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NObodyNOWHERE
Apr 24, 2007

Now we are all sons of bitches.
Hell Gem

Kvlt! posted:

looking for foreign (im American so foreign is anything not American or UK) vigilante movies like Rolling Thunder, Death Wish, Harry Brown, etc

Irréversible

Don't actually watch Irréversible unless you know what you're getting into. It's intentionally incredibly hard to watch and not the same style of vigilante film as what you have above.

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Kvlt!
May 19, 2012



therattle posted:

In Order of Disappearance is fantastic.

this was absolutely fantastic thank you!!

and yeah ive seen Irreversible before not a huge fan of it but i do appreciate the rec ty!!

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
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Kvlt! posted:

this was absolutely fantastic thank you!!

and yeah ive seen Irreversible before not a huge fan of it but i do appreciate the rec ty!!

Awesome! So glad you liked it! It’s great, right?

Onomarchus
Jun 4, 2005

Gaius Marius posted:

Escaflowne too

Oh yeah, wait till you get to the villain.

fenix down
Jan 12, 2005

Kvlt! posted:

looking for foreign (im American so foreign is anything not American or UK) vigilante movies like Rolling Thunder, Death Wish, Harry Brown, etc
Ballerina, Sisu, Riders of Justice

Kvlt!
May 19, 2012



fenix down posted:

Ballerina, Sisu, Riders of Justice

seen Sisu and RoJ before and both are top tier so i will def check out Ballerina!!

glasnost toyboy
May 29, 2009

therattle posted:

In Order of Disappearance is fantastic.

I chucked this on without realising I'd already seen the remake, was a bit confused for a moment. Good flick.

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana
Nov 25, 2013

I finally have one! Enjoyed Late Night with the Devil, looking to find more like it - TV broadcasts gone wrong and so on.

I've got, so far, Ghostwatch, WNUF Halloween Special, but I'm looking for more of this type of thing. Late Night was great, minus the ending, which - in true found footage fashion - was a bit weak

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.
There’s a sequel to WNUF called the “Out There Halloween Mega Tape” that’s decent.

One Cut of the Dead might also fit the bill?

We watched a movie pretty early on during lockdown called The Cleansing Hour (2019) that I remember being better than I expected, but I also barely remember it and can’t really vouch for it.

Kosmo Gallion
Sep 13, 2013
It's not a movie but anthology TV show Inside Number 9 did an episode similar to Ghostwatch called Dead Line.

Action Jacktion
Jun 3, 2003
There's a 1983 TV movie called Special Bulletin which is presented as a news broadcast covering a terrorist group threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb.

1994's Without Warning is a TV movie presented as a news broadcast covering a disastrous first contact with aliens.

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:

I finally have one! Enjoyed Late Night with the Devil, looking to find more like it - TV broadcasts gone wrong and so on.

I've got, so far, Ghostwatch, WNUF Halloween Special, but I'm looking for more of this type of thing. Late Night was great, minus the ending, which - in true found footage fashion - was a bit weak

Radio broadcast not TV, but Pontypool is real good.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:

I finally have one! Enjoyed Late Night with the Devil, looking to find more like it - TV broadcasts gone wrong and so on.

I've got, so far, Ghostwatch, WNUF Halloween Special, but I'm looking for more of this type of thing. Late Night was great, minus the ending, which - in true found footage fashion - was a bit weak

King of Comedy, Joker, maybe Quiz Show I've never seen it

Kvlt!
May 19, 2012



Xiahou Dun posted:

Radio broadcast not TV, but Pontypool is real good.

seconding this Pontypool is dope

also op just listen to Art Bell

VROOM VROOM
Jun 8, 2005

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:

I finally have one! Enjoyed Late Night with the Devil, looking to find more like it - TV broadcasts gone wrong and so on.

I've got, so far, Ghostwatch, WNUF Halloween Special, but I'm looking for more of this type of thing. Late Night was great, minus the ending, which - in true found footage fashion - was a bit weak

History of the Occult, or if radio is acceptable The Vast of Night

The V/H/S series has some TV broadcast segments including the most popular one from V/H/S94 (and the most popular segment from 2 is about a documentary crew). 99 and 85 also have some deece ones

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



I would like to say that The Vast of Night also rips. Honestly I don’t have a good excuse for not listing it with Pontypool.

The sub-genre of What If Radio, But Spooky? is absolutely stacked for some reason.

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana
Nov 25, 2013

Gaius Marius posted:

King of Comedy, Joker, maybe Quiz Show I've never seen it

Quiz Show is a dramatization of a real life quiz show scandal with Ralph Fiennes and a whole cast of character actors, and is great, but not quite what we're looking for here

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Oh poo poo, The Booth! It's an all in real time movie about a radio show that is interrupted by a ghostly voice. The Booth kicks rear end/

Onomarchus
Jun 4, 2005

Whether in continuity or in our world, the devil probably was responsible for what happened in Pleasantville. But I thought that movie wasn't good and can't have the feel you're looking for.

ynohtna
Feb 16, 2007

backwoods compatible
Illegal Hen

magic cactus posted:

Just watched the 1992 Wicked City film and I need more of this beautifully lit, hyperkinetic style in my life. Would be cool if some suggestions were wuxia films as that's not a genre I'm super familiar with. Bottom line, looking for colorful/colorfully lit gonzo films that will make me :psyduck: but in like, a good way.

I think you may enjoy introducing some Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) and A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) into your diet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfNSonMJx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dpajscuPo

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magic cactus
Aug 3, 2019

We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

ynohtna posted:

I think you may enjoy introducing some Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) and A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) into your diet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfNSonMJx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dpajscuPo

Zu is on my watchlist, I'll bump it to the top. A Chinese Ghost Story I've heard of but haven't seen, adding it to the watchlist, thanks!

Kart Barfunkel
Nov 10, 2009


Are any of the original run of Planet of the Apes sequels worth watching? Either as just being a solid film or an entertaining piece of pop culture a la late-Showa Godzilla?

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.

Kart Barfunkel posted:

Are any of the original run of Planet of the Apes sequels worth watching? Either as just being a solid film or an entertaining piece of pop culture a la late-Showa Godzilla?

I’m not crazy about Beneath… but I know a lot of people enjoy it. It does have its moments with a cult that worships an unexploded ICBM.

Escape… is probably my favorite of the original sequels. It starts as a pretty schlocky quasi-comedy before getting kinda bleak and tense towards the end.

Conquest… continues the vibe of the end of Escape and has some fairly interesting 70s dystopian sci-fi vibes.

I remember being mostly bored with Battle…, it really feels like they’d obviously run out of steam.

I’d probably recommend Escape and Conquest for sure. The only thing you need to know going into Escape is that the future Earth from the original is destroyed in Beneath and the ape main characters escaped the explosion by going back in time. I can’t remember if the movie recaps that or not.

Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Apr 30, 2024

feedmyleg
Dec 25, 2004
Yeah, they're all worth a shake if you don't mind the declining budgets. Even the live action and animated series try harder than you'd assume, though I wouldn't recommend them to the everyman.

Xiahou Dun
Jul 16, 2009

We shall dive down through black abysses... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.



Kart Barfunkel posted:

Are any of the original run of Planet of the Apes sequels worth watching? Either as just being a solid film or an entertaining piece of pop culture a la late-Showa Godzilla?

I have watched all of the original Planet of the Apes sequels multiple times. I guess leading up to this moment.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes is highly skippable. There’s a bunch of cave-ape shenanigans and then kerbloom the planet explodes. It’s not incompetent or anything, but it has no real juice and its only meaning is setting up the next movies. After that it goes back to being a mildly corny (to a modern eye) but very compelling series of pretty solid 70’s sci-fi films.

Escape is two of the apes doing a reverse of the first movie and getting sent back to the 1970’s. It’s them getting experimented on by humans and is a legit solid scifi drama. If you like old Doctor Who, I think you’ll like this a lot.

Conquest is the “far future” of 1983 where the world has descended into a bunch of fascist states reliant on ape-slave labor. (It makes more sense in context) Enter the time-traveling scientist-apes’ son who was raised in a circus after their death : Caesar. He leads an ape-slave uprising. Imagine Snowpiercer if everyone was wearing a gorilla costume. Do you wanna see an orangutan murder a cop with a meat cleaver? That happens like 50 loving times.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes is about the post-apocalyptic power struggles between apes after the ensuing nuclear war from Conquest. It’s a pretty okay little proto-Mad Max. Lots of apes driving dune-buggies, mowing down humans with a light machine gun.

I think they’re pretty good. Even Beneath is okay, just really light. If you like that period’s take on scifi as a lot of talking about morals with funny make-up rather than pulse-pounding action, I’d give it a pretty solid recommendation. It’s the kind of thing I generally wouldn’t tell people to watch, but just because it’s niche not because it’s bad.

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Nov 8, 2018

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man I disagree super heard, Beneath basically finishes the story of the first one. It builds on the themes very satisfactorily. The later ones are fine but they are mainly fun ape movies.

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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana
Nov 25, 2013

Conquest feels more apiece with the modern remakes, even has Caesar as a named ape character. It's also probably the most "fun" of the later Apes movies, probably my personal favorite

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