Live Action Film Recommendations

You're right, The Elephant Man is definitely not gentle. Heartwarming? Well, it has heartwarming moments, but is pretty downbeat as a whole. I don't know if that makes it heartwarming or not.

I found it to have more Tear Jerker moments than Heartwarming moments, hence my opinion above.

Ah yes, I've seen The Elephant Man. I didn't really have an opinion on it. The straight story looks pretty nice, I may give it a shot as some point.

edited 16th Jun '15 10:14:36 PM by Nintendork64

I was watching Twenty Eight Days Later on TV and decided to give 28 Weeks Later a shot.

This is kind of an anti-recommendation, but DO NOT WATCH 28 WEEKS, GUYS. The kids are stupid enough to break a government-mandated quarantine just to find their presumed-dead mother, and then they get mad when they find out she's alive and their dad "lied" to them, but WHAT THE FUCK WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO?! The little guy I can understand being mad, but the sister is a teenager and she HAS to understand that he wasn't just being a coward, he was desperate and he knew he needed to look after their kids.

Who are stupidly ungrateful to him. If they'd just gone "DAD, MOM'S ALIVE!" and were just happy their dad was mistaken instead of going "OMG DAD YOU LIIIIIIIIIED TO US," then I would have been a lot less pissed off.

Meanwhile, the quarantine doctors somehow don't think to post one fucking guard near the room of a woman who's potentially infected, and the kid's dad manages to sneak into said unguarded room and KISS HER. And he's therefore infected with the Rage virus.

Goddamn, I want this family to die for the sake of Britain.

edited 12th Jul '15 4:06:13 PM by Sharysa

I don't know how many of you have heard of It Follows, but I really liked it. It was smart, and managed to either play with, break, or ignore many of horror's dumber tropes.

It's basically about a curse where the afflicted are endlessly stalked by a creature that can assume the form of any human, and will simply not give up until its victim is dead. Plus, it's invisible to the uncursed. There's a way to pass the curse on to another person, but when a person is killed, the victim returns to the previous cursed person in the line.

The characters, once aware of these consistent rules, then try to do what they can to survive.

In short, it's a smart horror movie that doesn't resort to the usual stupid crap - annoying asshole characters, idiotic behavior, etc. - but instead gives us more likeable and human characters, a more interesting threat, consistent rules, and a decent story. It's worth checking out.

I quite liked It Follows, it is incredibly atmospheric and intense though if I had a criticism, I'd say the "monster" isn't scary enough. The atmosphere leaves you goddamn terrified, but I felt the creepiest scenes are the ones It is not actually present. My favorite scene (in terms of terror) in particular is the opening sequence precisely because It is unseen and you have no idea what It looks like at all until it abruptly cuts to the mauled corpse of the woman, which caught me very off-guard.

Speaking of horror movies, I'm on a vampire movie vibe. In particular Near Dark (which I absolutely recommend), the stylish, punk-rock vampire flick with one of the best vampires of fiction (Severen the Ax-Crazy punk-rock vampire). So I was wondering if anybody knows of any similar movies to Near Dark (besides lost boys that is) with vampiric reinterpretations and all.

For those who haven't watched Near Dark, you really should. Just check out how sweet this trailer is.

A friend visited me, so instead of watching AAA shows, we went for smaller - and smarter - movies.

The first one was Girlhood (Bande de filles in its original French language), which features a lower-class black teenager from Paris' suburbs as she decides to control her destiny after meeting a "band of girls" who just do whatever they want. It is rather powerful, wonderfully played by non-professionnal actresses, and it features the greatest use of Rihanna's Diamonds ever. It's also grim and unforgiving, because, well, it is a realistic take, not a Rags to Riches story.

The second one was Suffragette, with Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Brendan Gleeson, among others, and it doesn't pull any punches either as you witness the struggle of the English women in the 1910 to get the right to vote, and what they had to sacrifice to attain it. I found the writing to be impressive: it manages not to be idealistic or melodramatic, and it features a great cast of actresses, while the actors sum up pretty well the different "kinds of men" in patriarchal societies - the ones that willingly abuse their position, those who struggle only when it comes to resist change, those who just go with whatever the strongest opinion at the time is, and those who are fighting to help it change.

I've been playing the 1999 game Survival Kids recently and really enjoying its theme. I'm in the mood to either watch a movie or read a book on a similar theme.

Does anyone know of an adventurous kids' movie (or even a book) that has a kid (or group of kids) as the main character and involves them either lost in a deserted island, or maybe in the mountains or woods (similar to the movie Wild) trying to survive on their own?

Lord of the Flies doesn't count, as it's not a kids' movie about adventure, but a dark movie about human nature.

Anyway, does anyone know an example that fits this description?

edited 19th Mar '16 12:52:40 PM by BonsaiForest

So I'll only be able to see one out of either the new TMNT movie, Alice or the Angry Birds movie.

Which should I pick?

Alice, I've been told, is relatively decent, and it has Alan Rickman's last performance.

The Angry Birds movie sounds awful from all the things I heard about it. Lots of lame jokes intended to be for the adults, that just fall flat.

What are some tropical/Caribbean based movies similar to I still know what you did last summer? I really like the setting of "I still know what you did last summer". Maybe because Curse of Monkey Island is one of my favorite games due to its graphics, music and setting?

The movie is set in the Bahamas, in a fancy hotel, during the start of the rainy season. It's a really specific and weird request, but can any one recomend me a movie with a similar vibe? It's not just the fact that it's set in a tropical setting, as I also enjoy the in-door scenes at the hotel/holiday resort. I guess the late 90s B-movie vibe adds to my enjoyment, but being a slasher isn't a must. For example, the first Jurassic Park fits the bill, but it has a different sort of mood to it.

How tropical/Caribbean must it be? Can a kids' movie count?

I watched a movie called The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone. A kid adventure movie about middle school-aged heroes who get into a lot of danger and excitement in an exotic locale, as it was filmed on location in Thailand. It contains some preachiness, though it didn't bother me much.

Another is Dinosaur Island. That movie does the Orange/Blue Contrast thing, so be aware. But it's also a kid movie. 12-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl are on an island with dinosaurs, dangerous natives, and other weirdness. Like a kids' Lost or something. It has some mild plot holes, but I also enjoyed it as well.

I uploaded pictures from both movies to two different Imgur galleries:

Gallery for The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone

Gallery for Dinosaur Island

@Bonsai Forest thanks for the effort, Dinosaur Island looks nice. I guess my major preference is that the movie isn't digital/is from the 90s, ie no overblown filters, CGI scenery or anything like that. The first Mortal Kombat fits that aesthethic.

Yeah, it can be super hard to find something specific. I'd been looking for a movie that gave me a Survival Kids vibe, and I found out a few days ago about an obscure film called True Heart from 1997 about a brother and sister stranded on a deserted island. I plan to watch that and see how well that fits what I was looking for. I'd previously watched Shipwrecked and liked it a lot, but it wasn't what I was looking for.

Does anyone have any good films centered on trans characters to recommend?

Please don't say The Danish Girl. This review pretty much explains my feelings regarding it.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Uh, I admit I'm not familiar with that film, but just from reading the description - that movie is apparently about a trio of drag performers. Drag performers and transgendered people are not the same thing.

Still, it sounds interesting. I'll try to find it tomorrow.

The trio consists of two drag performers and one trans woman.

Has anyone seen the 2006 biopic "Miss Potter"? It's a pretty good biopic about the life of Beatrix Potter the creator of Peter Rabbit.

edited 18th Dec '16 4:55:20 PM by brb1006

My favorite Shane Black movie has got to be The Last Boy Scout. Sure, production was rough and the final film deviated a bit from Black's original script, but I found it entertaining as all hell, and it's right next to Die Hard as my favorite Bruce Willis film.

Action or action-comedy for someone who always tunes out action scenes as filler.

Anyone have any good kid adventure movies? Like, adventure that's at least somewhat serious.

I saw one called The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone that I had a lot of fun with, and that's the last such movie I saw after Dinosaur Island.

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