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[Pokemonquistador2]

Hey guys, should I watch the Star Wars prequel trilogy?

Only if you're going to watch RedLetterMedia's takedown of the Prequel Trilogy. (Yes, it's overhyped and people hate the "psycho Plinkett" parts, but it still stands as a great example of film criticism by people who know how films are structured.) If you plan on watching the Sequel trilogy, skip the RedLettermedia reviews (when RLM went mainstream, they started pulling their punches in their long-form reviews,) and watch the ones at Hack Fraud Media instead, particularly their Last Jedi review. Watching all post-OT Star Wars and all of the criticism videos I mentioned will give you a good rundown of all the things that have gone wrong with mainstream movies in the past 30 years.

Warning: autism abounds in both the film's criticism and in people critiquing the film's criticism. Especially the latter, since lots of people are easily offended and have an emotional attachment to the Prequel trilogy. You may find yourself liking parts of the Prequel Trilogy, and that's okay, because a lot of work went into it, and you don't have to agree with every bit of criticism aimed at a movie. Parts ofthe PT are very dull however, and don't make much sense.

 

[9263900263]

Only if you're going to watch RedLetterMedia's takedown of the Prequel Trilogy. (Yes, it's overhyped and people hate the "psycho Plinkett" parts, but it still stands as a great example of film criticism by people who know how films are structured.) If you plan on watching the Sequel trilogy, skip the RedLettermedia reviews (when RLM went mainstream, they started pulling their punches in their long-form reviews,) and watch the ones at Hack Fraud Media instead, particularly their Last Jedi review. Watching all post-OT Star Wars and all of the criticism videos I mentioned will give you a good rundown of all the things that have gone wrong with mainstream movies in the past 30 years.

Warning: autism abounds in both the film's criticism and in people critiquing the film's criticism. Especially the latter, since lots of people are easily offended and have an emotional attachment to the Prequel trilogy. You may find yourself liking parts of the Prequel Trilogy, and that's okay, because a lot of work went into it, and you don't have to agree with every bit of criticism aimed at a movie. Parts ofthe PT are very dull however, and don't make much sense.

Despite all their flaws the prequel trilogy is by far the most visually interesting and "Star warsy" trilogy of the 3. Lucas wanted to fuck around with CGI, scale models and not WW2 in space again and he achieves that pretty well. Star wars changed a lot after the original trilogy and really pushed out into games and novels which feel a better fit for star wars than the movies do. If you're someone into visual effects the prequels are interesting to watch from a tech stand point too. During the first one they had to use a model for the droid control ship. By the 3rd one they could render multiple control ships and fighters at once. The prequels aren't great movies but they're visually great if that makes sense.

Any one want to recommend me some movies set in a single location? Can't be any larger than a house or apartment building. At a push a single forest so Blair Witch Project would more or less count but I'm thinking more Saw 1 or Misery. Can be a thriller or a horror movie, I'm not too picky.

 

[CWCissey]

Any one want to recommend me some movies set in a single location? Can't be any larger than a house or apartment building. At a push a single forest so Blair Witch Project would more or less count but I'm thinking more Saw 1 or Misery. Can be a thriller or a horror movie, I'm not too picky.

Phone Booth is pretty good. I also really enjoyed Gerald's Game

 

[9263900263]

Phone Booth is pretty good. I also really enjoyed Gerald's Game

That's the poster child of the genre, I think everyone has caught it on TV at some point and enjoyed it. It's the die hard of phone booth movies.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

I'm looking for some obscure cheesy late 70s/80s era live action things that attempted to cash in on the Star Wars craze. I found something called "Space Academy" on YouTube, that's the sort of thing I want. The lower the budget the better. I have seen Buck Rogers and some 80s NBC stuff, that genre is also fun.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Despite all their flaws the prequel trilogy is by far the most visually interesting and "Star warsy" trilogy of the 3. Lucas wanted to fuck around with CGI, scale models and not WW2 in space again and he achieves that pretty well. Star wars changed a lot after the original trilogy and really pushed out into games and novels which feel a better fit for star wars than the movies do. If you're someone into visual effects the prequels are interesting to watch from a tech stand point too. During the first one they had to use a model for the droid control ship. By the 3rd one they could render multiple control ships and fighters at once. The prequels aren't great movies but they're visually great if that makes sense.

Any one want to recommend me some movies set in a single location? Can't be any larger than a house or apartment building. At a push a single forest so Blair Witch Project would more or less count but I'm thinking more Saw 1 or Misery. Can be a thriller or a horror movie, I'm not too picky.

Spoiler: My Star Wars Biases

I don't consider anything beyond the Original Trilogy to be in my Star Wars movie canon, because it told a complete Hero's Journey cycle and wrapped everything up at the end. The Prequel trilogy is only "Star Warsy" in a visual and technological sense, as it only keeps the action-adventure tone of the OT at a few key places, and spends most of its time trying to be a tragic historical romance, (a genre which seems to me about as "Star Warsy" as a Twilight Fanfic.) I also think numbering the movies of the PT so they're placed at the beginning of the watching order does a great disservice to the OT, which really needs certain things (Luke's parentage, Yoda being a Jedi master) to be a secret to the first time viewer so their revelation can have maximum impact on the plot.

Can you even call it a Prequel Trilogy when it's placed first in the watching order? Prequels are things that are usually made and meant to be watched after a main movie but contain events that took place before it chronologically...

I understand the Biggest Star Wars demographic alive probably grew up with the Prequel Trilogy in theaters and that the PT is superior and groundbreaking in a special effects sense. I also know that most Star Wars fans want there to be as much Star Wars as possible and are heavily invested in the universe. That's fine, but that's just not what I want. I'm perfectly okay with watching only the Star Wars OT, appreciating it for the lightning in a bottle that it was, and leaving the rest of it alone. I'll take my puzzle pieces now.

1408 takes place in a single hotel room so that might be right up your alley. The Shining took place in a single hotel (although it might be a bigger setting than what you're looking for.)

If you want something really claustrophobic, I'd recommend the short horror film, Daughter:

 

[Pyre]

The first film I suggest watching is Blue Rain. Fantastic film about a man coping with his parents murder.

This was a lot better than I though it would be. It's on Netflix and there's currently no physical release of it. Though if there ever is I'll add it to my collection.
Second movie I have is titled 'Hard Rain'

Film about Morgan Freeman going after a massive payday. It's interesting seeing Freeman in a villain role.
Last one I have is The Mist, based on the Stephen King Novella.

It's an okay horror movie but the characters really make the film worth watching.

 

[9263900263]

Spoiler: My Star Wars Biases

I don't consider anything beyond the Original Trilogy to be in my Star Wars movie canon, because it told a complete Hero's Journey cycle and wrapped everything up at the end. The Prequel trilogy is only "Star Warsy" in a visual and technological sense, as it only keeps the action-adventure tone of the OT at a few key places, and spends most of its time trying to be a tragic historical romance, (a genre which seems to me about as "Star Warsy" as a Twilight Fanfic.) I also think numbering the movies of the PT so they're placed at the beginning of the watching order does a great disservice to the OT, which really needs certain things (Luke's parentage, Yoda being a Jedi master) to be a secret to the first time viewer so their revelation can have maximum impact on the plot.

Can you even call it a Prequel Trilogy when it's placed first in the watching order? Prequels are things that are usually made and meant to be watched after a main movie but contain events that took place before it chronologically...

I understand the Biggest Star Wars demographic alive probably grew up with the Prequel Trilogy in theaters and that the PT is superior and groundbreaking in a special effects sense. I also know that most Star Wars fans want there to be as much Star Wars as possible and are heavily invested in the universe. That's fine, but that's just not what I want. I'm perfectly okay with watching only the Star Wars OT, appreciating it for the lightning in a bottle that it was, and leaving the rest of it alone. I'll take my puzzle pieces now.

1408 takes place in a single hotel room so that might be right up your alley. The Shining took place in a single hotel (although it might be a bigger setting than what you're looking for.)

If you want something really claustrophobic, I'd recommend the short horror film, Daughter:

The OT and the PT are the same movie made in different eras. Lucas has never written very good dialog and was even worse as a director. They're special effects movies with a budget able to push the genre as a whole forward with technology science fiction couldn't other wise afford. Luke and Leia had a romance in the early movies they twist into something else. Growing up with the OT gives people nostalgia goggles the same way people who think the Phantom menace is watchable outside of the pod racing scene does. They're both flawed and Star wars was always a better video game series than it was movies. It's made for space flight sims, blasting storm troopers and light saber duels more than it's made for mopey melodrama between farm boys and stuck up bitches with a drug problem.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

The OT and the PT are the same movie made in different eras. Lucas has never written very good dialog and was even worse as a director. They're special effects movies with a budget able to push the genre as a whole forward with technology science fiction couldn't other wise afford. Luke and Leia had a romance in the early movies they twist into something else. Growing up with the OT gives people nostalgia goggles the same way people who think the Phantom menace is watchable outside of the pod racing scene does. They're both flawed and Star wars was always a better video game series than it was movies. It's made for space flight sims, blasting storm troopers and light saber duels more than it's made for mopey melodrama between farm boys and stuck up bitches with a drug problem.

Calm down, take your medication. No one's going to take your PT away from you. The Original Trilogy was by no means perfect, but to say it's all just "pewpew spacelasers!!!!" is doing it a disservice. We do have an entire griefing thread dedicated to Star Wars so that's probably a better place to have this conversation.

 

[Face Of A Ghost]

Saw Saint Maud last night and it was a great. I really recommend it with some weed, dark room, complete silence.
I was baked and this movie just assault your sense with weird camera cuts, strange sounds. Amazing stuff.
I hate demonic possession movies usually but this was bloody original and awesome.
Slowburn movie tho little bit like Hereditary.

The director Rose Glass keep getting asked if there is a message or concious decision about the actors being women
And she just says that when dudes make movies with dudes in them and it's never a major theme so why here. She just did a movie with 2 woman cause that was the story she wrote, tired of those girlboss movies can they just act like normal people.

 

[BellumOmniumContraOmnes]

Repoman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLGrXGEMOSo

 

[DonDaLemon]

If you have the slightest appreciation for chess check out Fresh

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

A Dark Song is my fav horror movie in recent years, is supernatural horror done right, and exploits the simple premise really well. The scene with the protagonist talking to the demon pretending to be his dead son was one of my favorite scenes in all horror movies, its so simple and so unsettling

I'm looking for some obscure cheesy late 70s/80s era live action things that attempted to cash in on the Star Wars craze. I found something called "Space Academy" on YouTube, that's the sort of thing I want. The lower the budget the better. I have seen Buck Rogers and some 80s NBC stuff, that genre is also fun.

Tried Zardoz yet?

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

A Dark Song is my fav horror movie in recent years, is supernatural horror done right, and exploits the simple premise really well. The scene with the protagonist talking to the demon pretending to be his dead son was one of my favorite scenes in all horror movies, its so simple and so unsettling


Tried Zardoz yet?

That looks Redlettermedia worthy, awesome.

 

[Oughtism]

Just finished watching a true crime documentary called 'Love Fraud' by Showtime. Here is the trailer:

Not bad, a bit sappy maybe and you have to wonder if it really is real. I do like the old bounty hunter woman. The reason I bring it up here is that the conman could probably have been a bit of a lolcow if he had been born 20 years later. Also a testament to how gullible and easily manipulated some people are.

 

[albert chan]

Playmakers

This TV show was not only entertaining, it was also pretty interesting to watch from a perspective of what playing real gridiron football is like. Even non-sports fans can actually watch it since it’s basically Blitz: The League: The TV Show. If anyone’s played that game, they’ll recognize the reference.

Spoiler: Fun fact

ESPN cancelled this show after only one season because the NFL thought they were being unfair portraying what behind the scenes and real life football was like.

 

[Commander X]

Watched for the first time in years, director Walter Hill's homage to Sam Peckinpah, who he'd worked alongside with: "Extreme Prejudice". Nick Nolte plays a Texas Ranger, Jack Benteen, who is driven to bring down his former friend Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe) who has become a drug lord who rules from a ranch across the border, with his private army. Complications set in: Jack's girlfriend Sarita (Maria Conchita Alonso) still has some lingering feelings for Cash, and a team of declared-dead black ops commandos led by Michael Ironside have arrived on a mission. Nolte's performance as Benteen is modeled after the movie's technical adviser, Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson (who devoted a chapter about this movie in his autobio "One Ranger").

 

[JosephStalin]

Just finished watching "La Rafle (The Roundup)". About the roundup of Jews in Paris in July 1942, their being confined in the Vel d'Hiver bicycle racing stadium, then internment in a French camp before being shipped off to death in the East. The French overall come off very badly, overall collaborating closely with the Germans in the entire process. Some French do act with honor, such as the nurses, the fire chief in Paris, some who hid Jews, and some police personnel. But in general you see many, many French being very anti-Semitic. Have read about the Vel d'Hiver and have a book of pictures of children sent East. Watched this on Amazon Prime.

 

[skjora]

The first film I suggest watching is Blue Rain. Fantastic film about a man coping with his parents murder.

Blue Ruin is a fantastic film. There's a level of realism to the writing, acting and action I really like. Nothing is portrayed as cool or melodramatic, there's just tension and fatigue.

 

[Overly Serious]

It's different to the book.

Just felt the need to get that out of the way.

Anyway, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. The 2016 version with Elijah Wood and Fiona Douriff. Great cast throughout, frankly those are just the two actors whose names I remember. Fiona Douriff (Brad Douriff's daughter) is especially great in it but there are no weak links.

There were two seasons. Frankly with the degree of genre-awareness amongst audiences these days it's hard to do a show like this that isn't twisting itself into a pretzel trying to be original to its own detriment. This is smart, well-written and fun. It manages to more or less keep you surprised and intrigued without having overly-forced twists and reveals. Really good writing. Wish there were a third season but Max Landis got Me Too'd leading its cancellation. It's pretty light but fun.

Some random stills off IMDB.