Movie & TV Show Recommendations

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.
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I really enjoyed the 90s version of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and its sequels. Sure, it's not as flashy and high budget as the Hollywood movie version, but it feels more cozy and British. The White Witch's costume looks much better than the "icicles and dreadlocks" look that Tilda Swinton was wearing, and the animatronic Aslan feels gentler and weightier than the movie version. The same group who did the 90's TLTWATW also made The Box of Delights, a Christmas fantasy series that also feels extremely British.
 
Diplomatic Siege (1999) stands out among low budget 80s/90s actioners because of its cast (Peter Weller, Daryl Hannah, Tom Berenger). Everything else is mostly by the book. There's a hostage situation at the US embassy in Romania and Serbian terrorists demand the release of their fellow general. Weller is John McClane in this situation and fights the bad guys inside the embassy alongside Hannah, who's his ex. There was enough straight up DUMB SHIT in this movie to keep me entertained.

- The embassy is an old building in Bucharest. It has 1m x 1m air vents. Shaquille O'Neal could easily fit in those.
- There's a mysterious device in the building that lets the security track people's heat signatures. Weller counters that by putting a wet towel on his head.
- There'a secret room with a door hidden behind a sliding piece of a wall with George Washington's portrait on it. The wall piece is lifted by rotating a small statue next to it.
- Americans put NUKES underneath their embassies in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Budapest etc. before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
- The access to the one under the Romanian embassy is protected with visible red lasers capable of killing people like in the first Resident Evil movie. A simple hand mirror can reflect them.
- American generals and national security advisor are handling the situation all by themselves. They refuse to tell the POTUS about the nuke because reasons.
- The Serb general is kidnapped in the first scene. He sits on a toilet which descends to the basement where a bunch of masked Americans grab him.
- He gets assassinated in a later scene before getting transported to Romania. He's replaced by a lookalike who works at a Pizza Hut in Rome.
- When Weller's character is introduced, he practices his PC password cracking skills. He guesses the password and it's a horse's name. This is one of my favorite stupid cliches, I call it "password: dog"). See clip below.

 
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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Drive Angry is easily S Tier, and Windtalkers is a solid B Tier.

Other than that, I agree with the rest of it for the ones I've actually seen.

@Mussolini’s Merkin said:
Unironically one of the worst movies I have had the misfortune of experiencing.


I've never seen it, but based on the synopses I've read, Leo is truly one of the greatest actors of all time.

He'd have to be to successfully pretend that the utterly repulsive nigger bitch is attractive and make it halfway believe.

Thread tax: I absolutely LOVED Primitive War and it's easily better than every single Jurassic Park movie since the original.
 
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Drive Angry has a severe lack of nudity, which is common with "throwback" (ugh) movies that are all like, "This is just like the '90s!" Bitch, the '90s were full of tiddies!
WhiskeyJack said:
There's no way Bassett's character wouldn't be at least retired in disgrace after "Fallout".
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Same way I feel about hacker Q in the Craig Bond movies. Dude plugged a supervillain's flash drive into his work computer and got several people killed, including his boss. At the very least he should be putting fries in the bag after that but everyone carries on like nothing happened.

The Final Reckoning was trash. I'm not sure what I was expecting out of it but Dead Reckoning Part 1 set up that Latina chick as a big deal to Hunt and the reason he came to the IMF but she's not even mentioned in the next movie and the past between him and Gabriel is never developed. I was also pretty sure Grace would end up being Hunt's daughter since she kept doing that head turn they showed Spicy Latina doing in the past and Hunt never tried to get with her, but no just some rando now.

According to a random person on reddit Christopher McQuarrie prefers to develop the story during the editing process and I can believe it. But more likely some exec panicked because PART 1 underperformed so they tried to turn it into a standalone film as much as possible.

Hannah Waddingham was pretty good. If I didn't already know she was British I might have believed she was an American.
 
Bosnian Baconator said:
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
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Redline is kino, and is one of like 5 anime movies that are normie friendly (the other 4 are pick your favorite Ghibli movies).

If the theater wants my money, they can screen it and I’ll make time to go.

Speaking of which, those of you theater enjoyers who live near a Cinemark, you’ll be eating good on classics. They’re showing Fight Club, which I have somehow never seen, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Silence of the Lambs (which will never not be good), both Top Guns, and Shrek 1 all in the next month.
 
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ChampFantana said:
He'd have to be to successfully pretend that the utterly repulsive nigger bitch is attractive and make it halfway believe.
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The funny thing is if you've ever read the early life wikipedia of her actress.
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Quarterback Rex Grossman said:
Drive Angry has a severe lack of nudity, which is common with "throwback" (ugh) movies that are all like, "This is just like the '90s!" Bitch, the '90s were full of tiddies!

Same way I feel about hacker Q in the Craig Bond movies. Dude plugged a supervillain's flash drive into his work computer and got several people killed, including his boss. At the very least he should be putting fries in the bag after that but everyone carries on like nothing happened.

The Final Reckoning was trash. I'm not sure what I was expecting out of it but Dead Reckoning Part 1 set up that Latina chick as a big deal to Hunt and the reason he came to the IMF but she's not even mentioned in the next movie and the past between him and Gabriel is never developed. I was also pretty sure Grace would end up being Hunt's daughter since she kept doing that head turn they showed Spicy Latina doing in the past and Hunt never tried to get with her, but no just some rando now.

According to a random person on reddit Christopher McQuarrie prefers to develop the story during the editing process and I can believe it. But more likely some exec panicked because PART 1 underperformed so they tried to turn it into a standalone film as much as possible.

Hannah Waddingham was pretty good. If I didn't already know she was British I might have believed she was an American.
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I like the set pieces on the sub and with the biplanes but other than that is was a huge let down after the 10/10 masterpiece that was Dead Reckoning.

I rewatched Big Trouble in Little China for the first time in years and I forgot how good it was, this may be the best action comedy ever made.
 
I've recently finished Sci-fi buddy cop series Almost Human, starring Karl Urban and Michael Ealy who I only really know as that black guy from Takers who wasn't Idris Alba.

It's a cancelled one season 13 episode show about crime rates getting so out of hand, the police departments have mandated robot partners called MXs to all human detectives to basically serve as assault units and cannon fodder. John Kennex(Urban), fresh off leading a failed police assault where he was the only survivor leaving him with a synthetic leg, is reinstated after his coma with an MX partner. Immediately getting sick of his shit he pushes the clanker out of a moving car into a highway and is reassigned an older model of robot partner called a DRN, which is is supposed to be more human and emotional as opposed to the MX's more logic based function.
The DRN, nicknamed Dorian and John slowly warm up to each other while solving crimes.

What makes this show is the buddy aspect. Urban plays Kennex perfectly as the completely sick of it old fashioned cowboy detective and the show is more than happy to make him out as a flawed asshole who gets beaten up by just about every antagonist in the show on account of them being cyborgs or andriods or whatnot. Ealy plays Dorian as a loveable little shit of a smartass robot and you can't help but really enjoy how the two play off each other.

It being 13 episodes and cancelled there's sadly lots of plot events that were cliffhangers for a later season that just get no payoff.
John believes his failed police raid that got his partner and squad killed was the result of an inside job and somehow related to his ex-girlfriend. Dorian has some weird implanted childhood memories in him, which is odd because he was never a child. Gina Carano as some frankly kind of hot military killbot steals a load of hardware that would be used to create more military killbots.

None of these plotlines go anywhere because they're introduced in one episode with the clear intention of it being for a later season that never happened.

The supporting cast in the show is decent. You have the hardass captain Sandra who's kind of a cutie pie at times but plays off Kennex quite while. There's the generic hot chick girl Stahl who they try to make interesting by having her be a 'chrome', who is a genetically modified elite class of human who's supposed to be super intelligent and beautiful and long lived but they only really introduced that in one episode and never followed up on how chromes and the whole class divide work in much detail.
There's Rudy, the tech guy played by the glass eyed pirate from Pirates of The Carribean who is a total weirdo far exceeding any other weirdo tech guy in these cop shows and really fun to watch.
Finally there's Paul, some manlet who's the designated asshole of the group and is the constant source of friction between people.

Guest cast side there's a few familiar faces but no real standout performances in my opinion. Some of the action scenes, while having creative setup(the hologram stuff in the SAM episode), suffer from cutting way too much. Any time Dorian is fist fighting some other robot you're going dizzy from all the cutting, it's almost Taken 3 bad.

What I really like about the show is how cool the backdrop is, it's a damn shame it died so early because while it was fairly clumsy with its worldbuilding I did want to see more and I wanted to see more through the eyes of John and Dorian.


Oh yeah the music in the show is composed by The Crystal Method and there are some pretty sick synth tracks going on.
 
Forensic Files is awesome. No true crime show or podcast will ever top it You get a good mix of the forensic experts and people from the family. Peter Thomas' narration just makes it the perfect show to listen to. Mixed in as well are some funny moments, unintentional ones, but funny moments.
 
BiggestKai said:
I've recently finished Sci-fi buddy cop series Almost Human
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I remember a scene in which the mulatto droid blows air out of his mouth making his lips trill. This annoys Urban's character. They're sitting in a car. Can you tell me which espiode that was? I think it was probably the first one.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
I remember a scene in which the mulatto droid blows air out of his mouth making his lips trill. This annoys Urban's character. They're sitting in a car. Can you tell me which espiode that was? I think it was probably the first one.
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Happens twice, once in the first episode:


Again in the sixth episode where there are two of them now.


 
Chester Copperpot said:
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.
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Man it would have been great to watch the woke brigade be called a bunch of ableist for talking shit on a man with Tourettes .
 
Rome's rightful successor said:
I really loved watching the animated anthology film Robot Carnival.
If you like Memories than this is right up your alley.
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Watched that one in the ghetto 40 seat cinema that first aired anime in my city back in the mid-90s, absolute peak. The animation, the themes, the everything. Have rewatched it countless times and still can't decide entirely on which episode is my favorite, since my last rewatch it is "Cloud". Still absolutely incredible to me that this was made in 1987.
 
From season 4 premiered on Sunday. I am not sure if I have recommended it in the past. But highly recommend it. If you’re a fan of early Lost, then you’ll dig this show. It has a few of the people who worked on Lost and Harold Perrineau.

Basically it’s people who are trapped in a town who can’t escape. And there are monsters that look like people who come out at night who try to kill all the towns people. And the towns people are trying to figure out how to escape the town. Show has that same type of mysterious vibe that Lost has.

Only problem I have is the Lesbian relationship that was shoe horned into the show in season 2.
 
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