Movie & TV Show Recommendations

I got round to watching "The Conversation" (1974, Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford). Brilliant movie with a punch of a twist at the end. The whole thing is oddly haunting, helped in no small part by the soundtrack.
 
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Saw Sirat in theaters today. It's one of the movies that got nominated for an Oscar for Best International Movie. It's from Spain. I enjoyed it thanks to the tension, cinematography, and use of music. If you like Sorcerer and The Wages of Fear you'll like this one too.
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Great movie. It's best experienced in the biggest and loudest sound system possible.
 
Is "For All Mankind" any good? I keep on getting recommended clips from it, but I don't know if it's going to be a Leftist shitfest. I can tolerate a LITTLE bit of bullshit here and there, but if it's overtly shit, I'm not even sure if I want to bother.
 
Been watching Shoresy, which is a spinoff of the mickey mouse-sounding hockey player from Letterkenny.
My recollection of Letterkenny was that it started off funny but very quickly devolved into loads of recurring and repeated jokes out of which only 5% were really funny.
Shoresy is more or less the same, except personally I find a lot more of the recurring jokes enjoyable to listen to. I think this mainly boils down to Shoresy's chirping dialogue being hilarious most of the time, and Shoresy is just so childish about it you can't help but really enjoy it. There are a lot less annoying side characters like the swinger couple from Letterkenny or the skids.
My favorite chirping exchange:
>Any regrets?
>My only regret is not serving my country
>Oh yeah?
>Yeah and I think about that every time I go to war on your mom's ass
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Also for a canadian production by one of the same creators as that one new gay hockey show I'm amazed at how much the show appeals to the male gaze, I vaguely remember letterkenny having the same ratio of just random scenes of hot women looking hot or walking in slow motion or lounging around in lingerie. I don't know how they've convinced so many hot chicks to do this and it kind of goes overboard a bit but I'm very glad for it not being super gay(still is, there's an episode about the hockey players being required to go to some gay club for the fans).


Also I infinitely enjoy the slow motion drum and bass music video montage scenes when applied to hockey(which the show has gotten me pretty interested in) over when they were applied to poorly shot fist fights like they were in letterkenny.
 
marvlouslie said:
Is "For All Mankind" any good? I keep on getting recommended clips from it, but I don't know if it's going to be a Leftist shitfest. I can tolerate a LITTLE bit of bullshit here and there, but if it's overtly shit, I'm not even sure if I want to bother.
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A tragic case that started off with a clever idea at the pilot but completely lost its way and got co-opted by all sorts of bullshit when the pilot was successful. Honestly it deserved to be a movie covering the first three episodes or so if they cut out the homos.
 
Judge Holden said:
Also, Zombie vs Shark. that is all
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One of the best scenes in a b-film EVER. The zombie vs shark fight scene while the awesome theme plays is spectacular! Also, I loled when the zombie tried to grab the booba before the shark interrupted his zombie lust, because don’t we all scuba dive topless?

Also, I want to recommend Demon Seed (1977) with all the AI hysteria going on. It’s a delight and on my list of all-time favorites.
 
Ended up watching the Deathstalker remake for shits and giggles. At the very least, I could laugh at it. Honestly, it was not that bad. Yeah. I know. I was actually quite shocked. The original movie had some camp and was kinda awful in a funny way given that it was Roger Corman, but the remake actually DOES try and play a lot of the sword and sorcery shit straight. For once, I will give Patton Oswald credit. He wasn't nearly as annoying as I thought he would be. Dude can actually act and voice act if he tries hard enough.
 
The Soldier (1982) has such a ridiculous plot I couldn't help but laugh. Get this: rogue KGB agents attack a convoy (just two cars and a truck with a big container) transporting enriched uranium in the US. They use it to make a dirty bomb which they plant in a secret spot somewhere in Saudi oil fields. They then demand that Israel withdraw from Gaza or they detonate the bomb and make 50% of the world's oil supply unusable (???). Israel refuses, so POTUS sends a team of secret agents to find the bomb and disarm it. He's ready to bomb Israel (!!!) to force it to meet the Russian terrorists' demands. It's lots of dumb fun. Klaus Kinsky appears in a single scene and I can't remember if he even has any lines.

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Jotch said:
A tragic case that started off with a clever idea at the pilot but completely lost its way and got co-opted by all sorts of bullshit when the pilot was successful. Honestly it deserved to be a movie covering the first three episodes or so if they cut out the homos.
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So, I guess I should only bother with the first 3 episodes at most then?
 
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So, I guess I should only bother with the first 3 episodes at most then?
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It depends on your preferences and tolerances, but I wasn't able to find a clean place to cut it. Another problem with TV series, they have no proper endings.
 
Jotch said:
It depends on your preferences and tolerances, but I wasn't able to find a clean place to cut it. Another problem with TV series, they have no proper endings.
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This is number one problem of almost any show longer than two or three seasons. Most writers rarely have it in them to make a single season. Looking back, I'm kinda surprised I was bored enough to watch trainwrecks like season 8 of Dexter. At least I learned to bail out early and skipped the last two seasons of Game Of Thrones and everything past season 4 of The Walking Dead.
 
One of the local theaters in my area has been playing Christopher Nolan’s pictures, and I went to see Inception. I didn’t watch it in the theater when it came out and I’ve been kicking myself ever since. The complete theater experience was excellent and I would highly recommend it.

Anyways, it’s been making me mad that Inception-quality blockbusters have been systematically replaced with a whirlwind of Marxist screenplays and CGI slop. Never forgive them for what they took from us.
 
Watched a delightful little British show called Small Prophets. 6 episodes 25ish minutes long.

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I saw an ad for it on Instagram that was entirely focused on the unlikely friendship of a young girl (mystery meat, unfortunately) and an old white man with a beard and long hair, and their interactions to which he always responds in a funny and eccentric way. That and a couple mentions about Homunculi.

So what the show was about was, yeah, the relationship that develops between these two characters, but also about an old man with a broken heart (because the love of his life suddenly disappeared one Christmas day, years ago) who gets from his dementia-addled father (adorable guy by the way) a book of alchemy with instructions to summon homunculi who will tell him the truth he desperately wants to know.

In the mix is dementia dad (best man in show, really, bringer of chaos that he is) in his nursing home, the odd couple's job (a building materials store) and coworkers (a micromanaging boss, and a literal retard who keeps making fun of the old guy), a couple of nosy but good natured neighbors (a jock who gets increasingly exasperated at the old man for his unkempt house, and his wife who is just so utterly bored of her life), a teen who rides his bike all day won't speak, and a black neighbor lady who seems to be dumb as bricks, the old man's sort of brother in law who wants his sister's house because he's broke, and some mysterious people trying to get close to the old guy and the brother in law for some hidden agenda.

It's a bit silly and whimsical, but most of the characters are very endearing, particularly the main duo, and the dementia dad. The magical aspects about it are really in the background for most of the story, just a thing to get the characters moving, but when they pay off it's really emotional. In fact, there's several nice emotional tearjerker scenes.

It teases a second season, with a reveal that builds slowly through the episodes, it doesn't spell it out but it's very clear what they're leading to.

The performances are good for what it is, you won't get Shakespeare from it, but the characters are quirky, each in their own way, and each actor plays it really well.
The only actors of note that I know of are Mackenzie Crook (the skinny pirate with the wooden eye from Pirates of the Caribbean) who plays the micromanaging boss, and MICHAEL PALIN (of Monthy Python) who plays Dementia Dad.
The main characters are played by Pearce Quigley and Lauren Patel, but I don't know them from anything.

The few special effects that it has are not top notch, they're 3D models trying to look like stop motion, but it fits the feel of the show. CORRECTION: They're actual stop motion.

Anyway, it's nice, check it out if you can. Won't take you long.
 
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Enjoyed Good luck, have fun, don't die. Has a bit of a Black Mirror kind of message about the perils of tech futures but I thought it was good indy movie fun. I typically like anything Sam Rockwell does.

The Pitt season two is starting to give me the shits with its woke social messaging bullshit. Latest episode has the super evil ICE agents who scare all the totally law abiding and legit staff and patients away with their evil Gestapo powers. But even beyond that, it is getting old with every junkie/ homeless dude/ illegal immigrant being just a misunderstood soul with a heart of gold. What about the smack heads stealing shit, or assaulting nurses? The frequent flyers who just don't give a shit about their long term health or are drug seeking? What about the mentally ill schizos exposing themselves in the waiting room? I suspect that is much more the reality of the ER.

Noah Wyle should know better. One of the most gripping storylines in ER was him getting stabbed by a schizo patient.
 
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