Movie & TV Show Recommendations

[Foltest]

If you like the Conversation or Blow Out, check out Diva, a French movie about a young man who secretly records an opera singer (the titular Diva) that refuses to make albums. Then a random woman slips a cassette tape in his bag shortly before she is murdered. There are multiple parties looking for this kid and his tapes, but he doesn't know who is who or which tape they want. I wouldn't call it A+ maybe A- but it is pretty interesting with a some wonderful sequences and a handful odd characters that will stick in your memory.

The soundtrack is great, I had never even heard of the movie til I got the record for $1. Good investment.

I may give the Conversation another shot.
I saw it when I was like 19 and I hate it.
Found it to be so boring, but maybe with age, I may see it with new eyes.

 

[The Gene Genie]

After being increasingly disappointed by all of the other "Star shows" new content, especially with how abysmal Star Trek has been in the past decade, I've put aside my hangups of it being a mid-budget 90s sci-fi show and decided to watch Stargate SG-1, and it's a pure, refined gemerald. I wasn't expecting how SOVL it is, and that it isn't as low budget as I thought it was. I'm not finished it yet, and it's got like three other shows, but I would definitely recommend it for other sci-fi chuds who are disappointed by how bad Star Trek and Star Wars has become.

 

[AnOminous]

I may give the Conversation another shot.
I saw it when I was like 19 and I hate it.
Found it to be so boring, but maybe with age, I may see it with new eyes.

It's definitely very slow, even by slow movie standards, but I think the climax is absolutely shattering and an entirely rewarding payoff for patience.

 

[GungusDingaling]

Same director for both and I was pleasantly surprised that Alden Erinreich was in it.

The director is one of the dudes from whitest kids you know btw

 

[Eadred]

I may give the Conversation another shot.
I saw it when I was like 19 and I hate it.
Found it to be so boring, but maybe with age, I may see it with new eyes.

In the rare case you might get bored again, just close your eyes and listen to the score.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Dept. Q was pretty good.
I picked up strong "Girl with the dragon tattoo" vibes from it, then found out it is based on a Scandinavian book series.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Dept. Q was pretty good.
I picked up strong "Girl with the dragon tattoo" vibes from it, then found out it is based on a Scandinavian book series.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Watched the Conversation. I concur, fucking masterpiece.

 

[funwithshemales69]

Watched the new Superman, its marvel material, it was too quirky and whimsical to be a dc movie. I wasnt disappointed, its a good movie, just not a good Superman movie.

I liked some of the political subtext though, they didnt know the implications of the shit they wrote in

Spoiler

JorEl and Lara being Kryptonian supremacists is very funny considering a lot of breadtubers jerk off this Superman as being "true to Hebrew roots of Schuster and Siegel's original character". Lot of the Tikkun Olam stuff was very much on display.
Implying Superman is the "ultimate immigrant" is unintentionally based considering Krypton was destroyed partly because of Kryptonian corruption and infighting in the lore, implying immigrants come from countries where their own folk burn the country to the ground. Uh oh.
The Israel analogue didnt fully work, it worked about 85% but there were couple instances when Vasil claimed the Hammer was not Boravian. Reminded me of how desperately Zelensky tried to disavow Azov, meaning Russia Ukraine.
When the Israel Analogue worked, it was supposedly a "Master plan" of Lex Luthor, implying Jewish Supremacy and Zionism comes from White supremacy. Dumb
Lex was meant to be Musk, the whole Monkey bot farm thing 100% referenced Musk. Very retarded
The speech Jonathan Kent gives about parents providing tools for children to fuck up reminded me of tranny children for some reason. All sorts of child self determination advocacy lunacy in that one speech.
Lex was technically wasnt wrong in distrusting superman for being several power levels higher. He was written to be very megalomaniacal and envious cause hes greedy for them but he comes across as pretty reasonable until the end, even if he is a greedy billionaire tech bro most of the time. Brains beats Brawn is literally from David and Goliath, within context it comes across a bit as egomaniacal but hes not wrong. Superman ie Goliath is supposed to be bad then.
The Jarhanpurians ie Palestinians came across as very stupid and retarded, standing in rags with no weapons in a very neat group on the country's border, like they wanted to get slaughtered. They shouldve at least had couple guns n bombs like Palestinians irl, idk what the benefit is in portraying Palestinians as dumb cattle.
The black guy being the tech expert was pretty funny ngl.
The one token muslim guy was very much emotionbait propaganda.

 

[bookers]

So I just finished the 2nd episode of Alien Earth and I almost soy pogged.
Expectations were somewhat mid I'd say.



In Alien Earth, governments don't exist anymore and the world or human race is owned
by 3 big companies (2 of them are probably Jewish) - this is in 2120 (we'll be there in 20).

Weyland Yutani has crashed one of its ships into a stock ai-video city owned by a rival company.
Now the Alien - you know the Spiel.


You get to follow a new type of synthetic human being which is literally the star of the show
because, on the one hand, a crucial part of its creation legitimizes almost every stupid action
in every future Alien game/ movie/ series ever of those synthetics. It's like the establishing of the
Multiverse in Marvel, which legitimizes every stupid movie they've done since Endgame.

And on the other hand, the main actress is really good.
All actors sell themselves really well.

The practical effects are really good (including the alien), the CGI a mixed bag. Some shots are
so gory that they CGI passes (even though I'm sure they could and should've gone way more practical)
but others, such as the cities are downright bad.

Other than that, the production quality is really high. Soundtrack good and the gore is A+.

Watched this as well. I was actually pretty surprised at how good it was. It's a decent new take on Aliens. Looking forward to the rest.

Also I just watched 'the ugly stepsister' and thought it was pretty good.
Think it's a Norwegian film, and the premise is that it's like the Cinderella story, but from the point of view of one of the step sisters.

The step mom and step sisters are poor as shit so the step mom finds some Baron to marry, who just dies immediately and they find out he was actually broke and now they're in a ton of debt.

Meanwhile the dead guys daughter still lives in the house (cinderella) and she's really beautiful, but she's also kind of a bitch and hates all of them.

So the step mom is scheming how to marry off the oldest step sister to some Baron or whatever. And the step sister herself reads these romance novels about a girl marrying a prince, so that's like all she thinks about. She sends the ugly stepsister to finishing school (where everyone thinks shes fat and ugly) and starts having like medieval plastic surgery done on her.

Then letters get sent out from the local prince saying he's going to have a ball where he chooses a wife, so this is like their new grand plan and things get more crazy.

I don't want to spoil it too much, but before I watched it I sort of went in blind and didn't know what to think, but it actually turned out to be a pretty good movie that was fucked up but also pretty funny.

 

[Pale Empress]

I watched Der Todesking (1990) by Jörg Buttgereit

Still haven't seen this one, but from what I gather it's his best. I saw Nekromantik years and years ago and it too has tons of creative special effects and a soundtrack that is almost too good for it. Still a really great film, despite the provacative subject matter.

Watched The Hidden Fortress the other day. It's my first Kurosawa film, I wasn't expecting it to lean so heavily into the comedy aspect. So many great scenes (the spear duel, the fight on the stairs), and the acting and music make it remarkably timeless. A lot of the cinematic tropes felt like he was referencing western cowboy movies, like the way he shoots horseriders going in and out of frame.

Also, I understand that Lucas based his early drafts of Star Wars on this, but for some reason EVERYBODY references this fact like it's some really profound statement about the film. It bears only the most passing resemblance to the final draft of Star Wars, I don't get the close association between the two.

Seven Samurai is next on my list, either that or the first Lone Wolf and Cub film.

 

[Commander X]

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Edit: Just saw The Order has 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, that site is such a fucking joke and i wish people would stop seeing it as the gold standard for film critique. The Assassination Of Jesse James has 77% for comparison. Plebs.

That's mainly because the Order had such a limited release (almost no theatres were playing it) that the only people who watched it are Wignats.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Watched The Hidden Fortress the other day. It's my first Kurosawa film, I wasn't expecting it to lean so heavily into the comedy aspect.

While i am huge into japanese cinema i watched my first Kurosawa only last year, Yojimbo, and i also expected something completely different. First and foremost, the film struck me as far more western in style than anything i'd ever expect from classic japanese film, the comedic bits were also surprising. Still an amazing film i can highly recommend.

Seven Samurai is next on my list, either that or the first Lone Wolf and Cub film.

I did watch the first Lone Wolf and Cub about two years ago and loved it, the guy casted as Itto Ogami is just magic. The film had an anime-ish quality to it, special sword techniques getting announced with elaborate names and the like. Fight choreos were alright though i expected better, there's a real nice fight towards the end at a dam (i hope i am not getting my chambara films mixed up here) that i quite liked, though.
I got Seven Samurai here for quite some time now but still haven't watched it, high on my list as well.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I did watch the first Lone Wolf and Cub about two years ago and loved it, the guy casted as Itto Ogami is just magic. The film had an anime-ish quality to it, special sword techniques getting announced with elaborate names and the like. Fight choreos were alright though i expected better, there's a real nice fight towards the end at a dam (i hope i am not getting my chambara films mixed up here) that i quite liked, though.
I got Seven Samurai here for quite some time now but still haven't watched it, high on my list as well.

LWAC is fucking great. I should probably rewatch it after about 20 years, now that we have all those wonderful new BR transfers. My favorite part is that his price is the same regardless of how many people he's supposed to kill.

 

[Čmarobnjak]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) - Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, world renowned adventurer/neurosurgeon/rock star, along with his band "The Hong Kong Cavaliers", accidentaly discovers a way to penetrate through the 8th dimension with his rocket car. This catches the attention of some aliens who got stuck on Earth and want to get to their dimension for nefarious purposes, forcing Dr. Banzai to save the day. The film is an hour and 45 minutes minutes long but feels only half as long because almost every scene has something bizzare and baffling in it. While the film is undoubtedly absurd, the actors (some of which are well known, like C. Lloyd and J. Goldblum) take it completely seriously and act surprisingly natural and deadpan.



It also has some of the best out-of-context quotes in film:
"Why me, John Bigbooty?"
"Blacks are on this planet! Here, in New Jersey!"
"Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?"

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) - Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, world renowned adventurer/neurosurgeon/rock star, along with his band "The Hong Kong Cavaliers", accidentaly discovers a way to penetrate through the 8th dimension with his rocket car. This catches the attention of some aliens who got stuck on Earth and want to get to their dimension for nefarious purposes, forcing Dr. Banzai to save the day. The film is an hour and 45 minutes minutes long but feels only half as long because almost every scene has something bizzare and baffling in it. While the film is undoubtedly absurd, the actors (some of which are well known, like C. Lloyd and J. Goldblum) take it completely seriously and act surprisingly natural and deadpan.

Remind me: is the character of Banzai supposed to be ACTUALLY Japanese or just a weeb? I remember cracking up when he says "arigato" while wearing a Japanese flag headband.

 

[Čmarobnjak]

Remind me: is the character of Banzai supposed to be ACTUALLY Japanese or just a weeb? I remember cracking up when he says "arigato" while wearing a Japanese flag headband.

Apart from being a neurosurgeon and rock star, Banzai has travelled the world studying various martial arts and seems to be especially close to the teachings of the bushido code.
That and his mentor, Hikita, is Japanese.

 

[AnOminous]

It also has some of the best out-of-context quotes in film:

And one of the best bits of philosophical wisdom.
"Wherever you go, there you are." (Actually originally from a Buddhist book by a Westerner.)

 

[Pedophobe]

Recommendation for a classic Chinese martial film? I saw Executioners from Shaolin and it was kino.

The Evil Cult is a later-era Classic IMHO.

It's still up on YouTube.

Remind me: is the character of Banzai supposed to be ACTUALLY Japanese or just a weeb? I remember cracking up when he says "arigato" while wearing a Japanese flag headband.

He's half Japanese.