Looking for some inspiration
Everything everywhere all at once
I remain baffled that someone read the script and apparently said, a kung fu comedy sci fi thriller family drama with infinite timelines and jump cuts across dimensions occurring up to multiple times per second? Yeah, sounds good, this will definitely work, let’s fund this.
I don’t know how the Daniels did it, but whew, I’m glad they did.
I’m going to be the lesser cinema snob here, but Hot Fuzz lives rent free in my mind.
Definitely the highlight of the corneto trilogy, and a great time. There’s no single minute without a good joke.
I don’t think I saw anyone mention it: Sorry to Bother You. Great movie about class struggle and fighting the corpo bullshit.
Great movie. Went in blind and enjoyed it.
Another good movie kinda like Sorry to Bother You was The American Society of Magical Negroes. It’s a comedy about the title troupe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Society_of_Magical_Negroes
Bonkers movie I love it.
STALKER 1979 based on the sifi novel Roadside Picnic, and was the inspiration for the video game series of the same name. It reminded me of Annihiliation 2018 but less horror/action, and more lamentations on humanity.
To be honest anything by Tarkovsky is a must-watch.
This movie was crazy slow but worked surprisingly well. Especially compared with the book. The book was great but the movie manged to take it all to another level.
I watched Andrei Rublev recently (also Tarkovsky), it was pretty good. Visually stunning of course.
If I start movies like this past like 4pm, I’m going to fall asleep 100%>
I really enjoyed The Father, though it was extremely sad.
The Act of Killing. Mind. Blown.
The Act of Killing
That was one of the toughest movies to watch. It’s been more than a decade, and I still can’t bring myself to watch the follow-up.
Oh, i did not know he had create another one about the genocide. I don’t how I feel about that, haha. I need to be in a really good place mentally before I can watch it.
The documentary might be even more relevant than it has been for a long time, as we are seeing history repeat itself currently.
Mike Nick Nick and Alice
Death to Smoochy both very funny and good
The Secret World of Arrietty. An adaptation of The Borrowers, it has great determined teenage girl energy and gorgeous artwork that they really made the most of.
Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite films, so I’ve been slowly going through the Studio Ghibli catalog.
Porco Rosso is my favourite so I recommend that next if you havent seen it :)
I did! Fio is great.
“I’d rather be a pig than a Nazi”
I think Spirited Away is my fave Ghibli… Hard to say though.
Ghibli movies are the only foreign stuff that I will watch dubbed as they always get a stacked voice cast.
The English dub of Tororro is fantastic with Dakota and Elle Fanning back when they are actually children.
Civil War. Kirsten Dunst is fantastic in it and Jesse Plemons has an unforgettable minor part. It’s pretty bleak and could probably retitled “USA28” by now. But it"s my favourite film of the 2020s so far.
I recently watched Rear Window. It was a fantastic movie. For such an old film, it’s aged really well.
Godzilla Minus One
- M: Really great acting and camera work
- Atatürk: I was really surprised on the great production since I’ve never really seen a Turkish movie
- Das Boot: Heard so mich about it but never really came around to wazch it until I has a long train ride. I really loved it. Make sure that you watch the series instead of the movie (it’s a longer cut and contains everything that’s in the movie)
- Mr K: Really Kafkaesque. I don’t get why it’s scored so low.
- The menu: Great acting amd cool story
- Late night with the devil: I rellay like films taking place in one confined environment.
- Adam’s Apples: I like Mads Mikkelsen and I like the movies of that director.
- Bullet Train: again a confined place, funny and action driven movie that’s easy to watch.
- The Rocky Horror Picture show: Just saw this at the beginning of this month for the verx first time at a cinema that had a whole participation bag. It was really fun how the audience shouted stuff, threw rice,… Had sometimes a bit trouble to follow the movoe while preparing for the next thing to do (it’s easier if you already know the movie) but still would do it again.
Anders Thomas Jensen is IMO the best Danish director. It’s usually the same gang that stars in the movies but they do an impeccable job. I suppose you have also seen the more recent Riders of Justice and The Last Viking too?
I’ve seen Riders of Justice but not The Last Viking yet, since I didn’t manage to go to the cinema. But I’ll definetly will watch it once the blu ray is released
I can wholeheartedly recommend it, it’s already released on BluRay in Denmark, so you should be able to see it soon.
Thanks for letting me know. I jusz checked and it seems to be the 8th of May in Germany
If you liked the confined space of Late Night with The Devil then you should definitely check out The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant; and The Connection. Also 12 Angry Men if you haven’t. Older movies but they’re so good at this specific thing.
Thank you so much for the suggestions. I will definitely check them out. I also like Clue, which plays in a castle and Murder by Death. More towards horror is Horror Express and The Old Dark House.
Damn I love these old movies with the confined spaces.
I didn’t realise there’s so many horror movies that did this! Definitely will check those out, thanks!
Love Bullet Train! I would also recommend
I watched Memories of Murder again last night and that’s maybe my favourite film ever so I guess that counts on a technicality!
Best new (to me) film I’ve watched recently was The Life of Chuck (in October last year). It was a beautiful, life-affirming film that left me feeling very emotional and contemplative for at least a week after I’d seen it. I have been thinking about watching it again this year, perhaps with some other family or friends to see if it impacts them too.
ImDB is enshitified. Try tmdb.org for a change.
Nah, I still prefer IMDb. It’s a lot better for older media, due to its age. You can use browser extensions if you never want to click through to it, though.
You can’t read reviews anymore and cast lists are becoming obscured. Iits pretty much a glorified ad listing for the movie once those details are removed.
Only if you don’t have an account, so in that sense nothing has changed for me.
Has for me. I don’t reward enshittification.
But each to their own. Nice suggestions. Have you tried rental family?
No, but it was also recommended by family so it’s on the watch list!
Memories of Murder is so fucking good. Probably my favorite Korean language film
Specifically because I watched the 3D rerelease last summer ( spring? ), Coraline. That movie is so much better in 3D and you cannot tell me otherwise.
I recently watched It Happened One Night for the first time. It is a great movie, even at 92 years old.
I saw Rental Family a few weeks ago. It’s really stuck with me. Excellent movie.
