It might be interesting to see our choices of really good but also kinda weird or unusual movies.
Not mainstream Hollywood blockbusters, just movies that snuck in the back door and awed you.
My vote: "Hard to be a god."
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It might be interesting to see our choices of really good but also kinda weird or unusual movies.
Not mainstream Hollywood blockbusters, just movies that snuck in the back door and awed you.
My vote: "Hard to be a god."
see:
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Here's another one that slipped in almost unnoticed yet is exquisitely good.
"The Eagle Huntress."
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Just watched a surprisingly good film set in both India and Tasmania, featuring Nicole Kidman: "Lion."
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Narc. Jason Patric and Ray Liotta star in this film
The Prestige:Michael Caine,Hugh Jackman,Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie
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I watched it, several times.
Each time I saw something "new," as if I was peeling back new layers in an onion.
Unique, dark, thought provoking,
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OHW: I'm curious as to what you thought about the flick.
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When I saw it is three hours, I waited until later. And then found some reviews of it, first, to help orient myself. Granted the internet symbolism accounts of stuff like "Life of Pi", and other movies, is pretty canned, with generic and elegant stuff that just ain't so in real life.
I watched about the first hour of it. It's not that far off some of the local farm life. Perhaps, Russia, or wherever they shot this one is more rural in character. (At least, the idea of perfecting the technology you do have rather than continually moving on to new technology is the Russian approach.) On a farm in the middle of nowhere, beside neighbors you never really come to know, some of the scenery resembles this, in pig styes, manure piles, and other places, especially after a rain.
Things are changing, but farms were passed down from father to son, and neither had even heard of a agricultural degree. (People with agricultural degrees do some funny things on farms, now, until they learn the hard way, though they, more and more, work for large corporations that buy up and farm the land.) The movie relaxed me, and reminded me of the tinge of constant uncertainty that comes, I suppose, from a lack of books and other conventional technology. There's always a feeling, on a farm, of weird stuff that can happen at any time. A rabid skunk, a heavy machinery accident, a big wood saw run amok, transients and cattle rustlers in the middle of night, etc. We once had a serial murderer where I grew up close to a very small town. An out-of-province guy killed three or four women one weekend. Mutilation style.
Anyway, here're the reviews, for the benefit of others.
P.S. The only free link to it I found is https://sovietmoviesonline.com/fanta...byt-bogom.html . It works well with the captions, and has a good picture. But, you have to restart from where left off each time it asks you to pay to see more. Every twenty minutes or so.
I viewed it on streaming Netflix; it was in Russian but subtitled.
Very heavy movie, very "Russian," and probably not to the taste of most Americans.
But the sets, the actors, the black and white filming: a stunningly realistic recreation of a quasi-medieval world, where near insanity runs rampant and death is always just one step behind.
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I liked the reference to Munchausen, if I read it right, as the subtitles flew past about how many bodyguards or friends the guy has. There are only two such numbers, and those depend on 0 exp 0 = either 0 or 1. A strange set of numbers which rely on 0 exp 0 both ways. A subset of narcissistic numbers.
Hey, I guess the movie has a lot in common with gambling. It's all becoming clearer, now.
Sure; the protagonist is an AP, and all the others merely ploppies.
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I don't know if this would fit the description, but I really liked What Happened to Monday. It's a Netflix movie, but certainly nothing with a crazy budget or promotion. Sci-fi dystopian genre with a great story.
"Wind River."
Wow, just wow.
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Starring Adam west from 4 years ago.....with his deadpan batman delivery...you learn her had a great sense of humor, very thoughtfull...shows some warts but doesnt dwell on them. But for me as a kid, Batman emptied the streets of my neighborhood twice a week
And then life went on with me....and I just caught up on how life was with him recently with this film. I really admire the guy as he accepted and didnt fight his position in life....built up equity with the public and went on to bigger things.
I liked it..just saw it on HBO
PI (1998)
Intacto (2001)
13 Tzameti (2005 original Georgian-French film not the Remake in 2010)
Factotum (2005)
Just off the top of my head. Funny thing is that I realize now 3 of these movies are very similar and are basically the same movie. Perhaps all 4 are really identical when I think about it.
Might as well mention these two as well since they are along the same lines...honestly I have seen so many movies in my life it is ridiculous. I could keep going on and on.
Adam Resurrected (2008)
Good (2008)
Not as good as the others but along the same lines
The Bank (2001)
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Personal Shopper
Indie flick.
If u want to be tortured by an ending then see this. If you like everything wrapped up in a bow....stay away
If you liked Birdman.......then have at this one. Not the same plot......but the ending is up for grabs. Although I thought the ending of Birdman was rather straightforward. to me as it obviously ended in the mind and not in reality.
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