I'll give you one more off the beaten path, a little Australian found-footage movie called Lake Mungo has a couple of great twists in it, and does you the service of giving you a post-credits scene showing you everything you "should" have noticed the first time around.

came here to say Death Becomes Her 😊

He wrote some good films so he gets my respect. May he rest in peace.

Dead Alive its gross and fucked up but ultimately hilarious and has a happy ending

Sick of Myself (2022) from Norway is batshit insane. The pitchest black of black comedies. It’s about a narcissist woman who willingly consumes a banned pharmaceutical drug with a horrible side effect so that she can earn sympathy and attention from her friends.

I love Colin Farrell’s reemergence. In Bruges and Banshees of Inishiren are amazing

"You're killing me Petey! You're killing me."

I've never been much of a movie watcher but for years I would always find Remember The Titans starting on TV and I'd always watch it. Easily one of my favourite movies despite not even liking football or sports in general.

I’ve had this on my radar, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. Thanks!

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

Death to Smoochy

Death Becomes Her (ending is kind of an existential nightmare)

Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!

The Lobster

There's a bunch of hidden stuff in The Conjuring. I seem to recall that the name of the ghost is spelled out in letters on bookshelves.

Dr Strangelove always makes me smile while contemplating mutually assured thermonuclear destruction …

In college, my friends and I shouted out the call-and-response at our house parties whenever we were drunk enough, and it caught on quickly as a tradition for anyone who showed up. It’s a pretty intoxicating feeling leading an entire house through:

“WHAT ARE YOU?!”

“MOBILE! AGILE! HOSTILE!”

“WHAT IS PAIN?”

“FRENCH BREAD!”

“WHAT IS FATIGUE?”

“ARMY CLOTHES!”

“WILL YOUUU EVER QUIT?”

“NO! WE WANT SOME MO’! WE WANT SOME MO’! WE WANT SOME MO’!”

This has always confused me… Even though I know there’s two different cop uniforms going on, whenever I watch this scene, it strikes me as odd that they would choose to make one of the coo uniforms almost identical in color to the bad guys’ uniforms. Makes it so confusing, especially because they are involved in a rapid-fire, close-quartered shootout. Why?

"the civil war metaphor is completely incoherent imho."

I feel like people expect the interpersonal conflict to perfectly track the nature of the civil war.

But that's just a weird imposition on the film, there's nothing in it that says 'you must read this interpersonal conflict as an exact allegory for the civil war.'

I mean, there has been pushback there too...

Year of the Dragon

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I found The Art of Self Defence to be pretty good.

He also wrote "Ali"

Think it's late 70's, but Sydney Pollack's Yakuza is great. Seems like there was a dearth in the 80's, as far as American movies anyway.

RIP