Movie & TV Show Recommendations

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We lost Shang Tsung recently, so it's time to revisit the best video game based movie in existence.

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Tagawa's dead? Nooooo! Rest in peace, typecast Yakuzaman!

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When do I stop watching Lost? We’re halfway through season 3.

Did anybody watch Saturday Night? I really liked it, pretty and fun movie, especially with what’s-his-name playing both Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman. Maybe it’s a little bit of a memberberry movie but I thought the pacing was great and kept you interested the entire time.
 
GungusDingaling said:
When do I stop watching Lost? We’re halfway through season 3.
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If you're still enjoying it at that point, just keep going. The final season suffers because they have to start answering the mysteries with actual answers, instead of more nonsense, and the writers just aren't good enough for that, but by the time you get there you might as well just finish.
 
Goodbye Horses said:
If you're still enjoying it at that point, just keep going. The final season suffers because they have to start answering the mysteries with actual answers, instead of more nonsense, and the writers just aren't good enough for that, but by the time you get there you might as well just finish.
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The time travel shit was too much for me. You could say the show L O S T me.

 
Watched the rest of the Bourne films after seeing the first one (apart from legacy, as I have no real interest in that one)
Bourne supremacy is worthy follow-up to the first one and Greengrass does a solid job. I do like how Bourne becomes way colder after Maria die and he never smile again (in the first film, he has ton of great banter with her). He all alone again.
I also like how they show Bourne doing his stuff (calling up different hotels to find out etc etc) good shit.
The action is good, but I prefer the first one more. It is less chaotic in the first and you can see more clearly.
I do miss the colour grading from rhe first one. It had a euro feeling.
Ultimatum is an excellent end to the trilogy. Great action, we get our answers etc etc.

Jason Bourne however, is pretty much just average. Nothing really terrible about it, but nothing that stands out with the plot.
The CIA in these films are ludicrous in how much they can find stuff. It goes from the plausible in the first one, to the”CIA can hack everything on the planet” in the fourth.
I do also wonder why the CIA don’t leave him the fuck alone.

The first three are a must watch and the fourth is only if you are hungry for more Bourne.
 
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Goodbye Horses said:
If you're still enjoying it at that point, just keep going. The final season suffers because they have to start answering the mysteries with actual answers, instead of more nonsense, and the writers just aren't good enough for that, but by the time you get there you might as well just finish.
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There are so many retarded decisions that are made in the final season that dramatically undermine characters and events across the entire show. It's very frustrating. On the whole though, Lost is very much a "journey, not the destination" type of series.
 
Saw Kill Bill the Whole Bloody Affair in 70mm. Was actually really good, even though you have to sit through all the credits to get to the fairly silly 'lost chapter' which isn't explained at all, more or less a Fortnite cutscene. Was weird for sure, I didn't even know for sure what it was until after. It's a full 4.5 hours including the intermission credits, and lost chapter, and I think it ends this Thursday but seeing anything on 70mm now is a treat. I always liked 1/2, and I think are the last 'truly good' Tarantino movies before he and Lawrence fell out.

Interesting to see all together finally in a theater.
 
Foltest said:
Watched the rest of the Bourne films after seeing the first one (apart from legacy, as I have no real interest in that one)
Bourne supremacy is worthy follow-up to the first one and Greengrass does a solid job. I do like how Bourne becomes way colder after Maria die and he never smile again (in the first film, he has ton of great banter with her). He all alone again.
I also like how they show Bourne doing his stuff (calling up different hotels to find out etc etc) good shit.
The action is good, but I prefer the first one more. It is less chaotic in the first and you can see more clearly.
I do miss the colour grading from rhe first one. It had a euro feeling.
Ultimatum is an excellent end to the trilogy. Great action, we get our answers etc etc.

Jason Bourne however, is pretty much just average. Nothing really terrible about it, but nothing that stands out with the plot.
The CIA in these films are ludicrous in how much they can find stuff. It goes from the plausible in the first one, to the”CIA can hack everything on the planet” in the fourth.
I do also wonder why the CIA don’t leave him the fuck alone.

The first three are a must watch and the fourth is only if you are hungry for more Bourne.
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Pretty wild how they nailed the formula in the first movie for not just the Bourne series but for the "hunted superspy" genre as a whole.


If I had a nickel for every time someone made a movie about the "well to hell" myth I'd have two nickels.
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Neither of them are very good but 9 Miles Down is worth a watch if you like low-budget psychological horror.
 
“Marty Supreme”, in an ironic way, looks like your cinemaphile’s dream of film of the year. Plus, somehow seeing Timothée Chalamet and Tyler, the Creator in a film together actually works. Though, it’s probably due to the aesthetic and nothing else.
 
I'm almost done watching season 2 of Alice In Borderland. It's a high budget show about a bunch of random people trying to survive in mysteriously depopulated Tokyo while they're forced to compete in games that require all kinds of skills. It's based on a manga of the same name and reminds me of Gantz (people vs monsters from Japanese folklore in desolate Tokyo) mixed with a bit of Saw (solving puzzles and physical challenges where your life is at stake).

Three friends enter a subway restroom and when they leave, the city looks like this.
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Then they're baited to participate in the first game where the goal is to leave the building by picking one of two doors in a bunch of empty rooms. They all look exactly the same, so they're supposed to quickly figure out the pattern. I won't say much more, let's just say it's very easy for them to die. After that they learn that they HAVE to take part in more games every couple of days or they get lasered through the head like this poor chap.
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The "reward" for beating each game is a card (one of the very few references to Alice's Adventures In Wonderland). Later in the first season someone has a theory what the cards are about.
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It's pretty enjoyable so far. I think one of the main reasons is that the director and the writers stay the same throughout all three seasons.
 
GungusDingaling said:
When do I stop watching Lost? We’re halfway through season 3.

Did anybody watch Saturday Night? I really liked it, pretty and fun movie, especially with what’s-his-name playing both Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman. Maybe it’s a little bit of a memberberry movie but I thought the pacing was great and kept you interested the entire time.
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As much as i liked the show back when it aired i don't think i could ever rewatch it again, and not only due to its catastrophic final season. Lost's main flaw was that it aired on network television and thus every season is twice as long as it needed to be, the pacing is overall abyssmal and i don't even know anymore how often they pulled the "This season all the mysteries will be revealed!" shit but it got real old, real fast. It still was undeniably some of the best television in broadcast history and i loved it. Up until the final season, which i only watched years after its original air date. I can't imagine any watcher not being outraged at that sorry excuse for a finale, or rather second half of the season. Lindeloff and Abrams verbatim stated at Comic Con around the time when s03 aired that the final reveal absolutely wouldn't be this one (after asked by a fan about a popular fan theory at the time), under no circumstances, just to finish the show with exactly that. Seriously a masterclass in hack fraud film making.

Though Lindeloff redeemed himself years later with the absolute milestone television show that was The Leftovers. If anyone would ask me these days if they should watch Lost i'd direct them straight to this show instead.
Hentai-Semitism said:
I'm almost done watching season 2 of Alice In Borderland. It's a high budget show about a bunch of random people trying to survive in mysteriously depopulated Tokyo while they're forced to compete in games that require all kinds of skills. It's based on a manga of the same name and reminds me of Gantz (people vs monsters from Japanese folklore in desolate Tokyo) mixed with a bit of Saw (solving puzzles and physical challenges where your life is at stake).

Three friends enter a subway restroom and when they leave, the city looks like this.
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Then they're baited to participate in the first game where the goal is to leave the building by picking one of two doors in a bunch of empty rooms. They all look exactly the same, so they're supposed to quickly figure out the pattern. I won't say much more, let's just say it's very easy for them to die. After that they learn that they HAVE to take part in more games every couple of days or they get lasered through the head like this poor chap.
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The "reward" for beating each game is a card (one of the very few references to Alice's Adventures In Wonderland). Later in the first season someone has a theory what the cards are about.
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It's pretty enjoyable so far. I think one of the main reasons is that the director and the writers stay the same throughout all three seasons.
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Really liked it, cool concept, charming actors, enough suspense to keep me hooked. Thought Netflix iced it, did they finally make a new season? Same as with Ajin and Dorohedoro i got tired of waiting for a new season to maybe arrive somewhere in the future and just read the manga to know where it goes and how it ends. Sadly, compared to Ajin and Doro the Arisu manga just gets shittier and shittier, starting around the time where the third TV season would start. It got so boring and unimaginativr plotwise, not to mention very repetitive with its story arcs (like so many other manga). It got so unengaging that even despite only having it read around two years ago i couldn't tell you how the story ends (or rather what happens at all in the last ~6 books) even if my life depended on it.

It's so rare to see it but the show is definitely the superior version of the story/material.
 
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