Movie thread

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I love movies. I know lots of people do too.

Post your favorite movies, favorite genres, decades, or just post something you saw recently and want to share

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Yesterday I saw Iron Lung, as I was chaperoning an underage relative of mine. It was a neat movie. I had no idea what it was even about or that it was based on a game until my relative told me in the car ride there, so I went in essentially blind.

I am a fan of movies that take place in a single location, in this case inside a room of a small submarine, because it forces the film makers to make the movie interesting through tension and dialogue rather than CGI and expansive sets.

I didn't think the movie was scary, but that's not a high bar because I don't find most things scary, but it sure had a lot of tension. There was a single scene that used CGI a little more than half way through which I wasn't a fan of, but it otherwise was entirely practical effects which I very much am a fan of. As far as scary movies go this is probably the best one in quite a few years, as modern "horror" movies rely on jumpscares or gore to try and get you while this is a more existential horror. I'd recommend it for anyone who likes scary movies or just appreciates practical effects and clever film making. It's very much an indie film but in an age where big Hollywood films are just drivel full of washed up celebrities and expensive CGI, indie films feel more core to what film really is and should be in terms of artistic self expression, people coming together to make a story that you can experience on a screen.

[Genuline]

I've been watching a lot of "monster" movies lately & its taught me a lot about their origins / source materials, for example:

"Dracula" movies generally follow the plot of the original 1897 Bram Stoker novel, where a solicitor travels to Transylvania to sell Count Dracula property, the Count learns of the solicitor's partner & does everything in his power to hunt her down. then it's up to the solicitor & his comrades to save his wife from Dracula. its a story which you can write & interpret in many unique ways which I've seen through lots of films, including:
- Nosferatu, 1922
- Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992
- Nosferatu, 2024
- Dracula, 2025

the one that really impressed me was the original Nosferatu film from 1922, despite being a silent film I still really enjoyed it & felt the characters of the solicitor & his wife had a greater bond than most of the later adaptations. the genre has changed a lot into just "vampire" films and there's a lot of great ones, two I have to mention are:
- What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
a mockumentary following 4 New Zealand vampires living in the modern day, in the film (let's hope) vampire society has existed for hundreds of years & there's a certain "code" they all withhold to keep their society a secret. it follows the 4 main vampires around as they do silly antics in NZ, really entertaining
- Van Helsing (2004)
just a cool fucking film about Van Helsing killing all sorts of monsters and demons, where Helsing as a member of the Catholic Church, undertakes a noble journey to kill Dracula while being aided by many unexpected allies. not a "vampire" movie but Dracula is in it & he's the final boss character, just raw & awesome even if the plot is inconsistent

I've had the pleasure of learning the same way about Frankenstein, Werewolves and Zombies too

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Movies generally follow the plot of the original 1897 Bram Stoker novel, where a solicitor travels to Transylvania to sell Count Dracula property, the Count learns of the solicitor's partner & does everything in his power to hunt her down. then it's up to the solicitor & his comrades to save his wife from Dracula. its a story which you can write & interpret in many unique ways which I've seen through lots of films, including:

Have you seen the 1931 Dracula with Bela Lugosi? That one is my favorite, Lugosi just has such a great performance and such an iconic look. It feels like the Dracula movie.



And of course the Leslie Nielsen Dracula parody, Dracula: Dead and Loving it is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the source material, well at least given the other Dracula films I've seen since I haven't read the book.

[Genuline]

Have you seen the 1931 Dracula with Bela Lugosi? That one is my favorite, Lugosi just has such a great performance and such an iconic look. It feels like the Dracula movie.



And of course the Leslie Nielsen Dracula parody, Dracula: Dead and Loving it is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the source material, well at least given the other Dracula films I've seen since I haven't read the book.

nope, I'll have to give it a watch & there's also a Frankenstein film from the same year which I've had on the "to watch" list for a long while. after looking it up I can definitely say I've seen images of Bela as Dracula before, he just looks the part lol and that costume is great too

[george C]

Good thread idea. Here's some movies I watched recently

In Bruges (2008) - an English black comedy. Two hitmen get sent overseas after a hit gone wrong and eventually one gets tasked to wack the other. Its very well written and every scene makes you smile at least. Here's my favorite scene (spoilers)



Four Lions (2010) - another English black comedy. About a terror cell of jihadis in England planning out their revenge at the kaffirs. Pretty fun watch, all of the main characters are memorable and it doesn't have a bias against/for Pakis in England. Don't @ me if you're some chud who can't find joy in movies.

Sinners (2025) - probably the only movie made last year I watched at all. I had to see it after it somehow received 18 Oscar nominations. You can talk about what the movie's social messaging was for days and how poorly it got conveyed but its an alright B monster movie. I saw vampire movies get mentioned ITT and I thought the Irish vampire in this one was done pretty well, not that I know anything about vampires. Still doesn't deserve any of the acclaim it gets though and it goes to show how finished Hollywood is.

Bonus mention: Master and Commander - Far Side of the World (2003) - someone somewhere said it before how this was the last movie made for "men". Fits with the theme of Castaway I guess which is why I want to bring it up. Probably in my top ten movies of all time, Russel Crowe was great in this and every ship scene in this was top tier. Wish they would make sequels for this but too bad.

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Bonus mention: Master and Commander - Far Side of the World (2003) - someone somewhere said it before how this was the last movie made for "men". Fits with the theme of Castaway I guess which is why I want to bring it up. Probably in my top ten movies of all time, Russel Crowe was great in this and every ship scene in this was top tier. Wish they would make sequels for this but too bad.

John Castaway (pictured on the website) is traced over a screenshot from Master and Commander. It's a great movie and a quintessential castaway film. If I ever host a movie night that would be one of the films we play. There's something romantic about the whole situation they find themselves in

[LubricatedLarry]

Old Hong Kong action movies are unmatched. Stuff like hard boiled, project a, and police story

[Kvasorob]

Bonus mention: Master and Commander - Far Side of the World (2003) - someone somewhere said it before how this was the last movie made for "men". Fits with the theme of Castaway I guess which is why I want to bring it up. Probably in my top ten movies of all time, Russel Crowe was great in this and every ship scene in this was top tier. Wish they would make sequels for this but too bad.

John Castaway (pictured on the website) is traced over a screenshot from Master and Commander. It's a great movie and a quintessential castaway film. If I ever host a movie night that would be one of the films we play. There's something romantic about the whole situation they find themselves in

Sick John Castaway lore drop. Gallery page says though that author is "unknown", did you trace him or did you find it somewhere, made by someone else already? Google image search only shows it displayed on castaway.tf website and related to castaway, so does search "master and commander tf2", heh.
Thanks for recommendation though, I read on it and movie's premise seems interesting, I like war-related movies

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Sick John Castaway lore drop. Gallery page says though that author is "unknown", did you trace him or did you find it somewhere, made by someone else already?

A friend of mine who's identity I would rather keep anonymous

[Buchou]

If I ever host a movie night that would be one of the films we play.

How would you do a movie night? Do you mean inside of TF2 somehow? Or just host a hyperbeam room or something?

I also nominate that we watch Cast Away (2000) with Tom Hanks.

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If I ever host a movie night that would be one of the films we play.

How would you do a movie night? Do you mean inside of TF2 somehow? Or just host a hyperbeam room or something?

I also nominate that we watch Cast Away (2000) with Tom Hanks.

Primarily through cytube, it's pretty much the go-to place for movie streams now a days with both Twitch and Kick cracking down on it. Well, ctyube is just a chatroom and the stream provider is separate but you get the idea

[Genuline]

saw Wes Anderson's newest movie yesterday, 'The Phonecian Scheme'. the plot follows a businessman with many powerful enemies, Zsa-Zsa Korda, appointing his only daughter as heir to his fortune while they quickly rush across the world to complete his life's greatest work, 'The Phoenecian Scheme' itself

I quite liked this film, its not a top 5 Wes film but not bad either, it remained consistently entertaining & funny while presenting itself in a very cut & dry way as Wes usually does with his films. the visuals are amazing, a lot of very colourful and symmetrical shots litter the film with many unique locations and costumes, especially around the end in a fictional country I forgot the name of, uses a lot of hieroglyphics and pastel colours. during the film, the main cast are traveling from destination to destination, all seated in a private jet for about 10 mins before the next part of the story begins. to me, these scenes feel like they were made with the audience also in the jet, you're given a brief moment to relax & process what the heck just happened as the story unfolds in a very high-octane way compared to what you & the main cast expected to happen. it might feel a little slow but that's my only complaint

Wes Anderson has become a favourite director of mine & I can't recommend his other films enough, my favourites being 'The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)' and 'Fanstastic Mr. Fox (2009)'

Old Hong Kong action movies are unmatched. Stuff like hard boiled, project a, and police story

not Hong Kong but a film in a similar vain I like a lot is 'Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003)' would recommend watching it with subtitles for that authentic Thailand experience. it's about a rural Muay Thai warrior pursuing gangsters to retrieve the head of his village's sacred Buddha statue, lots of well choreographed fighting, the trio of main characters have good synergy and I don't think the plot dragged anywhere for long, gotta re-watch it to know for sure

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Yesterday I rewatched Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. There really are no pirate films like the PotC trilogy.

The movies are just incredible in basically every respect. Great acting and cast, stunning set design and costume work, incredible score, and an engaging story.

This movie takes place during what I would call the golden age of CGI, which was roughly the mid 2000s - early 2010s. Many films with great looking CGI are from this period, such as big robot movies like the original Transformers and Pacific Rim (another favorite of mine, for different reasons). I think this is because at this point in time, we had reached a tech level where you could make great looking cgi (unlike the 80s-90s where the tech for this simply did not exist) but doing so required a lot of work. There was a high barrier for entry, and it was tough to do. As such, the people who managed to get to the finish line on a project with it usually were masters of their craft or at least highly skilled. This is why a lot of the 2000s movies with CGI (and a decent budget) do actually seem to have good CGI, while now a days it's worse. Modern CGI is way too easy to do, you need virtually no skill for it and as such the people doing it are not masters of their craft anymore but just anyone who knows how to use the tools. This concept of a barrier to entry creating better results I think applies to all creative crafts. Movies, art, music, even videogames get affected by this. When videogames were hard to make you had a lot more "great" games coming out every year, as usually the people who were able to get to finishing a full game had to be good at what they did to actually finish the game. Now a days it's so much easier.

That isn't to say of course that I prefer CGI, I am a die hard fan of practical effects and I think they should be used as much as often unless it is to do something that literally cannot be done practically. For example in PotC, the only parts that were really CGI were the ghost pirates and the long far away shots of the islands. Otherwise, they appear to have created sets for basically every area in the movie. The actors wore costumes too which is funny to even have to point out. But real pyrotechnics were used, not fake explosions generated by a computer. Of course not every movie can do it to the incredible extent that PotC can do it, they were only able to do it because it's a Disney movie and they threw an obscene amount of money at the problem. But the end result was well worth it. Even if it's low budget, I would take low budget practical effects over low budget CGI any day of the week. It's one of the reasons that The Thing 1982 is one of my favorite films, not only because of the excellent acting and storytelling but I am in love with the practical effects they used for the monster throughout the movie. There's somethng timeless about practical effects while CGI can often become dated (unless done to a very high level of skill such as in the aforementioned golden age of CGI).

[VerdiusArcana]

Not really into movies much at all. Mostly because I think 99.99% of what has been released since 2012 (arguably even since 2007) is pure DEI slop
and I'm tired of being disappointed. But even before that, it was rare for me to watch movies unless I was kinda forced to do so
because of family or friends.

So when I do watch one, it better be good or tickle my autism. If neither are fullfilled or if it's DEI slop then it's just a miserable time.
LOTR is basically the only movie series I can watch over and over and over again without ever getting tired of it.

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The Iron Giant

[Asmo]

The Iron Giant