Need something good to watch tonight, any ideas? On netflix is good but ill rent something if it looks dope

      • charles_xcx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        if you haven't seen them already, the same director also did Starship Troopers (I think it's on Netflix) and Robocop (I don't think it's on Netflix)

        • ned_ludd [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Ya I saw Starship Troopers, it was great. I'm noticing just how much scifi must have been inspired by Total Recall. Seems like the first Matrix is essentially a rip off of it, surprised I never really heard of it before.

          Edit: also it's amazing how both movies somehow benefit from awful acting. Not sure why but it just works

          • charles_xcx [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I rewatched it a couple weeks ago and thought the same thing, there's even the 'red pill' lol. I haven't read it so idk how it compares to the movie, but it's based on a book by Philip K Dick who also wrote the books that Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and a bunch of other movies were based on.

            I think the acting helps to elevate the campiness of the movies, I think if they were more serious movies they wouldn't be as good lol

  • PresterJohnBrown [any]
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    4 years ago

    Greyhound was fine. If you just want to watch a movie where Nazis are the bad guys again and you don't have to think very much, I'd check it out.

  • AngusMcAnus [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    13 Tzameti has the most nailbitingly tense middle section I've ever seen in a film, but if you want to watch it just find a stream of it, don't even watch the trailer because it spoils too much of the premise.