Movie & TV Show Recommendations

[Flaming Carrot]

A TV series called "The Kingdom," from Lars von Trier. It is pretty much General Hospital meets Eraserhead.

Utter mindfuck. Has a bunch of Down's Syndrome patients as a Greek chorus.

There's really no way of explaining it. It's fucked.

That show was fantastic. I looked it up and apparently he finally did a third season, so I have that to look forward to.

 

[Michael Wade]

Season 2 of Celebrity Apprentice was kinda painful.



There were still plenty of good moments, but the previous seasons had tard rage you could laugh at it in bountiful supply without feeling bad. This has... awkward, uncomfortable and kinda sad tards. Everyone has HUGE ego's that appear pathetic to my ignorance and they have bad habits that are not funny after a while.

For example, Dennis Rodman getting frequently shitfaced. Sounds funny on paper, but they had to hold a boardroom intervention to convince him he has a problem and its ruining his life. Or Clint Black refusing to take input and listen to people. It's funny till you realize just how much of a selfish shit he is. Most of these celebrity's are wretched people, and the few good ones jump ship or get fired early. It also so far has some of the worst firing decisions Trump has made. The black woman for once didn't flake out and he fired them for taking the bullet! Also the final match up was the nastiest ive ever seen, there was some real hate there.

It's still worth a watch if your a fan, (especially for the episode were they have to promote a cleaning solution and both teams come up with the idea of using midgets) But its not as tastefully entertaining as the rest.

 

[Eadred]

Sorcerer (1977)

It's a relatively simple story about a couple of men fucking up, fleeing their respective countries and meeting up in the jungle to complete a very dangerous task.
One of the most tense movies I've ever seen, cast is great, cinematography is fantastic, score is beautiful.
Watch it if you have the chance (Criterion released the 4k version and it's gorgeous).

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Sorcerer (1977)

It's a relatively simple story about a couple of men fucking up, fleeing their respective countries and meeting up in the jungle to complete a very dangerous task.
One of the most tense movies I've ever seen, cast is great, cinematography is fantastic, score is beautiful.
Watch it if you have the chance (Criterion released the 4k version and it's gorgeous).

Wages of Fear, an older French film from 1953, based on the same book is also really good, maybe even a bit better. The Criterion Collection recently did a new 4K HDR remaster of it in the past year.

 

[millais]

Wages of Fear is very good, and all the more impressive for being made in austerity-stricken, post-war France on a shoe-string budget. There is one extremely tense setpiece scene in the middle of the film involving a heavy truck and a rickety wooden platform that looks genuinely dangerous.

 

[Commander X]

The most recent film directed by fight choreographer/action director Kensuke Sonomura was released a few days ago, it can be found on Apple, Youtube, etc. etc. Ghost Killer, written by Yugo Sakamoto, director of the Baby Assassins series of films where Sonomura was the choreographer. He's been pushing the limits and going in bold new directions with action in film, TV, animation and video games for a while now, and I really think his work should be better known.

In the film, normal college student Fumika (Akari Takaishi, one of the co-stars of the Baby Assassins franchise) discovers a bullet casing on the street, and is immediately connected with the ghost of Kubo, a hitman recently slain by the bullet the casing belonged to, played by Masanori Mimoto, a martial arts star who was the lead in Sonomura's directorial debut Hydra and had a role in his second helmed film Bad City. She’s the only one who can see him, and he won't leave her alone. Kubo convinces her that in order for him to be 'exorcised' he needs her to help go after the people who had him killed - she has zero experience with violence but he can temporarily possess her, though it's not apparently 100-percent and he still has to talk her through some parts, leading to amusing exchanges where Takaishi's character is having conversations with "herself", switching between her voice and an imitation of Kubo's gruff, clipped tone.

 

[Headdot Reddot]

Magic
1978
Starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by Richard Attenborough of all people.



I'd read something on wiki about this movie being pulled from theaters because it was so scary so I went into it thinking it was a puppet comes to life like Chucky kind of thing. Not at all. Its basically Anthony Hopkins with multiple personality disorder and while its a slow film its a fun watch.

Whats really interesting is Hopkins learned ventriloquism to do the part so theres no dubbing when he does the puppets voice. Its a nice touch and helps make their arguments with each other more believable. Not a well known movie, when I first learned about it 10 or so years ago no streaming service had it so I was forced to hunt it down on torrenting sites, which is odd for an Anthony Hopkins flick.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Wages of Fear, an older French film from 1953, based on the same book is also really good, maybe even a bit better. The Criterion Collection recently did a new 4K HDR remaster of it in the past year.

That the one where the plot was a couple of crims had to transport a load of nitroglycerin somewhere? The title rings a bell.

Edit: I googled it, it's the film i was thinking about. For the longest time i thought this was a german film, somehow.

 

[GungusDingaling]

I watched Eddington. It was pretty crazy, there was some pozzed loads but overall I liked it and I thought it had some fair points.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Sorcerer (1977)

It's a relatively simple story about a couple of men fucking up, fleeing their respective countries and meeting up in the jungle to complete a very dangerous task.
One of the most tense movies I've ever seen, cast is great, cinematography is fantastic, score is beautiful.
Watch it if you have the chance (Criterion released the 4k version and it's gorgeous).

I still don't get the title. It's supposed to be the truck's name, but what does that have to do with anything? Also, who the hell gives names to trucks?

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Dressed to Kill. I watched it last night for the first time and was about to abort and find something else, but my interest was piqued when it became clear that the killer is a tranny.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

MR-9: Do or Die

It might be a really good contender for the worst action movie of all time.
And that is really saying something given how the endless stream of cookie cutter stale uncreative low budget action movies within the past 10 years have ruin the genre.
Everything about it is bad. The plot is dumb and bad, the storytelling with how everything flows is overall bad, the pacing is really bad. You could cut 1/3rd of the run time and not only loose nothing but the film would still feel too long. The acting is bad, the dialogue is so bad it's good in some scenes the audio is bad in some scenes, The score is we have James Bond and the Mission Impossible theme at home, the cinematography is really bad and completely unimaginative, and the action scenes are safe boring low budget mess.

Yet it is also completely unintentionally hilarious at parts.
The best part is how the film pretends Bangladesh is an important player on the world stage, the nonsensical world travelling, the plot and villain that makes no sense, the laughably bad dialogue and acting scenes, and the number of times the audio wasn't mixed at all. It is a great film for beer and fun friends to riff on it.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Dressed to Kill. I watched it last night for the first time and was about to abort and find something else, but my interest was piqued when it became clear that the killer is a tranny.

It's a pretty good giallo, even though it's nowhere near De Palma at his peak. I prefer Body Double.

I watched 84m²: Wall to Wall yesterday, doesn't get a complete recommendation from me (it's a Netflix-funded korean film and these are almost all kinda bad to some degree) but i was entertained by it nonetheless. It's about a young salaryman who puts his lifesavings in an apartment, once he lives there the noise from the neighbours, who are all kinds of creeps, is slowly but surely driving him insane.
The film goes completely off the rails in the second act, acting is hammy (again, Netflix-funded korean film) and the pacing is kinda bad but it's still quite entertaining. Stars that korean dude who is in every korean movie. No, not that one, the other one.

 

[FMW13]

I watched that F1 movie the other night with my roommate who's a big F1 fan. We both enjoyed it but I'm curious if anyone who's a F1 fan thinks the movie was accurate. It was pozzed at some points but I didn't mind it at all.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

I watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) by Andrew Dominik yesterday.

What else is there to say but it's an absolute masterpiece? From the dreary (in a good way), almost dream-like cinematography to the stellar performance by Pitt (Rockwell and Affleck also on their A-Game, especially Affleck) to the soundtrack to the tactfully placed narration taken from the book it is based on, everything in this movie is pretty much as good as it gets. Never even heard of the director before but i definitely have to watch his other films if he has any. I wouldn't even say this is a straight-up Western (as the film was sold to me), it goes more toward drama IMO. Can't stress enough how good Pitt is as Jesse James, he has an insane screen presence, quiet menace and boiling rage simmering under the surface, interspersed with sardonic melancholy, it's just insane how great his acting is in this. Fucking perfect movie, really.

Also watched The Order (2024) by Justin Kurzel.

Not a hard-r recommendation but it is a solid crime movie, centering on the titular Order, a white supremacist group who, amongst other things, were responsible for the murder of jewish talk radio host Alan Berg in the 80s and pretty much used "The Turner Diaries" as their playbook (i learned that "Day of the Rope" is lifted straight from that book). Jude Law plays a veteran cop who wants to settle down in rural Idaho after having worked in the organized crime dept. in New York but instead he goes on to hunt this group. I think Law is good in pretty much anything he stars in, this film is no different. I had problems taking the actor who played the villain seriously because of his stupid fucking haircut It's an entertaining film but really nothing to write home about, there are better crime films, there are worse, this one is solidly in the middle for me.

Edit: Just saw The Order has 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, that site is such a fucking joke and i wish people would stop seeing it as the gold standard for film critique. The Assassination Of Jesse James has 77% for comparison. Plebs.

 

[Flatline]

almost dream-like cinematography to the stellar performance

Roger Deakins is one of the best cinematographers currently working. If you liked the camera work for Assassination, you'll also like what he did for 1917, Blade Runner 2049, and Sicario.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Roger Deakins is one of the best cinematographers currently working. If you liked the camera work for Assassination, you'll also like what he did for 1917, Blade Runner 2049, and Sicario.

Ah, nice, i already watched Blade Runner and Sicario. I'd go as far as to say the cinematography is the only thing BR2049 had going for it, found the movie quite disappointing overall. It's been quite a while since i watched Sicario and while i don't remember much from it (should really give it a rewatch) i do remember the cinematography being really nice.

 

[Pale Empress]

Recently watched Stardust (2007) which was just so incredibly charming. I like this whimsical version of Matthew Vaughn's direction, and the cast is clearly having a lot of fun (especially De Niro and Pfeiffer).

It's based on a Gaiman novel, but feels more like a Pratchett work. I don't know the background for its writing or production but I assume Gaiman wrote it as a "challenge" just to see whether he could.

Just saw The Order has 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, that site is such a fucking joke and i wish people would stop seeing it as the gold standard for film critique. The Assassination Of Jesse James has 77% for comparison. Plebs.

Recency bias as well as conforming to pop culture trends. You see the same problem with platforms like Letterboxd where reddit and tumblr users spam 5 star ratings at "just OK" movies because they're being hyped to shit via marketing and word of mouth, or it's "expected" for them to be praised. Black Panther was once the highest rated film of all time on RT, ostensibly not for its inherent quality as a film, but because it was "important," which says all one needs to know.

 

[AnOminous]

Roger Deakins is one of the best cinematographers currently working. If you liked the camera work for Assassination, you'll also like what he did for 1917, Blade Runner 2049, and Sicario.

Easily half my Goodman pfps are from Coen Bros. films where he was the cinematographer.

You see the same problem with platforms like Letterboxd where reddit and tumblr users spam 5 star ratings at "just OK" movies because they're being hyped to shit via marketing and word of mouth, or it's "expected" for them to be praised.

This backfires pretty often because it's usually some wokeshit they're pushing that everyone else hates, so chuds also review bomb them.

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

I still don't get the title. It's supposed to be the truck's name, but what does that have to do with anything? Also, who the hell gives names to trucks?

Yeah, I was disappointed to find that it wasn't some 80's era low budget sword and sorcery, like this glorious movie:

All they had to do is add an "S" to the title - instant Conan ripoff classic!