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DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Slaapaav posted:

Omega man. easy question

Not even the best adaptation of that story. Not even the second best! Get lost!

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DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Slaapaav posted:

i havent seen the last man on earth so il give you that but please dont say the will smith movie is better because charlton heston > will smith.

Last man on earth and The HΩmega Man

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Kanine posted:

hey does anyone have particularly good recommendations for ww2 underground resistance films?

Depending on what you mean by underground resistance, even something like Come and See might count.

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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FitFortDanga posted:

For clarity, I meant this Demons

drat, directed by the funeral parade of roses guy? I’m shocked I hadn’t heard of this

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Young Girls of Rochefort

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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fenix down posted:

You may have already seen 'em but these come to mind: Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block, Crank 1&2, Kingdom of Heaven Directors Cut, Kong Skull Island, Serenity, Akira, and Redline.

edit: also Dunkirk, 1917, Prometheus and Snowpiercer might fit the bill.

Serenity?

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Ramrod Hotshot posted:

Are any of Paul Verhoeven's movies worth watching outside of the classic trilogy of Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers?

Pretty much all of them. Elle, Black Book, Basic Instinct, The Fourth Man, and Showgirls all rule. Flesh and Blood is not very good but it's interestingly weird. Hollow Man is also not great but you can see where there was a much better movie at some point in the process that got chopped up.

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Kart Barfunkel posted:

Mulholland Drive?

Also, does Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon hold up? I just watched Touch of Zen again and would like another great martial arts epic.

absolutely, and if you just watched Touch of Zen and/or Dragon Inn it’s cute seeing just how Unashamed it is of being a love letter to those movies

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Blue Labrador posted:

I am pretty familiar with Cronenberg's big ones, but I haven't seen Slither. I'll check that out, along with Tetsuo 2 and Possessor, thanks!

Possessor is directed by Cronenberg’s kid, as is Antiviral, which will almost certainly hit your spot too

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Human Tornada posted:

The Score (the one with DeNiro)
The Italian Job (both versions)
Widows
The Thomas Crown Affair (the remake)
Topkapi
Ronin (sorta counts but this movie rules hard)
Thief
Entrapment

The Korean move Thieves is a fun one in the vein of the Ocean's movies

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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magic cactus posted:

Howdy!

For some reason, I've taken to unwinding by re-watching Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into Night pretty much every night before I fall asleep. I really like the sort of metaphysical mystery/noir tone that reminds me a little bit of the works of David Lynch/the writings of Paul Auster/Borges, but I also really like how... hazy it feels? It kind of just drifts around and not a lot happens. I guess I'm looking for recommendations like that. Kind of slow drifting movies where the plot unfolds pretty slowly, if there's even a plot at all. Bonus if it's got some kind of broad metaphysical theme, but I don't think there's quite that many of those kinds of films out there.

Stuff I've seen that kind of scratches that itch:

Kaili Blues (same director. I also watched his short film the Poet and The Singer, but it didn't grab me as much. Loved Kaili Blues though)

Uncle Bonamee Who Can Recall Past Lives

Still Walking

Paris Texas

Stalker

Calendar (Atom Egoyan. I watched most of his other films and while good, this one I really enjoyed.)

I have Criterion, Netflix, and HBOMax, so if your recs could be on one of those three streaming services that would be awesome.

Thanks for any recs you guys can scrounge up for me!

I’m sure you know that Tarkovsky was a huge influence on Bi Gan, and all of his movies have a good bit of this vibe, not just stalker. Other communist bloc filmmmakers and their direct descendents are probably good bets, Bela Tarr, Zulawski (maybe a little stressful/horny for what you’re looking for), Kieslowski, any of the fifth generation Chinese guys

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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FitFortDanga posted:

The Russian Don Kikhot is quite good. My review.

This website is fucken wild, thanks so much

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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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.

this kind of action right

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

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Gripweed posted:

yes exactly. I want movies that look like that

dracula ad 1972 looks like it was shot in the same church it's so close

lots of hammer films have this vibe

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Basebf555 posted:

I feel like this town isn't quite as built up as you'd like but hey it's an excuse to post one of the best shots in any Western ever. Also definitely an inspiration to one of the establishing shots in Back to the Future III.

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

The aforementioned shot is about 4 minutes in. The movie is Once Upon A Time in the West.

Another Leone, Duck You Sucker (A Fist Full of Dynamite) features fully built up cities, but they are in Mexico so the architecture and vibe is pretty different.

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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morestuff posted:

Leviathan is great, but make sure it’s not the narrative feature that came out around the same time. Manakamana from the same folks too

Manakamana is a Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab project but it’s by not the same directors as Leviathan. The directors of Leviathan did go on to do an absolutely wild documentary about famous cannibal Issei Sagawa, Caniba, and a recent documentary about the human body by way of surgeries and autopsies called De Humani Corporis Fabrica. They definitely have more in common with Leviathan than Manakamana, but one of the two (Lucien Casting Taylor) also co directed Sweetgrass, which is a similar vibe to what the op is looking for

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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I recommend them all, but as you might expect from the subject matter Caniba and De Humani Corporis Fabrica are pretty rough watches

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

No trying to be a prick but Kung Fu Panda was a heavily promoted massively successful decade-and-a-half old mainstream animated blockbuster that spawned a handful of sequels and a TV show - recommending it feels like earnestly recommending Star Wars, and if you're interested in a darker science fiction movie, watch the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. That one features a more layered villain, bigger action sequences, and it delves deeper into characters of the first movie.

I think it’s extremely cool that someone registered for this forum in 2023 and their first two posts were both extremely earnest and about kung fu panda, I am not being ironic in any way that rules

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