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Exit to Eden. Terrible rotten tomatoes score, but it's awesome and loved by the bdsm community. It's a 1990s film adaptation of the Anne Rice novella of the same name, which is more or less just classic her style erotica, this one of a man going to a femdom island retreat and falling in love with and impressing the head lady there. Cliche whatever, but pretty good representation of kink despite the outlandish setting. But some executives or someone involved in the movie had a brilliant idea: buddy cop b plot with Rosie O'Donnell. This takes it from a bold and interesting decision that would probably be well regarded by a small group of people, to a movie that's just kinda fucking nuts in a fun way. The b plot keeps the movie silly and light.
So yeah, if this sounds up your alley I highly recommend it.
- It's the funniest movie ever made.
Came out in 1979, Spielberg directed, Zemeckis wrote it, John Williams did the score, it has John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Lee, Toshirô Mifune, among others.
It was way way ahead of its time. There are more jokes and setups & payoffs than entire decades of more recent movies (I'm not even exaggerating much). The practical effects are awesome and they blow up tons of stuff for real. It's refreshingly anti-war. It has absolutely bonkers set pieces. You might recognize things they try that you see in Spielberg's and Zemeckis' later movies. Can't reccomend it enough.
Make sure to watch the extended cut because it just includes all the missing scenes from the theatrical, which just has gaps and loose ends.
Wait wtf is this
I tried to put 1941 with a period at the end. Did the period do some weird syntax thing? Oh looking again looks like it's just cut off weird on voyager. Anyone else see this?
The Matador (2005)
It's a rather cheesy movie about a nobody meeting an assasin. What makes it great that Brosnan plays a direct inverse of James Bond.
Bond is the suave womanizer that kills for noble causes and always gets the girl. Julian Noble (his character in TM) is a very troubled killer for hire who has no social life, is an depraved camp alcoholic. You know, kinda what James Bond is without everything suave.
The everyday man (Greg Kinnear) (and later his wife) gets intrigued by this killer as his lifestyle is fascinating to them and kind of yearn to be him, like some folk pretend to be James Bond sometimes. But this assasin is terrified of being brought down by his peddler, as he cannot bring himself to kill anymore. He calls on his only friend, the nobody to help him finish the last job.
It's very camp, not the greatest film of all times but a solid buddy movie in which Brosnan burns down his Bond straightjacket and brings an awesome role to the table.
I watch it every now and then, but it's the one movie I love that I've never seen anyone recommend ever.
Directed by John Landis and starring Geoff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffeffieferer, and a cast including Dan Aykroyd, David Cronenberg, Jim Henson, and David Bowie as a hitman called Colin Morris.
Idiocracy- 2006 Just shows where we are going…as a society. 😜
Going??? WE'VE ARRIVED
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Sorcerer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film) This film has an uninformative title and came out JUST before the original Star Wars so it didn't have a chance. But it's a decent thriller.
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Southern Comfort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Comfort_(1981_film) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ttua8 https://fawesome.tv/movies/10343295/southern-comfort Has decent ratings on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, but didn't make much money and is generally overlooked by critics. On !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social I said: "The obvious comparisons are to “Deliverance,” but thematically closer to “Aguirre, the Wrath of God.” You could write a great college or high school paper talking about justice, discipline, social structures, power, subcultures, etc. If you’re into film technique, the way this movie uses sounds, silences, and setting is masterful. An action/thriller that also makes you think."
IDC how overdone and cheesy it is, I love 47 Ronin.
The Hunt
I've watched it 10+ times and absolutely love it, also cry at the gas station scene almost every time.
La huitieme jour. It is a French movie about Down Syndrome and life. It gives you such a different perspective on it all. Also it ends remarkably sad but beautiful. Very French.