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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (abbreviated as MST3K) is an American science fiction comedy film review television series created by Joel Hodgson.

Kitten with a Whip is a 1964 American crime drama film directed by Douglas Heyes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Whit Masterson, a pseudonym for writers Robert Allison “Bob” Wade and H. Bill Miller, who also wrote the novel on which the film is based under the name Wade Miller. The film stars John Forsythe, Ann-Margret, Peter Brown, Patricia Barry and Richard Anderson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitten_with_a_Whip

The Magic Christian is a 1969 British satirical farce black comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski.

It was loosely adapted from the 1959 comic novel The Magic Christian by the American author Terry Southern, who co-wrote the screenplay adaptation with McGrath. The film also features pre-Monty Python appearances of John Cleese (credited) and an uncredited Graham Chapman, who had jointly written an earlier version of the film script. It also features an uncredited appearance by Yul Brynner performing “Mad About the Boy” as a drag artist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Christian_(film)

Kung Fu Hustle (Chinese: 功夫; lit. 'Kung Fu') is a 2004 martial arts action comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the leading role, alongside Huang Shengyi, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan Kwok-kwan and Leung Siu-lung in prominent roles. The story revolves around a murderous neighbourhood gang, a poor village with unlikely heroes and an aspiring gangster's fierce journey to find his true self.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Hustle

Average Lemmy enjoyers:

[Matthew] Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III.

... It was a widespread critical and commercial success, grossing $125 million worldwide against a $12 million budget. At the 56th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for three Oscars, including Best Original Screenplay. ... WarGames is credited with popularizing concepts of computer hacking, information technology, and cybersecurity in wider American society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

It also helped popularize the concept of computer gaming, which was still in its early days back then. Specifically, by showing that they could be more than arcade-style games like Galaga, and be more sophisticated interactive simulations. And while there had been several movies with AI characters in it before, this was the first one that involved needing to teach an AI, in a way that resonates with later machine-learning approaches. Also, the whole concept of someone who was "really into computers", and who might thereby influence the world, was still very new.

• https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93117c the link from above
• https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x929m0q another copy?
• https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zdk1a German dub

RIP Dabney Coleman, btw.

This is the best film about a 13th century zen master that you're likely to see in a while. OK, maybe that's too specific. Anyway, if you're at all interested in Asian history or Buddhism, this is for you.

Russell Edwards of Variety described it as "The origins of a spiritual tradition are depicted with prerequisite solemnity and a pleasing veneer of arthouse showmanship."[5] Mark Schilling, writing for The Japan Times, gave the film three and a half stars and described it as a "rare serious film about this form of Buddhism, which has had a huge cultural influence but is little understood — let alone practiced — by ordinary Japanese."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(2009_film)

In Japanese and Chinese, with English subtitles:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSMeO3zoq4 (720p) - this is the link from above
• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=5wSMeO3zoq4 - look for an Invidious version
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6XS3_D92FY (480p) - another copy
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDI4CAwTJ1c (480p) - another copy
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Yv0I_Q9X0 (480p) - another copy, blurry

In Japanese and Chinese, with Spanish subtitles:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Te8DH_Eorg (720p) - subtitles are not embedded, you have to select "CC"
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGozjQO_1_I (240p) - the aspect ratio is compressed (the image is "squashed")

In Japanese and Chinese, with French subtitles:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2k0q9eTLxI (240p) subtitles are not embedded, you have to select "CC"

Besides, the following image deserves to be a reaction meme:

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)

Average Lemmy enjoyer:

Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers, it's Christmas in July!

Die Hard follows New York City police detective John McClane (Willis) who is caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard

One of the reasons this movie has endured is because it's so well written. Exposition is handled smoothly (through various natural conversations), minor characters are personalized briefly and efficiently, and the suspense just doesn't let up.

Another reason is Alan Rickman.

Zulu is a 1964 British epic adventure action war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between a detachment of the British Army and the Zulu in 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, in which 150 British soldiers, 30 of whom were sick and wounded, at a remote outpost, held off a force of 4,000 Zulu warriors.

... By 2007, critics were divided over whether the movie should be seen as deeply anti-imperialist or as racist.[32] ... In 2010, Alex von Tunzelmann of The Guardian gave the film a grade of B, saying: "The Zulus are a mystery, the Welsh are misplaced, a Victoria Cross recipient is slandered, and no one has enough facial hair. Nonetheless, Zulu is a brilliantly made dramatisation of Rorke's Drift, and it does a fine job of capturing the spirit for which the battle is remembered."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_(1964_film)

tbh I found it hard to empathize with the British. But it was interesting to watch two-rank and three-rank volley fire being executed, especially as compared to the Zulu rifle use. (Although note there are limits to the historical accuracy of the film.) There was also a class conflict theme between the two British officers, one an upper-class "inheritor" of his post, the other a military engineering officer who achived his post more meritocratically. And of course there were distinctions between the English, the Welsh, the Boers, and their allied "native contingent". Overall, this movie is great as a starting point to inspire further reading, less so as a work that makes a worthwhile point by itself.

BONUS MOVIE: Zulu Dawn (1979) - a prequel to this movie, showing the battle that happened beforehand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1tMgptVe7I (720p); another copy: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8fy43j (720p); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Dawn

[Chuck] Norris plays karate champion Matt Logan, who is hired to assist an anti-narcotics police unit, who are being targeted by a killer.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Force_of_One

OK, Chuck Norris is a far-right extremist. But this movie is from early in his career and it has a couple interesting things.

First, it was made during a time when karate and Asian martial arts in general were still being introduced to the US. This was way before MMA, and not too long after Bruce Lee's movies, and karate is depicted as a mix of "mysterious fighting arts", in-a-ring kickboxing, and after-school activity for kids.

Second, it has some interesting costars: Ron O'Neal who starred in the 1972 blaxploitation movie Super Fly (and who later had a memorable supporting role in the 1984 movie Red Dawn) among others. And Bill "Superfoot" Wallace, an early star of American kickboxing.

So it's not bad as a "background noise" kind of movie.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvR7j69knwE the link from above. GLITCHES: this movie pauses for a second or two, like 4-5 times at the start of the movie every 15 minutes or so, but it quits doing that after a while.

Tim Roth's acting debut as a brick throwing, glue sniffing, dog's arse touching juvenile delinquent skinhead toerag in this film made for BBC television

The subtitles are reasonably good on this one for a change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Britain

Music's got me feeling so free.

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (インターステラ5555, Intāsutera Fō Faibu, "Four Five") is a 2003 anime musical science fiction film. The film tells the story of the abduction and rescue of an extraterrestrial pop band and serves as a visual companion to Discovery, Daft Punk's second studio album. The film was produced by Toei Animation, directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi and supervised by Leiji Matsumoto. The film's audio has no dialogue, but instead consists of the entirety of Discovery with minimal sound effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstella_5555:_The_5tory_of_the_5ecret_5tar_5ystem

In a retrospective review of the Dollars Trilogy, Paul Martinovic of Den of Geek said, "For A Few Dollars More is often overlooked in the trilogy, awkwardly sandwiched between both the original film and the best-known, but it's a stunning film in its own right."[30] Paolo Sardinas of MovieWeb said, "Eastwood gives it his all and turns in another iconic performance along with scene stealer Lee Van Cleef, who helps make For a Few Dollars More twice as good as its predecessor."[31] Film historian Richard Schickel, in his biography of Clint Eastwood, believed that this was the best film in the trilogy, arguing that it was "more elegant and complex than A Fistful of Dollars and more tense and compressed than The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Director Alex Cox considered the church scene to be one of "the most horrible deaths" of any Western, describing Volonté's Indio as the "most diabolical Western villain of all time".[32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_a_Few_Dollars_More

The "Dollars Trilogy" is made up of:

• "A Fistful of Dollars" which was posted here previously: https://lemmy.world/post/16507343

• this movie, "For A Few Dollars More", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsuFuSxllis (which is https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=DsuFuSxllis on invidious)

• BONUS MOVIE: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ukuap WARNING I didn't post this individually because the stream messes up and starts "buffering" at 2 hours and 55 minutes (just at the end) which is a nuisance. Of course you want to see the end of the movie, so here's a video clip that is ONLY the end of that movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0-rb4QQlp0

Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story It Had to Be Murder.

The film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window

Eraserhead is a 1977 American independent surrealist psychological body horror film[3] written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch. Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians.

Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead

Vampyr (German: Vampyr – Der Traum des Allan Gray, lit. 'Vampyr: The Dream of Allan Gray') is a 1932 gothic horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of supernatural stories In a Glass Darkly.

Vampyr was funded by Nicolas de Gunzburg who starred in the film under the name of Julian West among a mostly non-professional cast. Gunzburg plays the role of Allan Gray, a student of the occult who enters the village of Courtempierre, which is under the curse of a vampire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampyr

The Omen is a 1976 supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens (in his film debut), Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern. The film's plot follows Damien Thorn, a young child replaced at birth by his father, unbeknownst to his wife, after their biological child dies shortly after birth. As a series of mysterious events and violent deaths occur around the family and Damien enters childhood, they come to learn he is in fact the prophesied Antichrist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen

Trivia contest with no prize for the winner:

Can you name the authors inspired to write a parody of this movie a few years after its release?

Happiness is a 1998 American black comedy film written and directed by Todd Solondz, that portrays the lives of three sisters, their families, and those around them.

Cast includes Jane Adams, Elizabeth Ashley, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, Jared Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Louise Lasser, and Jon Lovitz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_(1998_film)

The film stars Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a cynical exorcist with the ability to perceive and communicate with half-angels and half-demons in their true forms and to travel between Earth and Hell. ...

While it received mixed reviews from film critics, it has since garnered a cult following in the years following its release.[10] In 2022, a sequel was announced and is currently in development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_(film)

In the film, Rambo is a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam veteran who must rely on his combat and survival skills when a series of brutal events results in him having to survive a massive manhunt by police and government troops near the small town of Hope, Washington.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwar6uZUWAo the link from above

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=dwar6uZUWAo find an Invidious interface

The Program is a 1993 American sports drama film starring James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson, and Joey Lauren Adams. ... The film touches on the season of the fictional Division I FBS (then IA) college football team, the Eastern State University (ESU) Timberwolves as they deal with the pressure to make a bowl game, alcohol and anabolic steroid abuse, receipt of improper benefits, and overall college life. It follows the trials of Coach Sam Winters (Caan), the Heisman Trophy candidate Joe Kane (Sheffer), the freshman running back Darnell Jefferson (Epps), their love interests (Berry and Swanson), and other team members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Program_(1993_film)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLejV2sIrMo 360p, the version from above; there's a couple minutes halfway through without sound, presumably because of a copyrighted song that was removed
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9ptKEroUY 1080p
• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=8v9ptKEroUY find an invidious version of this
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwlrdVaJbU 240p, optional Spanish subtitles