Movies Thread

[Ekco]

forgot which thread had the tangent about HK/Chinese action movies

tonight's flick in the series titled "shit you should fucking watch" is

City on Fire (1987 film)

is a 1987 Hong Kong action film[1] directed by Ringo Lam. It stars Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, and Sun Yueh. Following A Better Tomorrow (1986), City on Fire helped establish Chow's popularity as an action star in Asia and to a lesser degree North America.

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[Zuranthium]

I can't remember anything about that one, but I have it rated as 6/10 (same for A Better Tomorrow). The Lunatics (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090940/) from 1986 was more interesting for me.

My biggest Hong Kong recommendation is Comrades: Almost a Love Story

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[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Looks cool

I am not going to be posting much until the 30-40,000 guest bots bogging the forum down get dealt with, no rush tho, I understand mods are volunteers with lives

But I had wanted to mention for a couple days now that I just saw this announcement on FB, and was fairly disappointed

I still have yet to play Elden Ring but I really enjoyed hearing about this char and especially how incredibly OP she is, being that she has never lost until you face her. My cousin is pretty good at video games and he gave up on beating her because he didn’t want to have to re-roll or use a cheesy strat to win. Which to me speaks a lot about how strong of a boss she is

And the idea of Sydney with her huge rocking tits trying to play the most powerful entity in the game, combat wise, is silly. There is NO WAY she will be able to do convincing combat or sword choreography. I was never impressed with Scarlet Johannesburg’s portrayal of black widow either

They need to get an actress on par with those girls from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon that can actually do convincing fight choreography

[Skarne]

Great movie that I don't think many people have seen is Sonatine:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108188/

w/ Beat Takeshi

[Ekco]

>Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Country boy Xiaojun (Leon Lai) moves to Hong Kong, hoping to get rich so that he can send for his hometown sweetheart and marry her. But Xiaojun barely scrapes by in the baffling metropolis, and is lonely until he meets city-slicker Qiao (Maggie Cheung). While she schools him in urban living, the mismatched pair become best friends and eventually have a romantic tryst. Both decide it's wise to forget their passionate night and remain friends, but they still secretly yearn for one another.
idk if my soul can handle a HK Romance right now but it looks good

>Elden Ring
>They need to get an actress on par with those girls from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon that can actually do convincing fight choreography

yeah Ive given up on new movies until i can do the casting choices myself with AI, like un-fucking ironically.

like here's a teaser for a Blade Runner adaptation a dude is making, we're getting there.
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saw this one suggested in my cold war FB grp, Brando movie ive never even heard of.

Morituri 1965
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
Stars: Marlon BrandoYul BrynnerJanet Margolin

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[Ekco]

Great movie that I don't think many people have seen is Sonatine:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108188/

w/ Beat Takeshi

i need to watch this one for sure, and more of his stuff. i literally only know him as the guy from MxC and Sonatine from the gif of him on a beach with a revolver lol

[Skarne]

i need to watch this one for sure, and more of his stuff. i literally only know him as the guy from MxC and Sonatine from the gif of him on a beach with a revolver lol

Aye def worth a viewing

[Ekco]

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[shovelquest]

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I want to stomp the gutts out of modern kids for not appreciating this shit.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

An actress that is actually good at Martial arts on and off screen <3

https://i.imgur.com/foXWOwW_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand

[Ekco]

An actress that is actually good at Martial arts on and off screen <3

https://i.imgur.com/foXWOwW_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand
"Yup, yup, yup like Chun-Li"

[shovelquest]

Last night I watched the Departed (again) I really like that movie.

But per some of our earlier convos and hong kong.. did you know it's a re-make of a (legendary at its time) hong kong movie Infernal Affairs?

I personally prefer the departed over infernal affairs, I think culturally its more relevant to me, and it's also an extremely polished movie. Like, I reckon that Infernal Affairs had to "invent" this story.

But the departed got to take all that work and "perfect" it.. which IMO they did. But.. both are excellent, and I recommend both bigly.

I think the funniest thing is how Matt Daymon and Leo goes through a particularly "Chinese" style education system... that doesn't look anything like ours, but looks very much like their culture lol.

No way our police officers are that disciplined during training. No way. No shot.

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[NopeNopeNopeNope]

"Yup, yup, yup like Chun-Li"

Remember this classic? One of my favorite all time Pete Holmes skits. Makes me miss the glorious 90’s where no one would bat an eye at this type of humor

(And the actress is soooooo damn hot…)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_jdi0MWW-gw

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Last night I watched the Departed (again) I really like that movie.

But per some of our earlier convos and hong kong.. did you know it's a re-make of a (legendary at its time) hong kong movie Infernal Affairs?

I personally prefer the departed over infernal affairs, I think culturally its more relevant to me, and it's also an extremely polished movie. Like, I reckon that Infernal Affairs had to "invent" this story.

But the departed got to take all that work and "perfect" it.. which IMO they did. But.. both are excellent, and I recommend both bigly.

Departed was great. (Edit: spoilers ahead, sorry this is your warning) Even though he’s a narcissistic manipulative douchebag, I actually liked when Matt Damon’s char turned on Jack’s char

The last thing he said as he gunned him down was “RAT PRICK!” And it’s true. He’s just following the code. Jack’s char was technically a snitch, even if he was a mafia boss, snitches get stitches

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

^
Oh the only thing that was a logic gap for me was Leo’s char was set up to be too intelligent to stupidly leave out the envelope labeled “citizens” from its original spot on Matt’s char’s desk. This tipped off Matt Damon’s char that Leo’s char had seen it, which prompted Matt to go delete Leo from the database

The obvious smart play was leave the envelop exactly where it was, play dumb and finish dealings with Matt, then bust him

Incredibly stupid high school level planning to move that envelope

[shovelquest]

Departed was great. (Edit: spoilers ahead, sorry this is your warning) Even though he’s a narcissistic manipulative douchebag, I actually liked when Matt Damon’s char turned on Jack’s char

The last thing he said as he gunned him down was “RAT PRICK!” And it’s true. He’s just following the code. Jack’s char was technically a snitch, even if he was a mafia boss, snitches get stitches

Yeah Departed's characters were just perfection. So deep. So awesome. Both of the characters are similar in IA but.. I think they were perfected in the departed.

I do have to call out the scene, where Matt Daymon says the name of the movie like almost directly looking into the camera... that should have been cut.

"What's his name... *turns to camera* tHe DepArTed!?"

Mark Wahlberg's character is one of my favorite characters ever written, and I have never heard of any other character like him in anything else.

[Ekco]

Remember this classic? One of my favorite all time Pete Holmes skits. Makes me miss the glorious 90’s where no one would bat an eye at this type of humor

(And the actress is soooooo damn hot…)


yeah that skit is hilarious


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yeah i need to check this out, i went looking for something to watch last night but ended up watching something i had already seen a bajillion times instead, hate that shit

and
"Yup, yup, yup like Chun-Li"
is from a rap song in the early 00s but i can't find it

[shovelquest]

80s hong kong was so awesome and western.

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[Ekco]

yeah ive decided, gonna watch Police Story 1985 (english dubbed) tonight, tubi has Armour of God and The Protector other things available are like late 70s shaolin stuff of his or 90s and onward other than those two

[Duik]

yeah ive decided, gonna watch Police Story 1985 (english dubbed) tonight, tubi has Armour of God and The Protector other things available are like late 70s shaolin stuff of his or 90s and onward other than those two

I been checkin out tubi as well. I wonder if they have regional seperation of shows.

Armour of god sounds good.
Heaps of Bruce Lee on there too. HWAAAAEIII

Is the protector the turkish/mid east hero with a symbol burnt into his back (chest?).

[shovelquest]

Hey I was just watching a old rapture movie on tubi, nice.

[Duik]

Speaking of Michelle Yeoh, the chick from Agents of shield looks legit, i have no clue, i thought steven seagull was bad arse (just lulz). Im easy to trick.

[Duik]

Hey I was just watching a old rapture movie on tubi, nice.

There is heaps of Theist Fiction on there. :+P

[Ekco]

Is the protector the turkish/mid east hero with a symbol burnt into his back (chest?).

jackie movie ive never heard of but it was listed there under his name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protector_(1985_film)

two different versions, sounds fun. and the other turkish movie for that matter lol will look that up

[shovelquest]

I actually almost watched this movie tonight holy shit its reallly as bad as they imply, it's actually worse, but its got all these famous people in it!

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[Ekco]

tonight's flick


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https://i.imgur.com/zJJdFVl.jpeg

[shovelquest]

Damn this was awesome, Id never heard of it! It was terrible. But I loved it.

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[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I actually almost watched this movie tonight holy shit its reallly as bad as they imply, it's actually worse, but its got all these famous people in it!



I actually thought the War of the Worlds version with Tom Cruise was very well done up to a certain point. The tripods were pretty frightening, I love that bass boat horn noise they made, ominous. And that scene where they are driving away with the tripod basically exploding the entire city behind them and the bridge is flipping over was extremely well shot. Best city destruction snapshot I could recall seeing up to that point in almost any movie

(Spoilers or whatevs)

It’s unfortunate that the entire movie tanks as soon as we get that protracted basement huddle with Tim Robbin’s character. Man that got boring and weird. And the rest of the movie continues to go downhill to a logically ridiculous idea that some species so much more advanced than us wouldn’t have anticipated the concept of germs

[shovelquest]

I actually thought the War of the Worlds version with Tom Cruise was very well done up to a certain point. The tripods were pretty frightening, I love that bass boat horn noise they made, ominous. And that scene where they are driving away with the tripod basically exploding the entire city behind them and the bridge is flipping over was extremely well shot. Best city destruction snapshot I could recall seeing up to that point in almost any movie

(Spoilers or whatevs)

It’s unfortunate that the entire movie tanks as soon as we get that protracted basement huddle with Tim Robbin’s character. Man that got boring and weird. And the rest of the movie continues to go downhill to a logically ridiculous idea that some species so much more advanced than us wouldn’t have anticipated the concept of germs

I love the tom cruise one! I wish it had 1 more 15 minuet scene in it to make it a tiny bit longer, and it would be one of my favorite movies. My only complaint with it is the 3rd act happens a little too fast.

Id have liked after the ferry scene, for them to have grouped up with that woman and her kids for like 15 mins, then they die or something and the movie caries on.

The basement scene was a down point in that movie for sure.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I love the tom cruise one! I wish it had 1 more 15 minuet scene in it to make it a tiny bit longer, and it would be one of my favorite movies. My only complaint with it is the 3rd act happens a little too fast.

Id have liked after the ferry scene, for them to have grouped up with that woman and her kids for like 15 mins, then they die or something and the movie caries on.

The basement scene was a down point in that movie for sure.

The movie did dread so damn well, which is such a rare quality. The buildup is fantastic, helped by scenes where the bodies are going down the river and the train is going by completely on fire. Then of course the mob scene realistic and terrifying

And then the ferry scene it’s like you have this built up feeling of dread and it’s presented as so hopeless. I was just thinking ok man, you’ve done all that you could, but you are completely fucked. Keep trying by all means, I still would to the very end. But you’re so fucked

The last time I remember such a good feeling of dread was the American version of grudge where that white woman is running from the house demons. Holy cow that was such delicious dread

[atomicpaul]

Damn this was awesome, Id never heard of it! It was terrible. But I loved it.

3sDi4ktmY4smy brothers and i drove my parents nuts renting this movie on VHS over and over and over. and robot jox.

that and batteries not included.

[shovelquest]

Hahah god bless you and your brothers. Kings.

[Ekco]

i need to watch robot jox again, i think that's the one where war is replaced by 1 v 1 robot combat based on the economic zone

the way God intended.

[atomicpaul]

yeah man, i think they fight proxy wars with mechs in alaska. great, terrible movies.

these movies were as close as we got to battletech: the movie.

bless you both!!

[shovelquest]

*creates world peace by changing war from war to mech tanks fighting.

*war starts

*mech bots face off

*attacking country looses fight.

*turns entire mech team on civilians, kills everyone, takes land.

*wins war.

Man I miss the 90s we had such high hopes for the future.

[shovelquest]

I was hoping this would replace war but it turns out these idiots thought they were actually practicing for a real war. Then they learned that tanks are 100% ineffective in combat after like 2010.

All the colored tanks were so dope and GIJOE what a shame.

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[Ekco]

Crazy ivan was a good ps1 game with the same concept iirc

i remember renting it together with robot jox a few times rofl

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edit:
"The player takes the role of Ivan Popovich, a Russian soldier controlling a giant mechanical suit, defending the Earth from robotic aliens."

okay nothing alike but those two are linked in my head forever though

[atomicpaul]

my favorite ps1 game has long been Return Fire

followed closely by Bushido Blade

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[Ekco]

followed closely by Bushido Blade


if this is the one i remember, the switching stances and other shit was actually technical as fuck.

[atomicpaul]

yeah there were three stances for the katana i think. don't remember for all the other weapons and characters. it was a great game. i should install an emulator.

[shovelquest]

my favorite ps1 game has long been Return Fire

HOLY $ this is the oldest refrence to this meme before it was a meme??!

https://i.imgur.com/oExgyGn.png

[Ekco]

lol someone made a Red Sonja movie
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"It looks like a movie that was made in the early 2000's, got lost, found just last week and it's just being released to recoup costs....I'm in."
https://i.imgur.com/1tU8lrj.png

looks like a instant MST3K so bad it's good kinda movie to me

[shovelquest]

I can't find the TV thread but this is a little bit of a crossover.

Just finished these 2 starter episodes last night, really enjoyed it! It feels like the show creator really likes Alien movies.

I watched a youtube Alien timeline video and the TL;DR is that this show takes place in 2102 - and Prometheus and covenant took place between 2080 and 2095 - and the origional aliens movie took place in 2120.

So it's right inbetween the two timelines, and fits in really well. Good job show creator Noah Hawley! I guess he made the Fargo TV show, which is pretty good. And also Legion which was pretty good.

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[shovelquest]

looks like a instant MST3K so bad it's good kinda movie to me

In 1980, a female barbarian sounds awesome.

In 2025 I'd rather punch myself in the dick.

[shovelquest]

Moving this here because ekco was supposed to comment on it not get the thread it was in back on track.

This is my favorite japanimation of all time. Its the full movie and it's only 45 mins, I do recommend.

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[Ekco]

my bad i thought i did post rofl.

yeah i love that movie same guy who did ghost in the shell

[shovelquest]

my bad i thought i did post rofl.

yeah i love that movie same guy who did ghost in the shell

Back in the days I used to watch this shit. Me and my friends would go to the video stores and just rent them based on the cover images the back of the box.

Then you throw it on, and have no clue what you're about to watch, no idea at all.. it could be good, it could be terrible, but you and your friends are about to go on a journey.

https://i.imgur.com/sl6lkXI.png

[Ekco]

yeah i found so many animated and live action movies that i ended up loving by just going off the vhs box art

def something special about that renting movies experience and it's sad you can't really replicate it today

[shovelquest]

Can at least once more, if we knock the world back to the stone age.

[atomicpaul]

i watched the M Night Shmylan movie Trap. where a not-Lady Gaga concert is a trap meant to catch a serial killer, and also, M Night is trying to launch his daughter's singing career.

it was really stupid. 1 out of 5.

[shovelquest]

i watched the M Night Shmylan movie Trap. where a not-Lady Gaga concert is a trap meant to catch a serial killer, and also, M Night is trying to launch his daughter's singing career.

it was really stupid. 1 out of 5.

Was it better or worse than lady in the water? :D

[Ekco]

i gotta watch a couple RLM videos now due to the big sad over movie rentals rofl

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[atomicpaul]

Was it better or worse than lady in the water? :Dnever saw that one, but it was far worse than his good movies: signs, devil, and the bruce willis ones

[shovelquest]

never saw that one, but it was far worse than his good movies: signs, devil, and the bruce willis ones

I can watch a lot of crap but I can't even handle lady in the water.

[kjs86z2]

Going to finally see the F1 movie in a brand new iMax Laser theater.

Haven't been to the movies since They Shall Not Grow Old was released.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Wow is this true?

He does some incredible transformations for roles

https://i.imgur.com/sJtkw7k.jpeg

[Ekco]

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[shovelquest]

Such a great movie damn I wish I was chinese in the 1980s

[Ekco]

Such a great movie damn I wish I was chinese in the 1980s

tonight's movie i hadn't seen before, deleted post cause i was ahhh maybe shouldn't bump the movie thread with pure ultra violence today but w/e reposting now lol

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[shovelquest]

Im surprised I didnt recommend this one, it was one of my favorites, which makes me wonder what other juicy gems Im forgetting.

[Ekco]

i keep pausing it to do other shit but the first 25 minutes of this has been insanely good

[Ekco]

Im surprised I didnt recommend this one, it was one of my favorites, which makes me wonder what other juicy gems Im forgetting.

my new favorite for sure, and i didn't even finish it last night.

dude drives a pretty sick 1st gen honda integra

https://i.imgur.com/SHKyU7C.png
https://i.imgur.com/rPdFhKv.png

[shovelquest]

This car choice for the lawyer was one of my favorite parts of this movie. So friggen based for a hot fem fetal lawyer to be driving that car in 2000s japan god damn.

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[Ekco]

Z31's 32? are so dope, i forget which trim my mechanic friend's was, wasn't the twin turbo either just the normal v6 iirc

they had like 3 at the shop so i assume one was a project twin turbo

https://i.imgur.com/sSPhZY8.png


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[Ekco]

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12 Monkeys
checkin if it holds up tonight

[Duik]

What unit is used to measure the violence in 80's asian kunfu movies?

The Kill-O-Meter. It's just the metric.

[Reiwa]

Our life is not a movie or maybe (https://lite.cnn.com/2025/09/19/asia/one-piece-flag-indonesia-nepal-protesters-intl-hnk-dst)

Real and digital worlds merge

Characters and symbols from popular culture are often adopted by protesters to convey a shared cause or value system.

Pepe the Frog, the right-wing online meme, was adopted by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in 2019, while a three-fingered salute from the Hunger Games movie series is used by young pro-democracy protesters in Thailand and opponents of the 2021 military coup in Myanmar as a symbol of resistance.

The One Piece Jolly Roger Flag is a useful symbol because it can be easily adapted from protest to protest and infused with new meanings more specific to the time and place, said Natalie Pang, professor in the department of communications and new media at the National University of Singapore.

In Nepal, protesters displayed slogans such as “Gen Z won’t be silent,” “Your luxury our misery!” and “Nepo Babies” alongside the flag in reference to anger over politicians’ children displaying their lavish lifestyles on social media.

“As a visual symbol, it is gaining a lot of traction because it is in a way, quite effective for people to rally around it to say, ‘I stand for these symbols, these values as well,’” Pang said.

“It is not just rallying people around the values, but also potentially mobilizing them to join in those protests.”

Through social media, there is a blending of the real world and the digital world, she added.

“We are seeing a kind of remixing, a kind of diffusing of both political cultures of expression together with popular culture of consumption.”

[shovelquest]

I hate one piece so god damn much.

Do any of you guys like that?

[Ekco]

nah i haven't watched any of that.

i am, however, getting into macross/robotech and trying to find out what order i'm suppose to watch this shit in

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spacefaring f-14 tomcats that tansform into gundams > some goofy pirate bitch show

[shovelquest]

nah i haven't watched any of that.

i am, however getting into macross/robotech and trying to find out what order i'm suppose to watch this shit in

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good stuff.

Have you seen the movie macros plus? its a stand alone and great movie. Not really about macros but about test pilots flying the 2 jets competing for the next VFX contract.

One is traditional flight systems (flown by maverick from top gun basically), the other (Iceman) is flying the one that has the neuralink brain interface new prototype.

and they both are in love with some Jpop star who is also competing with a hologram AI pop star.

Cool movie.

https://i.imgur.com/HzyNl3S.png

[Ekco]

yeah it's on the list, i had the same problem as i had with gundam, i google it and there's like multiple series and movies lol and i don't know where the fuck to start

macross super dimension fortress
then movies i guess is the watch order

[shovelquest]

Yeah I remember trying to do the same thing youre doing with robotech and there is a good answer but I dont remember it and also never followed through.

[shovelquest]

I watched phantasm tonight and man it has great music.

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Cool movie.

[Duik]

I hate one piece so god damn much.

Do any of you guys like that?

I love it.
God damn it!
Since taking your lords name in vain is back on the menu.

[Duik]

Alien Earth is pretty good.
They jump right into it.
Introduce characters? Nope, if ya cant work it out, this show prolly not for you.

[shovelquest]

Alien Earth is pretty good.
They jump right into it.
Introduce characters? Nope, if ya cant work it out, this show prolly not for you.

yeah I like how it combines the like, old alien movies vibes with the new Prometheus alien vibes.

[SorenVC]

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[Tann]

Alien Earth is pretty good.
They jump right into it.
Introduce characters? Nope, if ya cant work it out, this show prolly not for you.

I'll have to take a look at this, really needing some good sci-fi after binging The Foundation left me so thoroughly disappointed.

can only rewatch The Expanse so many times...

[shovelquest]

I'll have to take a look at this, really needing some good sci-fi after binging The Foundation left me so thoroughly disappointed.

can only rewatch The Expanse so many times...

Yeah, it's been a real dry 4 or 5 years for sci-fi fans IMO.

Foundation was a welcome addition but it really is dumb now like I couldn't care less about it.

This pysicic homless kid being the bad guy bullshit is the dumbest crap ever.

USed to be that netflix would release some kind of corney sci fi movie or series every week I miss those days.

[Tann]

the whole show, minus the Cleon stuff which was actually good, turned basically into Star Wars.. I've not read the books in decades but I'm pretty sure it didn't have Jedi, a Deathstar, space battles with small fighters, yada yada.

[Reiwa]

Daybreakers is the best allegory for postmodern American civilization.

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[shovelquest]

Ru into the 31 atlas buzz?

Looking for something to watch while you play everquest?

This is a great 90s made for TV movie about a... mysterious.. astroid heading towards earth, from the point of view of the nightly news.

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[shovelquest]

hey arther c clark is in this.

https://youtu.be/6J4pfT2qLb4?t=2667

[shovelquest]

Another good (and relevant again) TV movie.

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[Ekco]

Looking for something to watch while you play everquest?

my favorite background noise while playing EQ will always be MST3k
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[Ekco]

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[shovelquest]

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Cool. Reminds me of El Topo weird 70s movies like Zardoz.

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[shovelquest]

I just watched The Long Walk.

It was so weird. It had no plot.

It's such a missed opportunity.

The world is devoid of creativity.

It had no women in it so its 10/10 from me though.

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[shovelquest]

Movies are so bad right now, I bet someone will make one where 1 actor spends 1.5 hrs slowly dying stuck in his space ship like this and it will still cost 400 million to make and they will market it like it's a blockbuster.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1on4ctm/if_you_arent_able_to_reach_a_wall_its_possible_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Would have been a cool death scene in an old movie though.

[shovelquest]

Target demo boycotts own movie lmao

https://www.reddit.com/r/CirclejerkSopranos/comments/1ou6wc7/christy_its_fucked_up/

Who out there that would like that actress would want to go see a friggen movie about a woman boxer and who would want to go see a movie about a woman boxer isn't already mad as hell at that main actresss.

This casting almost feels like a spring time for hitler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1K4yDUWdIw) conspiracy, only this time it's working.

[atomicpaul]

i saw her in madame web and realized she's not very good ather job

which is cool because that godawful movie was crammed with nepo babies

i enjoy ruby rose getting mad about it, though. not that she's a good actor, either.

[shovelquest]

She was great in that show whats it called um idk oh yea white lotus.

But she has been in movie after movie of "i couldn't give a shit about that movie" movie, since.

My biggest sad is that the It Follows style horror movie never stuck around.

I liked that girl in it. Maika Monroe. She had a real cool way about her.

I do feel hella bad for sidny sweeny though, she just exists, doing an actors job, and everyone is pissed at her lol

[kjs86z2]

I've been to the movies twice in 10 years.

They Shall Not Grow Old (good)

F1 The Movie (bad)

[atomicpaul]

last movie i saw in the theater, and the first since covid... was oppenheimer. BORING

[shovelquest]

Last time i was at the theater I thought cool it will give me an update on the current state of the collapse of western civilization.

If people are quiet, then things are getting better, if they talk and use their phone in the movie society is collapsing.

Well the TL: DR is society is collapsing.

[kjs86z2]

Last time i was at the theater I thought cool it will give me an update on the current state of the collapse of western civilization.

If people are quiet, then things are getting better, if they talk and use their phone in the movie society is collapsing.

Well the TL: DR is society is collapsing.

Me in almost empty IMAX laser theater for F1 Brad Pit movie.

In comes two Russian / eastern euro dudes. Sit right next to me (premo seats, assigned, but theater is basically empty cmon man).

Both of them get out these extending arm things that attach / base sits in the cup holder, and mount their phones in front of their faces.

I shit you not they talked and were on their phones for the first 45 minutes straight.

I had enough. I leaned over, turned my head, stared directly at them until I got their attention and just sternly said "guys are you fucking kidding me right now?"

They both got up and moved.

Fucking new age dipshits. Get off my lawn.

[shovelquest]

Me in almost empty IMAX laser theater for F1 Brad Pit movie.

In comes two Russian / eastern euro dudes. Sit right next to me (premo seats, assigned, but theater is basically empty cmon man).

Both of them get out these extending arm things that attach / base sits in the cup holder, and mount their phones in front of their faces.

I shit you not they talked and were on their phones for the first 45 minutes straight.

I had enough. I leaned over, turned my head, stared directly at them until I got their attention and just sternly said "guys are you fucking kidding me right now?"

They both got up and moved.

Fucking new age dipshits. Get off my lawn.

lol