Recommend a movie

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Stubby

The Exterminating Angel, Luis Buñuel :thumbsup:

I'm declining to rate out of 5 or 10, because I still haven't wrapped my head around it, but I recommend the film. A large party of the upper class is abandoned in a mansion by the servants, forced to confront their isolation in a baroque salon. Are they subjugated, or freed?

Stubby

Repulsion, Roman Polanski :thumbsup:

A very attractive young woman slowly goes mad. Surreal and difficult to watch due to the stifling and uncomfortable (deliberate) nature of her descent. She drags the rest of the world with her into insanity, and their relation to her is as surreal as her visions.

Fargo, Coen bros :thumbsup:

The stupid husband and schemer is a really harsh caricature. Minnesota nice, stupid blank gaze, desperate, doesn't think through his actions. I saw a clever portrayal of the miserable condition of life here, with the Norman Rockwell garbage, fake manners, lust for money, poor parenting, great mini-scene of disgusting buffet food. Good movie.

No Country For Old Men, Coen bros :thumbsup:

Doesn't live up to the hype, but the inexorable and calm progress of the terminator/angel of death Bardem makes it worth it. I didn't really get it, but still think it's worth seeing.

popfop
You may want to check out Blood Simple which was the Coen's debut film. It features a lot of the same themes as No Country For Old Men including a unstoppable killer determined to carry out his mission. There are even some cinematic devices which were lifted for No Country, such as when Chigurh shoots though a wall and the light filters though the bullet holes. In my opinion, Blood Simple is a better movie and because it was filmed in the 1980s, it has a slightly older look which works better with the dark subject matter.
Stubby
Yes thank you. I actually recall seeing the first few minutes of this a ways back, don't know why I didn't finish it.
Bronze Age Pervert
Mulholland Drive, Lynch's esoteric movie about human sacrifice practiced by the occult powers that run Hollywood.
Rated 5/5
Inkarri
Inkarri
Cornelio
Magnolia
PT Anderson, 1999
2/5

When I was a kid and I was giving the last touches to a comic I didn't know how to finish, I used the "atomic bomb" ending -- drawing a huge mushroom cloud in the last cartoon, with the words "THE END" superimposed upon it. It solved the plot nicely, and I could then go out and stuff my face with palmeras de chocolate , which at the time were the main source of my creativity.

This movie uses the same device. It's a stupid movie with a few powerful images. And it's 3 hours long. Avoid.
Cornelio
The Bling Ring
Sophia Coppola, 2013

I do not often use the expression "labor of love", mainly because I think it sounds faggy, but this is a case where it can be used with full propriety. This is a labor of love for bad filmmaking. Sophia Coppola is a pitiful mediocrity as a director, as an actress, and as a human being. (1/5)

The Boondock Saints
Troy Duffy, 1999

Glorifying irishness ? Hollywood, you've hit rock bottom. (1/5)

L awless
John Hillcoat, 2012

A family of hicks stands against statist extortion as they make their illegal liquour business flourish. Entertaining, watchable. (2,5/5)
Cornelio
Little Children
Todd Field, 2006

Would someone in his right mind leave Jennifer Connelly for Kate Winslet? No, and that's the only negative point of this movie. I like stories about the dullness of the suburbs, and this one is pretty good in this category. Also, it's a movie clearly in favor of indecent exposure, and as heavy drinker I approve of that. (3/5)