Recommend a movie

I'm guessing a number of you have already seen Hard to be a God , the bleak, alt-history science fiction film that was the last effort of filmmaker Alexsei German. If not, I recommend - definitely something that would fit in the Salo canon.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/11sMDQIgggA

Tinker Tailor: one of those very common films where the plot is above explanation and seems to be considered irrelevent. Everyone feels smart in this case precisely because they fail to understand the masterpiece without a remote. With a simple action film they'd gobble it up because all they wanted was some music videos pieced together into two hours. That's my take of practically everything I see today, even movies I somewhat liked. I don't see anyone point it out . I wouldn't mind finding a review that analyses it. Let me put it this way: Adam Sandler is a known scam artist. His movies are considered by many people to be garbage and ads. I can still tell you what the plot was to Happy Gilmore from when I saw it almost two decades ago. Happy is a shitty hockey player down on his luck. He gets into fights a lot. He picks up golf through a Magic Negro and it turns out his useless hockey skills are useful here, for great long shots. His violence and so on bring McEnroe attention to a boring televised sport, resulting in his getting advertisement deals (which are in turn actual advertisements plugged into the movie), conflicting with evil rich WASP Shooter McGavin who attempts to botch his success, but who usually gets undone by snappy insults ("I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!" "You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?"). Shooter disrupts the final course, only leaving Happy to make a nearly impossible "put put for kids" shot around it, which ties into an earlier scene in which he fixed his put game at a put put course. At some point along the line he got a shiksa, who at first probably didn't like him, blah blah blah. Plot to Dark Knight: a series of cool videos and lines, hard to understand sound mixing, maybe 'themes' to figure out: Batman is like the NSA (maybe that was the other movie)/Bush, necessary but has to be accept public rejection, Joker is like (retarded view of) Osama bin Laden, anarchic chaos-creator, but at the very least true: not understandable motivations to Americans. Opening scene Joker stole money. He probably needed money for crime-doing. Later on he pretends to get caught, then gets away. He gets Batman to confess who he is because he threatens to kill people (and someone else does it for him - Harvey Dent). Harvey Dent becomes evil because revenge for Batman who didn't do anything to him so he goes down as bad Batman. Batman defeats the joker because the People outgame game theory on boats. Batman says he is hero Gotham needs not deserves. Scene to scene jumping involved Joker walking away from a hospital which blew up magically. Dies at the end of drug abuse.

Can't mention that film without including this scene (stop when he leaves the hotel room unless you want the end of the film):

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/FVVrZJaN1IU

This thread is too damn big, and I can hardly keep track, let alone watch all the recommendations.

War Captain Conan (Guerre Capitain Conan, whaddever) is a very good French movie about WW-1. The main character embodies French martial valour, elan and ... avoir du cran . He's not an Ernst Junger philosophical warrior monk; just a regular French guy who is extremely good at war. They have various kinds of adventure and misadventure one would expect in late WW-1 in the Eastern front. The ending made me very sad. This is no Ingmar Bergman or Bunel film; I don't even think it is as important or well done as something like Il Conformista. But it is unlike almost all WW-1 movies in that it is very well done, and not a heavy handed preachy political hogwash. /5

Dagon : this is the best HPL adaption I have yet seen. That's not saying much, most of them suck, but this one is good enough in capturing the HPL spirit, and good enough as a movie that I've probably watched it a dozen times, at least as background noise. Decaying town full of half-fish people worshipping unspeakable gods. They did something clever in adapting the creepy fish towns of New England to Spain. Those New England towns are still pretty creepy, though the society has changed enough people now perceive them as ... "charming." Anyway, by putting the fish people in Spain, it paradoxically becomes something an American can relate to. There is even a sinister Spanish plumber, and the tentacle chick is a dead ringer for one of my exes (she didn't have tentacles, at least not while I was boinking her). It's basically a zombie movie, but lots of Lovecraftian special sauce, and some great Spanish Civil War backstory. solid /5 when sober (5/5 when drunk).

Ugetsu : one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. It's basically a Japanese fairytale, sort of like one of the Kwaidan episodes. Like the story of Hoichi the Earless in Kwaidan, it will probably stick with me forever. On the other hand, it's a Japanese fairytale in black and white. If you're not in the mood for that sort of thing, watch Dagon or War Captain Conan instead. /5