Movie & TV Show Recommendations

[Drive-By Comment]

The blonde psyker girl

Yeah. Really liked the character and this Olivia pulled the role well.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

I finally watched Law Abiding Citizen which for years I've heard either is an incredible movie or a retarded piece of shit. No in-between, and I'm of the opinion it is an incredible movie because how retarded and ridiculous it is. Its a very entertaining movie, it tries so desperately hard to be taken seriously as a dark gritty movie while being impossible to take seriously at all. It's the peak of smart people just being wizards and I adore it.
I had to make a shitty meme to explain to a friend why I was cackling at a scene

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

I'm of the opinion it is an incredible movie because how retarded and ridiculous it is

Perfectly put Jamie Foxx acts like he's in a different movie from anybody else and Gerard Butler does whatthefuckever and looks bad ass doing it. Watched it when it came out and i was very entertained by this movie, would've prefered a less Hollywood ending.

I rewatched The Raid 2 yesterday and those fight choreographies are something else. Looks like peak 80's Yuen Woo-Ping got transported into modern times. Does the bullshit shaky cam thing for muh gritty realism but doesn't do a million cuts a minute so the action is in focus and you can clearly follow what's happening on screen. I heard people didn't like the second one as much as the first because there's a much more fleshed-out and more focus on the story, that's what's actually making me prefer the second over the first. Cinematography is another thing that elevates it over standard action/martial arts film slop. Liked the extended cameo from Kenichi Endo (Visitor Q) a lot as well, acting in general was good for a film like that, apart from some people (the main villain for example) hamming it the fuck up. Much like Dredd, one of the best modern action films.

I saw the Devil (2010) is on my rewatch list for tonight, ultra-gory and dark martial arts-focused thriller, stars the main gook from Old Boy as the serial killer villain and that dude is just eerie in this.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Perfectly put Jamie Foxx acts like he's in a different movie from anybody else and Gerard Butler does whatthefuckever and looks bad ass doing it. Watched it when it came out and i was very entertained by this movie, would've prefered a less Hollywood ending.

Apparently the ending was originally going to be what it obviously should have been, but Jamie Foxx being his down low self threw a fit and forced a rewrite.

 

[W00K #17]

I watched 'Weapons' on HBO max last night. I really enjoyed it. The ending was awesome.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Apparently the ending was originally going to be what it obviously should have been, but Jamie Foxx being his down low self threw a fit and forced a rewrite.

Always knew Foxx was a bitch. One of the actors i don't like to see in anything. Shame he's in one of my all-time favorite movies, Collateral, every time i rewatch it i think "This nigger...". Hard tie between him and Will Smith as the most untalented and unsympathetic famous black actor, at least Smith has Fresh Prince and MIB, Foxx just showed up one day and refuses to quit acting.

 

[Immaputsomedirtinyoureye]

Watched paranorman in theaters.

Do you ever think Mitch's little brother called him or will soon call him a faggot.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I rewatched The Raid 2 yesterday and those fight choreographies are something else. Looks like peak 80's Yuen Woo-Ping got transported into modern times. Does the bullshit shaky cam thing for muh gritty realism but doesn't do a million cuts a minute so the action is in focus and you can clearly follow what's happening on screen. I heard people didn't like the second one as much as the first because there's a much more fleshed-out and more focus on the story, that's what's actually making me prefer the second over the first.

I liked both Raids. The first one stands out in my memory as a movie that not only had good choreography, but also utilized wide angle lenses well. It all looked so dynamic! The second one was really solid as well and I'm glad that it has an actual plot. There's behind the scenes material on Youtube that's worth a watch.

If you're looking for a HK movie with over the top acrobatic choreography, check out Magic Crystal. It's absolutely bonkers.

Hard tie between him and Will Smith as the most untalented and unsympathetic famous black actor

I think Smith has a genuine comedic talent. Watch outtakes from Fresh Prince and a lot of that is much funnier than the show itself. He's boring in serious roles. I don't care about his miserable family life.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

I don't care about his miserable family life.

I'm not into the whole "following celebrity life" thing but i heard/read too much about Smith's miserable live over the years that it tainted my views of him as an actor i think. There's an interview with his two miserable kids from years back that made me think dude lives in an insane asylum if that's daily discourse at his place, his batshit wife is just the cherry on top. Fresh prince is a childhood relic of mine and i love that show, next to Roseanne the best 90's sitcom. I stopped watching films with Smith around the time Pursuit of Happiness came out and i won't watch any film with him in it since then. I did watch Wild Wild West at the cinema when it came out and kid me didn't find it as bad as virtually anyone makes it out to be, so there's that too. Kid me didn't know shit about shit, though

check out Magic Crystal

Rings a bell and i might've watched it a million years ago. Had like a decade of my life where i did nothing but watch movies and get blind drunk so there's many i am very vague on. Last oldschool HK action film i've watched was Hard Boiled a couple of weeks ago and no matter how often i rewatch it i still love watching it as much as the first time. Casting, shoot-outs, gun porn, no other action/Heroic Bloodshed film comes close to the perfection of Hard Boiled.

 

[Eadred]

Watched The day of the Jackal, great movie, gets very detailed about an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle.
It's like a realistic attempt on mission impossible (the good ones) from the view of the bad guy.
And the guy who plays the main cop trying to foil the antagonists plan is one of the funniest looking people I've ever seen. He's old, yet young, a baby and an old man, huge but moves and sits so awkwardly, it's pure gold.
Highly recommending the movie if you like a thrilling film with an borderline autistic focus on the details.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Rings a bell and i might've watched it a million years ago. Had like a decade of my life where i did nothing but watch movies and get blind drunk so there's many i am very vague on. Last oldschool HK action film i've watched was Hard Boiled a couple of weeks ago and no matter how often i rewatch it i still love watching it as much as the first time. Casting, shoot-outs, gun porn, no other action/Heroic Bloodshed film comes close to the perfection of Hard Boiled.

I got into 80s/90s HK action movies recently and it has a lot to do with the fact that they're all getting new BR transfers. A high bitrate 1080p rip is like a different movie compared to a DVD. About a decade ago I didn't expect I'd enjoy so many movies for the visuals alone. Now I truly see the difference between shot on film vs. shot on digital. I also really like the look of HK from that era. If I could travel in time and space, I'd definitely go sightseeing there.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

If I could travel in time and space, I'd definitely go sightseeing there.

Man, same. Super OT but Hong Kong before the brits gave it back to China had such a great, distinct look. I read that the reason for all the 80's and late to mid-90's HK productions had to be redubbed in-studio after filming was because the background noise was just too loud practically anywhere in the city to get usable audio. I'm a born and bred bughive dweller but 80's/90's HK sounds next level, such an interesting urban moloch.

getting new BR transfers

As they should. I dig 4:3 rips in VHS quality but a lot of stuff of that time is almost unwatchable because of the bad picture quality.

 

[God of Nothing]

I finally watched Law Abiding Citizen which for years I've heard either is an incredible movie or a retarded piece of shit. No in-between, and I'm of the opinion it is an incredible movie because how retarded and ridiculous it is. Its a very entertaining movie, it tries so desperately hard to be taken seriously as a dark gritty movie while being impossible to take seriously at all. It's the peak of smart people just being wizards and I adore it.
I had to make a shitty meme to explain to a friend why I was cackling at a scene
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it's all so ridiculous
gerard tries to be some badass mastermind when all i can see is the cuck who was forced to watch his wife get clapped by a home invader being cringe

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I dig 4:3 rips in VHS quality

Fuck no, man. I'm done with those. I'm not that desparate to watch Italian Mad Max ripoff no. 74. I don't care about 4:3 as long as it's the original aspect ratio. Although that isn't as bad as when it's the other way around (4:3 cropped to 16:9). I somehow managed to find Amir Shervan's (Samurai Cop director) movie Gypsy and it was barely watchable because of that. Those screens are from a short clip I saved, so they aren't the worst examples.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

been watching the expanse after i couldnt sleep one night and deciding to finish season 2 after putting it off for a while. then i began watching and finishing three the same day. ive made my way to early season 5. this show is in fact far better than i was expecting

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Overnight (2003) is a documentary about Troy Duffy, the director and screenwriter of The Boondock Saints. It paints him as a very unlikable, egocentric man who always blames his colleagues for everything and keeps telling them how hard he works. He was offered a budget of $15mln and lots of creative freedom from Miramax and... I won't spoil it. If you know nothing abot him or the movie, it's better to go in blind. Read the Wiki article about TBS when you're done because there's a few details you won't learn from the documentary.

What makes it stand out is that it was shot as the situation was developing. It's not just a bunch of modern interviews with a bunch of zoom-ins and pans across scans of old pictures. You can actually see those people arguing with studio execs on the phone, casting meetings, and their short trip to the Cannes festival.

 

[Commander X]

It was amazing that the documentary was being made by a couple of Duffy's friends to chronicle the production of the movie he thought was going to make him a big shot and before it was over, they could be counted among Duffy's ex-friends.

Anyways, "Boondock Saints" is horrible. It's like one of those 1990s-era Tarantino-wannabe flicks had a baby with a late 1990s Guy Richie-wannabe direct-to-video UK film and the baby was Irish and retarded. In any footage I have seen of him, Duffy is the most obnoxious "Plastic Paddy".

Watching Overnight and seeing what Duffy does, that is exactly what people mean by "going Hollywood", because he's been handed a film deal, some small-timer thinks he is Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, and William Goldman combined when in reality he's a little guppy that someone has dropped one speck of goldfish food in front of more or less as investment diversification.

To his credit this tiny brained egomaniac managed to get his movie made with real actors, and later took advantage of it's cult status to get an actual sequel made, both of which are something a ton of people striving in Hollywood don't have, but what he missed was that when he got his "big break" he was just the flavor of the month when Miramax and other "indies" were throwing modest budgets at whatever looked good at the moment. Duffy had no real second act, maybe he thought he was going to make a whole series of Boondock Saints movies, a whole franchise with one coming out every couple of years.

 

[Čmarobnjak]

Bottom Live - 6 hours of Richie and Eddie, what more do I need to say?

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Watching Overnight and seeing what Duffy does, that is exactly what people mean by "going Hollywood", because he's been handed a film deal, some small-timer thinks he is Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, and William Goldman combined when in reality he's a little guppy that someone has dropped one speck of goldfish food in front of more or less as investment diversification.

It really looked like he was completely unaware of how Hollywood works and that the deal he was given was extremely generous. His band was another thing - I think he was trying to handle not one, but TWO things that required a lot of time and attention. Making a movie as a complete rookie AND trying to get a record deal and release an album is a good way to burn out quickly. That part at the end where all the band members go back to working menial was just sad.

 

[BIONICLE 10127 1]

Check out Babylon 5 if you haven't before. Budget is lower (a lot lower in some cases) but the writing, characters and storyline are top-notch. I avoided it for years but I'm glad I finally gave it a chance.


Fucking WHAT?! I didn't realize it was that Zach.
Guess I have to watch it now, if only for Trevor (RIP).

Seconding Babylon 5,
Also, you might like Space: Above and Beyond, it's another military sci-fi made around the same time. I found it very tonally and aesthetically similar to the Battlestar Galactica revival from the early 2000's, though it's also clearly influenced by stuff like Starship Troopers and Forever War.