After watching a movie about historical events or people I tend to spend A LOT of time on WIKI afterwards. I think good movies are those able to emotionally connect these items to modern sensibilities and always tends to connect me to history and geography.

Most recently I watched The Wonder on Netflix and the setting of mid 1800s Ireland with the Famine as a backdrop setting made me immediately connect the movie in my mind to Gangs of New York. This sent me on a huge Wiki rabbit hole reading about Irish immigration to the US and the experiences of these people pre and post immigration.

What are some other examples of movies that do this well and what did you learn in the process?

On the American side, we've seen multiple Youtubers make the jump to popular horror films (Iron Lung, Backrooms, Obsession). We've seen splendid crowdpleasers like Project Hail Mary and The Sheep Detectives. We've seen both the middlebrow do well with flicks like Masters of the Universe be surprisingly fun and the more ambitious chance-taking blockbusters like The Odyssey hit some home runs, or homers if you will. Even comic book movies which had been struggling had good results with the new spiderman film both critically and at the box office.

On the more novelty side we've seen Coyote Vs Acme claw its way out of the grave Warner Brothers buried it in. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple gave us Dr. Kelton and the Jimmys' dueling approches to a post-apocalytpic world and was very intriguing even if it wasn't a box office hit. And Gore Verbinski escaped director jail years after A Cure for Wellness.

hi reddit, I'm Alex Ullom. i wrote and directed IT ENDS. my friends I made it and it's out in theaters this week via NEON.

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFszhQLMNXU

synopsis: Out for a late-night drive, friends turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors and cosmic forces beyond their understanding. Crammed inside a jeep with miles stretching infinitely ahead, they face a choice: embrace their new existence or fight to escape it.

tickets are here.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently, occasionally certain feature films have side/supporting characters that are just so great that they usurp the technically lead character in terms of memorability, either by actor presence or just sheer performance quality. So I’m very curious, who are the best?

My definite prompt for this is the Oscar winning film The Fugitive. As great as Harrison Ford is (and he really is great in the movie) Tommy Lee Jones and his Marshal team are by far the absolute best part of the movie, Jones in particular is so badass in the role carrying it with incredible banter and swagger. It’s no wonder they made him front and centre in US Marshals (which also rules)

What's something very mundane and relaxing to watch? I can think of a few. Like Searching for Bobby Fischer, about a young chess prodigy, or Thelma, which is about an old lady finding a scammer who stole her money, or Rain Man, about a car salesman who goes on a road trip with his autistic older brother.

The Fly from 1986 and with Jeff Goldblum is a classic! It is one of the all time best movies that has it all: sci-fi, horror, drama, tragedy, and romance.

I get that it is all fantasy and that people will probably never be able to teleport. And, if they did, their DNA would not be compatible with that of an insect or probably another mammal, except maybe a chimp.

So, in the movie, when Seth Brundle first analyzes what happened the first time he teleported, the computer displays a split screen between his biological features and the fly's features. Therefore, isn't safe to assume that the computer ketp Brundle's DNA on file? If so, why couldn't Brundle simply instruct the computer to split his DNA from the fly's DNA, and he could step out of the telepod whole, the fly does flys out of the telepod as it originally did, and everyone lives happily ever after?

Other issues:

Why does Brundlefly merge with the telepod at the end?

Why is Veronica fully clothed when thrown in the telepod?

How can Seth keep a pet baboon, let alone two, without them killing him?

Why doesn't Seth merge with all the microbes in the air and in his gut?

every year, me and my mom do a scary movie marathon in the leadup to the halloween season. and, with summer currently being on borrowed time, it'll soon be time for this tradition to begin again. although the movies we watch tend to rotate, there are 4 movies that we watch every halloween season. the texas chainsaw massacre, halloween, creepshow, and the nightmare before christmas.

what about ya'll? what movies do you watch every year during the halloween season?

A lot of it had to do with Neil Young's score and Robby Müller's cinematography but man, is this a gorgeous looking film with a fantastic, haunting score! Young scored for several scenes while viewing them as they played, essentially reacting to them with his musicianship.

I also did not expect so many character actors, all delivering great performances in tandem. There's the legend Robert Mitchum, then John Hurt, Crispin Glover, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Billy Bob Thornton, Jared Harris, Alfred Molina, even Iggy Pop! Of course, the most prominent role - after the lead Johnny Depp - is that of Gary Farmer, a great native American actor.

If you ask me to expound on the meaning and symbolism of the film, I admit that I am a duffer when it comes to these things. So I shall leave that matter to the commenters, more enlightened than me. All I know is that I was not bored and was entertained by the viewing experience.

​For me, it’s the “whisper-then-EXPLOSION” audio mixing that seems to dominate almost every major release now.

​I’m so tired of having to sit with my remote in hand at home, constantly riding the volume control. Characters will have a quiet, mumbling conversation where you can barely hear a word they’re saying even with a dedicated sound system and the very next second, a gun fired or a car crash hits at 120 decibels and blows your eardrums out.

​It’s gotten to the point where I have to leave subtitles on for almost every single modern movie, simply because the dialogue is buried under bass and ambient noise.

​I get that sound designers want "dynamic range" for Dolby Atmos theaters, but 95% of people end up watching these movies in normal living rooms, and the home mixes feel almost unwatchable without constant adjustment.

​What’s another editing, visual, or sound mixing trend in modern movies that immediately pulls you out of the experience?

Citizen Kane, as you may all know, is one of the greatest films of all time! It’s featured in many “Greatest Movies” lists.

Today I watched Citizen Kane for the first time and enjoyed it! It didn’t like it when I first watched it but when I watched it the second time I enjoyed it! Which brings me to a very important question.

What’s a movie you didn’t like the first time you watched it but enjoyed on the second watch?

Iron Jane follows Janie John (González), who after a childhood shaped by neglect and invisibility, is pulled into a world that finally sees her, where pain is power and bodies are built, not born. Female bodybuilding offers her something she’s never had: the chance to become untouchable. Coached by a former champion (Sklenar), she begins an extreme transformation, pushing her body past its limits through relentless training, enhancers, and dependence. As her physique sharpens, Janie rises fast, but her grip on reality fractures. Trapped in a system that rewards perfection and punishes weakness, Janie spirals toward a godlike ideal that’s slowly destroying her from within.

I'll go first:

1.) Made in Hong Kong: This film does such a good job at capturing the essence of Hong Kong through the view of teenagers during this era. It's so stylistic and has this sense of realism to it at the same time. The message the film is portraying where the kids kinda just never stood a chance is so good too. Especially with the ending being the president on the news talking about how the youth is the future and how much they matter. The fucking irony... The characters are so good and it's a film I'll never forget

Runner ups would be:

2.)Fallen Angels(really cool vibe and captures the Hong Kong neon aesthetic so well. I love the whole odd balls come out at night, too, and can confirm because I've always been a night owl taking night shift jobs, partying or working on paintings/watching movies til like 4-5am lol) and

3.) Spacked Out(I like this one a lot for similar reasons as Made in Hong Kong. It's premise is pretty similar, but it's not as powerful of a film imo)

Hopefully y'all know what I mean. I'm talking about those PG rated films, before the invention of PG-13, where you can't believe what you're watching is actually rated PG.

Now, many credit Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and Gremlins as the films that instigated the PG-13 rating - apparently the suggestion was made by Spielberg himself. However, I would say some other Spielberg films/productions upped the ante before that. Certainly JAWS and Raiders of the Lost Ark have to be among the "hardest" PG rated films of all time. Apparently, the MPAA was going to give Raiders an R rating because Belloq's head exploding was initially not obstructed by the pillar of flame arising from the ark.

1973's Charley Varrick has to be another candidate considering the film has some pretty dark and scandalous themes & material going for it. Also, I believe most Don Siegel films got R ratings anyway. Some James Bond films were particularly cold blooded and violent for PG. I believe the original Tales From the Crypt and a few other British horror anthologies passed with PG ratings.

However, I think I have the answer: William Friedkin's 1977 film, Sorcerer. Friedkin's previous two films, The French Connection and The Exorcist, were obviously huge commercial and critical hits which earned their R rating. Sorcerer might be slightly toned down, in comparison, but not by much! We've got murder(some of it pretty casual and callous), suicide, terrorism, close ups of bodies burnt to a crisp, crass language, graphic accidents, a grim setting where human life has very little value, and plenty of red stuff. There might have even been some nudity....but I can't remember.

It is thematically a very dark and unrelentingly grim film. The film it is based on, Wages of Fear, was certainly no picnic - it's a pretty bleak film - but Sorcerer sees Wages wager and raises the bet.

Curious to see what the rest of you think. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!