Movie & TV Show Recommendations

Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I started watching The Andy Griffith Show and it's like crack.

Firstly, easy to watch passively. It's the opposite of a lot of modern stuff in that it's so simple that you can be doing other things and not worry about missing some little detail or joke or whatever. Can watch something like Smiling Friends or Xavier Renegade Angel over and over again for its detail, but this is apparently why Boomers watch so much TV/watch it in the background.

Secondly, it's wholesome. You've got a whole genre of TV that was basically, "What if the family/friends love each other/are so polite to each other that their attempts to be nice result in them having some silly misunderstandings?" I think there's even a term for it, comedy of manners or something. Contrast that with modern TV where 90% of it "ha ha the family hates each other" or "ha ha life is meaningless" or some other such trash.
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If you like Andy Griffith, you'll probably enjoy Gomer Pyle USMC.

Gomer from the Andy Griffith show joins the Marines and stays in character. Good wholesome fun.
 
Watching Cold Storage, it's has to be the worst movie I've seen this year. Has the same problems Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die did. I will call it "Crappy Netflix Movie Syndrome" or CNMS. Temu Brendan Fraser is distracting. Checked out after 30 mins. I do not recommend even if you're a Liam Neeson fan.
 
Betonhaus said:
there's a lot of horror and other fucked up stuff in this list
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Glad you, presumably, like my list. Yeah, Nil by Mouth stars Ray Winstone, and the bloke he plays is based quite a bit on Gary Oldman's old man. Gary Oldman at least, wrote the film. Might've directed it, too.

AI Confidential is a good, dark, but satisfying look into what happens when AI falls into the wrong hands, isn't maintained properly, and when corporate arseholes use it as a shield in order to shirk the responsibilities of when they collectively, equally, fuck up.

Tiyanak is the modern, well, 1988, re-telling of a demon-ghoul-vampire creature, from Filipino/Indonesian legend, that takes the form of a baby, and kills mothers. Sometimes, it's interestingly hard to follow, due to the location: People speak English with some Tagalog slang, I suppose, in there, and there's one old woman who speaks Spanish.

Frida, the 2002 film, which is the Salma Hayek one mentioned in the list: I have this to say, bias-wise, if you like Geoffrey Rush in things, you'll probably like him as Leon Trotsky. Alfred Molina is decent in it, too. I can't be bothered with the latest Spidey flicks, so the last thing I saw him in was Promising Young Woman.
 
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Quijibo69 said:
Watching Cold Storage, it's has to be the worst movie I've seen this year. Has the same problems Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die did. I will call it "Crappy Netflix Movie Syndrome" or CNMS. Temu Brendan Fraser is distracting. Checked out after 30 mins. I do not recommend even if you're a Liam Neeson fan.
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What didn't you like about it? I've not seen it yet.
 
Jotch said:
What didn't you like about it? I've not seen it yet.
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It came off like one of those cheap shitty generic horror movies that are made for streaming/DVD. Like I said "Crappy Netflix Movie Syndrome". Shocked it got a theater release. Nothing special about it.

Edit: If you want to see a movie that did alien virus dark comedy a lot better I'm recommending: The Stuff 1985.
 
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Quijibo69 said:
Watching Cold Storage, it's has to be the worst movie I've seen this year. Has the same problems Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die did. I will call it "Crappy Netflix Movie Syndrome" or CNMS. Temu Brendan Fraser is distracting. Checked out after 30 mins. I do not recommend even if you're a Liam Neeson fan.
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Haven't seen that, but I just watched GL,HF,DD. I'm curious about what are the parallels you draw between the two movies.

I thought it was a fun movie, Sam Rockwell is great in it, as always. The rest of the cast is generally alright. Other than Rockwell I only know the spic who played Ant-Man's friend, and the nigress who played Domino in Deadpool 2.
The movie likes to waste time, with scenes that go on way longer than they should.
The twist was very, very predictable, and the other twist is just depressing but also makes the entire thing pointless. It has a lot of very hackneyed social commentary about AI, social media addiction, virtual reality, and school shootings, but it sort of justify it by having the quite exaggerated state of those things in the movie (in comparison to real life) being caused by an AI working to perpetuate itself.

The long story short of it is, a guy time travels to the past to prevent the creation of an AI that will decimate humanity not with killer robots but by drawing everyone into a VR world. His mission is to do this by recruiting the right combination of people from a diner; he has tried and failed this 117 times. But in the end, it's all inside the AI's VR world, which is evidenced by an AI-brainrot monster roaming the streets of what's supposed to be the real world, and that once they succeed in the mission, people from the recruit's backstories who were dead or otherwise lost show up, telling the survivors that things are OK now*. The guy realizes this and resets the timeline again, and this time he changes the plan from stopping the AI to using rats to infect humanity with one of his recruit's Chuck McGill-like wifi sensitivity disease (this recruit is also his mom, who is pregnant with him at the time, but nevermind that), which would prevent the downfall of humanity by making people unable to use the AI's tech. In the very last shot of the movie, the dead rat he's carrying opens its eyes, insinuating this, too, is in the VR world.

It's unclear if there's any actual time travel in the story, but we're led to believe the AI also traveled back in time and is doing a lot of things to perpetuate itself (hiring mercenaries and people to protect the kid that is programming it; brainwashing children, causing constant mass shootins and cloning the victims AND shooters to replace the youth with meat automatons that read ads a few time a day, and getting people addicted to VR). But this may all be a lie, and the AI emerged normally. The only things we know really happened is that an AI emerged, and started gaining ground in society; the girl with the wifi sensitivity lost her boyfriend to VR, and went completely off-grid, as the world completely collapsed from the AI's actions. She was pregnant and her kid one day found a VR visor and activated it, leading a drone to his position, and to his mom's death.

From there we're told he joined a group of survivors who came up with the time travel plan, but most likely he just put on the VR visor in despair, and the AI gave him this story of a time travel mission to save the world, a compelling narrative, which is something he even warns the recruits about, as something the AI will give them to keep them compliant.

So yeah. The whole movie is the guy being fed a heroic story in VR after he got his mom killed. And that's if "the things we know really happened" even happened. He may be just a VR junkie in a setting completely unknown to us. So the movie is fun on the surface, but below that it's just pointless and depressing.

*Incidentally this reminds me of a joke at the end of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: the scene is being narrated by the main character in a hospital room, and he says that he and the other lead "survived seemingly lethal injuries, which is hard to believe but it's what happened", and the movie then shows all the other characters who definitely died walk into the room, followed by Elvis and Abe Lincoln, who promptly get shooed away by a nurse).

Also a thing I chuckled at was a scene where the wifi-sick girl's boyfriend tells her he's decided to leave her and completely destroy their relationship and future together to plug himself into VR permanently, but he uses the word "transition" for it. I absolutely do not think this is an intentional reference or analogy to troons going into a life-ruining procedure in pursuit of a hedonistic lie, but god damn if the shoe don't fit.

I have enjoyed everything I've seen by Verbinski before, his Pirates trilogy is great, and Rango is just about one of my favorite movies ever. I rewatch them every once in a while.
This one? It was fun, but I don't think I need to ever watch it again, nor think about it much after sending this post.
 
Got a chance to see the original 1959 Ben-Hur on the big screen yesterday. It’s got to be the most visually gorgeous film I’ve ever seen, and Charlton Heston put on a performance that just can’t be matched. Highly recommend it, if only for the chariot race scene, which makes the Colosseum battle from Gladiator look cheap.

Going to watch PHM tonight. I have to say it’s the first movie since Oppenheimer that I’ve had anyone in real life recommend to me.
 
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Just watched the Korean movie Oldboy the other day and I have to say that movie is really good but so fucking disturbing. If you haven't seen you can watch it for free on Tubi.
 
Onepumpplumpchump said:
Just watched the Korean movie Oldboy the other day and I have to say that movie is really good but so fucking disturbing. If you haven't seen you can watch it for free on Tubi.
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If you’re into so bad it’s good movies you NEED to watch the American remake starring Josh Brolin.


This is a 30 million dollar movie.

YMS did a review on it too that’s pretty funny. My favorite scene:
 
Screamer_2 said:
Gay people may disagree, but I find the way gays tend to be presented in film/TV doesn't reflect any gay people I have ever known. It's weird clichés, stereotypes, or some woke agenda angle in the portrayal. As the woke angle has become more prominent, they have become more annoying as they want to push the gayness in your face more. Then make some point like actually gay relationships are better. I caveat that by the fact I don't watch specifically gay stuff. If there's a rom-com called Bottom Buddies. I ain't watching.
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The thing that is really fucked up in how insidious it was that I didn't recognize it for the first couple of times is that any gay/lesbian sex scene is portrayed as a tender moment between two loving, caring people and heterosexual sex is mostly a man and a woman violently fucking like two animals.
 
Me•cha•ni•cal said:
If you’re into so bad it’s good movies you NEED to watch the American remake starring Josh Brolin.


This is a 30 million dollar movie.

YMS did a review on it too that’s pretty funny. My favorite scene:
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Damn they fucked up that fight scene so fucking hard. I had looked up the Wikipedia page after watching and seen there was an American remake and that it was trash.

To anyone who hasnt seen the original movie that fight scene is absolutely brutal and the main character is not taking out everyone of them that quickly and gets injured badly. Might need to check out the remake now though, wonder what other things they botched.
 
Screamer_2 said:
Gay people may disagree, but I find the way gays tend to be presented in film/TV doesn't reflect any gay people I have ever known. It's weird clichés, stereotypes, or some woke agenda angle in the portrayal. As the woke angle has become more prominent, they have become more annoying as they want to push the gayness in your face more. Then make some point like actually gay relationships are better. I caveat that by the fact I don't watch specifically gay stuff. If there's a rom-com called Bottom Buddies. I ain't watching.
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pretty much every gay movie sucks*. the only ones that are even halfway decent are Hallmark ones like The Holiday Sitter that basically use the generic Hallmark plot and is completely PG, and one called 4th Man Out which is about a guy in a small town coming out as gay to his closest friends and them figuring out how to maintain their friendship while defining healthy boundaries.

*I haven't watched them all but the ones I was made to watch sucked hairy donkey balls in a bad way
 
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Onepumpplumpchump said:
To anyone who hasnt seen the original movie that fight scene is absolutely brutal and the main character is not taking out everyone of them that quickly and gets injured badly. Might need to check out the remake now though, wonder what other things they botched.
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That fight scene in the original is absolutely brutal, uniquely choreographed, and somehow gives feels at the same time. It also heavily references classical Western sources, though I won't go into detail on that.

It's definitely one of the top movies of all time.

I wish Hollywood would fuck off with fucking up much better foreign movies.
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YMS did a review on it too that’s pretty funny. My favorite scene:
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Is there any in-movie explanation for the stripping thing or is it just totally out of nowhere? Because the implications are pretty fucked.
 
AnOminous said:
That fight scene in the original is absolutely brutal, uniquely choreographed, and somehow gives feels at the same time. It also heavily references classical Western sources, though I won't go into detail on that.

It's definitely one of the top movies of all time.
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Back when I lived in the big city I would go to the Landmark theaters almost every week just to see whatever was new. I went into Oldboy on a Saturday afternoon basically cold. Sort of stumbled around in a daze for the rest of the weekend.
 
AnOminous said:
Is there any in-movie explanation for the stripping thing or is it just totally out of nowhere? Because the implications are pretty fucked.
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There is an in movie explanation.
Spoiler: The main villain and his sister had an incestuous relationship with their father. The sister got exposed for this in college by Josh Brolin. Main villain kidnaps Brolin and holds him hostage for many years. Brolin is then released and wants to figure out who kidnapped him. Somehow he gets in touch with a woman who helps him. Eventually they fuck. The plot twist at the end is that he fucked his now adult daughter, which was the villains revenge plan. It’s really bad.
 
Anyone here like stuff like smokey and the bandit or is it just me? I like the first, tolerate the 2nd, don't like the 3rd film, and the 90s tv movies (despite being directed by hal needham) don't count
 
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