Recommend a movie

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Cornelio
The King of Comedy
Martin Scorsese, 1982
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One of Scorsese's minor works of the eighties, aesthetically in the line of "After Hours": New York, mostly by night.

This is a good, fun movie. DeNiro plays the most obnoxious character in all his "serious" career (I'm not counting the fifty movies he has made about being Ben Stiller's father in law). I laughed at the sheer awkwardness of his demeanor, totally ill-suited for a comic. The female who plays Deniro's partner in the kidnap is hysterically funny as well. The final twist is brilliant -- I loved the fact that, when he comes out before the cameras and does his number, he nails it, managing to be actually funny. Recommended.
Cornelio
In Bruges
M. Mcdonagh (2008)
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I watched this after the recommendation of Fatale. Fuck you Fatale. Also, that this piece of shit holds an 8 on imdb is the most conspicuous sign of the end of the world that I've seen lately. I won't rely on the ratings of that website anymore (My trust was already severely damaged after watching The Lord of War, which hold a 7.6. But that movie is vastly superior to In Bruges, anyway).

Nothing happens in all the movie. The dialogs try really hard to be funny, but fail. Farrel is a poor actor. There's absolutely nothing good to be said about this movie, except that Bruges is beautiful, but there are much better documentaries on youtube about the place.
Niccolo and Donkey
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Some of you guys are too young to remember how scary (if not completely real) the threat of a nuclear showdown was in the early 1980's. Andropov scared the West and Reagan scared the Soviets. The Americans put out a film about what would happen in case of a nuclear war entitled "The Day After". In my opinion the British take, "Threads", was much, much more horrifying. Devastation, confusion, disease, death, and attempts to rebuild.

Here's the full version:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/_MCbTvoNrAg
Niccolo and Donkey
O'Zebedee

Yup, I had nuclear war nightmares all through my childhood. Living on an army/air force base where they would periodically test the air raid sirens did not help with this.

Here's another good nuke movie, from the '60s: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dox_cmm4feE

O'Zebedee

Dunno if they're good, but here you go:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBzjdCUHsnM

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/DXFTt4eGuRM

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/9ILbsBHq3nA

Wiki :

Cornelio
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
T. Alfredson (2011)

More like "Stinker, Gaylord, Boulder, Spray". I strongly recommend that you rent this movie if your DVD player is broken. A perfect zero.
Trajan

Oblivion

Cinematic equivalent of a tech demo, gorgeous but stupid. Script was written on autopilot and includes every sci-fi trope from the past 40 years thrown into one big confused goulash. Clones, evil HAL-like robot, human survivors banding together in resistance against a seemingly all-powerful threat, America in ruins after some immense disaster -- despite not being a remake, it still manages to be unoriginal. Featuring Tom Cruise, who attempts to show emotion by squinting at everything; also starring hot Russian piece of ass Olga Kurylenko, and Morgan Freeman in his only role, Wise Black Man.

The movie is actually worth seeing, it's just that the setting is much more interesting than the rather silly plot. The opening scenes are Kubrick-like in their languor, and there is little action for the first 45 minutes of the movie, which gives the impression that the film is an exercise in visual mood -- unfortunately, once the 'real' story starts, you'll be distracted from the scenery by bland acting and even blander dialogue. Unlike most sci-fi worlds, which are either dark and grimy, or flashy and cluttered, the world of Oblivion is sparse and minimalistic, full of clean lines and geometric shapes. I wasn't surprised to learn that the director made the Tron reboot, because some of that aesthetic makes its way into this film. And the soundtrack by M83 was so lush that it had me in a trance at one point.

Inkarri

Lots of good scenery, landscapes, and artistic shots. It is definitely not a Dances with Wolves type film and its more realistic depiction of Amerindians is probably why it is more obscure.

Also enjoyed the jokes regarding heaven and the afterlife.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ts9pH09yXok

Cornelio
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Five easy pieces
Bob Rafelson, 1970

First of all, this is a great movie. A true American classic. Get a HQ torrent for this because there are some quality images here.

Secondly, let's move on to what's really important here, i.e. me. There are some uncanny concomitances between the main character, Robert Eroica (played by Nicholson), and myself. We both are geniuses who, crushed by the weight of a meaningless existence, abandoned our promising futures in intellectual/artistic careers and took up to a life of odd jobs, promiscuity, heavy drinking, and a stupid wife/gf -- all as a way to demean ourselves and thus shake a defiant fist in the face of a non-existent God. A futile act, but not more so than the lives of the office drones and paper-pushing conformists around us.

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Robert Eroica and myself: two alienated rebels possessed by an overflowing talent

Eroica lives a life of debauchery, cuckolding his stupid country music-loving girlfriend with lowlives he finds in bars, drinking, working menial jobs in the oil fields, wasting his talent. One day he goes to visit his sister at the studio where she's is at the piano, recording classical music (they both are and belong to a family of classical virtuosos). She tells him that their father is very ill, and convinces him to visit. Eroica and his gf drive up to the house, which is in an island in Washington state, and I'm going to stop here because the movie is too damn good for me to spoil it for you with this retarded review.

Regarding the uncanny parallels between the relationship of Eroica with his gf and mine with my wife, here's the exchange that occured between me and her while we were in the couch watching the movie:

SHE: Wow, her gf is really ugly.
ME: Yeah...
SHE: (30 seconds later) I mean, she is REALLY ugly, isn't he?
ME: Yeah, and I think it's a point that needs to be emphasized.
SHE: Why are you so mean to me?
ME: ...
SHE: That's no way to talk to your wife.
ME: **LOUD FOIE-GRAS-SMELLING FART**
SHE: **FALLS ASLEEP 15 MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE**

Watch this movie now.

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