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Magnetic North posted:Alright, this might be a weird request. I can't play the video game Payday 2 anymore because of motion sickness. Lately, I've been especially nostalgic for the ol' 'Cop-Clicker' so, I watched Heat for the first time on Pluto.tv to see if I would enjoy it. I did, though it was a little more 'human' than I expected. For background, Inception is probably my favorite movie. That movie is a lot of things but I would not describe it as particularly 'human' and that suits me just fine. I'd say for modern things The Town and Hell Or High Water might be to your taste. In terms of small bands of heisters fending off waves of enemies in giant gunfights, I'd actually go for older stuff like Bonnie & Clyde or The Wild Bunch, which have plenty of blood squibs but nothing I'd describe as gory by modern terms, especially since it's so stylised - it reminds me somewhat of videogame gunplay even if it predates it by decades. I don't like to give anti-recommendations but I have to say Dragged Across Concrete is brutal and sporadically gory and I cannot imagine you'd be into it if you were bothered by Heat. It's not an especially serious film but I'd say it's one that is meant to actively repel the sensitive viewer. UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Apr 29, 2022 |
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tuyop posted:If I like the house parts of Bird Box, but only the scenes inside the house, what other movies have similar elements? Depending on where you want to end up on the horror-to-sci-fi spectrum of things, you might like one or more of The Others, Signs, The Mist, and Coherence, all of which have significant elements of people bouncing off each other as they shelter against outside horrors.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Depending on where you want to end up on the horror-to-sci-fi spectrum of things, you might like one or more of The Others, Signs, The Mist, and Coherence, all of which have significant elements of people bouncing off each other as they shelter against outside horrors. Definitely due for a rewatch of Signs, and the others are all solid recs, I’ve just seen them 
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everyome go see RRR right now holy poo poo you guys this is not Bollywood, this is just a straight gently caress-yeah movie on par with Fury Road there is an action sequence 40m in that would be the final climactic event in any US movie, and when it ends in RRR it is a smash cut to the opening goddamned credits
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Shrecknet posted:this is not Bollywood, this is just a straight gently caress-yeah movie on par with Fury Road Well, yeah. It's Telugu cinema which is definitely Not Bollywood
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Gripweed posted:What are some good cult movies? I mean movies featuring cults, not movies with cult followings. Although movies about cults that also have cult followings are fine. Night of the Seagulls (1975).
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FancyMike posted:Well, yeah. It's Telugu cinema which is definitely Not Bollywood just letting people know when they see the poster that it isn't yet another endless giant dance setpiece movie it is (in the dictionary definition of the word) epic. although there is exactly one dance number and it also loving owns Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 19:37 on May 3, 2022 |
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Magnetic North posted:Alright, this might be a weird request. I can't play the video game Payday 2 anymore because of motion sickness. Lately, I've been especially nostalgic for the ol' 'Cop-Clicker' so, I watched Heat for the first time on Pluto.tv to see if I would enjoy it. I did, though it was a little more 'human' than I expected. For background, Inception is probably my favorite movie. That movie is a lot of things but I would not describe it as particularly 'human' and that suits me just fine. Den of Thieves is a mixed bag, but Gerard Butler is hilarious in it and it has an amazing shoot-out that I consider (don't boo me) on par with Heat. Wrath of Man has too many plotlines, but there is some decent heisting in there and being a Jason Statham movie it deffo focuses on the action. Ambulance is very, very Michael Bay, but if you want heists, action and dozens of cop cars flying around in Blues Brothers-like crashes it doesn't get any better.
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Watched Margin Call this week. It was great, and I also love 12 Angry Men. What are more movies that make meetings engaging or show a team planning/strategizing over a problem? Could be any setting or team dynamic really.
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You might like Moneyball or Shin Godzilla
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Yeah, those are both great. Might be obvious but The Social Network would fit, and I'd say Glengarry Glen Ross and Frost/Nixon would count.
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Maybe Spotlight?
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therattle posted:Maybe Spotlight? Yeah, journalism movies are good for that. Zodiac, All The President's Men, The Insider. Bridge of Spies is another GREAT meeting movie.
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Gripweed posted:I should’ve been more specific, I mean proper cults. Robes, sacrifices, a nude lady tied to an altar, that whole vibe. They don’t have to be satanic, but that kind of old school satansploitation thing. The Conspiracy maybe? Ticks a few of those boxes. I'm looking for more films like Calibre which aren't horror but still manage to elicit the same level of anxiety and tension.
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Tea Bone posted:The Conspiracy maybe? Ticks a few of those boxes. I got one, it's nothing like Calibre but after I showed it to a friend he literally said "That wasn't a horror movie but it felt like a horror movie and now I'm going to be jumpy all night" The fake documentary Alternative 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXDB5kp9t8
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LittleFuryThings posted:Watched Margin Call this week. It was great, and I also love 12 Angry Men. "Locke" isn't about a team, but I think it scratches this itch. Just a guy talking his way through a couple of problems he has.
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So I'm currently in Shanghai and stuck in the lockdown. Myself and a few friends have decided to keep sane by watching and discussing a different movie every evening. We did the Oscar nominees, and now we're doing time travel movies.1 We're getting towards the end, and I need another 2-3 movies to round out the list. Here's what we have watched/are scheduled to watch:code:Anyone have any strong recommendations not on the list? Caveats: we're not doing time loop movies (aside from Palm Springs) as we did those on New Year, and I refuse to acknowledge cryo-sleep as time travel because by that logic taking a nap is time travel. Oh, and for obvious reasons we can't do films only available in the cinema.
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Philadelphia experiment Source code Timeline The Adam project Azhais fucked around with this message at 12:01 on May 17, 2022 |
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Time After Time for sure. Star Trek IV is a remake of it created by the same folks, but switching out David Warner as Jack the Ripper for some whales.
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Prince Turveydrop posted:Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes) Definitely this one. And in a very similar vein, Triangle. (Though it's not quite as much a time travel movie as Timecrimes is.) Daduzi posted:we're not doing time loop movies (aside from Palm Springs) as we did those on New Year And while you have BTTF on there, you should really add BTTF 2 as it plays around with the concept much more than the original, in some clever ways. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 15:26 on May 17, 2022 |
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Daduzi posted:Anyone have any strong recommendations not on the list? Caveats: we're not doing time loop movies (aside from Palm Springs) as we did those on New Year, and I refuse to acknowledge cryo-sleep as time travel because by that logic taking a nap is time travel. Oh, and for obvious reasons we can't do films only available in the cinema. This might be redundant due to the inclusion of 12 Monkeys (which is itself a remake of this movie) but I liked the 1962 French film La Jetée. It's very short and has a very unusual visual style.
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Somewhere in Time (1980) Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer
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I forgot to include The Final Countdown in my list
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I watched The Item and it was the worst rear end piece of rear end movie I've ever seen and I need other movies that are clearly trying to ape Tarantino's style of cool characters with witty dialogue, bonus points if the writer/director in the leading role
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Ibexaz posted:I watched The Item and it was the worst rear end piece of rear end movie I've ever seen and I need other movies that are clearly trying to ape Tarantino's style of cool characters with witty dialogue, bonus points if the writer/director in the leading role I can't remember much of the dialogue but Bad Times at the El Royale gave me huge pseudo Tarantino vibes. And to a lesser extent No Exit.
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Ibexaz posted:I watched The Item and it was the worst rear end piece of rear end movie I've ever seen and I need other movies that are clearly trying to ape Tarantino's style of cool characters with witty dialogue, bonus points if the writer/director in the leading role 2 Days in the Valley
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Ibexaz posted:I watched The Item and it was the worst rear end piece of rear end movie I've ever seen and I need other movies that are clearly trying to ape Tarantino's style of cool characters with witty dialogue, bonus points if the writer/director in the leading role Lucky Number Slevin Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Things to do in Denver when you're Dead One of the above is pretty good, one is utter dreck. Which is which I leave as an exercise for the reader.
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Ibexaz posted:I watched The Item and it was the worst rear end piece of rear end movie I've ever seen and I need other movies that are clearly trying to ape Tarantino's style of cool characters with witty dialogue, bonus points if the writer/director in the leading role 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag Employee of the Month (the Matt Dillon not the Dane Cook one) There's also one I can't remember the title of, that's trying to be Quentin Tarantino meets Fargo. About an insurance agent who tries to steal a violin, that is just absolute dogshit. Edit: Thin Ice Gripweed fucked around with this message at 23:06 on May 18, 2022 |
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Ibexaz posted:I watched The Item and it was the worst rear end piece of rear end movie I've ever seen and I need other movies that are clearly trying to ape Tarantino's style of cool characters with witty dialogue, bonus points if the writer/director in the leading role Lowlife First Love I quite enjoyed both.
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BioTech posted:Lowlife I hadn't thought of it before, but yeah First Love does have a bit of an early Tarantino vibe. But, like, better. I'm not sure if it fits the criteria exactly because its clearly not intentionally trying to ape Tarantino. It is extremely Miike. Either way, more people need to watch First love, its fantastic.
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regulargonzalez posted:Lucky Number Slevin one of those is good, one is bad, one I haven't seen but it sounds really bad
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That old story about James Cameron writing Alien on a whiteboard and then adding a dollar sign, but instead he writes seven on the board and then adds an l
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I never got around to watching Lucky Numbers Olne through Slix, so I don't know if I'd be able to follow the plot of Slevin.
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it seems there is a storied tradition of having a movie say "yo gently caress robots" and then a sequel is like #notallrobots, like The Matrix, Alien, and The Terminator. Any other good/well-known ones?
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VROOM VROOM posted:it seems there is a storied tradition of having a movie say "yo gently caress robots" and then a sequel is like #notallrobots, like The Matrix, Alien, and The Terminator. Any other good/well-known ones? Arguably some of the later live-action Transformers movie fall into this mold.
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