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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Almost heroes

[–] Kaesekalup@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not underrated, that movie was huge and rated highly. It's just old.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

What'd you call me? I'm only... checks notes... well, shit.

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ronin. I don't know exactly why, the mood just feels right for a neo noir ish thing.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

great movie, best magiffin ever

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

IDC how overdone and cheesy it is, I love 47 Ronin.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)
  1. 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.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I read the book before watching the film and, as usual, the book was better.

Yet the book is based on the movie! Just goes to show how much the mind helps when reading.

[–] masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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?

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry, people. The masterpiece is Atlas with Jlo, a true Netflix gem.

[–] ljosalhusky@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Idiocracy- 2006 Just shows where we are going…as a society. 😜

[–] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Idiocracy would be an improvement at this point...

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Going??? WE'VE ARRIVED

[–] schmalls@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

UHF - so many quotable lines.

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The Chumscrubber.

[–] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

malayalam movies. yup all of them.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Matrix Reloaded. People generally dislike it. I find it deepens the Matrix universe in many ways

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The matrix sequels definitely muddle the pacing and characters, and they struggle to fill the void left by the central mystery of the first film, but the philosophising and action are both as good or better than the first film.

Speed racer has already been critically reevaluated so I guess my wachowski hot take is that Jupiter Ascending is due. It's idiotic but it's a sweaty blast of pure cinema.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

action are both as good or better than the first film

action becomes mindless and boring when its in service of a non-nonsensical plot the viewer no longer cares about.

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[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The metaphysics in the whole series is honestly mind blowing. I even found the 4th movie to be oddly disturbing because it made it click in my mind that choosing a different reality than you were born into is akin to suicide. That blue pill kills your old self. It didn't quite click for me in the first movie because I feel they were doing a lot of world building and it was easy to miss it in the fast pace.

The 4th movie they kinda lingered on that concept and it just screamed "this is talking about suicide" to me. And then I got kinda anxious. Because the blue pill seemed like the obvious choice until then. I know Cypher kinda makes a point about preferring the matrix, but it felt more like preference than suicide.

But he did say "if you told us the truth we'd have told you to shove that blue pill up your ass!"

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

ahhh.... never saw it that way. Food for thought. I remember reading Lana (?) saying it was a trans allegory, and it made so much sense to me.

I didn't like the 4th at all but I fully expect to read more into it a decade from now or so

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, maybe try watching it from the suicide perspective. If you end up seeing it like that, suddenly that blue pill you swallowed is a death sentence. Perspective can essentially invert reality. Switch The real with the fake. The wrong for the right. The male to the female. The Good to the Evil.

Life to Death.

Light to Dark

Obi-Wan was right! It really does depend on a certain point of view!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Pontypool, great concept and execution for a low budget horror, Canadian zombies with a twist

The Man from Earth low budget sci-fi about a guy who's been alive for thousands of years, mostly just character development and story telling through actually story telling.

Deep Blue Sea 3, 1 was great b movie shark horror, 2 was garbage, but 3 knew it was on the back foot and just goes all in, not a great movie but after 2 definitely underrated.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Rickey Bobby.

Best NASCAR documentary ever.

"If you don't chew Big Red then fuck you"

"This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love Fig Newtons"

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 67 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

A horror movie all about a big misunderstanding leading to absolute chaos.

And it's got Alan Tudyk in it. You just know you're gonna have a good time when he's involved.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I especially like that it goes beyond the “Wait, I can explain!” meme; they have genuine chances to unravel the problem, but the victims just don’t buy into it.

[–] criscodisco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I should have known if a guy like me talked to a girl like you, somebody would end up dead.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago

It's quite highly rated.

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