Posted on 07/05/2022 8:26:50 PM PDT by sphinx
Got nothing for this year? Spend a few minutes with the lists and pick something. I’ll bet you can find something you’ll like.:)
Take a chance.
If nothing else grabs your attention, try After Yang and Montana Story. Or a suggestion from some other freeper. Both of my suggestions are deliberately slow, thoughtful films, so they’re not for adrenaline junkies or the flying spandex crowd. They are classic character driven indie dramas. I like that kind of thing. YMMV. But I’m happy to defend both as culturally conservative. And both are beautifully shot and acted, with no nudity or sex scenes and no violence, unless we count the chicken in Montana Story, which is killed and dressed for dinner. I’m surprised PETA isn’t picketing that film.
Both are streaming on Showtime.
Fun fact about Montana Story. A young Canadian actor, Asivak Koostachin, was chosen to play Joey, an important supporting role. He does a fine job and Joey proves to be a standup guy. Montana Story was written and shot at the height of the covid shutdowns, which is one of the reasons it is set on a ranch in Montana. That made social distancing easier. All the pre-production was done remotely. None of the actors and the two co-directors had met each other in person before the cast assembled to start shooting. (Chemistry reads? Who needs chemistry reads? In this case, the two leads stepped into a troubled sibling relationship beautifully. The acting is brilliant.) When they reached out to ask Asivak to audition, it turned out that he was on a caribou hunt somewhere in northern Canada. The directors were grinning ear to ear when they discussed this in an interview; apparently it was quite a feat for Asivak to shoot his audition on a smartphone and find a way to get it submitted from a hunting camp in the Great White North.
Maybe there’s hope for Canada.
2000 Mules is on my watchlist but I’ve not seen it yet. It isn’t on the ‘best of” lists that I linked. Maybe it should be. A couple of other documentaries are.
If you do glance at the AV Club list, note that once you start the slideshow, you can click on the “list slides” button in the upper right corner. It turns the slideshow into a list and makes navigation much easier.
Norman Learnpioneered putting propaganda in to entertainment.
The previous movie that I saw was The Darkest Hour which pleasantly surprised me. Although there are a few anachronisms, there are no sex scenes, no nude scenes, not a single profanity, and it even features a cat!
Ambulance? Michael Bay at the height of his “art”. Lots of guns, lots of shots of beautiful women, not as many vehicles destroyed as you’d expect, if your gun nut you have to suspended your disbelief. I enjoyed the heck out of it. Good escape from reality film.
I can offer one suggestion that’s probably not anybody else’s list. Doesn’t seem to have any woke stuff in it. “Jerry and Marge Go Large”. It’s on Paramount+ which you can get a 30 day FREE trial, just remember to cancel the subscription if you don’t want.
No I’m not affiliated with Paramount. I just enjoyed the movie.
Dune
Downton Abbey
Maverick
Stranger Things S4
Minions: Rise of Gru
Just the ones I’ve seen.
I stay away if I suspect something will be off. I wanted to see Lightyear until I Found Out.
I just didn’t get around to The Lost City, which looked fun in the trailer, or The Bad Guys which seems a bit too juvenile*.
*”But you saw Minions?” Yes, in the company of children. Also, an established franchise with memories of similar viewings.
Downtown Abbey? I thought it’s Downton Abbey.
I use headphones when I watch movies. I can finally hear everything in them.
I really like 7 days in Utopia. excellent movie.
Currently watching The Terminal List on Amazon prime and it’s very good so far. A Tom Clancy type military thriller. Good action and plot. It’s a series rather than a movie, which are mostly what I watch now.
:)
So, you’re a friend of the creator of the Vikings TV series.
A black female jarl ????????? WTF!
Some good series on the streaming platforms... until they interject (force?) a lesbian relationship.
We were really enjoying Murder in the Building but as predicted and is expected and is common with all series these days, a lesbian relationship is introduced in season 2.
This is consistent with many series. Why always season 2? Must be running out of ideas or maybe it is for shock value they think that it will draw more viewers. They forget that the series might lose viewers.
We stopped watching and will not return.
Top Gun was pretty good. Is it worth the $12 tickets? I guess although my days of going the movies are done.
Ok, having had a good night's sleep, I'll ask the obvious question. JoJo Rabbit and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood both came out in 2019, so they are just outside the "new" window that I proposed at the outset of this thread. But still, both are quite recent. You like them both.
I understand if you simply don't watch many movies, but if your recent experience with "new" films is so positive, I'd expect you to be a bit more optimistic about the films that are being made today.
So I'll ask: where do you get your leads on films that you DO watch? (Aside from FR movie threads, of course.)
I ask the question because of my own experience. I had tuned out tv and movies almost entirely. I was a "nuke Hollywood from orbit" type. Perhaps three years ago, however, I stumbled across a spectacularly good film on a subject of considerable interest to me, on which I already knew the backstory. One thing led to another, and I came to realize that I had developed a huge blind spot. That's when I started poking around and discovered that there are plenty of good films to watch, if we can find them.
Most of us aren't as young as we used to be, and aside from the trolls, everyone at FR is conservative or at least conservative adjacent. On both counts, we aren't Hollywood's target demographic. When it comes to our kind of movies, we are looking for the needles in the haystack. But they are there, hiding in plain sight. Finding them is the trick.
Agreed, I so much enjoyed “Finding You” that I emailed the director, Brian Baugh, and he took the time to reply.
That new Jeff bridges mini series old man is excellent
Almost as good as true detective in Louisiana was
Movies almost all suck
Same here. We were both disgusted when that happened, and turned it off. Now we don't care who killed Bunny.
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