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Movies that every wizard should watch.
I recommend "un homem qui dort"(a man asleep). Synopsys on Google.
I recommend "un homem qui dort"(a man asleep). Synopsys on Google.
All About Lily Chou-chou by Shunji Iwai, Eureka by Shinji Aoyama, and Fallen Angels by Wong Kar-wai.
>>39294
I didn't really like that film but I've never liked essay films unless they're quirky / humorous
I didn't really like that film but I've never liked essay films unless they're quirky / humorous
>>39296
Rutracker
I would post the jpg if I still had it, but there is a guide on 4chan's /mu/ (possibly in the sticky) that will tell you how to use it. It's Russian so you don't have to worry about about ISP notices or the website getting shut down
Rutracker
I would post the jpg if I still had it, but there is a guide on 4chan's /mu/ (possibly in the sticky) that will tell you how to use it. It's Russian so you don't have to worry about about ISP notices or the website getting shut down
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The last American virgin. (1982)
Love finds Andy Hardy. (1938)
Thomas in Love. (2000)
Fatso. (2008)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. (2006)
Life as a fatal sexually transmitted disease. (2000)
Courier. (1986)
Dust. (2005)
Love finds Andy Hardy. (1938)
Thomas in Love. (2000)
Fatso. (2008)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. (2006)
Life as a fatal sexually transmitted disease. (2000)
Courier. (1986)
Dust. (2005)
Naked (1993) (has a lot of sex but I think some people here would enjoy it)
Sonatine (1993)
Kids Return (1996)
Ikiru (1952) (protagonist is a normalfag old man but I still liked the movie and really enjoyed the way it ended)
Sonatine (1993)
Kids Return (1996)
Ikiru (1952) (protagonist is a normalfag old man but I still liked the movie and really enjoyed the way it ended)
I think people on here would like the bridge on the river kwai. its a war classic about the Japanese using british pows to build a bridge over the strategic river kwai.
I liked The Comedy (2012) and Le Feu Follet (1963), even if the main characters are literally chads. Both recommended by wizards here some years ago.
>>39335
I still wonder why The Comedy has such a low score, both from critics and audience.
I guess one of those movies that you either love or hate, there's no in-between
I still wonder why The Comedy has such a low score, both from critics and audience.
I guess one of those movies that you either love or hate, there's no in-between
My next goal is to watch all of Nicolas Cage's movies. I've come to love this guy for some reason.
>>39344
Leaving Las Vegas surprised me alot, not his usual kind of role. Probably one of the most depressive movies I've ever watched. In Adaptation he also played a depressed guy that I could relate to alot. Saw Lord of War yesterday. I enjoyed The Family Man although it was a normgroid family movie. I don't know if that is acceptable to say on here, but whatever. Looking forward to the rest, the guy has a really impressive filmography. All memes aside I think the guy is a fantastic actor. I'm even gonna watch all of his new shitty movies.
Leaving Las Vegas surprised me alot, not his usual kind of role. Probably one of the most depressive movies I've ever watched. In Adaptation he also played a depressed guy that I could relate to alot. Saw Lord of War yesterday. I enjoyed The Family Man although it was a normgroid family movie. I don't know if that is acceptable to say on here, but whatever. Looking forward to the rest, the guy has a really impressive filmography. All memes aside I think the guy is a fantastic actor. I'm even gonna watch all of his new shitty movies.
Le Feu Follet brushed me in the wrong direction considering that we'll get to see the protagonist getting intimate with a succubus from the get-go.
I did relate to him saying: "C'est difficile d'être un homme.", but I still find it tough to get close to a man that finds refuge in alcoholism and fornication.
Un Homme Qui Dort on the other hand, really fuels my dream of slipping through the cracks of society and eventually erase my existence.
Nobody Knows was closer to my interests as this movie deals with the consequences of neglecting responsibilities when it comes to reproduction.
One would try as best as he can to attend to his needs, especially in this time where we tend to live for the instant but heckn things would take a turn for the best if some took the time of dealing with the result.
I find it revolting to see that this piss-poor mother managed to reiterate the mistake of sleeping around to the point of lining up 4 kids from several potential fathers.
You can't possibly envision parenthood if you estimate that your well-being should be put before anything else.
I did relate to him saying: "C'est difficile d'être un homme.", but I still find it tough to get close to a man that finds refuge in alcoholism and fornication.
Un Homme Qui Dort on the other hand, really fuels my dream of slipping through the cracks of society and eventually erase my existence.
Nobody Knows was closer to my interests as this movie deals with the consequences of neglecting responsibilities when it comes to reproduction.
One would try as best as he can to attend to his needs, especially in this time where we tend to live for the instant but heckn things would take a turn for the best if some took the time of dealing with the result.
I find it revolting to see that this piss-poor mother managed to reiterate the mistake of sleeping around to the point of lining up 4 kids from several potential fathers.
You can't possibly envision parenthood if you estimate that your well-being should be put before anything else.
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Watched three of this directors movies and liked them quite a lot.
Also the actor in the hunt is superb.
Also the actor in the hunt is superb.
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Saw Face/off today, probably one of the best action movies ever. Nicolas Cage is a fucking god. Really looking forward to see the rest of his work, such a nice goodie-bag. I'm worried about what to watch afterwards though; he just brings something to the table that other's can't.
>>39462
Saw that movie last year, not what I expected it to be. Was pleasantly surprised. I don't understand why the guy didn't just move though, why was he do adamant to stay in that little village?
>>39462
Saw that movie last year, not what I expected it to be. Was pleasantly surprised. I don't understand why the guy didn't just move though, why was he do adamant to stay in that little village?
>>39470
because it's his village, his friends, his life …
Also it would be abandonning in the face of adversity, he's got nothing to blame himself for.
Fuck your weak succubi mentality.
because it's his village, his friends, his life …
Also it would be abandonning in the face of adversity, he's got nothing to blame himself for.
Fuck your weak succubi mentality.
>>39470
the funny thing is that this movie is seen as the start of John Woo's downfall from the god-tier movies he made in Hong Kong. He did not shoot a single legendary movie while he was in Hollywood and today he is back in Hong Kong shooting mediocre movies because the new top director is Johnnie To.
the funny thing is that this movie is seen as the start of John Woo's downfall from the god-tier movies he made in Hong Kong. He did not shoot a single legendary movie while he was in Hollywood and today he is back in Hong Kong shooting mediocre movies because the new top director is Johnnie To.
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Twas a fun movie. And I don't care what anyone says. Commies should be humiliated.
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Dead Man's Shoes is something I would recommend to anybody here.
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My dinner with Andre (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/
Slacker (1991)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/
Waking Life (2001)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
Just remembering movies that wizards could like.
Picture related, a quote from Slacker
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/
Slacker (1991)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/
Waking Life (2001)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
Just remembering movies that wizards could like.
Picture related, a quote from Slacker
>>39307
Same here. The main character had lost his virginity, proving that even normal people can grow into isolation.
Same here. The main character had lost his virginity, proving that even normal people can grow into isolation.
>>39499
you don't need to watch that film to have proof for that. Also, loosing virginity doesn't make you a normal, it just prevents you from becoming a wizard
you don't need to watch that film to have proof for that. Also, loosing virginity doesn't make you a normal, it just prevents you from becoming a wizard
>>39505
Lol, this could be anything I suppose. Like with me, I could watch The Thing (1986) and consider it comfy because of the setting, being isolated in an Antarctic research station with a group of scientists and no succubi to contend with in the cast. At other times I find a long running bbc detective series like Inspector Lewis comfy. Whatever suits your taste I guess.
Lol, this could be anything I suppose. Like with me, I could watch The Thing (1986) and consider it comfy because of the setting, being isolated in an Antarctic research station with a group of scientists and no succubi to contend with in the cast. At other times I find a long running bbc detective series like Inspector Lewis comfy. Whatever suits your taste I guess.
>>39511
Yes, that's a pretty idiotic request. Also, OP is about "movies that every wizard should watch", not "comfy" movies, whatever it does mean
Yes, that's a pretty idiotic request. Also, OP is about "movies that every wizard should watch", not "comfy" movies, whatever it does mean
>>39514
it's never said that the character lost his virginity. you're a fucking retard. case closed, NEEEEXT
it's never said that the character lost his virginity. you're a fucking retard. case closed, NEEEEXT
>>39516
If I'm not wrong, in some scene the female narrator mentions his "first time", thus implying he have lost virginity.
If I'm not wrong, in some scene the female narrator mentions his "first time", thus implying he have lost virginity.
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Anyone ever seen this one? Probably one of the most melancholic movies I've ever watched. Very realistic portrayal of the mundane everyday life.
>>39547
It got panned by the critics, but I really liked the vibe it set. Nic Cage did a great job as the lead, too.
It got panned by the critics, but I really liked the vibe it set. Nic Cage did a great job as the lead, too.
>>39514
It's actually not that pretentious at all
Watch it with the English narrator if you can't do sloppy French accents or mute the sound all together because it's a very pretty film
It's actually not that pretentious at all
Watch it with the English narrator if you can't do sloppy French accents or mute the sound all together because it's a very pretty film
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>>39582
>narrator says "first time" that could mean anything out of context
>during the whole movie there isn't a single reference to sex, love or romantic relationships
jesus christ you guys are really fucking douches. not even shitposting, honestly
>narrator says "first time" that could mean anything out of context
>during the whole movie there isn't a single reference to sex, love or romantic relationships
jesus christ you guys are really fucking douches. not even shitposting, honestly
His "first time" could have alluded to a first suicide attempt. Is your mind so clouded by flesh that you conclude most all implications to be related to sex?
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>>39646
he humps a pinbal machine while narrator says he desires succs or something like that.
he humps a pinbal machine while narrator says he desires succs or something like that.
>>39476
Was a funny movie, but I hate that they just HAD to include that bullshit relationship between the dude and the Korean lady. It was totally unnecessary and that part could've been easily been unsexualized and replaced with a man.
Was a funny movie, but I hate that they just HAD to include that bullshit relationship between the dude and the Korean lady. It was totally unnecessary and that part could've been easily been unsexualized and replaced with a man.
>>39296
Popcorn time. I use a VPN so I don't get e-mail form my ISP. According to this article, that system was stopped earlier this year:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/28/internet-providers-stop-copyright-alerts/
But I am not paying for the internet and I don't want to have the internet throttled or some shit because of my movie piracy.
Popcorn time. I use a VPN so I don't get e-mail form my ISP. According to this article, that system was stopped earlier this year:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/28/internet-providers-stop-copyright-alerts/
But I am not paying for the internet and I don't want to have the internet throttled or some shit because of my movie piracy.
>>40082
One thing I really like about Verizon is they never really have a fuck about that sort of thing.
One thing I really like about Verizon is they never really have a fuck about that sort of thing.
>>39654
yeah, he is a professional actor that can do pretty much any role, I think.
Last film I watched with him was "The Wicker man" which was awful, especially when you saw the original.
Didn't find "Joe" on putlocker, guess I have to torrent it.
yeah, he is a professional actor that can do pretty much any role, I think.
Last film I watched with him was "The Wicker man" which was awful, especially when you saw the original.
Didn't find "Joe" on putlocker, guess I have to torrent it.
>>39516
I just checked the book real quick and it does mention in the beginning that he has lost his virginity. I can't remember if that piece of text was in the movie or not but despite that, I still find the character very relatable.
I just checked the book real quick and it does mention in the beginning that he has lost his virginity. I can't remember if that piece of text was in the movie or not but despite that, I still find the character very relatable.
>>39294
that movie was extremely boring. i hate european cinema especially french films. they always have unnecessary nudity in them.
that movie was extremely boring. i hate european cinema especially french films. they always have unnecessary nudity in them.
Any sad movies? Any kind of movie that will just have me in bed for a long time in contemplation?
Nothing like, "A father and his son must survive in the apocalypse against a horde of survivors who have turned to cannibalism to survive" or "A man and his family are forced to star in a snuff film only to commit group suicide in the end to stop this madness." or anything of the sort. Nothing like "Watership Down" or the sort.
Something that will depress me, but isn't about a tragedy in someone's life. That only horrifies me, not depresses me.
Nothing like, "A father and his son must survive in the apocalypse against a horde of survivors who have turned to cannibalism to survive" or "A man and his family are forced to star in a snuff film only to commit group suicide in the end to stop this madness." or anything of the sort. Nothing like "Watership Down" or the sort.
Something that will depress me, but isn't about a tragedy in someone's life. That only horrifies me, not depresses me.
Why is the 2016 ghostbusters flick not a valid suggestion for >>40158, mod-kun? What are you a film critic now?
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I thought this movie was a bit wizardly, if more than a little depressing as well. In it, a financially destitute, elderly wiz is constantly tormented by vicious, uncaring normalfags. Most prominent of which is his abusive landlady, who wants nothing more than to throw him out in the street and let him rot in the cold. Most of the movie is spent with Umberto trying to scrounge up what little money he can muster, which includes selling away all of what few possessions he has, to pay back his meager debts to said evil landlady who's, ultimately, hellbent on using it as an excuse to finally get rid of him for good. His only real comfort in the world is his little dog Flike. From what I recall, he never claims to have ever been married, or even with a succubus for that matter, and has no children either. There is a bit of a symbolic father/daughter thing going on with the maid at times, but that's about it. The ending, in particular, I thought was quite good/wizardly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211359/
excellent… one of a handful of times in my life I happened to have read the book before I even knew the movie existed. A delicate subject easy to fuck up or turn into inadvertent comedy. This movie comforted me on many painful nights over the years.
excellent… one of a handful of times in my life I happened to have read the book before I even knew the movie existed. A delicate subject easy to fuck up or turn into inadvertent comedy. This movie comforted me on many painful nights over the years.
someone please recommend me live action asian comedies similar to kung fu hustle or neko ramen taisho
I'm sick and tired of maerican media
I'm sick and tired of maerican media
>>40255
>He was a quiet man
This movie hit me on a personal level. The guy lives a mundane life, goes to a shit job he hates just to pay bills, does something (not gonna spoil) at work and then suddenly everyone loves him. He is genuinely shocked that people like him and his first reaction was that he was gonna get fired.
It really shows how shallow and hollow normgroids and succubi are too.
It's great for wizzies stuck in wageslaving.
>He was a quiet man
This movie hit me on a personal level. The guy lives a mundane life, goes to a shit job he hates just to pay bills, does something (not gonna spoil) at work and then suddenly everyone loves him. He is genuinely shocked that people like him and his first reaction was that he was gonna get fired.
It really shows how shallow and hollow normgroids and succubi are too.
It's great for wizzies stuck in wageslaving.
>>40363
Rampage 1 is great. Immediate massacre action following a short buildup of bad events, a thoughtful execution, and the political shitspewer gets owned in a sneaky escape plan.
Rampage 2 is meh. Far less people get shot, there's more lead involvement from other characters, it spews a political message that yeah sure whatever big bankers 1% too much oil whataver fine. The getaway was just him walking away in his armour.
Rampage 3, which wasn't even supposed to exist, is such a horrendous movie in terms of directing and screenplay, and compared to the first it is absolute garbage, don't even watch, it's designed to piss wizards off.
Rampage 1 is great. Immediate massacre action following a short buildup of bad events, a thoughtful execution, and the political shitspewer gets owned in a sneaky escape plan.
Rampage 2 is meh. Far less people get shot, there's more lead involvement from other characters, it spews a political message that yeah sure whatever big bankers 1% too much oil whataver fine. The getaway was just him walking away in his armour.
Rampage 3, which wasn't even supposed to exist, is such a horrendous movie in terms of directing and screenplay, and compared to the first it is absolute garbage, don't even watch, it's designed to piss wizards off.
John Wick 1 & 2
Good ol fashioned action movie. No romance bullshit, just solid action and embraces show, don't tell storytelling.
Good ol fashioned action movie. No romance bullshit, just solid action and embraces show, don't tell storytelling.
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the labyrinth
the scenery, the music, animatronics — everything about this movie is just great fun
and the goblin king is so cool and pretty ♥（´・｀ ）
the scenery, the music, animatronics — everything about this movie is just great fun
and the goblin king is so cool and pretty ♥（´・｀ ）
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>>39504
i really liked this one.
i really liked this one.
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april story
the female protagonist is some shy succubus who isn't very popular
it has some scenes in it that make me laugh because it's obvious they were put in there to appeal to incels. webm related for example
the female protagonist is some shy succubus who isn't very popular
it has some scenes in it that make me laugh because it's obvious they were put in there to appeal to incels. webm related for example
>>39294
Wanted to thank you guys for this movie thread. Torrented more than 50% of suggestions.
Wanted to thank you guys for this movie thread. Torrented more than 50% of suggestions.
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A shut-in wizard tries to grab himself a loli waifu and creeps out the normies, then spergs out on everything.
A timeless classic.
A timeless classic.
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Pure Nolan kino
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I just watched at the theater Daddy's Home 2, Will Ferrel and Mark Wahlberg are some of my favorite movie actors. It was such a really good movie!! It was a lot of fun!
>>40764
I did watched it tough! Do you think I watch anime or some high quality shit only genius-level people watch?
I can even tell you the climax, Christmas is ruined thanks to Mark Wahlberg's dad, played by Mel Gibson playing Will Ferrel and Walbergs against each other, so they left their lodge thing and there is a blizzard so they get stranded in a movie theater for Christmas, it was good because they saw a Liam Neeson and the kid kissed his step sister, at the end Mark Walberg makes up his differences with John Cena and Will Ferrel and they sing.
However my favorite scene was where Will Ferrel's dad (John Lithgow) went missing and almost eat by wolves, and had no cellphone signal because Will Ferrel previously cut an antenna masquerading as a tree.
I did watched it tough! Do you think I watch anime or some high quality shit only genius-level people watch?
I can even tell you the climax, Christmas is ruined thanks to Mark Wahlberg's dad, played by Mel Gibson playing Will Ferrel and Walbergs against each other, so they left their lodge thing and there is a blizzard so they get stranded in a movie theater for Christmas, it was good because they saw a Liam Neeson and the kid kissed his step sister, at the end Mark Walberg makes up his differences with John Cena and Will Ferrel and they sing.
However my favorite scene was where Will Ferrel's dad (John Lithgow) went missing and almost eat by wolves, and had no cellphone signal because Will Ferrel previously cut an antenna masquerading as a tree.
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Anyone knows if this movie is any good? I watched the last scene and it's great, but about the full movie, how is it?
>>40811
I enjoyed that film quite a bit, very comfy for a winter movie. I sipped some black coffee and thought Jones performance was spot on, it really struck a chord with me.
Another film that is similar to the sitting around in a room / dialogue only type of movie would be "The Man from Earth" (2007). I thought that was also pretty good, but on no level as TSL.
I enjoyed that film quite a bit, very comfy for a winter movie. I sipped some black coffee and thought Jones performance was spot on, it really struck a chord with me.
Another film that is similar to the sitting around in a room / dialogue only type of movie would be "The Man from Earth" (2007). I thought that was also pretty good, but on no level as TSL.
>>40811
It was so good but every time I make the mistake of recommending it to a normie they tell me they hated it and that it is too depressing.
It was a masterful preformance by both actors and unbelievable well written. How could anyone not see how good it is?
It was so good but every time I make the mistake of recommending it to a normie they tell me they hated it and that it is too depressing.
It was a masterful preformance by both actors and unbelievable well written. How could anyone not see how good it is?
The Devil Probably made in 77, french drama movie. May contain spoilers but I don't think anyone here will mind it.
Regret watching it, typical art movie with nothing to tell but acting like it is somewhat deep. Long silences, characters doing nothing or only useless every day things and philosophizing like your average uni normalfags would do. Luckily it is only ~90 minutes long.
The story itself is nothing special, it is about a young guy who has an existential crisis and wants to die. The movie itself starts with the viewer seeing newspaper articles about his suicide and then the movie goes back in time to show us what happened. All of the characters are unlikable and unrealistic. This is so typical for art movies that they feature characters who talk/act like no people ever acts/talks like in real life. The movie tries to be realistic but people - especially normals - just don't act/talk like the characters here. This isn't realistic, it is only pretentious. Also, I kept mixing up the characters with each other even though there are only ~5 important characters in the movie because they just looked so ordinary and they had zero personality besides the MC. Some shitty and hard to understand love triangle is also present but I couldn't make it who was the gf of who or what was their relation to each other. Kind of felt like a harem anime, the 2 succubi are concerned about MC's negativity and the friend of the MC gets cucked by the MC repeatedly because he fucks with his gf…or something like that.
Oh and we get lectures about the environment dying and learn that beating animals up by shovels is a bad thing…
The best part of the movie is probably the part where the MC talks with a psychiatrist who pushes the usual normalfag memes and cliches but the MC explains why the world sucks in a surprisingly accurate and sympathetic way, it was like hearing my younger self's thoughts, I recommend watching this scene at least for /dep/ressed wizards, vid related is a part of it. The other good part was the ending which came suddenly and left me with emptiness. Aside from these 2 scenes it was a boring movie.
Regret watching it, typical art movie with nothing to tell but acting like it is somewhat deep. Long silences, characters doing nothing or only useless every day things and philosophizing like your average uni normalfags would do. Luckily it is only ~90 minutes long.
The story itself is nothing special, it is about a young guy who has an existential crisis and wants to die. The movie itself starts with the viewer seeing newspaper articles about his suicide and then the movie goes back in time to show us what happened. All of the characters are unlikable and unrealistic. This is so typical for art movies that they feature characters who talk/act like no people ever acts/talks like in real life. The movie tries to be realistic but people - especially normals - just don't act/talk like the characters here. This isn't realistic, it is only pretentious. Also, I kept mixing up the characters with each other even though there are only ~5 important characters in the movie because they just looked so ordinary and they had zero personality besides the MC. Some shitty and hard to understand love triangle is also present but I couldn't make it who was the gf of who or what was their relation to each other. Kind of felt like a harem anime, the 2 succubi are concerned about MC's negativity and the friend of the MC gets cucked by the MC repeatedly because he fucks with his gf…or something like that.
Oh and we get lectures about the environment dying and learn that beating animals up by shovels is a bad thing…
The best part of the movie is probably the part where the MC talks with a psychiatrist who pushes the usual normalfag memes and cliches but the MC explains why the world sucks in a surprisingly accurate and sympathetic way, it was like hearing my younger self's thoughts, I recommend watching this scene at least for /dep/ressed wizards, vid related is a part of it. The other good part was the ending which came suddenly and left me with emptiness. Aside from these 2 scenes it was a boring movie.
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man this movie sucked, without a doubt one of the worst movies i've ever seen
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>>40750
i don't like Nolan's movies, they try to make something unrealistic like batman more realistic and fail, but this one was great, he sould make more period films.
i don't like Nolan's movies, they try to make something unrealistic like batman more realistic and fail, but this one was great, he sould make more period films.
What are your favorite horror films? I'm just staring at imdb and there are thousands of titles to pick from, it's making me anxious.
Some stuff I watched:
>Oliver Twist (2005)
for nostalgia feels, I was maybe 13 when I saw it in the cinema
>The Godfather 1&2
very good, especially the first one. Didn't bother watching part 3
>The Lion King
ok, is a children's movie. Not much happens
>Leaving Las Vegas
rewatch. Great "fuck it" movie
>Oliver Twist (2005)
for nostalgia feels, I was maybe 13 when I saw it in the cinema
>The Godfather 1&2
very good, especially the first one. Didn't bother watching part 3
>The Lion King
ok, is a children's movie. Not much happens
>Leaving Las Vegas
rewatch. Great "fuck it" movie
>>40926
I was a huge horror fan when I was in my edgy satanist phase. I've mostly watched older ones so most on the list is going to be from the 70s/80s/90s.
- Deep Red
- Tenebre
- Friday the 13th: 1, 2, 3, 4 mainly, the others are good too but these are the best ones
- Nightmare on Elm Street: 1, 3, 4, New Nightmare mainly
- Halloween: 1, 2, 6, 2 remake mainly
- Child's Play: 1, 2, 6 mainly
- Hellraiser: 1, 2, 3 mainly
- The dorm that dripped blood
- Toolbox Murders
- The town that dreaded sundown
- The Initiation
- Blood Rage
- Madman
- The house on sorority row
- Sleepaway Camp: 1 mainly
- Happy Birthday to me
- The Prowler
- My bloody valentine
- The burning
- The funhouse
- Silent Night Deadly Night 1 and 2
- Don't go in the woods
- The slumber party massacre 1, 2, 3
- Curtains
- Bloody Moon
- City of the living dead
- The Beyond
- The house by the cemetery
- in general everything directed by Dario Argento
I was a huge horror fan when I was in my edgy satanist phase. I've mostly watched older ones so most on the list is going to be from the 70s/80s/90s.
- Deep Red
- Tenebre
- Friday the 13th: 1, 2, 3, 4 mainly, the others are good too but these are the best ones
- Nightmare on Elm Street: 1, 3, 4, New Nightmare mainly
- Halloween: 1, 2, 6, 2 remake mainly
- Child's Play: 1, 2, 6 mainly
- Hellraiser: 1, 2, 3 mainly
- The dorm that dripped blood
- Toolbox Murders
- The town that dreaded sundown
- The Initiation
- Blood Rage
- Madman
- The house on sorority row
- Sleepaway Camp: 1 mainly
- Happy Birthday to me
- The Prowler
- My bloody valentine
- The burning
- The funhouse
- Silent Night Deadly Night 1 and 2
- Don't go in the woods
- The slumber party massacre 1, 2, 3
- Curtains
- Bloody Moon
- City of the living dead
- The Beyond
- The house by the cemetery
- in general everything directed by Dario Argento
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>This is the only film in which a typewriter beetle kills another typewriter beetle for being a secret agent.
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Very impressive crime drama, one of the best Russian movies of the year and overall my favorite Russian movie. Though there is not much choice, you can divide modern Russian cinema into three types: shitty iq89 comedies, shitty Bollywood style action movies and sometimes decent dramas about shitty Russian life. Also basically almost whole Russian cinema is sponsored by the state, there is rampant corruption, Russian blockbusters have inflated budget and rarely look good.
And some oder stuff, I think I'm done watching movies now for the time being.
>The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A bit too long maybe, but not bad. I guess it's one of those films that you just got to see at some point.
>Dial M for Murder
This one was quite entertaining actually.
>Casablanca
Great film, enjoyed it a lot
>Notorious (1946)
Very dull movie despite having two great actors in it
>Double Indemnity
Not my thing, didn't like this one at all.
>Rear Windows
Also didn't like this one.
>The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A bit too long maybe, but not bad. I guess it's one of those films that you just got to see at some point.
>Dial M for Murder
This one was quite entertaining actually.
>Casablanca
Great film, enjoyed it a lot
>Notorious (1946)
Very dull movie despite having two great actors in it
>Double Indemnity
Not my thing, didn't like this one at all.
>Rear Windows
Also didn't like this one.
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My personal favourite
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The Zero Theorem
>>41089
>Rear Windows
>I didn't like this one.
Could you expand on that? It's been a while since I saw that movie but I remember it was a nice movie. I even felt sympathy for the killer.
>Rear Windows
>I didn't like this one.
Could you expand on that? It's been a while since I saw that movie but I remember it was a nice movie. I even felt sympathy for the killer.
>>41121
Not him but I feel this is kind of film that’s been so copied and parodied that it kinda lose its appeal, I don’t know.
Not him but I feel this is kind of film that’s been so copied and parodied that it kinda lose its appeal, I don’t know.
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>>41339
Could you give a few examples of some supposedly "dull" movies that you actually like?
I think the original is far superior to the new one, so I'm interested in what your idea of "dull" is.
Could you give a few examples of some supposedly "dull" movies that you actually like?
I think the original is far superior to the new one, so I'm interested in what your idea of "dull" is.
>>41357
rise to valhalla, seventh seal, stalker, barry lyndon, seven samurai, there will be blood, dead man's shoes, all quiet on the western front, blue ruin, hidden fortress, breathless, eraserhead, patton, the road, aguirre, the witch, the rover, come and see, the imitation game, the machinist, naked lunch, ciizen kane, easy rider, the revenant, sicario, letters from iwo jima, apocalypse now, jarhead, no country for old men, shawshank redemption, her, the hunt, stalingrad, paths of glory, benjamin button, ex machina, cuckoo's nest, taxi driver, a man asleep, rainman, the big short.
rise to valhalla, seventh seal, stalker, barry lyndon, seven samurai, there will be blood, dead man's shoes, all quiet on the western front, blue ruin, hidden fortress, breathless, eraserhead, patton, the road, aguirre, the witch, the rover, come and see, the imitation game, the machinist, naked lunch, ciizen kane, easy rider, the revenant, sicario, letters from iwo jima, apocalypse now, jarhead, no country for old men, shawshank redemption, her, the hunt, stalingrad, paths of glory, benjamin button, ex machina, cuckoo's nest, taxi driver, a man asleep, rainman, the big short.
>>41431
Ah, I see. You mean slow.
I really don't see how you could call any of those dull, but I guess it's just an issue of semantics.
Blade Runner isn't a thriller. A lot of people really don't like the movie not necessarily because it's slow, but because it lacks suspense. I'd say the "point" of the movie is in a way completely divorced from anything even happening on screen. The fact that everything happens exactly as it would always happen, with no grand adventure or marvelous spectacle except for the world in which the events transpire, is in itself the purpose of the movie. There will always be more Roys failing to find more time, or more Deckards doing their job. Like no matter what kind of alien environment people are projected onto, we're all just doing exactly what we've always done. I actually really like the way it depicts the futility of it all.
NewBlade is much more of a "movie," where Blade Runner is like an unfortunate circumstance.
Ah, I see. You mean slow.
I really don't see how you could call any of those dull, but I guess it's just an issue of semantics.
Blade Runner isn't a thriller. A lot of people really don't like the movie not necessarily because it's slow, but because it lacks suspense. I'd say the "point" of the movie is in a way completely divorced from anything even happening on screen. The fact that everything happens exactly as it would always happen, with no grand adventure or marvelous spectacle except for the world in which the events transpire, is in itself the purpose of the movie. There will always be more Roys failing to find more time, or more Deckards doing their job. Like no matter what kind of alien environment people are projected onto, we're all just doing exactly what we've always done. I actually really like the way it depicts the futility of it all.
NewBlade is much more of a "movie," where Blade Runner is like an unfortunate circumstance.
I watched Alone in the Wilderness the other day.
It's about a man named Dick Proenneke who in his retirement decides he wants to live in the picturesque Alaskan wilderness, by a beautiful lake. He builds himself a cabin and lives there for 30 years, with short pauses in between. He isn't completely self reliant, as one of his friends regularly (once every few months on average) brings him some supplies via airplane, but comes pretty close to it.
It's about a man named Dick Proenneke who in his retirement decides he wants to live in the picturesque Alaskan wilderness, by a beautiful lake. He builds himself a cabin and lives there for 30 years, with short pauses in between. He isn't completely self reliant, as one of his friends regularly (once every few months on average) brings him some supplies via airplane, but comes pretty close to it.
>>41454
I love Alone in the WIlderness, it's a classic. Lately I have only been able to find scraps on YouTube though…do you have a link to the full version?
Also if anyone hasn't seen it go try to watch it, it's super comfy and excellent.
I love Alone in the WIlderness, it's a classic. Lately I have only been able to find scraps on YouTube though…do you have a link to the full version?
Also if anyone hasn't seen it go try to watch it, it's super comfy and excellent.
>>41454
One of the greatest videos on YouTube. I've watched it dozens of times and have posted it on numerous forums over the years.
One of the greatest videos on YouTube. I've watched it dozens of times and have posted it on numerous forums over the years.
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I'm not sure at all what to make of this movie. About as subtle as a brick. Protagonist is Mother Nature, her husband is God. The house is everything to the protagonist, so when the normalfags come to have God give them graces they defile Mother Nature's home in the process. Putting it into perspective I can see why people don't like it. It feels like some high school kid's short story in a creative writing class where they think if everything symbolizes something it's an amazing work of literature. And that's not getting into the blatant religious symbolism. It's interesting to watch the first go around at least. Not something I see myself looking back on.
I really wanted to post something I put a lot of effort and focus into listing, but there are so many god damn movies in this thread that sifting the good from the bad; those most might have seen; can understand; relates to the interests and ideals of wizards; hasn't been posted; doesn't include the topics wizards hate; and is an actual piece of art or information rather than a Hollywood filler - it's just almost impossible to give an accurate list without just deducing to my personal favs.
So, speculate however you may see fit. These are some good ones on topics that matter, just for starters. i tried to mix it up some.
>2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
>Food Inc. (2008)
>Generation Kill (2008)
>The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
>Into the Wild (2007)
>Religulous (2008)
>Babel (2006)
So, speculate however you may see fit. These are some good ones on topics that matter, just for starters. i tried to mix it up some.
>2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
>Food Inc. (2008)
>Generation Kill (2008)
>The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
>Into the Wild (2007)
>Religulous (2008)
>Babel (2006)
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watched the driver, very similar to drive, almost can be considered a soft remake, but according to wikipedia it's unrelated. i still like the drive more, but this is very decent as well and unlike drive, there is no romantic interest, just a lone driver doing his job.
the hmong actors were terrible, especially young ones, especially toad. i don't know why they bothered to get hmong actors if their input on culture and traditions was supposedly disregarded, sahould've just gotten decent asian actors.
it's a pretty cheesy movie, just like other eastwood's films i watched, but i still enjoyed it.
it's a pretty cheesy movie, just like other eastwood's films i watched, but i still enjoyed it.
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So as I typically do each winter I was checking out what the western movie industry has vomited during the previous year (meaning 2017 this time), and I stumbled upon "Bright", which sounded like something Shadowrun-inspired judging by the summary.
Of course I'm no fool and know exactly what to expect from Hollywood in "le current year", so I was ready for all kinds of propaganda and agenda-pushing. And there indeed was a lot with obvious allegories and shit, but fortunately most of it was concentrated in the beginning of the movie. Other than that can't say I hated the whole thing - it wasn't boring at least.
Give it a watch if you like Shadowrun (not meaning cyberpunk, but rather the motive of fantasy races living in modernity). Don't expect too much more than a typical Will Smith gunfighting action though.
Of course I'm no fool and know exactly what to expect from Hollywood in "le current year", so I was ready for all kinds of propaganda and agenda-pushing. And there indeed was a lot with obvious allegories and shit, but fortunately most of it was concentrated in the beginning of the movie. Other than that can't say I hated the whole thing - it wasn't boring at least.
Give it a watch if you like Shadowrun (not meaning cyberpunk, but rather the motive of fantasy races living in modernity). Don't expect too much more than a typical Will Smith gunfighting action though.
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The original wizardly adventure!
…at least it was for me back in the 80s. The part with the castle moat dragon scared the total shit outta me back then.
Summary: Dwarf wizard in training journeys to slay an evil witch queen.
…at least it was for me back in the 80s. The part with the castle moat dragon scared the total shit outta me back then.
Summary: Dwarf wizard in training journeys to slay an evil witch queen.
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Watched Suburbicon. It was pretty slow in the beginning, but it turned out to be pretty fun once it got past the first half. I really enjoyed the atmospehere and feel of an american suburb in the fifties.
>>41789
You really had me sold until I googled it.
>But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark understomach of betrayal, deceit and violence.
I'm sick of the kike hollywood template of "idyllic white community hides a darrrrrrrrk secret." Seen one evil whitey propaganda flick you've seen em all. Fuck that shit.
You really had me sold until I googled it.
>But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark understomach of betrayal, deceit and violence.
I'm sick of the kike hollywood template of "idyllic white community hides a darrrrrrrrk secret." Seen one evil whitey propaganda flick you've seen em all. Fuck that shit.
Rebels of the neon god
Away with words
The River 1997
Xiao wu
Tokyo rampage
Une homme qui don't
What time is it there?
Andrei rublev
Throw away your books and rally on the street
Cast
Away with words
The River 1997
Xiao wu
Tokyo rampage
Une homme qui don't
What time is it there?
Andrei rublev
Throw away your books and rally on the street
Cast
>>41794
that was pretty cool, i liked the raining knives and windshield stabbing scenes. i couldn't find a version with subtitles but the main character did not speak much at all, so i think it's fine to focus on everything else.
that was pretty cool, i liked the raining knives and windshield stabbing scenes. i couldn't find a version with subtitles but the main character did not speak much at all, so i think it's fine to focus on everything else.
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Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
It's a quaint and uneventful adventure picture. Kumiko, a young Japanese succubus, is convinced that she has found a means to escape her monotonous lifestyle as an aging officewomen.
She travels to America to find the buried cash she saw at the end of Fargo.
It's a quaint and uneventful adventure picture. Kumiko, a young Japanese succubus, is convinced that she has found a means to escape her monotonous lifestyle as an aging officewomen.
She travels to America to find the buried cash she saw at the end of Fargo.
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Come and see, soviet film about ww2.
A child that end up orphan when the nazis burn his village on ukraine end up orphan and join the resistance. Surrealist and grim
A child that end up orphan when the nazis burn his village on ukraine end up orphan and join the resistance. Surrealist and grim
>>42110
Just watched it. Full vid embedded.
This is just a Japanese man's projection that succubi can be in any shape or form interesting.
I have been in Japan and have never met a succubi who wasn't crazy childish or extremely dull.
Just watched it. Full vid embedded.
This is just a Japanese man's projection that succubi can be in any shape or form interesting.
I have been in Japan and have never met a succubi who wasn't crazy childish or extremely dull.
>>42129
>Written by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, directed by David Zellner
Based off the true story of Takako Konishi, a Japanese succubus who lost her job at a travel agency in Tokyo and went to Minneasota where she had visited with some guy she had a relationship with so she could kill herself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Takako_Konishi
>Written by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner, directed by David Zellner
Based off the true story of Takako Konishi, a Japanese succubus who lost her job at a travel agency in Tokyo and went to Minneasota where she had visited with some guy she had a relationship with so she could kill herself
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Takako_Konishi
>>42141
>Konishi had been wandering Detroit Lakes when she decided to commit suicide by lying down in the snow after consuming two bottles of champagne
I'm sure it's not so in reality but on paper this sounds comfy as fuck.
>Konishi had been wandering Detroit Lakes when she decided to commit suicide by lying down in the snow after consuming two bottles of champagne
I'm sure it's not so in reality but on paper this sounds comfy as fuck.
>>40081
i agree and its the same with the fbi succ with big titties, just there to complete the normalfag trifecta of toilet humour, sex appeal and explosions. its an okay film overall, entertaining enough though not my sort of humour.
i agree and its the same with the fbi succ with big titties, just there to complete the normalfag trifecta of toilet humour, sex appeal and explosions. its an okay film overall, entertaining enough though not my sort of humour.
>>42147
>I'm sure it's not so in reality but on paper this sounds comfy as fuck.
It would be a peaceful way to die. The bliss of being intoxicated in a sentimental place, the white silence, pillows of soft snow encumbering every inch of your body, and the intense warmth one feels before succumbing to the effects of hypothermia. I can't wait to die like this myself.
>I'm sure it's not so in reality but on paper this sounds comfy as fuck.
It would be a peaceful way to die. The bliss of being intoxicated in a sentimental place, the white silence, pillows of soft snow encumbering every inch of your body, and the intense warmth one feels before succumbing to the effects of hypothermia. I can't wait to die like this myself.
The Awakenings is a good movie i've watched recently.
>The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.
>The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.
>>40746
i just watched about the first half of this movie and it was lame as hell. the fact that the little succubus also died at age 12 real life didnt help. i felt really bad for her.
i just watched about the first half of this movie and it was lame as hell. the fact that the little succubus also died at age 12 real life didnt help. i felt really bad for her.
>poor CGI
lol, 1982 didn't have cgi you wannabe film critic
go back to your little boy on a bicycle arthouse flicks
lol, 1982 didn't have cgi you wannabe film critic
go back to your little boy on a bicycle arthouse flicks
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This was dumb just as I expected. At least the movie showed how disgusting pastors are, fornicating and breeding, bringing more horror to life than the ruthless Warlock himself did.
The ending was really stupid as usual, making a clever and resourceful villain be reduced into a punching bag and a careless fool ruined any credibility the movie and characters had so far.
The ending was really stupid as usual, making a clever and resourceful villain be reduced into a punching bag and a careless fool ruined any credibility the movie and characters had so far.
Teddy Bear (10 Timer Til Paradis)
Aspie virgin bodybuilder in his 40s still lives with his batshit insane mother. Gets sick of Scandinavian thots so he goes to Thailand in search of love. Maybe not to every Wizard's taste but I'd still say its a Wizardcore movie
Aspie virgin bodybuilder in his 40s still lives with his batshit insane mother. Gets sick of Scandinavian thots so he goes to Thailand in search of love. Maybe not to every Wizard's taste but I'd still say its a Wizardcore movie
>>42249
just started watching it and i can totally relate with the guy shit life and no escape. He just want to get away from his crazy mother
just started watching it and i can totally relate with the guy shit life and no escape. He just want to get away from his crazy mother
>>42249
Yes I know. The film actually shines a lot on the pathetic degeneracy of sex tourism, the oedipal nightmare and the damaging effects that crazy succubi can have on men. Its a good little independent movie
Yes I know. The film actually shines a lot on the pathetic degeneracy of sex tourism, the oedipal nightmare and the damaging effects that crazy succubi can have on men. Its a good little independent movie
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I suppose we can use this thread to talk movies we watched in general and no just recommendations per se.
Anyway I just saw this one. I went to imdb to check something and they had this page about the oscars. Decided to watch the trailers for all the nominees for best picture and this was the only one that got me interested. Glad I watched. All the characters in it are interesting and some are even surprising. I like the actress playing the main role since I saw Fargo and she did real good here too. Some really funny scenes. Worth a download.
Anyway I just saw this one. I went to imdb to check something and they had this page about the oscars. Decided to watch the trailers for all the nominees for best picture and this was the only one that got me interested. Glad I watched. All the characters in it are interesting and some are even surprising. I like the actress playing the main role since I saw Fargo and she did real good here too. Some really funny scenes. Worth a download.
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there is a korean show called Stranger
i know this thread is about movies, but each individual episode of this show is like 80 minutes long, the episodes seem like movies in their own right so i think it's worth mentioning here
the main character had brain problems when he was younger and was lobotomized as a cure. he is now an adult prosecutor. he doesn't socialize, have friends, smile, get angry, show any emotion, trust others, etc. the show itself is good so far as well, i recommend others check it out
i have a terrible feeling it will be one of those "abnormal guy finally becomes human!" and the main character begins to act or behave more normal. possibly even he somehow begins feeling love? but 8 or 9 episodes in and he's still the same, so im hoping it doesnt turn out that way, i like this guy hwang shi-mok
i know this thread is about movies, but each individual episode of this show is like 80 minutes long, the episodes seem like movies in their own right so i think it's worth mentioning here
the main character had brain problems when he was younger and was lobotomized as a cure. he is now an adult prosecutor. he doesn't socialize, have friends, smile, get angry, show any emotion, trust others, etc. the show itself is good so far as well, i recommend others check it out
i have a terrible feeling it will be one of those "abnormal guy finally becomes human!" and the main character begins to act or behave more normal. possibly even he somehow begins feeling love? but 8 or 9 episodes in and he's still the same, so im hoping it doesnt turn out that way, i like this guy hwang shi-mok
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I saw Rams (2015), which is about two brothers that don't speak to each other but love their sheep having to deal with a bad sheep disease. For some reason trailers and reviews were focused on painting it as a black comedy and while there was a handful of deadpan style comedy scenes it's really a drama.
The two brothers are old, live alone and don't speak a lot to anyone unless it's about sheep. That's about where the wizardly elements end. There's a fair amount of nudity so if you really don't feel like watching naked old men you can pass it.
It hurt me pretty bad and I recommend it if you can get invested and feel like watching something depressing.
The two brothers are old, live alone and don't speak a lot to anyone unless it's about sheep. That's about where the wizardly elements end. There's a fair amount of nudity so if you really don't feel like watching naked old men you can pass it.
It hurt me pretty bad and I recommend it if you can get invested and feel like watching something depressing.
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>>39462
i hated that movie
why did he keep on going around that little succubus even after being accused of being a pedophile? that made me think he did it
i hated that movie
why did he keep on going around that little succubus even after being accused of being a pedophile? that made me think he did it
>>42411
I liked Robot and Frank even if it has relationship stuff at the end. It is wholesome.
I liked Robot and Frank even if it has relationship stuff at the end. It is wholesome.
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watched annihilation
i liked it a lot, reminded me of stalker(both film and the game).
i liked it a lot, reminded me of stalker(both film and the game).
>>42439
>shitty characters
better than the most movies where you have a squad of soldiers, they are pretty developed and each have their own motivation which severely affects the story, i'd say the only bad character is the one that gets killed early on.
>shitty characters
better than the most movies where you have a squad of soldiers, they are pretty developed and each have their own motivation which severely affects the story, i'd say the only bad character is the one that gets killed early on.
>>42453
>better than the most movies where you have a squad of soldiers
Even if you believe that it's still a very low standard to begin with.
>they are pretty developed and each have their own motivation which severely affects the story, i'd say the only bad character is the one that gets killed early on.
Not true, only the main character matters at all and she's a shitty character with shitty backstory that even go as low as including uncalled-for sex scenes and so on (no, I don't want to be taken by surprise by softcore porn). Whereas in Stalker the zone was a place where the character's psychology took the central role and it was a great movie because of that, in this movie I had to stand the shit characters in order to enjoy the world around them.
>better than the most movies where you have a squad of soldiers
Even if you believe that it's still a very low standard to begin with.
>they are pretty developed and each have their own motivation which severely affects the story, i'd say the only bad character is the one that gets killed early on.
Not true, only the main character matters at all and she's a shitty character with shitty backstory that even go as low as including uncalled-for sex scenes and so on (no, I don't want to be taken by surprise by softcore porn). Whereas in Stalker the zone was a place where the character's psychology took the central role and it was a great movie because of that, in this movie I had to stand the shit characters in order to enjoy the world around them.
>>42454
>Even if you believe that it's still a very low standard to begin with.
there are few films that have a better group of characters.
>only the main character matters at all
through other characters we can see how different people choose to react to shimmer and it's effects. i've read their reaction is similar to that of people who are diagnosed with cancer and i agree with that, the whole thing even could be an allegory for cancer.
>uncalled-for sex scenes
it seems uncalled at first, but they do matter.
>Whereas in Stalker the zone was a place where the character's psychology took the central role
it's also accented on psychology of characters, albeit not to such extent as stalker, there is a good balance between psychology an action scenes. you seem to be unwilling to understand characters(i.e. you dismissed those flashbacks as unimportant) yet complain that there is not enough psychology.
>I had to stand the shit characters in order to enjoy the world around them.
that's odd, they are not that unlikable.
>Even if you believe that it's still a very low standard to begin with.
there are few films that have a better group of characters.
>only the main character matters at all
through other characters we can see how different people choose to react to shimmer and it's effects. i've read their reaction is similar to that of people who are diagnosed with cancer and i agree with that, the whole thing even could be an allegory for cancer.
>uncalled-for sex scenes
it seems uncalled at first, but they do matter.
>Whereas in Stalker the zone was a place where the character's psychology took the central role
it's also accented on psychology of characters, albeit not to such extent as stalker, there is a good balance between psychology an action scenes. you seem to be unwilling to understand characters(i.e. you dismissed those flashbacks as unimportant) yet complain that there is not enough psychology.
>I had to stand the shit characters in order to enjoy the world around them.
that's odd, they are not that unlikable.
>>42456
>through other characters we can see how different people choose to react to shimmer and it's effects
I don't think so, they don't help at all. The characters even detract at some points. The only time a side character might help to accentuate how other people deal with their environment was when that one succubus who says she wants to neither fight nor flee disappears, and while that's welcomed it's not exactly awfully interesting and she didn't need to be there only for that. Other than that, 2 of the side characters only served the purpose of being bear food and the cancer succubus also didn't do anything other than telling out loud what the thing was supposed to be about.
>it seems uncalled at first, but they do matter.
From the character's own storytelling perspective, maybe. But I think there must be better ways to hint that the main character is having an affair that don't involve surprise softcore porn, and the character herself was shitty to begin with as was her reasoning to do everything she was doing.
>it's also accented on psychology of characters, albeit not to such extent as stalker, there is a good balance between psychology an action scenes. you seem to be unwilling to understand characters(i.e. you dismissed those flashbacks as unimportant) yet complain that there is not enough psychology.
I'm not dismissing their development, I don't think they don't develop much at all and that they don't have much else to develop once it's laid down that "I'm here because I cheated on my husband (as you saw in that porn scene I just reminisced about)".
>through other characters we can see how different people choose to react to shimmer and it's effects
I don't think so, they don't help at all. The characters even detract at some points. The only time a side character might help to accentuate how other people deal with their environment was when that one succubus who says she wants to neither fight nor flee disappears, and while that's welcomed it's not exactly awfully interesting and she didn't need to be there only for that. Other than that, 2 of the side characters only served the purpose of being bear food and the cancer succubus also didn't do anything other than telling out loud what the thing was supposed to be about.
>it seems uncalled at first, but they do matter.
From the character's own storytelling perspective, maybe. But I think there must be better ways to hint that the main character is having an affair that don't involve surprise softcore porn, and the character herself was shitty to begin with as was her reasoning to do everything she was doing.
>it's also accented on psychology of characters, albeit not to such extent as stalker, there is a good balance between psychology an action scenes. you seem to be unwilling to understand characters(i.e. you dismissed those flashbacks as unimportant) yet complain that there is not enough psychology.
I'm not dismissing their development, I don't think they don't develop much at all and that they don't have much else to develop once it's laid down that "I'm here because I cheated on my husband (as you saw in that porn scene I just reminisced about)".
>>42457
>Other than that, 2 of the side characters only served the purpose of being bear food
you forgot that one of them was so scared of her body changing she nearly killed the rest of the them.
>cancer succubu
she went forward alone to face the shimmer, despite everyone else not willing to, that's not the same thing as just stating the mission. everyone else aside from main character got fooled into going deeper into the shimmer. each character(with the exception of the one that got killed early) does it's own thing, they don't just blindly follow.
>"I'm here because I cheated on my husband (as you saw in that porn scene I just reminisced about)".
you are oversimplifying.
it's more like "I'm here because my affair caused my husband to go on a suicide mission and nearly die, now i'm going to the same suicide mission because this is all my fault".
>Other than that, 2 of the side characters only served the purpose of being bear food
you forgot that one of them was so scared of her body changing she nearly killed the rest of the them.
>cancer succubu
she went forward alone to face the shimmer, despite everyone else not willing to, that's not the same thing as just stating the mission. everyone else aside from main character got fooled into going deeper into the shimmer. each character(with the exception of the one that got killed early) does it's own thing, they don't just blindly follow.
>"I'm here because I cheated on my husband (as you saw in that porn scene I just reminisced about)".
you are oversimplifying.
it's more like "I'm here because my affair caused my husband to go on a suicide mission and nearly die, now i'm going to the same suicide mission because this is all my fault".
>>42458
>you forgot that one of them was so scared of her body changing she nearly killed the rest of the them.
No, I didn't forget about it. I was going to mention it and call it stupid but I didn't in order not to overstay myself. That and the same character going "aww hell naw, i dun believe the tape" at one point when she saw that video, both were stupid moments that only made the character look like a shallow retard if that's a development.
>she went forward alone to face the shimmer, despite everyone else not willing to
Yeah, I saw that. It's not much of a character development, I understood the point very early on, basically when they revealed that she would be going in. "She wants to go in" is basically all there is to the character, then she dies near the end of the movie. There's nothing else to the character.
>you are oversimplifying.
I'm not, you're making it overly complex. She's guilty for having an affair (which is made overly explicit in the screen in the case anyone missed), that's all. I really don't understand how can you like the characters, there's nothing likeable about them, they're forgettable at best and a drag from enjoying the setting they're in as far as I'm concerned.
>you forgot that one of them was so scared of her body changing she nearly killed the rest of the them.
No, I didn't forget about it. I was going to mention it and call it stupid but I didn't in order not to overstay myself. That and the same character going "aww hell naw, i dun believe the tape" at one point when she saw that video, both were stupid moments that only made the character look like a shallow retard if that's a development.
>she went forward alone to face the shimmer, despite everyone else not willing to
Yeah, I saw that. It's not much of a character development, I understood the point very early on, basically when they revealed that she would be going in. "She wants to go in" is basically all there is to the character, then she dies near the end of the movie. There's nothing else to the character.
>you are oversimplifying.
I'm not, you're making it overly complex. She's guilty for having an affair (which is made overly explicit in the screen in the case anyone missed), that's all. I really don't understand how can you like the characters, there's nothing likeable about them, they're forgettable at best and a drag from enjoying the setting they're in as far as I'm concerned.
>>42459
>I'm not, you're making it overly complex
nope, you are oversimplifying. she didn't seem to worry too much about cheating until her husband found out and the whole chain reaction of self-destruction had started. you seem to have missed several big points of the movie, my guess is you did it on purpose because you didn't like the mostly female cast, if that's not the reason, i don't know why would you discard the characters(and subsequently the plot) so
much.
>I'm not, you're making it overly complex
nope, you are oversimplifying. she didn't seem to worry too much about cheating until her husband found out and the whole chain reaction of self-destruction had started. you seem to have missed several big points of the movie, my guess is you did it on purpose because you didn't like the mostly female cast, if that's not the reason, i don't know why would you discard the characters(and subsequently the plot) so
much.
>>42460
I'll repeat myself, I'm not oversimplifying, you're overrating it. The characters are mediocre at best. You're right that I raised a brow when I noticed that all characters were going to be succubi as I had the impression it would be shallow right then, but I took care of thinking myself that I shouldn't do that and give it a chance, especially since the world interested me so much. It was my disappointment for you comparing it to stalker, since they didn't come close to measuring up to it. If they had cut the cast to half and the talking by 1/4 maybe, not inserted porn and gave more depth to the characters for starters, perhaps it would compare. But they didn't, and it fell very short in that regard. In fact, if they had made it less about the characters and more about the world it would've been better, but that was especially because the characters weren't very good. The world was very interesting, but the characters were definitely not. And no, it wasn't simply because they had cunts.
I'll repeat myself, I'm not oversimplifying, you're overrating it. The characters are mediocre at best. You're right that I raised a brow when I noticed that all characters were going to be succubi as I had the impression it would be shallow right then, but I took care of thinking myself that I shouldn't do that and give it a chance, especially since the world interested me so much. It was my disappointment for you comparing it to stalker, since they didn't come close to measuring up to it. If they had cut the cast to half and the talking by 1/4 maybe, not inserted porn and gave more depth to the characters for starters, perhaps it would compare. But they didn't, and it fell very short in that regard. In fact, if they had made it less about the characters and more about the world it would've been better, but that was especially because the characters weren't very good. The world was very interesting, but the characters were definitely not. And no, it wasn't simply because they had cunts.
>>42461
>I'll repeat myself, I'm not oversimplifying, you're overrating it
that's simply not the case because this stuff is clearly laid out in the movie, but for some reason you are not willing to notice it.
you also said that one character didn't believe the tape simply because she is a badly written character, but if you watch the movie with the tiniest hint of attention it becomes clear she pretended to not believe in a tape(or didn't want to believe) because of fear of being gutted(like in a tape) because she also had something going on with her body.
>if they had made it less about the characters and more about the world it would've been better
i disagree, i think how characters react to that world only makes the world better.
>I'll repeat myself, I'm not oversimplifying, you're overrating it
that's simply not the case because this stuff is clearly laid out in the movie, but for some reason you are not willing to notice it.
you also said that one character didn't believe the tape simply because she is a badly written character, but if you watch the movie with the tiniest hint of attention it becomes clear she pretended to not believe in a tape(or didn't want to believe) because of fear of being gutted(like in a tape) because she also had something going on with her body.
>if they had made it less about the characters and more about the world it would've been better
i disagree, i think how characters react to that world only makes the world better.
>>42463
We'll obviously never agree on this. I think you're more invested than me on believing that they were good characters that stood up to stalker as you compared them both, but after watching it I don't think so. I watched the movie with my full attention and I think the characters really fell short, not because they were succubi as you accused me out of nowhere but because I believe they were a drag on the exploration of an otherwise interesting world.
We'll obviously never agree on this. I think you're more invested than me on believing that they were good characters that stood up to stalker as you compared them both, but after watching it I don't think so. I watched the movie with my full attention and I think the characters really fell short, not because they were succubi as you accused me out of nowhere but because I believe they were a drag on the exploration of an otherwise interesting world.
>>42464
i've never said it stood up to stalker, i've only said it reminded me of it, so that people will get an idea what movie is about feel-wise. notice that i also mentioned the game, since this film has some action and immediate danger, unlike stalker film.
>you accused me out of nowhere
i just so no other reason for someone to hate the characters that much. i'm not claiming these are the deepest characters or some shit, just that they are not shitty and don't ruin the movie.
i've never said it stood up to stalker, i've only said it reminded me of it, so that people will get an idea what movie is about feel-wise. notice that i also mentioned the game, since this film has some action and immediate danger, unlike stalker film.
>you accused me out of nowhere
i just so no other reason for someone to hate the characters that much. i'm not claiming these are the deepest characters or some shit, just that they are not shitty and don't ruin the movie.
>>42465
I told you I don't hate the characters, I thought they were shitty. "Hate" is a pretty strong feeling that I don't often feel. They don't ruin the movie, they just make it worse than it could be if they weren't there at all.
I told you I don't hate the characters, I thought they were shitty. "Hate" is a pretty strong feeling that I don't often feel. They don't ruin the movie, they just make it worse than it could be if they weren't there at all.
>>42429
Just watched this.
I'm impressed, I never thought that there would be an actually good adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space. I've watched every adaptation of The Colour Out of Space that I could, including the one starring Boris Karloff, and it's something of a guilty pleasure watching inevitable failed attempts to film the unfilmable. This one comes far closer than I thought possible to actually capturing the tone and theme, while sticking fairly close to the plot structure. This has probably been commented on to death and I don't imagine I'm offering anything new to existing reviews, but I tend not to read movie reviews so the fact that there's an actually good movie based on my favorite Lovecraft story took me by complete surprise.
Even the characters were more or less true to their roots in the Lovecraft story, though there were a couple of occasions where the movie could have benefitted from taking more of a cue from the source material. Lovecraft's characters are flat and two-dimensional as a deliberate artistic choice, one which most horror fans dislike (most horror is one part psychodrama and one part morality play about what happens when people misbehave), and which people who are not fans of both horror and scifi rarely understand, but Lovecraft himself stated his reasons often enough, as in the last five paragraphs of this essay:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/nwwf.aspx
Lovecraft's focus on the inhuman and external might be unpopular but it isn't just something particular and peculiar to himself. His fellow Weird Fiction writer Clark Ashton-Smith defended the inhuman focus of the Cosmicist school of horror:
http://eldritchdark.com/writings/nonfiction/31/the-tale-of-macrocosmic-horror
Another fantasist of a much different sort, C.S. Lewis, once wrote "To tell how odd things struck odd people is to have an oddity too much: He who is to see strange sights must not himself be strange. He ought to be as nearly as possible Everyman or Anyman."
I think this is actually one of the flaws of the movie. It is a very modernized story, and has a lot of modern touches to it. The characters are too central to the structure of the story, and their characterization is all about their flaws. There are no redeeming features to anyone, including characters who are barely characters. The adulterer whom the main character sleeps with is, in addition to an adulterer, a whiny, petulent, selfish, lying, manipulative, sheltered child. He whines ineffectively at the MC in every scene where he has speaking lines, and that is all we see of him, all that there is to be seen of him, his whole existence is spent whining. The MC is characterized and identified entirely through her flaws too. The flaws the people have drive their characters through the story, thankfully the characterization is only just strong enough for their behavior to make sense without completely hijacking the story away from the cosmic marvel it centers on, but it does serve to direct attention away from the cosmic and towards the petty emotions of personal drama, where any cosmicist story is weak. Traditional tragedies are brought about by the flaws of their protagonists, but the emotional and physical weakness of Lovecraft's protagonists is a flaw in his writing. Making his characters speak and behave like troubled neurotics gives the audience an excuse and makes the wonder and horror less wondrous and horrible, and focuses attention away from the marvelous and towards the neurotic characters, who are cardboard-flat. "Bad things only ever happen because people are bad and/or weak" is moralist, not cosmicist, and so making too much of the badness and weakness of characters undermines cosmicism even if their flaws are not the direct cause of the intrusion of the Weird. In The Colour Out of Space itself Lovecraft addressed the idea:
>It must all be a judgment of some sort; though he could not fancy what for, since he had always walked uprightly in the Lord's ways so far as he knew.
Because the characters in Annihilation are noticeable primarily from their flaws, vices and weaknesses, we have the excuse that their flaws were what brought about their fates. The viewers can tell themselves that the Lord is punishing them for their sins. But The Colour Out of Space is a cosmicist Book of Job, the afflictions visited upon the Earth did not flow from any originating sin and the punishment is not lifted until it is no longer relevant. Tragedy is about human characters bringing about their own downfall. Tragedy is when a man leaps in front of a spinning sawblade because it was the only way to save the world, or to make right some terrible wrong, or because he did not know it was there at all and leapt in ignorance. Horror is when a man sees a sawblade spinning towards him and is unable to avoid it, and this is compounded when he would be unable to avoid it no matter how brave, strong, bold, fast or sharp-witted he were. Tragedy is where a character's weaknesses are proven most significant, horror is where their strengths are proven worthless. The two can go together, but it isn't entirely necessary. A cosmic horror story would most probably benefit from having characters who are identifiable by their strengths, but I have never seen such a story in practice. Robert E. Howard came close sometimes, but only close, and only sometimes. As a rule the sort of person who writes a cosmic horror story sees human existence as fragile and human interests as petty, and the moment humans cease to be fragile and petty they become important and strong and the cosmicism of the story can fall apart.
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Just watched this.
I'm impressed, I never thought that there would be an actually good adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space. I've watched every adaptation of The Colour Out of Space that I could, including the one starring Boris Karloff, and it's something of a guilty pleasure watching inevitable failed attempts to film the unfilmable. This one comes far closer than I thought possible to actually capturing the tone and theme, while sticking fairly close to the plot structure. This has probably been commented on to death and I don't imagine I'm offering anything new to existing reviews, but I tend not to read movie reviews so the fact that there's an actually good movie based on my favorite Lovecraft story took me by complete surprise.
Even the characters were more or less true to their roots in the Lovecraft story, though there were a couple of occasions where the movie could have benefitted from taking more of a cue from the source material. Lovecraft's characters are flat and two-dimensional as a deliberate artistic choice, one which most horror fans dislike (most horror is one part psychodrama and one part morality play about what happens when people misbehave), and which people who are not fans of both horror and scifi rarely understand, but Lovecraft himself stated his reasons often enough, as in the last five paragraphs of this essay:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/nwwf.aspx
Lovecraft's focus on the inhuman and external might be unpopular but it isn't just something particular and peculiar to himself. His fellow Weird Fiction writer Clark Ashton-Smith defended the inhuman focus of the Cosmicist school of horror:
http://eldritchdark.com/writings/nonfiction/31/the-tale-of-macrocosmic-horror
Another fantasist of a much different sort, C.S. Lewis, once wrote "To tell how odd things struck odd people is to have an oddity too much: He who is to see strange sights must not himself be strange. He ought to be as nearly as possible Everyman or Anyman."
I think this is actually one of the flaws of the movie. It is a very modernized story, and has a lot of modern touches to it. The characters are too central to the structure of the story, and their characterization is all about their flaws. There are no redeeming features to anyone, including characters who are barely characters. The adulterer whom the main character sleeps with is, in addition to an adulterer, a whiny, petulent, selfish, lying, manipulative, sheltered child. He whines ineffectively at the MC in every scene where he has speaking lines, and that is all we see of him, all that there is to be seen of him, his whole existence is spent whining. The MC is characterized and identified entirely through her flaws too. The flaws the people have drive their characters through the story, thankfully the characterization is only just strong enough for their behavior to make sense without completely hijacking the story away from the cosmic marvel it centers on, but it does serve to direct attention away from the cosmic and towards the petty emotions of personal drama, where any cosmicist story is weak. Traditional tragedies are brought about by the flaws of their protagonists, but the emotional and physical weakness of Lovecraft's protagonists is a flaw in his writing. Making his characters speak and behave like troubled neurotics gives the audience an excuse and makes the wonder and horror less wondrous and horrible, and focuses attention away from the marvelous and towards the neurotic characters, who are cardboard-flat. "Bad things only ever happen because people are bad and/or weak" is moralist, not cosmicist, and so making too much of the badness and weakness of characters undermines cosmicism even if their flaws are not the direct cause of the intrusion of the Weird. In The Colour Out of Space itself Lovecraft addressed the idea:
>It must all be a judgment of some sort; though he could not fancy what for, since he had always walked uprightly in the Lord's ways so far as he knew.
Because the characters in Annihilation are noticeable primarily from their flaws, vices and weaknesses, we have the excuse that their flaws were what brought about their fates. The viewers can tell themselves that the Lord is punishing them for their sins. But The Colour Out of Space is a cosmicist Book of Job, the afflictions visited upon the Earth did not flow from any originating sin and the punishment is not lifted until it is no longer relevant. Tragedy is about human characters bringing about their own downfall. Tragedy is when a man leaps in front of a spinning sawblade because it was the only way to save the world, or to make right some terrible wrong, or because he did not know it was there at all and leapt in ignorance. Horror is when a man sees a sawblade spinning towards him and is unable to avoid it, and this is compounded when he would be unable to avoid it no matter how brave, strong, bold, fast or sharp-witted he were. Tragedy is where a character's weaknesses are proven most significant, horror is where their strengths are proven worthless. The two can go together, but it isn't entirely necessary. A cosmic horror story would most probably benefit from having characters who are identifiable by their strengths, but I have never seen such a story in practice. Robert E. Howard came close sometimes, but only close, and only sometimes. As a rule the sort of person who writes a cosmic horror story sees human existence as fragile and human interests as petty, and the moment humans cease to be fragile and petty they become important and strong and the cosmicism of the story can fall apart.
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>>42583
The cosmicism of Annihilation never quite falls apart, the characters are still there in service to the plot rather than forcing the plot to twist away from itself for their benefit. And there's enough characterization present that those who look for a character-centered story can find one through following the faint touches of their character arcs, if they want. But because the film tries to walk a middle ground it will displease people on both sides of the cosmicist/humanist divide.
A more exact replication of the death of Nabby Gardner would have worked in the film's favor.
As it was he thought only of the blasphemous monstrosity which confronted him, and which all too clearly had shared the nameless fate of young Thaddeus and the livestock. But the terrible thing about the horror was that it very slowly and perceptibly moved as it continued to crumble.
Ammi would give me no added particulars of this scene, but the shape in the comer does not reappear in his tale as a moving object. There are things which cannot be mentioned, and what is done in common humanity is sometimes cruelly judged by the law. I gathered that no moving thing was left in that attic room, and that to leave anything capable of motion there would have been a deed so monstrous as to damn any accountable being to eternal torment. Anyone but a stolid farmer would have fainted or gone mad, but Ammi walked conscious through that low doorway and locked the accursed secret behind him.
The movie's protagonist, Lena, combines the role of Ammi Pierce and the framing narrator, and it would have been extremely fitting if Lena had to do "in common humanity" what "is sometimes judged cruelly by the law," when she discovered Shepherd. And it would have made her interrogation by the paramedic character take on a much different tone. The movie could have been extremely subtle about this and maybe I just didn't notice, but I did not see Shepherd's body "very slowly and perceptibly" move, nor did I see Lena draw a knife as a misericorde, and a gunshot would have been heard by her teammates. It would have done more than just made the movie darker and more faithful to Lovecraft. It would also have made what the physicist said about Lena more visible to the audience, that she is motivated in part by a burning hatred of the Colour and a desire to destroy it. As it is that is a reasonable motivation but it's one we were told, not shown; Lena's self-hatred and self-destruction are both told and shown. And after the physicist makes her decision and chooses to–as Nahum Gardner put it–"live in the well," it would make sense from the audience perspective for her to take flight.
Nahum Gardner's role was split between Dr. Ventris and Kain, which works out really well. Nahum's accent gets so thick that his last words often come off as embarrassingly silly in the story, even if you're willing to accept Lovecraft's forced pseudo-rustic character voices. Kane's accent getting thicker was more subtle and natural, so it comes across as Lovecraft probably intended, showing mental deterioration and regression. Nahum's disentigration was much more subtle than Dr. Ventris', and did not lead directly to the explosion of the Colour out of the well the way Ventris' disentigration did, but that works in the film's favor. There was no time and no additional narrative beat to hit.
The ending is a lot less subtle than The Colour Out of Space too, but that's pretty much necessary. This is another part where the fixation on character flaws as the exclusive mode of characterization might harm the film, though.
>I doubt very much if Ammi consciously lied to me, and I do not think his tale was all a freak of madness as the townfolk had forewarned. Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible—though I know not in what proportion—still remains. I shall be glad to see the water come. Meanwhile I hope nothing will happen to Ammi. He saw so much of the thing—and its influence was so insidious. Why has he never been able to move away? How clearly he recalled those dying words of Nahum’s—“can’t git away . . . draws ye . . . ye know summ’at’s comin’, but ’tain’t no use. . . .” Ammi is such a good old man—when the reservoir gang gets to work I must write the chief engineer to keep a sharp watch on him. I would hate to think of him as the grey, twisted, brittle monstrosity which persists more and more in troubling my sleep.
I don't really care enough about Kane or about Lena to say anything like that. Lena may be both the narrator and Ammi, but Ammi was a good man, and showed it by mercy-killing Nabby and trying to care for Nahum in circumstances that defy comprehension. The narrator can safely expect the audience to care for Ammi, because we have seen Ammi care and try to do good by others even when the will of nature and nature's god bore down misfortune on them and all they touched. And so we don't feel Ammi to be a liar, or a madman, or even a murderer–though we were with him when he killed. Lena is a liar. Lena is mad. Kane is a liar and a madman and, depending on how one feels about the video, maybe a murderer as well. And so the vision of Lena and Kane as a grey, twisted, brittle monstrosity will not trouble anyone's sleep.
The cosmicism of Annihilation never quite falls apart, the characters are still there in service to the plot rather than forcing the plot to twist away from itself for their benefit. And there's enough characterization present that those who look for a character-centered story can find one through following the faint touches of their character arcs, if they want. But because the film tries to walk a middle ground it will displease people on both sides of the cosmicist/humanist divide.
A more exact replication of the death of Nabby Gardner would have worked in the film's favor.
As it was he thought only of the blasphemous monstrosity which confronted him, and which all too clearly had shared the nameless fate of young Thaddeus and the livestock. But the terrible thing about the horror was that it very slowly and perceptibly moved as it continued to crumble.
Ammi would give me no added particulars of this scene, but the shape in the comer does not reappear in his tale as a moving object. There are things which cannot be mentioned, and what is done in common humanity is sometimes cruelly judged by the law. I gathered that no moving thing was left in that attic room, and that to leave anything capable of motion there would have been a deed so monstrous as to damn any accountable being to eternal torment. Anyone but a stolid farmer would have fainted or gone mad, but Ammi walked conscious through that low doorway and locked the accursed secret behind him.
The movie's protagonist, Lena, combines the role of Ammi Pierce and the framing narrator, and it would have been extremely fitting if Lena had to do "in common humanity" what "is sometimes judged cruelly by the law," when she discovered Shepherd. And it would have made her interrogation by the paramedic character take on a much different tone. The movie could have been extremely subtle about this and maybe I just didn't notice, but I did not see Shepherd's body "very slowly and perceptibly" move, nor did I see Lena draw a knife as a misericorde, and a gunshot would have been heard by her teammates. It would have done more than just made the movie darker and more faithful to Lovecraft. It would also have made what the physicist said about Lena more visible to the audience, that she is motivated in part by a burning hatred of the Colour and a desire to destroy it. As it is that is a reasonable motivation but it's one we were told, not shown; Lena's self-hatred and self-destruction are both told and shown. And after the physicist makes her decision and chooses to–as Nahum Gardner put it–"live in the well," it would make sense from the audience perspective for her to take flight.
Nahum Gardner's role was split between Dr. Ventris and Kain, which works out really well. Nahum's accent gets so thick that his last words often come off as embarrassingly silly in the story, even if you're willing to accept Lovecraft's forced pseudo-rustic character voices. Kane's accent getting thicker was more subtle and natural, so it comes across as Lovecraft probably intended, showing mental deterioration and regression. Nahum's disentigration was much more subtle than Dr. Ventris', and did not lead directly to the explosion of the Colour out of the well the way Ventris' disentigration did, but that works in the film's favor. There was no time and no additional narrative beat to hit.
The ending is a lot less subtle than The Colour Out of Space too, but that's pretty much necessary. This is another part where the fixation on character flaws as the exclusive mode of characterization might harm the film, though.
>I doubt very much if Ammi consciously lied to me, and I do not think his tale was all a freak of madness as the townfolk had forewarned. Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible—though I know not in what proportion—still remains. I shall be glad to see the water come. Meanwhile I hope nothing will happen to Ammi. He saw so much of the thing—and its influence was so insidious. Why has he never been able to move away? How clearly he recalled those dying words of Nahum’s—“can’t git away . . . draws ye . . . ye know summ’at’s comin’, but ’tain’t no use. . . .” Ammi is such a good old man—when the reservoir gang gets to work I must write the chief engineer to keep a sharp watch on him. I would hate to think of him as the grey, twisted, brittle monstrosity which persists more and more in troubling my sleep.
I don't really care enough about Kane or about Lena to say anything like that. Lena may be both the narrator and Ammi, but Ammi was a good man, and showed it by mercy-killing Nabby and trying to care for Nahum in circumstances that defy comprehension. The narrator can safely expect the audience to care for Ammi, because we have seen Ammi care and try to do good by others even when the will of nature and nature's god bore down misfortune on them and all they touched. And so we don't feel Ammi to be a liar, or a madman, or even a murderer–though we were with him when he killed. Lena is a liar. Lena is mad. Kane is a liar and a madman and, depending on how one feels about the video, maybe a murderer as well. And so the vision of Lena and Kane as a grey, twisted, brittle monstrosity will not trouble anyone's sleep.
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>>42583
>>42584
>an actually good adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel)
>>42584
>an actually good adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation_(VanderMeer_novel)
>>42587
also, while according to some reviewers the movie is not that similar to a novel and closer to stalker and the color out of space, i don't think it can be judged as an adaptation of those.
also, while according to some reviewers the movie is not that similar to a novel and closer to stalker and the color out of space, i don't think it can be judged as an adaptation of those.
I liked the movie Nebraska (2013).
It's about a stay-at-home son who works in retail and takes his father on a road trip to collect his winnings in a scam lottery he thinks he's won.
It's about a stay-at-home son who works in retail and takes his father on a road trip to collect his winnings in a scam lottery he thinks he's won.
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>>41600
now watch this
now watch this
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king of pigs
a must watch for wizards
a must watch for wizards
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>>43835
This. I regret every minute I've spent watching Bergman, Tarkovsky and other pretentious hack so artsy movies.
This. I regret every minute I've spent watching Bergman, Tarkovsky and other pretentious hack so artsy movies.
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>>43828
I suppose it's only really depressing depending on what you take away.
People are right to say it's kinda a boring artsy movie, and that was certainly my first impression of it. Strangely enough, even though my first viewing was by all accounts a chore to get through, every time I've watched it since I never felt that way again. I just like The Zone.
I suppose it's only really depressing depending on what you take away.
People are right to say it's kinda a boring artsy movie, and that was certainly my first impression of it. Strangely enough, even though my first viewing was by all accounts a chore to get through, every time I've watched it since I never felt that way again. I just like The Zone.
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>Les Tontons Flingueurs
8/10
A definite french classic piece of cinéma that cracked me up a few times.
8/10
A definite french classic piece of cinéma that cracked me up a few times.
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>>40158
anything tarkovski is particularly existentialist, STALKER, SOLARIS (also there was a remake starring george clooney IIRC)
>>43828
Thewhole idea behind the movie which is based on the book a roadside picnic is tha a man is jurneying into unknown danger in order to guide someone to a legendary object that grants wishes. the existentialist dialog and the fact that most of the actors died from acting in the movie make it pretty depressing
the fountain was good, but i dont know if its something you want to watch, since it deals with a man coping with the death of his wife/gf, but goes off on a tangent about what it means to live. lots of symbolism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0yxCLznEqs
I also liked synechdoche new york
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIizh6nYnTU
anything tarkovski is particularly existentialist, STALKER, SOLARIS (also there was a remake starring george clooney IIRC)
>>43828
Thewhole idea behind the movie which is based on the book a roadside picnic is tha a man is jurneying into unknown danger in order to guide someone to a legendary object that grants wishes. the existentialist dialog and the fact that most of the actors died from acting in the movie make it pretty depressing
the fountain was good, but i dont know if its something you want to watch, since it deals with a man coping with the death of his wife/gf, but goes off on a tangent about what it means to live. lots of symbolism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0yxCLznEqs
I also liked synechdoche new york
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIizh6nYnTU
>>43909
>the fountain
basically a movie about relationshits, avoid.
>but goes off on a tangent about what it means to live
don't remember that, though i haven't finished the film because it's so full of relationshits.
>the fountain
basically a movie about relationshits, avoid.
>but goes off on a tangent about what it means to live
don't remember that, though i haven't finished the film because it's so full of relationshits.
I watched movie in OP title a few months ago, forgot where I saw it mentioned but it wasn't here.
I had read some french existentialism 10 years go when I was in my early 20s and i recognized a lot of the themes presented here. (One of the more obscure and unseemly was the pinball machine use, something they obsessed over, maybe a precursor to modern gamers.) I learned that the author of the text which was spoken over the film was a Jew whose parents were in exile from whatever jew country they're from - ukraine poland, russia, whatever. He was a 1st generation immigrant. Even before hearing this something felt inauthentic about the movie and its narrative, but after learning this it made sense. This movie, and the book it is based on, is a crude ape of a sensibility that is meant to have come from the lived experience of a modern European. It's a Jew cleverly pretending to be one of the natives suffering in kind the ennui felt by those whose descendants have lived there for over 1000 years. tl;dr It's basically all a big jew role play, jumping onto the intellectual bandwagon of his time and trying to seem like a more clever representative of it than the people from whom these sensations originated
I had read some french existentialism 10 years go when I was in my early 20s and i recognized a lot of the themes presented here. (One of the more obscure and unseemly was the pinball machine use, something they obsessed over, maybe a precursor to modern gamers.) I learned that the author of the text which was spoken over the film was a Jew whose parents were in exile from whatever jew country they're from - ukraine poland, russia, whatever. He was a 1st generation immigrant. Even before hearing this something felt inauthentic about the movie and its narrative, but after learning this it made sense. This movie, and the book it is based on, is a crude ape of a sensibility that is meant to have come from the lived experience of a modern European. It's a Jew cleverly pretending to be one of the natives suffering in kind the ennui felt by those whose descendants have lived there for over 1000 years. tl;dr It's basically all a big jew role play, jumping onto the intellectual bandwagon of his time and trying to seem like a more clever representative of it than the people from whom these sensations originated
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I've been watching a lot of old samurai films in the last few months including Harakiri, Yojimbo, Sanjuro and Sword of Doom. I originally started watching because I thought beforehand that they would have a lot of swordfighting scenes but that was sadly not the case and battles often take less than a minute to conclude and they often only occur a few times.
I enjoyed most of them but absolutely hated Seven Samurai even though it is supposed to be the greatest of them all, at least according to film critics/enthusiasts. Maybe it's just praised for being one of the first of its kind or maybe I couldn't stand how slow and uneventful it was compared to other films of the genre+era. It also had very awkward acting (the constant fake laughing kind of annoyed me) and weird moodswings at times. I stopped watching at around the time the bandits actually arrived in the town but I might try it out again at a later date. I often get frustated when I cannot bring myself to enjoy things that are critically acclaimed and seem like my kind of thing as well.
I absolutely love Toshiro Mifune, he's a great actor whose behaviour is much more human than that of the other characters in most of these. I also like how his appearance is different from that of the stereotypical East-Asian Japanese face and I noticed this was the case with most of most the lead characters in these films, they often look more Mediterranean than Asian. That might be a strange thing to obsess over to some but I had been interested in the subject of the Ainu for a while now and it's interesting to think about the possibility that Japanese with such types of faces have much more Ainu "blood" in them than the average one.
I enjoyed most of them but absolutely hated Seven Samurai even though it is supposed to be the greatest of them all, at least according to film critics/enthusiasts. Maybe it's just praised for being one of the first of its kind or maybe I couldn't stand how slow and uneventful it was compared to other films of the genre+era. It also had very awkward acting (the constant fake laughing kind of annoyed me) and weird moodswings at times. I stopped watching at around the time the bandits actually arrived in the town but I might try it out again at a later date. I often get frustated when I cannot bring myself to enjoy things that are critically acclaimed and seem like my kind of thing as well.
I absolutely love Toshiro Mifune, he's a great actor whose behaviour is much more human than that of the other characters in most of these. I also like how his appearance is different from that of the stereotypical East-Asian Japanese face and I noticed this was the case with most of most the lead characters in these films, they often look more Mediterranean than Asian. That might be a strange thing to obsess over to some but I had been interested in the subject of the Ainu for a while now and it's interesting to think about the possibility that Japanese with such types of faces have much more Ainu "blood" in them than the average one.
>>44068
If you want extensive swordplay, watch the 13 Assasins remake. It gets bloody towards the end. Not a classic and but still a good watch.
If you want extensive swordplay, watch the 13 Assasins remake. It gets bloody towards the end. Not a classic and but still a good watch.
>>44068
yes, seven samurai sucked ass. It was the first old samurai movie I tried and I never watched another one because of how bad it was.
yes, seven samurai sucked ass. It was the first old samurai movie I tried and I never watched another one because of how bad it was.
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>>44068
seven samurai is one of the best films i've watched, there are some dull and poorly shot moments, but they are all in the second half of the film. the first part is my favorite and it's practically perfect, even though there is hardly any action.
>they often look more Mediterranean than Asian
faces with strong features are more common for movie protagonists in every country, ordinary people don't look like clint eastwood or bruce willis.
seven samurai is one of the best films i've watched, there are some dull and poorly shot moments, but they are all in the second half of the film. the first part is my favorite and it's practically perfect, even though there is hardly any action.
>they often look more Mediterranean than Asian
faces with strong features are more common for movie protagonists in every country, ordinary people don't look like clint eastwood or bruce willis.
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watched shogun assassin, it's pretty good for an action flick. it's basically a montage of first two wolf and cub films.
>>44072
>try the Lone Wolf and Cub films
how do they compare to shogun?
>>44072
>try the Lone Wolf and Cub films
how do they compare to shogun?
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The most depressing Russian film I've seen and that's saying a lot, because they are all depressing.
>>44997
what kind of comment is that?
maybe you should watch this movie instead of spewing propaganda.
t.Ivan
what kind of comment is that?
maybe you should watch this movie instead of spewing propaganda.
t.Ivan
>>44996
>they are all depressing
No. Russia has a lot of non-depressing movies, but they all would be "propaganda" for you, right?
>>44999
->pol
Also:
Дурак is a good movie but a lot of people understand this movie in wrong way - "muh Russia … muh bad country". Protip: this movie is not only about Russia, not only about a country.
>they are all depressing
No. Russia has a lot of non-depressing movies, but they all would be "propaganda" for you, right?
>>44999
->pol
Also:
Дурак is a good movie but a lot of people understand this movie in wrong way - "muh Russia … muh bad country". Protip: this movie is not only about Russia, not only about a country.
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"Memories of Matsuko". Movie is so funny and pretty sad. Basically she pretends to be a normie but it all goes to shit. She gets abused,beaten and well i can't spoil it,it's just sad. BONUS: i watched this movie in my NEET days and so it has a special place in my heart. Amazing amazing movie.
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>>45002 here
Another great one : "Peppermint Candy". Movie consists of five phases of a man's life about why he committed suicide in the end. There's one scene that EVERY wizard has felt, i'm sure of it. You will know when you see it.
Another great one : "Peppermint Candy". Movie consists of five phases of a man's life about why he committed suicide in the end. There's one scene that EVERY wizard has felt, i'm sure of it. You will know when you see it.
>>45001
>No. Russia has a lot of non-depressing movies,
It's a hyperbole.
Of course there are comedies and such although even those are often melancholic or bitter sweet.
>->pol
I just said that the movie is depressing, you are the one who got butthurt and assumed it's because of "bad russia", but it's not, it's mostly due to how story progresses and ends.
I don't like movies that JUST criticize Russia, Leviathan was shit, lots of other such movies are garbage.
>Protip: this movie is not only about Russia, not only about a country.
If you look into it deep enough yeah, if somebody said it's a modern adaptation of Jesus Christ's story he'd be kinda right.
The story could fit into any third world country, even first world country with some modification, at it's core it's about altruists vs the world. The government officials in this film are not that different from the rest of us, they only care about their own skin.
With all that said, if somebody wanted to understand modern Russian society, I'd recommend this film first and foremost.
>No. Russia has a lot of non-depressing movies,
It's a hyperbole.
Of course there are comedies and such although even those are often melancholic or bitter sweet.
>->pol
I just said that the movie is depressing, you are the one who got butthurt and assumed it's because of "bad russia", but it's not, it's mostly due to how story progresses and ends.
I don't like movies that JUST criticize Russia, Leviathan was shit, lots of other such movies are garbage.
>Protip: this movie is not only about Russia, not only about a country.
If you look into it deep enough yeah, if somebody said it's a modern adaptation of Jesus Christ's story he'd be kinda right.
The story could fit into any third world country, even first world country with some modification, at it's core it's about altruists vs the world. The government officials in this film are not that different from the rest of us, they only care about their own skin.
With all that said, if somebody wanted to understand modern Russian society, I'd recommend this film first and foremost.
>>45004
>With all that said, if somebody wanted to understand modern Russian society, I'd recommend this film first and foremost.
In this movie is nothing anything related to "Understand Russian society". Everywhere on Earth there are themes which are closed to discuss\people don't want do something with those themes. There was nothing special to only one country in this movie.
This movie is not related to "Russian society". People in Russia are same as everywhere. The story of this movie is
>hyperbole
and seems, you understand it wrong.
>those are often melancholic or bitter sweet
Same as Scandinavian\East Europe and even West Europe movies now. You just watched a "problematic" movie. It's same as watch Gummo and recommend this movie as a represent of USA society.
Anyway, it all already is off-top.
>With all that said, if somebody wanted to understand modern Russian society, I'd recommend this film first and foremost.
In this movie is nothing anything related to "Understand Russian society". Everywhere on Earth there are themes which are closed to discuss\people don't want do something with those themes. There was nothing special to only one country in this movie.
This movie is not related to "Russian society". People in Russia are same as everywhere. The story of this movie is
>hyperbole
and seems, you understand it wrong.
>those are often melancholic or bitter sweet
Same as Scandinavian\East Europe and even West Europe movies now. You just watched a "problematic" movie. It's same as watch Gummo and recommend this movie as a represent of USA society.
Anyway, it all already is off-top.
>>45004
To understand Russian society in general I recommend watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_C4TpPSCQ4
People care about emotions, not about materialistic thinks. Love is prefer than wealth. People mostly see own life\this world as a small pitstop from before-birth to after-death.
But the new generation (millennials and gen Z) is more materialistic and less emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViFqE-m28UQ
To understand Russian society in general I recommend watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_C4TpPSCQ4
People care about emotions, not about materialistic thinks. Love is prefer than wealth. People mostly see own life\this world as a small pitstop from before-birth to after-death.
But the new generation (millennials and gen Z) is more materialistic and less emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViFqE-m28UQ
>>45020
>you understand it wrong.
explain it then.
>Everywhere on Earth there are themes which are closed to discuss\people don't want do something with those themes
that's not really what this movie is about, it's not about some taboo topic, everybody knows shits fucked, nobody is willing to at least not make it worse. you are right that it applies everywhere(which is what I said), but this kind of mindset absolutely cripples Russian society in particular.
>>45023
>People care about emotions, not about materialistic thinks
>Love is prefer than wealth
Heh. You wish, Russia is one of the most materialistic countries out there.
>But the new generation
Oh no, the evil millennials are going to ruin everything. Never mind that they are a product of their parents.
>you understand it wrong.
explain it then.
>Everywhere on Earth there are themes which are closed to discuss\people don't want do something with those themes
that's not really what this movie is about, it's not about some taboo topic, everybody knows shits fucked, nobody is willing to at least not make it worse. you are right that it applies everywhere(which is what I said), but this kind of mindset absolutely cripples Russian society in particular.
>>45023
>People care about emotions, not about materialistic thinks
>Love is prefer than wealth
Heh. You wish, Russia is one of the most materialistic countries out there.
>But the new generation
Oh no, the evil millennials are going to ruin everything. Never mind that they are a product of their parents.
>>44996
My favorite scene was when he saw the snake even in his wife and abandoned her right there.
My favorite scene was when he saw the snake even in his wife and abandoned her right there.
>>45026
>explain it then
>but this kind of mindset absolutely cripples Russian society in particular
Don't you know what is "a movie's hyperbole" mean?
>explain it then
>but this kind of mindset absolutely cripples Russian society in particular
Don't you know what is "a movie's hyperbole" mean?
>>45032
>Don't you know what is "a movie's hyperbole" mean?
Maybe not, enlighten me.
The way I see it hyperbole is an intentional exaggeration to make a point, The Fool hardly has any of those, Cargo 200 or Khrustalyov, My Car! are good examples of movies that are one big hyperbole. The Fool is a fairly realistic, straightforward story about an altruist's fate in Russia.
>Don't you know what is "a movie's hyperbole" mean?
Maybe not, enlighten me.
The way I see it hyperbole is an intentional exaggeration to make a point, The Fool hardly has any of those, Cargo 200 or Khrustalyov, My Car! are good examples of movies that are one big hyperbole. The Fool is a fairly realistic, straightforward story about an altruist's fate in Russia.
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>>45033
>is a fairly realistic
In which case?
>people dying because some building crashes because there was no repair a long time
I don't remember any such story. Such story would be a very big news-story with a very big investigation.
>people ignore a danger message
That was wrong in the movie. IRL people just would keep outside of the building all the night and would see why they are in a danger situation.
>hurrdurr corruption
Yep, as in a lot of other countries.
>>45033
>is a fairly realistic
In which case?
>people dying because some building crashes because there was no repair a long time
I don't remember any such story. Such story would be a very big news-story with a very big investigation.
>people ignore a danger message
That was wrong in the movie. IRL people just would keep outside of the building all the night and would see why they are in a danger situation.
>hurrdurr corruption
Yep, as in a lot of other countries.
>>45034
>In which case?
Are you gonna keep answering questions with questions? Fuck off already.
>I don't remember any such story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Omsk_building_collapse
Or just google Russia building collapse. Or just look in what conditions lots of people live, the 30yo commieblock shown in this film will seem like heaven in comparison.
You will say it's not the exact same thing, but saying that a movie is meant to be taken as a hyperbole just because it's not a documentary is ridiculous.
>IRL people just would keep outside of the building all the night and would see why they are in a danger situation.
Because of one crazy guy running around screaming non-sense? In the night? In the winter? IRL few people if any would get outside, most wouldn't even open their doors. If a building was indeed collapsing they'd feel it themselves and therefore ignore him.
>Yep, as in a lot of other countries.
Ah, a classic thing for "patriots" to say - if it happens in other countries too, it doesn't count. You sure love finding excuses for this kleptocracy, not even the government itself is this dense, I mean they financed this movie(they finance nearly everything though).
>In which case?
Are you gonna keep answering questions with questions? Fuck off already.
>I don't remember any such story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Omsk_building_collapse
Or just google Russia building collapse. Or just look in what conditions lots of people live, the 30yo commieblock shown in this film will seem like heaven in comparison.
You will say it's not the exact same thing, but saying that a movie is meant to be taken as a hyperbole just because it's not a documentary is ridiculous.
>IRL people just would keep outside of the building all the night and would see why they are in a danger situation.
Because of one crazy guy running around screaming non-sense? In the night? In the winter? IRL few people if any would get outside, most wouldn't even open their doors. If a building was indeed collapsing they'd feel it themselves and therefore ignore him.
>Yep, as in a lot of other countries.
Ah, a classic thing for "patriots" to say - if it happens in other countries too, it doesn't count. You sure love finding excuses for this kleptocracy, not even the government itself is this dense, I mean they financed this movie(they finance nearly everything though).
>>45038
>big discuss in the media and proceedings
I said that I don't remember any such story. Shit happens, people die, everywhere. But you just try to catch me - that in Russia there is something special with it.
I have understood that you are just a troll or a Russia-hater and try to troll too.
>big discuss in the media and proceedings
I said that I don't remember any such story. Shit happens, people die, everywhere. But you just try to catch me - that in Russia there is something special with it.
I have understood that you are just a troll or a Russia-hater and try to troll too.
>>45040
>I said that I don't remember any such story.
The one I linked to was big news.
>I have understood that you are just a troll or a Russia-hater and try to troll too.
I still don't know if you are butthurt and retarded or just pretending.
>But you just try to catch me
because you are wiggling like a worm instead of explaining why you think this movie's message is not about modern Russian society.
>I said that I don't remember any such story.
The one I linked to was big news.
>I have understood that you are just a troll or a Russia-hater and try to troll too.
I still don't know if you are butthurt and retarded or just pretending.
>But you just try to catch me
because you are wiggling like a worm instead of explaining why you think this movie's message is not about modern Russian society.
>>45041
>you get an extraordinary situation that can be everywhere
>try to make this as the whole represent of the society
So, why don't "Bowling for Columbine" is the whole represent of USA society then?
You are just stupid or what?
>you get an extraordinary situation that can be everywhere
>try to make this as the whole represent of the society
So, why don't "Bowling for Columbine" is the whole represent of USA society then?
You are just stupid or what?
>>45047
I just posted about a movie, you are the one who started this discussion by accusing me of not getting this film.
I just posted about a movie, you are the one who started this discussion by accusing me of not getting this film.
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Batman Returns
Really nice special effects and props, makes you wonder how they did it. Just like the first movie it's way too slow for my taste and nearly all scenes where Bruce is socializing and shit are boring.
Really nice special effects and props, makes you wonder how they did it. Just like the first movie it's way too slow for my taste and nearly all scenes where Bruce is socializing and shit are boring.
>>45204
My all time favorite Batman movie. I don't really care about Batman (now) or Tim Burton but this movie manages to entertain me every single time I watch it. The atmosphere is just so ridiculous yet dark without being too edgy - at least for me it is the perfect balance of fun and drama.
My all time favorite Batman movie. I don't really care about Batman (now) or Tim Burton but this movie manages to entertain me every single time I watch it. The atmosphere is just so ridiculous yet dark without being too edgy - at least for me it is the perfect balance of fun and drama.
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Watched this and "To live" by the same director. Made me feel like shit. Both are about the price you pay for doing what seems right.
>>45003
>There's one scene that EVERY wizard has felt, i'm sure of it. You will know when you see it.
Can you tell me? I've just watched the movie and don't see which one it is.
Very good movie and pretty hard to watch at points.
>There's one scene that EVERY wizard has felt, i'm sure of it. You will know when you see it.
Can you tell me? I've just watched the movie and don't see which one it is.
Very good movie and pretty hard to watch at points.
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Last night I watched Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. There isn't much I can say about it that hasn't been said in hundreds of online reviews, so I recommend that fellow wizards check those out. Needless to say, this is a deep, contemplative, mysterious movie with imagery that will stay in your mind for a long time. Definitely recommend it.
tbh I cant really tell if I liked stalker or offret better, stalker is by far more wizardly, but I thought that some of the themes in offret were neat (particular the role of succubi vs the soul of man in the film)
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i don't know if kimi no na wa is wizardly
it's a about a beta male whose body gets switched with a succubus's. he does feel his own tits when he wakes up as the succubus so i guess not
it's a about a beta male whose body gets switched with a succubus's. he does feel his own tits when he wakes up as the succubus so i guess not
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One of my favorite movies.
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Watched Beyond the Black Rainbow a second time. Though I understood more of what was going on with the rewatch, it's largely a pretty movie with people staring into space and moaning/groaning. The plot isn't explained, but what's actually there isn't anything special once you "get" it.
>>45353
>beyond the black rainbow
ah that's the name. a few days i was trying to remember what that was called.
>beyond the black rainbow
ah that's the name. a few days i was trying to remember what that was called.
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>>45434
I liked The Fool, but I didn't like Leviathan, can't feel sorry for protagonist and his family, and his friends. They are all terrible people.
And the logic of this film is all messed up, main charters make their situation unnecessarily worse. There is also some unrealistic things, but not gonna mentions them because The Fool also had those.
I liked The Fool, but I didn't like Leviathan, can't feel sorry for protagonist and his family, and his friends. They are all terrible people.
And the logic of this film is all messed up, main charters make their situation unnecessarily worse. There is also some unrealistic things, but not gonna mentions them because The Fool also had those.
>>45344
Just watched it, really liked it, thanks for posting it. I'm getting a lot of movies from this thread, sad I can't contribute with much.
Just watched it, really liked it, thanks for posting it. I'm getting a lot of movies from this thread, sad I can't contribute with much.
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Watched this the other day, same director as Beyond The Black Rainbow. The first and second hour feel like different movies. The first hour it has a nice atmosphere and the second hour it becomes over the top as hell. I liked the horror vibes better, but both were enjoyable to watch. Plotwise, despite the pretty visuals (like Black Rainbow) it's pretty simple and nothing most wouldn't have seen before.
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The lives of others, A German movie about a guy who works for the DDR STASI(secret police) and spies on people. he is tasked with sitting in the attic of a playwright in order to find out if he is making any anticommunist/treasonous remarks or actions.
the guy would be a total wizard if it was not for the one scene where he bangs a prostitute.
the guy would be a total wizard if it was not for the one scene where he bangs a prostitute.
into the wild
the protagonist is a normie but living out in the middle of no where away from civilization is appealing
the protagonist is a normie but living out in the middle of no where away from civilization is appealing
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Don't know why I watched this.
Ignoring the scene of the protagonist getting raped being on par with a shitty porno, ignoring all the DNA she would've left behind at her murders, ignoring the shitty murder scenes in general, and ignoring three groids in a fraternity getting away with raping a black succubi while on video in the year 2016. It's mediocre at best, and that's being generous because it wouldn't be out of place on Lifetime if you cut out the sex/nudity. Near the end (predictably) the protagonist's roommate commits suicide after she finds out she tried to kill her rapist and they really want you to feel emotionally over this character the protagonist barely interacts with. I could say a lot more, but I don't feel like it. I have a lot of time to waste tonight.
Even, rewatch You Were Never Really Here. Odd, Moonrise Kingdom.
Ignoring the scene of the protagonist getting raped being on par with a shitty porno, ignoring all the DNA she would've left behind at her murders, ignoring the shitty murder scenes in general, and ignoring three groids in a fraternity getting away with raping a black succubi while on video in the year 2016. It's mediocre at best, and that's being generous because it wouldn't be out of place on Lifetime if you cut out the sex/nudity. Near the end (predictably) the protagonist's roommate commits suicide after she finds out she tried to kill her rapist and they really want you to feel emotionally over this character the protagonist barely interacts with. I could say a lot more, but I don't feel like it. I have a lot of time to waste tonight.
Even, rewatch You Were Never Really Here. Odd, Moonrise Kingdom.
>>45595
If you want a crazy chick revenge flick then Peppermint or The Brave One is better in every regard.
If you want a crazy chick revenge flick then Peppermint or The Brave One is better in every regard.
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It was pretty good all around. A simple premise executed very well. I'd say more but it's 2 am.
>>45596
I'll check them out sometime. I think the only "succubi revenge flick" I've seen is Martyrs (Not even Kill Bill) but that barely counts because it practically becomes an entirely different movie for the second half.
>>45596
I'll check them out sometime. I think the only "succubi revenge flick" I've seen is Martyrs (Not even Kill Bill) but that barely counts because it practically becomes an entirely different movie for the second half.
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I remember seeing scene from a movie in which two completely naked men wrestle. Does anybody know the name of the movie? It was an old movie probably from 60's/70's. They wrestled in a nice looking room with fireplace.
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Pretty boring overall, and despite being almost 2 hours long it felt like most of it was just meandering until they had to confront the evil bad man and everything gets resolved. People say it's like Iron Giant and Big Hero 6, but I never saw either of those so I can't make comparisons. It was well animated at least.
>>45630
That sounds like Big Hero 6 as well.
I watched The Cell last night. Story is good. Concept is good. Half the movie is good but it doesn't make the most of it's assets. It goes a bit too artfag in places and when things work it doesn't follow up on them again.
The heroine's intro is good and never followed up on in any real way. The mind exploration is good and then it drops it all for a single set twice. It definitely inspired Silent Hill and I think it did a beautiful job of that but it needed to push deeper into what inspired it.
That sounds like Big Hero 6 as well.
I watched The Cell last night. Story is good. Concept is good. Half the movie is good but it doesn't make the most of it's assets. It goes a bit too artfag in places and when things work it doesn't follow up on them again.
The heroine's intro is good and never followed up on in any real way. The mind exploration is good and then it drops it all for a single set twice. It definitely inspired Silent Hill and I think it did a beautiful job of that but it needed to push deeper into what inspired it.
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>>45635
>I watched The Cell last night
the one with john cussac where everyone turns into cell phone zombies (iirc)?
I watched that a while back.
has anybody seen "automata"? it is similar to bladerunner, but not as artsy, think bladerunner but in a mad max setting:desolate desert landscapes
>I watched The Cell last night
the one with john cussac where everyone turns into cell phone zombies (iirc)?
I watched that a while back.
has anybody seen "automata"? it is similar to bladerunner, but not as artsy, think bladerunner but in a mad max setting:desolate desert landscapes
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Accidentally made a new thread like a retard.
Finally got around to seeing Annihilation. On it's own, it was good. Nothing amazing, the characters were weak and so was the dialogue at times, and the CGI gets pretty bad too (mainly in the action scenes). In comparison to the book, it's eh.
The mystery around Area X (or the Shimmer as it's called in the movie) gets explained and the characters are certain of what's going on. Even in the beginning aspects of Area X that weren't known until later in the book just get casually mentioned. The best example of this is at the beginning where Lena is being interrogated by Ventress and Ventress tells her The Shimmer is expanding which is something Biologist doesn't find out until the final stages of the book. It's hard to describe, but there's more of a focus on the fact Area X has weird plants and animals rather than what's behind Area X. IIRC in the book there was only one part where they actually had to fight against an animal meanwhile in the movie it happens a lot more, but I guess that's to be expected.
I'm not trying to write a wall of text so I'm going to cut this short because I could go on in the ways most of the movie's changes were for the worst or pointless. One change that counts as both is how The Biologist/Lena in the book was reserved and was really invested in studying marine life. Her husband dying was a motivator for coming, but she was also genuinly interested in studying Area X. Meanwhile Lena just has an affair because her husband was gone a lot and there's not much justification as to why she'd want to continue onward rather than going back like the other two wanted. Not sure what the point of that change was other than making her more "relatable" because the average joe doesn't want to watch a movie about a weirdo who likes staring at tidal pools. Also fuck Area X being stopped by a fucking grenade.
The scene when she goes into the hole in the lighthouse was pretty good though, best part of the whole movie.
Finally got around to seeing Annihilation. On it's own, it was good. Nothing amazing, the characters were weak and so was the dialogue at times, and the CGI gets pretty bad too (mainly in the action scenes). In comparison to the book, it's eh.
The mystery around Area X (or the Shimmer as it's called in the movie) gets explained and the characters are certain of what's going on. Even in the beginning aspects of Area X that weren't known until later in the book just get casually mentioned. The best example of this is at the beginning where Lena is being interrogated by Ventress and Ventress tells her The Shimmer is expanding which is something Biologist doesn't find out until the final stages of the book. It's hard to describe, but there's more of a focus on the fact Area X has weird plants and animals rather than what's behind Area X. IIRC in the book there was only one part where they actually had to fight against an animal meanwhile in the movie it happens a lot more, but I guess that's to be expected.
I'm not trying to write a wall of text so I'm going to cut this short because I could go on in the ways most of the movie's changes were for the worst or pointless. One change that counts as both is how The Biologist/Lena in the book was reserved and was really invested in studying marine life. Her husband dying was a motivator for coming, but she was also genuinly interested in studying Area X. Meanwhile Lena just has an affair because her husband was gone a lot and there's not much justification as to why she'd want to continue onward rather than going back like the other two wanted. Not sure what the point of that change was other than making her more "relatable" because the average joe doesn't want to watch a movie about a weirdo who likes staring at tidal pools. Also fuck Area X being stopped by a fucking grenade.
The scene when she goes into the hole in the lighthouse was pretty good though, best part of the whole movie.
>>45636
No. It's the one where Cat succubus can go into people's minds and explore them like a real world.
I have Automata on my to watch list. It looks like Chappie without wiggers.
No. It's the one where Cat succubus can go into people's minds and explore them like a real world.
I have Automata on my to watch list. It looks like Chappie without wiggers.
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what about platonic romance films where there are no kissing or sex scenes? mostly all asian romance films have no sex scenes in them
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>>41553
ahh yes, the movie about how people around the world suck. there were a lot of mixed messages from this movie, but It was refreshing in a way since it follows a less individual centric worldview like most Hollywood, spoiler the gun is the main character.
I feel a good part of the movie was also about how stereotypes around the world are true.
ahh yes, the movie about how people around the world suck. there were a lot of mixed messages from this movie, but It was refreshing in a way since it follows a less individual centric worldview like most Hollywood, spoiler the gun is the main character.
I feel a good part of the movie was also about how stereotypes around the world are true.
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pic related was pretty good, it was the lower budget depressing version of "the martian" where the main character is not a turbochad who can do everything, and instead of trying to get back to his friends, he is trying to go to mars by himself.
>An American astronaut (Mark Strong) tests his will, sanity and endurance while embarking on a one-way, solo mission to Mars.
some normie even ranted about how shit the movie was because it did not compute with his normgroid beliefs because it was not 100% scientifically accurate and a few other things that would spoil the movie
>An American astronaut (Mark Strong) tests his will, sanity and endurance while embarking on a one-way, solo mission to Mars.
some normie even ranted about how shit the movie was because it did not compute with his normgroid beliefs because it was not 100% scientifically accurate and a few other things that would spoil the movie
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this movie is great
>>45856
I made a new Netflix account to abuse the 30 day free trial because I was too lazy to find a download for this. Will watch it sometime tonight or tomorrow.
I made a new Netflix account to abuse the 30 day free trial because I was too lazy to find a download for this. Will watch it sometime tonight or tomorrow.
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here's a wizardly movie
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>>45888
they don't have a hollywood full of rich jews spending $100M on the big-wow CGI you're addicted to
they don't have a hollywood full of rich jews spending $100M on the big-wow CGI you're addicted to
>>45888
Brits are pussies now (used to make pretty good films but now can't)
Irish films tend to spend too much time with shots looking at the scenery, but other then that if it ain't a chick flick then they tend to be ok.
France has their head up their ass.
Italy used to be pretty good but the economy can't support the local film industry like it used to.
Germany hasn't been relevant since color movies have been out
The Nordic countries just like slow pacing, which they actually do really well, and there are quite a few good films from that regent if you can get past the cultural difference in pacing.
Everywhere else doesn't produce enough films worthy of note for me to form a opinion on them.
Brits are pussies now (used to make pretty good films but now can't)
Irish films tend to spend too much time with shots looking at the scenery, but other then that if it ain't a chick flick then they tend to be ok.
France has their head up their ass.
Italy used to be pretty good but the economy can't support the local film industry like it used to.
Germany hasn't been relevant since color movies have been out
The Nordic countries just like slow pacing, which they actually do really well, and there are quite a few good films from that regent if you can get past the cultural difference in pacing.
Everywhere else doesn't produce enough films worthy of note for me to form a opinion on them.
the only european flicks I've seen are the les visiteurs ones (three) with jean reno
I love those movies
I love those movies
>>45344
+1, would like to recommend to others also. A very, very good movie. I actually used to listen to the soundtrack a lot.
+1, would like to recommend to others also. A very, very good movie. I actually used to listen to the soundtrack a lot.
>>39514
>unvirgin main character.
wow.
Can someone make a list on imdb of wizardly films? Or do we already have one?
>unvirgin main character.
wow.
Can someone make a list on imdb of wizardly films? Or do we already have one?
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Moon (2009) staring Sam Rockwell
Kind of wizards in space, if you think about it in a certain way.
Kind of wizards in space, if you think about it in a certain way.
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If you don't watch this, you have to turn in your wizard card…
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this was great. i wonder if i should watch some other john boorman films
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didn't think this would be good. it turned out to be great
>>39306
you ever get a dmca notification using rutracker?
i got one using rarbg.to which is why i no longer use public torrents
you ever get a dmca notification using rutracker?
i got one using rarbg.to which is why i no longer use public torrents
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