Movies you've just watched

[Zen]

I haven't seen a good movie in all of 2016 it seems so I went back to watch my two favorites,

There Will Be Blood & American Psycho.

I can't decide which one is better. Any recommendations of movies along these styles? I've seen No Country for Old Men but I can't think of any which involve a seemingly normal man do crazy things.

Well, once you have seen Daniel Day do violent/psycho, you will be hard pressed to find an actor to better it.
If you want to step up the crazy though, you might try Kill List (2001) Ben Wheatley, which was mentioned back in this thread a bit.

[Vexorg]

I haven't seen a good movie in all of 2016 it seems so I went back to watch my two favorites,

There Will Be Blood & American Psycho.

I can't decide which one is better. Any recommendations of movies along these styles? I've seen No Country for Old Men but I can't think of any which involve a seemingly normal man do crazy things.

You might like The Great Gatsby, but I'd avoid the recent Baz Luhrman version since it's a technicolor train wreck. I recall the 1974 version was decent but not great. There was also a film adaptation of Death of a Salesman you might try, although I'm not sure when that came out (I watched it back in high school after having to read the book in English class, hated it at the time.)

[Some-Mist]

I haven't seen a good movie in all of 2016 it seems so I went back to watch my two favorites,

There Will Be Blood & American Psycho.

I can't decide which one is better. Any recommendations of movies along these styles? I've seen No Country for Old Men but I can't think of any which involve a seemingly normal man do crazy things.

might be fitting even tho it doesn't get that crazy: the man who wasn't there

[Vexorg]

Also, in a more comedic vein, you might try Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (I believe it's on Amazon Prime right now.) Not quite the same thing as the others you mention, but you might still like it.

[Mischief Maker]

I haven't seen a good movie in all of 2016 it seems so I went back to watch my two favorites,

There Will Be Blood & American Psycho.

I can't decide which one is better. Any recommendations of movies along these styles? I've seen No Country for Old Men but I can't think of any which involve a seemingly normal man do crazy things.

Believe it or not, give the 1996 "Bound" a try. It's a modern day noir film by the Wachowski brothers before they did The Matrix and if you want to see a character taking crazy unexpected actions that flip the plot on its head this is a great choice.

[Skykid]

I haven't seen a good movie in all of 2016 it seems so I went back to watch my two favorites,

There Will Be Blood & American Psycho.

I can't decide which one is better.

There Will be Blood is light years better than American Psycho. The latter is really rather average.

[Mischief Maker]

I haven't seen a good movie in all of 2016 it seems so I went back to watch my two favorites,

There Will Be Blood & American Psycho.

I can't decide which one is better. Any recommendations of movies along these styles? I've seen No Country for Old Men but I can't think of any which involve a seemingly normal man do crazy things.

Another one to try is Cronenberg's "A History of Violence." The less you know about that movie going in, the better.

[JBC]

Arrival

Best sci-fi I can think of in recent history. Far more cerebral and less action than the genre usually offers. This is more like a linguistic nerds Contact. The audio throughout is amazing. Pretty high intensity as well. Makes me think we have hope for Blade Runner 2049.

I felt like it shit the bed. It promises horror throughout but then delivers a Shymalan twist & asks you to feel sad about a footnote character. It should have focused on the aliens, but they are just there to draw in a curious crowd so it can turn into yet another movie with a tired message.

Humanity is screwed up & needs to work together? Yeah, we know. We live with that every day & go to movies as a form of escapism. It's not like we don't already have The Day The Earth Stood Still, Contact, Close Encounters & a thousand others. It just doesn't do much we haven't seen done before & better.

Even the language stuff turns out to be a paper thin plot device in the end. It's there to pad out the movie until it turns into f'n time magic lol

There are worse movies, but overall I was pretty disappointed & spent the rest of the night reading Lovecraft make up for it.

[MintyTheCat]

We watched Bad Milo at the weekend - took us nearly three years to 'get around to it'
It was not bad at all.

[BIL]

Any recommendations of movies along these styles? I've seen No Country for Old Men but I can't think of any which involve a seemingly normal man do crazy things.

Blue Ruin might be worth a look. Artfully brutal revenge story with a non-badass protagonist who's as out of his depth as he is hell-bent. Ugly, contemplative! Dead Man's Shoes involves a special forces chap but is some good messy DIY vengeance too.

[EmperorIng]

Gremlins last night. It's close enough to the start of the Christmas season!

First time watching it. It's kind of a cheesy movie, unremarkable in some ways, but as a vehicle to show off all those Gremlin puppets (and their horrifically violent deaths)... man was I satisfied.

Glorious!

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Other thing that makes this movie great to watch: casual [lethal] violence towards human beings (played for laughs!) + explicit onscreen violence towards Gremlins. I can't remember an ostensibly "family friendly" movie in recent times that would allow so many bad things to happen to people, or monsters.

[BIL]

Aww yeah, love that early/mid-80s Welcome To Violent PG stretch, stuff like Gremlins, Temple of Doom, The Last Starfighter and Poltergeist. The last may not be outright lethal, but the imagery of a man tearing his own diseased face apart to reveal the skull beneath got me the best start in life.

Trigger Warning: Metal As Fuck

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[GaijinPunch]

It promises horror throughout

When did it do that? I expected it to be focused on exactly the things it was focused on, based on the trailers. It's PG-13.
You should use spoiler tags as well.

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Humanity is screwed up & needs to work together? Yeah, we know.

I don't think they really hit that point home, and didn't even feel like a major reason why they would want to divide the work up amongst a linguistically diverse group. The nature of the deciphering in general would best be hedged by separate cells.

We live with that every day & go to movies as a form of escapism. It's not like we don't already have The Day The Earth Stood Still, Contact, Close Encounters & a thousand others. It just doesn't do much we haven't seen done before & better.

While you can argue The Day the Earth stood Still hits you on the head w/ the message, and Close Encounters is the other end of that spectrum (subtle), and Contact nothing like that at all (it was literally an intergalactic hand shake), the aliens in arrival are not entirely altruistic as they admit they will need mankind's help in 3000 years. Not entirely original but it's all in the delivery. I really don't even classify this as close to any of them except Contact, as a large focus in both films (although arguably way more in Contact) is the effects on the every day in the event we make contact... it's not just about what they want or why they're here.

[EmperorIng]

Poltergeist

There was a point last year where i was actively searching for the movie in my circuit of used-movie shops, but could never locate it. Why didn't I just order online? That'd be too easy, I guess!

I still want to see it and be appropriately creeped out by the gore and eeriness.

The Last Starfighter

Whoa, it picks up? Darn. I only watched about 20 minutes of it and got a little bored. I suppose as shootemup fans, it's almost required viewing.

[Mischief Maker]

Just saw Arrival and I'm totally with GP on this one. It's like a more successful version of Soderbergh's Solaris. The plot doesn't take any turns that don't fit the underlying theme of language.

If you came into this expecting it to be a horror film, all I can give in response is this:

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[GaijinPunch]

Am I the only one that thought the audio was exceptional? Maybe b/c I've only been to the theaters like 3 times in 18 months.

[Mischief Maker]

Am I the only one that thought the audio was exceptional? Maybe b/c I've only been to the theaters like 3 times in 18 months.

Agreed. And with your assessment that the Blade Runner remake might actually end up good, given all the character-heavy stuff in Arrival. Won't be as visually spectacular, I don't think, but he may surprise us.

[Skykid]

Arrival looks interesting and I'll probably check it out, given the opportunity - but I don't like Amy Adams. She's fucking annoying.

[dingsbums]

Love (2015 / Gasper Noe)

I really liked Gasper Noes former movies but this one was the first where I was bored to tears . I didn't give two shits about the story or the characters => why, because the story is uninteresting. One of the biggest disappointments in a long time - it's like when Cave announced they doing no arcade shooters anymore but instead focus on the mobile market => yeah it's that bad on the same level .

[chempop]

Arrival - Absolutely phenomenal. Immediately up there with my all time favorite sci-fi films.

It promises horror throughout but then delivers a Shymalan twist & asks you to feel sad about a footnote character.

Not sure why you expected horror, the first 3 min of the movie are pretty telling in that it is going to be about emotional experiences between characters.
While nothing was startlingly unpredictable, they let on just enough for the delivery to be digestible. Incredible stuff from start to finish, fantastic editing and pacing throughout.
I don't particularly love any of the actors, but the chemistry worked for me:

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Especially with General Shang and Louise at the end, what a great fucking scene!

[CHI]

Literally just finish watching Suicide Squad 2016 online...
Ok film/storyline, pretty cool characters, pretty cool sound track, and there might be a second part to it

[Xyga]

The Seventh Seal (1957) - *better late list*, well there's a lot to say about that one but putting my personal criticism apart I'll just state the obvious: the man fucking knew how to cinema, and the cast how to fucking be part of it.
Primer (2004) - fuck this shit
Suicide Squad, extended (20shit) - *throwing up*
Time After Time (1979) - don't waste your time. better watch the 1960 one.
Rising Sun (1993) - I know now why I'd forgot pretty much all about it
Land of the Pharaos (1955) - subpar sword and sandals
Blow Out (1981) - well, it's got its moments but if you're exploring De Palma you can safely skip that one. Travolta also at its suckiest performance.
Westworld (1973) - rewatching before going into the series. didn't age well.

[BrianC]

Blow Out (1981) - well, it's got its moments but if you're exploring De Palma you can safely skip that one. Travolta also at its suckiest performance.

Watched a trailer. Even serious Travolta is still in Barbarino mode.

[soprano1]

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
I was kind of excited about watching this. I was disappointed.

[Eggzone Revolution]

I just watched Son-in-Law (1993) because I used to love it as a teenager - my wife had never seen it - and it just went up on Netflix. It also happens to have a Thanksgiving theme... it still holds up! I don't like comedy much, but the script is well-written, and I wish they still made movies like this. Recommended for Thanksgiving! Ha!

[boagman]

...but I don't like Amy Adams. She's fucking annoying.

More annoying than, say, Bryce Dallas Howard? Is that even possible?

[Skykid]

...but I don't like Amy Adams. She's fucking annoying.

More annoying than, say, Bryce Dallas Howard? Is that even possible?

Yes.

[BrianC]

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Tarzan want watch movie of Tarzan, but Tarzan no like.

fixed

[JBC]

Unfriended

I expected to hate this movie but it's actually kind of engaging. The story & characters aren't great or anything but the format is really cool. It's a creepypasta come to life.

The Revenant

Very grueling but gorgeous movie. I wouldn't have lasted a day!

[boagman]

...but I don't like Amy Adams. She's fucking annoying.

More annoying than, say, Bryce Dallas Howard? Is that even possible?

Yes.

I admit that I'm not a fan of either, but Amy Adams, to me, is more acceptable than BDH, though. Admittedly, though, it's kind of like picking which type of poop smells not-as-bad to you, though. I think Adams can pull off the "acting" thing a bit more to me, so she gets the nod. I can't say the same of BDH.