I’m currently led in bed really ill and binging movies.

Please give me your recommendations, im pretty open to all genres but I guess my favourite genres are sci-fi, thriller, fantasy. Dont mind a bit of horror. I like films that are either visually stunning or really mess with your head/make you think.

An absolute incredible directorial debut about life, loss, grief, the beauty of life, how we view life. It addresses so many incredibly complex topics in an artful way. The acting is incredible. The writing is unbelievable (one of the most unique storylines ever), the cinematography is beautiful, the score is perfect.its basically everything that you could hope for in a movie. It's pretty shit I learnt about it on tik tok and have never heard about it here.

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.
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Last Week's Best Submissions

If you have to select movies of a particular decade to watch for the rest of your life; and if you can only select 10 movies from that decade. Which decade and which 10 movies released in that decade would you choose? Series/sequels can be considered as one movie as long as they are released in the same decade. For eg - if you select 1970s, you can include Godfather 1 and Godfather 2 as one movie. Or in the 2000s, you can consider the entire Spiderman trilogy as one movie.

Edited - The Dark Knight trilogy to Spiderman, as The Dark Knight Rises belongs to the 2010s.

I’ve just watched Holdovers again and I’m thinking about why, even with the attempt to have the film look older, as though it was shot in the 70’s, there is still is something about the picture quality that shows it clearly was filmed in 2022? I imagine it’s due to film processing and scanning but I don’t know enough to be certain.

What are some objects that you can never view the same way ever again? Objects that were so iconic within a movie, that every time you see it, you think of the movie?

For me, just a few to mention:

A Polaroid picture - Memento

A school bus - The bank robbery scene in The Dark Knight

A spinning top - Inception

Never seen this movie, I was curious about it because it's praised so high. But don't the horror stories (almost all actors having permanent health damage due to errors from the staff and of course judy garland getting molested, abused and passed around like a blunt) behind the scenes ruin the magic of this movie?

Would love to hear people's opinions about it!

Can anyone recommend similar sorts of modern films to these that make excellent use of neon-lighting?

Bliss (2019) Antibirth (2016) Fried Barry (2020) Rave (2020) (original Swedish title: Svartklubb) Ava's Possessions (2015) Like Me (2017)

These I've all enjoyed immensely and can't recommend enough! Okay well, “Like Me” was kinda hit or miss but still visually strong...

Thanks for any suggestions!

"Since we're spoiling stuff which film is this plot twist from? The mother was dead the whole time and was actually never there because it was him all along acting like another person but it didn't matter because he was dead the whole time too and the only kid who could see him as it turned out was also dead along with his entire family who were not actually trapped in their house in the past but was actually set in the present day and he found this out because he saw the national monument on the beach but after further examination it wasn't the national monument he had known but one with the likeness of his capturers who was really one person with multiple personality disorder/superhuman abilities that was faking a limp the whole time and after successfully escaping it turns out that he was being told the truth about the monsters on the outside and after becoming hopeless and seeing no path for survival he shot his son and was about to kill himself when help came but because they thought he was a monster too they shot him dead."

I remember watching this with my parents when I was younger, prob around 95. I was born 88 so I didn’t have any ability to pick up any of the satire but I remember enjoying it.

I have a bad habit of not rewatching movies I’ve seen since there’s so much out there, no matter how young I was when I first saw it, but my wife showed me a clip from the film off Instagram and we laughed and decided to give it a try and let me tell you it blew us away. We were crying laughing while totally engaged.

It’s a perfect LA satire and probably the only American Magical Realism film I’ve ever seen (I’m more familiar with the genre coming from Mexico). Everything is pitch perfect. It’s a tight 91 minutes, edited beautifully, perfect writing from Steve Martin, directed as only I could imagine it and the casting is insane. Every side character and bit part is an amazing character actor from the 90s.

And the leads are played beautifully by Richard Grant who I know from his performance in Withnail and I. Victoria tennent plays the love interest who is a beautiful actress who got stuck with bad roles most her career, but honestly Sarah Jessica Parker steals the show with her pre-emptive manic pixie dream girl.

I think this is a movie that although critically acclaimed went over most peoples heads and was forgotten. But I sit here now thinking it’s just leapt to my favorite comedy of all time. It’s so sharp and witty and well executed and magical and of it’s time. I don’t think anyone can argue that Steve Martin is a comedic writing force and it shows in this movie.

If you haven’t seen it watch it as soon as you can, if you have what do you think about my analysis and how it’s held up and its legacy. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

My favorite joke so when Sarah Jessica Parker is trying to seduce Steve Martin and guides his hand down to cup her breast. He squeezes and makes a face and says “your breasts feel weird” and she says “oh, yeah, that’s cause they are real…”

La in a nutshell. That’s my Ted talk.

I’m looking for a movie in which the character has depression, social anxiety, no friends, and struggles to navigate life while trying to find meaning or connection. Ideally, the film explores these themes deeply and portrays the character’s emotions in a realistic and relatable way. Any recommendations? Let’s just stay off with the more mainstream ones because I’ve probably seen those so a bit underrated ones please??

Seen several people incorrectly call it a Christmas movie recently and it's almost like they didn't even watch it lol.....if it's a Christmas movie then it's also a Hanukkah movie and a New Years movie I guess? But no, the title is obviously referring to the vacation, British meaning of the word holiday. Anyway, it's a great holiday movie, enjoy ✌️

You know the scenes where the killer silently approaches the victim from the back and loops a wire or string around the victims neck to strangulate them to death. The victim then struggles for a few seconds then stops moving and is supposedly dead.

In real life, wouldn't the victim just be unconscious? Wouldn't they regain consciousness after awhile when blood flow to the brain resumes?

So i started an online movie club for specifically horror/thriller movies. We watch 1 movie a week and are currently on week 4

We would love to welcome some new members to our community and have more active discussions

If this sounds like something you would be intreasted in please check out r/dreadfulcinemaclub

Or pm me if you have any questions

Looking forward to seeing you there :)

For you non-blu ray nerds, boutique label Vinegar Syndrome put up pre-orders for Michael Mann's The Keep and it sold out in about 3 days which is a record for any of their releases. I have never seen the film, bought it on a blind buy after a re-stock was announced today, so I want to hear thoughts from those who have watched it. I listened to the Video Archives Podcast discuss it so I know some of the back story and how, like many 80s epics, the studio interfered to a degree the ruined the finished product. Does anyone on here enjoy this film and can give me hope I didn't just waste $35 on something incredibly mediocre (which TBH happens with Vinegar Syndrome releases all the time?)

It was in my watchlist for such a long time, finally decided to watch it and blew me away completely. John Carpenter is a visionary! Has anyone of you saw it in the theatres? Or were you there when it was released?

Have you seen Men In Black or The Matrix or Fight Club? This movie felt like it had all of that! And maybe somewhat an inspiration for the movie I mentioned.

They Live dir. By John Carpenter is a story of a man, played by Roddy Piper who has come to City in search of a job, but is shocked when he sees the reality of this world. There are aliens living among us, and they are controlling everything.

Advertisements, News Channels, Politics, everything... everything is a LIE. They are controlling us with different mediums, changing our Subconscious mind and bending our reality, turning us into servants, into Livestock.

"We are Sleeping, They are living."

If you're someone who is into Illuminati, Secret Society, you'll love this film.

Though some moments felt janky in acting, but that's because the lead is probably the first WWF Turned Actor. Also there is this lovely action scene which was EXHAUSTING (in a good way) because how real it felt.

This movie is more than relevant today ever before. Because we see so many influencers and internet personalities talking nonsense and even turning the real point.

The runtime is about 1hr 30mins, and even if you watch this type of films or not, you should watch it just for the concept.

I don't mean movies that have freeze frames themselves, like Clark punching the air at the end of The Breakfast Club. More like you choosing to pause the movie at a particular scene because it's revealing in some way interesting or revelatory or funny. Basically scenes that contain details you may miss the first time viewing.

For example there is that famous head splitting scene from T2 that you need to freeze the frame to see. Guy's head splits before being shot at. https://i.imgur.com/cWZlQCg.png

But I prefer more focus on interesting details in scenes than "mistakes."

Like in Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, there are several scenes that need to be freezed, such as one involving Tom reading the paper. Sort of easter egg hunt thing.

Do you have any you like to share?

I know Emily isn’t great, but I might be biased because I’m a Blake Lively fan. That said, Stephanie really frustrates me. Her decision to dig into Emily’s life felt unnecessary and intrusive. Emily didn’t harm her, so why not just let things be? Stephanie’s behavior comes off as nosy and meddlesome. I get that she was curious, but was it really her place to interfere? Maybe it’s just me, but something about her actions throughout the movie rubbed me the wrong way. I can’t quite pinpoint exactly what it is—maybe it’s her need to control or her constant involvement in things that weren’t her business. Am I the only one who feels this way, or did Stephanie annoy anyone else too?

Both films end with the main character being offered a chance to go with the aliens and I wonder what it would be like if they had made the opposite choice, like what if Roy had declined the offer but Elliott had accepted. In a way it would make more sense since Roy was a father and his family likely didn't even know what happened to him, while Elliott was the one who had a close bond with the alien and is desperate not to lose him, and he didn't seem to have much going for him before he met E.T.