Ronin. I don’t know exactly why, the mood just feels right for a neo noir ish thing.
great movie, best magiffin ever
Kung Fu Hustle
Not underrated, that movie was huge and rated highly. It’s just old.
What’d you call me? I’m only… checks notes… well, shit.
IDC how overdone and cheesy it is, I love 47 Ronin.
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.
- 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?
I got it too
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.
Sorry, people. The masterpiece is Atlas with Jlo, a true Netflix gem.
The Hunt
Almost heroes
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”
The Chumscrubber.
malayalam movies. yup all of them.
Gentlemen Broncos.
Absolute. Cinema. Sam Rockwell is too good for this world.
Ebony & Ivory (2024) may not be for everybody, but I think it deserves better than its IMDB rating. If only for the number of quotable lines that have been adopted by ny friends group. It’s unapologetically absurd, awkward, and odd.
I recently discovered Johnny Guitar (1954), starring Sterling Hayden, Joan Crawford, and Mercedes McCambridge, and directed by Nicholas Ray. Cinephiles know it and love it, but the general public has never heard of it.
It features a vicious, deadly rivalry between two Wild West female entrepreneurs, who are in a land dispute. Besides featuring two strong female leads, it is beautifully shot. We often froze the video, just to admire the framing, or the way the ensemble was posed, like a baroque painting.
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.
I should have known if a guy like me talked to a girl like you, somebody would end up dead.
It’s quite highly rated.
I showed it to my mother, and learned we had a family member that died in a chipper shredder accident. That was awkward. She wasn’t a fan.
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.
alan tudyk has been so abused, and wasted by many passed around networks hes a good actor just to promote another actor or movie or genre. resident alien was cancelled recently too.
This is a movie that forces you to examine your biases.
One of my favorites. I think about it all the time
Baby driver I know it’s decently well known, but honestly not even close to enough.
Spacey ruined so much…
now everytime hes in an old movie , hes only this good because his inspiration comes from SA young men/underage males.
