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Asterite34 posted:Thread, I need help finding something for friends&family Movie Night. I have some past successes/failures to help triangulate a bit: a few double-features or alternates for each other: Drive / Thief Hi Mom / Anguish King of Comedy / Network
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Asterite34 posted:Thread, I need help finding something for friends&family Movie Night. I have some past successes/failures to help triangulate a bit: These people seem cool, so they should watch these cool movies: Streets of Fire Popcorn House (1977) Tampopo The Warriors Hairspray (1988) Time After Time Matinee
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:a few double-features or alternates for each other: Lol hi mom
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Feb 20, 2024 18:00
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Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Time Bandits Highlander
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Feb 20, 2024 18:02
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Hmm, after some consideration, I think giving the guests a choice between Footloose and Streets of Fire is the right call, give 'em a selection of tone on opposite ends of the "it's the 80s but also sorta the 50s?" spectrum. Plus both films came out in 1984, so it works with my brother's recent 40th birthday!
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Feb 20, 2024 18:23
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I'm gonna throw out Lair Of the White Worm as a very good time. It's got a baby Hugh Grant cutting an old lady in half with a claymore and a Dr. Who playing a Scottish stereotype ; it's a very fun time.
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That almost made the cut of my list, too. A definite recommend for a crowd who can get a bit weird.
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Feb 20, 2024 19:52
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Xiahou Dun posted:I'm gonna throw out Lair Of the White Worm as a very good time. Lair of the White Worm does kick rear end but it is at least as horny as Barbarella.
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Feb 20, 2024 19:53
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Repo Men. Just to confuse everyone
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Feb 20, 2024 19:57
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Gripweed posted:Lair of the White Worm does kick rear end but it is at least as horny as Barbarella. It's weird British horniness though. Much less overt.
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Feb 20, 2024 19:59
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Bloodsport
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Definitely gonna keep Dr Phibes in the back pocket for Halloween. Lair of the White Worm will be reserved for when I want to make them uncomfortable
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Feb 20, 2024 20:17
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Asterite34 posted:Thread, I need help finding something for friends&family Movie Night. I have some past successes/failures to help triangulate a bit: Flash loving Gordon
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Feb 20, 2024 20:39
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Having just watched Game Night, I strongly recommend Game Night as a crowd pleasing good time.
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Feb 21, 2024 03:33
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Asterite34 posted:Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band drat, didn't know this existed as it's own thing, but now you have to try Yellow Submarine if you haven't already. Also, maybe UHF.
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regulargonzalez posted:Flash loving Gordon Be prepared to have that theme song stuck in your head for days though
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If My Dinner With Andre meant you're courting some arthouse/avant-garde tries if they don't have too much dialogue or intellectualizing, that's hard but doable because Daisies and Stroszek are a cinch. Last Year at Marienbad is a harder sell but could work if you prep people for a play-as-you-go-along movie interpretation game. Unlike some Lynch or Bunuel weird movies, it has not just one but more than one workable coherent interpretation, so you can have them fight like pokemon. Plus a certain plot element should be cocaine for math nerds and has inspired a 1962 computer game. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is the ultimate reach, high risk/high reward, if you can get the time commitment from people. Introduce it with only, "the top critics voted this the best movie ever," then let it roll. Sounded like you were open to potential ironic or hate-watching, as a CYA thing. I feel like a prankster just suggesting this, and that's exactly why it might work for you.
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Onomarchus posted:
You then have to watch it every year again so you can get together and go “remember last year, when we watched last year at mariendbad”
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I’ve got a real soft spot for 50s sci-fi, but I’ve seen all the standards (Forbidden Planet, Body Snatchers, Them!, Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, etc.) dozens of times already. Looking for stuff that’s lesser known but still notable. Bonus points if it skews more space/alien themed than giant bugs or atomic horrors (though those recs are still welcome).
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Mar 18, 2024 07:56
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You’ve probably seen some of these, but: The Thing (as good as the remake), It! (the same basic plot as Alien), the Quatermass movies (influential UK SF), The Angry Red Planet (trippy Mars movie), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (inspiration for Godzilla), Robot Monster (infamous low-budget goofy movie), The Monolith Monsters (very unique plot), The 27th Day (aliens give humans the power to destroy the world and we see what they do), The Giant Claw (goofiest monster ever), Fiend Without a Face (one of the first movies with explicitly gory effects), Invisible Invaders (pre-NotLD zombie movie).
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Mar 18, 2024 09:16
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The creature wasn't nice
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’ve got a real soft spot for 50s sci-fi, but I’ve seen all the standards (Forbidden Planet, Body Snatchers, Them!, Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, etc.) dozens of times already. About fifteen years ago a pound shop in my town started selling a ton of these 50s horror sci-fi monster movies on DVD. I bought as many as I could but I've somehow lost them all through several different house moves  The Brain That Wouldn't Die Attack of the Crab Monsters King of the Zombies Indestructible Man The Thing From Another World The Killer Shrews
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’ve got a real soft spot for 50s sci-fi, but I’ve seen all the standards (Forbidden Planet, Body Snatchers, Them!, Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, etc.) dozens of times already. The Black Scorpion really doesn't skimp on the Willis O'Brien stop-motion scorpions The Deadly Mantis is really solid and well-paced, and has some spooky-rear end scenes The Mole People is a really excellent movie outside of the studio-mandated ending Caltiki has some really excellent visuals and atmosphere Monster on the Campus is a ton of fun The Man from Planet X is gorgeous and spooky and incredibly unique Fiend Without a Face is totally ridiculous and fun with stop-motion brains
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Looking for stuff that’s lesser known but still notable. Bonus points if it skews more space/alien themed than giant bugs or atomic horrors (though those recs are still welcome). Planet of the Vampires
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’ve got a real soft spot for 50s sci-fi, but I’ve seen all the standards (Forbidden Planet, Body Snatchers, Them!, Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, etc.) dozens of times already. www.badmovies.org/movies is a pretty fun review site of these kinds of films.
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Matinee (1993) is not a creature feature, but it is about those kinds of movies. Possibly something you'd be interested in that went under your radar.
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Mar 22, 2024 16:01
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To my great shame I had never seen one of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong films prior to watching Police Story which I loved. What else from that era is worth checking out besides the obvious Police Story sequels?
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Purple Monkey posted:To my great shame I had never seen one of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong films prior to watching Police Story which I loved. What else from that era is worth checking out besides the obvious Police Story sequels? For HK movies of the same general era: Dragons Forever (1988) Wheels on Meals (1984) Project A (1983) Project A Part 2 (1987) If you want to go a little earlier: Fearless Hyena (1979) The Young Master (1980) If you want to go a little later: Operation Condor (1991) Crime Story (1993) Drunken Master 2 (1994) Out of that whole list, I’d probably say Dragons Forever is easily the best, followed closely by Project A and Drunken Master 2. And if you end up liking Dragons Forever, you could also check out movies with costars Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao that have a pretty similar vibe to Jackie’s stuff since they’re all friends who came up in the industry together. These are solid intros: Righting Wrongs (1986) Roundabout (1979) HK action from that period is a ton of fun.
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Purple Monkey posted:To my great shame I had never seen one of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong films prior to watching Police Story which I loved. What else from that era is worth checking out besides the obvious Police Story sequels? Most of them? I'd actually rank Police Story as relatively mid in the complete list of his work. As in, it's solid but it wouldn't be one of the first ones I'd point someone towards. Who Am I?, Operation Condor and Twin Dragons are three personal favorites, but you can pretty much go ham he's done a lot of great stuff. And if you somehow haven't seen The Legend of Drunken Master GO AND WATCH THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER RIGHT NOW.
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Who Am I is one of my favorites. You see Jackie Chan really trying to stretch as an actor, and it's cute to watch. And the ending sequence is as good as anything he's done. I think I'ma watch it this afternoon.
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Xiahou Dun posted:And if you somehow haven't seen The Legend of Drunken Master GO AND WATCH THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER RIGHT NOW. Worth pointing out that Legend of the Drunken Master isn't the same thing as Drunken Master. Legend of the Drunken Master(also known as Drunken Master II) is the sequel to Drunken Master. Hong Kong action films got their hooks into me a few year ago and so far I've bought the Police Story Trilogy, Dragons Forever, the recent Criterion release of Heroic Trio, and an In The Line of Duty box set. A bunch of those were blind buys and not a single one of them has made me regret it. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Basebf555 posted:Worth pointing out that Legend of the Drunken Master isn't the same thing as Drunken Master. Good call. Drunken Master, the original, is pretty dang good but it's a more classical kung fu movie with the tropes that are more familiar to that genre, e.g. awesome/hilarious training sequences. Legend of Drunken Master is the sequel that has minimal continuity besides "This is Wong Fei Hung, he is the master of Drunken Boxing" and is better in pretty much every way. Honestly, outside of some dated/cross-cultural stuff because they're 30+ years old and from Hong Kong (e.g. not the best time or place to be a woman) they all old the gently caress up. I think if all of us got into it we'd bicker a lot about which ones are the """best"""" but we'd be mostly arguing which ones are A-, A or A+ according to our own tastes : you gotta really look to find a bad a Jackie Chan movie from the Hong Kong era.
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Yeah, Jackie was such a perfectionist back then that even the lesser entries still have absolutely incredible stunts and setpieces in them.
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Apr 2, 2024 17:08
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One thing Jackie usually seems to deliver on is an outstanding showdown/finale at the end. Like, for me Project A would be like a C+ movie but then the big showdown between Jackie/Sammo/Yuen vs. the head pirate is an A++ fight so it kinda elevates the whole movie.
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Apr 2, 2024 17:10
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Meals on Wheels is a fantastic action comedy, shocked this wasn't a bigger hit
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I’m looking for Coast to Coast AM style horror movies. That’s horror movies that cover the same sort of topics, (aliens, skinwalkers, secret government projects, etc) or that give you that same feeling where the night is deep and full of mystery. So far I’ve thought of The Vast of Night The McPherson Tape Legend of Boggy Creek Phoenix Forgotten
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Apr 4, 2024 18:43
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Blair Witch Mothman Prophecies Trick r Treat anthologies Really, a lot of found footage horror applies to a greater or lesser degree. The Tenant doesn't fulfill the letter of the request but seems a match to the spirit of what you're looking for.
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Apr 4, 2024 19:11
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Blair Witch and Mothman deffo, but I feel like Trick r Treat is a little too over the top. There has to be a degree of verisimilitude.
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Communion? Nope and No One Will Save You come to mind but don’t have exactly the same vibe as the others you mentioned.
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