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Based on a book that was way ahead of it's time comes a movie that was way ahead of it's time, JOHN DIES AT THE END. https://youtube.com/watch?v=IfJp417dyigit's low budget so some of the effects might not be the best but other than that, it's a great movie.
Very trippy and it covers things that became topical only in this decade.
The end reveal is really terrifying and it has stayed with me for the last 14 years.
I think this would be a hit if it came out now.
Don't look this movie up, just watch it.
By the time act 1 ends, you will be fully on board.
In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.
Rewatched "Last Boy Scout" yesterday, for the umpteenth time.
It's pretty rough around the edges, probably the most unpolished Tony Scott vehicle, and i have no idea how one of the Wayans brothers got casted as the male supporting actor but i love it, pure 90s R-rated goodness. Willis carries this movie like a motherfucker, the dialogue is pre-Wheedon quippy in all the best ways and Bruce delivers all his lines in a high-key hilarious manner, in virtually every scene. Pacing is all over the place as well but again, i love this film, extremely entertaining all around. Can only recommend.
Started rewatching Conan the Barbarian for the first time since the late 90s but did not finish it, will do so today. I forgot how extremely good this film is, pretty much the peak of the Swords & Sorcery genre. The costumes are fantastic (apart from the hair pieces), so is young Arnold. That first scene where he's on screen and glowers at the camera is just maaaaaaan. Top movie, gonna watch the rest of it and the second movie tonight, maybe even go for Red Sonja as well if i am not too tired. I tried to get into the books last year but they didn't catch me as much as the movies did, maybe i should start on the comics instead.
I recently rewatched the Australian TV series “Mr. Inbetween” and it’s still holds up. It’s a very short series, if you like tough guy underworld/crime world dramas give it a shot. I think it’s one of the most underrated modern series.
Rewatched it earlier this year after having watched it first a couple of years ago after a recommendation from this very thread, it's easily a 10/10 show. Scott Ryan is pure magic in it and i kept my eye on him ever since (he wrote the show as well) but it seems he hasn't done anything since. Doesn't really need to, seeing how outstanding Mr.Inbetween is. Truly a one of a kind show and i share your sentiment regarding how underrated it is.
Hard Eight (1996) - Paul Thomas Anderson’s feature length directorial debut about a seasoned gambler (Phillip Baker Hall) who befriends a man (John C Riley) down on his luck. It doesn’t have the stakes or reach the heights of Anderson’s later work but is a pretty solid 7/10. Also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L Jackson and a minor role by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Posted it in various threads on here before but Carlito's Way > Scarface, i die on that hill. Regularly leads to (good-natured) fights in my friend group when we talk movies and i bring this up, which i always do.
Also talked about this ITT before, i love the movie, next to 25th Hour (which i should rewatch) easily Spike's best film, but i hated the ending. It makes no sense to me that Nookie/Spike Lee chimps out at the end, apart from him fulfilling his porch monkey destiny, and i hate it even more because the whole film made clever fun out of hood black cliches (The "Three Wise Men", Radio Raheem etc.) all throughout the movie. Lee is more than a bit aware of what plagues black communities in the US but he still has a chip on his shoulder the size of Manhattan. John Turturro is fucking great in it, his pizza parlour monologue cracks me the fuck up just thinking about it:
"Basketball dunkin', titsun' (from Italian "Tizzone", lit. charcoal briquette, titsun' is the neapolitan dialect version of the insult) spade mulignan" has me hollering Look how he's barely surpressing a smirk in this scene This is the blueprint for Ed Norton's fantastic mirror monologue in 25th Hour, love it. I recently watched Lee's "Clockers" for the first time, did not like it but Turtorro is fucking great in that one as well.
I remember liking Clockers when I saw it many years ago, but my take would probably be different if I rewatched it today. I'm now fully aware just how detrimental to the US nigs are. Trivia: two of those guys are from Onyx (back row, middle and right)
I remember liking Clockers when I saw it many years ago, but my take would probably be different if I rewatched it today. I'm now fully aware just how detrimental to the US nigs are. Trivia: two of those guys are from Onyx (back row, middle and right)
Yeah, seeing Sticky Fingaz in it was the only highlight for me, next to John Turturro. Harvey Keitel is phoning it in in this one, sadly. Mekhi Phifer definitely does not have leading man qualities and i am not sad to see that his career pretty much never took off, even though i liked him as one of the new doctors in ER way back when, that modern take on Shakespeare's Othello that came out ages ago where he's the main character wasn't half bad either in my memory.
It makes no sense to me that Nookie/Spike Lee chimps out at the end, apart from him fulfilling his porch monkey destiny, and i hate it even more because the whole film made clever fun out of hood black cliches (The "Three Wise Men", Radio Raheem etc.) all throughout the movie.
This is also what ruined the movie for me, and I still don't understand why he acted like that. I did only watch the movie once, though, so maybe I missed something.
My alternative, more charitable interpretation to him just fulfilling his nig destiny, is that his was just an act of resignation to him being surrounded by nig destiny. Like he kicked off the inevitable riot not because he wanted to chimp out, but just to quickly kick off the inevitable and get it over with as quickly as possible. IIRC Lee has this half-absent, half depressed, glazed-over look when he tosses the garbage bin. Doesn't he even let out a sigh when he does it?
The moral of the movie being, ghetto life sucks because of oppression by whitey but also because nigs are idiots but they're idiots because of whitey or something, I dunno.
I've watched a million movies and i am stuck on coming up with one that doesn't have either the inner city or the racism part for about 10 minutes by now. Ballast, a great indie film from 2008 that nobody watched and which has (IIRC) an all black cast and is neither concerned with racism nor plays in the inner city (it's a family drama set in bumfuck nowhere in the South) was my pick but i just checked and the director is white. Damn. Can't come up with shit. I like a lot of films from black directors (the Hughes brothers films or Antoine Fuqua's works for example) but i am completely stumped.
It's pretty rough around the edges, probably the most unpolished Tony Scott vehicle, and i have no idea how one of the Wayans brothers got casted as the male supporting actor but i love it, pure 90s R-rated goodness. Willis carries this movie like a motherfucker, the dialogue is pre-Wheedon quippy in all the best ways and Bruce delivers all his lines in a high-key hilarious manner, in virtually every scene. Pacing is all over the place as well but again, i love this film, extremely entertaining all around. Can only recommend.
I thought it was just the bad sound mixing that made it feel like that Milo was great as a villain, though i feel he got introduced way too late in the movie.
From Hell takes place in Victorian England. To be fair, I have not seen the movie and understand it deviates greatly from the graphic novel it's based on (like making Johnny Depp's character a drug addict for some reason) but according to the internet they didn't insert any blacks into the cast. They also directed Menace II Society and Dead Presidents, which I saw in the theater and really liked but haven't seen since. I've heard Dead Presidents holds up well but YMMV.
Also I don't remember there being any black characters in Summer of Sam and I remember liking it. I also remember liking Clockers when I watched it way back when it first came out on video. I think Spike Lee is a competent director. Inside Man was really good and I also liked 25th Hour.
Scarface is one of the most overrated movies ever made. I liked it when I was a kid but it just doesn't hold up, sorry. As someone said above Carlito's Way is a far superior movie.
Sisu 2 (2025)
Do you like action movies? Do you like inventive kills? Do you like well filmed action set pieces? Do you like movies that get to the point and don't overstay their welcome? Watch Sisu 2.
Great movie, absolute fun, it's a tight 89 minutes.
The director, Jalmari Helander, previously made Rare Exports (a superb Chirstmas film) and the first Sisu move, both are great. He's directing the new Rambo movie and I have high hopes.
Nah, he suspected it in a later scene where Damon Wayans gets into Halle Berry's (who was smokin' for all of the five minutes she was in this movie) car, he pulls out a block of C4 out of that car before Wayans can start it and they use it in the most realistic way to kill two hit men who come out of nowhere to kill him and Wayans
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Started to watch the 1998 TV Drama adaption of the anime/manga GTO and it's rather charming. I can't remember much from the anime except that i really liked watching it a hundred years ago, the live action adaption picked a top guy as Onizuka, the humor is good and it is just 90s as fuck all over. I initially downloaded the wrong torrent on Nyaa and ended with the live action adaption of the prequel manga (which was nowhere near as popular as GTO was from what i can remember), some modern Prime show, which was kinda eh. Watched one episode, noticed my error and then watched the first two episodes of the 1998 show. I am not deep into jap TV Dramas, the only other one i've watched was MPD Psycho, another manga adaption, directed by Takashi Miike and which was okay, this one is quite good so far and i am going to watch more episodes tonight,
From Hell takes place in Victorian England. To be fair, I have not seen the movie and understand it deviates greatly from the graphic novel it's based on (like making Johnny Depp's character a drug addict for some reason) but according to the internet they didn't insert any blacks into the cast. They also directed Menace II Society and Dead Presidents, which I saw in the theater and really liked but haven't seen since. I've heard Dead Presidents holds up well but YMMV.
Fuck me, i even mentioned liking the Hughes brothers in my post trying to come up with a black director's film that isn't set inner city or without racism being a theme and totally forgot they made From Hell. Dead Presidents definitely holds up, even more so than Menace, rewatched it last year or the year before, it's a very ambitious movie and kind of told in the style of a Scorcese Mafia epic. The juxtaposition of the Vietnam War with the scenes in the hood after they came back from there was rather good. Pretty good casting, too. Haven't watched From Hell in a long time but i did like that film, never read Moore's graphic novel even though i do really like the artwork in it, only flipped through it in a comic book store long, long ago.
Nah, he suspected it in a later scene where Damon Wayans gets into Halle Berry's (who was smokin' for all of the five minutes she was in this movie) car, he pulls out a block of C4 out of that car before Wayans can start it and they use it in the most realistic way to kill two hit men who come out of nowhere to kill him and Wayans
Didn't Willis's wife imply that he knew right after it blew up? It's been bothering for years, but I could never remember to download the movie and just see for myself.
Didn't Willis's wife imply that he knew right after it blew up? It's been bothering for years, but I could never remember to download the movie and just see for myself.
It's a minor plot point that the cops suspect Willis' character planted the bomb himself after they find out Willis' wife lied on her statement and was getting fucked by his PI buddy. I have to say my memory is so shit that i can't remember if Bruce was like "Noooo!" before his buddy stepped into the car and got nuked, despite me having watched this just two days ago and a hundred times before. Not at home right now so i can't check out the scene again for clarification.
Look how he's barely surpressing a smirk in this scene 
