Movie & TV Show Recommendations

Watched two recent Statham Cinematic Universe movies recently, Wrath of Man and  Shelter. WoM is about a suspiciously competent new driver at an armored car company who starts asking questions about a string of recent armored car hijackings. Has the standard Guy Richie anachronistic timeline (apparently he's still making movies, who knew).

Shelter is basically Bourne Identity minus the amnesia with a John Wick club shootout thrown in at the end.

Decent action movies to drink beer and turn your brain off to.
 
Impulse (1974)
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From the way it was hyped up and the over the top 70s outfits I went in thinking this was Shatner trying to be an amateur drug lord. Nope, It's literally just Shatner's version of psycho in Florida and it's great.

I've heard this is something of a cult movie for Shatner's "bad" acting but I genuinely liked it. It cannot be denied you'll get a lot of laughs for the way he goes full ham and a half star trek style. But he really goes in for it. I liked how he aggressively injected some pathos into the character. He's a charming conman of a lolcow. The depth is he genuinely doesn't like killing women, but he impulsively cannot stop when he's backed into his lies. Shatner really pulls off some semi haunting expressions in between his goofy ones. Couldn't help but laugh when he chases little girls TJ hooker style.

One of the big hooks is seeing oddjob from james bond duke it at with shatner. Apparently he almost died during the shoot and you can tell exactly where that happens.

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Amazingly this was all shot in 15 days.
 
Mr. ShadowCreek said:
I watched the trailer for the new Little House show on Netflix coming in July. It looks it might have a chance of being good. It's supposed to be closer to the books than the 70s show and show the harsher reality of pioneer life. Unlike Harry Potter I have more hope for this.

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Like all Netflix shows I give it four episodes before they drop the woke garbage into it. They always make around four good episodes to get you hooked and then start inserting black lesbians into a historical setting or something like that.

The original show wasn't all sun shine and roses, they had people freezing to death, kids dying of the plague, women having to work in fields while their husbands were a hundred miles away doing dangerous jobs, racism, children dying in fires, children getting beaten by fathers. That show could be pretty brutal for the 70s. I think the reason people remember it as a happy show where nothing bad happened is that the piece of music from Bonanza that David Rose reused as the ending theme was happy and feel good so people remember feeling good at the end of episodes despite whatever horrors had just been in that week's story.
 
"High Plains Drifter."

It's Clint Eastwood in a film that's nominally a Western, but it's not like any other film I've ever seen.

A lot of Westerns have a light spirit, or failing that, a preachy spirit. Most of them are American PG movies, where all the violence (onscreen or implied) isn't any heavier than you'd see on a TV show, and there are enough down-home chuckles and self-aware moments to allow for an easy watch.

This is not that movie.

I went in totally cold, knowing nothing, expecting mid. I was totally rapt.

You should totally see it.
 
KiwiFuzz2 said:
"High Plains Drifter."

It's Clint Eastwood in a film that's nominally a Western, but it's not like any other film I've ever seen.

A lot of Westerns have a light spirit, or failing that, a preachy spirit. Most of them are American PG movies, where all the violence (onscreen or implied) isn't any heavier than you'd see on a TV show, and there are enough down-home chuckles and self-aware moments to allow for an easy watch.

This is not that movie.

I went in totally cold, knowing nothing, expecting mid. I was totally rapt.

You should totally see it.
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If you liked that check out The Man who Shot Liberty Valance. Not the same type of movie but another dark western with an amazing cast that is a commentary on violence with a surprising ending.

Oh and you have to watch Unforgiven and High Noon at some point if you like darker westerns.
 
BubbaRobot887 said:
The original show wasn't all sun shine and roses
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The books cut out some hella dark shit. There was a brother who died in the same epidemic that made Mary blind.

Also, the hand of Libertarian propaganda is heavy there. Large chunks of shit that happened to the Ingalls family were left out because they didn't fit the politics that the co-author wanted to put forward.
 
KiwiFuzz2 said:
The books cut out some hella dark shit. There was a brother who died in the same epidemic that made Mary blind.

Also, the hand of Libertarian propaganda is heavy there. Large chunks of shit that happened to the Ingalls family were left out because they didn't fit the politics that the co-author wanted to put forward.
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Well that and they were books aimed a grade schoolers.

I can understand why they cut out the Ingalls having to go to court to force the people leasing their house in the big woods to pay up, not much of interest there.

It would be interesting to see a series based on the Ingalls' whole lives and not just the books, I am just not sure I trust Netflix to get it right.

Still I remember The Long Winter giving me nightmares as a young kid, that book went pretty hard for a kid's book.
 
Watch Persepolis , esp with the Iran War it's even more relevant now. such a great film. I can't relate too Marjane Satrapi but I always hear stories from my grandpa before and after the revolution in Cuba and it sounds about the same in Iran. a horror show where people butchered their own brothers for power and ideology followed by repression, fear, murder and savagery against the chewing gears of an uncaring system
 
I watched Rental Family with my sister and apart from one woke scene with lesbians that could be cut out it was the type of G rated family movie that deals with real problems and emotions that Hollywood use to make. It doesn't need adult content to deal with adult issues with real depth and the whole cast is really good.

Give this movie a watch.
 
Foundinglaunderer said:
Watch Persepolis , esp with the Iran War it's even more relevant now. such a great film. I can't relate too Marjane Satrapi but I always hear stories from my grandpa before and after the revolution in Cuba and it sounds about the same in Iran. a horror show where people butchered their own brothers for power and ideology followed by repression, fear, murder and savagery against the chewing gears of an uncaring system
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i read the books not too long ago. post revolution iran was a hell of a thing, only united by iraq fighting them not long after
 
Watched Marty Supreme and now I want to kill myself.
It's loud, obnoxious, meandering, pointless and boring.
I wanted to see Rocky with ping pong, what I got was a barrage of Jews talking over eachother all the time, our hero Marty scamming and lying and shouting his way through non relevant scenes. He's just an unlikable asshole the whole way through.
But in the end everything is okay because he has bullied his way to success and accepts "something" in the end, so him being an awful human being is forgotten.
If a non Jewish person would've written and directed this garbage, it would've been branded the most antisemitic film of the 21st century, but since it's written by one of the chosen, it's quirky.
It's also a 50s time piece, but has a synthy soundtrack, very subverting! And totally unfitting.
It should get an Oscar for the "most amount of ugly people on screen" , everyone looks mangy and disgusting.
 
Hugbox Kommissar said:
Wrath of Man
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This is actually a remake of an old French action/crime thriller Cash Truck (French: Le Convoyeur) and it is more "lighter" and more action oriented then the original one, which, while having the same premise, is much darker and pessimistic, with a different ending (it has a similiar dark and pessimistic tone as The 36 - 36 Quai des Orfevres - crime drama from the same year). A good choice for a Saturday night watch.

KiwiFuzz2 said:
High Plains Drifter
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I think i watched this movie like 4 times in my lifetime, but never from start to finish, 'Bout time i change that.
 
Eadred said:
Watched Marty Supreme and now I want to kill myself.
It's loud, obnoxious, meandering, pointless and boring.
I wanted to see Rocky with ping pong, what I got was a barrage of Jews talking over eachother all the time, our hero Marty scamming and lying and shouting his way through non relevant scenes. He's just an unlikable asshole the whole way through.
But in the end everything is okay because he has bullied his way to success and accepts "something" in the end, so him being an awful human being is forgotten.
If a non Jewish person would've written and directed this garbage, it would've been branded the most antisemitic film of the 21st century, but since it's written by one of the chosen, it's quirky.
It's also a 50s time piece, but has a synthy soundtrack, very subverting! And totally unfitting.
It should get an Oscar for the "most amount of ugly people on screen" , everyone looks mangy and disgusting.
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Rocky with Ping Pong is just the clip from Forrest Gump
 
watched alive (1993) cannibalism kicks ass

stories that involve it are my favorite
 
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