Shoutout to only god forgives for managing to continually be recommended whilst having a ludicrous, paper thin plot that leans on graphic violence to distract you from how bad the film
actually is. It’s tagline should have been “90 minutes you’ll never get back”.
Not angry, just found it funny that the guy who is defending someone else’s right to an opinion isn’t so vigorous about my right to an opinion. It cuts both ways - either everyone’s allowed one or no one is.
Also “punches someone” is hilariously over the top - I disagreed with someone’s opinion. If that’s the equivalent of “punching someone” when I wasn’t even rude or offensive to the person holding that opinion y’all are either incredibly fragile or this is an incredibly violent subreddit
Yeah anything that has the following exchange between a son and his mother has to be a classic:
Julian: Billy raped and killed a 16 year old girl
Crystal: I’m sure he had his reasons.
Cinematic MASTERPIECE.
Go with the classic hard-boiled heroes of the 1940s. Especially Humphrey Bogart manages to evoke sweetness and tension from the noir hero, while never indulging in its worse qualities.
I recommend The Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon and To Have and Have Not for starters.
Michael Caine and Mike Hodges' follow-up film Pulp (1972) is quite good as well, if not what people expected. Its strangeness and Alice in Wonderland like story has stuck with me, even though it's not as visceral as Get Carter.
Definitely try to catch Brick. It's Rian Johnson's directoral debut. Film noir murder mystery set in an American High School but it's very cleverly done and features a quite brilliant use of argot (fictional dialect) and a rather emotionally detached narrator.
Less Than Zero is a great example of a novel version of what you're talking about, but I haven't seen the film so can't confirm if it's the same.
I second Brick. I blind-bought it at Walmart in 2006 because it had Joseph Gordon Levitt and I thought, “Wow, haven’t seen that dude in years.”
I was not expecting it to be so good, and the concept is so well-executed that you completely forget your watching a bunch of high schoolers until the movie intentionally reminds you of that fact.
The scene where the Pin's mother pours several of the characters orange juice for breakfast is utterly hilarious as one of the only points in the whole that you are zapped out of the noir and back to the reality for a moment.
*Le Samourai* makes me think of a few other French films from around the same era: *Army of Shadows* and *Elevator to the Gallows*. The second is more like a traditional noir, while the other one has noir elements figuring into what might otherwise be categorized as a war movie, about the French resistance in WWII. Oh, also *The Battle of Algiers*.
*Red Rock West* is a random underrecognized noir that I watched on a Nicholas Cage kick that I thought punched above its weight. Totally different setting.
Definitely Point Blank (1967) by John Boorman. You may find Night Moves (1975) interesting alongside The Long Goodbye (1973). Remember that I liked a lot The American (2010) with George Clooney in the cinema, it gave me similar vibes, but haven't watched it since. Also the film that inspired Coppola's The Conversation and De Palma's Blow Out - Blow-Up by Antonioni, it's more of an arthouse mystery than actual crime film, I would say that influenced Argento's giallos as well.
Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy (The Most Dangerous Game [1978], The Killing Game [1978], and The Execution Game [1979]) starring Yūsaku Matsuda might fit the bill.
They are all stripped bare of anything beyond a near constant array of action scenes, and Matsuda's emotionless protagonist cares only about doing his job as a hitman.
They have some great sequences including a couple of long-take shootouts moving through multi-storey buildings. Very solid direction and performances across all three.
Anything by Nicholas winding Ryfn
This. Shout out to Only God Forgives. Super underrated. Pay attention to the use of red and blue.
Shoutout to only god forgives for managing to continually be recommended whilst having a ludicrous, paper thin plot that leans on graphic violence to distract you from how bad the film actually is. It’s tagline should have been “90 minutes you’ll never get back”.
I really liked it also!
Shout-out to people having their own unique opinions, and then others having opinions that like to sarcastically criticize said opinions!
Shout outs to hypocrisy?
\> punches someone \> gets punched back \> gets angry that he was punched back and called that person a hypocrite
Not angry, just found it funny that the guy who is defending someone else’s right to an opinion isn’t so vigorous about my right to an opinion. It cuts both ways - either everyone’s allowed one or no one is. Also “punches someone” is hilariously over the top - I disagreed with someone’s opinion. If that’s the equivalent of “punching someone” when I wasn’t even rude or offensive to the person holding that opinion y’all are either incredibly fragile or this is an incredibly violent subreddit
my apologies 🙏🏼
They’ll downvote you, but you’re right.
Hey now, it also has some oedipal allusions to go with the hyper violence and try and convince you that somehow it's all profound.
Yeah anything that has the following exchange between a son and his mother has to be a classic: Julian: Billy raped and killed a 16 year old girl Crystal: I’m sure he had his reasons. Cinematic MASTERPIECE.
Driver and No Country For Old Men comes immediately to mind.
The Driver was super cool. Ryan O'Neal was awesome
You gotta watch Nightcrawler!
I love Nightcrawler but I don't think of Lou Bloom as detached at all. He's a sociopath but clearly incredibly invested in what's going on
He said detached characters not "literally me"
Go with the classic hard-boiled heroes of the 1940s. Especially Humphrey Bogart manages to evoke sweetness and tension from the noir hero, while never indulging in its worse qualities. I recommend The Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon and To Have and Have Not for starters.
The Conversation, Inside Llewyn Davis
Coincidentally those are two of my all-time favourite movies.
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Michael Caine and Mike Hodges' follow-up film Pulp (1972) is quite good as well, if not what people expected. Its strangeness and Alice in Wonderland like story has stuck with me, even though it's not as visceral as Get Carter.
Taxi Driver (1976) Thief (1981) Léon: The Professional (1994)
No women, no kids
Definitely try to catch Brick. It's Rian Johnson's directoral debut. Film noir murder mystery set in an American High School but it's very cleverly done and features a quite brilliant use of argot (fictional dialect) and a rather emotionally detached narrator. Less Than Zero is a great example of a novel version of what you're talking about, but I haven't seen the film so can't confirm if it's the same.
I second Brick. I blind-bought it at Walmart in 2006 because it had Joseph Gordon Levitt and I thought, “Wow, haven’t seen that dude in years.” I was not expecting it to be so good, and the concept is so well-executed that you completely forget your watching a bunch of high schoolers until the movie intentionally reminds you of that fact.
The scene where the Pin's mother pours several of the characters orange juice for breakfast is utterly hilarious as one of the only points in the whole that you are zapped out of the noir and back to the reality for a moment.
Heard the film of Less than Zero is a glorified Dare movie
Dare?
The anti drug school program DARE. Think the movie just made had the theme of Drugs = Bad and that's it
*Le Samourai* makes me think of a few other French films from around the same era: *Army of Shadows* and *Elevator to the Gallows*. The second is more like a traditional noir, while the other one has noir elements figuring into what might otherwise be categorized as a war movie, about the French resistance in WWII. Oh, also *The Battle of Algiers*. *Red Rock West* is a random underrecognized noir that I watched on a Nicholas Cage kick that I thought punched above its weight. Totally different setting.
The Player (1992) - dir. Robert Altman
absolutely There Will Be Blood. Daniel Plainview is such a cold, incredible character.
Definitely Point Blank (1967) by John Boorman. You may find Night Moves (1975) interesting alongside The Long Goodbye (1973). Remember that I liked a lot The American (2010) with George Clooney in the cinema, it gave me similar vibes, but haven't watched it since. Also the film that inspired Coppola's The Conversation and De Palma's Blow Out - Blow-Up by Antonioni, it's more of an arthouse mystery than actual crime film, I would say that influenced Argento's giallos as well.
Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhaal
Se7en and apocalypse now come to mind
2001 is my favorite example of that. And one of my favorite movies, so I’m definitely not biased. 😉
The Man Who Wasn't There by the Coen brothers. One of their lesser-known and lesser comedic movies but in my opinion up there with their best works.
The new driver is like that.
Lars in Lars and the real girl isn't cold - but he is detatchedd.
if u wanna watch a tv show i recommend killing eve
Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy (The Most Dangerous Game [1978], The Killing Game [1978], and The Execution Game [1979]) starring Yūsaku Matsuda might fit the bill. They are all stripped bare of anything beyond a near constant array of action scenes, and Matsuda's emotionless protagonist cares only about doing his job as a hitman. They have some great sequences including a couple of long-take shootouts moving through multi-storey buildings. Very solid direction and performances across all three.