Elaine CortezWhy was the Human Torch banned from signing autographs?
Call me Lenny/LeniHere’s one.
What you call Iron Man when he doesn’t have any clothes on?
Stark naked.
EliseBaraka
datavoidThis and samsara are great, definitely not for everyone though
John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing. The themes of paranoia and isolation are so perfectly explored; it launched the career of Keith David, who is just a treasure; the performances are all immaculate; and those effects. My god, the effects.
Absolutely amazing movie, the effects were so ahead of their time!
Right? I can’t watch it with people anymore, because I keep pausing to explain how certain effects were achieved. It’s a monumental achievement.
ianovic69Brilliant film, I love John Carpenter. My favourite is They Live.
CrackhappyDo you have any bubblegum?
That’s a great one as well. That alleyway fight scene is so fucking cool. Carpenter is easily one of the most creative, most fun artists of his generation.
Love that one too. What do you (or anybody with a theory or the answer) think is the meaning of the ending?
I think it’s intentionally ambiguous. For me, the point is the paranoia and distrust. I might be wrong, of course, but my interpretation is that we are supposed to leave the experience with questions.
Damn, that movie really messed me up as a kid, watching it alone.
I can imagine; I wouldn’t recommend it for kids. Way too much gore and tension.
tetris11My god, the effects.
My god, the soundtrack. He’s a fantastic musician. I really liked his Lost Themes, especially Wraith:
Wraith
Rick and Morty: instant death
WeAreAllOneInterstellar.
If you like Christopher Nolan and playing with time, you must watch Memento.
This awesome movie is played backwards, so like the main character who lost short-term memory we don’t know what just happened. And the questions instead of “what is going to happen?” are “why did it happen?”. A must-watch.
This awesome movie is played backwards, so like the main character who lost short-term memory we don’t know what just happened. And the questions instead of “what is going to happen?” are “why did it happen?”. A must-watch.
It’s not really backwards, right? You have the timeline going both forwards and backwards from the middle if I remember correctly.
The forward section is a side thing on black and white effect, really important but main thing is backwards.
That’s true. Spoiler alert for those who haven’t seen it!
I’ve watched all 😏
Bladerunner.
Me and a friend watched it in a cinema on release aged 13. I’m very tall and my friend looked about 40. (Now he’s over 50 and looks under 40.) You could get away with it in those days.
On VCR release, our friend got his dad to buy a copy and we watched it on repeat at every opportunity. I’ve watched the Final Cut release many times, which I think is even better, and it’s one of the very few films I will happily watch at any time.
The documentary about the making of it is great to watch as well. Watch the film first though. I started reading Dick’s books aged about 11 or 12 and was already hooked before the film. I think that prepared me a bit, along with other sci-fi I was reading by then.
It’s still my favourite film.
Just watched both bladerunner movies (idk which versions of them) and was rather underwhelmed. The cinematic grand setpieces i can apprechiate and see how they can be captivating for some but the story (or bith of them rather) wasnt very good imo. The worldbuilding is ambitious but the logic behind everything is lacking. Its just not “realistic” enough for me. I get thats sci-fi but for me it feels more like a fantasy movie like idk avatar or harry potter, rather than sci-fi which is supposed to play in our world/universe but with advanced tech. Things like not being able to distinguish replicants (first movie I just didnt buy. And then in the second one there is a gadget that can do just that.
And also Ryan Gosling played pretty badly (maybe it was the script), no emotions, (almost) no storytelling in his mimic, emotions, in his character at all. He is almost like a wax figure, during watching I multiple times had to pause and complain to my co-watcher about his performance, as it too was unrealistic and too stoic for my taste
I feel like I’m the only person I know who really enjoyed the sheer visual masterpiece that was the second movie. Gosling is supposed to under-react here, and that he does well, right until the point that he breaks.
I mean, I get both. Sometimes it felt more like a documentary whith grand and cinematic images of the city and few spoken words, I can apprechiate that, altho its not what I am looking for in a movie.
I suspected that he is supposed to not really show emotions, to show how he is trained/at the “baseline” and how he is not quite human. But I couldn’t see a gradual/fine development nor “hidden” or suppressed emotions behind his cold pokerface. (Apart from the one moment at the memory girl’s)
proleTo be fair, you have to remember that the story the that the first film was based on was published in 1968. It’s basically a form of the “Seinfeld isn’t funny” trope. Just about every work of sci-fi, about being able to (or not) tell human from machine has borrowed one thing or another from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or the first Bladerunner film in one way or another. It’s basically impossible not to.
So I wonder if your opinion of it, watching it for the first time in 2024 could be colored by that. If all of those themes have been beaten to death again and again, satirized, parodied, meme-ified, then eventually cycling around to being cool again, then maybe you’re noticing all of those things as the tropes/memes they became.
I would say like half of Rick and Morty episodes are a take on a Philip K. Dick plot point. Had I not read his novels before being exposed to that stuff, I’m sure I would have probably caught more about how poorly written his female characters were, for example. But at the time I was just too blown away by the concepts this dude had come up with that it didn’t matter to me.
Yea, me watching it so many ywars after it came out definitely colored my opinion.
Its like that with many “first” movies, from Tron to Metropolis, that the original appeal decreases as the motives and filmmaking techniques arent as new anymore, because of those movies. One would have to watch “generic” movies from that year to really apprechiate the innovative parts which then got replicated over and over.
I try to consume media in the context of the time period it was made, but sometimes it can be difficult to overlook some things.
Repo: The Genetic Opera.
It’s definitely not for everyone, but it hits all the right buttons in my moody theatre kid heart, and “I Didn’t Know I’d Love You So Much” will always get the tears going for me.
And even if someone bounces off it, I’ve gotten a terrifying number of them hooked on Zydrate Anatomy. Might be the only song they remember from the whole thing, but it stays stuck.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial
Not too be mistaken with repo, the depressing film about organ repossession with a flimsy plot.
I don’t have a single favorite, but generally it’s going to go something like:
Triangle.
The Void.
The Endless.
Moon.
Upgrade.
Delicatessen
Have you seen Vivarium or Color Out of Space?
I haven’t seen Vivarium, although it looked like it would be good. My wife loved it.
I enjoyed The Color Out of Space for what it was; Dagon was another pretty solid Lovecraft adaptation. Oh, and for older horror, there’s The Re-Animator, and From Beyond. I think a lot of Lovecraft doesn’t translate to film very well; cosmic horror as a fiction genre just isn’t quite the same as cosmic horror in film. Adaptations of books and stories to screen always have to make compromises that can cost some of the punch, and showing something–like the screaming bear in Annihilation–can give you more punch than trying to set the same scene up in a book. Neither is ‘better’ than the other, they’re just different art forms.
If you’re into these movies, I’d recommend Necronomicon, a 1994 anthology Lovecraft horror film. It’s been out of print, but that link will take you to the full movie hosted on archive.org
It’s weird and interesting
Necronomicon Book Of The Dead (1993) : Brian Yuzna : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Lovecraft visualizes 3 stories in Necronomicon: The Drowned, The Cold and Whispers, about bringing a dead wife and child back to life, extending life and...
I’ll check it out!
I just recently saw Triangle. Definitely an under-appreciated movie. That one shot after she chases the girl to the top of the ship is S tier horror. Great ending too.
I watched it last night after Helix’s comment piqued my curiosity. I’d previously never heard of it before, and it’s one of those movies where it’s even better on the second viewing. Enjoyed the mystery and the eeriness! Was not expecting that ending at all
Upgrade was fantastic! So glad I caught that under the radar. Such a great action sci-fi with a dystopian flavour. “Black Mirror” meets “John Wick”. And what an ending.
It it, IMO, the best cyberpunk movie that’s hit theaters. So under rated.
God yes I love The Void. It really hits those Lovecraftian themes extremely well imo. The practical effects are fantastic as well.
American Astronaut
The black and white one with the billy nayer show?
Aliens.
Great story. Excellent pacing. Fantastic characters. Awesome music. I’m running out of adjectives, so I’ll add that I really liked: dialog, acting, special effects, lore, and setting.
pH3raThe Big Lebowski
Is gonna be the best movie you’ve ever seen once you see it twice
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
DichotoDeezNutzReally? I tried watching it but I couldn’t get through it.
It has a really messy plot with fast paced dialogue and subtle details that you can miss, I also remember my first time seeing it and being like “wtf is going on?”
As I said, the second time I saw it years later, I already knew the general direction of the movie so I could focus on the single characters and let me tell you: there’s a reason why there are a bunch of people quoting it all the time, every line of the script is like a meme, everything is so iconic
there’s a reason why there are a bunch of people quoting it all the time, every line of the script is like a meme, everything is so iconic
You just described the writing in everything the Coen Brothers have ever made.
Sips'Damn, now I have to watch it again haha
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Never seen it, I actually started watching it this week, so far so good!
The dude is like my spirit animal.
Ya don’t mess with tha Jesus
A Scanner Darkly
It is y-g-gou that are fuckeduptedup!
Oooh. I understand people liking it. I get the film, but I do not enjoy watching it. Great plot!
Try the book. Though as far as movie adaptations of PKD go, it’s relatively faithful.
Thank you for the recommendation.