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[Il Palazzo]

Particle Fever (2013) is a very nice documentary about the LHC and the Higgs boson discovery. Not terribly heady, it's focused on getting you to understand the reasons behind the excitement it generated in academia, rather than on explaining the physics behind its operation.
If you are still wondering what was the whole media craze from a few years back about, check it out.

[RedKing]

I've been on an MST3K binge lately and feel that I should share some of my favorites.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Mutiny is hilarious, and involves, among other things, zamboni chases and an escape sequence that veers into "why don't you just shoot him" territory for about five straight minutes.
Future War has enough cardboard box set pieces to give Solid Snake an orgasm, dinosaur special effects that are indistinguishable from Jurassic World, isn't in the future, and doesn't have a war.
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians is delightfully nonsensical, featuring things like  Santa's laughter sounding like a deranged madman having a psychotic breakdown.
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy makes no sense whatsoever. Note that the robot has about ten minutes of screen time, almost all of which is taken up by a fight scene.
Operation Kid Brother, a James Bond cash-in featuring Sean Connery's brother, has an Enoby-level Mary Sue pursuing an "atomic nucleus".
Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam was never done by MST3K, presumably because it's already the funniest movie ever made for all the wrong reasons. Words cannot describe the madness it contains. The movie is in Turkish but there's YouTube videos with subtitles.

What, no Time of the Apes?? Or Catalina Caper, featuring a bizarre cameo by what appears to be Little Richard on horse tranquilizers?

[Yoink]

I finally persuaded my friends to watch Turbo Kid with me!
What a great movie... it was actually much, much better than I was expecting. I knew New Zealand makes good films, but apparently Canada does too- and this was a joint effort between studios from both countries, apparently.

Now I'm in that strange, bittersweet post-movie mood I enter into after watching a film I really enjoy... I'll probably be acting weird for at least a day. Possibly more, given that part of the soundtrack is available online to prolong the feeling. It's like that perfect moment where you're watching the credits feeling kinda sad, but stretched out to last longer. Excuse me, I'm gonna go hit play on the soundtrack again...

I recommend Turbo Kid to everyone.
Watched it earlier and it was amazing... way better than I was expecting. I'm not even sure what I was expecting, but the reality was much, much better.

[Tawa]

I've been on an MST3K binge lately and feel that I should share some of my favorites.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Space Mutiny is hilarious, and involves, among other things, zamboni chases and an escape sequence that veers into "why don't you just shoot him" territory for about five straight minutes.
Future War has enough cardboard box set pieces to give Solid Snake an orgasm, dinosaur special effects that are indistinguishable from Jurassic World, isn't in the future, and doesn't have a war.
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians is delightfully nonsensical, featuring things like  Santa's laughter sounding like a deranged madman having a psychotic breakdown.
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy makes no sense whatsoever. Note that the robot has about ten minutes of screen time, almost all of which is taken up by a fight scene.
Operation Kid Brother, a James Bond cash-in featuring Sean Connery's brother, has an Enoby-level Mary Sue pursuing an "atomic nucleus".
Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam was never done by MST3K, presumably because it's already the funniest movie ever made for all the wrong reasons. Words cannot describe the madness it contains. The movie is in Turkish but there's YouTube videos with subtitles.

What, no Time of the Apes?? Or Catalina Caper, featuring a bizarre cameo by what appears to be Little Richard on horse tranquilizers?

Oh, I saw Catalina Caper too. That one was hilarious.

[Il Palazzo]

I'll add my recommendation to the choir of voices praising Kingsman. It's the perfect James Bond film - grabs the absurdity of the premise and runs with it.
My only gripe with it was how the character of the female counterpart to the lead felt shoehorned-in. They couldn't quite find anything sensible for her to do.

Anyway, would be fun to watch it back-to-back with 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'. Same basic idea - a spy movie - and some of the same actors. Completely different vibe, though.

[AlleeCat]

Space Mutiny is hilarious, and involves, among other things, zamboni chases and an escape sequence that veers into "why don't you just shoot him" territory for about five straight minutes.

You forgot that it stars the impeccable Reb Brown as Biff Hardcheese Roll Fizzlebeef Big McLargeHuge.

[Comrade P.]

Just watched Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa).

If you find yourself with three hours of free time in front of a device capable of playing video files, do watch this movie.

[StupidElves]

I'd like to recommend Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase

No, I'm not joking. It's really good. I like it a lot. Also, watch Scooby Doo: Camp Scare. The monsters there are literally trying to kill the Scooby Gang. That's awesome.

Seriously, go watch those two movies. They're good.

[Helgoland]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Only watch it with the appropriate mindset, though.

[Yoink]

Just watched Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa).

If you find yourself with three hours of free time in front of a device capable of playing video files, do watch this movie.

Hey, I watched that not long ago! It is indeed really, really great.
Funnily enough I watched it during my binge of terribly cruddy, ultra-cheesy 70s kung fu movies and then all of a sudden along comes a great film, truly worthy of its classic status.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Only watch it with the appropriate mindset, though.

I watched that a while ago and the special effects seemed kinda silly.
I re-watched a certain scene more recently and was amazed by how realistic they were.



...Anyway, I'm about to sit down and watch Deathgasm. This should be awesome.

[Yoink]

...Anyway, I'm about to sit down and watch Deathgasm. This should be awesome.

Yeah, that was fun. Definitely recommend it, even with the painful Kiwi accents!

[Orange Wizard]

yeh nah m8

niw zilland eccent esnt thit bed es et?

[TD1]

You've probably already watched it, but I just saw Schindler's list for the first time. I found it very emotive, and if you haven't seen it I would recommend you do.

[Helgoland]

I'd like to recommend 'Dope'. It avoids sooo many clichés, but touches on them in delightful ways!
Also it's interesting race-dynamics-wise. America, your school system really does suck.

[Yoink]

I'd like to recommend 'Dope'. It avoids sooo many clichés, but touches on them in delightful ways!
Also it's interesting race-dynamics-wise. America, your school system really does suck.

Is that the 2015 film?
Might check it out sometime.

If anyone hasn't seen The Street Fighter, they really should watch it.
Sadly I can't find any decent-quality uploads of the sequels to watch (and they probably aren't as good anyway), but the original is brilliant.