Same! Just watched it maybe 4 weeks back and then Project Hail Mary. Great movies in their own way.

Not to be confused with The Arrival (1996), which is a blast of an enjoyable movie, though it’s not on the same level as Arrival. The effects don’t hold up well, sadly, but I love it all the same.

The short story is heartbreaking, Ted Chiang

Iron Sky is way, way better than you'd think.

As some who grew up watching the original Speed Racer, I fully expected the movie to be awful. Despite all the cheesy graphics it actually works! It was a decent homage to it's origin.

Now the whistle is in my head! Auugghhh

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.

Probably still the best gunfight ever put on film.

Crime 101 is a pale imitation but still OK.

Heat always reminds me of Ronin (1999), a worthwhile watch if you liked Heat.

Rewatched it recently & cried through the entire last third. So good

Came to say the same thing, it's probably one of the best movies from recent times. Great writing, original story, great acting, comedy, Kung Fu, sci-fi, it's got it all.

Might give it another go, but the first 30 minutes or so did not interest me at all tbh. Like I get what it is parodying, and I appreciate it in a creative sense, but it's just a bit much for my taste.

I added it to the list thanks

To be honest anything by Tarkovsky is a must-watch.

This movie was crazy slow but worked surprisingly well. Especially compared with the book. The book was great but the movie manged to take it all to another level.

I watched Andrei Rublev recently (also Tarkovsky), it was pretty good. Visually stunning of course.

If I start movies like this past like 4pm, I'm going to fall asleep 100%>

Bonkers movie I love it.

Great movie. Went in blind and enjoyed it.

Another good movie kinda like Sorry to Bother You was The American Society of Magical Negroes. It's a comedy about the title troupe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Society_of_Magical_Negroes

I remain baffled that someone read the script and apparently said, a kung fu comedy sci fi thriller family drama with infinite timelines and jump cuts across dimensions occurring up to multiple times per second? Yeah, sounds good, this will definitely work, let's fund this.

I don't know how the Daniels did it, but whew, I'm glad they did.

How creepy is it? I'm looking at it now. I had nightmares for a week over Netflix haunting of hill house

I didn't love it the first time I saw it. And now it's in my top 3 movies of all time. Every time I watch it, I like it more.

My favorite Tarantino movie.

Porco Rosso is my favourite so I recommend that next if you havent seen it :)

I think Spirited Away is my fave Ghibli... Hard to say though.

Ghibli movies are the only foreign stuff that I will watch dubbed as they always get a stacked voice cast.

The English dub of Tororro is fantastic with Dakota and Elle Fanning back when they are actually children.

I enjoyed The Long Walk for the same reason. Very faithful adaptation of my favourite Bachman book, although I am hoping for a director's cut. I didn't see any trailers before watching so I was very surprised and pleased to see who the actor for The Major was. The interactions between all the kids is just great.

So you enjoyed the remake of The Running Man over the Schwarzenegger version? Or was it just a different beast?

I love the concept of a character too pissed off to die. Reminds me of DOOM.

How bleak is it? King is often bleak AF

There aren't a lot of movies that make me want to stand up in the theater and shout "Hell yeah", but this was one of them.

It was a great adaptation and evoked visceral reactions from me at times.

The recent miniseries based on the same story was very good

I think it's just called Mr. Ripley? Or Ripley?

If you liked The Wrestler and have not seen Beyond The Mat (1998), do that. Randy "The Ram"'s entire story is basically a straight copypasta of the section on Jake "The Snake" Roberts, one of the best wrestlers of his era. "Best" is used here in a very loosely-defined way, because well, we're talking about Pro Wrestling.

But I was like 12-15 during the high years of the WWF, I was watching some of the most legendary names, and Jake was my absolute... ok well it's a tossup between Jake and George "The Animal" Steele, who was older, looked like my grandpa a little bit, managed by Captain Lou Albano (both vintage heels turned face) from the Cyndi Lauper videos and had an excellent "crazy ape man" kinda schtick. He also would destroy a turnbuckle every match and I loved the vandalism.

For a kid of the right age, mid-80s WWF was the best entertainment going, in a time when you had 13 channels if you were lucky. VCRs weren't even completely ubiquitous yet. What else going on? Family Ties, Growing Pains, Lawrence Welk...

But Jake was an absolute dark horse with incredible intensity, and totally unique - most were using steroids then, he had a very basic physique and didn't give a shit. Most wrestlers would be high fiving and gesticulating and getting the crowd whipped up as they walked out. Jake would just walk out staring at the ring or his opponent, neither hurrying nor dallying, just a purposeful walk, with his grey sack containing a python slung over his shoulder. Great finishing move, great schtick, one of the absolute legends.

Finding out over a decade later that his life was this Shakespearean (think Titus, not Romeo) tragedy the whole time was just wild, but also not at all surprising, because anyone who watched his matches could see that this was a different type of dude from your typical wrestler.

Don't sleep on Beyond The Mat. It's also got some amazing stuff with Mick Foley and Terry Funk, two dudes who have done more damage to each other than the Romans did to Jesus, and who love each other intensely for it. Lots "holy shit what the fuck did he just do" clips.

Part of me likes The Drama because it's very well made, the performances are all great.
But a big part of me is disappointed. At first I was confused. But since then, I've become more and more negative about the movie.

There was nobody with any empathy or compassion for Zendaya's character. Nobody to push back on those who only reacted with vitriol, disgust, or at best shock and disappointment.

Everyone who contemplates what she did, was abused, ostracized, or at best ignored by everyone on their life. And nobody gave her any credit for getting through. The movie is too one sided. There's no real debate. And I thinks it's worse for it.

Great movie. And I love seeing the retro animation and hearing the retro score.

The Act of Killing

That was one of the toughest movies to watch. It's been more than a decade, and I still can't bring myself to watch the follow-up.

That sounds quite fun I'd nit heard of it

Bong Joon Ho is amazing. Same guy that did Parasite. I highly recommend his film, Memories of Murder

Tilda Swinton is iconic in that film.

Damn, that was my answer too.

How scary are they? And are they jump scare or psychological? I'm not the best with psychological horrors

That's really thoughtful of you thanks

I think it's real sweet and thoughtful of you that you saw that she's not good with psychological horror and went back and edited your comment :)