Movie & TV Show Recommendations

[Borealis]

The Ninth Gate (1999).

It truly is an underrated movie. Save for some of the music tracks, I find it to be an extremely well made and intriguing movie. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

You didn't catch the heavy-handed messaging in the first season?

It didn't seem as much I think because they were introducing all the characters. Or maybe I'm just getting older and more cranky.

 

[dontwantagoudatime24]

I saw Project Hail Mary in imax and holy shit i thought it was amazing. NGL i almost cried and i watched movies like Hamnet, Marley and Me, UP, Manchester by the sea and Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and while i felt sad i didn't cry, Maybe people forgetting about you,losing someone close or cannot figure out who you are really hits.

My only gripe with it it's too long like almost 3 hours. But i thought it was a masterpiece and i recommend seeing it.

 

[>-Ack!]

I agree. Solid 8/10.

also quite possibly the first movie i have seen integrate smartphones well into the plot

 

[Betonhaus]

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.

It is an Apple+ show, which means the politics are somewhat neutral but the cinematography is excellent - if you watch it in 4k on a good tv it's absolutely beautiful. There will be liberal themes like a lesbian who becomes the first female president but they aren't framed as a lecture that's masquerading as a plot. The world(s) building alone is interesting, it explores what life would've been like if we continued to focus on space advancement and it's interesting how they touch on the politics and technology. There are plenty of intense scenes where people have to risk their lives to save everyone else's. It does touch on a lot of storytelling themes, but it doesn't seem to fixate on lecturing - and it doesn't go out of it's way to judge all aspects of everyday life in the 60's and 70's using modern morals, though it does touch on some topics that were difficult.

Then again, I can enjoy a series with good worldbuilding even if it's iffy. I actually enjoyed Jingle Jangle (after dramatically lowering my expectations and accepting it was basically magic masquerading as steampunk science instead of science as understood by niggers) even though my liberal ex-friend hated it.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

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.

I was pleasantly surprised by it, a good solid movie and Rockwell was great

Speaking of solid movies, Cold Storage (2026)

Nothing special, but enjoyable and it doesn't overstay its welcome. Really could have got to the action a little quicker though. A movie in 2026 not being two and a half hours long is refreshing.

 

[Nick Obre]

Watched the Peaky Blinders movie.

Not sure how I feel about it. I wasn't wowed but also not dismayed by it.
It was more of the same, but a bit more grim than it already usually is, and a more definitive ending to the series.
They do things to write around the Arthur actor not being involved because of his drug and legal problems, and the twist they use is I would say uncomfortable. I feel they really needed Arthur for the story to work, but there was nothing to do about the Actor's situation, so they introduced a new character played by that guy that's in everything, Stephen Graham, who just does combat shit (which is to say, Arthur shit).

The plot is about, years after the end of the series, Duke, Tommy's gypsy son from the last few episodes of the show (but now played by the more marketable actor Barry Keoghan) getting courted by a Nazi collaborator (Tim Roth) into using the Peaky Blinders gang that he runs now in a scheme to cripple Britain's economy. The twin sister of Duke's mother (Rebecca Ferguson) tries to get Tommy to come out of his self-imposed seclusion and stop and/or save Duke.

Performances are about on the level of the show. I usually enjoy Tim Roth no matter what (I recall writing here about a movie called Tornado, a "samurai girl vs western gunmen" film, and he was the only real saving grace), but here his performance is pretty unassuming, particularly for what the character is. They do, surprisingly, humanize the NAZI COLLABORATOR a bit. He's a British WWI veteran disillusioned with the British Monarchy and Political class, whose plot is to introduce a massive amount of counterfeit money into the country through the Peaky Blinders, to collapse the economy and make Britain lose the war without much more loss of life.

Like I said, it gets grim, and definitive.

Spoiler: BIG SPOILER

Arthur killed himself. But not really, Tommy killed him out of rage, drunkenness, and frustration. Ada gets killed by Tim Roth. Duke is grappling with whether or not to betray Tommy and kill him to become the "King of all Gypsies". Tommy knows it and leaves the choice up to him. In the end Tommy gets mortally wounded by Tim Roth but manages to kill him, and asks Duke to put him down because "I'm a horse. You'd do it for a horse". So in the end all the main cast is dead. Most died in the show, the last few die in the movie. Only Duke and the supporting cast (Johnny Dogs, Charlie, Curly) really remain.

Like I said, didn't love it, didn't hate it. It's just a conclusion since the show was kind of open ended.
Apparently there's a sequel series coming, I hope they desist. Every interesting character is gone, and Duke is just not as compelling as Tommy.

One thing I wanted to mention is that the show had been ambiguous about the supernatural. They're gypsies, so they do shit about reading fortunes, handling curses, charming animals, communning with spirits, etc. But there was always some plausible deniability. They're hustling, they're just really observant and use the mumbo jumbo for cover and theatrics, they're having injury/drug hallucinations, etc.
Now it's actually real. There's some stuff that the Gypsy Twin woman does that could be just a performance (being possessed by the dead sister, having spoken to Arthur and knowing things she couldn't know), but Tommy outright feels when Ada dies, gets out of a car, and sees her ghost on the road.

 

[Lip Glossary]

everything past season 4 of The Walking Dead.

Walking Dead is the perfect example of sunk cost fallacy. That was a show, not counting season 1, that was the greatest zombie show of all time that was never GOOD.
It completely squandered potential by recycling the same plot every season of finding a place, meeting bad guys who wanted the place, the place getting destroyed when they fight the bad guys over it, and now they have to find a new place.
Another thing that they did that ruined the show was every season they would have a couple of great episodes, a couple of mediocre episodes, and 80% pure filler. They could have done that whole 11 or 12 seasons in 5 seasons if they weren't fucking about.
There was not enough material or compelling characters to make 12 seasons worth.
Proving once again that the only zombie medium that works is movies. The undead wear out their welcome when they hang around too long.

 

[Fishnumm]

Walking Dead is the perfect example of sunk cost fallacy. That was a show, not counting season 1, that was the greatest zombie show of all time that was never GOOD.
It completely squandered potential by recycling the same plot every season of finding a place, meeting bad guys who wanted the place, the place getting destroyed when they fight the bad guys over it, and now they have to find a new place.
Another thing that they did that ruined the show was every season they would have a couple of great episodes, a couple of mediocre episodes, and 80% pure filler. They could have done that whole 11 or 12 seasons in 5 seasons if they weren't fucking about.
There was not enough material or compelling characters to make 12 seasons worth.
Proving once again that the only zombie medium that works is movies. The undead wear out their welcome when they hang around too long.

fucking just had to fire the guy who directed SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION at least the comics were decent for a while

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

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The Ninth Gate (1999).

It truly is an underrated movie. Save for some of the music tracks, I find it to be an extremely well made and intriguing movie. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I'll have to rewatch this. I came upon this analysis that threw a lot of light on the plot for me. It also inspired a theory I have:

Spoiler: Spoilery Spoilers

Corso (Johnny Depp) is the actual Devil. He took a break from Hell for a few centuries, but created the manuscripts that detailed the parts of a ritual he had to perform in real life if he wanted to open the gate back home. The Girl/Whore of Babylon/ Aphrodite was assigned to assist him in this task and help him perform the sex magick that was part of the ritual. Finding the last manuscript and realizing who she was was the final key to opening the Ninth Gate.

I'll accept my puzzle pieces and moons now....

 

[Your Starter for 10]

fucking just had to fire the guy who directed SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION at least the comics were decent for a while

Well he was spending almost $3.4M per episode for the first season. They lowered that to $2.75M per episode for season 2.

I mean of course after that from season 3 onward, the budgets returned to $3M or higher, but at least they were able to save a little bit of cash for season 2. Totally worth that relatively miniscule amount of money to make something completely mediocre instead of possibly good.

 

[AnOminous]

also robert duvall may he rest in peace

And John Cazale. And Harrison Ford's first major movie. I can't recommend The Conversation enough. I actually put it above both of the first Godfather movies in Coppola's oeuvre.

Slight warning, extremely slow, complex, and if you don't pay full attention, you won't know what's going on.

Walking Dead is the perfect example of sunk cost fallacy. That was a show, not counting season 1, that was the greatest zombie show of all time that was never GOOD.

The first season with Frank Darabont was actually good. Everything after he left was mixed at best. The second season was literally nothing happening at all. This is a zombie show, bitch, where are the zombies?

And then it would fuck up plot arc after plot arc, like the absolutely insane bullshit where the Gubbernor blew away his own followers for no coherent reason. And turning Lennie James into some kind of retarded Yoda.

Just the sheer amount of wasted talent was tragic (thinking of Melissa McBride and Norman Reedus here).

I'm just pissed off at having spent years watching that show suck.

 

[Betonhaus]

Walking Dead is the perfect example of sunk cost fallacy. That was a show, not counting season 1, that was the greatest zombie show of all time that was never GOOD.
It completely squandered potential by recycling the same plot every season of finding a place, meeting bad guys who wanted the place, the place getting destroyed when they fight the bad guys over it, and now they have to find a new place.
Another thing that they did that ruined the show was every season they would have a couple of great episodes, a couple of mediocre episodes, and 80% pure filler. They could have done that whole 11 or 12 seasons in 5 seasons if they weren't fucking about.
There was not enough material or compelling characters to make 12 seasons worth.
Proving once again that the only zombie medium that works is movies. The undead wear out their welcome when they hang around too long.

I think they could've handled it better if it became a genre shift, slowly working on clearing out all of the zombies and rebuilding a nation and getting civilisation and technology up and running again.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

1. Late Night With the Devil
2. Tiyanak
3. Elizabeth Harvest
4. Black Death
5. Being Human (BBC)
6. Ancient Autopsy
7. The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion
8. Jack Irish: the series and the films
9. Nil by Mouth
10. Frida (Salma Hayek)
11. Taboo
12. Smiling Friends
13. The Keith Lemon Sketch Show
14. Boardwalk Empire
15. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
16. AI Confidential with Hannah Fry
17. Belzebuth
18. Solomon Kane
19. Clown
20. From the Dark
21. Crimson Peak
22. 10 Rillington Place: the Tim Roth BBC series
23. True Fiction
24. Wild at Heart: the ITV series
25. Doctor Who: bias time, but the Pertwee and McCoy ones
26. Law & Order: Criminal Intent
27. Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
28. Louis Theroux: Extreme Love - Autism
29. Louis Theroux: A Place for Pedophiles
30. Louis Theroux: Mothers On the Edge
31. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Looking for Love
32. The Tudors
33. Marie Antoinette: the series
34. The Empress
35. Corsage
36. My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
37. I Am Not a Serial Killer
38. Turok: Son of Stone
39. Resistance (Jesse Eisenberg)
40. Walking with Monsters.

 

[Nick Obre]

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I saw Project Hail Mary in imax and holy shit i thought it was amazing. NGL i almost cried and i watched movies like Hamnet, Marley and Me, UP, Manchester by the sea and Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and while i felt sad i didn't cry, Maybe people forgetting about you,losing someone close or cannot figure out who you are really hits.

My only gripe with it it's too long like almost 3 hours. But i thought it was a masterpiece and i recommend seeing it.

That was a wonderful movie

I loved it

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

That was a wonderful movie

I loved it

Seconding (thirding?) the recommendation for Project Hail Mary.

Great movie, great acting, I loved it. It was a little long but it didn’t drag at all for me. The fact they went for practical effects for Rocky really sold it for me.

 

[Newcomer 42]

Finished Cyberfarm/village, that Ruskie show that's sci-fi goodness. I recall someone posted the link with the entire first season with subtitles in English, but sadly the special doesn't have them. I hope S2 is subtitled at some point, because that show isn't going to come out of Russia, ever.
Still, it was refreshing to see a white hetero male that's not a laughing stock 24/7*, an healthy and loving white family to boot, no girlbosses** and no nigs.
*Except for the literal beta male cuck who grows a spine, sort of.
**Except for the blatantly manipulative AI bitch who's written that way, and even then she's not a Mary Sue.

 

[BubbaRobot887]

Not a top ten list of my faovites just some good Sci-Fi shows I have been watching lately that are outside Star Trek.

1)Lost in Space(Netflix version)

2)OutLaw Star

3)The Venture Brothers(This has one of my favorite universes in all sci-fi comics stuff)

4)Blake's 7(The new Blurays are amazing)

5)Eureka

6)Farscape

7)Japanese live action Spider-Man from the 70s(This may be goofy but it is one of the best shows of its type ever made)

Mobile Suit Gundam

9)Reboot

10)Red Dwarf(The best comedy sci-fi series ever made)

 

[Rubber Man]

Watched this for the first time recently and I cannot recommend it enough. I always enjoyed Silence of the Lambs and Anthony Hopkins is goated but this show does a fantastic job at portraying Hannibal Lector. I believe any show or movie that can make you root for a Villian is worthy of praise and this has all of those hallmarks whilst still making the good guys just as likable. I would love to see this show get a 4th season and based on Actor/Producer comments its still a possibility. Check it out if you have Prime right now.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

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Watched this for the first time recently and I cannot recommend it enough. I always enjoyed Silence of the Lambs and Anthony Hopkins is goated but this show does a fantastic job at portraying Hannibal Lector. I believe any show or movie that can make you root for a Villian is worthy of praise and this has all of those hallmarks whilst still making the good guys just as likable. I would love to see this show get a 4th season and based on Actor/Producer comments its still a possibility. Check it out if you have Prime right now.

They lost me at the end of season 2 when Hannibal just gets away no problem and a bunch of other things that don't make sense happen.