Movie & TV Show Recommendations

[Zyklon C]

Watched Sisu 2 tonight. Not as fun as the first -- the kills didn't have the same sense of humour to them -- but still worth a watch.

I might be a fag but the last scene almost had me tear up.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Sleepers (a super under-rated movie that everyone always forgets about - although it's tonal shifts are insane).

Ah, then i do have watched Patric in something before Narc. It's been quite a while since i've watched Sleepers, on TV i think, but i remember it being good. I should watch it again.

I might be a fag but the last scene almost had me tear up

Films are the only thing that make my eyes wet for many, many years by now, not even music does that to me anymore. Nothing fag about it, a good film will extract emotional responses from the viewer.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Watched the new All You Need is Kill and it's...... Very mid.
I have never read the original manga but just at a cursory glance the film is a major visual downgrade. Rather than a massive war for survival the film starts of right before the alien hive spiral attacks for the first time. There are minorities in Japan, the main character is implied to be mixed race, and the few people who are talking about it online all say the Tom Cruise version is better and is ironically more faithful to it's source material. It's very telling there aren't many 4chan threads on this japan film that just came out.

Yet at the same time I didn't hate it. It starts off somewhat slow compared to the Tom Cruise version yet it picks up speed rather quickly at about the 1/3rd mark. The chemistry between the main two characters is kinda fun. They almost start off in a "agh men am I right?" but the film completely subverts it in a positive way when Kaiji is shown to be on par with Rita if not smarter than her. Rita also grows as a character, she starts of as a weak smug coward but turns into a strong but more emotionally open person. There is an (un)intentional theme about how it's better to be athletic in case of emergencies than unprepared. Despite being a downgrade, the pseudo 2d 3d cgi visuals look good on there own. It's better if you don't think of it as an adaptation but as an inspiration. The last 3rd of the film is the best part.

I do somewhat recommend giving it a watch but If you haven't seen the Edge of Tomorrow version I'd recommend that one over this.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

He legit got a voice where i can picture women getting wet from listening to it. Handsome motherfucker too, and a good actor. Rewatched "Strange Days" a couple of days ago and he just kills it in that one.

Fun fact: his brother, Jeff, had a whole career in B movies. I've seen him in plenty of fun flicks where he plays rogue LA cops or fights in the ring.

 

[blackshirt]

Started watching Silo after Null recommended it on the latest MATI. It's actually pretty engaging. I looked up the premise beforehand because I'm not a fan of the "mystery box" style of TV. I'd rather know the stakes going in so I can catch the small details on the first watch.

The themes are right up my alley. Sociological control and "ends justify the means" morality. The antagonists are interesting because they aren't just cartoonishly evil, you can see the logic behind their cruelty. It's essentially the Fallout vault lore, sociopathic command structures and localized experiments with an overarching goal. But without the ghouls and mutant bugs. Definitely worth a watch.

It's quite soy and feminist but alas it's [current year].

Speedrun guide:
Season 1: Episodes 1, 6, 7, 9, 10.
Season 2: Episodes 1, 3, 8, 9, 10.

 

[babadook]

The Knives Out films are like "Clue: The Movie" but made to appeal to people who listen to National Public Radio religiously.

I watched Wake up dead man yesterday and I cringed at the amount of terminally online lingo they crammed in the dialogues, stuff that I (kiwifarmer) could recognize, but that would left a normal person puzzled at what the character just said.

Hell,there was one (of the two, maybe three) token evil-yet-dumb republican cardboards that literally said "I've tried everything: CRT, DEI, DEA, CDC, 5G, pronouns, trans stuff, but nothing would stick"

Well, almost literally because he used a lot more buzzwords in the same phrase and I can't remember them all

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Watched "Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen" (2015) by Takeshi Kitano yesterday, watched it once at release but my memory of it was basically nil. Laugh-out-loud japanese comedy film.

A pensioner-aged Yakuza gets his old gang together after he discovers that some young, non-Yakuza gangsters are scamming the elderly on his old turf, shenanigans ensue. While it has some dramatic elements it is pretty much played entirely for laughs and its funniness works even if you're not into japanese films or culture. Towards the end it turns into pure slapstick, Kitano is going back to his roots there. High-key hilarious film and shouldn't be hard to find, Warner Brothers is the international distributor.

Some excerpts:

Spoiler: Pics with subs, no real spoilers.

Fun fact: his brother, Jeff, had a whole career in B movies. I've seen him in plenty of fun flicks where he plays rogue LA cops or fights in the ring.

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"The Killing Man" looks like straight-up Criterion Collection material

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

"The Killing Man" looks like straight-up Criterion Collection material

The Boneyard (1991) is a low budget horror movie with a slow first half and a very, very entertaining second half. I went in blind and the element of surprise was an important factor in my enjoyment. If you want to see it, I'd avoid reading even the synopsis on iMDB. I'm serious!

It starts like this...

...and becomes this about an hour in.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

I watched Wake up dead man yesterday and I cringed at the amount of terminally online lingo they crammed in the dialogues, stuff that I (kiwifarmer) could recognize, but that would left a normal person puzzled at what the character just said.

Hell,there was one (of the two, maybe three) token evil-yet-dumb republican cardboards that literally said "I've tried everything: CRT, DEI, DEA, CDC, 5G, pronouns, trans stuff, but nothing would stick"

Well, almost literally because he used a lot more buzzwords in the same phrase and I can't remember them all

The first one was the WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.

I could have told you how terminally libshit the new one was going to be.

Smug, self-congratulatory... ugh.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

Wake up dead man

David Allcock released some storyboards on his instagram recently. The top is Rian Johnson's initial version, Allcock then made proper storyboards for each, presumably with a ton of explanation from Rian. It's pretty fun and sad how talentless Rian is.

Spoiler: View at your own risk

 

[God of Nothing]

David Allcock released some storyboards on his instagram recently. The top is Rian Johnson's initial version, Allcock then made proper storyboards for each, presumably with a ton of explanation from Rian. It's pretty fun and sad how talentless Rian is.

Spoiler: View at your own risk

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i could draw stick figures that convey more emotion and what things are supposed to be than whatever the fuck this is

 

[babadook]

i could draw stick figures that convey more emotion and what things are supposed to be than whatever the fuck this is

The lines for the organ pipes are sending me

 

[Cancer ♥]

Just finished 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, easily goes in my top 3 favorite zombie flicks. It's difficult for a movie to do something refreshing with the genre but both it and its predecessor did it for me

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

i could draw stick figures that convey more emotion and what things are supposed to be than whatever the fuck this is

They look worse than that "I don't appreciate you" Hitler drawing

 

[The Blue Morpho]

I've just watched Michael Collins. I forget where I picked up the recommendation, but I could tell this was my kind of movie before I even watched it as I love period pieces, especially those about great men doing great deeds. Heavy cast (Liam Neeson and Alan Rickman most notably), excellent cinematography, epic OST, thrilling action, fantastic film. At the end of it I am left contemplating how few great statesmen of gravity we have in our time. Much like great movies, it seems our present day has left them behind.

Highly recommended.

 

[Lip Glossary]

I just watched the first two episodes of prodigal son. So far it's actually pretty good. Should I stay the course on this or does it become stupid?

 

[Pineapple Fox]

I recently watched Posession (1981) and I feel like I need to tell everyone about this movie. I can't stop thinking about it, its hyperactive, over the top, manic, uncomfortable but also a dark absurdist comedy that you need to experience to appreciate it. I cannot get it out of my brain which I think marks a good movie.


I also watched The Train (1964) and WOW I cannot recommend it enough. Burt Lancaster does all his own stunts, semi based off a true story. For the era the cinematography is phenomenal, steam engines are insane and so interesting, the things people will do for the love of art!

 

[funwithshemales69]

I rewatched cadillac man (1990). It was nostalgic stupid dumb fun and I wish we had more low stakes low budget comedies, like this one and dirty rotten scoundrels. This film was critically panned on release but it's bafflingly good compared to what passes for comedy today.

 

[Zyklon C]

It's normie, but I watched Yojimbo for the first time in probably twenty years. I forgot how much I liked Mifune and Kurosawa.

I think this week might see a dive into Kurosawa's catalog for old time's sake.

 

[Eukodal_Addict]

I just saw the Netflix movie Leave the World Behind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_the_World_Behind_(film)

Never heard of a movie made about it but its source material is a well written book. But then I saw fucking Barack Obama made it too! Well his movie studio did. Yeah me either man; I didn't know he was even in the movie business but anyway I really liked it alot! Its plot came together really well, good cast interaction, editing, and a nice open-ended thought provoking ending.

If you never saw it I highly recommend giving it a chance. Few scenes were done super superb imho!