Movie & TV Show Recommendations

[AnOminous]

Cannot imagine anything more horrifying than dot Indians running casinos

No. Leave them with the feather injuns. Or, more often, white people and niggers who have stolen the feather. You know, like the utterly fake "Mohegan tribe."

 

[Fishnumm]

No. Leave them with the feather injuns. Or, more often, white people and niggers who have stolen the feather. You know, like the utterly fake "Mohegan tribe."

nooooooo the connecticut casino is fake!!!!

 

[Norms Abused Liver]

I would like to thank Jarbo for making me go out and see Project Hail Mary in theatres just to give it more money and spite him for his batshit opinion. Good movie. Gosling carried this movie. really good ending too.

Watched it today also, it's long but there is very little wasted time as they managed to tell a hell of a story that wouldn't have worked if they had shortened it. Fantastic movie, the alien was fucking adorable, would 100% recommend.

 

[Lip Glossary]

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.

I couldn't get into it because they were practically trying to butt fuck each other the whole show, and just like the Clarice show that I couldn't get into either I just can't get into the world of Thomas Harris when it's split into like it currently is.
They need to get the rights to all the characters under one company and make a show with everybody in it. This Jason Voorhees copyright dilemma they're stuck with is bullshit and it puts extreme limitations on the intellectual property.

 

[Zyklon C]

I haven't watched The African Queen in decades so I decided to watch it again tonight. I made it 45 minutes before turning it off. There was something so annoying about Katherine Hepburn that I just ran out of patience.

Do not recommend.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Watched I Swear, inspiredby the life of John Davidson, Scottish dude with Tourettes. It was ok but had the modern issue with having one dimensional characters who are all good or all bad and there were so many fake problems that would have been solved by him just saying he had tourettes. I mean the guy the film was based on was the subject of a popular BBC documentary in the 80s when he was 16, so much of the 'nobody understands this condition, even when the medical diagnosis and info is provided' just didn't ring true for me.

The pacing of the first act was also weird with the central character going from normal sports loving 12 year old to spitting, hitting, swearing incompetant in what feels like one afternoon. It meant that the strained relationship with his birth family, personal difficulties and the meds he is put on feel like they have no context (unless of course you're happy with the Mum = evil, son = good oversimplification).

Interestingly there was a stir at the BAFTAs when Davidson yelled racial slurs at a couple of black presenters and the woke brigade could't figure out which marginalised person they needed to be on the side of. They seem to have settled on being annoyed that the BBC didn't bleep them out, although plenty just seem to think he shouldn't have attended at all (so I guess black trumps disabled).

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

the woke brigade could't figure out which marginalised person they needed to be on the side of.

That's my favorite. When bleeding hearts with lighswitch brains are confused and don't know which side to pick. See: "it's OK to be white" and "Islam is right about women".

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Rewatched American Me (1992) yesterday, directed by and starring Edward James Olmos.

Only watched it once before and it has been ages but fuck me if this film doesn't hold up. Between this and "Blood In, Blood Out" i have to say this one is the superior Chicano gangster film. It has the better cast, better direction, better pacing and better drama (though both films put that on way too thick), i really could not remember it being this good. It also never veers into the goofy, unintentionally comedic territory Blood In goes into too often over its run time. It also has a young William Forsythe in it, who i think does a great job here, as always. The plot concerns Olmos as Montoya Santana and how he became the quasi founder of the Mexican Mafia, La Eme. It spans over multiple decades, lots of the film is set in Folsom Prison and the California Institution for Men (shot on-location for both) and again, it's pretty fucking good. Never watched Olmos in anything besides this and that "How can i reach these kids?" movie and i think he's a great lead in this. Supposedly he got extorted by real La Eme members after the shooting of this film wrapped up and according to Danny Trejo and other former spic gang bangers around 10 to 12 people got killed over this film, most of them ex- or then-current La Eme members who worked as advisors on it.

I practically never hear anyone even talk about this film around here IRL when the topic is American gangster films so i feel its quite underrated. Still love me some Blood In, Blood Out but, as i said above, it pales in comparison to this one.

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.

Best Winstone performance bar none. Outstanding movie. The War Zone has another great Winstone performance and the subject matter of the movie is at least as grim as Nil by Mouth's.

I don't know how the remake handles everything else, but I have it in good authority it all sucks

I made it until the aforementioned fight scene before turning it off. Heard already before watching that it sucks the big one but i wasn't ready for how bad it actually was. Literally unwatchable if you've seen the original. I thought maybe Josh Brolin could keep me interested enough in making it through that piece of shit but no dice. Why the fuck they went with Spike Lee to direct it is absolutely beyond me.

 

[RiversideKoi]

I started rewatching True Blood for the first time since I was a kid, honestly season 1 has aged better than I expected. Obviously it isn't anywhere near as good as the sopranos, but TB is really entertaining I think.

 

[Bosnian Baconator]

I don't know how much Null cares for Anime Movies and I myself rarely watch Anime, if at all. Though a couple of weeks ago, I watched the movie called Red Line, its from 2009 and is basically centred around the race of the same Name. Its story may be a bit shallow, but art and music direction can really pull you along and just drag you with the hype of the race itself

 

[BubbaRobot887]

Castle of Cagliostro is my favorite animated movie of all time.

Also Lupin the 3rd The First is a really good 3D animated movie from the director of Godzilla Minus One that captures the spirit and energy of the 2D animated films and it has a good dub. It's good enough that my dad who can't stand anime sat down and watched the whole thing and liked it when he came into the room while I was watching it.

 

[Preacher ✝]

I've been trying to track down a copy of the original 4hr 20min cut of The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) but so far I've only been able to find the 3hr 19min home release cut available. Even torrent listings that claim the longer run time end up being the shorter cut.

Can anyone else find it?

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Can anyone tell me if the new version of All Creatures Great and Small is any good. My mom loves the original show and the books but she hates it when new shows draw her in and then suddenly add a bunch of sex or politics into it, so I would like to know if that happens with this remake before getting her the DvDs for Mother's day.

Not as far I know, to answer your question about the sex shite.

 

[Pedophobe]

I started rewatching True Blood for the first time since I was a kid, honestly season 1 has aged better than I expected. Obviously it isn't anywhere near as good as the sopranos, but TB is really entertaining I think.

It goes downhill rapidly after season one IIRC.

 

[RiversideKoi]

It goes downhill rapidly after season one IIRC.

Yeah, I vaguely remember that being the case. Its carried fairly hard by the cast by the second half.

I'm enjoying Daredevil and Reacher as well. Need to catch up on the boys.

 

[Pedophobe]

I just rewatched Zero Charisma for the first time since it came out. Still holds up. You may recognize some of the characters in this movie, perhaps even in the mirror.

 

[funwithshemales69]

Castle of Cagliostro is my favorite animated movie of all time.

Its legitimately my favourite miyazaki movie, its in constant competition with porco rosso but those two are the least pretentious, most fun ghibli movies made imo. Just pure manchild adventure stuff like Indiana Jones or Casablanca.

I watched couple movies for the first time

Last Temptation of Christ - Good movie, I really like the casting, Defoe is very good in the role. Also very Martin Scorsese, despite the fact that you can feel how low the budget was. If it was David Lean or Cecil B Demille, the flipping tables scene in the temple would be a big million dollar event. Instead in this movie its pretty small, up close and personal. Idk how its considered controversial or faced backlash at the time, its incredibly respectful to the source material. Ive not read Kazantakis's novel but it clearly borrows from the Gospel of Judas, a decanonized gospel which makes Judas a part of the prophesy and technically an apostle instructed to betray Jesus. Protestants are fucking crazy I guess.

Darkman - Fun movie, its pretty bad cause of the low budget, a lot of the set and camera problems are pretty obvious but its very fun and I really like Darkman as a comic book style character. The casting is very unorthodox but it somehow works, I dont like Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand in the title roles, I can only see them as Oskar Schindler and the terrorist grandma from Three Billboards but it somehow works. I wish it gets remade, its ripe for a remake, its not an irredeemable movie but it has a lot of mediocre aspects which could be made better with a higher budget.

Life of Brian - I was a bit disappointed, I expected it to be like the Holy Grail but its jokes are a lot more mediocre. I did laugh but there are more misses than hits, which is probably why they threw something every couple seconds. I did like the joke of the Jewish Communists admitting the Romans did bring civilization to the Jews, thats not a joke Americans would make cause theyre controlled by ZOG. Couple other ones were funny, the Biggus Dickus segment was not funny. This is also one which I dont get the controversy for, they never actually made fun of the Bible, they didnt even involve Biblical elements. Its just a movie which takes place in Biblical Judea and references Jesus twice.

Curse of the Wererabbit - This is my first Wallace and Gromit movie, technically my first Aardman movie and I really loved it. It made me feel like a child again, a more carefree time when all I did was watch British shit like Noddy and Oswald the octopus. Its also so British but in a very charming way, adorable stuff. I really wish the Brits made more childrens media, theyre so fucking good at it, American childrens shows sort of suck in being charming and adorable, theyre all teen oriented potty humor kind of shows or overly glamorous tacky princess shows. British childrens media feels like home, a good cup of chocolate and cake. I want to watch more obscure british media like this (Technically obscure cause most people dont know about it), Brass Eye, FortySomething and whatnot. Im open to recommendations, just dont give me fucking BBC state sanctioned garbage written by faggots like Mark Gatiss.

Im working my way through The Rocketeer, O Brother where art thou and Total Recall next.

 

[Eadred]

Good luck, have fun, don't die.
I like Sam Rockwell, that's why I wanted to watch it, went in blind and oh boy is this a stinker.
Imagine facebook memes with marvel mumble random humor quippery and AI thrown into the mix because that's hip and down with the kids now. Hated every minute of it.
The CGI is abysmal too.
Should've watched Moon for the 4543th time instead.

And I finished the final episode of Rome.
It was great. Shame it never got the 5 seasons it deserved. The characters are multidimensional, interesting and the friendship between Lucius and Titus was fantastic. They don't tell stories like that anymore.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

It goes downhill rapidly after season one IIRC.

Which is a shame, because Denis Hare and Rutger Hauer are entertaining in it.

Anyway, as I'm back here, if no one's done so already, I like Suspiria a lot more than the original, including its following Inferno anthology sequels. I actually want there to be a sequel to the remake.

And, as we're on remakes, I have, I suppose a bias towards the American version of Old Boy. Never seen the original South Korean film, but Sharlto Copley is creepy as fuck in it. Also, I like pissing off pretentious foreign film "fans", who, by majority, like to bash American versions. I'm obviously not American, but that's a pet peeve of mine.

Good luck, have fun, don't die.

Haven't seen it, don't really intend to, but I have this sense that it's an annoying movie, based on the style of the trailer. I have a similar pessimistic "gut instinct" about They Will Kill You, too. And I already have a feeling that Ready or Not 2 is similarly irritating, due to how annoying the first one was.

And, before I shut my gob, I actually blame a film I really enjoy for a surprisingly refreshing comfort watch: You're Next!, which, in my view, set the knocking each other off trend for fucked-up dark comedies, where it turns into a bloodbath.

Watched I Swear, inspiredby the life of John Davidson, Scottish dude with Tourettes

What a coinky-dink... kind of. Err, whatever... Anyway, what I'm gonna say is, I commented/recommended that series on this Spooky Astronauts video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha7ZysNOtb4&t=970s&pp=ugUEEgJlbg==

 

[D_Tractor]

Anyone seen The Audacity yet?