Movie & TV Show Recommendations

I watched Relay (someone in this thread recommended it, thank you for that).
Went in blind and I was positively surprised.
A down to earth thriller well executed.
Acting was good and it didn't fall for the modern tropes like autism is a superpower or the world is at stake and only hero man can rescue mankind. It just plays its plot straight and I really liked it.
And it kept the modern DEI bullshit to a minimum.
There is some of it, but mostly in the background.
I highly recommend it to anyone who likes a good thriller akin to the ones Robert Redford starred in back in the day.
 
The Worlds Divide

Occasionally it shows it's animated by a single person, but any "mistakes" are few and far between.
The average rating on IMDB is a bit inflated in my opinion, but the story was entertaining enough and it looks and sounds great.

I don't regret the 8 bucks it cost at eventlive
 
I am rewatching Jeeves and Wooster for the first time in years and I forgot just how great this show is. This is how you adapt books to the screen. You can change things around, and even add things like Bertie playing the piano or make Madeline a blond and get away with it as long as you don't violate the spirit of the books and stay true to who the characters are.

One thing I think is brilliant is that a lot of Wodehouse's humor comes from how he describes things so they keep that intact by giving those descriptions to Bertie in the form of dialog and Hugh Laurie is a strong enough actor that he is able to pull it off and make it sound natural. This is still my favorite role he has ever played, if you have not seen this show it is worth tracking down, just watch it in the UK order and not the strange order it was put in on Masterpiece Theater, that confused me so much as a kid. I sadly don't think it is streaming anywhere(Thank goodness I have Plex)but the DvDs are pretty cheap and are well worth tracking down.
 
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If you haven't seen Glengarry Glenn Ross, I would highly recommend. I can watch that thing multiple times in a single week and still be entertained. One of the greatest casts every assembled, giving some of the greatest performances of their career. The basic premise is a handful of scummy "real estate agents" who work at a scummy agency try to sell their worthless properties to hapless idiots over the course of 18 hours with the knowledge that their success will have a massive impact on their career.

That might not sound like the most exhilarating premise for a movie but the dialogue and acting is next fucking level. One of the funniest and most vulgar things I have ever seen. It is also based and pajeet-pilled.
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Its noteworthy regarding how honest it is. Especially about pajeets. Also about Kevin Spacey being an asshole.
 
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Rewatched Fargo for the 653567th time.
It's one of my favorite movies, it's funny, thrilling and charming. And Frances McDormand is one of the goats.
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Marge Gunderson is an epic character and pretty much made Fargo.

Also she rejects the fake Hollywood culture and routinely shows up at awards ceremonies and the like with no makeup at all. And still looks better than the whited sepulchres caked with makeup that would embarrass a clown.
 
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I watched Jeremiah Johnson (1972) for the first time after Robert Redford's passing. It's a really good movie. Despite it's low budget it really wasn't a movie that look and sound cheap. Maybe because older audio and film stock equipment does a better job at masking that.
The film came out in an era where it would show one or two natives in a sympathetic light but was not afraid to over all portray them in a politically incorrect light. But it was over all an American frontier story.
 
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The liberator (2020)

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This is a history channel made WW2 series in the vein of band of brothers with a couple twists. It's live action actors overlaid with an FMV/ matt painting art style. Even though it was done because of covid, It's a genuinely artistic way of making the environments and CG look neat. Secondly while the four episode series sells itself as the true story of the 157th Infantry Regiment and the native Americans part of it, the main focus is all about Felix Sparks.



This show illustrates all the grueling stuff this guy went though. Despite his decorated record, his story is not glamorous. The thunderbirds were a badass unit, but took horrific losses and were chewed up multiple times over the course of the war. It depicts a level of Frontline conflict against the germans I wasn't used to and there are moments were the unit straight up loses and has to fall back. Felix was a badass, no question, but losses he went though were incredibly sobering. It got to the point were he was openly risking himself as battalion commander to go save wounded men from snipers.

The series is based on a book and even though they took some liberties, I completely understood why. They covered the major beats and there wasn't as much material to go over as Band of Brothers. Felix is accurate and everything he does actually happened, its just that the supporting cast is a bit underdeveloped until the second half.
. Because literally the entirety of Felix's early Unit was killed or captured. Episode 2 surprisingly undersold how badly things went. I think most of the first batch of guys are fictional, but I understood what the creators were trying to do in showcasing the unit

If your a big WW2 buff I think its a must watch.





Id like to share how the actual meeting with Patton went. The show wrote it in an inspiring way, but the actual encounter was way cooler and funnier.

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(Sparks walks into Patton's office, having been brutally chewed out by the third army chief of staff over his men shooting concentration camp guards dead. Despite his efforts to stop the execution and save the Germans, there's a chance he'll be court marshaled. )

Sparks: (salutes) "Sir I'm Colonel Sparks. I have orders to report to you."

Patton: " Oh, yes, Colonel Sparks". I have some serious court-martial charges against you and some of your men here on my desk"

Sparks: (looks at papers)

Patton: "Didn't you serve under me in Africa and Sicily?"

Sparks: "Yes, sir I did. I would like to explain about what happened at Dachau."

Patton: "There is no point in an explanation. I have already had these charges investigated and they are a bunch of crap. Im going to tear up these goddam papers on you and your men." (tears up papers and dumps them into bucket)

"You have been a dam fine solider, now go home."

Sparks: (salutes and leaves)
 
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Eadred said:
Rewatched Fargo for the 653567th time.
It's one of my favorite movies, it's funny, thrilling and charming. And Frances McDormand is one of the goats.
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Marge Gunderson is an epic character and pretty much made Fargo.

Also she rejects the fake Hollywood culture and routinely shows up at awards ceremonies and the like with no makeup at all. And still looks better than the whited sepulchres caked with makeup that would embarrass a clown.
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What are your takes on the 2014 TV series? I still haven't watched either the film or series but they're both high on my to watch-list.

On topic - I'm re-watching The Shield for the third time, it's still as good as ever but now that the shock effect is over, I'm starting to notice a few minor things that I think make the writing slightly less air-tight than I originally thought.
 
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If you are a fan of Hal Holbrook def. check out Natural Enemies. Also if you hate your family lol.
 
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