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[Helgoland]

Yeah, it's recent.

[StupidElves]

I would like to recommend Warriors of Virtue: Return to Tao.

You don't really need to see the first one to understand this movie. It's also not very good. It's just really funny in how bad it is. It's that kind of movie.

[Yoink]

I would like to recommend Warriors of Virtue: Return to Tao.

You don't really need to see the first one to understand this movie. It's also not very good. It's just really funny in how bad it is. It's that kind of movie.

Dude! I've never seen the sequel, but I saw the first one on TV once as a kid and loved it.
Took me years to find out what it was as an adult. Sadly I've never been able to track down a copy to re-watch it.
If the sequel's anything like the original, I should probably watch that too.

[Bohandas]

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

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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.

Don't forget Codename: Diamond Head

[Parsely]

It seems like the most recent films with anything resembling convincing violence came out of the 60s. I wonder if anyone can think of any films from the 50s and 40s (or prior) that had the confidence to at least fake blood and things like that. I'm not talking gore porn just at the very least blood stains or something. Doesn't have to be a good movie either, I'm mostly interested in the trivia aspect.

Edit: This thought enters my mind as I watch "Them!" (1954), which while otherwise is a remarkably believable sci-fi film, spares three children in the course of the story in situations where adults were horribly murdered (nothing shown but there are surprisingly graphic (for the time) descriptions of the victims hidden beneath white sheets) without even offering any kind of excuse. In fact there are only two on-screen casualties and one of them, embarrassingly, is due to a wooden beam hitting the man in question in the face with such force as to wound him.

[Parsely]

Okay I watched a load of movies recently.

Inception has amazing characters but its plot is really not as complex as people say it is. It's also full of holes. If the characters didn't speak in such certain terms about how the rules for how dreaming worked then it would've been fine. Then you could just let people guess and think about things. Instead they leave try to explain as much as possible.

Cube is another movie that kind of screws up trying to explain things, but unlike Inception I think the explanations work for the film. If only the math actually made sense. Cube was fun for me because the explanations were unique, and the way I interpreted it, it was like the film was subtly lampooning those ridiculous excuses other horror films offer for why their characters are trapped in an elaborate death trap. Kind of like Cabin in the Woods I guess. It got panned by some critics for bad acting and I have to ask what they think "bad acting" is.

Also Hedgehog in the Fog is a good, short, animated film that you can watch on YouTube.

Being John Malkovich.

The weirdness is so thick you can roll it into a joint and smoke it, and even then you wouldn't be as out of your mind as whoever came up with this thing.

This isn't a bad thing mind you, I just love when a movie is so wonderfully into being weird that it gives zero shits about everything else, while still being capable of making sense.

It didn't go far enough IMO. There wasn't enough Malkovich silliness. Mostly it was just about the woes of this puppeteer and his relationship problems and I just didn't like that character enough to care.

It was really enjoyable. The acting was good, the costumes, sets and areas were really well done. I shall have to put the book series down to read at a future date, along with the other two movies "Potop" ("The Deluge") and "Pan Wołodyjowski" (English Title "Fire in the Steppe" though the polish title translates as "Colonel Wolodyjowski"). I can recommend it to anyone who likes the period, battles or just Winged Hussars.

I'm familiar with The Deluge because of the dueling scene. Really great fight.

[Vector]

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[Comrade P.]

Also Hedgehog in the Fog is a good, short, animated film that you can watch on YouTube.

Seconded!

When I was a younger lad, I found that art style plenty creepy. I still do, frankly. I mean, if you look at some stills from that piece, they look like something from an arthouse horror movie.

I also can't stop getting Morrowind vibes from some music moments in there.

[Vector]

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[Comrade P.]

What can I say, Cheburashka 3D scares me a lot more .______.

I have never heard of that, but that sounds like an abomination before the face of Soviet animation.

Have some good Soviet animation from Kiyvnauchfilm studio. It's got no spoken lines, and the few lines that appear on screen you can easily guess anyway.

It is essentially about a bunch of Ukrainian cossacks going on goofy cartoony adventures in different time periods and places. I love it.

[Vector]

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[Yoink]

I watched a French film called I've Loved You So Long last night. It was very good! A slow, thoughtful, sad and touching kind of film, so hopefully you're into that kind of thing.
The fact that I missed the beginning may have added some extra mystery to it, but I'm pretty sure I didn't miss much.

Also in need of recommending is Paint Your Wagon, which I watched for the first time on TV the other day. I can't believe I hadn't watched it before... there are so many classics I still need to see.

[Flying Dice]

Eeeee-I've got two films I've been wanting to re-watch for ages in the mail: Stalker and Team America.

Come to think of it, that's a rather sharp contrast.

[Fniff]

Funny, those are both in my top film lists.
...
What possible intersection is there between fans of Team America and fans of Stalker?

[Tawa]

So I've come here to be recommended a film rather than recommend one myself; I've heard a lot of good stuff about Studio Ghibli, so I've been considering watching one of their films. Which one would you guys recommend I start with?