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Post by marianne48 on Aug 12, 2021 19:46:45 GMT
...they have something about them that's a little strange, bizarre, even offensive, and may have people thinking you're a little off to enjoy them. I don't mean anything truly evil like porn, but maybe a dark comedy that's a little too twisted for some tastes.
For instance, I enjoyed these three Bobcat Goldthwait-directed comedies:
World's Greatest Dad
God Bless America
Sleeping Dogs Lie
I think they're pretty thought-provoking and witty, but I hesitate to recommend them; I think the last one is a better-than-average rom-com, but I can't even bring up the basic premise of it with other people. Yet there a lot of other "comedies" out there that are much better known, but I find them more vulgar (and dumb and unfunny as well).
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Aug 12, 2021 20:10:49 GMT
People seem put off by Chinese films these days.
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 12, 2021 20:46:37 GMT
Depends on how well I know the person's taste in movies.
On IMDB 2 I will recommend anything I like to anyone. In real life I know the people's tastes better and will not recommend certain movies to certain people, but not necessarily for the reasons you mention.
LOL at the plot of Sleeping Dogs Lie. Not sure how I would react to that in real life. It would probably depend on the exact act and what the person's reason was for doing it.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Aug 13, 2021 8:32:48 GMT
Depends on the person really. I wouldn't recommend Re-Animator to my brother despite being a big fan because he's one of those people who doesn't care for gory horror. And it'll be a cold day in hell when I recommend a movie depicting sex scenes to my mother.
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Post by Cat on Aug 13, 2021 19:48:31 GMT
Depends how well I know a person. Sometimes, what I recommend is a comment on what I think of them, or what I think of myself based on whether I'm right.
I really liked Autumn Sonata (1978), though I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. It is a mother and daughter fleshing out their relationship kind of film. The conversation between them essentially is the film. I loved it, but it's a far cry from many movies where someone slaps a map or blueprint down on a table and says "here's the plan!".
I feel more comfortable recommending films that mesh plot and statement. Harakiri (1962) is a film whose reputation is exactly where it should be, in my opinion, because it's rich in subtext and just plain text. Its statement isn't just the gravity of the injustice, but the fact that it's covered up by the end of the film and life goes on. That's the statement; not just the injustice, but the injustice of that world after the film is over.
This exists to the backdrop of cool shit like Samurais, vengeance, authority and honor...with just enough swordplay to keep one on the edge of one's seat, but not enough that it wears the movie.
Person by person basis. If I know you like beautiful people, movies that make you feel good and hope for something better, and happy, rewarding endings, I'd recommend things like The Avengers and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Movies that let you say get em, Indy! Captain America's coming to kick your ass! You're in trouble now, buddy, Superman's coming! Dun dadun, dadududud dun! Oh shit, IT'S DARTH VADER, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Sometimes, you take a chance. I recommended Gaslight (1944) to one of my friends two nights ago because he was telling me a story about leaving his apartment because of some neighbor shenanigans and he felt the person at the source of it all gas-lit him and the landlord into thinking it was all in their heads.
My the same token, a neighbor of mine practices Jiu Jitsu, so I said maybe some movies like Falcon Rising and Blood and Bone would be good.
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 13, 2021 20:34:02 GMT
Barry Lyndon is truly great but its slow pace might annoy some.
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Post by phantomparticle on Aug 13, 2021 23:06:36 GMT
When The Rocky Horror Picture Show was making the midnight circuit, I recommended it to a friend who taught music and preferred light classical to rock and roll. After the film was over I asked her if she wanted to see it again the next week. The look she gave me was colder than Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze.
We are still friends, although I tease her about it now and then.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Aug 14, 2021 2:25:44 GMT
Based on the recent thread, Satantango (or any slow-cinema)
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Post by jcush on Aug 14, 2021 2:29:10 GMT
Barry Lyndon is truly great but its slow pace might annoy some. Just watched that a few days ago. It's a favorite of mine, but yeah I wouldn't recommend it to most people that I know.
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Post by mgmarshall on Aug 15, 2021 4:48:44 GMT
Tried showing Caligula to a room full of my friends one time. Got some interesting reactions.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 15, 2021 13:26:11 GMT
I like Bobcat Goldthwait's movie 'Shakes The Clown' (1991).
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Post by mstreepsucks on Aug 16, 2021 4:59:34 GMT
Well yea, i like the film the garbage pail kids 1987 because it's a film i am into. But i couldn't really recommend anyone else should see it.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Sept 14, 2021 19:02:35 GMT
There are two movies I only recommend to people I know could handle them. Martyrs and Irreversible. Both are just gross out, but in their own ways thought provoking, and interesting uses of film language to induce tension.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 14, 2021 19:28:02 GMT
I tried to do a group viewing of The Room which I thought would be a cinch given what an internet phenomenon it's become. They lasted probably fifteen minutes into it.
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