Movie & TV Show Recommendations

mlanguishi said:
Once Upon was pretty lousy. Hateful 8 is a pretty good little mystery thriller too. Basteds is sort of in the middle of his lineup.

The only one without any feet at all is Reservoir Dogs and that's only cause it's an all-male cast lol. Maybe Hateful 8 didn't either, hard to remember. Jackie Brown not much if any
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Jackie Brown has some from Bridget Fonda, but it's brief.

I find it strange how people dislike OUATIH so much though, it's one of my favourites of his. Then again I wasn't much of a fan of the Basterds/Django/H8 run, either.

Still Anonymous For This said:
An entirely forgettable plot with an entirely forgettable lead in James Purefoy who is outshone by almost every other fucking actor in the film
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That was such a weird period when they kept trying to push Purefoy as an action star. He's a fine supporting actor but not leading man material. Solomon Kane is another one he's a charisma suck in that's also a stinker with an awful plot but a killer supporting cast.

Watched "She Rides Shotgun" recently. It's a pretty standard premise (criminal father and estranged young daughter go on the lam and bond in the process, mending their broken relationship) but it's elevated by the two main performances from Taron Egerton and the actress who plays the daughter. Very stylish and a good soundtrack too.
 
Eukodal_Addict said:
OMG has anyone ever seen or heard of Hotel Torquay? I binged every episode yesterday. I love me some posh British white trash reality tv shows! How to get a Council House, Life on the Dole, Can't Pay We'll Take it Away, The Bailiffs Are Coming, etc. Oh and the Great British Benefits Handout and all that delicious Supersise vs SupperSkinny bullshit and the rest...
Mark Jenkins is a national treasure. You British fags better be willing to throw yourself on top of a hand grenade for that man!


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Crazy that was just on Starz like 3 days ago. Loved that movie growing up...
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How much of that are series titles and how much are descriptions?
 
rocketfueledwheelchair said:
I’ve never really watched any Tarantino movies. With his recent controversy and getting half off on a streaming service I decided to give Inglorious Basterds a chance, and it was captivating. It was so suspenseful, especially the performance by Christoph Waltz who played the nazi detective guy, bone chillingly good and 100% deserved the Oscar.

Then I went to see what else was available by Tarantino and saw Once Upon A Time In Hollywood… And it fucking sucked. The worst thing a director can do is make me feel like I’m wasting my time and there were so many pointless scenes throughout the movie that it actually pissed me off by the end of it. So many fucking scenes with close ups of women’s bare feet, I get it, you’re a pervert 🙄

Now I’m not too sure if I should watch the older ones like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, I need some time to forget the feet scenes first *sigh*
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true romance is pretty good too which is a movie he wrote but didnt direct it
 
Fishnumm said:
true romance is pretty good too which is a movie he wrote but didnt direct it
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Death Proof he did, which is damn good, lots of feet though for those squeamish. The first half tries too hard to replicate the 'pop and witty' opening of Res Dogs, but with chicks. Get it?

The 2nd half with all the action/comedy is really good though. I do think he counts that one has one of his '10' and that'll be it. At this point maybe 1 more is the best idea for him to do. Lots of talk on and off he was going to do a Star Trek movie, but that series is dead and I don't think he'd do any good to reboot it now. Apparently he wanted to remake the TOS episode where they went back to deal with 30s gangsters so it's probably for the best it never happened.

One more hyper violent original, and that'll be great. As usual with older directors he's softened over time and I'm not too optimistic on a last one, but if anyone can end with a banger I guess it's him.
 
mlanguishi said:
Death Proof he did, which is damn good, lots of feet though for those squeamish. The first half tries too hard to replicate the 'pop and witty' opening of Res Dogs, but with chicks. Get it?
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There's way too much boring girl talk in Death Proof. That's the only thing I remember from it other than the graphic car crash that shuts up some of them forever.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
There's way too much boring girl talk in Death Proof. That's the only thing I remember from it other than the graphic car crash that shuts up some of them forever.
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Me and my ollll fiancee lol'd at how Kurt screamed like a baby getting shot in the arm during the chase, and the general action direction of the chase is great. But yeah, it's not very entertaining mostly. The set pieces and car stuff is good for about 20 minutes.

Planet Terror is kind of even worse, starts strong. The only 'good' part I remember is how they're all prepping up and getting to kill all the Zombies and it goes 'cut 2nd reel' and back to them all screaming back in defeat. That was a great troll move at the time.

The best thing of the Grindhouse movie thing was Hobo With a Shotgun's trailer. And Thanksgiving. Roth made Thanksgiving into a movie and I never saw it, but heard it's 'ok'

These are the best of that whole double feature:


 
Pale Empress said:
I find it strange how people dislike OUATIH so much though, it's one of my favourites of his. Then again I wasn't much of a fan of the Basterds/Django/H8 run, either.
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I actually rather like H8. It's not a classic perfect movie like Reservoir Dogs, with the three unities of time, place and action, and it's almost too over the top to take seriously, but still has brilliant performances from people playing the most depraved assholes imaginable.

The part where Samuel L. Jackson's character taunts Bruce Dern's into trying to kill him so he can kill him in "self-defense," just out of pure sadism and Mutt's Lawed out the ass, was one of Tarantino's most hilarious scenes.

It's tough to do a movie where not one character has a single redeeming feature and still have it be entertaining, and he pulled it off.
 
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Popular X/Twiiter users HowlingMutant and David Santa Clara have gone on record calling River’s Edge and The Lost Boys their favorite movies ever. I think I might watch these come 2026.
 
mlanguishi said:
His first ones, including Jackie Brown to Kill Bill are the top. After Kill Bill they started dropping off quite a bit, so you're safe with those. I mean Pulp Fiction is probably the best of the 90s, and that's a competitive decade. Once Upon was pretty lousy. Hateful 8 is a pretty good little mystery thriller too. Basteds is sort of in the middle of his lineup.

The only one without any feet at all is Reservoir Dogs and that's only cause it's an all-male cast lol. Maybe Hateful 8 didn't either, hard to remember. Jackie Brown not much if any. I can barely remember anything about Django except Leo has a few amazing scenes.
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While i thought Kill Bill was absolute dog shit i agree that his older films are good and definitely hold up. Pulp Fiction is his most seminal film, a generation of young and not-so-young directors didn't try to ape his style after that film for no reason. Jackie Brown is top-tier, too. I didn't care for Inglorious Basterds, thought Django was entertaining despite me kind of not being able to remember what happened in the movie right now (like, at all) and hating Jamie Foxx. His last really good and highly entertaining film for me was Hateful 8. His overall best work next to Pulp Fiction is his script for True Romance, which was directed by Tony Scott, fucking masterpiece. I didn't dislike Once upon... as much as many other people did, it certainly wasn't a great film and it had some of the worst pacing of any modern film (it really feels like it is deliberately wasting the viewer's time) but i liked Pitt and the ending enough to make it not too much of a let down for me.
I'd hold Reservoir Dogs in much higher regard (Buscemi outshines everyone in this and still makes it worth a watch) if i wouldn't have found out how the entire premise of the film is shamelessly stolen from City on Fire, same reason i think Kill Bill is trash (shameless Lady Snowblood rip-off).

Edit: Almost forgot about Death Proof, what absolute fucking gutter trash, terrible movie. Even Kurt Russel couldn't save that one.
Legalize Asbestos said:
Watching past season 2 is like insisting on staying in the shower when the hot water is running out
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Spot on, i dropped it shortly into the third season but s01 and s02 are high-tier TV.
Quijibo69 said:
Just saw the new Anaconda movie. Just as boomer, normie and unfunny as you think it is. You're better off watching the Rifftrax version. Same jokes too. Stay away.
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They shot a remake of Anaconda?! For what purpose?!
 
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Human Waiter said:
Finished watching every Nic Cage movie. Ranked them on how good of a movie I thought it was.
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That was my option of Grindhouse too.
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Leaving Las Vegas in B-tier, next to below F-tier Mom&Dad is the only thing i outright disagree with. A-tier pretty much what i would put there, the Spiderman shit is one of the few Cage films i did not and most likely never will watch, did not even know he's in there. Mandy i watched this year, outstanding movie, not sure if i wouldn't put it in S. Pig deservedly in S, his acting is superb in it. National Treasure is solid B in my opinion. Didn't see Port of Call New Orleans at a glance (on phone right now), i'd put that in A for the sheer Cage insanity on display. Disliked it on my first watch, turned into one of my favourite Cage films over a couple of rewatches.

Certainly an interesting list.

Edit: I am also one of the five people on earth who did not like Adaption.
 
The bottom tier I made after watching Drive Angry and having no idea what to do with it. I remembered this meme.
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Fishnumm said:
suprised how high left behind is though i haven't seen it only heard it was shitty
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It has a lot of problems (spends way to much time on the ground with the daughter, and the dialogue at the start is bad), but all the stuff that happens on the plane is nice enough to keep it out of F-tier.
The Feline Solution 2 said:
Leaving Las Vegas in B-tier, next to below F-tier Mom&Dad
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I thought Leaving Las Vegas was too depressing, kind of took me out it. Mom&Dad was funny, always nice to see Nic Cage playing the villain, and surprisingly well filmed. It probably helped that I watched them by release date, and from 2010-2017 he was in 24 movies and only Joe was good, so I was a bit desperate to enjoy something.
The Feline Solution 2 said:
the Spiderman shit is one of the few Cage films i did not and most likely never will watch, did not even know he's in there. Mandy i watched this year, outstanding movie, not sure if i wouldn't put it in S
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He's Noir Spiderman, they're actually making a live action show starring Nic Cage playing that character, releasing this year. I still like the first spiderverse movie, even though I hated the second one, and Miles is by far the worst part of the first one. I felt S-tier should be for movies that are close to perfect, and Mandy left me with a couple quibbles.
I thought Nic should have killed the girl in the cult as well, he took the psycho drugs. Also the lighting got annoying by the end.

Port of Call: New Orleans ended up mid B-tier, Nic does have an amazing performance in it.
Crazy that he's still a dirty cop at the end, learns no lesson, loved it.


 
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