[-] maegul@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Johnny got his gun.

Haven't watched it in years but it's a classic everyone should watch, absolutely gut wrenching. Some of it was later used in a Metallica music video bringing it back to notoriety somewhat.

[-] maegul@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

La Grande Bouffe (1973) wikipedia

The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend, with the express purpose of eating themselves to death.

[-] maegul@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Lost Highway (1997) wikipedia

A David Lynch film. I've not seen his 90s films but always meant to. After hearing of his illness, I figure now is as good a time as any

[-] maegul@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

Meet the Feebles (wikipedia)

Released in 1989, this is an early-ish Peter Jackson movie (yes, the LOTR guy).

It's a lurid and disturbing backstage comedy of a troupe similar to The Muppet Show.

I watched it with one friend in the mid 90s who, when it ended, stood, turned to me, and said "It is possible to go too far" before leaving the room.

[-] maegul@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

The Cremaster Cycle (wikipedia)

This is probably as pretentiously art house as you can get ... I've never seen it but always meant to. It's probably hard to get a hold of ... but I'm putting it here anyway

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Upvote the film you'd like to watch the most in the comments below!

Nominations are in for August's Fedi Film Club - Fringe Threatre (see nominations post here).

This was a bit of an experiment and it was very cool to see all of these suggestions! Plenty of films I don't know anything about!

Given that fringe (or arthouse or whatever) films have a different feel and aren't as conducive to a popularity vote and an online live watch session, I say we play this by ear. At the least I'm happy to treat this as a running list of recommendations which those of us that are interested can work through, discussing as we go, and at the most we work through it together with a live watch session.

Either way ... please vote if you like and share any thoughts or further suggestions you have about these films.


Each one in is a separate comment below, which you can upvote.

And, for clarity, they're also in the list below, in alphabetical order.

If you have any handy tips on the best way to get a hold of any of these, please share! Note though that the high seas in general are likely are well known option.


And of course, the main point of all this is to crowd-source human curated film recommendations. I'll definitely want to watch more than one of these and encourage the same!


EDIT: As for watching together at the end of the month:

  • If anyone is up to setting up one of those online live watch things ... please feel free to run it and we'll promote it here.
  • Otherwise, I'll keep going with what I tried last month: Live discussion threads in three different timezones scheduled for a weekend watch, or any other time people would find more convenient ... where you can start the film yourself at home, at the scheduled time and engage in live-discussion in the thread.
[-] maegul@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago

Blade (1998)

Various things have reminded me of this ... it came up in a community episode, the MCU version in development hell etc ... thought it might be interesting to revisit as a flavour that the MCU has definitely not explored

[-] maegul@lemm.ee 8 points 6 hours ago

Dredd (2012)

"One of my favorite action movies"

[-] maegul@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago

Sneakers

A ‘hacking’ movie that holds up brilliantly despite outdated technology. Excellent cast, characters, story, and pacing IMO.

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Upvote the film you'd like to watch the most in the comments below!

Nominations are in for August's Fedi Film Club - Popcorn Threatre (see nominations post here).

Not too many nominations this time (just 3 ... did people find the name "popcorn threatre" offensive of confusing?)

But it's a nice trio of films ... Honestly, I would enjoy watching them all on a nice Saturday marathon!


Each one in is a separate comment below, which you can upvote.

And, for clarity, they're also in the list below, in alphabetical order.

If you have any handy tips on the best way to get a hold of any of these, please share! Note though that the high seas in general are likely are well known option.

  • Blade (1998)
  • Dredd (2012)
  • Sneakers (1992)

And of course, the main point of all this is to crowd-source human curated film recommendations. I'll definitely want to watch more than one of these and encourage the same!


EDIT: As for watching together at the end of the month:

  • If anyone is up to setting up one of those online live watch things ... please feel free to run it and we'll promote it here.
  • Otherwise, I'll keep going with what I tried last month: Live discussion threads in three different timezones scheduled for a weekend watch, or any other time people would find more convenient ... where you can start the film yourself at home, at the scheduled time and engage in live-discussion in the thread.
[-] maegul@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago

And what about the people that suck at working at the office? And those that don’t get any or are not interested in a work based social life?

Reality is that there’s diversity and lots of in betweens. Thus diversity and flexibility and the value of managers in bringing it all together (like maybe they were always supposed to?)

[-] maegul@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Yea I realised a while ago that time just stopped passing for me around 2018 ... everything's just a blur since then.

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Please nominate a film for August's "Fedi Film Club"!

This is the "Fringe Theater" ... for weird, niche films, unknown classics and pioneering statements. If you've got more "popcorn" or popular films in mind, you should check out the "Popcorn Theater" post.

Anything that either you'd like to watch or would recommend to the community!

Please make sure it's more than roughly two years old so that it will (hopefully) be available somewhere.

And if possible, provide a quick description for why you'd like to watch or why you suggest it.


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submitted 1 week ago by maegul@lemm.ee to c/movies@lemm.ee

Please nominate a film for August's "Fedi Film Club"!

This is the "Popcorn Theater" ... for fun, popular films, box office hits and blockbusters. If you've got more "fringe" films in mind, you should check out the "Fringe Theater" post.

Anything that either you'd like to watch or would recommend to the community!

Please make sure it's more than roughly two years old so that it will (hopefully) be available somewhere.

And if possible, provide a quick description for why you'd like to watch or why you suggest it.


[-] maegul@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

and lacks subtitles.

This I suspect is an underappreciated aspect of the dynamics at the moment. More broadly, it's about the personalisation of the watching experience. Screen size, seating/lying position, noise and brightness, subtitles and their language, audio configuration (where you can optimise your home set up to help with dialogue clarity or "epicness")

[-] maegul@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Furiosa

Maybe controversial, depending on who you talk to I suppose. It's no Fury Road, at all. But it's in the same world and it's a good film. I'd imagine following with Fury Road directly after works quite well as a pairing

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