like the drug deal in Boogie Nights? Gradually escalating the tension to the point where it's almost unbearably agonizing? The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is another good example (and the opening scene, for that matter) but I'm hard-pressed to think of any other great ones. I love it when a movie can pull that off and make you feel the same pressure as the characters. There's a couple bits that aren't quite like that, but still unbearably tense in Gone Baby, Gone.
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fishtobaskets posted:Can you guys think of some other movies that have scenes like the drug deal in Boogie Nights? Gradually escalating the tension to the point where it's almost unbearably agonizing? The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is another good example (and the opening scene, for that matter) but I'm hard-pressed to think of any other great ones. I love it when a movie can pull that off and make you feel the same pressure as the characters.
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HP Hovercraft posted:The King of Comedy has some of the best agonizingly uncomfortable scenes, and is just a great movie with De Niro's best performance so watch that. Scorsese is pretty good at that sort of thing, most famous example being the "Funny like a clown, like I amuse you?" scene in Goodfellas. Goodfells itself is actually a great example. And The Sopranos had a pretty drat similar scene too. Maybe Godfather as well? I know there's a scene where Michael Imperioli gets treated like a schmuck, was that Godfather? Casino? Its all a blur.
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Zaphod42 posted:I know there's a scene where Michael Imperioli gets treated like a schmuck, was that Godfather? Casino? Its all a blur. Goodfellas. ...and a lot of The Sopranos, actually.
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fishtobaskets posted:Can you guys think of some other movies that have scenes like the drug deal in Boogie Nights? Gradually escalating the tension to the point where it's almost unbearably agonizing? The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is another good example (and the opening scene, for that matter) but I'm hard-pressed to think of any other great ones. I love it when a movie can pull that off and make you feel the same pressure as the characters. If I'm focusing on scenes that have you strongly identify with characters who are very liable to gently caress up in dangerous situations, A Prophet, Killing of a Chinese Bookie and McCabe & Mrs Miller are some of my favourite films featuring those, as well as Dog Day Afternoon which is arguably a whole film of that, but especially the climax. Blue Ruin and (already mentioned) Killing Them Softly are also good recent examples. Maybe also the joyride sequence from Blue Velvet which I suspect had some influence on the Boogie Nights thing and its more bizarre touches.
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Anybody have some suggestions for a good fish out of water movie? Whether it be someone time travelling to a time they're not from, an alien stuck in human civilization, someone adjusting to a new life, etc.
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fishtobaskets posted:Can you guys think of some other movies that have scenes like the drug deal in Boogie Nights? Gradually escalating the tension to the point where it's almost unbearably agonizing? The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is another good example (and the opening scene, for that matter) but I'm hard-pressed to think of any other great ones. I love it when a movie can pull that off and make you feel the same pressure as the characters. There's at least one scene in Drive that does a fantastic job with this. Towards the end, when it's building up to the Driver and Bernie knife-fighting over the money.
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buddhanc posted:Anybody have some suggestions for a good fish out of water movie? Whether it be someone time travelling to a time they're not from, an alien stuck in human civilization, someone adjusting to a new life, etc. Roman Holiday
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buddhanc posted:Anybody have some suggestions for a good fish out of water movie? Whether it be someone time travelling to a time they're not from, an alien stuck in human civilization, someone adjusting to a new life, etc.
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buddhanc posted:Anybody have some suggestions for a good fish out of water movie? Whether it be someone time travelling to a time they're not from, an alien stuck in human civilization, someone adjusting to a new life, etc.
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buddhanc posted:Anybody have some suggestions for a good fish out of water movie? Whether it be someone time travelling to a time they're not from, an alien stuck in human civilization, someone adjusting to a new life, etc. The Gods Must Be Crazy Trading Places...sort of. Chas McGill fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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Are there any other good films like Linklater and Godard's "monologue films." By that, I mean the kinds of movies where various characters spend most or all of the film spouting philosophies and ideologies. Plot or no plot. So, Slacker, Waking Life, Masculin Feminin, etc.
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