Movie & TV Show Recommendations

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drammamean dijo:
Split Second (1992)
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Love this one, rewatched it a couple of years ago while on a Rutger Hauer, the de-facto Godking of B-Movies, binge, still holds up. Watched Wedlock and Blind Fury in that same binge, Wedlock is still fantastic and Blind Fury is decidedly meh.
Falcos_Commisar dijo:
Another fun one from a few years later is "I come in Peace" aka "Dark Angel" about a Houston cop played by a decidedly non Texan Dolph Lundgren fighting an alien killer/drug dealer.
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Watched that one a couple of months ago after last having watched it on TV back in the 90s, i found it to be highly entertaining, mostly because of Dolph. The plot with the alien drug dealer was kind of neat, too.
Tommy John Surgery dijo:
I watched Happy Together (1997) AKA Wong Kar-Wai's gay film last night and it was pretty damn good. I'd put it above In The Mood For Love and below Chungking Express personally.
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I concur. I should really rewatch Kar-Wei's films, Fallen Angels was the first movie i can remember that made me look seriously into more avantgarde, foreign cinema. Tony Leung Chiu-wai is good in anything he stars in and probably my favorite HK actor. Johnnie To's The Longest Nite is the most underrated movie with him in it.

Speaking of HK films, i downloaded John Woo's The Killer yesterday but did not get around to watching it, will do so later today. I watched the movie a couple of times but i remember almost nothing apart from the first 15 minutes from it, it's been that long ago since i last gave it a rewatch.
Space Monkey Mafia dijo:
Just a reminder that show Early Edition exists and it's still fantastic. Sadly, I don't think it's widely available to stream; I bought the DVDs because I enjoyed it so much.

It's about a man who gets tomorrow's newspaper today so he devotes his life to try and stop tragedies before they occur and occasionally using info about what the winning lottery numbers were when he needs money. The show is best when Fischer Stevens is in it, but it's still alright when he leaves. One of the best episodes is when he's apparently destined to help deliver a baby and he gets so freaked out over pregnant women he runs away from them all, only to get trapped in an elevator with one. LOL.

Kind of an ironic thing is that this show displays how to be "woke" without obviously trying to get brownie points or cram it down anyone's throats. There's a blind black woman and, while her disability does come into play sometimes, she's usually just a regular character and not a device for virtue signaling.

Oh, and there's a cute kitty cat who comes along with the newspaper every morning <3

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Crazy blast from the past. I used to watch this show every single day after school but its existence completely slipped my mind until i read your post.
Sargon's wife's son dijo:
If you like Warhammer 40K, most of the. Animations are good.
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The 2D animated shows don't really even deserve to be called animations with how little frames of animation there actually are. GW has more money than God, it's a disgrace they put out shit under their subscription service that looks like that. The CGI-animated shows are pretty good on the other hand.
 
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Monkey's Magic Merry Go Round, another Adult Swim 4am movie. The ending gave me the feels because I wasn't expecting to go the way it did, much like Good Boy.
 
Never thought i'd say this but i feel The Killer (John Woo, 1989) does not hold up. The shoot outs are fantastic but man it is so fucking hammy all over. The pacing is excellent and you feel the scenes that were shot without permits (a lot of the tram scene for example, as i learned from a John Woo docu i watched ages back) hard but something felt off when i rewatched it yesterday. Danny Lee is the highlight of this film, next to the shoot outs. I feel The Killer crawled so that Hard Boiled can walk. Maybe i just watched too many other, very good HK action films from that time by now that this rewatch made me not like the film as much as i used to. The boat race scene is still outstanding.

Gonna watch Hard Boiled, for the literal thousandth time, in a hot minute, i know that one holds up like a motherfucker when it comes to classic HK Heroic Bloodshed films. I love Tony Leung in that one and Anthony Wong has one of his very best villain performances in this one as well. Planned to watch Project Hail Mary (which my GF told me she already watched without me and liked) but i am going back to shit i already know, as is the case more often than not when i watch films these days.

Edit: Fuck it, downloading HANA-BI instead, haven't watched it in a long time and i know it holds up even more so than Hard Boiled does. Can't wait for the drama, i love this movie.
 
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I just got out of The Furious (2025), a wild Hong Kong martial arts action film that's in American theaters now.

If you enjoyed The Raid and its sequel, you want to go see this movie. Is it as good as either of those? No, but it's very good and super over-the-top in a good way. At least two action stars from The Raid feature prominently in this one, too. (Joe Taslim and the always incredible Yayan Ruhian.)

One thing: foreign movies are doing this thing now where they dub films and then use algos to make the actor's mouths flawlessly (or close to it) match up with the audio. I thought it was weird at first that this movie was partially in English (and Chinese and Thai), but I figured it out pretty quickly due to a handful of the vocal performances. I would prefer to see any movie with subtitles in the original language, but I've seen much worse, and it wasn't too distracting. YMMV. There may not even be an "original" language version from what I'm reading.
 
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i watched werner herzogs "lessons of darkness" the shots he got of the kuwaiti oil fires put the fear of god into me. it doesn't even look like earth

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Falcos_Commisar dijo:
Another fun one from a few years later is "I come in Peace" aka "Dark Angel" about a Houston cop played by a decidedly non Texan Dolph Lundgren fighting an alien killer/drug dealer.
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Yeah, that's one of the good ones. The budget was high enough for this flick to have proper cinematography and the Blu-ray looks great. You may recognize the bad guy as Matthias Hues. He used to be typecast as the main villain's right hand man who'd get beat up despite being tall and ripped.

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Life Hack (2025)

A quite realistic take on the heist genre. Scriptkiddie teenagers go on a heist out of boredom and steal crypto from some millionaire. It's realistic in the sense that these kids are always on Discord, constantly play RUST with one another and have terrible OPSEC, such as having a phone number attached to an account, constantly using Discord for chats, and using their real name for everything.

It doesn't have the Cyberbully problem where every single fucking website is some fake bullshit like "Pixapost" or some shit, it's the software and websites you know but with names altered to avoid trademark infringement and it makes it all the better. It uses 4chan, Gmail, YouTube, steam, virtual box, zsh, etc, and uses actual existing methods of compromising.

The details are really fucking nicely done and tickles my autistic noggin. The discord sounds are actual discord sounds, on Gmail, there are hidden easter eggs of Jeffery Epstein emails, near the end there's a pirated file of the movie you're watching, it's fun but not distracting.

The emotional moments are kind of ruined sometimes when they have an emotional scene while playing fucking RUST on a fuckin' Discord call, but I guess that's what teenagers do.

Is it the best movie ever, nah. One of the better films I've watched this year? Definitely, by a long shot. I guess it's more fun for a CS major.

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Mortal Kombat II. I went in with low expectations. Despite the casting of Jade, the movie was really fun. I haven’t watched a movie in a while ghat was as fun and campy as this one. There’s a lot of focusing on Johnny Cage in this movie.

I recommend it.
 
License 2 Vril dijo:
Black & White for sure
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I'm starting to suspect the correct answer is "neither"

The intro seemed to be a clash of themes, like they had the cliche depressed PI narrator voicing over scenes of spiderman swinging around the city, and they have shit use of shadows as him fighting bad guys while his glasses glow a bright white just looks goofy.

The version in color probably looks a little less goofy, they do a very shit job of doing contrasted scenes.
 
Rewatching the Netflix version of Lost in Space and I say this as someone who grew up with the original, this may be one of the best remakes of all time and it is by far the best thing Netflix has ever made.

If you haven't seen it then watch it, sail the high seas if you have to but watch it.

I can't believe Sci-Fi this good came from Netflix and it is a family show.
 
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