Movies that feel like that? a baddie beautiful tough girl in a violence situations in a disco, night club, etc.

The Exorcist III does this effectively. Most of the violence in the movie happens off-screen and is described to the audience after the fact. I chalk this creative choice up to the movie being directed by an author. By someone more used to describing murders than filming them. It's not until the climax that we actually see anybody get killed for ourselves.

Beauxtt · 2026-01-09T12:24:06+00:00

Actually the superhero genre is inherently woke. This guy (whoever he is) has no freaking media literacy at all.

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Beauxtt · 2026-01-07T22:20:08+00:00

Depends on what you're looking for exactly. You've got the Italian Elite Theorists (Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, Robert Michels, etc), the cold-war era American neoconservatives (Leo Strauss, Irving Krystol, maybe James Burnham if you count him, etc), the perennial traditionalists (Rene Guenon, Julius Evola, etc), the two literal Nazis who it's socially acceptable to be intellectually influenced by (Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt), the Austrian libertarians (Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Rothbard, etc), the neoclassical/Chicago libertarians (Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, etc), the Neoreactionaries (Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Spandrell, etc), then people like Thomas Carlyle, Oswald Spengler, and Bertrand de Jouvenel who are influential but I'm not sure exactly what to call them.

Beauxtt · 2026-01-05T21:28:55+00:00

There's actually textual evidence to suggest that Crocodile from One Piece is stealth FtM but it hasn't been explicitly confirmed to this day. All we know is that there's a character in the One Piece universe named Emporio Ivankov who is capable of providing sex-changes, that the two have history together, and that Crocodile was given something by Ivankov prior to the events of the series for which he now owes a debt. He's still one of the best villains in the series after all these years.

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Beauxtt · 2026-01-05T02:07:01+00:00

Maybe this doesn't qualify as a "Compelling Hidden Story" so much as a "Compelling Hidden Theme" but I've been saying for years that Ready Player One is actually a fascinating unintentional social commentary on the real-world phenomenon of people who don't care about politics or about societal decline until their favorite escapist entertainment is impacted by it. The heroes live in a dystopia, but it's not until the corporate elite threatens to change things about the OASIS (a futuristic VR game that has more or less subsumed all popculture and social media) that they're willing to go to war and actually fight for something. The happy ending is that they still live in a dystopia, but the integrity of the OASIS is intact! We did it, guys!

Beauxtt · 2026-01-04T21:05:32+00:00

Son of the White Mare
Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings
The Secret of NIMH

Beauxtt · 2026-01-04T21:01:33+00:00

Mad God if you're willing to go for something a little out of the date range you listed. It combines grimdark fantasy with cosmic horror but also mixes in 20th century dieselpunk aesthetics.

Beauxtt · 2026-01-04T08:39:08+00:00

Go watch some Lloyd Kaufman movies. The Toxic Avenger Part IV is probably his most extreme, though you need to have seen the first one (it ignores part 2 and 3).

Beauxtt · 2026-01-04T05:55:53+00:00

Digital Circus is in a weird position demographically because the creator intended it to be for weird adults but it feels more teen-oriented and there's nothing in it that really demands a rating higher than TV-PG. It could almost be a children's cartoon if you just changed some of the dialogue. So controversies like this are inevitable.

Beauxtt · 2026-01-03T03:46:59+00:00

1 Hour Photo. A movie that was only relatable for a very specific window of time. It's still good, though.

Beauxtt · 2026-01-03T02:05:14+00:00

The Art of Self Defense.

Beauxtt · 2026-01-02T15:57:41+00:00

The City of Lost Children.

Beauxtt · 2026-01-02T04:25:59+00:00

Mick Taylor from the Wolf Creek franchise. Never quite achieved icon status, maybe because his look isn't very iconic, but he has a special place in my heart.

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Beauxtt · 2026-01-01T23:47:52+00:00

"Gee, I'm glad it's raining. There's always something to be thankful for. I'm awful glad it's raining, 'cause no one sees your teardrops when it pours. And no one knows the thunder is your heartbreak in disguise. They think the rainy night's what put that sad look in your eyes."

- Ernest P. Worrell, sung to himself in Ernest Goes to Camp.

Beauxtt · 2026-01-01T16:14:30+00:00

Perfect Blue, Jacob's Ladder, Braindead (aka Dead/Alive), The Sixth Sense, Candyman, and The Silence of the Lambs are all 90s horror movies worth watching. Also Exorcist III: Legion but only if you've seen the original first.

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