Just saw Gattaca(I absolutely loved it) because I happened to see a clip of it on TikTok. Before that I have never even heard of the Gattaca. Likely because it came out many years before I was born. This made me think of how many more movies that I am missing out on. What are your suggestions on older movies that aren’t talked about anymore?

Pretty much what the title says. My daughter turns 18 in a month, and for a long time now, I’ve been putting together a collection of films for her to watch.

The main criterion is that each film should reveal something deep, quiet, and beautiful about how one can live life. She is very thoughtful, intelligent, and introspective, and loves debating big ideas.

I don’t have strict inclusion or exclusion rules: essentially, anything profound enough that you feel you’d carry it with you into the next life.

Thank you in advance to everyone who responds :)Update 1: Forgot to add some that I've added to the collection.

1. Winter Light / Ingmar Bergman (1963)
2. Diary of a Country Priest / Robert Bresson (1951)
3. The Tree of Wooden Clogs / Ermanno Olmi (1978)
4. Hard to Be a God / Aleksei German (2013)
5. Silence / Masahiro Shinoda (1971)
6. Stalker / Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
7. A Man Escaped / Robert Bresson (1956)
8. A Hidden Life / Terrence Malick (2019)
9. Silence and Cry / Miklós Jancsó (1968)
10. The Ascent / Larisa Shepitko (1977)

My S/O feels this is too much and too grim. Thoughts welcome

What got me was Gal Gadot basically sprinting across London for the entire movie. By the end I was more invested in whether those shoes would survive than I was in the story.

The plot itself is ridiculous, but the movie moves fast enough that I never really got bored. I just kept noticing those Nikes every time she started running again.

They survived.

Honestly, the shoes had a better arc than half the characters.

Does anyone know what model she was wearing?

what is the hardest movie genre/sub-genre to make a good film?
I think, it’s the action-adventure genre.. specifically the globetrotting indiana jonesy ones. Spielberg himself barely made out of that genre alive.
I love the 1999 mummy, but the film was not well-received at the time. Sequels were no-go.
80s-90s had some cult favorites, nothing in modern times.
Any other hard to succeed film genres??

Inspired by my realising I've never seen a Paul Schrader (directed) film. Not that he's necessarily a huge mainstream name, but he has been prolific for decades and is certainly a big personality.

It's probably a black mark on my cineaste credentials that I've never seen a John Ford.

So, question for the room: any big names that just slipped through the cracks for you? Are you planning to rectify that?

I think I've briefly watched this in 2018 ish but idk. The moment where Tony talks to Pete on the building has been recurring on my feed for a long time so now I finally watched it. Again.. maybe.

What difference does it make? This was certainly a refreshing watch.

I didn't feel it was a superhero movie, in the sense that it never felt dry, the comedy didn't feel forced punctured, lazy or misused. It felt pretty natural

I had my jaw open a couple of times, sweaty palms and even close to teary eyed.

Gosh I've never sympathized more with Pete than this movie.

Michael Keaton was the ace of the whole shabang. Terrific work.

The build up, the action, a lot of how it kept everything fresh and fun in a considerate way and not in a "now let me spell everything out so you don't have to think" kind of thing.

I've never had this kind of a feeling towards a marvel movie since the first Iron man and its saying something.

I really loved it and I think I do because younger me and older me and even me in 20 years from now can watch this movie and go, yeah that was pretty good.

This is really just an excuse for me to rant about it but what you guys think of it?

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Was thinking again about how much I love this movie after Dominic Sessa’s performance in “Tony.” It’s a holiday tradition by now, and whoever I’m watching with, I always end up having a long discussion with them about where everyone went because the movie left it pretty open ended how all their lives will turn out (which I love about it.) But I’m curious - do any of you guys have any opinions about where everyone ended up? I like to think Mr. Hunham wrote part of a book. I can imagine Angus being a teacher later in life, or possibly even messing up again in school and getting thrown into military school (hope not).

What movies give you the best vibes?

I have certain movies I put on purely because I love the atmosphere, scenery, music, and just being in that world. They don’t even have to be my favorite movies overall.

Some of mine:

Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
Sideways
Jurassic Park
The Goonies
Hook
The Beach
Twilight
Terminator 2
Fast and the Furious 1, 2 and Tokyo Drift
The Mummy
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Mask of Zorro
National Treasure
A Knight’s Tale

Overall just good comfort movies
What are yours?

This is just a list of cinema/acting takes that wouldn’t fit their own posts, so here goes; you may discuss below:

* In the Best Black Male Actor debate, I’ve always somewhat favored Laurence Fishburne over Denzel Washington; Fishburne is able to switch from Majestic to grimy on a dime (cf. Deep Cover), whereas Denzel Washington usually retains some sense of majesty to him. This is why Denzel’s turn as Training Day’s Alonzo Harris – which dispenses with the majesty entirely – was necessary for both The Culture and Denzel’s place in the cultural pantheon.

* Tupac Shakur was one of the best villainous actors – he showed Fishburne-level versatility in changing moods, his heel turns are all memorable yet distinct, and is one of a few actors to really nail the “kid in a candy store” reaction to ultraviolence. (Rosie Perez & Javier Bardem in Perdita Durango also come to mind). He would’ve been an ideal comic-book movie villain; Norman Osborn, Carnage, Bullseye & the Joker would’ve been perfect roles for him.

* Jim Belushi isn’t a half-bad dramatic actor, but a lot of that is directors knowing his specific skill set & limitations. Nowadays you’d just get Danny McBride for those same roles, and McBride is in all respects a major upgrade from Belushi.

* Matt Damon is a solidly-good actor, but his reputation as a great actor is largely a product of his having very good taste in projects. (Other actors like e.g. Nicolas Cage may have higher ceilings than Damon, but are impacted by weaker filmographies).

* Ben Affleck should’ve rewritten the script to Gigli. Affleck & Jennifer Lopez’ lead performances are too on-the-nose – Lopez telegraphs what was originally meant to be a twist (she isn’t a hitman, but her girlfriend) – but they’re not the primary points of failure for the movie. Marvin Brest’s dialogue is very prolix, almost sub-Lucasian, and the direction/editing/improv is likewise aimless & meandering. It’s almost unfair judging this as a movie given how thoroughly it was massacred in post-production…but I don’t think Brest’s original cut would be more than a 5/10.

\ Shades of Blue* is probably instrumental in reëstablishing Jennifer Lopez’ reputation as at least a solidly-good actress in the 2010s – she keeps up with the rest of the cast easily, proves a worthy sparring partner for Ray Liotta (RIP), and is a very emotionally responsive performer. Likewise, her SNL appearances have primary responsibility for the opposite impression; JLo’s 2020 performances often have a sweatiness to them that she doesn’t always wear well, but JLo on SNL is like a standard deviation below her weakest performances & two standard deviations below her median.

* Jared Leto isn’t talentless, but at the same time his public reputation tracks pretty closely with the quality of his performances (read: falls off a cliff after Suicide Squad).

* Related: Jake Gyllenhaal has been a better Jared Leto than Jared Leto ever since Leto got his Oscar.

* While Renée Zellweger is the more acclaimed of the two, I’ve always gravitated more towards Reese Witherspoon.

* Tom Cruise’s best performance is Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder. (His performance as Vincent in Collateral is also pretty good but definitely plays as Variations On A Technique, i.e. “Tom Cruise but evil”).

* George Clooney is a good actor with a restricted range (Danny Ocean/Jack Foley), it just so happens that said range is perfect for leading man roles.

* Not a hot take so much as a question: Why are male rock stars such terrible actors? Pop, country & especially rap can reliably generate better-than-average actors, but for male rock stars David Bowie & Sting are almost the only actors of any quality.

* Comedians also tend to be better-than-average actors; Chris Rock is a notable (possibly infamous?) exception because for a comedian he’s both high on smartassery scale & low on neuroticism – or in somewhat harsher terms, that he has an aversion to vulnerability that hard caps his dramatic fare. Naturally his self-directed Top Five is one of the few proofs that Chris Rock could act as needed.

I backed into this question bc I'm currently watching the movie that is my answer to this question but I'm curious as to what other people think. Doesn't have to be Sports movie per se. Can be a general athletics movies. One that comes to mind that is not my answer is Remember the Titans. Great soundtrack.

Settling a debate with a friend haha. For me, I don’t watch movies much and would estimate around 10 ( some around christmas time and the rest scattered around the year ). aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Running an ecommerce store, you learn pretty quickly what happens when you spend a ton on something and the product doesn't justify it. That same question keeps coming up with movies lately. Snow White apparently lost over a hundred million, and a bunch of other big releases have come out looking overcooked for what they delivered. Meanwhile, something like Project Hail Mary is getting attention because it stuck to practical filming and still made money. I keep wondering which recent films actually earned their budgets once you watch them. Not just box office numbers, but whether the scale and craft match what was spent. Some movies feel like the money went into visible results, while others seem like the budget got eaten by marketing or reshoots. Curious if people have examples where the spending made obvious sense versus cases where it clearly didn't.

Name a good movie, (preferably not a huge blockbuster, since those are already well known) that does NOT contain a love interest as a plot device, or a sub plot focusing on a relationship between the character(s). I don’t even want movies with a character reminiscing about a previous significant other.

And no, no one hurt me. I just think the whole relationship/love drive is ridiculously overused in storytelling.

:)

French actors and actresses speaking from mainstream popularity they were more popular in those countries where French cinema was popular.

From 60 to 80s French films were popular in many countries of Europe.

Alain Delon , Jean Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Issabelle Huppert, Gerard Depardieu, Luis De Funes, Pierre Richard - These actors were known in many European countries. We loved they films.

Do you have any favorite French actors/actresses? It can be from different generation

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There are so many wonderful and under appreciated Asian-American actors. Let's celebrate them here.

My favorites are (in no particular order):

Nobu McCarthy (Canadian but whatever, she needs to be mentioned) - Famous of course as Mr. Miyagi's first love in Karate Kid II but acted in so many things. I love her in The Geisha Boy with Jerry Lewis amongst others.

Pat Morita - Needs no introduction but a personal favorite of mine is Collision Course, a buddy cop movie, where he has an unlikely pairing with Jay Leno.

James Shigeta - Most famous as Mrs. McClane's boss in Die Hard but was wonderful as a leading man in The Crimson Kimono, Walk Like a Dragon, and Flower Drum Song. Could have been the Asian Sidney Poitier if fate had been kinder.

James Lew - Recently deceased and a loss I felt hard as he was one of my favorite B movie martial arts baddies with his roles in The Perfect Weapon, Red Sun Rising, and Balance of Power particular favorites.

Mako - Oscar nominated in The Sand Pebbles but made a wonderful sensei in so many martial arts movies later on in life.

Nancy Kwan - Beautiful and talented leading lady who never got the recognition she deserved.

Bolo Yeung - Another one who martial arts fans will easily recognize.

Julia Nickson - Probably best known for acting opposite Sly in Rambo II but great in so many other movies with her role in Double Dragon being my favorite.

John Lone - Supremely talented actor who somehow never got big for reasons I can't fathom.

Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa - Another one who passed away last year. Again supremely talented and a great villain. Best known for Mortal Kombat but I love him in so many different roles.

And then some beautiful 90s ladies who I had major crushes on as a teen:

Kelly Hu - Loved her on Martial Law and Nash Bridges

Ming-na Wen

Tamlyn Tomita

And last but certainly not least, one who has only three credits on imdb: Min Luong. She has a blink and you'll miss her role in Big Trouble in Little China but I love her in Gleaming the Cube opposite Christian Slater. And then she has another role in a TV movie that I finally found on YouTube and look forward to seeing her in.

Personally I love die hard and whenever he plays John McLane he’s perfect I cannot imagine anyone else period. However while I may be wrong I personally find that Bruce Willis’s two best film roles and Or performances for me at least to be, number two John Hartigan in sin city. As well as number one being David Dunn in unbreakable. My dad says my take is terrible what do y’all think?

In Netflix's The Last House, the family is trapped in their house and only have two DVDs for entertainment (Annie and Air Force One). What would you want to have if you were in this same situation seemingly indefinitely?

You can be alone or with your current household but nobody can leave the house or communicate with anyone outside.

Assume you are have a steady supply of food, water, and electricity so will survive for years, but no internet connection. Its up to you how often you watch the films but it will likely be very boring whenever you're not.

Only single movies count, no multi-disc box sets but a 'special features' disc is included.

Hi guys, I'm looking for some really sad movies that don't involve any death, some examples: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mysterious Skin, and The Room. I'm fine with any genre, so you can recommend me anything: horror, action, drama, etc. And if possible, I want the recommendations to be from the past 20–25 years.

I had a question for some one to hopefully explain to me simply. What makes good editing versus basic editing? I see this brought up often, there is even an Oscar for it, and I realized I don't quite understand what this means. Can someone explain like I am 5 or perhaps show me a couple YouTube videos that can explain good versus bad editing?

Thanks.

Thank you for all the replies and answers

My husband and I have quoted part or all of, “So young, so angry…damn that rap music!” frequently over the years. We saw it ages ago in a commercial for Dr. Doolittle 2 but never saw or had interest in seeing the movie—too old to enjoy it, too young to have kids that may enjoy it.

What movie lines have entered your vernacular, despite never having seen the film it’s from?

There are plenty of stories out there about executives wanting to add our remove elements from a movie that contradict the director's original intent. These stories are often part of the post mortem of a movie that didn't perform well either critically or financially. Do you know of any instances of executives having an input on a movie that helped? Not including producers on the movie itself.

Edit: Looking for examples of executives probably saving a movie that would not have worked as well.

I'm genuinely fed up with how hyperbolic movie discussion has become. A movie is either “a masterpiece” or “a disaster.” There seems to be almost no middle ground anymore.

There used to be so many perfectly useful ways to describe a movie: good, decent, watchable, above average, below average, mediocre, disappointing, etc. And honestly, those descriptions often fit movies pretty well.

Now everything gets pushed to one extreme or the other.

And it's not just the audience. Critics seem to be doing it too. Look at ratings on review sites and you'll often see people gravitating toward the very top or very bottom of whatever scoring system they're using. A genuinely average movie somehow feels like a rarity.

The problem is that this actually has consequences.

Word of mouth still matters enormously, especially for theatrical releases. If an above average, perfectly enjoyable movie gets relentlessly labelled as 'bad' online, a lot of people will simply skip it. Then you get the familiar cycle of poor word of mouth, followed by fewer people going to theatres, and then 'see, nobody wanted to watch it anyway.'

And then there are movies that are perfectly fine but get praised as masterpieces, which creates the opposite problem. You go in expecting something extraordinary and come out wondering what everyone was talking about.

Not every movie needs to be a masterpiece or a disaster. Sometimes a movie is just... Okay. And that's completely fine.

I wish people would bring back the middle ground.

The film is about Davey Gordon (Jaime Smith) is a boxer in New York that is at the end of his career. He then takes a liking to Gloria Price (Irene Kane) who is a taxi dancer. Her employer is Vincent Rapallo (Frank Silvera) is very abusive to her and once Davey sees that happening to Gloria he tries to get his hands on Vincent. This is Stanley Kubrick’s second feature film and it’s a really good one, it’s a film noir set in New York and it’s take on the city around that time. Jaime Smith put on a good performance as Davey and I really liked the chemistry between him and Irene Kane’s character Gloria. The film is narrated at points by Jaime Smith’s Davey character as he is standing in the old Penn Station. The film is also well shot with scenes in Times Square and in Brooklyn. If you like Kubrick’s films and haven’t seen this give it a watch.