The Personal Recommendation Hall of Fame

In getting an animation heavy recommendation so far. Was Perfect blue was selected by you for me?

And who gave me Shawshank and Cuckoos Nest hmmmm...

I hope you like it.

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Perfect Blue is amazing as I mentioned in my Paprika review.

That makes sense since he was pretty much the leader of the breakout. He also did most of the heavy lifting and came up with all the nifty little tools.

The Mission. Saw that when I was in 8th grade. My Ma worked at a Jesuit High School and there was a private screening for the all the Jesuits from the HS and University and she was invited to go see it. Unfortunately, she dragged me along. I thought I was being punished for something. I'd probably like it if I watched it now but that memory is pretty tough to get over.

Haven’t watched it yet. Going to swing to the local rental and pick it up for the weekend

By Grabthar's Hammer, I knew it, hah!
Well played CR, great choice!


My profile favs are under construction atm.

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Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
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Date Watched: 03/19/2020
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: The Personal Recommendation Hall of Fame, I think it may have been nominated by John-Connor
Rewatch: No.

Although this is not a movie that I think I ever would have chosen on my own, I can understand why someone would pick this for me. With films like Army of Darkness, The Fifth Element, and Verhoeven's own cheese-fest Showgirls in my top 100, it makes sense that someone would think that I'd like this as well.

Unfortunately it didn't quite hit the mark, though it gave one hell of a shot at it. Almost all of the necessary elements are there - the ridiculous premise, the over-the-top acting, the ridiculous effects - but it lacks a certain something: It lacks a memorable central character and it lacks memorable lines. There's no equivalent to Bruce Campbell's Ash or to Bruce Willis's Korben Dallas (or Chris Tucker's Ruby Rhod). And while Showgirls doesn't have the most interesting characters, there's something inherently amusing about people trying and failing to be sexy and it does at least have stupidly quotable lines like "everybody's got AIDS and sh**." All that said, I do understand that this is intended to be satire but the humor just didn't land for me and I appreciated the effort but was ultimately a bit underwhelmed by it.

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Nope..!



But I do love Paul Verhoeven, Starship Troopers and Denise Richards

The Mission seemed like such an out of the blue nomination, but apparently it was a very good one.

I didn't care for Starship Troopers but it was many years ago and only 1 time.

Sticks and stones...The movie that introduced found footage movie making to millions of people. I would have been fine going my entire life without seeing this so it is with great joy that I am able to say "huh, that wasn't too bad."

A group of students go to the woods of Maryland to make a documentary about the Blair Witch. On their way to the woods they stop in the local town where they interview a few people and we get the backstory of the urban legend. After that it's off to find the Witch.

Most of the movie is the three wandering lost in the woods and arguing. Every now and again they come across something spooky - usually a bundle of sticks or a pile of rocks. There really isn't anything terribly scary happening. It's at night where things get a little sketchy in a "did you hear that?" way. Their desperation is what creates most of the tension so the more desperate the become the more the tension ramps up. It builds up nicely and never takes a step backwards. It all leads to a finale at a deserted house, the cabin in the woods, where everything finally breaks.

I always thought this was a horror film for people who don't like horror films and I still think that, but it's good. No fx, no gore at all but I knew that going in so was prepared. One real positive - the camera work wasn't nearly as herky-jerky as I expected. I remember reading about people getting sick in theaters when this was released and it wasn't that bad. The characters are just interesting enough to not be boring and I enjoyed all the arguing (it was like Twitter on film). Will take a spot next four other movies on my found footage top ten list.

Watched it last night! Except for the fact that I don't consider 2019 a great year for movies, we agree on pretty much everything, I think

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Things to Come (1936)


A very interesting piece of history. I always find it curious to see the predictions of people who lived before us. Most of the times, they underrate humans capacity of progress which I think is an amazing sign.
This was done in 1936. The memory of the First World War was still fresh in people's minds and Hitler was at this time rising to power, communicating a very dangerous message, that few knew how to listen. Maybe H.G. Wells was one of those men. The precision with which he predicted World War II is almost spooky. And it's understandable that he feared that a world wide conflict would take 25 years to overcome and would send the humanity into a negative spiral right to the Dark Ages, killing half of the world's population in the process. It's easy to think the same now with a World War III.
Luckily, it didn't happen like that. And luckily, Science and Rationality prevailed for the most part, and we sent our first manned "bullet" to the moon waaay before 2036, which only shows how amazing was that feit at the time it was done.

Sadly, I don't think the film isn't worth much beside the historical importance of it. There are not real characters, only vessels who are used to communicate the director's message and the acting is incredibly stiff, even considering the time on which this was done. The dialogues also seem too paternalistic and poorly written.

Nevertheless, it's still worth a watch if you're into future predictions.

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My guess: I'd say, Citizen?

Do you know where I can find it? I can only seem to find the 2h51 version!

Can't find it, I think it never existed, I'd watch the 2h51 version, didn't feel that long when I saw it last.

The movie is actually second to me to the score...Ennio Morricone for the win.





He lost the Oscar to Herbie Hancock which looks horrible 30 years later.

Morricone was robbed an Oscar everytime he composed a soundtrack. Change my mind.

I'm a big fan of that movie, I like it for the crazy over the top action and I like it for it's tricky reverse message and the way it uses propaganda...oh and Doogie Howser as a SS medical officer! That's always funny to me.

I hate horror-gore, but I was blown away by The Blair With Project. It scared me! So much that when I watched it one late summer evening and then went into the bathroom to take a leak, the window was open and I live in the woods...I swear the first thing I did was shut that damn window and pull down the curtains!

I so agree with your analogy of the film. I also believe it was meant as a warning to humanity about the rising dangers of fascism. I reviewed here: Things to Come
I liked it a bit more than you, but nope not my choice for you