Movies (and TV shows)...

What? You want some recommendings for movies?
Sure.
My personal video library currently contains ~450 movies, and ~50 TV series.
What are you interested in exactly?
Just a tip for the weekend?
What do you prefer?
A plot that is told in ten minutes, but 85 minutes pot shots taken from helicopters while flaming cars wrecked, and machos talking in sententious sayings, saving young, half naked, naive women, and at the end the bad guy always dies?
Or more a Kammerspiel: three people sitting in a room for 180 minutes, having a discussion about the human in the modern world and the meaning of life?
A series to watch for the next months?
Sitcom or detective stories?
Or something more sophisticated like the kind of
"From Fritz Lang to the Hollywood classics of the 50s",
"The change of women's role in the history of the movie",
"How movies influence the memory of history",
or more like "Why to me the Oscar is no award I take serious"?
?

I think, the amount of new started off topic threads is getting out of hands, especially while for some topice there already are such threads, sometimes even already twice or more times.
 
Crivens said:
Yeah, you won't have enough neurons left after that. Bad POSIX. BAD.
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When it first came out (available only in theaters right now), I think it was the AP that said they were surprised at how good it was. But, on Rotten Tomatoes, early movie reviewers of newspaper critics gave it 8% (very bad) while users gave it 99% (one of the highest I've seen).

However, this shows how one cannot trust Rotten Tomatoes for reviews in the first place and I personally only look at it as a first test of whether I'd want to see a movie.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
on Rotten Tomatoes, early movie reviewers of newspaper critics gave it 8% (very bad) while users gave it 99% (one of the highest I've seen)
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8% is not "very bad" for Rotten Tomatoes. There is no word for it. It's the impossible most lowest fence totally sucks stop ever. Bad, really bad movies are around 30...40%. And I bet even two hours of white noise would get >10%.
But with the 99% (which on the other hand is also too good to be real) you also see how Rotten Tomatoes eventually works, and what can be done, when you have access to produce opinion poll power. :cool:
Anyway I'm convinced this - *uhem* - masterpiece - (could be they regret Leni Riefenstahl couldn't do it; alas Charlton Heston is also dead; would have been best choice for playing the president) will "win" at least two oscars: for best movie, and best actor (or maybe Gianni Infantino will present the Herman, FIFA's new movie award)
If not,... - well, personally I wouldn't miss LA, but then they can be happy if the Pulitzer Prize winner only fires all Hollywood staff, and bomb some of jury's houses.
 
Lately I prefer European cinema. Here are some recent productions worth checking out.

Luchshiye v Adu (Best in Hell). Simply a masterpiece. Furthermore, neither side is portrayed as "good" or "evil".

Trailer:

IMDB entry: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22530256/.

Full movie with English subtitles.


Magnaci i Czarodzieje (Magnates and Wizards). An amateur production, with no budget, and largely work of a single person. It took 10 years for the film to be released.

Trailers:


IMBD entry: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3622164/.

Full movie with English subtitles.


Escape from Tarkov. Raid. A movie based on a PC game.

Trailer:

IMBD entry: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30224514/.

Full movie with English subtitles.
 
+1 for independent movies.
If you are into it, check out "The Gamers", its also on YT.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
[…] I always like a movie recommendation. […]
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AmAzOn knows what I like. I like shorts, e. g. No, I don’t want to dance (3 mins), Dissonace (17 mins), The External World (17 mins), Overpass (19 mins) or Kung Fury (31 mins). You don’t regret having wasted so much of your time should the movie turn out to be bad. My OCD, OCD, OCD does not permit me to turn off the box mid-movie.​
drhowarddrfine said:
[…] on Netflix right now. […]
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As a FreeBSD user, I like the “free” genre :p For a limited period of time German public broadcasters make shows incl. (feature-length) films available via the internetwörk, a fair share is available with the original soundtrack (and – annoyingly – hardsubs). Without installing anything you can browse the media library with Mediathek View, a third‑party project (meanwhile shoves JavaScript down your throat).​
 
Maturin said:
Yeah. Those are very special - at least to "us western folk."
It's a complete own kind of cinema. If you get the hang of it, actually worth seeing.
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They can be, in my experience there's a ton of padding and unless you appreciate dance as an artform, it can be really hard to get into as each time a musical number starts it completely stops the plot and often times you'll hit the point where there's an intermission after which it's like 90% padding. That's not to say that there aren't great movies that they make, just that if you've got ADHD, you're going to be skipping at least a third of the movie in many cases. The good thing though is that if dance isn't your thing, you can usually skip the dance numbers without impairing the ability to follow the movie.

Personally, I've become a bit of a fan of Shah Rukh Khan, especially the more action oriented movies.

As for the thread itself, I mostly watch my own DVDs as streaming has gotten ridiculous both in terms of the cost and in terms of the extra time it takes to find things to watch. The Johnny Mnemonic Black and White cut is pretty good. And yesterday I watched Get Shorty again. I'll probably watch the sequel Be Cool at some point in the near future.
 
Espionage724 said:
Pirates of Silicon Valley
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Absolutely hated that. There's a scene where the Bill Gates is meeting with IBM for the first time and one of the guys steps out of character to face the camera and impart how important the moment is. It totally breaks "the third wall", I didn't like the acting and direction already, and I immediately switched it off at that point.

Fun fact, the guy who played Steve Jobs is Noah Wyle who is the lead on "The Pitt".
 
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