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magic cactus posted:
Annihilation, The Thin Red Line, probably not quite action movies as such.
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Oh, and speaking of Nic Cage, you might like Mandy. Not much of an action movie for a very, very long stretch but it gets there eventually, sort of
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regulargonzalez posted:Annihilation, The Thin Red Line, probably not quite action movies as such. Seen both of these thanks for the rec though! morestuff posted:Oh, and speaking of Nic Cage, you might like Mandy. Not much of an action movie for a very, very long stretch but it gets there eventually, sort of Mandy is fantastic, but I've already seen it.
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Gripweed posted:Mobile Suit Gundam post Thanks for the rec, I dig mechs so Im going to check this out! The original MSG has a full series and an abridged 3 movie version: would you reccomend watching the full series or should I just watch the 3 movies?
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magic cactus posted:Are there any "dreamlike" or "hallucinatory" action movies out there? Other than Only God Forgives and Valhalla Rising I can't think of too many. Have you looked into Seijun Suzuki? He was a work-for hire director of Yakuza films, but eventually he got balcklisted by the studio because his movies got too weird. Like Tokyo Drifter, where the entire finale action set piece took place on this set 
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Kvlt! posted:Thanks for the rec, I dig mechs so Im going to check this out! The original MSG has a full series and an abridged 3 movie version: would you reccomend watching the full series or should I just watch the 3 movies? Since you are specifically after the portrayal of characters in war, definitely the series. The movies are fine if you just want the story, but the series goes way more in depth with the characters.
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magic cactus posted:Are there any "dreamlike" or "hallucinatory" action movies out there? Other than Only God Forgives and Valhalla Rising I can't think of too many. Aquire: The Wrath of God
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Gripweed posted:Since you are specifically after the portrayal of characters in war, definitely the series. The movies are fine if you just want the story, but the series goes way more in depth with the characters. Sounds good, looks like one of my streaming services has the full series so I'm gonna jump in. Thank you!
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Gripweed posted:Tokyo Drifter I love that movie. It's so weird. Good rec though, thanks!
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Looking for more genuinely hilarious and weird low budget movies, sci fi is a plus. I loved The American Astronaut and Dark Star for example.
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tuyop posted:Looking for more genuinely hilarious and weird low budget movies, sci fi is a plus. I loved The American Astronaut and Dark Star for example. The Alien Factor is my favorite of these and I love this genre. Hilarious, weird, as low budget as it comes, tons of charm and heart, and a lot of really cool aliens/monsters!
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tuyop posted:Looking for more genuinely hilarious and weird low budget movies, sci fi is a plus. I loved The American Astronaut and Dark Star for example. this is more on the sci-fi end and less "hilarious" but God Told Me To is a very strange trip. Starts out as kind of police procedural and gets real weird real fast.
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tuyop posted:Looking for more genuinely hilarious and weird low budget movies, sci fi is a plus. I loved The American Astronaut and Dark Star for example. History of Future Folk. It’s on Netflix.
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Feb 17, 2022 22:03
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The Last Lovecraft
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tuyop posted:Looking for more genuinely hilarious and weird low budget movies, sci fi is a plus. I loved The American Astronaut and Dark Star for example. Wild Zero Zebraman Technically the first season of Lexx is four movies that were edited into episodes for TV broadcast, so the first season of Lexx
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Looking for movies with extremely hare-brained plot twists, for example Serenity (2019), The Tall Man (2012), I See You (2019)
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Stay’s ending is pretty notoriously stupid even as a riff on a more common twist
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married but discreet posted:Looking for movies with extremely hare-brained plot twists, for example Serenity (2019), The Tall Man (2012), I See You (2019) Wild Things Boxing Helena
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married but discreet posted:Looking for movies with extremely hare-brained plot twists, for example Serenity (2019), The Tall Man (2012), I See You (2019) Absolutely, 100% Identity (2003). The recent Korean Netflix original The Call (2020). I dunno if A Perfect Getaway quite qualifies but I always loving hated its twist (just as I hated Serenity (2019)) so worth throwing out there, I guess 
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married but discreet posted:Looking for movies with extremely hare-brained plot twists, for example Serenity (2019), The Tall Man (2012), I See You (2019) The Perfection
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tuyop posted:Looking for more genuinely hilarious and weird low budget movies, sci fi is a plus. I loved The American Astronaut and Dark Star for example. Maybe "Rubber" (2010). If you liked The American Astronaut, "Stingray Sam" (2009) from the same director is a second, similar low-budget musical space western.
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I need some dumb jingoist movies for the upcoming war. Think Rambo 2 or 3, but made in the last ten years. Is The Expendables any good? Idk maybe something with younger actors would be cool.
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Is there a place I can find some of the "top" movies that are just slightly off the mainstream, like Birdman, Jojo Rabbit, Nightmare Alley, etc. Whenever I try to look up movies I may have missed, I end up with movies lists containing like.. The Avengers.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Is there a place I can find some of the "top" movies that are just slightly off the mainstream, like Birdman, Jojo Rabbit, Nightmare Alley, etc.
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I’d probably just look at like…SlashFilm’s end of year lists from the last few
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busalover posted:I need some dumb jingoist movies for the upcoming war. Think Rambo 2 or 3, but made in the last ten years. Is The Expendables any good? Idk maybe something with younger actors would be cool. Maybe red dawn
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Black Hawk Down is probably the best dumb jingo bullshit movie, just a tremendous piece of war propaganda, but it doesnt' quite make the date cutoff. Lone Survivor is another one, but it's not even a good movie.
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busalover posted:I need some dumb jingoist movies for the upcoming war. Think Rambo 2 or 3, but made in the last ten years. Is The Expendables any good? Idk maybe something with younger actors would be cool. Which side are you rooting for, Ukraine or Russia?
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busalover posted:I need some dumb jingoist movies for the upcoming war. Think Rambo 2 or 3, but made in the last ten years. Is The Expendables any good? Idk maybe something with younger actors would be cool. married but discreet posted:Black Hawk Down is probably the best dumb jingo bullshit movie, just a tremendous piece of war propaganda, but it doesnt' quite make the date cutoff. I have to disagree with this. BHD is fairly accurate to the actual events and Lone Survivor is really more of a tale of survival than it is jingoist: if anything it kinda pushes the idea that the US military needs help from Aghanistan/Iraq locals because they're the ones who save Luttrell. Act of Valor and American Sniper are the two ultra-jingoist action movies you want op, and Red Dawn as another poster suggested (tho watch the original, not the remake)
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Jingoism in film isn't always about accuracy, it's also about perspective. And that's where people have issues with Black Hawk Down, it's so focused on the perspective of the American soldiers that it dehumanizes the Somalis.
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Yeah, I can't speak to the accuracy of the film either way but it's jingoistic as all hell. The most absurdly jingoistic bullshit I've seen lately was the "has fallen" films, especially the first two.
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What are some good pro-Russia movies?
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Gripweed posted:What are some good pro-Russia movies? Youll have to be more specific since Russia a hundred years ago is different than Russia today and that keeps going back into history forever
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Kvlt! posted:Youll have to be more specific since Russia a hundred years ago is different than Russia today and that keeps going back into history forever pro-tsarist Russia, pro-Soviet Russia, pro-modern neoliberal Russia, any of it
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Gripweed posted:pro-tsarist Russia, pro-Soviet Russia, pro-modern neoliberal Russia, any of it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Soviet_propaganda_films
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married but discreet posted:Come and See
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I haven't seen American Sniper. That probably takes the cake. Also that Kathryn Bigelow film, something zero, probably ~questionable~ as well.
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busalover posted:I need some dumb jingoist movies for the upcoming war. Think Rambo 2 or 3, but made in the last ten years. Is The Expendables any good? Idk maybe something with younger actors would be cool. Mild subversion that still might fit what you're looking for: Starship Troopers is a science fiction film by Paul Verhoeven about war and jingoism. The whole thing is staged as a propaganda film with a series of in-universe propaganda films used as scene transitions occasionally. Some of the acting isn't great, and the plot is dumb as hell, but it enhances the satire (yet a lot of people still think it's a serious pro-fascist movie). Extremely over-the-top, some good comedic moments, excellent practical effects and modelwork, CGI that still holds up fairly well, and it has Michael Ironside in it, so y'know. It's gory as hell if you're not into that kind of thing though. There's a new-ish 4K transfer and it's absolutely beautiful.
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I’d like to watch something in the vein of the Errol Flynn Robin Hood. Something adventure-y and fun, preferably with a really good sword fight. To help you refine your recommendations, some of my favorite movies that already fit this vibe are The Court Jester, The Scarlet Pimpernel (both the Leslie Howard version and the 1980s movie with Ian McKellan and Anthony Andrews), and The Magic Sword. (Yeah, the one from MST3k, with Gary Lockwood.) Thanks in advance.
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