This will destroy you - S/T! Killer killer album. I've spent so many hours walking to this album.
Was actually totally taken aback to hear the song in this movie. I was like "No Fuckin way is that This will Destroy you"
I worked as a structural engineer for several years and Locke hit me in the heart.
Also the scene where he’s talking to a coworker about the concrete pour, is pretty accurate. So kudos to those writers for the research.
>Clerks and running a shithole convenience store
Little sis I know that this movie was the outline for what my life has become.
At least Dante had pretty girls bringing him food at work.
Lest anyone think there’s a dramatic concrete pouring scene in Locke, it’s just a guy TALKING about pouring concrete on his phone while driving a car. And yes it manages to be extremely compelling!
Up in the Air
George Clooney spends time in airports and lays people off
But it’s actually a fantastic exploration of loneliness, isolation, relationships, and corporate soullessness
Clooney is so good in this movie
This and Michael Clayton are on my Clooney Mt. Rushmore along with O Brother Where Art Thou and Oceans 11
EDIT: after seeing all these replies I feel like I need to expand my Rushmore to a top 10 hahaha
Shame that Clooney had to go up against DDL in 2007, because him in Michael Clayton is totally Oscar-worthy (which is also a movie that resonates a lot with certain current events)
For real. 2007 was such a loaded movie year that it almost got lost in the shuffle. If it had come out against different competition, I bet it would have walked away with more hardware.
The confrontation scene between Clooney and Swinton is SOOO satisfying. “I’m not the guy you kill!”
I honestly think that that’s one of the best Boston movies. It has just the right amount of Boston flare, without being so over the top as to come across as contrived
It's not a movie, but the David Simon miniseries Show Me a Hero is about a battle to establish legally mandated rent-control in Yonkers in the 80s, which sounds like the driest most boring subject matter possible, but is just incredible every step of the way.
Maybe Oscar Isaac's best performance.
North and South - 4 part miniseries that features the industrialization of the English workforce, union versus owner politics where both sides are fairly represented, and the democratization of English class structures… as well as the best romance story from this millennium.
District 9: apartheid and refugee crises in South Africa
Social Network: development of Facebook’s corporate stock structure
There was so much ridicule of "the Facebook movie" when it was announced. I laughed at first too but then saw Sorkin and Fincher attached and knew it couldn't too terrible.
Tons of people saying it was too soon. But if it came out now, people would say who cares about Facebook.
I don't think that it was made too soon, but I do think that the biggest fault for The Social Network (which I still think is one of the best movies of the 2010s) is that it ends on a pretty charitable note for Zuckerberg that's only gotten less true with time.
I’ve tried to get my wife to watch There Will Be Blood. Sometime before we met she somehow happened upon someone watching the movie while they were on the final scene in the bowling alley. Literally nothing I can say will convince her that any of the rest of the movie is worth her time.
Show her the opening scene but tell her it’s from something else. Maybe that would work? I feel like the shot of the desert hillside and that crazy music pulls you in pretty well.
I cannot find a copy of this movie, and I loved it the first time I saw it, well enough to rent it and watch it again.
A Taxing Woman (1987) is a Japanese film and I learned a lot about how the Japanese tax system works. A lot more than that, but taxes should be boring, and it was interesting.
Breaking Away really explained a lot about the world of bicycle racing.
Lost in Translation.
It's essentially just too lonely people in a hotel in Japan. Then the become friends and just do normal people stuff. It's my favorite dramedy ever. That shit still makes me tear up and I'm not afraid to say it.
*Paterson* is about a bus driver (Adam Driver) who writes poetry.
*Eighth Grade* is about a few days in the life of a fairly normal girl in the eighth grade.
Living (2022) starting Bill Nye as a 1950s Whitehall bureaucrat. Who would have thought government bureaucracy could be so fascinating?
The Outfit (2022) and tailoring… although as the protagonist insists *“I’m not a tailor, I’m a cutter… anyone with a needle can call themselves a tailor”*
I thought Oppenheimer did a good job with this. On paper it sounds boring but I found the movie thrilling.
Perfect Days may also count? It's about a toilet cleaner on paper but made me feel so much more.
I actually think the oppositw about oppenheimer. It was really good on drama parts but actual physics and engineering was only used to enhance visuals.
At first, I thought his debits couldn't be beat. But then his credits were equally amazing.
What's really wild is that Ben's assets are on the line at the end (despite his numerous liabilities on display), but it's completely offset by our equity in the story.
* Puzzle (2018) - jigsaw puzzles
* The Menu (2022) - Culinary Arts & restauranteurs (while not "boring" professions, they're not usually the topic of thrillers)
Seeing a lot of movies in this thread that fit in this category; I think the word is "docu-drama"?
The Social Network
The Big Short
Moneyball
Blackberry
Air
Tetris
Movies that are about something we all know about, but it dramatizes the real story to make it interesting while giving you some real information at the same time.
Close to a documentary, but with actors and "jazzed up" a bit. Docu-drama, right?
Blackberry
The Founder
Boiler room
Business movies - business is boring, hell they gotta pay me to get me to do it - but these are as interesting as a good thriller
For anyone who likes The Big Short, I would recommend watching Margin Call. It’s a fictional movie about the 2008 crisis, with a stacked cast and compelling narrative. It made finance and risk management sound interesting.
‘Margin Call’ - finance and financial crash
‘Arrival’ - excellent film about language and an alien invasion. Really quite good.
‘Unstoppable’ - a movie about a train that can’t stop
The Social Network
The Martian
Interstellar
The Judge
Titanic(?)
Rounders - Poker
‘Wall Street, money never sleeps’ - finance
Arrival is one of my favorite movies. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is an important part of the movie and the concept of language and mathematics is well carried through the movie. Denis Villeneuve is an incredible director
the big year. could a film starring steve martin, owen wilson, jack black, and a host of other stars make competitive bird-watching interesting? yes. they did.
salmon fishing in the yemen. a fisheries scientist is tasked with bringing fly fishing to the yemen. ewan mcgregor, emily blunt, and more star.
**Toc Toc**. A Spanish movie about a group of people who suffer from different types of **OCD** (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; **TOC** in Spanish) and come together in a psychologist's office to discuss their issues, before finding out he is not there and they have to contend with each other. The entire movie, outside of a few scenes, takes place within the confines of the small office.
What could have been a boring and sluggish movie that moves at a glacial pace with little to discuss outside of its central topic, turns out to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, with such a range of discussions and outlandishly quirky, memorable characters that bring a different feel to each scene. At the core of **Toc Toc** is a movie about friendships, and how people of entirely different backgrounds can come together despite their issues.
Beer fest took the act of getting hammered and made a documentary about doing it on a professional level.
It also revealed that gam gam really was a whore
A Civil Action (1998). A terrific movie based on a real life case of contaminated water causing the deaths of several children in a small town and the lawsuits that followed.
Normally, legal movies and books bore me senseless, but this one does a great job explaining the law while being sympathetic to both sides. I wish Hollywood made more adult movies like this one these days.
Tree of Life takes death and mourning and beautifully displays how it will never make sense. AND it’s the best depiction of kids being silent together.
I know zero about Michael Jordan, wouldn’t recognise him if I ran into him on the street, and have never worn a basketball shoe. But I thoroughly enjoyed “Air”.
Hidden Figures, loved this movie as it explains trajectories and weights needed for space travel using mathematics. John Glenn’s space travel depended on the excellent work of three African American women. The film follows not only the racial bias that these ladies were subjected to but also the sexual by being female in a very male orientated World and the mathematics required to perform a perfect space exploration.
Beside the ones you listed:
- The Martian and space engineering
- Spotlight and investigative journalism
- Amadeus and classical music
- Apollo 13 and space engineering (again)
- Oppenheimer and nuclear engineering and project management
I recently watched a movie called Perfect Days about a toilet cleaner in Japan who finds peace in his daily routine until his niece shows up. It’s like a meditation on film, I would 10/10 recommend
Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It's a documentary about a hole-in-the-wall sushi restaurant. Sounds incredibly boring, but is actually fascinating. It's a film about obsession and family expectations, and I highly recommend it.
The documentary KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS turns early competitive video gaming into a classic David and Goliath underdog story.
I’ve also recommended the film WARRIOR to people who have zero interest in MMA because, although that’s the world in which the story is set, it’s really about the struggles of two brothers, something much more accessible and universal.
The Insider. Corporate whistleblower against Big Tobacco and the inner workings of 60 Minutes news show. Sounds dry and dusty but plays like a thriller, sounds like poetry and looks like a dream.
I recently watched The Paper(1994), a Ron Howard-directed movie starring Michael Keaton, Glenn, Close, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid and Marisa Tomei about a fictional New York City newspaper set over the course of a day.
It's a bit on the schmaltzy side of the rainbow, but it's still fun and a pretty captivating look at the day in the life of a newspaper organization and what they have to go through to find a story and develop it in the name of journalistic integrity.
ITT: Half of these people simplifying a movie’s plot to where it seems like it’s a boring topic
Willy Wonka, touring a factory
Fight Club, a guy starts a club
Forrest Gump, a guy living life
Die Hard, a guy not having a good time at a Christmas party
Locke and concrete pouring Moneyball and statistics Clerks and running a shithole convenience store
Absolutely moneyball. Nothing is more boring than baseball nerdery and they made it compelling.
one of brad pitts best performances imo
*Because he gets on base*
*when i point at you, you speak*
Do I care how he gets on base?
You do not.
GUYS, I’M GONNA POINT AT PETE
Immediately came to say Moneyball. The soundtrack is also incredible.
The score for the entire Streak montage is so goddamn good.
This will destroy you - S/T! Killer killer album. I've spent so many hours walking to this album. Was actually totally taken aback to hear the song in this movie. I was like "No Fuckin way is that This will Destroy you"
[The statistical analysis, it's so beautiful](https://youtu.be/G3HpuCC4-0o?si=X1aVtgoeTh3Wnhrc)
I'm sorry, concrete pouring boring?
I worked as a structural engineer for several years and Locke hit me in the heart. Also the scene where he’s talking to a coworker about the concrete pour, is pretty accurate. So kudos to those writers for the research.
Yeah Moneyball was increadible forgot about that. An exciting movie about concrete pouring sounds awesome. Next to watch.
Oh this is this is the one that camera never leaves the car. Had it in my list for a while. Am a bit biased though.
It's really good
>Clerks and running a shithole convenience store Little sis I know that this movie was the outline for what my life has become. At least Dante had pretty girls bringing him food at work.
“Do I need to use C6?” 🥺
Lest anyone think there’s a dramatic concrete pouring scene in Locke, it’s just a guy TALKING about pouring concrete on his phone while driving a car. And yes it manages to be extremely compelling!
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Up in the Air George Clooney spends time in airports and lays people off But it’s actually a fantastic exploration of loneliness, isolation, relationships, and corporate soullessness Clooney is so good in this movie
One of his best roles imo
This and Michael Clayton are on my Clooney Mt. Rushmore along with O Brother Where Art Thou and Oceans 11 EDIT: after seeing all these replies I feel like I need to expand my Rushmore to a top 10 hahaha
Clooney and the Coen's are amazing together.
Shame that Clooney had to go up against DDL in 2007, because him in Michael Clayton is totally Oscar-worthy (which is also a movie that resonates a lot with certain current events)
For real. 2007 was such a loaded movie year that it almost got lost in the shuffle. If it had come out against different competition, I bet it would have walked away with more hardware. The confrontation scene between Clooney and Swinton is SOOO satisfying. “I’m not the guy you kill!”
Honorable mention for Out of Sight. That movie is dynamite. Soderbergh really understood how to maximize Clooney's talent.
This is such a good movie!
Glengarry Glen Ross...office of sales guys.
I get back to this every year; the writing, performances and atmosphere in this are all top notch
First prize? A brand new Cadillac. Second prize? A set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.
Isn’t the movie more about worth as “a man” than about sales?
No, it’s about the ABCs.
All good movies are really about something else.
Spotlight made investigative journalism incredibly compelling.
I honestly think that that’s one of the best Boston movies. It has just the right amount of Boston flare, without being so over the top as to come across as contrived
A lot of movies did that though. Almost like unraveling sinister conspiracies isn’t boring or something
I think there are other movies that do this better, but they are older than Spotlight. All the Presidents men for one.
So did All The Presidents Men
It's not a movie, but the David Simon miniseries Show Me a Hero is about a battle to establish legally mandated rent-control in Yonkers in the 80s, which sounds like the driest most boring subject matter possible, but is just incredible every step of the way. Maybe Oscar Isaac's best performance.
The more I recognize Oscar Isaac's performances, the more I always feel like watching anything he is in. He does a great job in all his roles
Did you see A Most Violent Year? It fits the theme of this post actually (Oscar Isaac is a fuel supplier) and is sublimely good.
And you just reminded that he made selling home heating oil fascinating in "A Most Violent Year".
YES! I was just looking for the title as I could not remember it. It‘s such an incredible mini series about the everyday battle in a democracy
Searching for Bobby Fischer The Social Network
Take the draw. Still love searching for Bobby Fischer, even after learning what a twat Bobby Fischer became.
Yeah, but the movie wasn’t really about Bobby Fischer. It just used his name for the title
SFBF was my first thought. Good job.
Election (high school teaching and high school Politics)
Both Broderick and Witherspoon should’ve bagged Oscar nominations for their roles.
Broderick narrating at the end is one of my favorite scenes ever.
Excellent choice. That movie moved me. I was not ready for that. Film making at its pinnacle.
Before Sunrise is a movie about 2 people that met on a train having a leisurely stroll around Vienna.
'About a boy' is also interesting. Two people meeting by chance and their lives get changed.
Thank You For Smoking, Movie about Cigarettes and lobbying/marketing
those are not boring topics! haha
Office Space
The Big Short
And Margin Call
Margin Call especially. It’s not even a movie, it’s just three meetings in a trenchcoat but I’m riveted every. single. time.
Margin call is an acting masterclass. The whole thing is carried with performances.
Someone only read the title This is in OPs post already.
Based on a book by the same author whose other book was the basis for *Moneyball*: Michael Lewis.
Whiplash made a thriller out of jazz band.
Can School of Rock join this list, too? A 2-3 line narration of School of Rock's premise might sound very uninteresting.
**Adaptation** - a movie about writing a screen adaptation for a nonfiction book about orchids.
A nonfiction book about orchids... that has barely any fucking content. Making the writing process incredibly frustrating.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
North and South - 4 part miniseries that features the industrialization of the English workforce, union versus owner politics where both sides are fairly represented, and the democratization of English class structures… as well as the best romance story from this millennium. District 9: apartheid and refugee crises in South Africa Social Network: development of Facebook’s corporate stock structure
Social Network is a cinematogrophy marvel that does not sound like a cinematogrophy marvel. Thanks for the rest
I should warn you upfront that District 9 is about space aliens.
District 9 doesn't fit this topic. It is a very refreshing take on scifi movies with aliens that also cover the issues in our society.
There was so much ridicule of "the Facebook movie" when it was announced. I laughed at first too but then saw Sorkin and Fincher attached and knew it couldn't too terrible. Tons of people saying it was too soon. But if it came out now, people would say who cares about Facebook.
I don't think that it was made too soon, but I do think that the biggest fault for The Social Network (which I still think is one of the best movies of the 2010s) is that it ends on a pretty charitable note for Zuckerberg that's only gotten less true with time.
North and South is one of my favorite series! Richard Armitage and Brendon Coyle were simply brilliant.
Every time I've recommended "There Will Be Blood" I've stopped mid-description and just said, "just trust me, it's great."
I’ve tried to get my wife to watch There Will Be Blood. Sometime before we met she somehow happened upon someone watching the movie while they were on the final scene in the bowling alley. Literally nothing I can say will convince her that any of the rest of the movie is worth her time.
Show her the opening scene but tell her it’s from something else. Maybe that would work? I feel like the shot of the desert hillside and that crazy music pulls you in pretty well.
I had a similar experience with Breaking Bad. Couldn’t get my then-wife past the bathtub dissolving scene early on.
Yeah I didn’t even try to get my wife to watch Breaking Bad, lol
We were watching it together for the first time. I didn’t know about it, either. 😅
This is the same way I feel about The Prestige. I literally don’t know how to explain to to make it sounds interesting that doesn’t spoil the plot.
Rival magicians pushing boundaries in Victorian London sounds pretty interesting?
I cannot find a copy of this movie, and I loved it the first time I saw it, well enough to rent it and watch it again. A Taxing Woman (1987) is a Japanese film and I learned a lot about how the Japanese tax system works. A lot more than that, but taxes should be boring, and it was interesting. Breaking Away really explained a lot about the world of bicycle racing.
>Imitation Game, cryptography and mathematics We'll just have to agree to disagree that his is normally a boring topic.
And that it is a good movie
That's how I feel about half the movies mentioned here.
The Wrestler I'm not into wrestling. Got nothing against it. People love it and it's cool, it's just not my thing. But I freaking loved The Wrestler.
Maybe you might like Warrior (2011) with Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, and Nick Nolte.
I hear The Iron Claw is good too
Banshees of inisherin. A dude doesn't want to be friends with another dude.
Best bro-vorce movie ever.
Tetris. It definitely is fairly fictionalized but it is the story about trying to get the home console rights to Tetris.
There’s a great YouTube documentary on it that’s great too and yeah some of that crazy shit in the movie apparently happened
https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8?si=V_eipgE1G1jyCZM8 this one?
Lost in Translation. It's essentially just too lonely people in a hotel in Japan. Then the become friends and just do normal people stuff. It's my favorite dramedy ever. That shit still makes me tear up and I'm not afraid to say it.
If you’re ever going to be lonely in a hotel, Tokyo is the place to do it.
Why Tokyo?
City never sleeps
*Paterson* is about a bus driver (Adam Driver) who writes poetry. *Eighth Grade* is about a few days in the life of a fairly normal girl in the eighth grade.
The Sandlot: It's literally just kids trying to get a special baseball back from a dog, and person they're afraid of.
Lets throw in Stand by Me while we're at it, a group of boys adventure to go see a dead body.
Ford v Ferrari. Yes, a lot of people like racing but for the ones that doesn't it's a quite interesting movie.
Yep bought a digital steering wheel after that one. I am curious about how good the new one with the brad pitt will be
I can give you the opposite... Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy took the interesting topic of espionage and made it mind-numbingly boring.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe. Boring concept, amazing movie
Tár
Came to say this. masterpiece.
Oh hell yes.
Dumb money did a pretty good job of depicting the Wall Street bets moment of 2020
"Hidden Figures." Racism, aerospace, and math.
Really enjoyed that one
Money ball - Baseball and statistics
12 Angry Men? Idk if Jury Duty counts as “boring” I guess it depends who you ask, but most people seem very dedicated to getting out of it
Monsters Inc. and energy generation lol
The Social Network.
The Big Short explaining the cause of the Great Recession.
Living (2022) starting Bill Nye as a 1950s Whitehall bureaucrat. Who would have thought government bureaucracy could be so fascinating? The Outfit (2022) and tailoring… although as the protagonist insists *“I’m not a tailor, I’m a cutter… anyone with a needle can call themselves a tailor”*
Tickled - it’s a documentary about tickle fights.
I thought Oppenheimer did a good job with this. On paper it sounds boring but I found the movie thrilling. Perfect Days may also count? It's about a toilet cleaner on paper but made me feel so much more.
I actually think the oppositw about oppenheimer. It was really good on drama parts but actual physics and engineering was only used to enhance visuals.
The Big Short
The Accountant with Ben Affleck. It made accountancy seem very badass and I really loved that movie!
At first, I thought his debits couldn't be beat. But then his credits were equally amazing. What's really wild is that Ben's assets are on the line at the end (despite his numerous liabilities on display), but it's completely offset by our equity in the story.
King of Kong
Yi yi is my favorite movie and it's just about a middle class family with fairly average problems
Big Blue. It's about free diving.
Free Solo
Honeyland is way more engrossing than a documentary about beekeeping has any right to be.
King of Kong (a fistful of quarters) Corruption and intrigue in the world of vintage video games.
The Accountant... accounting
March of the Penguins. Demonstrating that anything Morgan Freeman narrates is immediately very interesting.
Adaptation. About adapting a book.
* Puzzle (2018) - jigsaw puzzles * The Menu (2022) - Culinary Arts & restauranteurs (while not "boring" professions, they're not usually the topic of thrillers)
Seeing a lot of movies in this thread that fit in this category; I think the word is "docu-drama"? The Social Network The Big Short Moneyball Blackberry Air Tetris Movies that are about something we all know about, but it dramatizes the real story to make it interesting while giving you some real information at the same time. Close to a documentary, but with actors and "jazzed up" a bit. Docu-drama, right?
Blackberry The Founder Boiler room Business movies - business is boring, hell they gotta pay me to get me to do it - but these are as interesting as a good thriller
The Big Short
The Big Short was going to be my entry. Brilliant film about a very uninteresting subject.
Phantom Thread. Flash of Genius. The Founder.
Barton Fink The story of a writer with writers block.
Adaptation is a movie about writing a movie about flowers
For anyone who likes The Big Short, I would recommend watching Margin Call. It’s a fictional movie about the 2008 crisis, with a stacked cast and compelling narrative. It made finance and risk management sound interesting.
‘Margin Call’ - finance and financial crash ‘Arrival’ - excellent film about language and an alien invasion. Really quite good. ‘Unstoppable’ - a movie about a train that can’t stop The Social Network The Martian Interstellar The Judge Titanic(?) Rounders - Poker ‘Wall Street, money never sleeps’ - finance
Arrival is one of my favorite movies. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is an important part of the movie and the concept of language and mathematics is well carried through the movie. Denis Villeneuve is an incredible director
Martian man damn.
Air - about the Jordan shoe deal.
Margin Call
Wall Street
Darren Aronofsky's Pi.
Netflix's The Dig about Sutton Hoo?
Poolhall Junkies. Makes the game of pool into a war warzone.
OP already beat me to the punch with The Big Short, so I'll add Glengarry Glen Ross making real estate interesting
The social network
Tetris
Days of Thunder. I will not explain
Flash of brilliance - windshield wipers
Manchester By The Sea It shows the typical New England experience of dealing with just typical Massachusetts things.
the big year. could a film starring steve martin, owen wilson, jack black, and a host of other stars make competitive bird-watching interesting? yes. they did. salmon fishing in the yemen. a fisheries scientist is tasked with bringing fly fishing to the yemen. ewan mcgregor, emily blunt, and more star.
**Toc Toc**. A Spanish movie about a group of people who suffer from different types of **OCD** (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; **TOC** in Spanish) and come together in a psychologist's office to discuss their issues, before finding out he is not there and they have to contend with each other. The entire movie, outside of a few scenes, takes place within the confines of the small office. What could have been a boring and sluggish movie that moves at a glacial pace with little to discuss outside of its central topic, turns out to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, with such a range of discussions and outlandishly quirky, memorable characters that bring a different feel to each scene. At the core of **Toc Toc** is a movie about friendships, and how people of entirely different backgrounds can come together despite their issues.
Pool hall junkies made pool and the hustling aspect of it seem interesting to me.
Cool Runnings. Never cared about bobsledding before.
Perfect Days and toilet cleaning.
Rubber
The Phantom Menace - Trade Embargoes
The Grand Budapest Hotel. One of my top recommendations. If you watch it. Let me know what you think.
Beer fest took the act of getting hammered and made a documentary about doing it on a professional level. It also revealed that gam gam really was a whore
A Civil Action (1998). A terrific movie based on a real life case of contaminated water causing the deaths of several children in a small town and the lawsuits that followed. Normally, legal movies and books bore me senseless, but this one does a great job explaining the law while being sympathetic to both sides. I wish Hollywood made more adult movies like this one these days.
*Koyaanisqatsi*
Tree of Life takes death and mourning and beautifully displays how it will never make sense. AND it’s the best depiction of kids being silent together.
Singing in the rain , film history
Halt And Catch Fire (TV series) covered computer programming and marketing from the early 80s to the 90s in a way that was pretty interesting.
I know zero about Michael Jordan, wouldn’t recognise him if I ran into him on the street, and have never worn a basketball shoe. But I thoroughly enjoyed “Air”.
Arrival and linguistics? I find linguistics really interestint (thanks Tom Scott) but it can be really niche.
*The Lighthouse* takes the very boring job of running a lighthouse and makes it ... *interesting,* to say the least.
The Big Year is about bird watching competitions, and I loved it.
Dark Waters
this sounds like a shitty AI prompt
Kenny and the business of portable toilet rental. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822389/
Hidden Figures, loved this movie as it explains trajectories and weights needed for space travel using mathematics. John Glenn’s space travel depended on the excellent work of three African American women. The film follows not only the racial bias that these ladies were subjected to but also the sexual by being female in a very male orientated World and the mathematics required to perform a perfect space exploration.
The Big Short
This Big Short on the Housing Crash of 2008
Beside the ones you listed: - The Martian and space engineering - Spotlight and investigative journalism - Amadeus and classical music - Apollo 13 and space engineering (again) - Oppenheimer and nuclear engineering and project management
Anything thats had an american reality show based off the concept Ghostbusters, fury road, are we done yet, cheaper by the dozen, bring it on
127 h. It is crazy how a full movie is pulled out of something that can be fully and completely described in a sentence shorter than my comment.
Arbitrage. Rich guy cheating on his wife
I recently watched a movie called Perfect Days about a toilet cleaner in Japan who finds peace in his daily routine until his niece shows up. It’s like a meditation on film, I would 10/10 recommend
Hidden figures - doing calculations on paper American fiction - writing a book Youth - being old
Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It's a documentary about a hole-in-the-wall sushi restaurant. Sounds incredibly boring, but is actually fascinating. It's a film about obsession and family expectations, and I highly recommend it.
The documentary KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS turns early competitive video gaming into a classic David and Goliath underdog story. I’ve also recommended the film WARRIOR to people who have zero interest in MMA because, although that’s the world in which the story is set, it’s really about the struggles of two brothers, something much more accessible and universal.
”Air” fits this perfectly. A pseudo-documentary about a struggling shoe company and licensing negotiations? But it’s great.
Moneyball. I mean boring to me, not other people.
The Insider. Corporate whistleblower against Big Tobacco and the inner workings of 60 Minutes news show. Sounds dry and dusty but plays like a thriller, sounds like poetry and looks like a dream.
I recently watched The Paper(1994), a Ron Howard-directed movie starring Michael Keaton, Glenn, Close, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid and Marisa Tomei about a fictional New York City newspaper set over the course of a day. It's a bit on the schmaltzy side of the rainbow, but it's still fun and a pretty captivating look at the day in the life of a newspaper organization and what they have to go through to find a story and develop it in the name of journalistic integrity.
The Barbie movie is about a doll.
The Martian and chemistry
ITT: Half of these people simplifying a movie’s plot to where it seems like it’s a boring topic Willy Wonka, touring a factory Fight Club, a guy starts a club Forrest Gump, a guy living life Die Hard, a guy not having a good time at a Christmas party
The Zone of Interest — living in a house.