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Tuxedo Catfish posted:So there's a certain cliche or model plot, where one character suffers some horrible tragedy or dies or is fated to die, and another character decides to move heaven and earth to undo it. They travel through time, defy the gods, raise the dead, raise an army, whatever. The main thing is this all-consuming, often self-destructive, vengeance-like intensity, but nominally driven to protect or restore rather than destroy -- although maybe it's really about this person's ego more than the person they're protecting. Hugh Jackman's character in The Fountain is a great example -- you've got this rational but angry, driven scientist who will do anything to stop his wife from dying. Looper.....Kinda?
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Looking for "hard", lesser known or low-budget sci-fi after rewatching Europa Report for the nth time. Can be built around emotional themes like Interstellar, can be a pure mood piece like Love, can be experimental like Moon. Feel free to recommend your secret widely panned or completely unknown favorite.
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Jun 19, 2017 21:13
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Schurik posted:Looking for "hard", lesser known or low-budget sci-fi after rewatching Europa Report for the nth time. Can be built around emotional themes like Interstellar, can be a pure mood piece like Love, can be experimental like Moon. Feel free to recommend your secret widely panned or completely unknown favorite.
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Jun 19, 2017 22:45
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TychoCelchuuu posted:THX-1138, Primer, Upstream Color, A Boy and his Dog, The Brother from Another Planet, The Man who Fell to Earth. Primer and Upstream Color are two of my favorites, the rest sound interesting, thanks! Can't believe I haven't seen THX-1138 yet.
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Jun 19, 2017 23:23
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Some of these aren't really lesser known, but a lot of people these days haven't seen them. Silent Running Terminal Man Hauser's Memory COLOSSUS: The Forbin Project and for a pair of really strange ones Idaho Transfer God Told Me To
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Jun 20, 2017 03:05
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Idaho Transfer is directed by Peter Fonda, if that gives you an indication of what you're in for there.
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Jun 20, 2017 03:19
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Hey, I put the weirdness warning on it.
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Jun 20, 2017 03:32
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Idaho Transfer makes God Told Me To completely straightforward (and I don't mean that as a knock, both movies are great).
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Jun 20, 2017 03:38
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Schurik posted:Looking for "hard", lesser known or low-budget sci-fi after rewatching Europa Report for the nth time. Can be built around emotional themes like Interstellar, can be a pure mood piece like Love, can be experimental like Moon. Feel free to recommend your secret widely panned or completely unknown favorite. None of these are "hard" sci-fi, but 400 Days, Cube, and Arq might scratch that itch. Ex Machina is better known, but it's incredible, and still low-budget enough to feel like a play with four characters in one location.
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Jun 20, 2017 05:26
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Looking for movies about the Spanish Civil War--fiction or nonfiction thanks!
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smug n stuff posted:Looking for movies about the Spanish Civil War--fiction or nonfiction Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Jun 29, 2017 05:19
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Viva la Muerte, Land and Freedom, The Spanish Earth
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Jun 29, 2017 11:13
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I'm looking for war movies that are modern. I'm a sucker for good effects and violence, though not into fantasy really (Transformers/superheroes not really for me). Some I've enjoyed lately a lot: 127 Hours, Black Hawk Down, 3 Kings, Saving Private Ryan. So something in this vein: easy to follow well done violence. Thanks a lot!
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Jul 2, 2017 19:40
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War Horse isn't non stop action but the combat scenes are really well done and it's a cool story. Also check out Siege of Jadotville on netflix if you haven't already, it's exactly what you're looking for.
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Jul 2, 2017 21:16
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LOL 127 Hours seems out of place on you list but whatever. Fury comes to mind. Hacksaw Ridge is supposedly good but I haven't seen it. Edit: Enemy at the Gates is also pretty good.
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Jul 2, 2017 21:51
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Enemy at the Gates is actually terrible but it's good for an 90 minutes of uninterrupted Stalingrad carnage if you can get past the comically Cold War portrayal of the Red Army and the extremely out of place sex scene.
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Jul 2, 2017 22:10
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Hacksaw Ridge was pretty disappointing for being too transparently manipulative. The underlying story is already amazing by itself, it didn't need to be sexed up at all, and it's pretty obvious when you're watching it what moments are BS.
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Jul 2, 2017 23:22
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Regardless of its qualities as a story, "easy to follow well-done violence" fits Hacksaw Ridge pretty well.
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Jul 3, 2017 00:00
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It isn't very violent (there are surprisingly few violent scenes), but Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is an amazing movie about a war correspondent and the lives of embedded journalists in Afghanistan, based on the nonfiction book she wrote about being embedded with a Marine unit. It's exciting, thought-provoking, and funny (but definitely not a straight-ahead comedy), and it stars Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, and Martin Freeman, with Billy Bob Thornton and Alfred Molina in smaller roles. It definitely gives you a different vantage point for a war movie. You can stream it on Amazon Prime. I loved this movie, but I don't think it did well in theaters.
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Jul 3, 2017 03:08
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I'd honestly say read the book in that case because the book is genuinely great.
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Jul 3, 2017 14:08
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Oliver Reed posted:Not the most straight-forward request but I'm looking for movies featuring veteran actors as sort of mentors/guides to younger talent. Examples would be: Try Fat City, a boxing movie directed by John Huston with Stacey Keach and Jeff Bridges. One of my favorite movies ever.
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Jul 3, 2017 14:51
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The Color of Money has Paul Newman mentoring Tom Cruise in the art of pool hall hustling and was directed by Scorcese. Anthony Hopkins teaches Antonio Banderas how to be Zorro in The Mask of Zorro, I think, it's been a while. Also Creed.
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Jul 3, 2017 22:56
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I've been watching a bunch of crime films and gangster pictures over the long weekend: Chinatown Heat Bonnie and Clyde The Big Sleep LA Confidential Miller's Crossing I really like LA noir particularly, but I'm up for anything in the genre, or with the same feel. Of those six I liked Chinatown and LA Confidential the most. The old black and whites are fine, but I like the post-Hays code stuff where they don't have to cover up the seedy underbellies. Apologies if this comes up all the time, I checked a few pages back.
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Jul 5, 2017 21:53
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zoux posted:I've been watching a bunch of crime films and gangster pictures over the long weekend: Outright I would say John Huston's Maltese Falcon and Asphalt Jungle. You would probably also like Coen Brothers' Blood Simple. I would also recommend Sunset Boulevard and The Night of the Hunter but they aren't really a "crime" stories. David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and A History Of Violence might interest you for modern takes. Also, I love A Most Violent Year, but it might not be what you are looking for. Oh and try Badlands. Edit: Key Largo and On The Waterfront York_M_Chan fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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Jul 5, 2017 22:09
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zoux posted:I've been watching a bunch of crime films and gangster pictures over the long weekend: there was a huge trend of sexing up classic noir narratives in the 70s/80s/90s including straight remakes/readaptations of farewell my lovely, the postman always rings twice, and d.o.a. stuff like body heat, fatal attraction, 52 pick up, body of evidence, malice, lost highway/mulholland dr, etc the other obvious suggestions would be like thief, badlands, long goodbye, night moves, rolling thunder, to live and die in la. maybe even some de palma like body double and scarface there are a quite a few noirs and noir-adjacent movies from the classic era that subvert the code and revel in the seamier side. directors like preminger and wilder essentially made their reputations off pushing the censors buttons (watch where the sidewalk ends, for example.) fritz lang's 50s movies tended towards this too (clash by night, big heat, blue gardenia, human desire, while the city sleeps, beyond a reasonable doubt) and also some lesser known movies like nightmare alley and pitfall, and b-pictures like gun crazy and the big combo Radio Spiricom fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jul 6, 2017 |
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Jul 5, 2017 22:43
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zoux posted:I've been watching a bunch of crime films and gangster pictures over the long weekend: Grifters is a hell of a movie that doesn't get enough love. Most of the stuff I'd recommend has already been mentioned. Other notables, Blow Out White Heat
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Jul 5, 2017 23:14
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Some of the most underrated neo-noir that haven't been mentioned: The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Charley Varrick, Cutter's Way, One False Move, Carlito's Way, Gone Baby Gone, Killing Them Softly.
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What modern actions movies (any language) are like John Wick and its sequel in this sense: there's a lot of violence but it's filmed in such a way that you can see and appreciate the choreography? No 20 cuts per second/shaky cam trickery, just a straight look at what's going on.
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Oliver Reed posted:What modern actions movies (any language) are like John Wick and its sequel in this sense: there's a lot of violence but it's filmed in such a way that you can see and appreciate the choreography? No 20 cuts per second/shaky cam trickery, just a straight look at what's going on. The Raid (and it's sequel), and Dredd both immediately pop in my head. If it doesn't need to be too modern John Woo's Hong Kong stuff (Hard Boiled, The Killers, A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2), Drug War by Johnnie To probably also fits that and is more recent (2012 as opposed to late 80's/early 90's).
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Oliver Reed posted:What modern actions movies (any language) are like John Wick and its sequel in this sense: there's a lot of violence but it's filmed in such a way that you can see and appreciate the choreography? No 20 cuts per second/shaky cam trickery, just a straight look at what's going on.
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Oliver Reed posted:What modern actions movies (any language) are like John Wick and its sequel in this sense: there's a lot of violence but it's filmed in such a way that you can see and appreciate the choreography? No 20 cuts per second/shaky cam trickery, just a straight look at what's going on. Man of Tai Chi is directed by Keanu and he plays the villain too. There's no gunplay but lots of great martial arts action.
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Oliver Reed posted:What modern actions movies (any language) are like John Wick and its sequel in this sense: there's a lot of violence but it's filmed in such a way that you can see and appreciate the choreography? No 20 cuts per second/shaky cam trickery, just a straight look at what's going on. Hardcore Henry. The bare minimum of exposition, and then an hour and a half of tightly cut action and first person violence.
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zoux posted:I've been watching a bunch of crime films and gangster pictures over the long weekend: Roger Cormans St. Valentine's Day Massacre and John Milius Dillinger
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What's the best place to start with Johnnie To? All I've seen is (the excellent) Drug War
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morestuff posted:What's the best place to start with Johnnie To? All I've seen is (the excellent) Drug War Running Out of Time and Full-time Killer are both excellent action films, Election and Triad Election are more drama oriented, but can still bring the violence.
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morestuff posted:What's the best place to start with Johnnie To? All I've seen is (the excellent) Drug War Heroic Trio.
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Skwirl posted:Running Out of Time and Full-time Killer are both excellent action films, Election and Triad Election are more drama oriented, but can still bring the violence. I guess it's time to pay my library fees because half these aren't available streaming anywhere
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EKDS5k posted:Hardcore Henry. The bare minimum of exposition, and then an hour and a half of tightly cut action and first person violence. Hardcore Henry is the literal polar loving opposite of what that poster is looking for. My suggestion would be Headshot.
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I'm looking for 90s comedies set in the 70s, things like Dazed and Confused, The Stoned Age, or Detroit Rock City, any suggestions?
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goose willis posted:I'm looking for 90s comedies set in the 70s, things like Dazed and Confused, The Stoned Age, or Detroit Rock City, any suggestions? If you're willing to go for a TV series, definitely check out Freaks and Geeks
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