The way this works is that you post a review of the Best Film you watched this week. It can be any new or old release that you want to talk about.

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2. Please post your favorite film of last week.
3. Explain why you enjoyed your film.
4. ALWAYS use SPOILER TAGS.
5. Comments that only contain the title of the film will be removed.

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We just had a similar thread for the opposite, movies which started as sequel ideas but spun off into an original film instead so lets try this as well. Going to start this off with the Cloverfield franchise. A standalone film turned into a franchise by retooling pitch scripts which were never picked up.

• 10 Cloverfield Lane started life as The Cellar
• The Cloverfield Paradox started life as God Particle

I’m really curious about this. If you could explain what movie or movies fit that description for you, and why they do, it would be appreciated.

For me, it’s the 2004 Van Helsing movie staring Hugh Jackman.

Simply put, I think the monster designs are cool, the fights involving them are fun, the first ten minutes in black and white are suspenseful, and I enjoy every actor and actress except for Jackman who plays a monster. They get to chew so much scenery, and I can’t help but enjoy how much they relish in being evil.

Everything else is crap.

Sorry for the poor title. Although I’ve seen my fair share, I don’t know a ton about movies.

Lately I’ve been wanting to watch more movies that take place in older times with fantastical elements. Not sure if that’s a good description, but I wanna watch something in a similar style/genre to movies like “A Series of Unfortunate Events” or “Sweeney Todd” or “Wonka” or even the Harry Potter series.

To clarify—I don’t want an old movie, I want a modern movie set in oldish times, whatever that means.

Thanks!

I recently watched “I’m Still Here” and absolutely fell in love with the film. I loved both the political aspect, as well as the depiction of the close family with lots of siblings. I’m looking for more movies where close families overcome odds. Movies like this i’ve enjoyed are Blue Beetle, The Hate U Give, and The Impossible. Could be action, horror, drama. Genre doesn’t matter, but no animation or children’s movies.

I know this is really hard to measure and/or guess. And it's not exactly the thread that's going to garner a ton of back-and-forth discussion since, kind of by definition, other people likely won't have a lot to say about your little-seen movie. But who knows, maybe you'll find the rare other gems in the rough that've seen the movies you have.

It's kind of hard to quantify this or have any consistent measuring stick. But just for simplicity I used the number of ratings on IMDb. Not perfect, but at least a place to start. So for me, back in college I got stuck in front of the screen while this movie happened to me: Reggie's Prayer. This film stars primarily football players (yep - Reggie White, Gale Sayers, Brett Favre) and other oddities like Pat Morita & MC Hammer. If it weren't for watching this with my roommate at the time, I would've assumed this was a fever dream and never really happened. But it did. And it's terrible (unsurprising)

I saw an interview clip in which Frank Darabont explains that the ending for „Shawshank Redemption“ was the studio‘s idea, and he would have left it open if Red ever makes it across the border. In the comments everyone was so surprised that studio execs „for once“ improved a film - but that happens more often than people think.

Just like the work of editors in the literary world is wildly underestimated (trust me, a lot of your favourite books would be very different without them) directors also often need an outside force keeping an eye on things. We’ve seen what happens when great directors suddenly have a big hit and are given full creative freedom: an overlong, convoluted mess is often the result.

What are your examples of films that were improved by a studio‘s executive decision or one where the director could have used some?

I need a plug-in that rejects all A24 content attached to all of my streaming services or maybe just a continuous updated list so that I don’t waste my time with this garbage anymore. They seem to infiltrate every corner of my moviedom even though I rarely watch a movie these days. All of the streamers seem to think that I want it and I frickkng hate them at this point. I’m just asking if there’s a really quick easy way that I’m just not understanding to see quickly if this stupid movie House (House is actually a great movie classic horror comedy) is involved with the movie. I’d like to know it. It never really seems easy to find through IMDb or even a quick Google, maybe I’m dumb but I’m always getting sucked into thinking OK this is the movie I wanna watch and then I find out it’s them and I’m like negative captain. Midsommar appears to be the acme of their profusions and it is not unworthy but far from being a recommendation for me.

First time watch and this movie triggered my fight or flight as my father (out of my life now) acted exactly like her mother. Constantly running their mouths complaining about how fucked up you are and how you somehow fucked up their lives.

The whole film felt personal and real. I'll treasure it forever.

Somehow I got into Star wars franchise and I enjoyed it very much , I screamed, I laughed and even got goosebumps many times. So, I've decided that I'm going to watch all of it. So I started searching on the internet but that confused me a lot , so I need suggest how to continue. I've watched first 3 episodes and Obi-Wan Kenobi. How do I proceed now...?

Linoleum✔️👍

Under the skin

The Fisher King

Green Room

Becoming Bond✔️👎

One Cut of the Dead

The Art of Self Defense✔️👎

Hereditary

Escape Plan✔️👍

The Killing of a Sacred Deer✔️👎

The Accountant

Annihilation

Adaptation

The Lone Ranger✔️👍

With Honors

Demolition man

Easy A✔️👍

Enter the Void

The Fugitive✔️👍

The Fall

Midnight Cowboy

Ready or Not✔️👍

You're Next

The Sting

Hard Target✔️👍

Death Becomes Her

Ravenous

In the Mouth of Madness

Disturbia✔️👍

Homeward Bound: TIJ

The Land Before Time

Schindler's List

Hook✔️👍👍

Big Fish

Short Circuit 2 ✔️👍

Abigail

Coherence

The House That Jack Built

Frailty

Miller's Crossing

Minority Report

The Way of the Gun

Michael Clayton

25th Hour✔️👍

Batteries Not Included

Overlord✔️👍

Death to Smoochy

Shot Caller

The Girl on the Train

The 13th Warrior✔️👍

Once Upon A Time In America

Sideways✔️👎

Return of the Living Dead

The Death of Stalin✔️👍

The Foreigner

Fallen

Primal Fear

The Sting

Escape from Alcatraz✔️ 👍

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead✔️👍

A Simple Plan

Lisa Frank Documentary

Aftersun

Gattica

Gotti

Air Force One

Nightcrawler ✔️👍

Munich

A Beautiful Mind ✔️👍

Unthinkable

Caddo Lake

Virtuosity

Remo Williams✔️👍

Judge Dredd 95

The Drop

Rebel Ridge

Noises Off

Clay Pigeons

Pan

The Revenant

Requiem for a Dream

So I’ve been seeing a lot of different movie lists on tik tok and other places of people saying what there top 10 movies oat are and in every single one of them I see Good Will Hunting in the top 3 so I decided to give it a watch. Well safe to say that I am very disappointed in the hype that I saw in the movie. Personally I think it is criminally overrated like the movie wasn’t really memorable and it didn’t hit that hard. Normally a movie like this I would expect to hit me hard on an emotional level but this one was just kind of lame. I didn’t feel attached to any of the characters much less the plot and the story of the movie. It just felt like such an empty movie. I would like to hear your guys opinions on the movie and the matter that I pointed out.

Kelly's Heroes has a special place in my heart. The music and billing of each actor was so perfect. It's so nostalgic I could tear up.

On the contrary, Hamburger Hill did this effectively as well but in a darker way. The radio chatter with that haunting Phillip Glass theme has stayed with me for years. H.H. I always felt was a pretty hardcore Nam' flick that didn't get the recognition it deserved.

The final act is huge. Movies that end strong always end up staying with me for some reason.

Wow. Wow.

So unbelievably disturbing. She is a predator, a sick person.

Who she was claiming Derrick was, was really who SHE was. Her claims simply didn't compute. Derrick never left home, was never exposed to travel or philosophy or anything beyond his home and family (which was wonderful, to be clear). However, how could he go from that to someone who loves: wine, classical music, finds pornography misogynistic (further explanation on the Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield article), can speak via FC eloquently and clearly?

She's sick, twisted, evil. Probably one of the most disturbing things I've ever watched in my life.

I am currently gathering movies for my research paper for my film course similar to Slalom (2022), Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022), and/or The Tale (2018). I would prefer that the movies have younger female/older male relationships, but are shown through the younger female's perspective. My topic is on the dangers of older men told through cinema.

If anyone can recommend films that are similar that have minor protagonist in a relationship with an older man but do not romanticize the relationship.

Any recommendation would be helpful!! Thank you!!

I'm not necessarily talking about the cases when the trailer was actually better than the movie. And not necessarily the cases when the trailer is misleading.

I guess my example will be a bit unusual. I watched the first trailer for The Death of Stalin. And I really enjoyed every second of it. I mean, there was this epic USSR hymn and a bunch of great jokes. And I got these strange vibes from this trailer, something like Game Of Thrones and Avengers "Good luck boys, we're in the endgame now". And there were some comedy and satire elements at the same time. Overall the trailer felt quite epic and fun. I was very hyped to see the movie.

And the movie was okay. The trailer wasn't misleading in any way. The movie was good, just not quite as good as I expected it to be. I just didn't get the same fun and epic vibes I got from the trailer.

And I think it's not the movie's fault really. But I've just liked the trailer so much more than the actual movie.

I must admit that Emilia Perez is such a daringly creative movie. Unfortunately, it didn't really hit all the right marks that would elevate it to an outstanding movie in my opinion. For a musical, the music was very unremarkable and unmemorable. The dialogue and lyrics of the musical numbers are so corny and cringe-inducing that, even though it's obviously a melodramatic camp movie that I'm supposed to just embrace, it just felt like torture sitting through it. And I do appreciate the progressive themes and representation in Emilia Perez, but the way it was mishandled just makes me sad that this is the movie critics chose to champion as some kind of masterpiece, the one they decided everyone must see and shower with awards.

I really wanted to like Emilia Perez but its creation was not approached with care and authenticity, turning what could have been a powerful and meaningful story into something that feels shallow and performative.

Does Anyone know of any really good documentary’s about old Hollywood, and just the lifestyle of how things were back in those days? I’ve been Feeling really nostalgic lately for all things when life was just more simple. Definitely would prefer something done in more modern times (funny enough) as opposed to something low quality that’s on YouTube. Thanks!

I am obsessed with movies/ tv shows where it shows people in the middle of an apocalypse or the beginning of how it happened. Here are some I have already watched

• Dawn of the dead • The walking dead • Black summer • The mist • The rain • 28 days later • 28 weeks later • A quiet place • World War Z • Zombieland • Train to busan • Alive • Shaun of the dead

Any more recs you guys have I feel as if I watched them all already.

Hi, I’m looking for movie recommendations about characters who get bullied and later take revenge. I enjoy intense, dark, or psychological stories that focus on justice or payback.

I’ve already watched Carrie and Mean Creek. What other movies like these would you recommend? I’m open to thrillers, dramas, or even horror.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Looking for the title of a movie I saw a few years ago. It’s about 2 or 3 reporters driving to do a story on foreclosed houses and the stuff people leave behind and they end up finding these home videos. They watch them to see what’s on them and weird stuff starts happening. They sleep in a car and have their dog and they wake up to the dog being deceased I believe. They realize after watching more that there’s a man in the videos in a suit and no face and that somehow he comes through video to kill you and more than like was killing the people in the videos too.

What are some movies you guys have seen that have literally made you sob until your last tear fell? Give me some suggestions! Here's a few of mine from the top of my head:

• Miracle in Cell No. 7 (OG korean version)
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Hacksaw Ridge (a lot of war movies get me)
• My Girl
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The Pursuit of Happyness

Edit: I can't wait to watch what you guys have suggested. I'm honestly in awe at how diverse the plots are

There are plenty of comedies that contain mainly unlikeable characters that have very little redeeming features, unfunny, and eventually falsely touted as being awesome characters all along (thanks Sandler/Rogan). But sometimes in those movies, there's an actor who stands out, like a diamond amongst turds, and delivers a performance elevated above the material given.

'Ricky Stanicky' and John Cena is an example of just that. It almost lost me at the beginning but Johns performance made it all worth it. Even William H Macy was struggling to make his character un-cringy but John was pretty amazing, making nearly all his co-stars look even worse by comparison.

Any other movies like that?

Bonus points: Is there are term for such a movie?

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Anybody know any good websites to order movie/tv show posters from? Maybe even video game posters as well?

A website that sells a variation of posters for a movie in small to large sizes? I’m not worried about the material of the posters, just regular paper. Good quality prints. I would like to grow my collection and make a wall dedicated to such posters.

I’ve done some google searches and even used Etsy, so unless there is some really good sites some people are not aware of, I guess I’ll just stick to Etsy.

Or if anyone knows any printing companies that could do orders like such, that would be great as well!