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One of the best war movies ever made in my opinion. Set during the 1939 Russian Finnish war.
It follows a bunch of pretty boy, borderine supermodel kids who get sent into war and come out of it looking like absolute shit.

The winter war is definitely one of the most interesting, overlooked conflicts of the era and I really appreciated how this movie showed the reality of it. It did its absolute best showing the truth on the ground without underselling how insanely hardcore the fins were. Seriously these guys are outnumbered 10 to one, in sub zero temperature fighting tanks with Molotov cocktails and regularly fighting off waves of soviets like something out of a game. That being said, the fins take horrific losses and clearly suffer from the effects of PTSD as the movie goes on.

History likes to portray this conflict as a david vs golith struggle with no small amount of truth, but when you look at things objectively, It's pretty dam clear that if the Russians had good commanders this fight would have been a hell of a lot less lopsided. Still pretty crazy stuff.

I think the only negative I can think of is that there's a decent amount of infidelity in this movie, with soldiers banging any women they can get their hands on. It's pretty sympatric though interestingly enough. The girls dont know if they'll ever see their loves again, and the kids dont want to die virgins. It's sad.


Also there's a leader dude who looks like a finnish Sam Hyde. He is one of the major highlights of the movie.

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Fun fact, this conflict technically invented the Molotov cocktail, which was first used against the soviets in the spanish civil war and got its name in this conflict.
 
I recently watched "Mars Express" from 2023, a French animated film with your basic Blade Runner-esque premise of a neo-noir detective investigating a murder case involving rogue sentient robots.

But the visual style of the movie is completely different from the archetypal rainy, nighttime urban decay setting of Blade Runner or Ghost in the Shell. The visual style is quite clean, bright and sunny, and I think it's very reminiscent of the classic Moebius sci-fi illustrations from the 1970s and 1980s with their heavily stylized look.

It had a pretty well constructed plot and characters, and I was impressed by a very suspenseful setpiece action sequence involving a car crash in the middle of the film. The atmosphere and world building is on point, although it is not very hard sci-fi.

My only gripe is that the ending feels slightly muddled. All in all, a very watchable film. Pretty based too. Minimal minority characters, all of whom are secondary to the plot. Don't be turned off by the shitty poster they made for the movie, I don't get why it looks so terrible when the visual style of the movie is so strong and cohesive.

Also I liked that the film has this kind of charming quality to it in that it's a French language production, but the characters and setting are implied to exist in an Anglophone sci-fi future. I notice this a lot with French comics too. The ostensibly Anglophone characters have just slightly unusual or improbable English-sounding names or the setting's techno-babble incorporates Anglicisms and English jargon that feel just slightly off. It's not a bad thing, I like it.
 
Around 2007 or 2008 I started this tradition where I would pick a nice series to watch and watch a few episodes before bed at night. The years kept going and I kept watching kino.
At times life went faster and I would watch less or no episodes at all. But as the years went by I kept steadily watching something. Be it with a girlfriend, with a roommate or alone, I love watching 1 or 2 episodes of some nice show every evening. Or if I felt like it, maybe spend the whole day binging. Maybe call in sick for work or for university or even for highschool. Fuck it, I wanna see what Walter White or Colonel O'Neil do next.

And I think I might have done it... I might have seen it all. All the good kino there is, I might have actually watched it all. Don't know what else to watch. I've been through this thread, got a few nice picks.
Is it possible? Have I, slowly but steadily for the past 17 years, seen all the good shows? I just can't find anything I'd like to watch. Lots of 7.9imdb star things that seem alright, watch one episode and drop instantly.

Please give me a few shows you've watched that aren't that famous but you really liked. I'm into everything. From Desperate Housewives through The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Dark Matter(the old one, not this slop they made recently), Bates Motel, The Office, to Better Call Saul, Narcos, The Mentalist, Seinfeld, Frasier etc. As long as there is some sort of consistent story, engaging and interesting characters I will probably like it.

Most of the famous shows I've probably watched but I can't be certain. Even some not that well known, cancelled but exceptional shows like Forever, Counterpart etc.
I can't have possibly watched all the good shows, right? I'm not even looking for something that awesome anymore...just something comfy, idk.
 
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postfeetpls said:
I can't have possibly watched all the good shows, right? I'm not even looking for something that awesome anymore...just something comfy, idk.
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Farscape, Babylon 5, Haven, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Wildcards(New show), Resident Alien(ongoing, might get another season), 12 Monkeys(maybe not that comfy?)
You can always go back to the far back catalog and things like: MacGyver, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf.
 
davids877 said:
You can always go back to the far back catalog
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Yeah maybe I could go further back in time. Haven't really watched many things from before 1990.

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Haven, Warehouse 13, Eureka,
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Are these any good? The rest I've seen but I remember I started Haven and Warehouse 13 a few years ago and I think I dropped them in a few episodes...or maybe my ex didn't like them..Shit, I've forgotten.

I'll give them another show and watch some of the older things after.
 
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Please give me a few shows you've watched that aren't that famous but you really liked. I'm into everything. From Desperate Housewives through The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Dark Matter(the old one, not this slop they made recently), Bates Motel, The Office, to Better Call Saul, Narcos, The Mentalist, Seinfeld, Frasier etc. As long as there is some sort of consistent story, engaging and interesting characters I will probably like it.
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9-1-1 Lone Star
Agatha Christie's Marple and Poriot
Andromeda
Babylon 5
Breaking Bad
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Call The Midwife
Columbo
FireFly
For All Mankind
House
House of Cards
How it's Made
Jane the Virgin
Lexx
Loot
Lucifer (skip the seasons produced by Netflix)
Maigret (1992 and 2016)
M-A-S-H
Mayday
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Murdoch Mysteries
Pantheon
Reacher
Reba
Resident ALien
Schitt's Creek
Sherlock
Silo
Snowpiercer
Stargate SG-1 (skip last seasons with the religious fanatics in the other galaxy) and Atlantis
Star Trek DS9
The Big Door Prize
The Expanse
The Good Place
The Good Wife
The Morning Show
The Orville
The Righteous Gemstones
The Sopranos
The Young Pope
Upload
Vice Principals
Warehouse 13
Westworld (fair warning it gets harder and harder to follow each season)
 
Betonhaus said:
9-1-1
9-1-1 Lone Star
Agatha Christie's Marple and Poriot
Andromeda
Babylon 5
Breaking Bad
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Call The Midwife
Columbo
FireFly
For All Mankind
House
House of Cards
How it's Made
Jane the Virgin
Lexx
Loot
Lucifer (skip the seasons produced by Netflix)
Maigret (1992 and 2016)
M-A-S-H
Mayday
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Murdoch Mysteries
Pantheon
Reacher
Reba
Resident ALien
Schitt's Creek
Sherlock
Silo
Snowpiercer
Stargate SG-1 (skip last seasons with the religious fanatics in the other galaxy) and Atlantis
Star Trek DS9
The Big Door Prize
The Expanse
The Good Place
The Good Wife
The Morning Show
The Orville
The Righteous Gemstones
The Sopranos
The Young Pope
Upload
Vice Principals
Warehouse 13
Westworld (fair warning it gets harder and harder to follow each season)
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I just added some of these in my watchlist, thank you. Can't believe I hadn't seen The Good Wife and The Righteous Gemstones yet, they seem excellent.
>Stargate SG-1 (skip last seasons with the religious fanatics in the other galaxy)
It did kind of go downhill there but I kept watching for She
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postfeetpls said:
Around 2007 or 2008 I started this tradition where I would pick a nice series to watch and watch a few episodes before bed at night. The years kept going and I kept watching kino.
At times life went faster and I would watch less or no episodes at all. But as the years went by I kept steadily watching something. Be it with a girlfriend, with a roommate or alone, I love watching 1 or 2 episodes of some nice show every evening. Or if I felt like it, maybe spend the whole day binging. Maybe call in sick for work or for university or even for highschool. Fuck it, I wanna see what Walter White or Colonel O'Neil do next.

And I think I might have done it... I might have seen it all. All the good kino there is, I might have actually watched it all. Don't know what else to watch. I've been through this thread, got a few nice picks.
Is it possible? Have I, slowly but steadily for the past 17 years, seen all the good shows? I just can't find anything I'd like to watch. Lots of 7.9imdb star things that seem alright, watch one episode and drop instantly.

Please give me a few shows you've watched that aren't that famous but you really liked. I'm into everything. From Desperate Housewives through The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Dark Matter(the old one, not this slop they made recently), Bates Motel, The Office, to Better Call Saul, Narcos, The Mentalist, Seinfeld, Frasier etc. As long as there is some sort of consistent story, engaging and interesting characters I will probably like it.

Most of the famous shows I've probably watched but I can't be certain. Even some not that well known, cancelled but exceptional shows like Forever, Counterpart etc.
I can't have possibly watched all the good shows, right? I'm not even looking for something that awesome anymore...just something comfy, idk.
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Watch Gomorra - La Serie. With subs. I already shilled it ITT before but it's one of the best crime shows i've ever watcged, i rank it higher than The Wire. You probably have already watched The Leftovers, if not i recommend it, it's the most human show i have ever watched, in lack of a better term to describe it, almost more so than Six Feet Under. Big Little Lies s01 is a very good mini series, Sharp Objects wasn't half bad either. Props for mentioning Desperate Housewives, the show has some impeccable writing in its earlier seasons and is genuinely funny. Too many people think it is a silly show for women but its top-tier, at least until the Writer's Strike happened.

I am in the same boat as you, ever since the end of BCS and Gomorra no show manages to catch my interest anymore. The last one i really liked was Shogun, was surprised by how good it was. Watched the first episode of Sugar today and turned it off in the middle because it was offensively bad, absolutely squandered potential.

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Are these any good?
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I thought all three were absolutely terrible. The hidden gem (pardon the redditism) in @Betonhaus 's list is Lexx, depending on your age you could be very put off by costumes and effects but it's the best 90's sci-fi not-quite shlock. Space: Above and Beyond got mentioned ITT as well and is great 90's sci-fi but has only one season and a BRUTAL cliffhanger ending. Too ahead of its time IMO.

Edit: Luther and Utopia (not the recent Amazon remake) for the height of britbong kino shows. Especially Utopia.
 
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I'll second Shogun. I just finished the new series today and it was one of the best series I've seen. Well written, mostly very well acted, sensible plotting, ends on a good final note, and no wokeness. If there is a season 2 I might even watch it despite the first season covering the book in it's entirety.
 
postfeetpls said:
I just added some of these in my watchlist, thank you. Can't believe I hadn't seen The Good Wife and The Righteous Gemstones yet, they seem excellent.
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The Righteous Gemstones is epic. It somehow finds a good balance where if you're atheist you can laugh at the Megachurch crazyness and religion in general, and if you're religious you can laugh at the Megachurch crazyness and contemplate on the meaning of faith.
 
postfeetpls said:
Please give me a few shows you've watched that aren't that famous but you really liked. I'm into everything. From Desperate Housewives through The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Dark Matter(the old one, not this slop they made recently), Bates Motel, The Office, to Better Call Saul, Narcos, The Mentalist, Seinfeld, Frasier etc. As long as there is some sort of consistent story, engaging and interesting characters I will probably like it.
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Doesn't look like anyone has mentioned it yet, but Deadwood is one of the best shows ever made. Amazing characters, great dialogue, the set design is amazing. An all round brilliant show. There are 3 seasons, then 13 years later they made a movie to tie everything off. Plus, you get interactions like this:
 
The 2023 movie Ferrari was pretty good. Some parts of the movie feels like a unofficial prequel to Ford vs. Ferrari. The make up and performance of Adam Driver wears in this is quite impressive. And if you don't know your history the ending is quite shocking.
 
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Just rewatched Kung Fu Hustle (2004).

Great movie. Looney Tunes slapstick comedy stylings. Cast of lovable characters. Funny jokes (even tho apparently the funniest jokes are puns that only make sense in Cantonese). Fantastic music. Strides that perfect line of being a parody of wire-fu/wuxia films while also being able to be taken totally seriously.
 
Just watched for the first time in 10 or so years Maniac from 1980 with Joe Spinell(in one hell of a realistic chilling performances)still holds up very well. Gritty and raw. The effects by Tom Savini(who is a victim in the movie too)is outstanding. Really not many flaws to it
 
Intrigued by Radiance Films announcing that Suzuki Seijun's 1965 Yakuza film Tattooed Life will be released on Blu-Ray soon. Low-level Yakuza Tetsu is set up by his boss for a double-cross. After his younger brother Kenji, an aspiring artist with no interest in the criminal life, kills an assailant sent after Tetsu, they both go on the run and end up in rural Manchuria, where they attract the suspicion of two local gangs.

 
postfeetpls said:
Around 2007 or 2008 I started this tradition where I would pick a nice series to watch and watch a few episodes before bed at night. The years kept going and I kept watching kino.
At times life went faster and I would watch less or no episodes at all. But as the years went by I kept steadily watching something. Be it with a girlfriend, with a roommate or alone, I love watching 1 or 2 episodes of some nice show every evening. Or if I felt like it, maybe spend the whole day binging. Maybe call in sick for work or for university or even for highschool. Fuck it, I wanna see what Walter White or Colonel O'Neil do next.

And I think I might have done it... I might have seen it all. All the good kino there is, I might have actually watched it all. Don't know what else to watch. I've been through this thread, got a few nice picks.
Is it possible? Have I, slowly but steadily for the past 17 years, seen all the good shows? I just can't find anything I'd like to watch. Lots of 7.9imdb star things that seem alright, watch one episode and drop instantly.

Please give me a few shows you've watched that aren't that famous but you really liked. I'm into everything. From Desperate Housewives through The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Dark Matter(the old one, not this slop they made recently), Bates Motel, The Office, to Better Call Saul, Narcos, The Mentalist, Seinfeld, Frasier etc. As long as there is some sort of consistent story, engaging and interesting characters I will probably like it.

Most of the famous shows I've probably watched but I can't be certain. Even some not that well known, cancelled but exceptional shows like Forever, Counterpart etc.
I can't have possibly watched all the good shows, right? I'm not even looking for something that awesome anymore...just something comfy, idk.
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I do the same thing, I have a few "comfort" shows I return to and rewatch if I don't have anything new, my main one in this vein for the past couple years is Elementary. It's an adaption of Sherlock Holmes set in modern day New York, it's vastly superior to the BBC adaption imo. Johnny Lee Miller plays Sherlock, Lucy Liu plays Watson. Aidan Quinn is the stand-in for Lestrad. It's a fairly standard procedural with loose over-arching plots that span multiple episodes, although the writing and performances really elevate it above other procedurals I've seen. Miller in particular is really fun to watch. All the leads have great chemistry, and there's a lot of great guest stars too. I also enjoy the fact that they never entertain the notion of putting Watson and Sherlock into a romantic relationship.

It's seven seasons long and the quality's consistent for the entire run.
 
I finally got around to watching Scum from 1977 by Alan Clarke in its entirety, never watched the last half hour before for some reason.
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It stars a very young Ray Winstone (might be his debut film appearance) getting transferred to a new boarstal, which i think is some sort of mix between a boarding school and juvie, after attacking a CO at his old one and the film mostly follows him becoming the new "Daddy" of his wing. Very entertaining, well-written dialogue and some great acting. Very good ending, too. Left me mostly with the impression that yes, the english really are all cunts :story:
I've watched the canadian remake, "Dog Pound", long before i watched Scum and it's also an excellent film, with incredibly well-acted and realistic performances by the cast, most likely due to many of the smaller roles being actual juvie kids. I overall prefer it over "Scum" but "Scum" has a certain charme that "Dog Pound" lacks. Both are well worth a watch.
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Just rewatched Kung Fu Hustle (2004).

Great movie. Looney Tunes slapstick comedy stylings. Cast of lovable characters. Funny jokes (even tho apparently the funniest jokes are puns that only make sense in Cantonese). Fantastic music. Strides that perfect line of being a parody of wire-fu/wuxia films while also being able to be taken totally seriously.
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Hilarious film. I really enjoyed "Shaolin Kickers/Shaolin Soccer" by Chow and also starring him as the leading role. I watched that film in cantonese, no subs, i don't speak the language and still was crying tears from laughter.
Commander X said:
Intrigued by Radiance Films announcing that Suzuki Seijun's 1965 Yakuza film Tattooed Life will be released on Blu-Ray soon. Low-level Yakuza Tetsu is set up by his boss for a double-cross. After his younger brother Kenji, an aspiring artist with no interest in the criminal life, kills an assailant sent after Tetsu, they both go on the run and end up in rural Manchuria, where they attract the suspicion of two local gangs.

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Definitely going to watch this. I still got some 60's and 70's Yakuza films like "Branded to Kill" and "Battles without Honor and Humanity" on an old HDD but i never got around to watching them yet.
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Joe Spinell
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The undisputed king. I might give this a rewatch tonight, i haven't watched it in at least two decades, i remember him being excellent in it but that's it.
 
An interesting film to consider watching is "Johnny Got his Gun" (1971), which is based off the 1939 novel by the same name. The film tells the story of Joe, a Doughboy in World War I who is critically wounded by artillery on the Western Front. The artillery shell blew off Joe's arms, legs, eyes, singed his vocal cords, and blew out his ear drums leaving him a prison in his own body as he remains able to think and reason without being able to see, hear, speak, or reach out to those around him. His Doctors and Nurses meanwhile assume Joe is unconscious without feeling, not knowing that despite being unable to see or interact with the world around him (except for being able to feel vibrations of people's footsteps and when they touch him) Joe remains very much alert. Trapped in his own mind he watch Joe for several years as he slowly drift into insanity, his mind drifting between thoughts of the past and delirious fantasty as he desperately tries to come up with some way to reach out to those around him.

Highly recomend watching the movie

This is my favorite scene from the film:
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"What is Democracy?"

"Well I was never very clear on it myself, like every other kind of Government its got something to do with young men killing each other, I believe".

"Why don't old men kill each other?"

"Well the old men are needed to keep the home fire's burining".

"Couldn't the young men do that just as well?"

"Young men don't have homes, that's why they must go out and kill each other".
 
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